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"AI will only get better from here" sounds like a strong argument, but think about software you use every day and ask yourself if it's "only getting better".



I am looking for a computer, that can be thrown in a backpack, and has a battery. Ideally no screen or keyboard inbuilt.
@Peter :emacs: :fedora: yeah, might be worth thinking about, hmmmmmmm, ali case wasn't an existing thought...
I saw some alu cases for the Pi there, with no battery, but sometimes a google search is better (with the domain name limit) rather than the internal search on aliexpress.

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i feel like the thing that's missing from all the online voting discourse is that the core part of your base doesn't just vote, they *move their communities* by doing all the annoying door-knocker volunteer shit that gets other people voting

and they can't do that very well if they're eating shit

because you need enthusiasm to do all that volunteer shit

and you need enthusiasm to *sell* the candidate, it's the bedrock of doing outreach with any semblance of sincerity

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these frustrated, beleaguered, constantly-smeared people can force themselves to vote but that's not where the bar is!

you will lose thousands and thousands of other votes they bring in if that's where you set the bar!


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Juniors, here's why it's always better to raise your mistakes early and get help: You're very unlikely to be fired over a mistake you owned up to.

Me helping you fix your mistake is cheap.
Recruiting your replacement costs more.

But recovering from a cover-up is REALLY costly.

Growing up, my dad would say "If you're going to fuck up, fuck up quickly so you've got time to unfuck it." It stuck with me and it really does apply to so many positions.
@cR0w “bad news does not get better with time” is what got pounded into my head
@cR0w
@TindrasGrove @cR0w Apparently "If you must eat crow, eat it while it is still young and tender" is some sort of saying in US legal circles.
@cR0w @TindrasGrove I am just relating saying from the US legal community, I do not eat corvids, they're cool.

way way back in the day on a school trip, I thought a soap dispenser at the facility were visited was a "pull handle out for soap" model.

It was a push handle in to release soap model.

I ripped that box clean off the wall.

The people in charge were pleased I reported the accidental destruction rather than doing the pretend it wasn't you cowardly ostrich approach and made it a teaching moment for the rest of the class.

Good times.


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Something looks suspicious about the IA attack, and I suspect the goal is to change sentiment about *something*, probably the Internet Archive, but it's not clear what, and it may be more than one thing. It seems like someone probably paid a hacking agency to do this, very possibly a publishing house upset about copyright claims, and I say that especially because:

- "See you on Have I Been Pwned", but really, this is one of the least dramatic things to end up on HIBP of all time: it's names and email addresses sure, but all the passwords are properly hashed and there isn't much else. So why gloat about it?
- There seems to be an attempt to lower public impression of IA in terms of talking about its tech "held up with sticks". It is old tech, so maybe, but why the focus on that?
- If you analyze the HN thread about it for comments in terms of when posted, there were a bunch of sockpuppet accounts created almost immediately after the post was made, seemingly to add comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Nathans220 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=haha112 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=19h00 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Mr-Hyde
- An allegedly pro-palestinean militant hacking group is claiming responsibility, but their rationale doesn't make sense: they say it's because the IA is an American company, and the US is helping Israel. But why the IA *specifically*? This seems like a false flag operation either to draw attention away from the real perpetrators, or possibly to try to turn technically inclined people against pro-palestinean activists https://x.com/sn_darkmeta/status/1844104165192253945?s=46&t=sGbGJDwPtKqKmSzYvGAl1A

The IA *is* engaged with several fights with publishers and people who have beef on copyright grounds. It's entirely possible one of them hired a nation-state affiliated hacking group (of which there are quite a few) that had a side beef, or that group is trying to throw the public off its tracks, but regardless, sock puppets like this typically appear after a hacking attack when there's a paid organization.

Regardless, nobody else is keeping the internet's history alive, and yes, the IA has made some mistakes sometimes, but I stand behind them and wish their staff strength in dealing with this time.

I'm old enough to remember 9/11: the first 20, 30 media-chaotic minutes after the second plane hit, before the narrative settled on Bin Laden, there was all kinda loose talk about the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which I would have really enjoyed that laugh if I wasn't watching burning people jumping outta buildings
I'm also old enough to remember after a bunch of right-wing white men blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, all the pundits for DAYS looked right into the cameras tawmbout OBVIOUSLY ALL THE HALLMARKS OF MIDDLE EASTERN MUSLIM TERROR ERMAGHERD
I share your impressions about all this.



/usr.slice/user-1000.slice/session-38.scope is not a snap cgroup

Ya know what Ubuntu, I actually don't care.

Just... make my shit work. If you want to make linux a hellscape - at least... function.


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To the dumbasses that are like "please don't share our site on mastodon" my $4/month VPS can handle all the requests from my 1.6 thousand followers without even going up in CPU usage at all.

Optimize your godawful website.

a CPU/RAM usage graph showing only ~10% CPU at most, usually sitting in the single digits, and about 30% RAM consistantly.

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Years ago the overhead of my Wordpress blog from the fediverse surge when posting links is what had me ditch it for static site generators Jekyll and then later Hugo. At the time people were giving suggestions on how to reduce the loading problem but for a static blog site there was nothing I wasn’t getting and the overhead and attack surface was way less. I never looked back, which turned out to be even more fortuitous with recent events in that community.

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You’re chasing uptime because you’re concerned about high availability.

I’m chasing uptime because I’m not convinced the machine will come back up if it’s power cycled.

We are not the same.

This post is also relevant to Narcoleptics, thank you for your service

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It is extremely unfair that I, a private citizen, cannot simply pay a one-time fee to the government and claim a block of IPv6 addresses for life.
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I'm switching ISPs tomorrow. in addition to my one static v4 address, apparently I'm getting a /56, or 2^72 v6 addresses, which seems... excessive! I would take 2^10 addresses I actually own over that

@kaimac It's 256 /64s, which is the only measurement of IPv6 addresses most people should ever worry about.

All the ^ notations and strings of digits are meaningless when you're supposed to allocate 2^64 (18,446,744,073,709,551,616) of them at a time.

256 networks. Kind of a lot, but the next nibble boundary down only gives you 16 networks, which is fine for anyone who rolls with defaults, but is a little weak for even moderate tech hobbyists.

@arrjay Unfortunately, personal subnets aren't a sustainable model for the default-free zone routing table.

I do agree that there should be something along the lines of community networks fulfilling effectively that role, though.

@rj

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I guess the rest of my professional career is just going to consist of the following half-dozen-odd interactions:
1. Taking off my spectacles, pinching the bridge of my nose then asking "What is the problem you are actually trying to solve?".
2. Peering over my spectacles and asking "…and at the time, did anyone express any concerns about that course of action?".
3. Taking long drag from my cigarette and intoning the ancient proverb "The root cause is that our processes are not robust enough to prevent a person from making this mistake." before being told "Amy please not right now.".
4. Riffling my notes and beginning the explanation to the auditor or committee with "So, you see, what had happened was…".
5. Making direct eye contact with an engineer through a webcam and asking first how long that will take and then whether the plan is missing any steps.
Thinking of investing in some smart glasses to improve efficiency through automation. But they have yet to invent a pair which passive-aggressively polish themselves while I work out the most tactful way to put my reply.
There's a certain degree of theatre to that move, though.

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If you came from #BlackTwitter i wanna follow you. Tryna find my people. I need more Black humor, culture, opinions, and experiences on my TL. I need more Black folx on ny TL. I miss us.

If that's not you, that's totally fine too. Gimme a repost and help me with my search?

If you never liked Twitter in the first place, sit this post out.

Searching across #BlackMastodon #blackFedi and shit, nahmean?

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I'm thinking @mwl has a whole untapped market... :flan_think:
A picture of a baby holding a book with the original title of "CSS for Babies", except it has been 'shopped to read "ZFS for Babies".  While cute, the kid looks a little shell-shocked.

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He must be a Windows user.

@sirwumpus
He's far too young to have chosen a preferred OS.

Give him ten years, and he'll experiment with Inferno just because he think it'll piss off Dad.

@Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: @SirWumpus His grandpa's university friend wrote Inferno, so uh... he has the access

My dad wrote Coherent, so I rebelled against my OS dev dad by becoming a sysadmin, so I hope he makes better decisions than me

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Or he'll try to install SystemD on Dad's BSD work station.

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The greedflation crisis is so bad, getting the fanciest cheese I can at the specialty cheese store is *cheaper* than buying brie at the grocery store

no it's when spiders and snakes team up


I wonder if Tim Pool will have to give back his Russian propaganda funded skatepark

This is a sentence I just idly thought, this is a glimpse into madness



Phlogging the paper tape

If you don't know, my SSG supports RSS, Web, and Gopher, all on obscuritus.ca

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Thinking about Bandcamp and incentives.

So I just bought music from https://derinaharveyband.bandcamp.com/album/waves-of-home and you should too. You should buy it all and leave a tip. But, let's talk incentives.

So I want to buy Derina's music, because (he way she sings makes me want to scream, weep, join the chorus, and somehow fly. And if she releases a new anything, I want to know one second after, if not early enough I can preorder.

But I don't buy a lot of music, I have extensive ear damage and most music falls flat for me. So I don't care about much other music.

Derina Harvey Band doesn't care what music I buy, as long as I buy theirs (they are probably good people and hope I support their community though, back there in a second).

So Derina Harvey Band and I have a relationship (I want to give them money), but they want to make more, so they use Bandcamp for discoverability. I found their bandcamp before I found their website! So bandcamp is good! It fascilitated a relationship, and I get to hear about the sea.

But now Bandcamp wants to spam me about not-Derina-Harvey, they want me to learn about Nathan Evans or whoever, bands I really don't want to engage with, since I might buy their music. And this has lead me to turn off all communications from Bandcamp. This means I miss when bands I like release music.

So, because there's a broker (platform) who is going to meditate my relationship with Derina Harvey Band, I am going to lose out. Bandcamp turned a new fan into a new customer, but made it harder for a customer to stay a customer.

And, I want to be clear here, there was not even regular Enshittifiation. It's bandcamp Friday, I sent the band slightly over full price for all their albums and they're probably getting, as cash, the full price of all their albums, the platform took nothing. But they band also doesn't have a POSSE style setup, I need to use a platform to learn about tours and releases, and I don't.

I dunno, this is just a tragic story, there's no lesson we don't all know, and there's no solution that isn't to tell a band to manage their own mailing list. The obvious solution is to create a platform that isn't evil, but even then, I don't think that's possible because of all this.

Abolish capitalism so I can revel in a shanty about how capitalism ruins sailing.

Bandcamp won't let you, but one "Paweł Grzybek" has set this service up based on another. It's limited to 100,000 daily requests, so he requests people don't hammer it too much.

https://pawelgrzybek.com/generate-rss-feed-for-bandcamp-artists-using-deno-deploy

I guess that means you can't get notified the very second another album comes out, but I bet once per day wouldn't strain Paweł's limits too much.

@𝕸𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔫 ah, that makes!

I will endevour to never hit more than daily


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Kitchener City Hall security recently beat the shit out of a disabled senior. Why? Because she was making chalk art in support of queer/trans folks in the civic square. https://fightbackkw.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/justice-for-stephanie-woodland @waterlooregion #violence #ElderAbuse

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@uxmark you're welcome. I hope she'll be ok and that these guards are charged and never do anything like this again.
@uxmark I hope they're all fired. No one that violent should ever be in a position of power.

I miss FxOS. There was so much I loved about it. From a user experience and developer standpoint, it got a heck of a lot of things right.
@vwbusguy I got one and it was unusable, possibly worse than the Neo Openmoko
@letoams @vwbusguy at the time i rated fxos as better than ubuntu phone, but worse than webos :D
@letoams That's fair. I found FxOS to be more charming than WebOS but it wasn't as feature complete.
I've seen Kai OS on most 'flip phones' now (based on Firefox OS). There's a bit of a hacker community messing with it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

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Mozilla is really committed to metaphorically piloting their cheap homemade submersible with a gaming controller.

@silverwizard I'm even more confused now, UBI = Universal Basic Income?

@Hypolite Petovan yeah

The point is that if we gave people access to money they would be more able to make software and maintain it