I'm tired of people calling Cybertrucks a "clown car." Bitch, a clown car can hold anywhere from 10 to 20 clowns at a time. Those doors ALWAYS will be able to open and they only ever crash if a clown WANTS it to for a gag.
I bought a lineman's handset last weekend. I got a bix strip and a bix block to play with along side it. I am now asking friends "What's the difference between an ATA and a TRS cable punched to a bix block really?"
CI/CD pipeline: the same Makefile, but running on someone else's server
Why are you making this so hard for yourselves? And no, you don't need Kubernetes. Yes, I'm talking to you. Just put it down already. Stop it. Stop it!
does configuring the build process always take at least twice the time and effort of actually writing the code, regardless of platform and language, or is it just me
@jackeric Not just you, it’s the main reason I almost never code in my free time. Coding would be fine, testing would be fun. Setting the whole thing up, especially when it’s an existing project I want to modify? Not without getting paid for it. @tastapod
@toni when I started with Rust, I was delighted that `cargo run` just works... ok, but just tweak build.rs to compile the static dependencies as optimised release but the code under development as debug... oh, embedded work for an ESP32? you want WSL then... oh and you'll need to figure out which dependencies from the Espressif framework you'll need to install...
it's still a whole lot better than rushing into C++ plugins for flight simulators without pausing to learn the fundamentals of how a dynamic library works, though
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Every time a tech company says “We’re focused on improving the user experience,” a beloved feature dies, they add chatGPT and their CEO donates $100m to the nearest Nazi
I don’t like to butt in on the moderation happenings on another instance, but since people on my instances are now getting involved, I feel I have to. Hachyderm’s mod team removed a post from one of their members, believing it to be incorrect information after it was reported to them as being incorrect information. The person whose post was removed got upset and that has caused a bit of a firestorm response. @quintessence has been trying to answer questions but I want to add some context as a fellow admin/moderator.
The first thing to know is that moderators are not perfect. We make mistakes. I make them all the time, as some of you will no doubt recognize. Like Quintessence with Hachyderm, when anything goes awry, moderation-wise, it is my job as admin to stand in front and take the heat from whatever went wrong. We DO. NOT. throw the mod team under the bus, assuming the moderators are acting in good faith.
The next thing to understand is that this is a thankless job. People get mad at us for taking action, for not taking action, for being too fast, for being too slow, for permitting something someone thinks should be blocked, and for blocking things someone thinks should be permitted. We see some awful shit. We get threats of harm. We get doxed. We get angry letters from lawyers.
We also don’t have a team of fact checkers at the ready. We generally process dozens of reports per day. We have to apply a reasonableness test to incoming reports and respond based on the rules and guidelines we’ve set for our community and then move on, and if we made a mistake, we go and fix it.
I would ask that y’all afford some grace and understanding to the Hachyderm team and to the admins and moderators of fediverse instances generally. We aren’t the enemy. We are trying our best to manage a community at a time of unprecedented levels of tornadic bullshit, fear, anger, and hate.
I appreciate the work you, the moderation teams here, and the moderation team at hachyderm are all doing. No one is perfect but I know you all are trying your best, and it does make the fediverse a better place. Thank you!
Most important thing first: Thanks for the information about what's going on. This is helpful for contextualizing these sorts of events. ---
We really need some sort of user review system that can be plugged in and switched out as needed into our front end for Mastodon.
On the User side of things. I understand getting mad at being told what you said isn't true when it is.
I also understand the frustration of trying to keep some semblance of reality within your social media system when information is the new proxy war and you are effectively doing a community service for free.
Unfortunately, online communication being text only, and turn based with long pauses between communications, it's just impossible to have that quick back and forth that can stomp out a conflict long before it grows into a forest fire.
really you should let the person post incorrect info since you think about how much incorrect info is out there - to be incorrect is the norm, to be correct much of the time is very rare and also what is right and wrong, correct and incorrect are not totally b+w. i think you should comment on it but also only intervene in rare cases, you let it ride most of the time
as a simple user in da fediverse, let me thank you both* for your tireless work and dedication, as well as your thankless wise goodwill and call on all of us for empathy.
I'd like to thank everyone that is moderating on infosec.exchange, IMHO you are doing a great job. Being here feels safer and more positive than on many other platforms.
And to anyone appreciating this as well, please support your fedi instance. Without our support, it's not possible to keep the lights on. 🫶 💡
The vitriol directed at moderation teams across the Internet is so bizarre to me (see e.g., stereotypes related to discord or reddit moderators).
The vast vast majority are just normal people doing their best in a fairly thankless task.
And it's a thankless task at _scale_. If you tried to replace the volunteers with paid positions, these platforms would collapse from the immense cost.
Be nice to your mod team everyone -they deserve it 🙏
I often wonder about moderators and what strong people they must be...
<<The next thing to understand is that this is a thankless job. People get mad at us for taking action, for not taking action, for being too fast, for being too slow, for permitting something someone thinks should be blocked, and for blocking things someone thinks should be permitted.>>
I myself have to research an account before I block, because sometimes a post is just ignorant or poor English. Sometimes it's just insensitivity or misunderstanding. It's a lot to tend to and examine in a post.
Many of us here on the Fediverse do hear you and do understand and support you. There is just so damned much going on right now in our world that it's hard to take time to give credit where credit is due. We do have your back whether you hear from us or not!
The role of an admin on a list like this is thankless and stressful. Understand the majority of us know that and feel your pain but sometimes we lose sight. Please do not take anything personal.
@made_account_just_for_this Give some thought about the effect misinformation has had on the current state of the world before going off.
Very few people care if you're "lying" about having pets or close human associates unless you're using it to scam or otherwise hurt people. The misinfo that leads to angry reports and angrier rebuttals is about things like "[group] are mostly/inherently/all [bad false thing]"
I keep being amazed at people's expectations: these instances are run and moderated by volunteers in their spare time without pay, but people expect premium service, and quality they know the would never get from a commercial enterprise.
In any case: Thanks for your work and willingness to expose yourselves.
Thanks to Jerry and all our moderates. As an extremely ambiguous poster [lobster smiles sweetly] I spend all my time being a nuisance. Trying new things BUT always fully supporting team moderate. Thanks gals and guys 👍✅❣️💜💟
even the majority of bands who are less than amazing will still be doing something enjoyable and worthwhile with their lives, it'll broaden them as people and lead to other things for them down the road. that, *just as much* as getting the occasional lightning bolt of a brilliant immortal artist, is why i want a world where people don't have to grind miserably every day of their lives to survive.
I think I found a bug in the AWS API. If you check an RDS cluster's endpoints from the CLI - those DNS records don't exist. You need to add -cluster to the domain. I am going mad.
One complicated thing about going to Parent Teacher meetings as a parent is that so many teachers seem to think you'll defer to them in how you treat your child. No teacher I've met is willing to admit wrongdoing or mistake, and it makes my fucking blood boil.
Hot take: Pirating music is MORE ethical than using Spotify. The artists don't get paid either way, but at least piracy doesn't support exploitative corporations.
Spotify is giving known rapist, misogynistic piece of human garbage, and human trafficker Andrew Tate a podcast platform, where he talks about exploiting women for pornography.
Tate is someone who deserves to have his tiny dick and balls torn off by hand and rammed down his gross mouth.
Details are below; raise hell on Spotify for hosting this fucking ghoulish monster!
I think I'd put the pyramids and the phone system on par in terms of build complexity and knowledge needed that's mostly beyond my ken. but the phone system wins due to ongoing maintenance costs. Once a pyramid is built, you can mostly just walk away. The phone system, though, gotta keep those experts plentiful, happy, and intergenerational.
@sungo Exactly! The pyramids are wonderful beautiful things.
The phone system is the ultimate joy of humanity. It's communication, connection, and millions of people working together to make that happen. They're paid and unpaid. Phreak and cop. People who are talking, communicating, and agreeing. So I can put to wires into a line anywhere, and find connection to any other line in the world. As long as we all agree that communication matters.
@Dave? Probably written by someone like me who absolutely and viscerally hated that game at the time. No matter which way, it sure didn’t leave anyone indifferent!
@Lester Ward Oh sorry, I'm a step passed this, I've got markdown, and I want to put it in the description field of my RSS feed reader and make it look ok to any sensible reader
My wife walks into my office, and I excitedly tell her that I've found an old telephone service tech's Kijiji sale and we could start a phone company in the house with the kids, just for fun!
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Friend: Apparently the LCBO in Ontario is one of the world's largest buyers of booze Me: 18-25 year olds head north to where there's shitty internet and no town and spend four months getting paid well and living in a camp. Of course it is.
The problem with parental controls, is that my kids are 3 and 5. I don't want them exposed to raw unfiltered internet. But I also know that they *will be*.
This means that parental controls are a war I'm trying to figure out how to let my kids win in the most gentle way possible. I want them to win without feeling smarter and better than me, and like they're invincible. I want them to become aware of the fact that the internet is a complicated place, I don't want them to fear, but I also want them to respect. I dunno - parenting is hard.
When I was little I knew there were books in the library I was not supposed to read, and as I got older I could venture into those areas, but my mom still kept an eye on what I was reading and would talk to me about it, exploring how various groups were presented, etc.
Simpler days, eh? You can't know what all websites or whatever your kids lands on unless you've got a parental control in place, I would imagine.
yeah that's the tricky part, from what I understand! My mom always described it as working herself out of a job as our parent. 😉 I don't have kids myself but I can appreciate the challenges, a little bit. You'll do great! 👍
@Tek aEvl I don't do that because: 1) my kids will definitely win. That's a losing scenario 2) I'm not my kid's enemy - they need to know I support them
I need to teach them their own judgement. For now they're in their own sandbox - but I want them to learn how to grow.
when my son was younger (he is 12 now) we had regular conversations about why a movie or a network service will remain locked by the parental controls. With time, as he inevitable became exposed to more and more content above his age (some of that done by me, after assessing his emotional and mental capabilities) - games or movies most of the time - after another conversation I started lifting some aspects of controls above his age. And we continue the process. I think the point I am trying to convey is - be transparent about why some things are locked. Talk to your kids (when they're older) to know their experiences form elsewhere. Adjust settings. Support. I think I got it all quite well with my boy - not ideally but well. We still argue, he still tries to outsmart the system sometimes...
Ah, one thing: Android and Google Apps - do not enable any google apps for your children as embedded webview does NOT fall under any parental controls. Finding out Youtube playing through google maps was quite interesting. Android parental controls are not effective at all, chrome and otherwise. It a steaming pile of horse shite. Apple does a bit better but requires some fidgeting to be set up properly. But does work, most of the time. For anything else, other devices, I have a per device ACL list on the firewall...
@Artur Wawrowski Yeah! This is the important bit! Emphasizing my role as protector and that I am protecting. And that they will grow into things! "You need to learn more" is such an important idea that's really hard for a 5 year old to accept.
And generally - I think it's good for a kid to outsmart the system. Kids *need* to outsmart the system.
My kids are running custom android tablets with an in-house fdroid store replacing the play store. For now.
sooo been there myself! My kids are now 12/13. We started slow, with unconnected devices (old phones) and a few games, kinda like just a different toy. As they go through school we try to draw analogies with familiar things.. Internet is kinda like 'outdoors'. Some areas are safe for you, some are not. Running around when you should be in bed is also not good. Trying to present family controls as helping, not a war you will lose...
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💠 not knowing something is normal. Asking for help is good! Using LLMs for that is literally never going to help. It will appear very convincingly to help! that's what it's best at! But it will absolutely, 100% of the time make things worse for you.
I'm wondering, with the US in the state it's in, and the potential death of some (all? any? no one knows) defense contractors. Combined with the current dramas around CVE/CVSS, is now the time to start replacing the CVE system with something else?
Our Shadowrun group just decided our TacNet (Military Tactical Network to link cyberpunk gear and soldiers) requires filing in Tactical Cards in order to meet our Mission Stories.
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