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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
My daughter's pixelated rendition of https://www.pinterest.com/pin/312226186664129382/. Her first attempt at #pixelart .
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The RedNote honeymoon won’t last - by Taylor Lorenz
"I don’t want to pour cold water on all the beautiful moments where people are genuinely connecting across cultures, but this honeymoon phase will not last, nor will RedNote ever truly be able to replicate TikTok’s popularity."
Signed up for RedNote this week. Americans are enchanted by videos of Chinese cities and culture. They’re angry and feel mislead by years ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/16/the-rednote-honeymoon-wont-last.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fluconf@social.cryptography.dog ("FluConf") wrote:
#fluConf2025 will feature a track on Luddism, and we're still looking for submissions.
We want to hear from people that are talking or writing about the deliberate use of technology, resistance to the dominant narratives in tech hype cycles, analysis of the strategies employed by venture capitalists and their distorting effects on society, activism against extractive and exploitative technologies, sabotage of algorithmic systems, and whatever else Luddism means to you.
Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
#luddism #workingClass #laborHistory #sabotage #classWar #resist #AI #directAction #algorithm #capitalism #hyperCapitalism #enshittification #butlerianJihad
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412
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Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:
@arstechnica Bad, bad idea.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Via Kyle Griffin:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has sent a 31-page, 180-question letter to Trump Treasury pick Scott Bessent ahead of his confirmation hearing, writing:
"The Treasury Secretary must safeguard our financial system … not just help rich investors make more money." tinyurl.com/wma22ydu
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: setuid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
All the signs were there that the Democrats were incompetent on the Palestine issue. Should we be surprised that a lot of people lost interest in supporting them?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/16/the-red-lines-are-imaginary/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We have to keep hammering away at the obvious.
Mastodon FeedComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:
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- In a flashback, the silver age Iron Man is seen in his golden armor in an apparent forest, standing behind a giant rock, holding a microphone wired to his belt. He recounts, “When I left Vanco momentarily…I quickly recorded the speech he just heard on my TAPE MACHINE! I was certain that he’d BELIEVE it…because he knows how treacherous all Communists are!“ (remote)
Mastodon FeedDaojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedI wonder if there are any major airlines who put their first class / business seats at the back, since it has a statistically higher survival rate in the event of a crash...
It's challenging from a logistics PoV , but doesn't seem unsolvable (e.g. add an exit at the back...)
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Mastodon Feedfrenshape@beige.party ("Frenshape") wrote:
@jwz it doesn't make any sense to me, but after creating an account and posting a random image nobody showed up to tell me how I was doing it wrong because I didn't include a sonnet of alt text and hide my picture behind some magic assortment of shame tags.
Mastodon Feedatomicpoet@atomicpoet.org ("Chris Trottier") wrote:
For the first time ever, Mastodon’s share of Fediverse distribution software has dropped below 70%.
This is due to Pixelfed’s sudden growth. 50,000 people joined today.
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Mastodon FeedTo summarize the replies to my question, so that you don't have to continue incorrecting each other in this thread:
Author of ActivityPub spec: "Yeah that's not how any of this is supposed to work."
Author or Pixelfed: "There are some reasons, they're not great, we hope to fix that someday."
A bunch of people:
Literally everyone else: "The way it was implemented is Right and Perfect, better things are Not Possible, you must not Understand Software."
Mastodon Feedheidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
A friend just sent me this. Hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
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Mastodon FeedI 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
Mastodon FeedExterminate 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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:
we're all trying to find the guy who did this
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Mastodon Feedevan@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.
Mastodon Feedif 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).
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Tractor. Some more of our Pacific Northwest winter mist. #pnw
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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?
Mastodon Feedfrenshape@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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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:
- W^X (Write XOR Execute):
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX- ProPolice Stack Protector:
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features- Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR):
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization- RETGUARD:
URL: https://www.gobsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=3862They 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.