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Fuck - I'm using dwm again and a proper OS
Having a nice computer again is kinda nice. It kinda sucks - I've been enjoying the hell out of convertible tablet computers - but it's hard as hell when doing the touchscreen thing.
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Ok - someone has stolen a cool fucking WorldCoin orb - will you send it to me? I wanna make it a server.
Fuck - I want a spherical server forever
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my middle one listens to audiobooks for bedtime when he’s with his mom.
When he’s with me he always wants to listen to that one episode of a podcast about war history where the hosts decided to talk about Warhammer 40k lore instead…
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Wife's birthday is Saturday
I think the cake plan is a Queen Mother Cake, a nougat middle layer, a peanut butter frosting, and then cover that with the standard queen mother hard chocolate icing
Going for a "chocolate bar but it's a cake", as was the request
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Youtube is a weird fucking beast.
It's a first class media type. It is definitely the new Television. But no one is making money from youtube ads, and external services (sponsors, patreon, and so on) is where the money is. But the *value proposition* of Youtube is supposed to be money.
But the value is obviously discoverability. Not even just the recommendation engine, but because if you search for a thing, Google will give you YouTube links early in the listings, and lots of people search for media on YouTube first. To the point I suspect it's the most popular music, book, video, and podcast platform.
There's literally no value to youtube basically. But because of how centralized everything got, it's nearly impossible to break out of. We *just* need better tools to search the web. It's literally all we need. And because of that, they're all getting incredibly bad.
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why not matrix?
at this point it seems like most of the tech community is familiar with matrix, the "open network for decentralized communication".Telegraph
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> matrix expects the json to be in canonical form, except the spec doesn’t actually define what the canonical json form is strictly, so there’s every possibility different implementations will end up generating different signatures for the same event.
I did not know this, that is so fucked
>speaking of moderation, this is notoriously difficult too, as moderation relies entirely on the functioning of the event auth system and breaks down if state resets happen or if someone abuses their power.
not even that, I don't even have any tools to moderate. I own one public room where you need to manually get message write privileges assigned. there still was harassment towards the members. fuck all members, how can I stop invites sent to *me* from, say, waifuhunter.club???
Simple and Small Git Hosting
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Simple and Small Git Hosting
There are regular discussions on the fediverse about self-hosted git, and they generally cover software that provides a similar experience to GitHub. Gitea and GitLab are the two names that I see with the most frequency.@maddiefuzz
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Gitea has a feature to mirror and keep in sync, with options on how frequently to update. It tracks branches and tags, but issues and PRs (as non-git data) are not synced.
git.fuzzle.org/petern/OpenTTD is my local mirror of OpenTTD from GitHub, although if I was doing it again I would set it up with a dedicated user instead of my normal account.
OpenTTD
OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon DeluxeGitea: Git with a cup of tea
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Gitolite is verry nice. I use it since years for personal git hosting.
For installing it's simple:
1. Install from the OS repo, or from the source
2. Create a "git" user (or any other name if you want)
3. Log into this user and push to it your admin public ssh key called as "yourname.pub" (replace "yourname" by your name)
4. Run command: gitolite setup -pk yourname.pub
And it's done. Your can nom do a ssh git@yourserveur to get the list of repos you have access to.
So I have a Shadowrun GM who wants to run deep political intrigued and complex cons
But he's absolutely awful at it
So he trying to run a political grift that we're opposing and we found why the politician who had backed down, they had received a note saying "Change your vote, or else"
And I was like "ok, but this is a grift, what the fuck is actually happening, we gotta figure out why nothing made her fold" and then the GM was like "oh, it had an explicit death threat"
And I think I'm offending him because I keep thinking that "a politician receiving death threats" wouldn't even crack the top ten surprising things that had happened to her in a day. But he keeps saying how this is deep politics and no hints we have to figure it out.
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"Or else" isn't very specific. At the very least include a photo of the politician's children at their school or something. That's what makes a threat at least somewhat credible.
I'm also running a somewhat political game, but it's not that deep. I'm mostly following the SRM4 adventures, fleshing them out a bit more here and there. I want to do a bit more with the corruption around the Backhaven administration, but I'm not sure how. It's mentioned a lot in various sources, but never very fleshed out.
@Martijn Vos yeah that makes sense!
And yeah! It is a very minor unactionable letter with no proof they can *do* anything. As I read it, it's a violent person blowing off steam, sure, it could be a problem, but that's why you have security!
I was expecting some level of:
inside person who was leveraging a weakpoint to talk her into being stressed out and afraid, balanced by threats and perhaps demonstrations, but apparently not
I wrote about the idea of craft -- a concept I've been hearing a lot lately in conversations about software work and often find myself wrangling with. But it also turned out to be about my grandpa. In a year of many losses, I have been thinking a lot about those I love and try to take with me in everything I do.
On Craft
My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which really mattered to him.drcathicks
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@Hypolite Petovan It does fucking look like it doesn't it.
I'm so fucking annoyed. This is three times I've put together a valid zpool and then booting from it fucked up. On three HBAs and two chassis. I've also replaced all but 3 disks
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Another interesting #perl module by @leont : metacpan.org/pod/Magic::Check. You can do this:
use Magic::Check;
use Types::Standard 'Int';
check_variable(my $var = 1, Int);
$var = "abc"; # this will throw
We're getting great momentum for having data checks in the perl core. @leonerd even threatened to just go ahead and implement something.
I'm really looking forward to this!
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Another wonderful episode of @techwontsaveus !
I was particularly struck by how much Weizenbaum's work presages the issues we are confronting today and the part towards the end about how judgment requires values which require lived experience.
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Tech Won't Save Us: AI Criticism Has a Decades-Long History w/ Ben Tarnoff on Apple Podcasts
Show Tech Won't Save Us, Ep AI Criticism Has a Decades-Long History w/ Ben Tarnoff - Aug 24, 2023Apple Podcasts
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Well, the first question is copyright.
Based on the publication date and because of the USA's maximalist copyright law, it doesn't look like it will enter the public domain until 2072.
The Internet Archive preview lists the copyright as W.H. Freeman and Company, which is owned by Macmillan? I don't know if that means they own the copyright, but probably? So you'd probably have to contact them and ask if they'd be willing to reprint it.
IANAL etc.
I think it might be time I try leveraging my socials to shamelessly ask folks for #ITJobs referrals in the greater Seattle Area. Looking for tier 2 IT/ junior Sysadmin type jobs, since I've got nearly 10 years experience and certifications in such. Anything to make the job hunt have a higher chance of success faster, since I'm on a two month clock and need to find a job that would allow me to relocate to there. Remote feels like too much of a longshot.
I'll make a more formal post when PST folks are up...
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@Jay Hannah oh - is that because it's good or real bad?
I am trying to write a card game for fun - but in order to do that I wanna put routines on cards, so that means objects. But uh.... blah
Conway's OO Perl book from 20 years ago was AWESOME at the time, changed our code very much for the far better. :)
Nowadays OO Perl is Moose metacpan.org/dist/Moose/view/l… or one of it's many lighter-weight alternatives (lightweight is unnecessary for your use case).
~Soon-ish OO Perl will probably be Corona, but it's only (partially) in bleeding edge Perl for now, if I understood correctly. Check out @ovid for his many posts about that if you care about bleeding edge Perl stuff.
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@Jay Hannah @Curtis "Ovid" Poe ok yeah, I've used moose a lIttle, not sure what edition my OO Perl book is (again, bought as joke), but I think I saw Moose in it
I am kinda... anti bleeding edge, I like stable and boring.
But thanks!
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@deafferret Be aware that it's still experimental not not complete! `perldoc perlclass` should tell you which features are implemented.
The MVP for the core itself is here: github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/maste…
You can use the latter to see what will be coming up. @leonerd is doing the implementing, so he might have an idea on the time frame (though I don't think there is one)
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Also, for a more realistic view of what can be done now, check out @perigrin 's Roguelike Game Tutorial using the new syntax. He's up to part 6 now.
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Well fedilab still says pending, but I'll have to get on a computer at some point and look there.
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@ovid huh. I thought github used to render POD? Did they stop? Is there a HTML render of this anywhere? github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/maste…
(This is the landing page for people (like me) who want to learn how to use Cor?)
(Apologies for calling it Corona, that was NEVER the name. Whoops! 🙂)
@deafferret I drank a Corona last night. Perfect for hot weather, so I've no complaints about that mistake :)
Yeah, github not rendering POD there is disappointing, so I created a better version a while ago: gist.github.com/Ovid/4cc649c1e…
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I am starting to get auditor questions like "Do you use any cloud computing". And this is super frustrating. These are mostly banks asking if we use offsite stuff like AWS or Azure mostly I think. But I need to be like "We manage code in BitBucket?" because what even is The Cloud.
When legal and financial teams adopt your buzzwords without defining them then you've made it as an industry I guess?
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Sorry, I'm reading that Excel will now phone out to a random Microsoft service, shove your sheet into it, and then run arbitrary python code? Whenever you type "py("?
Is that what I'm reading?
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what if we could measure the gap between the measurement and the thing being measured
And then measure the gap between the
People think that "It's OK for people to just want technology to work" (which it is) is like saying "It's OK for people to not know things" (which it is). But to the extent that they're saying it to argue against technologists advocating for open technology, it's humanity-defeating and just a fucking strawman.
The technologists are complaining about abusive designs that manipulate people by making the path of least resistance the one that, for example, destroys the concept of privacy.
When you respond to that with "well not everybody needs to understand everything," What you're actually saying is "It's OK for people to be MANIPULATED into maintaining their ignorance."
These companies have worked very hard to create a culture where computers are magic boxes to most people, so the vast majority of users remain vulnerable. You're not countercultural for thinking that's a good thing. You're a fucking mark.
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I agree with most of this thread.
Especially since most people who aren't into computers as a whole often do demonstrate desire to understand the apps they are using daily.
Instagram reels are filled with tutorials for *everything*.
Great talk by @emilymbender about what are ok use cases of synthetic text and what aren't.
But even for those, we need to ask the question of whether those use cases are worth the environmental impact.
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ChatGP-why: When, if ever, is synthetic text safe, appropriate, and desirable?
Lecture recorded August 8, 2023Speaker: Emily Bender - University of WashingtonDescription: Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT, the internet has been awash i...YouTube
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Elon is mad that Jack is considered a better twitter CEO than him, so he's trying to wipe Block off the earth.
I assume.
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@Hypolite Petovan Elon Musk has stated (a few times) that Twitter will be removing the Block feature since - Elon is bad
Block, Inc is another dumb rebrand of the company Square where Jack wanted to do more Blockchain
So it's just a dumb pun about Jack and Elon
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Given the maxim "fuck around and find out" it seems eminently logical to only fuck around a *little bit* and then find out and correct.
Honestly that's the heart of agility.
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I'm not a big Sandler fan and I didn't like all of the jokes, but overall I did enjoy Pixels and Don't Mess with the Zohan.