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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

A friend just sent me this. Hard to know whether to laugh or cry.

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• This Modern World comic strip in which Democrats and Republicans did everything they should have in 2021 over on “parallel earth.”

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I was going to post something about how the For You page was our generation's leaded gasoline but nope I'm juuust old enough that leaded gasoline was my generation's leaded gasoline

jwz wrote:

Exterminate all rational AI scrapers.

Today I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to my web site just to fuck with LLM scrapers, based on a "spicy autocomplete" program I wrote about 30 years ago. Well-behaved web crawlers will ignore it, but those "AI" people.... well, you know how they are.

I'm intentionally not linking to it here, but I'll bet you can find it pretty easily. It's kinda funny.
https://jwz.org/b/ykgX

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

we're all trying to find the guy who did this

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

@jwz It would be better if it worked the way you described.

I think the reason we got where we are is that the Fediverse fell into a pattern of making Open Source replacements for proprietary social network services. So, Mastodon is the Twitter replacement, Pixelfed is the Instagram replacement, Peertube is the YouTube replacement, Lemmy is the Reddit replacement.

I think the way out is for more of them to give you the option of acting either as their own server, or as an ActivityPub client.

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anelki@tilde.zone wrote:

if I ever feel like my blood pressure is getting low, I just read RMS's dumbass replies to this exchange about the @jwz LEmacs vs. RMSmacs split (JWZ, of course, was right).

https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

#Emacs

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

whoever said money can't buy happiness must not have realized you can buy a little arm that holds your ereader above your face in bed, and a remote so you can turn the pages without taking your arms out from under the covers

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Tractor. Some more of our Pacific Northwest winter mist. #pnw

#darktable

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• A scene with a misty forest on a hill in the background, with the remains of an old barn in the foreground and a small bright yellow tractor parked near it. The entire image is rendered in subdued green-ish tone, except for the tractor.

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ieure@retro.social ("egregious philbin") wrote:

Okay #HomeLab #SelfHosting crew, riddle me this.

I have a mid tower computer with two PCIe x16 slots and one x1 slot. I wish to connect between four and eight internal 3.5" SATA disks to said machine. What would you recommend?

Despite being large, said computer has only two internal 3.5" bays.

My current setup is an 8-bay USB 3 enclosure, with six disks inside. I want a non-USB solution.

I bought a 4-bay eSATA enclosure and eSATA PCIe x1 card which supports FIS, which is the thing you need to connect multiple devices over one eSATA cable. It doesn't work. Linux sees the PCIe card, the enclosure *seems* to connect to it, but no disks ever appear.

There's some stuff online about "oh just run some scsi_rescan.sh script to make it work," but I need something which works without dicking around with shell scripts.

Recommendations for $500 or less whole-ass computers with 6+ disk bays also accepted.

Boosts appreciated.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

None of my 14-20 musical training sert me up for this.

Last year, while in the UK, I heard Bryn Terfel on the telly as part of the coronation with inlaws and said (stupidly) "...is that Bryn Terfel?". They (reasonably) looked at me as if had an aneurysm.

Knowing music doesn't make wanting a cool groove dumb.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The songs I find myself in the gravity well of have less to do with my (long gone) youth than a clarity of voice[1], execution[2], and a super specific role of the lead guitar *sub voce*, which seems to happen most in jazz arrangements[3]. It inexorably has an age codedness, but it's not the flavour.

[1]: https://open.spotify.com/track/205ReiW26kS1pcoqUNpEzi?si=l_lpMwAoSyqcvTF9bNxHaA&feature=wrapped
[2]: https://open.spotify.com/track/6I2842p9KLoOZ5F8l3lNLg?si=oEjAyxuSQ0WkJELs5VCYTw
[3]: https://open.spotify.com/track/5KISjwGl1veKdOkglRSaRL?si=hkmnGL3QSiGsmjfqrIA5pQ

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tomstoneham@dair-community.social ("Tom Stoneham") wrote:

This is not a technology problem which needs a tech solution.

News headlines are - by definition - the most succinct but accurate summary of the story. That is what they are for. There is just no function for a summary of news headlines. #AI is a (bad) solution in search of a problem. Again. #AppleIntelligence #AIHype #SnakeOil

https://news.sky.com/story/apple-ai-feature-must-be-revoked-over-notifications-misleading-users-say-journalists-13288716

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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

Ok anyone got a good lawyer that's familiar with issues dealing with general contractors in California?

Time to finally go nuclear and I need recommendations.

I've never sued anyone in my life, but hey, I'm American now, so, when in Rome sue their pants off as they say right?

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frenshape@beige.party ("Frenshape") wrote:

@jwz look, I'm sure they'd support some other government model, it's just that fascism seems to have fewer hangups about things like eugenics and hunting people for sport

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kurtseifried@infosec.exchange ("kurtseifried (he/him)") wrote:

Disclaimer: I do not interact with the OpenBSD anymore due to abuse, however I will say on a technical level they have tried to squash entire classes of vulns, relatively effectively for the last 2 decades:

1. W^X (Write XOR Execute):
   URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX
2. ProPolice Stack Protector:
   URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features
3. Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR):
   URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization
4. RETGUARD:
   URL: https://www.gobsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=3862

They invented some stuff or were an early implementor.

Good news: we're (CSA) working on something in this area and will hopefully have some interesting things to show off in a few weeks.

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fivetonsflax@tilde.zone ("Ben Rosengart") wrote:

@davidgerard a centrist is someone who believes in race science but is too polite to say so

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

lol

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adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

Looks fake doesn't it? This reconstruction of Medieval Bologna shows how Italian towns used to be a forest of towers, dense as Manhattan skyscrapers!

Here's a stable blog-formatted version of my thread from yesterday about the lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars https://www.exurbe.com/the-lost-towers-of-the-guelph-ghibelline-wars/

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• Photo of a model of Medieval Bologna, with so many earthy pink tall skinny towers sticking up from every block of the terra-cotta-roofed town that it looks like plant seeds starting to come up in spring. Around the edge you can see the city's moat and battlemented walls, looking tiny compared to the towers which rise to six or seven times the height of the three-story buildings around them. (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Power from the skies. Seriously though, this is, in the nutshell, why we have so many power outages in the Pacific Northwest: if you tuck a powerline in between many trees, they're going to fall down and break it.

#darktable

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• A powerline coming downhill from a forest break filled with heavy mist.

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Wow

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• Pixelfed is the top 12th free app

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Relic. Spotted this one accidentally while driving by.

#darktable

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• Delapidated carcass of a blue colored old truck abandoned on the side of the asphalt road, shot against a backdropd of an evergreen forest.

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erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:

I'm sorry to stick my neck out like this again, but being sick the last couple days and today has made me unable to do much work, so I'm short on money to pay for the place I'm staying. I also need to get a space heater and a hat to deal with the cold, and refill 3 of my prescriptions for a month.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/tmvshek

As much as I can with mildly feverish brain fog, I've switched my budget around and I'm coming up short $200. Can anybody help me?

I strongly hope this is the last time I have to ask. I'm trying to balance taking care of my health with working hard. Anything to help keep that terrible old mental stress from coming back would be much appreciated, whether it's a few dollars to spare or a boost and good vibes.

Thank you, friends. I'm really trying.

:boostRequest:
#mutualAid #trans #transgender

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Christmas market.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 1600
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm

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• A black and white photo of a warmly dressed crowd in front of a large Christmas tree covered in fairy lights. On the left is a food hut equally decorated with fairy lights, with steam prominently emanating from the windows over a pitch black sky.

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mike_malaska@deepspace.social ("Mike Malaska") wrote:

On January 14, 2005 just over 20 years ago today, the Huygens probe touched down on the organic-rich surface of Saturn's moon Titan.

Here is the scene from Titan's surface. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07232

Scientists (I'm one of those) have been analyzing this image and the other descent images from the probe for 2 decades. What have we learned from the probe images about the surface of enigmatic moon?

[Thread]

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• Titan's surface scene of same-sized rounded cobbles and patches of dark sands fading into a distant hazy orange horizon. (remote)

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artist-amejo@pixelfed.social ("Ame Jo Hughes") wrote:

Tiny frog I knitted, in the tiny dress I designed and knit, holding the tiny books I made and bound in the traditional way (standing in front of a stock image on my tablet).

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• Dark dusty pink knitted frog in a mint green dress with white trims, holding two miniature books while standing in front of library shelves. (remote)
• A human finger holding a miniature book down on a cutting mat to show that the book is less than one inch tall by about 3/4” wide. (remote)
• The same knitted frog, held on an open palm (remote)

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nasko@infosec.exchange wrote:

We are looking for an Android security expert to join our team and work on securing Chrome on Andoird. Job posting is available at https://google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/104891950447895238, but also feel free to reach out to me directly.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Mossy fence post. This is not the shot that I set out to take yesterday, but it's the one you're getting because it's just so damn bright! #mosstodon #darktable

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• A cap of bright green moss sitting on top of an old, rotten wooden fence post with remnants of a wire fence and some rope woven around it. The background is filled with a blurred view of yellowed tall grass.

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

My schedule is such that every Wednesday I teach two classes back-to-back.

My voice is not holding up well to two continuous hours of talking. May die.

How do public school teachers survive?

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Mojeek ("Mojeek Search Engine") wrote:

this is the chrome logo if they were being honest

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• the chrome logo with an eye in the middle