Just ran into some #Mormon missionaries in the wild. It's always interesting when they try to strike up a conversation with me.
[...small talk...]
Missionary: So, do you know much about our church?
Me: Yeah, I actually had my records removed back in 2019.
[awkward scilence followed by an abrupt change of subject]
I know I'm late to the #Friendica channels party, but the "Quiet Sharers" channel is really quite nice. It only shows posts from accounts you follow that aren't frequent posters, helping you to find stiff you might otherwise miss.
This is how to do an algorithmic feed* right.
* Yes, I know that sorting posts chronologically is technically an algorithmic feed.
So, I like to set filters that automatically collapse certain posts that I may or may not have the mental bandwidth to engage with at any given time. Friendica lets me do this by regex, but some of them are kinda ugly
Take my Elon filter for instance. I could filter on /elon/i, but that would falsely trigger on common words like 'melon' or 'belong'. I finally settled on /^(.*[^a-z])?elon([^a-z].*)?$/i, but that feels overly complicated. Is there a better solution?
Edit: proofreading is for suckers.
Once again, for the people in the back: we don't build back doors because there is no way to build a back door that only good guys can walk through, motherfuckers.
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Oh hang on, it gets better.
Apparently signing into the app on my phone using biometrics seems to bypass 2FA. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
My bank required me to set up 2FA. Via SMS. Only method available! So I did, but I wrote to an old friend (who happens to be their chief data architect) explaining why SMS was not the way to go. She spoke to somebody, and sure enough they soon grew the ability to use an authenticator TOTP in addition to SMS. Only issue now is: NO WAY to remove SMS as a valid method.
At least it doesn't reject a GVoice number, which is way safer than a real SIM-based phone in the wild.
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I will not comment in that thread. I will not feed that troll.
...no matter how much I might really want to.
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@R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: I really don't want to look it up again.
The gist of it was that neurodiverse people should stay hidden and avoid drawing attention to themselves because there are bad people out there who would do them harm.
They seemed genuinely surprised that people took offense to this.
"A doctor has issued a stark warning that the XEC variant of Covid-19 could bring back the dreaded masks and social distancing"
idk man maybe the thing to dread is the debilitating airborne blood plague, not the act of putting on a fucking mask. maybe this attitude is exactly why things are turbofucked right now
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> maybe the thing to dread is the debilitating airborne blood plague, not the act of putting on a fucking mask
Hey another time traveller! This time from 2020.
You'll be pleased to learn that after 4 years of mutation, what people in your time quaintly called "COVID-19" now comes in forms that are much more infectious, but much less lethal. Most people who get the 'rona report a bad 'flu, and some people get it without even noticing!
Honesty, it really is safe to go outside now.
Does #Haskell's microlens-platform really not have a function of type Int -> Lens' [a] a?
That seems an odd omission.
Working Turing Machine
What is a Turing machine?Depending on who you ask, it's either an abstract model of an algorithmic machine or an esoteric programming language. It's ...ideas.lego.com
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So my local big box store has been selling a brand of chips that I haven't seen since the 80s. They're definitely playing on people's nostalgia, and I'll be damned if it hasn't worked on me every single time.
Edit: accidentally duplicated a word
Don't self incriminateโ use git wisely!
git commit --allegedly
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Why you have to be like that, trying to point the finger at others? You have 3 other fingers pointing back at yourself.
Also the quoting rules vary, line & row limits, space trimming, how decimals are represented, header or no headerโฆ
There's an RFC but I expect more non-conformant files than conformant.
I'm now on so many meds with such complicated rules about when and how to take them that working out a medication schedule kind of feels like solvong the wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
I guess that's just what it's like to get old.
Didn't there used to be a feature to automatically boost posts based on certain criteria? I thought it was a part of the "channels" feature, but I can't seem to find it.
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Oh shut the fuck up. Citizens are not competing with recent immigrants for scarce homes. They're competing with Wall St
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Stephen Schwarzman's hedge fund & others like it, own 1 in 7 homes in the greater Atlanta area.
It's not the immigrants making homes unaffordable. It's the hedge fund money laundering.
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Harlan Crow's RealPage is a price fixing "data broker" that got raided by the FBI, despite Crow buying a Supreme Court Justice.
It ballooned rents all over the USA.
Both GOP megadonors fund blameshifting propaganda about immigrants to evade scrutiny
ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/fbi-โฆ
RFK Jrโs Housing Policy Gives Republican Mega-Donor a Pass
If Kennedy was serious about combating the rise of corporate homeownershipโor the perception that heโs a de facto Republican candidate, for that matterโhe would call out Blackstoneโs nefarious influence by name.aidan-smith (Common Dreams)
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Yes. Harlan Crow, RealPage, and funding fascism are linked.
dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/5/โฆ
propublica.org/article/realpagโฆ
popular.info/p/feds-raid-corpoโฆ
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โฆ
propublica.org/article/doj-bacโฆ
propublica.org/article/yieldstโฆ
realpage.com/news/crow-holdingโฆ
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propublica.org/article/yieldstโฆ
propublica.org/article/why-renโฆ
seattletimes.com/business/realโฆ
dollarsandsense.org/archives/2โฆ
therevolvingdoorproject.org/haโฆ
jamesmartinnelson.com/2023/04/โฆ
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Crow Cut Tax Bills by Showering Thomas with Yacht Trips โ And May Have Broken the Law - Accountable US
New reporting today revealed that Harlan Crow, Justice Clarence Thomasโs billionaire benefactor, not only maintained a decades-long improper relationship with the Supreme Court justice while bringing business before the Court โ but also personally prโฆEmily Hoyle (Accountable US)
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Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
150,000+ Indigenous children suffered great harm at residential schools in Canada.
Residential schools were established with the purpose of erasing Indigenous cultures, spirituality, and languages.
Students lived in substandard conditions and endured physical, emotional, and sometimes sexual, abuse. One in twenty-five Indigenous children died while attending residential schools.
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So with Cohost shutting down in about 24 hours, a note to every remaining social media site: You should totally rip off the "Following" pane.
Cohost had a view where (as alternative to the normal linear feed), it showed everyone you follow, sorted by last post, and you could click to see recent posts. A problem with social media is the more you post, the more space you take up. Cohost "Following" made everyone take up the same amount of space, while still prioritizing recency. A nice compromise
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#PostOfTheWeek (season 1):
Darwinโs Natural Pet Products responded with an update on the situation:
โDarwinโs is confident our meals are safe. As weโve also shared with our customers, we commissioned independent, third-party testing using conventional methods, which found that all lots tested negative for listeria,โ said Gary Tashjian, CEO and founder of Darwinโs Natural Pet Products.
Argh! Why is @Nextcloud ๐ฑโ๏ธ๐ป not telling me that there's a new version out? I'm on 29 and it's telling me it's up to date.
Maybe it's a PHP thing because I'm still on 8.2.20, but that should be supported.
This definitely looks like an instant buy for me, look at all that #ChronoTrigger inspiration!
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Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states? Call your reps and demand change, like they did in New Hampshire! Recently, it was brought to my attention that Illinois has aโฆ
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Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states?โฆResiliency Mental Health
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Dear CLI utility writers (*cough* nmcli *cough*) that assume a terminal width larger than 80 columns,
Could you just... NOT, please?
Use two lines per entry if you have to, pad it out, abbreviate something, I don't care. Just don't put important details after the 80th column, please! ๐ข
(I standardize on 80 columns because that's what old terminals used, and I'm doing more than one thing at a time, always. Thank you =)
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I actually don't think the commands should care about or respect your terminal width any more than it does your terminal height. `less` and similar can provide horizontal scrolling if necessary. And, it quite annoys me when I tool builds in a pager rather than using $PAGER from my environment.
That said, for reasons completely unrelated to terminal width, line/field lengths do need to be controlled. Otherwise human eye tracking stops working well.
So it looks like I'm tied to Android for the time being (unless I want to go to iOS). Otherwise, I can't fully access my bank accounts.
Time to go yell at my bank.
The lispy gopher climate will be live in fifty minutes, though you could tune in now to hear @northernlights show (with a more conventional realization of 'music')! anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
#music for the lispy gopher climate will be some of @fstateaudio's Skin Contact imprint.
#lisp ~ that conversation around KMP's port of #zmacs, TRES lost to the sands of time.
This isn't the show toot I'm just making noise that I'm alive, and at least I'm listening to NL right now.
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I'm alive
Well of course we're all glad of that; thanks for the toot.
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Glad to hear you're still alive, and thanks again for the continued support!
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Without fail, every time I boost a post about discrimination on the fedi, I end up seeing a bunch of white guys trying trying to minimize it and telling the original poster why they're wrong and/or being unreasonable.
I'm getting the impression that just maybe the people complaining about this aren't making it up or something.
Weird, right?
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It depends on the implementation but Perl-style has '\b' to (zero-width) match a word boundary and GNU-style has '\<' and '\>' to (zero-width) match a word start and end.
A "word start" is a non-word character (e.g. whitespace) followed by a word character (e.g. a letter). A "word end" is the reverse. A "word boundary" is either.
HTH.
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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
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