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Levy fines of a few million a month to enough places for crimes inherent in their business model
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I just actually screamed at Google Calendar
Holy shit - how can a calendar be this bad?!
Did you know you can only put Events on secondary calendars?! Team communication?! Fuck it!
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When I recently replaced my server I went from 64 GB of RAM to 128GB, and now I'm seeing that i'm using 54% of that at steady state, so apparently I needed the upgrade
also - damn
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Inspired by a comment to https://cybre.space/@polychrome/101848593189377482
Oh my goodness I've just learned a thing about The Matrix that causes it to make a lot more sense: In the original script the humans were used as neural network compute clusters by the Machines and as a crucial component of The Matrix itself.Which is why humans who were aware of the simulation could control aspects of The Matrix - their minds were part of its foundation.
Unfortunately the test audiences had trouble understanding this concept so the studio changed the human role to "batteries".
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@">Mr Bitterness 
@F00F/Eris :cat_is_blob_and_melt: ☯️ I haven't heard of Punch Drunk Love nor Uncut Gems. I'll consider them.
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.
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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@Alexandre Oliva Oh, I get why they are saying it. But that's not what it means *in context*, but telling me you don't like that my definition doesn't change it, ya know.
Lots of fields have surprising definitions!
@Alexandre Oliva nah - someone is asking about our mobile device policy, and our people think it means Cellphone, but it means "anything that might connect to wifi"
It's just, security people call Mobile Device something different than everyone else
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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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@silverwizard Looking for a refresher on Worldcoin orbs, I found this nugget:
"[...] the US government intervened saying they should be allowed to leave because they haven’t yet been found guilty of committing a crime[...]"
This is rich, coming from a country that has a (un)healthy bail bond industry.
From: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/us-blocked-worldcoin-officials-arrest-cs-says-4372238
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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???
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Simple and Small Git Hosting
#development #developer #blog #git
https://maddie.info/2023/09/05/simple-and-small-git-hosting.html
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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@Madeline :antiverified: I'm running a private Gitea server for personal/freelance stuff. (I've been thinking about changing it over to Forgejo.)
This is a good option though if you don't need all the extra features.
oooh I’m glad someone is writing about this.
I moved to this mode for awhile but ran into some problem that I’ve since forgotten so I should give it another try. I really need a simple and reliable way to keep my repositories somewhere safe and accessible.
@Madeline :antiverified: this feels like the correct git hosting. I like the power of being able to PR easily, but I guess I could do that with MFA
This is really good
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@silverwizard ty!
FWIW, the Linux kernel just takes patches over email, but it’s a pretty hairy process in my experience.. 😅
@Madeline :antiverified: I have sent patches over email! It's a different process (not a hard one ime) - git will make it, you slam it into your MUA and then the other side takes git's codeblock and git has an injestion command.
Caveat: I send mail with telnet when I'm too scared to look at my inbox
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@silverwizard IME the pain was making sure I was sending mail in the proper format and everything.
It was many years ago, though, I was a lot more inexperienced
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Same for glibc, and it indeed requires more concentration 😅
use a remote filesystem or a machine accessible by ssh
@binder That’s supposed to be the point of the article, is it unclear?
Or have I just used just too many times? 🤔
missed the ssh part my bad. You covered that very well.
I often use an NFS, CIFS, or even SSHfs and just put git there.
@binder 👍 np, good to hear.
I tried to just cover git behavior, and different ways you can use remotes, so people can do whatever option works best for them.
i've been looking for a git forge that's like github (issues, wiki, etc.), but gitlab is turning to "ai" and gogs/gitea/forgejo/whatever just doesn't feel right to me
is there another choice that you know of?
i saw that! however, i was referring to a git forge with stuff like issues, pull requests, etc.
gitolite's documentation had been a little vauge imo, and is difficult to setup (for me at least)
Yeah, I haven’t used gitolite yet and don’t know anything about it. Sorry to hear the documentation is vague.
I heard the news about gitea awhile ago and their corporate (edit, got gitea and gitlab stuff mixed up) stuff, but I’m not sure what the state is with the fork and how that is.
If the gitea stuff works for you, separately from the corporate ickiness, maybe the forks deserve a closer look? We haven’t switched yet, but gitea supports federated collaboration and that’s a big feature IMO.
It’s kind of felt like there isn’t a great option out there recently.
@luna
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.
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@randomgeek Really glad to hear that!
That’s my workflow for personal stuff, I’m still switching over, but I just have a small BSD machine to push projects to.
hi! you wrote,
If you want to serve a read-only copy, just stick your repo in a folder that’s served by nginx
i think there might be a step missing here. pretty sure that for this to work you need to run git update-server-info in the repo that's being served over http. (and re-run that command every time the repo changes.)
i think yours is much clearer and more accessible, but here's a similar writeup on the subject that i did: https://orbital.rodeo/~mike/20210804-static-browsable-git-repo/
@pho4cexa tyvm for letting me know, I’ll update the post shortly. 👍
Also, tyvm for the compliment, I’m still new-ish to blogging regularly and it motivates me to write more hearing people find it useful/clear/accessible. 
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.
https://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
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
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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.
https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
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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@Cat Hicks that was beautiful and I love and appreciate every word.
Thanks so much, I feel it.
The way you talked about cadence rang so true to me.
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In trying to think if craft and care are related in etymology, I found this article which, though it doesn't mention the term craft directly, begins with the elucidation of an important myth. 🍸🐈 (and does speak to attention )
https://theology.georgetown.edu/research/historyofcare/classicarticle/
Classic Article: "History of the Notion of Care" - Department of Theology and Religious Studies
The following article, which appeared in the second (revised) edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (1995), was an attempt to capture highlights of the history of care prior to the advent of feminist thought in the early 1980s.Department of Theology and Religious Studies
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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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"Why knit it yourself when you can buy it from Wish.com!"
This is still one of the greatest ever put downs of Mastodon, to be fair.
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Another interesting #perl module by @leont : https://metacpan.org/pod/Magic::Check. You can do this:
use Magic::Check;
use Types::Standard 'Int';
check_variable(my $var = 1, Int);
$var = "abc"; # this will throw
We're getting great momentum for having data checks in the perl core. @leonerd even threatened to just go ahead and implement something.
I'm really looking forward to this!
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A word of caution though - it's only shallow checking, it doesn't follow references.
Example: If you set a variable to `ArrayRef[Int]` then it'll block an assignment of a value like `[1, "abc", 3]`. But, if you assign a valid value and then do `$var->[1] = "abc"` it won't notice that.
This is the reason why I decided not to promise that `:Checked` would apply to any mutation. It's now just a boundary check during constructor or accessor methods.
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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.
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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I know it's not the same, but that book is available to borrow from the archive.
https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3/mode/2up
maybe you're assuming I haven't read it?
The point of my question was about making it more broadly available because it is so relevant today.
Wanted to part with it . I’d love
To bring it back.
(The other possibility is print on demand e.g. by Amazon but I guess this is not what you have in mind.)
Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft. Buch von Joseph Weizenbaum (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft: Buch (suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft) von Joseph Weizenbaum auf suhrkamp.de bestellenSuhrkamp Verlag AG
It's still available in German and I was somewhat shocked that it isn't in English.
It was recommended to me as an introduction to ethics/social studies on AI during an introduction lecture on the technical theory of the matter in university. Back when I was studying computer science. I own the German version, but haven't read it in full.
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.
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