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jiaming@activism.openworlds.info ("Jia Ming") wrote:

Happy independence day to the Federation of Malaya! 🇮🇩♥💕😘

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volt4ire ("volt4ire 🌹") wrote:

RT @volt4ire Another nail in the coffin for digital dualism: new study finds most online trolls are also jerks in real life https://gizmodo.com/online-trolls-actually-just-assholes-all-the-time-stud-1847575210

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I am clearing my tabs, and came across this one that has been open for who knows how long that I suspect many on here would appreciate. Malleable Systems Collective's mission:

https://malleable.systems/mission/

Bullet points. Software should:

1. Be easy to change
2. Allow arbitrary recombination and reuse
3. Have open-ended potential
4. Enable user ownership and control
5. Be freely sharable
6. Allow modifying in the context of use
7. Be thoughtfully crafted

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vae@programming.socks.town ("вея в носочках") wrote:

@drq

🍱 «Яндекс.Еда» удалила «Тануки» из своего сервиса

Ранее произошла атака «Мужского государства» на социальные сети и курьерскую доставку ресторана из-за рекламы с темнокожим мужчиной

Лидер «МГ» пригрозил парализовать работу «Яндекс.Еды» фейковыми заказами, если те не удалят «Тануки» из своего сервиса. Агрегатор выполнил это требование.

«Тануки» объявил войну «Мужскому Государству» и собирается добиться блокировки его социальных сетей

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MicroSFF ("Micro SF/F stories by O Westin") wrote:

RT @MicroSFF "These copper ingots," the devil said, "are of sub-par quality."
"You accepted them as payment," the merchant said, "the deal is done."
"Very well. I will uphold my end of the bargain," the devil said. "Your name will live forever."
"That is all I ask," said Ea-nasir.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The things you can find in Forks, Washington…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/30/another-vacation-scene/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

No, thank you. The Chair was conservative propaganda, and I hated it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/30/what-bill-maher-and-the-chair-have-in-common/

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
niconiconi@cybre.space wrote:

Weaponizing Censorship Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Traffic Amplification Attack

> Most of these nation-states are weak amplifiers (the Great Firewall of China only offers about 1.5x amplification, for example), but some of them offer more damaging amplifications, such as Saudi Arabia (~20x amplification)

And....

> We found a small number of infinite routing loops that traversed censorship infrastructure (notably in both China and Russia) that offered *infinite* amplification. 💣💥

https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/usenix21-weaponizing-censors/

Many years ago, a friend of mine told me it may be possible to exploit the Great Firewall of China for reflected amplification DDoS. This attack is real! #censorship #infosec #ddos

Anathema wrote:

Disaster, accidentally bought ripe pears now they are all disgustingly soft and juicy. Boak.

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APoD@botsin.space ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia

Image Credit: Christa Harbig

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210830.html #APoD

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Anathema wrote:

Imagine thinking all citizens had equal rights in this country. How naive.

Anathema wrote:

Imagine how powerful I’d been if I’d had all my shit together before finishing secondary school.

Good luck, children of today!

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randomColorContrasts@botsin.space ("random color contrasts") wrote:

Swiss Coffee #D8CBCE
Green House #265005

(Contrast ratio: 6.0:1 | AA)

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Anathema wrote:

RimWorld is dangerous. I might have to stop playing it on days where I want to get anything else done.

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

to be fair, I’ve only had _partial_ success with RemoteFX USB stuff, and I still don’t know if that’s because of PEBKAC (read: shitty docs), or because things actually aren’t supported, but… still, being able to use my peripherals like my 3d mouse is suuuuuper handy?

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

p.s. as part of my “let’s figure out remote development!” adventures, I learned that only the Windows Pro RDP client is able to do a lot of the fancy RDP things, like USB redirection (which is hella cool), and anything else you might want to use that supports it costs $hundreds$?

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

not that anyone really cares about my hardware choices, but I’ve been struggling a lot with WTF to replace my macbook with (if at all), and if I’m gonna do it, I think the above setup is what makes sense tbh

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

6. I get a massive discount on hardware because I’m a MSFT goon :P

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

5. Drawing! I’m hoping that having a nice portable tablet will get me doing digital drawing more, and running a “full” operating system means I’m not limited by whatever janky, half-the-features-missing iOS version of an app decides to couch me with.

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

4. I don’t think I’m ready to jump on the ARM/m1 ship yet. I would rather wait until compatibility with those kinds of chips is more widespread and they’ve had more time to “prove themselves”. It feels like a massive early adopter thing still.

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

I really like the idea of having a tablet, but limiting myself to iOS means, well.. I don’t actually get to fall back on the computer as a “real computer”. Not to mention that a lot of the tools to make that “thin” environment work (RDP w/ USB, VS Code, etc) are unavailable.

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

2. Why does off-grid matter? Because I really don’t think it’s worth it to get a massively overpowered laptop. I decided I wanted a nice thin terminal that can connect to my now-main-dev machine, aka my chonky af alienware gaming PC. That’s what does 99% of the work :)

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

1. Windows is too useful to just push aside, and I want to be able to at least do a _little_ of my dev work, and gaming stuff, when I’m off-grid.

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

so I think… I might have settled on an Answer to my “wtf laptop do I get” question…

I think I’m going to wait until the Surface Pro 8 comes out in a month or two, and get that + keyboard + pen?

Why?, well...

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

Playing around with ad-hoc ways to turn StdErrors into Diagnostic types in miette at the toplevel when you don’t want to have to define a custom type. What do you think of these two? (they’re not competing)

These are equivalent to anyhow’s .with_context()

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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

https://twitter.com/zkat__/status/1432202641845538818

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

ok different question: What are the concrete *advantages* of having child/property duality like in XML, over a plain object/array/value semantic?

Do you have examples of when it seriously helped?

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

@zkat a lot of what makes people hate XML is guilt-by-association; it got latched onto by people using big J2EE frameworks which were miserable to use and configure, so it got a reputation for verbosity.

the main legitimate criticism I can think of is that it feels arbitrary often when to use attributes vs child tags; it doesn't map cleanly to the way people think about their data. but that's a pretty minor point.

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

But KDL has no history. KDL is a “pure” data language in the sense that it’s not markup at all. It’s much closer to JSON/YAML in that sense. But for some weird reason, it feels _nice_ to have XML data semantics for it, in some use cases?

But I can’t put my *finger* on it.

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

I’ve been thinking a lot about this esp in context of KDL. XML is the way it is because it was a *markup* language (read: text-first, marked-up), that just randomly started getting used as a data/serialization language.