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@lispi314@mastodon.top

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Programmer and Free Software proponent.

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Joined May 01, 2022

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 44mo ago

Replying to

@toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe @drwho@hackers.town @Inumo@dragon.style That issue's been a problem since longer than AI spam though. Amazon's enshittified reviews for example have been a problem at least as far back as 2010. #ReviewFarms are an old phenomenon by now. More distressingly, libraries aren't always a good option either, funds to stay up to date or have a good collection often run out and malicious curation is most certainly a thing too.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@nickwedig@dice.camp Sounds like doing away with the middleman there would be a good idea.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 44mo ago

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@TheADHDHobbyist@tech.lgbt @toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe @drwho@hackers.town @Inumo@dragon.style It's probably cheating but yes absolutely, the Vatican's archives are filled with such books.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@tenqciousb@mastodon.sdf.org @plaguepoems@mastodon.social > I haven’t known anybody who has contracted covid in 18 months

As I wrote: How do you know?

Antivirals are widely available

No they aren't, last I checked you need a prescription by a doctor here (it'll be too late by the time you get it) if you don't qualify as "at risk" (everyone is at risk, it's stupid).

Ya covid is “still a thing”. So are all colds and flu.

And as I noted, they're not harmless either.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 42mo ago

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@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us @mac@jawns.club I disagree, any attempt at mandating it is control freak behavior. Or did you solely mean those asking for the voluntary option? Then yes, those are fine.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 43mo ago

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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org @nafnlaus@fosstodon.org @KevinLikesMaps@eldritch.cafe @Miriamm@mastodon.social That really seems to be a pattern.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@rosamundi@mastodon.world @glitchontwitch@ohai.social I think it should be considered giving medical advice, with the usual legal consequences for faking being actually qualified to give it.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@tenqciousb@mastodon.sdf.org @plaguepoems@mastodon.social Have they even tested? You don't get some status update that you're infected. And the rate of asymptomatic infection means you might only notice long-term effects. Widely available is a rather generous description as far as it goes in my country. And regarding the flu, maybe one should also consider not being so nonchalant about it given that all viral infections come with a risk of various long-term syndromes and pathologies. Here's a fun one: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jdi.13540

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 36mo ago

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@jrefior@hachyderm.io @jeffowski@mastodon.world I don't know about you, but to me that seems a whole lot more scandalous than the Watergate stuff.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 37mo ago

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@sindarina 1.2.3.4 is cute and memorable though. They really should've reserved it, it would've been sensible. There's a reason the test phone numbers use all-5 sequences like (555) 555 XXXX. (Admittedly that really wasn't intentional and it just happened due to a number of reasons, but that's a detail.) I'm disappointed that wasn't a comment brought up when those RFCs were drafted.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 37mo ago

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@gboussard @sindarina More people need to know about /dev/disk/by-id/ and WWNs. It's a good way to avoid unpleasant mistakes and to keep track of assets.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 36mo ago

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@dgar@aus.social Parenthetical remarks are necessary insofar as you're not writing hypertext.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@rezzyreksya@snowdin.town @scohoe@toot.community I'm reminded of the story of a certain expedition in Australia almost starving to death on some plant before locals taught them the rather non-obvious preparation method to make it remotely edible. It might have been inspired in large part by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition#Cause_of_death

en.wikipedia.org

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@beforewisdom@veganism.social @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org But for books, I think it that should be in addition to human-readable copies. A low-tech bootstrap path is absolutely necessary to preserve.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@beforewisdom@veganism.social @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org There's a worrying lack of care being shown by governments and nations around archiving of digital data in general. I wouldn't trust books to that unless that problem is resolved, and even then. It's not like it's impossible, the technology not only exists but is (or soon is) out of patent time (#HyperCDROM, petabyte glass CDs), so there's no excuse not to implement it and have multiple redundant facilities across a given nation storing them and equipment for them.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 39mo ago

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@dalias@hachyderm.io @wedgius@m.wedgi.us @nulleric@mastodon.social It's a loathsome act of willful destruction of culture

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 39mo ago

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@dalias@hachyderm.io @wedgius@m.wedgi.us @nulleric@mastodon.social Only if they're not more of the same. I wouldn't put it beyond their ilk to do so just for the giggles of having stolen it and hiding it away.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 39mo ago

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@dalias@hachyderm.io @wedgius@m.wedgi.us @nulleric@mastodon.social Capitalist asshole culture, really.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@negative12dollarbill@techhub.social Oh it's very simple. If it wasn't a URI to start with or the user didn't specifically program in a substitution rule, it gets left alone. Auto-linking was a mistake.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social URIs have a stable relatively well-defined format. It's very easy to distinguish between path & domain.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 43mo ago

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@Michigander@toad.social Yahoo news of the next few days "inexplicable rise in food poisonings".

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 43mo ago

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@Haste @daisy Did you take that as the red flag it was?

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 44mo ago

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@tb@tldr.nettime.org It's mostly a hindsight is 20/20 thing. It's a lot easier to retroactively assess critical pivots once they've already been demonstrated as such. Although at the same time, one has to be certain it isn't just a single emergent manifestation of a general probability attaining realization. #MultipleDiscovery and #SimultaneousInvention are two examples of such a thing where addressing any single instance would do all of nothing. #TimeTravel #Change

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 44mo ago

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@prozacchiwawa @matuzo As far as #accessibility goes, it takes more effort to turn divs into recognized elements than it does to just use the intended #semantic elements directly. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Roles/button_role

developer.mozilla.org

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 44mo ago

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@toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe @drwho@hackers.town @Inumo@dragon.style Right, I got that much, I just wanted to add further example of that point, the AI part wasn't aimed at your comment.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@negative12dollarbill@techhub.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Maybe. The notion of a hyperlink to some zip site seems ambiguous. https://whatever.zip => client easily rejects this because there's no path. That sort of name should exclusively be valid with file:// protocol URIs.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@jeffcliff@shitposter.club @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org One of the issues with seeding #LibGen or #SciHub on the #clearnet is that in some countries like mine that is actively hazardous. As of the last time I checked, there's no prison involved, but the monetary penalties are steep-enough to dissuade the non well-off and the #copyright & publisher cartels are petty enough to bother with lawsuits with a guaranteed inability to recover legal fees.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@ginapieters Not really, it just makes me give up before starting. "It just works, go read on $link if you actually want to know how."

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@ginapieters @dymaxion I've got very little faith in local media to understand anything at all, regardless of how incorrectly oversimplified one makes things. Often the concept of a magical box is about as much as you can give for details. It's sad.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 39mo ago

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@dalias@hachyderm.io @wedgius@m.wedgi.us @nulleric@mastodon.social 🤠🎵

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 42mo ago

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al Asset-proportional fines would fix that.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 35mo ago

@erincandescent@queer.af So for something new, what would you recommend using?

Any for which building a compiler isn't painfully obnoxious?

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@Whit_justWhit@mastodon.social @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org There are specialized append-only databases (or journals/logs for the same) used for legal compliance reasons mostly. It does impose additional steps for getting to the auditable truth, but it exists.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@arclight@oldbytes.space @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Automated URL rewrite for anything other than punycoding is a bug. There is no other legitimate use for that feature. Did you report it?

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@Agonio@social.vivaldi.net @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org Libraries, as a shared public good, are just about as far as you'd generally get from consumerism.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 38mo ago

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@sbb@mstdn.ca @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org It would probably be worth it for there to be public investment into making more common use of such material in books. Flash storage's circuitry also corrodes very rapidly in humidity. Perhaps not as quickly as untreated paper books might, but it's not exactly impressive either.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@negative12dollarbill@techhub.social I see. Wouldn't that be handled by just... not automatically downloading/opening files at the root of a domain because hosting binary files in such locations is just weird to start with? Of course nothing prevents a malicious peer from linking to another malicious non-root link anyway, so I'm not sure what attack it even adds.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@negative12dollarbill@techhub.social Not really, I'm just failing to see how this really opens any new vulnerability. You're still relying on your initial peer not pointing you to a malicious resource. Whether it's hosted at https://whatever.zip or at https://whatever.xyz/somefile.zip doesn't seem to have any bearing on the safety of the resources. Mandating a path would really just be if you absolutely want your client to blacklist .zip roots out of ineffectual paranoia.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 42mo ago

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@dx@social.ridetrans.it @tante@tldr.nettime.org It reminds me of when I hear what rube goldbergian contraptions some users build out of macros & GUI-spoofing programs because the programs & OS they're working on is just that bad at exposing tooling to otherwise automate those parts that are just drudgery. The solution wouldn't be AI, but rather to stop producing garbage OSes & software that disempower users.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 39mo ago

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@benjedwards@mastodon.social Ah yes, the joys of circuit-switching.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@negative12dollarbill@techhub.social That'd be a bug in the MUA then. Nothing should ever be randomly & unquestioningly turned into a link.

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LisPi @lispi314@mastodon.top

· 41mo ago

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@tenqciousb@mastodon.sdf.org @plaguepoems@mastodon.social Such associations have been noticed before: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-018-4662-7

link.springer.com

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