Dear OpenBoard,
I have you set to English (UK) for a reason (because English (CA) isn't an option). Quit trying to autocorrect "colour" to "color".
Thanks.
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@Reiddragon @me
@Reiddragon
DJ UNK and I basically have a show that's just about what @me does.
BREAKING
GREEN TEA ADDED TO MENU AT PARADISE SUSHI
so according to classic Bell labs at worst jlamothe is a minor success ;p
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Diving into the #Veilid documentation... or what I can find of it.
I have an idea that may well turn out to be vapourware, but my brain won't let me drop it if I don't at least try to build it.
I've been itching to do something with Veilid since @The Gibson first announced it.
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I honestly didn't think veilid managed to get anywhere, which was sad.
VeilidChat exists but I think that's the only productive/useful project.
Development on the repos has really slowed down post-announcement, which isn't inherently a bad thing, if it's "done", but I don't think it's done - instead it feels stalled.
Maybe it all moved on-network and to places I can't see? That'd be cool.
"This turns #AI-"assisted" coders into reverse centaurs. The AI can churn out code at superhuman speed, and you, the human in the loop, must maintain perfect vigilance and attention"
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/
@pluralistic once again writes words that get stuck in my brain.
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This is the part where I gloat about being right about Bluesky, right?
They never really wanted federation.
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@Shreyan Jain I'll admit to not having heard of this. If I post something using this third-party AppView, who controls the physical disk on which my post resides?
I haven't paid a ton of attention to BlueSky because I'm simply not interested in yet another walled garden.
Slow Response on RSS
!Friendica Support
I'm having some trouble subscribing to a new RSS feed from Friendica.
The URL is https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-topstories
I run Friendica behind an nginx reverse proxy, and it's giving me a gateway timeout error.
I know that the whole reverse proxy thing isn't specifically a Friendica thing and I'm working on figuring out how to increase the timeout, but the fact that the response is taking long enough to trigger it is.
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Amazon squeezed sellers and jacked up prices.
Google stamped out competitors in search.
Facebook used buy-or-bury schemes to crush competition.
Apple used its immense power to kill off challengers.
All four face major antitrust cases from the US government.
It's about time.
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Dear spammers:
If you're going to create fake accounts, maybe don't choose a profile photo with an iStock watermark...
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#capitalism
#anticapitalism #capitalist #socialism #anarchism #leftism #leftism #fuckcapitalism #anarchyrules #anarchy
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One day, there was a family riding next to me in a bus. The mother chastised her kids for smartphone habits: "it's been only a week since the beginning of the billing period, and you've spent 3GB of traffic already!"
I wanted to apologise to her and to her children on behalf of all the BigTech and modern IT industry so badly.
I also felt immensely sad for the internet reality we live in. Twenty years ago I would spend my allowance on buying a 5MB dial-up access card, and that would be enough for a day of happy browsing, or a few days of ICQ. Nowadays, I wouldn't be able to even load Discord browser app with that much of traffic.
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Harry Sintonen (@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange)
Probably the single most impressive entry from the #Revision2024 #demoparty : Remnants by Alcatraz Here's the whole intro executable for your convenience: 68f69f07b013cd10d6bac90391eee2f9bbf601b8cdccf7e7720e41f6c13f7508804702058047082d80ee4c608d28b…Infosec Exchange
Clearing Reports
!Friendica Support
So, I reported one of my own posts using an alt account to test how it worked. I'm very glad that this feature now exists, but I have two questions:
- Is it possible to receive some sort of notification when a report is filed?
- How can I mark a report as resolved, or otherwise clear it?
Edit: proofreading is for suckers
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@SteveBellovin Today you posted a note about how someone appears to have injected a Trojan into the source of XV. (Oops, I mean xz.) And there was another post about the increase in complex tool chains and dependencies that are larding-up the software many of us use.
That made me wonder about whether national security bodies - intelligence, military, or other - or social movements, e.g. ISI) might be injecting similar things into source trees.
It would be relatively easy to hide such things, particularly via the tool chains or Makefiles - like who is going to notice a sed script in a autoconfig part of a build chain?
Like good spies, such things could be planted years in advance and only triggered, if ever, when desired.
This is not an open source issue, it is a ubiquitous issue. And in light of Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trust" some of these could be quite invisible in some kinds of source code.
I am very nervous about the vulnerability and brittleness of our new world of tech as a utility.
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@me Yse, open source allows inspection (and testing). When we were doing an open reference design/implementation for California for voting systems we slightly changed things to encourage testing *and* to openly publish test results. (But we also closed the door a bit on viral redistribution to throw a bone to encourage private implementations of our reference software/hardware/procedures with proprietary, i.e. you-pay-for, enhancements.)
However, I've been wrestling with tool chains for several years and it seems to me that those are good places to hide "bad things" without anyone looking very hard to find them.
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Totally agree with this. I lived though Hurricane Harvey and it actually restored some of my faith in humanity..
But I might add that there were gangs running around killing folks after Katrina.
Gangs of cops.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings
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@Lizette603_23 I tend to think any named group of people — companies, bands, countries, etc — can be singular or plural depending which makes most sense. Grammatical number doesn't always correspond to actual counting
also nasa is an enby
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Collective nouns in British English are usually treated as plural, while they are usually treated as singular in American English.
https://editorsmanual.com/articles/collective-nouns-singular-or-plural/
“Team Is” or “Are”: Are Collective Nouns Singular or Plural? | The Editor’s Manual
Collective nouns, which refers to groups like “team,” “government,” “family,” and “committee,” are treated as singular in American but plural in British English.Neha Karve (The Editor’s Manual)
@Lizette603_23 British English differs from common American usage. In the US, people commonly use the singular form for companies, in England the plural form is preferred.
NASA is ...
UK Space are...
Neither is more correct than the other, just local variation.
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The unit doesn't make the whole and the whole doesn't represent every unit.
We may look similar, can reproduce between us but ultimately everyone taking is one decision to either poison children air or burn money for a ball full of rust
"Hey, what's a good name for our company that makes switches?"
"ANU?"
"Yeah, sounds good! Let's buy the domain for our website!"
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Parens in Tags
In future versions of Friendica, is it possible to not include parens (specifically close parens) in tags the same way you can't use other punctuation? (so that this doesn't #happen)
@Jonathan Lamothe @Hypolite Petovan so what actually would be needed is the regex to exclude all the unwanted characters, like parenthesis or no width space and then whenever we find some character that should terminate a tag we can add it to the regex.
@Hypolite Petovan out of interest, do you know where this is done in the code?
- https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/9fe0d724613f84baa1de662ce457c60981ab4504/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php#L2296
- https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/9fe0d724613f84baa1de662ce457c60981ab4504/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php#L2326
@Jonathan Lamothe
Dear @Gargron,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”
Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?
Thank you.
PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia
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@counterinduration There are three reasons I still federate. If any one of them stops being a thing, I'll defederate (I've considered it).
- A lot of interesting people land there because they haven't yet had a chance to find a better instance.
- They don't seem to be intentionally doing bad things.
- They haven't posed enough of a moderation problem on my end yet (I've been able to just block the odd idiot).
Meta fails at point number two, and because of that, I haven't given them the chance to fail point number three.
Edit: typo
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@me
The problem is that if we want to have a commons then it needs to be protected from extraction. A commons that let itself become extracted is not a commons at all, it's just a preparation for extraction.
It's better with a small well protected commons than a bigger one that will allow parts of it to become extracted.
So, I'm eating a Wagonwheel for the first time since childhood. I'm not sure if they've gotten significantly smaller, or if I'm just remembering them as being larger than they were.
Probably both.
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This is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Also, I don't own the copyright to this, I just wanted to share it with the people on yo...YouTube
one of the more sobering lessons was just how little it takes for people to convince themselves they are talking to a person. and how this hallucination builds over time, the more they interact, until it becomes a certainty, something they refuse to let go of.
people consulted my bot for life decisions, kept trying have sex with it in the direct messages. one woman was going to leave her husband for my bot. I kept having to block strangers who got extremely weird about it, in different ways.
exactly. heck, I talk to machines and trees and animals and inanimate objects all the time. nothing wrong with that.
I think "human-like" bots can effect a kind short circuit, a vertigo of the personhood instinct, but also nothing wrong with that per se.
the sinister bit is where that human tendency to relate and find personhood gets maximised and exploited by the ruthlessly amoral, ultracapitalist snake-oil merchants of the bilionaire destroyer class.
https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty/112161316200529463
Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] (@SomaFMrusty@defcon.social)
Attached: 1 image Longer, sped-up version of the YT live feed of the ship before it impacted the bridge.DEF CON Social
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Broken Search
!Friendica Support So I upgraded my Friendica node today, and the search seems to be broken.
Anything I type into the search box just yields a blank page in the result.
Edit (mentioned in comments but I'll put it here too):
Searching tags works (/search?tag=).
The follow button is giving the same blank page issue.
The resulting blank page is pretty much immediate. Virtually no lag which would usually indicate the database lookup is hanging.
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I remember seeing a post where a women earned her MD and folks asked why the degree had her maiden name and her response: “my husband didn’t do 8 years of med school.”
Most of my 20s was spent writing under a pseudonym because my full deadname is frankly boring as fuck and super common. I considered legally changing it that as I started using professionally, not just socially. So I’m on my third name right now and I’ve identified some names I like better than Jade but 🤷🏻♀️
@renegadejade Jade is a cool name. Too bad humans because it could just be a variable to swap out wherever.
Lindsey was supposed to be the pen name (we never technically married), but I didn’t know he was an abuser and that someday his name would make my skin crawl. It’s like he’s got his label stamped on my work. He might have funded it, but he didn’t DO it. So I’ll have to be content with confusing everyone.
@renegadejade See, society just needs a system like that. A formula encoded into culture. Plus people who are less hung up on names being normal or permanent like your uncle.
My mom was cool with my name change in 3rd grade (just started using the nickname of my middle name), but she never has quite made the jump to Luna yet, and I started using that in ‘04. Still living as a woman with a deadname! We’ve had several conversations about it, and she starts to understand a little more each time. She’s clinging to certain pat religious answers, which… well anyway! She hasn’t deadnamed me in a couple of weeks at least. I’m plural, too, so, there’s names stuff going on there. I have just never felt too attached to my label. Most of my labels actually. I’m fairly fluid all around. Go wherever it goes.
I’m chatty. I haven’t actually talked much about this stuff in a coherent narrative because I’ve been isolated for many years. Thanks for listening.
You’re welcome. And Thank you. Another plural! I am actively working through plural stuff currently. https://hachyderm.io/@renegadejade/112146051513736797
I’m autistic about names, labels, and identities. If I pursue a PhD, I want to research how queer/trans people form identities through their media consumption. Realizing all my video game characters and TTRPG characters were power fantasy the whole time. I was trying to express Jade through them. Super interested in this.
@renegadejade As a writer, we do that there, too. All of my fictional characters have a piece of me in them. Many of them turn out to be metaphorically autobiographical. I’ll see common unplanned themes or symbols rising up in stories I write around the same time frame. LARPing stuff, too. I haven’t really thought through what archetypes I used to play. 🤔
That’s bringing up so many threads. I tried to write one out but my word-centers are shutting down from tiredness and the weed kicking in lol I’ll go check out the plural thread.
@renegadejade Ok I just irl made the 😮 face because guess which two vampire clans I played the most? Malkavian and Ravnos, both of which have powers of illusion and disguise. And I liked Changeling much better than V:TM, so ran a tabletop campaign for three years, AND worldbuilt my first novel inspired by that game. Basically everybody’s a shapeshifter in there!
See, I hear all these trans women all chatting about seeing this or that media and super relating to it and it’s all clicking for them with an “it all makes sense now,“ vibe, and I’ve never connected with that idea until *just now.*
@renegadejade Wow! Yeah the crazy vibe was also part of the Malks and Changeling. Another archetype is anything that can hide in shadows, disarm traps, and use poison 😂
Congrats on feeling at home in yourself!
Holy shit.. #Apple, can I get a refund?
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.Ars Technica
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That indeed is an interesting question, that I would like to have a legal answer to, you know, from a product liability and consumer rights perspective.
If something is broken, you have a right to get it fixed (at least in a limited way where I live). If it can't be fixed, you have a right for reverse transaction.
I wonder if this applies here. In my opinion it does, but #IANAL
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