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@silverwizard that will definitely work on vampires, right?
@Becky 4 year degrees, three year degrees aren't strong enough
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Important Personal Announcement 👇✨

I am now officially actively:

Looking For Work!

Let’s see if I can find this with help from the Fantastic Fediverse! Please let me know if you hear of any open positions for a:

👉 Public-Interest Technologist
👉 Privacy Advocate
👉 Privacy Engineer
👉 Anything Privacy that isn’t lawyering
👉 Python Programmer
👉 Tech Writer

Remote from Canada (flexible) 🇨🇦
At a great organization 💚

For samples of my work
you can check:

📄 My Tech Portfolio: https://emontheinternet.me

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Thanks for your help FediFriends! ✨

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#DigitalRights #Privacy #Python #Writing #Fediverse
#WhoNeedsLinkedInWhenYouHaveFediFriends!



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CISOs: please stop asking "how will AI fix X"

If AI widely solved the problems you're delusionally thinking/hoping/praying it will, you wouldn't have to ask consultants about it. Your peers wouldn't be able to shut up about it. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk...

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if a product can fix X, its stock will skyrocket. Since that is not happening, CISOs just need to work harder.
If AI could solve business problems like that, the people behind the AI companies would be making a mint as consultants solving those business problems using their great new tool that only they have.

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Everybody: The internet has become LLM bullshit soup and real information is becoming harder and harder to find

Tech companies: What's that? You want LLMs built into your operating system? Heard, loud and clear!

Sincerely, fuck you ❤️

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what if your computer came with bonzai buddy preinstalled, and also someone got promoted to VP for making a slide deck with a 5-year plan to replace the file manager with bonzai buddy

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#covid I was reminded about the 2014 Ebola outbreak that nearly made it into the US, but under Obama's watch it got shut down. Thank God Trump and his cronies weren't in charge at that point! We'd have Ebola endemic around the world, by now. 😡

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Read/heard somewhere that, also, viruses like that tend to succeed less given the mortality? I remember that outbreak very well. Here in Spain we had a case because the then right wing Government’s Health Minister (Ana Mato iirc) decided to bring back to Madrid a Spanish priest who had just caught it in Africa. So one of the nurses who attended him caught it, and then her dog was supposed to have caught it too? The priest died, the nurse recovered, and her dog was slaughtered.
@tagomago wow, yeah. I've heard that too, but that particular virus is endemic in various places. But you can't brush it off with "it's like the flu!", so maybe that helped with keeping it under control.

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you could tell a Byzantine serf that you've been doomscrolling and he'd probably understand exactly what you mean within one or two rounds of surface level explanation

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the thing they'd struggle to relate to is that much stuff happening in the world

@InternetEh I think they'd be able to understand how overwhelming it can be, even without fully grasping social media's impact on society.

"Imagine all the bullshit and gossip you could get into in your home town if you really tried. Now imagine if you could get that from every town almost instantly, and check out this world map!"

It's all things you don't have any control over but will fundamentally affect your life and you can either read the scroll and by cynical when bad things happen or not read it and be surprised when they do

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Disney making every single possible version of a Steamboat Willie parody demake or remake, shoving it all in the vault, and suing anyone who makes a similar version
@silverwizard Using an army of underpaid South-East Asian animators.

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This is not a carefully worded statement, but fuck Appelbaum, fuck the people who sheltered and supported him these past years, and fuck those who are allowing his unrepentant attempt at a comeback and putting people and communities at risk. #37c3
#37c3

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Church of Jeff is blocked




@silverwizard This is unhinged, and likely if Pokemon was real. How would you know your catch chance is lower than you expect?
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@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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When I hear about people talk about AI - how much of the benefits could be applied to newspaper horoscopes?

As a child, one day, I was told to drive the garden tractor to mow a field. The front wheel hit a clod of dirt and the tractor jerked to the right. Then it hit another clod of dirt and jerked to the left. I concluded that the clods of dirt would cancel each other out and I could just take my hands off the wheel.

My theory was disproved a minute later.

I've since thought that my childish theory resembles some economic theories, and now, applications of machine learning.



Microservices where every service is just different inputs into the same container, and if any of them fail, it's just a blank screen.

I love microservices, but we need to stop making that



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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)

#programming #quotes

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Fediverse has the rare opportunity to strike a solid blow against Facebook and its tentacles

Mass blocking #Threads would not only humiliate Zuckerberg, but send a message that this space is safe from the data barons

Publicity would be immense, alerting hundreds of millions of potential users who care about their privacy and the open web

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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.

This. I just wish the big guys on the fedi wouldn't be so keen to put growth above anything… Eugen has proven once more he doesn't have the users' safety at heart. But I expected way better from Dan (Pixelfed creator). The fact he now also federates to Threads with its main instances is just… sad.
@Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 From one perspective I pretty much get why they're doing that: Personally, I'm on Friendica because I always hated the idea of technical bareers keeping me from interacting with people that matter to me so I'm using something that, in example, connects to Diaspora, Tumblr or *cough* Bluesky too, and from that point of view I perfectly get why one would like to federate with Threads. Unfortunately, it's still Facebook/Meta so little good is to be expected here on the long run. 😔
@Peter

@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. 🙁

@Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @Peter

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@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.


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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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earnest curiosity: how do you see wasm as contributing to this problem?

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@chrisamaphone ...By being a binary format you need a big-ass compiler and SDK to produce?

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.



Why have I been sick as hell since September when my first kid started school?!
@j_angliss nah, my kids have been sick as hell. Poor kids
oh man, that sucks too. Speedy recovery for all of you.




Important language question:
If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?
a house Santa would be a felis navidad

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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: https://itsgoingdown.org/anarchist-prisoner-eric-king-released-to-halfway-house-after-ten-years/

Eric King holding a copy of "Rattling the Cages," a book that he co-edited.

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I found a band I love (https://thebeths.com/ - very much Love At First Note of Expert in a Dying Field! Check it out!), and now I need to wait to find out if there's gonna be any more Bandcamp Fridays :'(


I wonder what the hardware cost of Miro and Slack are in terms of companies who need to increase the RAM and CPU of their hardware orders due to knowing their employees will run Slack so can't just work from a raspi.

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



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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two vast and lossless oggs of vorb

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near them, on the disk/half sync'd a silent video lies

@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 …

Screenshot of the Quake 3 “Orbb” skin that players could wear in Arena combat. It’s an eyeball the size of a human head, attached with some metallic machinery to sinewy arm-like legs with hands instead of feet. It has a cannon of some kind mounted above its eyeball-body.

@silverwizard I don't host my own, but I do have my own domain. I often get people thinking I'm backwards on my actual email when I tell them its [organization]@[myname].com
@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu I... don't understand the value of this really - right? This feels like it strongly values an attack by an ephemeral attacker? I guess?

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Tired of seeing ZFS get all of the attention, ext4 developers introduce a data corruption issue of their own.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

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To be clear, this is a joke.

May all of our filesystems be reliable and free of bugs.

Nobody wants even a little bit of data corruption...

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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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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as The World Wide Web, is in fact, Chromium, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Google Chrome.

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The problem with having 10+ highest priority items is that I just lock up and do nothing
@silverwizard Then decide on whose opinion you care about the most. Or who you care about the most. Or pick a different issue that you do care about.
@Martijn Vos Ah, but you could also do my trick! Lock up and do nothing!


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.

@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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Every time I, even mildly, point out that if you're a programmer/software engineer you probably should think about what kind of companies you can ethically work for I always get at least two people who are like "uhhh stop victim blaming people forced into survival FAANG work"

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my spouse to this joke: "excuse me that's my emotional support 6 figure salary"

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Member how reddit mods went on strike and reddit responded by forcing them to reopen subs?

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I think about that every so often

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The irony is that @Becky only knows Hbomberguy from the time he liked my post, then immediately removed the like and made the same post

@lady deathbird @Becky I don't really begrudge him, it's just incredibly funny

We were both being pedantic about lighting in the Star Trek Mirror Universe