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GitHub - da-luce/astroterm: A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐
A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐 - da-luce/astrotermGitHub
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Apple, fuck right off. *You* decided notarization would be an approval process, and you inserted yourself in it, which means yes *you approved this app*.
Much like you didn't approve a bunch of other apps, like emulators.
Shame on Apple-affiliated sites for regurgitating this crap, once again. You're knowingly and willingly lying to your readers on behalf of a company that would happily eat you for breakfast
9to5mac.com/2025/02/03/apple-f…
Apple responds after being forced to approve porn app on EU iPhones due to DMA [U] - 9to5Mac
Both Apple and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney have provided responses below… Apple has been legally required to approve a...Zac Hall (9to5Mac)
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If iOS notarisation was anything like macOS app notarisation (automated, takes literally 1 minute) then sure, I’d say calling it “Apple-approved” would be misleading. But by all accounts, iOS notarisation is not that. It’s app store review without the app store.
Its been a long time since someone wrote shell unportable enough to ruin my day.
If you're gonna use bashisms, don't just huck them into `/bin/sh`
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What is going on in the U.S. with data being scrubbed from their CDC brings back bad memories of essentially book burning. Remember the data the Harper government tossed into the garbage? Physical books etc. ?
Please. Not Again. Please.
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Protests in every State Capitol on Wednesday, February 5th. For State specific info check Redit r/50501.
#resist @lisamelton @GottaLaff @pluralistic
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there was an excellent breakdown of the things that lead to successful resistance movements.
TL;DR:
1. Maximize economic impact. Make it financially inviable to keep doing the wrong thing. Boycotts, strikes, protests that stop business, etc, all impose an economic cost. The state only responds to the rich. If you hurt them enough to stop, the state will respond to their demands.
2. Choose specific targets. The examples from the talk included strikes against GM and boycott of Woolworth's. Both of these were precision economic attacks that cascaded across the market, leading to policy changes.
3. Escalate. The threat of escalation is the real reason the capitalist class gives in. If they think they can wait it out, they will. Ending legally enforced segregation in the US took both MLK's peaceful marches (and boycotts and other actions) and the threat of radical escalation (from Malcolm X). People love to talk about Gandhi, but they always omit the violent protests that were also happening at the same time. Peaceful resistance that works *always* includes an implicit threat of violence. "We're going to march peacefully now, but it will only stay peaceful if it works."
On the 3rd point, IMHO the #50501 movement should definitely intersect with #FreeLuigi at least using some symbolism (#LuigiBloc anyone?). Visible resistance is a *really good* start.
Edit: just to reiterate, it is the *threat* of escalation that works *not escalation itself*. The longer a movement can stay non-violent, the longer it can build. The longer it builds, the bigger the threat of sustainable escalation becomes. A movement that rapidly turns to violence also becomes rapidly isolated and easy for the state to wipe out.
Marketing: “we need you to put this tracking code and analytics javascript on the site.”
Dev: “k.”
Product: “we need you to put this session recording library on the site.”
Dev: “k.”
Legal: “we need you to put this cookie consent tracker on the site.”
Dev: “k.”
Sales: “hey we need you to put this chat widget on the site, every page.”
Dev. “k.”
Leadership: “hey make sure that chat bot is AI.”
Dev. “k.”
Security: “hey can you put this EDR on your laptop?”
Dev: “oh my god that’s gonna fuck up my performance why don’t you people ever think of user experience?!?!”
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Hello world! This status has been posted from a phone booth, using Bell103 compatible softmodem, a lot of magic, and some wishful thinking.
hope this works
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You gotta be kidding me with this bullshit.
"But DeepSeek & Meta’s recent research suggests that more AI capabilities (& efficiency savings) could be gained by going down a more dangerous path — where AIs develop their own alien language."
The journalists amplifying this garbage will not be held accountable when the hype cycle is gone because the next cycle of journalists will do the same thing during the next hype cycle.
I don't want to amplify the article so not posting the actual article.
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“How to care for your about-to-burst bubble”
This interview on the current crisis by OnTheMedia is actually very good:
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Suchir Balaji (November 21, 1998 – November, 2024) was an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and whistleblower who accused his former employer, OpenAI, of violating United States copyright law. His death has drawn international attention.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_B…
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ENnies To Ban Generative AI From 2025
The ENnie Awards has announced that from 2025, products including content made by generative AI will not be eligible for the awards. Established in 2021, the ENnies are the premier tabletop...EN World D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews
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Ok - so - I am finally watching The Mandolorian and holy fuck.
I went into Season 1 trepidatious and the show sold me on its visuals and picaresque style. But now I'm on Season 3 (after a detour through Boba Fett), and I gotta say, if I was handed the script for S3E6 I would have stared across the the fucking desk and fired the writer. Just instantly.
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Thinking about #BSDCan abstracts and falling into analysis paralysis, I've no idea what an abstract *looks* like for this con. How many words? Do you want the talk outline? The topic and that's it?
I dunno - AP is setting in - I want to give a good idea without accidentally writing the entire talk?
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@Hypolite Petovan @pamela Ok so the talk abstract is basically
My goal with computer is to be as stupidly boring as possible, let's talk about how BSD enables that, and what I am currently doing.
The problem is that... that... I don't know. Giving more context is way too much, but it's also not much there.
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@silverwizard A good abstract is like good slides, they give the direction of the talk but not the details.
You aren’t trying to get clicks so you should state bluntly the context of the talk and its conclusion, this lets people gage if they are interested in the “in-between” part.
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I’m going to beat up on #OpenBSD
Not because of the tragedy of sysjail (which I funded)
Not for “just enough file system to load your PF ruleset”
Not for discontinuing CDs and STICKERS…
BUT FOR AN UBERTRAGIC LACK OF @bsdcan TALK SUBMISSIONS!
Some of the single greatest #BSDCan talks have been OpenBSD ones!
Let’s go Fish Linux!
Puffy4Evah!
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This is perhaps a good time to remind potential #openbsd speakers (and others for what it's worth) that the submissions deadline is February 12th, and I for one will respond to any questions or concerns you may have.
The way in: bsdcan.org/2025/papers.html
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Trans Rescue - Trans Rescue
At Trans Rescue, we are dedicated to helping trans individuals and people from the broader queer community escape life-threatening situations in some of the world’s most dangerous regions.Stichting Trans Rescue Foundation
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I was running a D&D module (Grasp of the Emerald Claw) in #BurningWheel, and they failed a navigation roll, so I rolled on the Random Encounter Table.
It is now over 6 months later and the aftershocks of that random encounter are still pretty major to the campaign.
Dice are wonderful.
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yeah, 2x16's you should have no trouble finding. Those don't load the UMC because even at the 8Gbit dies, it's still 2R total. I'd generally go with G.Skill Ripjaws V or whatever ORDINARY stuff you can find at a comparable price. The 3600 is VERY important, because any other clock *is wrong*.
FCLK is 1800MHz. x2 = 3600. Anything else, you eat a HUGE performance penalty. MUCH bigger than people realize - 30-50%!
So, um, are any #Toronto media covering the PowerSchool data leak affecting TDSB among others?
It's a pretty big deal, with data on all students since 1985: names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, health card numbers (!), and for students since 2017 also principal's notes (!), residency status (!), and any medical information shared by the parents with the school (!!!). Also parent data for students since 2017.
Since it's student data going back 40 years, this is surely impacting at least a third of all people in Toronto?
I got the notification from TDSB <tdsb.on.ca/About-Us/PowerSchoo…> and now Ars has a write-up <arstechnica.com/security/2025/…> but I haven't really seen anything much on local media.
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
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Dear infosec 'professionals,'
Stop shitting on the IT team when there's an incident because we didn't/couldn't do everything perfectly. How businesses operate in the real world is completely different than your isolated test rooms. We're only human and even with all the tools to monitor and protect our environments there is a lot of ground to cover. Many of us are a one person operation.
Do not belittle my employees because they fell for a nicely executed scam. They already feel like shit. I will call you out on this at every turn and then treat my coworker to ice cream or the treat of their choice and make sure they are okay.
We know we got fucked and we are asking for help while doing internal damage control and mitigating things to the best of our abilities. Do not talk to us like we are computer illiterate cave people. We already know you are good at what you do, that is why you are here. Do not waste billable hours on calls autofelating yourself over how brilliant you are.
In summary, please act like a professional.
Sincerely,
IT Teams Everywhere
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i'll say it again: fuck everyone who built this world, defended it, normalized it, spread it into critical social infrastructure that will fail us in increasingly disastrous ways as the crises mount. a crime against humanity.
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This quote lives rent free in my head. It should be framed in every school classroom.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Frank Herbert, Dune
People brigading @Cory Doctorow because he supports a thing they don't like.
I get why people proping up bluesky sucks, and why people are mad.
But fucking. Ok. If there's anyone who has earned benefit of the fucking doubt it's Cory Fucking Doctorow. And if you believe he made a bad call after reading his piece on it, I get it, but imagine dismissing him this hard for one bad take. Damn. Fucking bonkers.
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@Hypolite Petovan I mean - the war between millionaires and billionaires is a pretty complicated thing going on.
I'm in a situation where I'm going to become a millionaire at some point by dint of birth, and it's weird, I feel a lot of guilt about it. And despite this - I don't feel any kinship with the idea of a billionaire. Billionaires are these weird *monsters* - they don't feel like people anymore, they're just these warps in reality that reshape our fucking world to their (somehow always Nazi) whims.
But yeah - like - Mark Ruffalo does not have any sort of world shaping money - but has enough to try to make a new social media company - it makes sense - but like - yeah - Mark Ruffalo probably shouldn't be the place we put our trust in our digital future.
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Coming up on Friday, March 14th! A Dying Root (Sherbrooke), Dumbass, The Pox, and D.T. (second show!) at La Biu.
D.T. is one of my partners’ Erin’s (Ratpiss) new bands, in which they are playing drums. They’ve gotten pretty good at it in a short period of time and I am very proud of them. Also my good friends Marshall (Stand Alone) is on bass and Axtmn (Nausia) is on vocals.
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Well I'm sure glad my schoolboard's stuff uses AWS, AI training, and doesn't always have a functioning T&C page.
I'm glad the schoolboard is doing vendor reviews!
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Just when you think the PowerSchool breach couldn't get worse, Toronto's school district says it lost upwards of 40 years' worth of student data stored in PowerSchool, per @carlypage.
Toronto said it was storing the historical data for responding to former student record requests.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/toro…
Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in PowerSchool breach | TechCrunch
Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years' worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach. In a letterCarly Page (TechCrunch)
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Working on a Kubernetes project for the first time in forever, and I forgot how fucking awful this environment was for people shipping their internal scripts as documentation and being like "any other way of cluster management is not supported"
Use Argo? Fuck off
Use kustomize instead of helm? So?
Don't use EKS? Not our problem, the terraform says you do now
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@Becky and I are rewatching The Gathering (Babylon 5 pilot) and she doesn't remember a lot of it since she's not seen it in years.
There is a hole in her mind.
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![STOP DOING DEV OPS ON PERSONAL SITES
• PERSONAL WEBSITES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN CLOUDS
• YEARS OF BLOGGING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for zero-downtime CI/CD PIPELINES
• Wanted to put your website on the net ? We had a tool for that: It was called "FTP"
• "Yes please orchestrate my deployment. Please provision horizontal scaling" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what DevOps Engineers have been demanding your Respect
for all this time, with all the homepages & fan sites we built for them
(This is REAL Ops, done by REAL Engineers)
[Three images of network diagrams]
"Hello I would like to containerize the application layer please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://convenient.email/photo/preview/640/7091594 "STOP DOING DEV OPS ON PERSONAL SITES
• PERSONAL WEBSITES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN CLOUDS
• YEARS OF BLOGGING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for zero-downtime CI/CD PIPELINES
• Wanted to put your website on the net ? We had a tool for that: It was called \"FTP\"
• \"Yes please orchestrate my deployment. Please provision horizontal scaling\" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what DevOps Engineers have been demanding your Respect
for all this time, with all the homepages & fan sites we built for them
(This is REAL Ops, done by REAL Engineers)
[Three images of network diagrams]
\"Hello I would like to containerize the application layer please\"
They have played us for absolute fools")
A fun and weird tech change is that all teams in movies need to have "A Drone".
A Drone is just useful enough it's impossible to not want. And it exists as an object that's pretty easy for anyone to get (if they have access to TV resources) while feeling higher tech than most people encounter day to day.
So:
Heist team of kids: Drone
Wildlife Survey: Drone
Marines storming a base: Drone
High Tech Bounty Hunters: Drone
Cyberpunk Weirdness: Drone
Humourous Impromptu Team Of Comedy Bros In Trouble: Drone
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I love open source, and I want young people to know there’s a career path outside of #FAANG. Open source can be financially sustainable—it just gets super hard if one of your key goals is making your investors even richer. #Conversations_im is about the same age as #Matrix. I never took VC funding, and I’m doing fine.
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A weird bit of the LLM future is that the people using LLMs are only credulous dupes who think they are useful. This means we only see times when they are good, or times when they are so bad even credulous dupes can see it's wrong.
This leads to a dangerous narrative that LLMs aren't wrong in smaller less obvious ways. People say to factcheck - but they don't often know what the contours of that are.
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I knew #AI would come for all our jobs eventually, but I really thought that Holocaust denial would be safe for a little while longer.
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Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust
A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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How the heck to I send rendered HTML to a unix pipe?!
I know I can use w3m/lynx/elinks - but I want to take a "screenshot" and send it to a unix pipe. Is this a thing anyone supports? Do I have to pull out a text mode rendering engine and make a weird curl wrapper?
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in reply to silverwizard • •ok - so - every Day the shop brings in Customers. The customers need to be managed, with some events - basically Heists. At the end of the day, you get Entanglements - but they're for the shop itself. Indulging Vices is important, but it's things like Rent and Food instead of drugs.
So the person playing the owner gets money and stress, and the shop has a series of dent, damage, and supplies. The owner can move stress and money from the shop onto the staff as necessary to keep it afloat. Removing stress from a staff member needs money of course
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