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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Rummaging through a quiet life well lived.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/16/really-im-expected-to-go-through-all-this-now/
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labria@social.yeschenko.com wrote:
This is :chefs_kiss:
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
So close! Only about $350 more needed[1] and there are 3 days left.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvmedia/spacefunk/
[1] It was $500 when I started writing this toot. 😆
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:
green koopa troopas are so real for just walking off the edge
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:
Enjoy the power and beauty of PHP; or never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of PHP until your stack is completely jammed. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at your old sites and recall in a way you can't grasp now, how much possibility lay before you and how simple and fast they were. JS is not as blazingly fast as you imagine.
2/10
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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:
The Democratic impulse to capitulate and beg for forgiveness and unity whenever anything bad happens to a Republican is really something, especially for marginalized people who can't even get the time of day from these people.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I can't think of a more far reaching white supremacy tactic than suppressing "political" posts, aka Black and brown issues, across two platforms and a billion people.
Yet, those on this app who colonized the moral high ground, claiming anyone still on TwitterX is supporting white supremacy, are quiet as fuck about #Meta's #Instagram and #Threads.
weeeeeiiirrrrrddddooo behavior. Straight up goofball shit.
Mastodon FeedI've been trying to implement 2D radiance cascades (rendering lights with soft shadows)
https://github.com/kornelski/bevy_flatland_radiance_cascades
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
loving all the morning birdsong here
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
retr0id@retr0.id ("David Buchanan") wrote:
Jailbreaking RabbitOS (The Hard Way)
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html
Spoiler alert: they're violating GPL, but that's the least of their worries
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
My body in my 20s: "I feel no pain, I barely even need food or sleep, and I can lose weight merely by thinking about it."
My body in my 40s: "DIVERT ALL RESOURCES FROM NON-CRITICAL SYSTEMS TO EAR HAIR. LET EVERYTHING ELSE FAIL, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. WE NEED EAR HAIR AND WE NEED IT RIGHT FUCKING NOW"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
xlfe ("Felix Barbalet") wrote:
@slightlyoff Komplexitätslösungstrupp
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Like, *chill*, computor.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Is there a german conjoined word for "team that has just shown it cannot be trusted with simple technology proposes that the solution is wickedly complex, unproven technology"?
Because it's my personal groundhog day.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:
Raccoons are trying to break into Cybertrucks, and there's some speculation that this is happening because the raccoons are literally confusing them with dumpsters
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:
@cstanhope She was on my podcast also! https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/yHhNieIwgLb
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:
Some good advice from the bathrooms at Google Seattle
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Sure would be a heck of a thing if it turned out targeting wasn't even better for advertisers, huh?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Now that the RNC has a working class hero for a running mate, when does Hillary Clinton go on O'Brien to call the Midwest "a bunch of cereal eating morons," or whatever
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But they have. And their design looks fine. But it's not the solution, because -- and I cannot stress this enough -- the solution is to *pass privacy laws worth a damn.*
You'll know it worked when you *actually* start to see brokers and intermediaries up sticks.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Reducing collection to a trickle only (slightly) lengthens the time necessary to build a profile.
Why does anyone imagine all those "sign up for our newsletter" interstitials started to proliferate? Or why folks are *desperate* to get you to install the app?
Because they're better for collection and provide stable reidentifiers.
Apple and Google and others pitching tech in this area *are not levelling with you*. And I wish Mozilla was not accepting this frame.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
And this is how you can tell that most of this, for all of its technical splendor, is hollow. Every dollar spent selling you privacy that isn't mirrored 1:1 in lobbying for a real bloody privacy law *is misdirection*. Kayfabe.
The goal is to sanitise the narrative, not to solve the problem. Because the problem is reidentification, and that's not going away as long as we do actually useful things with our computers. The only way to make it go away is to make recombining this data costly.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There *are* ways of getting to non-attributable browsing, but they don't look like a device you'd use. They involve VMs and fixed resolutions and fonts and VPNs for everything and most of the features you'd need to do real work turned off. Something like the TOR browser.
This is not a path forward. And nobody's actually pitching it; not even Brave. Why? Because in a world of scofflaws, the "do something, anything" routine works *extremely well*.
"Sell the problem, not the solution"; indeed.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Why is attenuating collection not enough? Because the set of firms and data sources that can be used for re-attribution is basically unbounded. Over time, that will *always* yield enough bits to be identifiable. All Apple's approach cuts off is the most obvious and creepy avenues for non-interactive identification.
This, in turn, helps those who already have the most data about you. There's a reason Meta didn't fold up shop after ATT. Much the opposite:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platforms/gross-profit
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm glad to see Mozilla move from throwing stones to offering solutions:
That said, we're in an even worse place w/ the privacy discourse than Bobby's note implies. The threat is data at rest, and attenuating collection (as Apple has implied is the way forward) doesn't actually solve the problem, it only narrows it somewhat.
The strong solutions involve toothsome privacy laws. And until the "privacy is a human right" companies push on *that*, it's all performative.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
Today we welcomed @nitot & @jyasskin to the @tag
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-team-appointments-to-the-tag-ratified/
Mastodon FeedInstead of Neko Atsume (the Japanese game of “cat collecting”), I prefer Niku Atsumi (the Japanese game of “meat thickness”).
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
In male dominated fields, the responsibility for creating spaces that are safe for women to work in falls on men.
If you don't understand why that is, you're exactly the kind of person I don't want to work with.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
[several minutes of spelunking git history later] "Good news, everyone! It wasn't me."
Now why the heck is this thing working... Ohhhhh! It's not working, but in a very non-obvious way. That explains that.