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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.
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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.
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But I think I have explanation for that - they simply wanted to get attention for whatever they are trying to do and IA is good for that because it's really big site which almost everyone involved in cybersecurity and stuff uses.
This is just pure speculation on my part, but I suspect is that the true purpose of the attacks is to cripple online libraries, using Israel an excuse to stir hate and cause division in the left.
But why? What happens when you can post something online and then revise what you say some time later without any record that it was changed, or digital records, books, information etc gets taken down esp. in places where physical libraries become criminalized or dangerous to run?
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I don't see it.
IA has insecure tech, not just old tech. I've reported a vuln about them revealing user emails in the past and they did nothing about it.
Many people create HN accounts to comment, this isn't necessarily suspicious.
The pro-palestinian group provided zero proof that they're behind this.
As I've repeated elsewhere, three categories make sense to me in this scenario:
a) Attention-seeking / sheer bloody-mindedness.
b) General disruptive effect.
c) Specific disruptive effect.
It might just be someone, trying to make the west feel insecure?
There are several actors who want that, so I'm not pointing.
/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.
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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.
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I literally had this happen with a Raspberry Pi I was using as a home server. I had a bunch of stuff running through it and every reboot had like a 10% chance of booting up for some reason I never figured out. I would have to actually get up and go into the other room to keep power cycling it until it worked nearly every time I rebooted.
I don't think I can emphasize the horror of this. I not only had to get up, but even go into another room.
EDIT: Actually, I just remembered the worse thing. For some reason my VPS suddenly decided it needed keyboard entry at some part of the bootup process. It would take like an hour to time out or something because of course there was no one there to use a keyboard... Never figured out what happened there.
@nazokiyoubinbou Personal experience caused me to toot this.
Our router’s hard drive died sometime in the recent past (3 months, maybe.)
There was no failure until it just never started back up..
Does harddrive mean flash RAM?
But yeah, they usually use a firmware filesystem ROM that loads into system RAM on startup. As long as it's running it would be fine, but indeed if the image itself is damage that's pretty much fatal.
Was it actually dead? If it was simply corrupted many have a mechanism of recovery. (Usually the 30/30/30 method along with a direct connection to a PC or something.)
@nazokiyoubinbou It is a PC, yes. I just really like pfsense, and “too much router” isn’t really that much a problem.
(There are lots of low-power x86 systems out there that make for a great pfsense box, and if you ever want to do something like captive portal or snort, you’re ready to go.)
Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding.
This sounds like a great thing. Sorry it died on you.
@nazokiyoubinbou Hey, don’t worry about it. I’m the weirdo for having a full x86-64 computer as a router.
I appreciate the assistance.
It is a great thing, it’s also a heck of a lot more involved to maintain, but it works for me.
That's not *that* weird. I did do that once myself. In theory that could be a lot better. A proper full Linux system is much better maintained than a typical router for example. I'm less familiar with pfsense, but it seems potentially still better than your typical router. So many firmware bugs, backdoors, and etc these days on those... (I wish I could buy for OpenWRT at least, but that's tricky.)
It caught me by surprise, but mostly it was just the terminology confusion. It's not actually so weird or bad.
@Linux “my sibling in Satan, please use Debian. We’re all crying for you to use Debian.”
… or just enjoy the next xz backdoor 😮💨
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@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.
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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.
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@jenniferplusplus Oh dayum. I feel a bit like you’ve invaded my privacy a bit. This is too accurate.
At what point are you called a blocker?
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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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My 3yo got through 1 paragraph of @Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: 's SSH Mastery before saying "I'm done with this book"
I think these books aren't for toddlers!
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Reading a toddler one of my books?
I wouldn't say that in public. Child Protective Services lacks a sense of humor.
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If he asked for a line 220 line, would you give him one?
No, never mind, you probably shouldn't say in public.
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@Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: his first words on seeing a tape recorder was "Can we take it apart?!"
When I gave him a guitar pick to play his learning guitar, he immediately started to try to find how he could get the guitar open (since he knows what picks are for)
We're building him his own https://www.clockworkpi.com/gameshell together, with him hands on pieces
so... I miiiiiight
I might also have broken my toddler (or maybe doomed)
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kids these days, probably want to run Mosh or something instead of vanilla SSH? ;)
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http://holyjoe.org/poetry/anonE.htm
Poem: What If Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals?
Poem: What If Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals?; by Gene Zieglerholyjoe.org
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@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
@SirWumpus @Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: aaaaaaaaaah
Halloween special!
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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
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If you don't know, my SSG supports RSS, Web, and Gopher, all on obscuritus.ca
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.
I can't solve the medium-level problem of bandcamp's mediation, and can't speak to the high-level problem of 'capitalism', but if you use an RSS reader, and if the RSS reader takes commands, you can pull in this url to generate an RSS feed for an arbitrary bandcamp band.
curl 'https://rss-bandcamp.deno.dev?artist=derinaharveyband'
@𝕸𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔫 Oh, I can directly follow rss of a bandcamp eh?
At least it solves the main tension
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.
Generate RSS feed for Bandcamp artists using Deno Deploy | pawelgrzybek.com
I mentioned multiple times how much I like RSS. But unfortunately, not every website I use generates feeds — Bandcamp is one of them.pawelgrzybek.com
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Justice for Stephanie Woodland
Home About History Mailing List Waterloo Regional Council Kitchener City Council Sign the Petition! Watch the Video Email Mayor Berry Vrbanovic, Email Kitchener’s Crown Attorneys Email Mayor …fightbackkw.wordpress.com
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@djsundog disclaimer: I was part of Palm’s webOS team (worked on the browser and the runtime), then few years later moved to Mozilla to work on B2G.
webOS had excellent ideas and was pretty well designed and architected. Poor high management but excellent engineering.
B2G on the other hand was a complete dumpster fire at every level: a bad idea, designed and implemented very badly from top to bottom.
(Had two different Jolla Phones after that..)
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@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
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> "23andMe and/or our contracted genotyping laboratory will retain your Genetic Information, date of birth, and sex as required for compliance with applicable legal obligations, [...], even if you chose to delete your account. 23andMe will also retain limited information related to your account and data deletion request, including but not limited to, your email address [...]" - Retention of Personal Information
Does this mean they'll keep DNA and identifiable info even after deleting account?
a note: before you delete it, you may want to request downloads of your data for your own use. The means to do so is on the same page as the deletion request is.
You paid for it, you might as well get your FASTA and VCF out of it!
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> For adoptees, people estranged from their birth family, and people with certain genetic conditions, 23andme has been an important resource.
Accurate, but the ends don't justify the means. The better world means sacrificing many nice things. It was always foolish to give DNA to a publicly traded company, and the people who did so have earned criticism. Similarly, the people who sell out the human race by using non-libre tech deserve criticism, despite any rationale for using it
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