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mastodon 4.6.6Nothing is complicated;
everything is detailed.
Live in the meanwhile;
meanwhiles are all we have.
Some things endure.
Every world is hand-made.
There is no victory alone.
Play only the infinite game.
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Metadata privacy is literally freedom of association. I am so done with this bullshit. Half solutions are toys; we're all running on toys. Why. It didn't have to be like this.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online I expected a venerable polling company at least, unlike the rest of the modern world, to understand the fundamental implications of basic statistical sampling methods on data validity. Alas.
I wanted self-discovery on this trip. If I had to spend a season adrift it was going to be foolish to come back the same person who left. Life... so far, has provided, and how. My convictions are getting jostled at every turn and I'm loving it. I hope by the time the season ends I'll be back on something like even footing, but I know there is no footing; only kamae, and ukemi.
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@meganL@mas.to I've never had luck. I can get people to switch to Proton sometimes, at which point it's all behind the scenes, but actually sitting down and using encryption? Nobody seems to care. To the point where my manual PGP setup is... somewhere; I have no idea which backup. Haven't used it in a decade.
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@s0 Czech they have toys of buses, holiday calendars, cute sticker books, and lottery tickets.
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@ozzelot @lemgandi @davidaugust surface tension implies water is hydrophilic. I'm on team "water is wet" here. :)
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@4censord@unfug.social other (ideas)
- make a pattern
- tailor a suit
- anything leatherworking
- make shoes (any type)
- make shoes (leatherworking)
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online still; thanks for the heads-up on them moving from numberwang to "no number, all wang" territory.
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@murz@elekk.xyz Difficult because I would have to define access. The dice are in storage. 🤦♂️
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe given some of the stuff that's already used to fertilize crops... I'm sure they'll try.
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@ArchaeoIain @sundogplanets it's long been my tinfoil suspicion that this is the actual goal.
Re. @mttaggart@infosec.exchange,
Qubes for life. And GrapheneOS profiles. Because nobody's got the space to carry MORE computers. But compartmentalization isn't optional or you end up being That Guy. Someday I'll maybe learn another VM approach, but Qubes simplifies my life, and that's enough for me.
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@brennen Enough to instantly think: art on everything, and sanitation hazard. That's how I learned to hover-pee. And didn't get the runs like everybody else there.
Jump ship from Atlassian to where?
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@millihertz wasn't that fun. Alas, folks have short memories and the company got a lot of rep back through sheer market saturation. But mmn, pre-coffee nostalgia.
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@lispi314 @xgranade
One thing that has horrified me as I travel - how often I hear domestic unpleasantry through the walls of wherever I'm staying. The percentage occurrence is yikes; the percentage occurrence when the neighbors have children is terrifying. Stay anywhere a week or two, you get to know which aunt yells and hits as soon as the parents are off to work, etc. World's grim. Taking away the online won't save them.
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@xgranade I had friends in the schools so I had to enter sometimes... I made a protest backpack that was made by knotting plastic tube like a giant crochet bag. Technically the material was transparent, and the holes were like an inch across, so they couldn't ban it, but good luck figuring anything out at a glance.
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@eniko How is a server supposed to verify an age? Of whom, when it has no 'the user'? What about their smart fridge? The espresso machine, next? They make no sense. (They are very dangerous.)
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@s0 I think there might have been other stuff but it's all behind the counter so. Language barrier.
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@drwho I prefer not to dignify it with a direct link. https://archive.ph/K2uO1 GrapheneOS has been doing a more capable PR job than usual in their response thread. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116442723648508232
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca (The palma 2 is fine as an on the go book reader but if I wanted that I would have gotten a 6" the correct shape... I wanted to replace my personal phone use to the extent feasible given constraint of not being grapheneos, ie. at a minimum reliable alarms and calendar events, bulk file transfer not losing files, my notes archives in some format, anki, music listening... it lost files, didn't trigger alarms or notifications on time, and still _almost_ cleared the hurdle of being better than looking at a glow screen. Just functioning as well as stock android would have been enough. It's still close enough I keep trying to make it work.)
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca My workflows didn't have a use for the 6" size, sadly, although it's tempting for novel reading. One of my friends got one and was pleased. But for me it's the moderately larger ones with a stylus that hit the sweet spot. I also have their palma 2 which is phone sized and disappointing for my purposes. Maybe I'm missing out? I liked 6" on kindle before... 🤔
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca tablet factor... hands down boox wins, lol. I had a chance to poke at a remarkable in person in a store while travelling and was very very underwhelmed.
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@sparrowsion I've considers enabling the wallet feature on a Garmin watch. Which isn't through Google, aside from requiring the Garmin app to set up. But haven't done it yet and a bit leery as it's nice not having my watch registered with Garmin.
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@bignose@sw-development-is.social @benno@eigenmagic.net LLM don't need collective bargaining to act collectively, the vendor can just bump up the price. I'm not sure CEOs are thinking this one all the way through on finances at all.
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@pixel@oldbytes.space @TerryHancock@realsocial.life @glyph@mastodon.social I find this effective for architecture brainstorming too. You can even get themed ones with different hats! Pirate designs are recommended, among others.
Am I reading their inane unwillingness to employ technical vocabulary correctly as 12 million bpd shut in at this point? And is there a better source for numbers on that?
Wow, I'm not even going to read the Wired article I think. That's the title / approach they went with? Really? Not even worth a cringe read. This isn't pro wrestling or a fashion magazine ffs.
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@iFixit Great! My family prefers wires but goes through so many headsets... I've got yet another JBL in pieces. 🙄
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca I use a dasung eink monitor, Boox has some out, there's a crowdfund for Modos brand which apparently had great refresh... and that's not even getting into the reflective lcd options that purportedly exist. Or the hackmode stuff like putting vnc on a rooted kindle dx, which was how my first version worked. The tech's out there! Commercially, hackerally, however you like, from multiple vendors. Eink, epaper, reflective lcd... I mean it isn't all the SAME but the no-glow life is an option for laptops / desktops. I even travel with mine. Mobile is, oddly, where going full eink is hard. The Boox offerings in cellphone size have weak batteries and awful OS tweaks; there's no option that can run Graphene; and Dasung's attempt at a phone sized screen mirroring device apparently flopped.
@generalx@freeradical.zone links to cure.53 report on tor vpn beta
Yay this is cool good on them... I was curious, I've never read one of these before. Now I'm... confused.
TTP-04-011 — Not validating beyond your layer is abnormal In Some Cases but the point of a layer is to provide _that layer_ not some set of guarantees not in its protocol that complicate that layer and would actually constitute a different layer.
TTP-04-001 — Ok whaaaat. Devices with lower versions are not worse off running tor than they are not running tor. They aren't deceived into thinking tor makes them any better than they are. And people who can't afford newer deserve an ounce of cover even if it's not perfect.
TTP-04-004 — I think this is a big deal. Actually a bunch of these are pretty relevant, but especially this one.
Lack of certificate pinning, etc... nice catches. I can see why cure.53 has such a good reputation.
TTP-04-015 — I want to know more about this attack type... how hard is control of the ffi interface to obtain? In which directions?
Lots of DNS. So much DNS.
Tor did really well but it's also just a fascinating read... as a dev I'm too often ignorant of the standards I should aim for.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca (weirdly, my larger boox seems much more reliable... maybe different default optimizations.)