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Keep in mind that processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
(The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities)
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My contract end on the 29th.
If anyone needs a sysadmin/devops person for Linux/BSD stuff, let me know.
I don't do Windows.
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Anyone over the age of 30 who has spend any time in tech-adjacent spaces still cheering for #BigTech "joining" the #Fediverse is fucking deluding themselves. We've been through so many cycles of this shit over the past twenty years, how some people can still trust #facebook to do anything remotely ethical is beyond me.
They're not here to join, they're here to destroy. This is just the most cost-effective, PR-friendly way of doing it.
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@Necromantrix 🏳️⚧️ And also the almost classic side-effect of an open tech community begging for this by focusing on a protocol and technology that sacrifices many other relevant aspects (looking at you, user consistency) on the altar of extensibility. Not that it wouldn't have been possible otherwise, but this seems almost an invitation to do so. Maybe after all the Diaspora* take on handling federated protocols and specs was and is proven to be reasonable in light of this. 🙁
@z428 @necromantrix Already waiting for the "Enhanced ActivityPub" protocol Meta forks out of AP because the Mastodon gGmbH was "unreasonable" and hindering "innovation" and oh look, EAP is so much better than AP, let's scrap the old one. Now we're the maintainers, let's do what Google currently does with browsers, aight?
I'll bookmark this toot as it will most certainly become a well-aged one later.
I don't think that they care about 2% more users (100 million monthly Threads users vs. less than 2 million monthly users in the Fediverse).
I guess that this mostly is a reaction because of EU's Digital Markets Act. "Gatekeepers" have to comply until 6 March 2024 to open up their systems.
Of course it is imaginable, that they also see the side effect that they can attract users to join Threads instead of the open alternatives. But this is a door that swings in both directions. Also this isn't anything new for the people who realized, that the Fediverse is more than only Mastodon.
I think I understand now why Hollywood produces endless sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, spinoffs:
The same reason YouTube recommends 100 videos of the same thing you just watched.
The same reason Amazon recommends buying the same thing you just bought, despite the fact that you no longer need it.
This is what you get from analytics and algorithms, from being “data driven”: mindless repetition.
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Second time I run into a developer on itch.io who doesn't know what a #web server is and thinks they need to code a #NodeJS app to serve static files.
This is terrifying. It's the future Google wants to build, with their HTTP 2.0 and Wasm: a future when even the basics are horribly hard and not even developers know how the web works because it's all a black box.
I'm begging you: fight this. Educate people. Don't let openness die.
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At the same time if you want to bundle a bunch of static files, you're in for some portability hell because no browser could agree between each others on the format.
At least so far I've been able to unarchive most web-based games and launch a web server like gatling in the folder, but I can't expect everyone to be able to do the same, even on Unixes.
If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?
Following nearly ten years of incarceration and numerous attempts by the State to frame, murder, and break him - anarchist prisoner Eric King has now been released and is headed to a half-way house.
Imprisoned for taking direct action in solidarity with the Ferguson uprising, Eric King survived everything from COVID, to attacks by neo-Nazi prisoners, and years of abuse and torture from guards.
More info with ways to support Eric in his post-release here: itsgoingdown.org/anarchist-pri…
Anarchist Prisoner Eric King Released to Halfway House After Ten Years
Following nearly ten years of incarceration and numerous attempts by the State to frame, murder, and break him - anarchist prisoner Eric King has now been released and is headed to a half-way house...It's Going Down
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I know that the only things I do at work that wouldn't run on the first computer I ever bought (in 2002) are:
1) use Slack
2) use Miro
3) use Kumospace (a video chat hellhole)
Everything else would have been just as easy on that old Pentium 3
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I ended up grabbing a serial to USB adapter while sick to the point of sleeping 16+hours in a day
In order to call in sick to work
(My router just.... stopped and didn't come up, luckily before I got my energy together from panic, it came up)
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@hannah I always thought Ogg Vorbis should’ve been a scifi villain name
Also given the era when I first learned the term, it’s not surprising it melded in my brain with this Quake III skin …
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Tired of seeing ZFS get all of the attention, ext4 developers introduce a data corruption issue of their own.
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In Yellow Submarine, we would not have discovered that “all you need is love” had it not been for the Glove of the Blue Meanies. From this, we can infer that the Beatles supported safe sex practices
No glove, no love
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Well, uh, I guess Dell just burned all of their good will.
They place a meeting in my calendar, and then when I rejected it, they did it again. Tried to claim we already had a business relationship.
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@Patch Arcana Yeah, but I don't think this sales person *wanted* that relationship.
And yeah - their email is /dev/nulled
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It's fascinating to see that, after a decade of desperately trying to convince people there was no reason for perl to fall out of use (and there wasn’t), everyone conceded that it had happened and the fight was over.
And then suddenly, once it's no longer constantly under attack, people are now rediscovering it and being delighted by how good it is for solving real world problems.
It's not going away because it's actually the right tool for so many tasks.
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same as Cobol and Fortran and Assembler. Just because the majority of people alive do not understand what they are doesn't mean they're not being used anymore.
The day isn't far off that a GenZer gets thrust into a smelly old Cobol codebase whether they want it or not. And it'll pay off handsomely.
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A reminder that Spotify continues to find new ways to not pay smaller artists while simultaneously paying hundreds of millions of dollars to white supremacists like Joe Rogan.
forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/…
loudwire.com/spotify-payouts-l…
Please consider other ways of getting your music.
Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Allegedly Worth $200 Million, Doubling Initial Report
The controversial host reportedly draws 11 million listeners per episode exclusively to Spotify.Mason Bissada (Forbes)
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@joncamfield wasn't Plex inexplicably sending this data to friends and family lately, to great embarrassment of many involved parties? 
this would be not great if the British Library wasn’t notorious for demanding ridiculous levels of ID evidence from its readers for registration. as it is, however, it is truly truly atrocious.
British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web
bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-a… #BritishLibrary @bookstodon
British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web
The library urges users to change their passwords after earlier saying only employee data was leaked.BBC News
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan Listen - I parent by playing Pokemon with a 4 year old. I had to name two pokemon "y67u" in order to make him happy. My mind wanders!
But yeah! You sold pokeballs painted as ultra balls, no one would know
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