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@jerry Not my cat, as I don't have one, but I did help my best friend raise this obnoxious troublemaker from a tiny kitten.

@jbluespruce@mstdn.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @wokerati@mastodon.social "For some, it's deadly" Thinking about the time I drove a family member five hours across multiple state lines because they needed healthcare illegal here. That law is relatively new. It didn't used to be this way.

@lisamelton Warhammer 401k: In the grim dark future stocks are only down.

@wokerati@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social Every single voter that shows up in a primary addresses the problem of left candidates not being on the ballot. When they stop seeing primaries as actual campaigns and not a check box or victory lap, we will get there, and fast. And the way to do that? Get those most skeptical, most cynical, to just show up for once. Every percentage point they don't get hardens their spine against Trump regardless of where they get their campaign money.

@elorti5@mastodon.social This particular viewpoint omits the entirety of the Pacific campaign, as well as most of what happened in North Africa. It's called a "world war" for a reason. There were a lot of fascists all around the globe, defeated by many nations that all played a role. @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange

@RhinosWorryMe@climatejustice.social If they had a documented pattern of catching fire, it would become extremely difficult to insure them. @ketan@climatejustice.social

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de I saw one teardown of a Flock camera and thought, Just needs a Heltec T114 and then it's a perfect Meshtastic node. @mhkohne@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de Faraday fabric that blocks radio signals is not particularly expensive - that said not used the stuff myself, I'd check with your cell phone or other devices that the cloth works as advertised first. @alice@lgbtqia.space

@rainynight65 @rorystarr ... to the point there's a Wikipedia "List of" style page about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk

@susankayequinn Reminds me of farmers near small/midsized cities in the US Midwest opposing wind turbines: They could lease the land the turbine stands on for far more than the price of the crops that would grow on the tiny footprint, and still have a large field to keep farming those crops. Win/win. But would oppose, because they were close enough to an urban area, they were hoping to sell the field to a property developer to build suburban sprawls of houses. Turbines would force that land to stay a farm forever and not a one time huge cash payout.

@faraiwe @VeroniqueB99 My hovercraft is full of eels.

@lritter @dysfun This is one of my favorite aviation stories, because of the captain's absolute mastery of Understatement. I recall hearing there are multiple married couples now that met purely because the had adjacent seats when this happened.

@wendinoakland Because the very concept of a commons is unthinkable to an oligarch. @kottke

@davoyager @benroyce Kyrsten Sinema? Oh, wait, she's gone. Wonder how that happened? She saw the polling data for her upcoming primary.

@jef@mastodon.social I used to say, if you listen to a bush you'll end up wandering in the desert and we've known that for 4,000 years. While far from his worst offense, trump has ruined a great joke.

@hhardy01@mastodon.social Every time I say "Europeans, and the northern European countries in particular, seem to be doing a great job taking care of their citizens, maybe there's something we could learn from them" immediately people bring up racism exactly like this. The complaint comes from left, right, and political center, and instantly. But we have that problem too! We have hundreds of years of racism and genocide, still mostly unresolved. I don't understand how so many of my fellow citizens won't even consider the possibility that there might be a better way to do things, and why the argument against looking outwards is always the darkest part of our history. @janeishly@beige.party

@rysiek@mstdn.social Firefox is the _only_ application I've had unexpected results from using middle-click: because it takes cryptically named about:config noodling to make highlight+middle click to paste work reliably. And I'm still bitter I have to monkey with dpkg to get CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to zap xorg as expected every reinstall.

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange Last year I had to reboot a water heater.

@bontchev "It would make generative AI even worse than it already is" That's more or less the goal. Make it shitty enough the investors pull the plug. @asrg

@starhawk@dice.camp This is an excellent example of that very narrow situation where someone has far too much, yet not enough, free time.

@maxleibman@beige.party You don't need AI to do that! http://progressquest.com/

@druid Okay so: A) they are wasting their resources slurping down bullshit they will later discard, raising their costs and slowing their acquisition if other people's content, or B) they are slurping down bullshit that's statistically close enough to valid text, which is what markov models do, and train on it - damaging their model. Neither of these scenarios benefit them. For me it's a net win either way. And then there's the fact I've identified their crawlers by their behavior, in real time, and can spread that information so people can just block them outright. Like this: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/crawlers.json @asrg

@druid It's using CPU and bandwidth I've already been paying for, for other reasons, that was otherwise idle. I'm out not much of anything. Considering just how utterly badly their crawlers behave, I doubt their "curation" is particularly effective. It's not like humans are reading every page they download. If they know it's garbage why do they keep downloading more and more? @asrg

@stephen I'm going to guess, they're using the cheapest IP space they can rent: low reputation IPs that have already been polluted by being used to do other questionable actions. Nice idea to cross reference that! @asrg

@stephen A medium term plan for Nepenthes is to coordinate data amongst instances to conclusively identity crawlers, and hopefully allow people to ban them preemptively. Still thinking through it. No ETA. @asrg

@asrg Diversity is strength. @marcusb @mike @Fingel

@RichardJActon@fosstodon.org That kind of "eh, upgrade your hardware" is exactly the kind of cost cut driven engineering that's made the internet suck so much these days. So yeah, going back to original point, I'll keep buying a phone that has hardware I want - instead of giving Google money to making things worse - and just run Lineage.

@mikesiegel Some of us still keep the One True Faith.

@janoc200@mstdn.social Considering how badly their crawlers behave I have ... doubts about the cleaning process. Bandwidth usage is pretty small. It's text, not video.

@corbet@social.kernel.org I feel more vindicated self hosting everything I can every passing day.

@janoc200@mstdn.social Definitely not guaranteed. This text, not Netflix. I've been running a Nepenthes instance since July 2023 and have never received a bandwidth overage bill. Here's my graph for January. This is while tarpitting an average of 150 concurrent crawler threads and also providing other useful services, such as this Fedi instance I'm replying to you from. I used 6% of my bandwidth allotment on this $12/month VM. @jrp

@nu@ak.pinegrove.xyz There used to be Freshmeat.net, which was originally release announcements/software project news. It was also so successful, it quickly became a somewhat of a central encyclopedia/searchable listing of actively maintained open source software. Just about everything was on it. Then suddenly every project started using Sourceforge, to the point users overwhelmingly looked there first. Traffic on Freshmeat declined so dramatically the owner shut it down. Sometime after that Github happened. @ploum@mamot.fr

@jonny If I'm reading this "code" correctly... threatening an LLM with running it on an 8 bit microprocessor is actually effective? What if I threaten it with a potato like Glados in the game Portal?

@Pineywoozle@masto.ai @Seb321@mastodon.social "Both candidates are awful" Yes, but, one is objectively worse *doesn't vote, shit gets far far worse* "SEE?!?!! BOTH CANDIDATES ARE AWFUL"  @benroyce@mastodon.social @Ilka4You@mastodon.social @Robotistry@fediscience.org @ariaflame@masto.ai @Amoshias@esq.social @hotelzululima@mastodon.social @UkeleleEric@mstdn.social

@druid If I don't run my tarpit, and AI continues to expand unabated, AI boils the planet. If I do run it, and AI continues to expand unabated, AI boils the planet. My $5 VM isn't at fault here. Especially as it's also providing other useful services right now, - it's got over 100 concurrent threads stuck in there with less than 50% CPU utilized. Oh, I'm sorry, you just told me not to do that. I'm sorry. Please don't get mad, daddy. I won't put it in the newspaper you got mad.

So Linus showed his entire ass ( again, if you've been paying attention in the last twenty years, but for some reason this one really got noticed ), and now I keep seeing people talking about building weird #NetBSD / Debian hybrids, how Devuan was trying that, and You know you can just run NetBSD right? No need to loot it for replacement parts, it's a stable modern OS that works fine exactly as it is. Putting the GNU userland on top of it will be a lot of work to catch up with what it already is, and carries the reward of having Richard Stallman's slime on everything.

@RichardJActon@fosstodon.org In my experience, an SD card at end of life is unable to be written to, but the data is still recoverable. The times I've had a phone's flash wear out left it in a factory reset state, everything gone, and stuck in a reboot loop. Pushing the heavy written app data ( camera, map tiles, etc ) to the SD card significantly extends the phone's lifetime as well. Of course, backups. Many things on my phone ( contacts, mail ) are backed by self hosted services, but several ( camera, mapping app ) are not. SD card helps a lot here: simply put said SD card in a USB reader I keep for such purposes, rsync, put it back in the phone. Most phones I've owned included the Micro-SD card slot in the same tray as SIM card. Some could even use that second tray location as a second SIM. I'm baffled why Google won't include something so useful in their high end expensive flagship devices when it needs such a small increase in space and cost - Unless, of course, they are doing it to force dependency on their cloud services and increase vendor lock-in.

@bitinn Absolute mandate / tracking, no. Pressure is racheting up though. They keep scheduling training sessions and asking when I'll join one.

@zenhob@butts.team Old and tired: Typing "Google" into Google. New hotness: Google suggesting typing your query into a search engine.

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange "I thought we were replacing all this Coldfusion stuff with Angular because it's more secure?" I didn't bother to mute Teams before I lost my shit laughing, and kept laughing as I posted links about NPM cryptocurrency miners into the chat. Boss had a talk with me the next day about professional tone when on a call with executives.

@contrasocial @GrapheneOS Yes, this. I'm also not particularly interested in running a Pixel device but for different reasons: I need an SD card slot ( running Cloud-nothing means I need storage that can survive the phone's flash dying. And yes, I've had that happening, lost a lot of stuff that way. ) I also need a physical headphone jack ( playing music while also navigating is a huge help on the long road trips I frequently do. ) I will not consider anything that can't meet those requirements. Lineage, and previously Cyanogen, on Motorola or Sony devices has been meeting my needs since 2014 without fail. If Graphene can support hardware that meets those needs I'll consider it. Until then, it isn't helpful.

@AccordionBruce @jik @taylors Pretty sure that's what "ACAB" means. It's still true.

@randahl@mastodon.social Missing Kim Jong-Un. As well as Bolsonaro and Yoon Suk Yeol. So your hopeful ratio doesn't decrease.

@joshbuddy@sfba.social Beat me to it. @ketan@climatejustice.social

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com My code is MIT. There are Luarocks bundled in the distribution tarball and those would be governed by their respective licenses which I believe are in the Luarocks metadata, which is also in the tarball. You bring up an excellent point here. Next release will more explicitly separate my MIT license code from the bundled dependencies.

@nu@ak.pinegrove.xyz If you are serious, start collecting links. How you store them does not matter: flat text file, Markdown, a wiki somewhere, even your browser bookmarks. Anything that can be easily copied and later extracted from. The actual storage, presentation, and retrieval matter far less than simply making such a database exist at all. It can be transformed into something more usable later.

@gknauss@mastodon.social TIL I've been sinning incorrectly my entire life. I wonder if that's some mind of meta-sin.

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange *loudly whispers* don't encourage them!