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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.
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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)
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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.
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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. 🙁
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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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@silverwizard Yeah, exactly.
And as for "but efficiency!!!" – if it worked on 1990s computers, it works more than fine now on our vastly faster, vastly higher bandwidth ones.
Text-based protocols are GOOD, not Evil that Should Be Replaced.
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@LunaDragofelis @silverwizard Forgot that, yeah! =^.^=
And if you need to do multiple whatsis, uhhhhhh, requests, Connection: keep-alive :3
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@tay @silverwizard You're missing the point.
The point is that with text protocols, you don't HAVE to use a thing somebody else already wrote.
And besides, someone had to write libcurl in the first place.
Binary just makes shit difficult for literally no reason.
@tay @silverwizard Like, yeah, if you're just making a thing, you can absolutely use a library, that's what they're for.
But what if you're writing that library? Or testing things? Or just playing around?
@IceWolf @silverwizard yes. someone who can dedicate a lot of time can do the work of writing a good HTTP client.
H2/3 are remarkably faster than H1
@tay @silverwizard "Faster"? Meh. Not by any metric that matters.
Plain text worked in 1990 and it still works now.
@tay @silverwizard For NOW.
What d'you think Google's plan is? Real HTTP is probably going to get "deprecated" once "everyone's on things that support HTTP 2 anyway".
@tay @silverwizard And also, being a Google power trip is a pretty good reason not to use it as well as it being a binary unapproachable mess!
(See also: webp, the other big one I can think of. There's probably other things too.)
@IceWolf @silverwizard ???????????????
You are aware the internet is decentralised? Like, Google doesn't run the entire internet. The current version for the H2 spec wasnt even authored by anyone at Google. It was Mozilla & Apple.
@IceWolf @silverwizard again. RFC 9113 is attributed to people from Mozilla and Apple. Not Google. It is owned by the IETF, who again, is not Google.
Google does a lot of bad shit - yes, but this isn't even something to blame on them, even if H2 was a bad thing, which it's not.
@IceWolf @silverwizard you can still write your own H2 server. it might be more work, but a basic implementation shouldn't be too much harder (i haven't read the spec so don't quote me on that)
and if you don't want to, just write a H1 server. that is going to go away approximately never
– It's pointless work that /shouldn't be there/ and /doesn't have to be there/. We already have a perfectly working stack from before Google started fucking with everything.
– I don't fucking trust "but it'll stick around!".
@tay @silverwizard Like what, you want real HTTP to be relegated to the obscurity of things like Gopher? Because yeah, technically gopher still exists, but not outside hobby circles. It's not like it's the thing you use every day already.
Plain-text real HTTP is something special. The fact that you can look at what's going on and /it's all just text/ is something special. It's not worth "oh we made things a tiny bit faster!" to lose that.
@IceWolf @silverwizard but H1 & H2 are kinda the same thing. ones just a binary transport for the same headers, status codes & data.
only 35% of the web supports H2 (and that's actually down from 40% last year). H1 isn't going away
@IceWolf @silverwizard i still have no clue where this idea that H2 is a conspiracy invented by google to sell more whatever their business and is
it exists because a plain text format is inherently slow.
@tay @silverwizard A plain text format is not inherently slow! If it was slow, they wouldn't have been using it on much-much-less-powerful 1990s computers!
And considering Google is also trying to do this with literally everything else from TCP to image formats...
(video gets a bit of a pass, but only because Fucking Software Patents; they don't have that excuse for images)
@tay @silverwizard Yeah exactly!
Google's thing here is like. They're trying to warp the entire tech stack into whatever's best for them, screw the fact that we already have perfectly working stuff that anyone can play with.
> Meh. Not by any metric that matters.
H2 can cut a page load time by up to half (https://css-tricks.com/http2-real-world-performance-test-analysis/)
HTTP/2 - A Real-World Performance Test and Analysis | CSS-Tricks
Perhaps you've heard of HTTP/2? It's not just an idea, it's a real technology and slowly but surely, hosting companies and CDN services have been releasing itDavid Attard (CSS-Tricks)
@nasado @silverwizard You can just open a raw TCP (or TLS) socket and start typing!
You can also write servers/clients in basically anything, you don't need a preexisting library.
Not really? First of all, textual HTTP is still very rigid compared to human-to-human communication; no novice without a guide is going to guess the incantation "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: en.wikipedia.org\r\n\r\n". I've worked with HTTP before and I still didn't get it right on my first try; I had the "HTTP/1.1" at the beginning of the line. It'd be even harder for someone who isn't good at English, since all the text in HTTP is based on English vocab.
As for writing new servers and clients... in my experience the exact opposite is true. Creating and examining samples of textual formats may be easy, but when it's time to write the code, binary is just so much simpler to work with, especially without a parsing library at hand. Not to mention that learning to read and modify other people's code is a vital skill for a programmer.
In some cases they're about the same, in others binary is nicer, but outside of dedicated string-processing languages I've never seen text protocols be easier to parse and generate programmatically.
And that's not the only thing I said, either, so.
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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.
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If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?
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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/
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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if you drop your phone in the toilet and get a new one, all your old messages are gone and you're TOFUing new keys
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@unixroot buddy,
pal,
fellow traveler on this wet ball of gas and rock,
if I were upset, I would have expanded my blocklist without saying a word.
I am merely annoyed.
please attempt to comprehend the following:
popping out of the digital undergrowth unbidden and saying, effectively, "ah but you're incorrect and here's several reasons why" to strangers comes across as - at minimum - extremely rude and thoughtless.
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev I refuse to use the decrepit and broken Matrix protocol. I use XMPP+OMEMO quite regularely. I don't use proton mail, I do mail myself.
How do you backup keys? Do you just huck them on an unencrypted Samba share? Managing keys is a thorny issue, and I don't want to do that for low end and low importance messages. Threat modelling matters.
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I do mail myself.
why am I not surprised from a guy who's domain ends in .email have you tried Delta Chat? Its a modern e2ee instant messaging application handled via IMAP.
but it's relatively convenient for people I'm interacting with.
how has this gone for you? Save getting my mom to swith to it to video chat with my daughters after Google shit the bed on the hangouts/duo/whatever-they-call-it-now transitions, the response I usually get form family& IRL friends is "why should I download a new app just to talk to you?"
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu Ok, so you don't want E2E encryption, you want... what? S2S? If you want S2S why the concern about DB dumps, since a DB dump will reveal the key?
For key management, I guess you need to do *more* key management, every single thing I work with has its own keyflow and backup strategy, and needing to do that for another things sucks, and is an onboarding burden for a new device, and why should that be default.
*Also* if you don't trust your admin, why would you trust your admin to do the encryption they said they would?
Fundamentally I am.unsure how your threat model works, and what the attacker model is, and how you balance it within the CIA Triad.
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu well, optional means both sides need encryption to be turned on to get a benefit, so sure, but use signal
As for DB dumps not revealing keys, how do you envision them stored. Cryptography doesn't exist without key management, and it's *hard*. And thus network isn't designed for it, so LARPing crypto is way.more dangerous
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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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To be clear, this is a joke.
May all of our filesystems be reliable and free of bugs.
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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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@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
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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.
https://loudwire.com/spotify-payouts-less-smaller-artists/
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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As a musician with music distributed across numerous sites, Spotify pays me 0.28¢ per listen. One quarter of a cent. Music and YouTube pay me slightly more than half a cent.
Facebook / Instagram / Reels?
$0.000255/stream. Two and a half. Hundredths. Of a cent.
If you really like the music your artists produce please consider actually purchasing an album or the track itself, don't just stream. Then you can even listen to music after the collapse of the internet. Or the provider.
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@joncamfield wasn't Plex inexplicably sending this data to friends and family lately, to great embarrassment of many involved parties? 
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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
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67544504 #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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@silverwizard @hypolite In fairness, the British Library Reading Room used to be in the British Museum.
And they are both national British institutions. But I am pretty sure that the Library has acquired its collections with appropriate consideration, and nothing there is stolen, AFAIK.
However, I still get your point.
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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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