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ยซToot from jwzยปยน:> A little while ago I turned on Lockdown Mode on my iPad and so far have noticed no consequences. This supports my hypothesis that the features that Lockdown Mode disables are features that shouldn't have been implemented in the first place.I have been interested in finding out what the overlap of lockdown mode and my customized settings is.
[1] https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111400522875719363
Every single time I come across a Hacker News comment I am reminded that unironically reading and commenting on Hacker News should qualify you for an all expenses paid yeeting into the Sun.Also, I miss webshit weekly.
ยซRetoot of Zero Trick Pony (@zerotrickpony@messydesk.social)ยปยนยซNov 8, 2023 at 21:21ยปยฒ> Unpopular opinion: advertisers should be delighted with ad blockers. Ad-blockers stop impressions which were unwanted anyway. Every known-unwanted impression that an advertiser pays for is basically fraud. That user didn't want to see it, isn't going to look at it, and is extremely unlikely to convert / act / feel positively about the advertiser if they were forced to see it. Stopping ad blockers is not about advertising, it's about fooling advertisers.ยซhttps://www.404media.co/as-youtube-declares-war-on-ad-blockers-google-sponsors-ad-blocking-conference/ยปยณNever thought of it this way but it makes sense, no one wants to pay to advertise to someone who will never be interested, but the ad-tech companies do very much want to be paid to advertise to as many people as possible whether they want it or not.
[1] https://messydesk.social/@zerotrickpony/111378201106265276
[2] https://messydesk.social/@zerotrickpony/111378201106265276
The advances of state level protections being enshrined after Dobbs. 597 ยซU.S.ยปยน ___ is just the latest black mark that ensures that the Court under Roberts is wildly unlikely to be well-regarded by history.ย Small consolation in the face of the massive corruption and utter disconnect from reality currently plaguing the highest court in the US but at least a small amount of schadenfreude ย to enjoy while the Republic wilts under the tyranny of mediocrity and greed that is plaguing it.ย
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Reports
I find it really mind-boggling how Apple Music will just randomly lose its mind duplicating tracks.ย I'd be less shocked if it wasn't always for things I purchased from the iTunes store.ย The 2/3rds of my collection that I've encoded from CDs always seem fine, it's the purchased content that keeps doing weird things.Funniest part is that I convinced myself to buy stuff from iTMS because I figured it would be *less* of a hassle instead of *more*.
I am looking forward to adblockers getting the ability to block "AI" bullshit.
ยซhttps://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/111359545610778911ยปยน> silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:-put a drone on something-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)-fraud-space pollution-self-crashing cars-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country-fascism-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks-layoffsDon't forget "feudalism, now with *computers*!"
[1] https://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/111359545610778911
โ In-Reply-To: 11/02/2023 @20:42
Molly's substack has ยซall her coverageยปยน of the trial and they're quite good if you don't know what I'm talking about.ยซHer Youtubeยปยฒ has several livestreams of her brain dump of being in the courthouse to experience most of SBF's testimony and oh buddy is it worth watching.
[1] https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/s/the-ftx-files
[2] https://www.youtube.com/@molly0xfff
โ In-Reply-To: 11/02/2023 @20:42
Yeah, that is what I thought...
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I don't think I need chicken entrails to know that this is unlikely to be a good sign for the crypto bros...
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Step one of being a better citizen...
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It's *hard* to want to join Mastodon when *every single post* seems to be absolutely rife with reply-guy bullshit.ย Like what is the value prop if the 'town square' is just *chock-a-block* with fedoras? ย Self flagellation in hopes of some notoriety? ย No thanks.
If you are typing a message that contains "*I'm sure you thought of this already, but I'll mention it because I'm very smart.*" either explicitly or implicitly, might I suggest typing one of the following instead:Thank you.
I see blog articles with titles like "How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise", and think to myself "thank God I don't trust the cloud^W other people's computers."
Good news, last machine successfully upgraded to Debian 12.ย Bad news, OwnCloud has decided to ยซcontinue developing for an EOSL version of PHPยปยน.Now I need to replace OwnCloud.ย Frankly this has been coming for a while, they seem to be trying to pivot to a commercial product instead of developing open source software. ๐
[1] https://central.owncloud.org/t/announcement-owncloud-10-and-php-versions/40251
Re: ยซthisยปยน, I think visor Geordi is best Geordi.
[1] https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/111272936877821825
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ยซRetoot of Tom Eastman (@tveastman@cloudisland.nz) by Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] (@SomaFMrusty@defcon.social)ยปยนThe only ethical answer to "please disable your ad blocker" is "go fuck yourself"... and then close the browser tab.
[1] https://cloudisland.nz/@tveastman/111248269458047483
Watch this: ยซDEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory DoctorowยปยนGo read ยซRed Team Bluesยปยฒ.ยซSeize the means of computationยปยณ โ
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
[2] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/red-team-blues
[3] https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con
Dear Apple, Please let me remove the voice note button from the text message compose screen. I assure you I will never ever want it.Whoever thought it was good UX is bad at their job and should be ashamed.
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ยซhttps://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/731534069943402496ยปยน
[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/731534069943402496
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PROTIP: Naming something (or someone) /[a-zA-Z][0-9]{1,}[a-zA-Z]/, is *desperately* lame...
ยซ*Eurobeat Intensifies*ยปยน
[1] https://blog.jlist.com/your-friend-in-japan/can-mf-ghost-recapture-the-magic-of-initial-d/
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Yo-Yo Ma is a goddamn *treasure*.I will fight you if you disagree because you are *wrong*.ยซhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_IibJH4rAยปยนยซviaยปยฒ
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_IibJH4rA
[2] https://kottke.org/23/10/yo-yo-ma-plays-bachs-cello-suite-no-1-in-the-great-smoky-mountains
I switched iTerm's font to ยซB612ยปยน Mono and it is *SO MUCH MORE READABLE* than Inconsolata.
You can support and criticize Israel and the Palestinians both without engaging in apologia for terrorism.Because there is no justification for barbarism. Full stop.ย No matter how righteously aggrieved any people might be, no matter how oppressed, no matter how wronged, there is no justification for the murder and rape and kidnapping of innocents.ย You don't have to pick a side to stand against that.ย You don't have to pick a side in order to offer support and sincere sympathy and aid.ย ยซhttps://www.stonekettle.com/2023/10/sides.htmlยปยน
[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/10/sides.html
I just finished reading ยซDOOM Guy: Life in First Person by John Romeroยปยน, it was *well* worth the read and was unexpectedly emotional.ย
[1] https://romero.com/shop/p/doomguy
How is it that a cooking Youtube channel can amaze me and make me cry?ย Merde!ยซhttps://www.youtube.com/@FrenchGuyCookingยปยน
[1] https://www.youtube.com/@FrenchGuyCooking
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeVWLtbU
I guess the direction from product management at Apple is to make *everything* harder.ย Want to attach a photo to a text message? Now it's buried in a menu instead of on the message screen.ย Want to accidentally start recording a voice memo like some heathen boomer?ย *WE GOT YOU FAM.*ย Want to set a timer on your watch, oh, we've buried that behind a menu as well.ย While we were at it we made one of the buttons on the watch essentially useless and where we had that functionality before we've turned into a completely pointless set of screens that has like 5 ways to accidentally summon.How about a bunch of animations so navigating anything takes longer too?It's like they hate the idea of people ever enjoying themselves while using the things they make.Remember 30 years ago when Apple cared deeply about their stuff always doing the right thing in the most obvious way?
ยซToot from Infoseepage (@Infoseepage@mastodon.social)ยปยนยซ@fooneยปยฒ It sometimes feels like instead of creating an age where everything is digital and the bits can be preserved for all time, we are entering an era where everything digital is ephemeral to an absurd degree. The future might come to view the present as a sort of digital dark age, where the vast majority of cultural output is irretrievably lost.2023-09-22 @21:09My sweet summer child, if you have a file and it contains anything other than ASCII characters stored as a collection of single octets ranging from 0x00 to 0x7F, and you have not copied it to your very newest computer from whatever archaic media it might be on (even a 3 year old USB 2 thumb drive is archaic in this hell scape of a timeline), there is a 50% chance that it is gone and you will never be able to read it again.
[1] https://digipres.club/@Infoseepage@mastodon.social/111110809278674610
[2] https://digipres.club/@foone
What auspicious timing, I got my updated bivalent jab today and am rewarded with the latest roundup from Violet Blue.ยซhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-89603560ยปยน
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-89603560
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[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/
The fact that the Apple Watch has un-dismissable and un-disablable holiday and birthday notifications tells me that the product people at Apple have no friends. Who the hell wants this crap? ย Having a parasocial relationship with an operating system is sad.
ยซVVยปยน in Niagara Falls (with Dark Divine and Black Veil Brides)...ย yeah, excellent pre-birthday evening!
[1] http://www.heartagram.com/
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One thing I will miss when I finally upgrade past macOS 10.15.7 is the fact that WebP images don't work in Safari.ย I consider this to be a *feature*. ย I may even write a Tampermonkey script to block WebP images just to continue to not subject myself to the onerous format.
The liberal version of intersectionalism observes a world run by 150 rich white men and resolves to replace half of them with women, queers and people of color. The leftist version seeks to abolish the system altogether.ย ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/ยปยนBrick by fucking brick.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/
Substack's 'SUBSCRIBE' modal popup is a war crime.
Hell yes.ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/ยปยน
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/
ยซhttps://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/111007236638749003ยปยนHappy Labor Day!
[1] https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/111007236638749003
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The Good Omens fandom is a great example of why I refuse to be a "fan" of anything. I can't go near any of Neil Gaiman's Internet presences a year either side of any release of any Good Omens content... ย It makes me physically ill at the thought of being associated with a fandom.
Proof there are still wonders in the world.ยซhttps://archive.org/details/hypercard_neuroblast-cyberdeliaยปยน
[1] https://archive.org/details/hypercard_neuroblast-cyberdelia
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Every time this crosses my path I snicker wistfully.
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Just another day in the land of the free and the home of the brave... ๐ยซhttps://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197169683/canada-issues-travel-advisory-warning-over-u-s-states-lgbtq-lawsยปยน
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But on a recent 750-mile road trip in an EV, I had a revelation: Weโre over-engineering our public charging infrastructure. If we want to speed up the electric car era, we should put aside the apps, doodads, and expensive fast chargers and embrace the cheap dumb plug.ยซhttps://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/nema-14-50-mobile-charger-lucid-airยปยนI keep saying that all this "*smart*" (it isn't) garbage is a useless waste of money and energy and an attempt to keep you continually re-buying things that would last 50+ years without a hitch if it wasn't for the *consumer electronics* shoved needlessly into it.
[1] https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/nema-14-50-mobile-charger-lucid-air
A ยซdrone lightshowยปยน is a pretty neat alternative to fireworks! ย Looks like lots of promise for more interesting visuals than uh, circle, big circle, droopy circle, fountain, and explosion.
[1] https://laughingsquid.com/1500-drones-create-flying-dragon/
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Chrome is such a piece of shit browser. ย If you use it you should stop.
Ghost and Amon Amarth were worth standing in the the drizzle!
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I know it is hard.ย Watching the poster-child of the cancer that is rotting away at our country being heaped with indictment after indictment but with any hope of punishment likely years away.ย An entire election cycle away.ย The wheels turn slowly.ย Methodically.ย Purposefully.ย The machine gets its due, just not as fast as our attention spans demand.This is the trap, and this is how, through outrage fatigue and '*the new normal*' we forget and let the cancer kill us.We must remain vigilant.ย We *must* vote.ย If we can't at least do that then we don't *deserve* the republic.ย It won't have failed us.ย *We* will have failed *it*.> The greatest strength of a democratic republic is the citizen.ย Ironically, that's also its greatest weakness.ย It doesn't take much to bring down the mightiest Republic.ย You just have stop believing in it.ย > An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.โ Plutarchยซhttps://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/baloney.htmlยปยน
[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/baloney.html
Really cool look at the samples behind 50 years of hip-hop.ย Iconic stuff through and through.ย Bangers, all of them.ยซhttps://kottke.org/23/08/the-most-iconic-hip-hop-sample-of-every-year-1973-2023ยปยน
[1] https://kottke.org/23/08/the-most-iconic-hip-hop-sample-of-every-year-1973-2023
โ In-Reply-To: 08/14/2023 @21:16
Not that I'm any good at it -- especially on a keyboard... but the soundtrack still slaps.
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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout/
Good to see that the replacement for reddit is just as shallow a swamp as what it is trying to emulate.
Thanks to the AI scumbags for making me put User-Agent matching rules back in Apache. ย You are lucky I am less vindictive than I was when I had rules to screw with jerks who used images hosted on my server for their MySpace profiles or I would find the chunkiest uncompressed goatse that I could find to redirect your bots to.
Katamari Damacy might be the perfect video game.I will not accept dissent on this.ยซhttps://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/725502507846107136/footlongdingledong-yorhaw-hi-im-op-of-theยปยน(I can't seem to find a legitimate streaming source for it so you'll want to do the typey-typey into your favorite textbox to get *Katamari on the Rocks*)
[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/725502507846107136/footlongdingledong-yorhaw-hi-im-op-of-the
I shudder to think how many *days* of my life that I've spent listened to ยซthis songยปยน...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAEMZBRGI0
Once upon a time we made things that ยซlooked awesomeยปยน.ย Now everything is a soulless slab of black glass and we are poorer for it.ยซviaยปยฒ
[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/gmaletic/albums/72157688760958876
[2] https://kottke.org/23/08/striking-vintage-calculators
Every generation these dirty rotten insane sons of bitches come again. The madness starts to rise up yet again. The barbarians are at the gate and the drums of war and revolution are beating loudly yet again.The madness must be stopped now while it's still possible.ย This time we have a chance to stop them before they burn the world down yet again.ย Before it's us, those of us lucky enough to survive, standing there among the bodies of our countrymen, wondering why somebody didn't stop it.ย We're that somebody.ย ...> You want a better nation? You want a better world? A better future? ยซThen you have to be a better citizen.ยปยน
[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/the-latter-days-of-better-nation-part-vi.html
Just a random reminder โ technology is a *tool*, a *force multiplier*, never a solution.ย This is true of *all* technology.ย The computer is the same as a knife.ย Solutions only come from one place โ human creativity.ย We are seeing venture capitalists and marketeers foam at the mouth about AI but it's important to remember it's actually neither of those things.ย Humanity created a vast catalog of stuff and made it accessible via a global information storage and retrieval network and then some dorks came by and hoovered it all up to plug in to their remix robots (put another way, into their copyright laundering machines).ย Out churns things that almost, if you squint right, nearly resemble something someone might have made and so they wave their hands and exclaim they have created a thing that can create.ย The vultures circled and the *grift* began.ย The flow of money from the marks to the grifters is now predicated on people believing that the hype that AI is here, it works, and it's coming for our jobs. ย There is no technical solution for this grift but I hear there are some cozy prison cells available that would fit the grifters.
Private equity is a cancer. Its profits come from buying productive firms, loading them with debt, abusing their suppliers, workers and customers, and driving them into ground, stiffing all of them โ and the company's creditors. The mafia have a name for this. They call it a "bust out":ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/#buyout-groupsยปยนWe really need regulation and enforcement to come in and toss these parasites into a chipper shredder as an example for others.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/#buyout-groups
You love to see it.ยซhttps://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/723914574817017857ยปยนI have a hard time believing anyone has ever told Spare Karen the man-child *no* in his life.ยซhttps://sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-downtown-san-francisco-office-x/ยปยฒSomehow he has people convinced that he's not only capable of chewing his own food unprompted but that he's a *genius*.
[1] https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/723914574817017857
[2] https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-downtown-san-francisco-office-x/
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Apropos of everything...
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This is amazing.ย I love everything about it.ยซhttps://www.tumblr.com/theclueofthebrokenneedle/722758344968912896/this-is-my-pride-and-joy-a-gift-for-my-dad-whoยปยน
I think that the reason we all need to be vigilant of the regulation that is going to spring up around AI (which of course is *neither* artificial nor is it intelligence) is because it has the potential to be a conduit for un-attributed and un-paid transfer of copyrights from millions of authors, actors, and artists of all stripe into the hands of the companies that own the software.ย It's already happening and if history has taught us anything with the current state of US copyrights, the entertainment industry is already hard at work setting it up so it will continue to happen.AI isn't here to take your job. ย Capitalists are already doing that part far more efficiently.
ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/ยปยน*Please*, in my lifetime, let's have some of *this,* my dear Democrats*.*ย I'm tired of losing even though we've *won*... *over and over again*.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/
More and more I find myself using the *Whats New* list for each new version of Apple's software as a list of *shit to figure out how to turn the fuck off*.
Watch this ยซhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vEยปยน, then if you are like me and only get bits an pieces of it, watch this ย ยซhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDeXHS5kUUยปยฒยซviaยปยณย
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vE
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDeXHS5kUU
[3] https://waxy.org/2023/07/animation-vs-math/
Looks like Apartheid Emerald Mine Edge Lord Man has hidden his new toy behind a login-required screen so I finally shut off my Twitter to RSS gateway.ย It can join the Instagram to RSS feed gateway in the dustbin.
โ In-Reply-To: 06/27/2023 @16:57
ยซd2dxยปยน is a really simple to install and nice upscaler for Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.ย If you're using the downloaded version of the game you need a ยซsimple fixยปยฒ to make it work.It does break taking screenshots using the in-game bind, but Windows+Print Screen works just fine.
[1] https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx
[2] https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx/issues/160
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โ In-Reply-To: 06/27/2023 @16:57
I'm not going to lie, it's been so long I forgot the opening area of Diablo 2...
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In preparation for playing Diablo IV, I'm re-playing all of the previous Diablos.I almost want to pull out my 17" CRT, the upscaling is a little bit rough on ยซDiablo Iยปยน.
[1] https://www.gog.com/en/game/diablo
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Maybe the wasteland of commercial real estate, upon mass bankruptcy, will be fertile soil in which we will sew affordable housing.One can hope.
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I will absolutely NOT ever use my mobile device to ยซdrive critical systemsยปยน of the multi-ton death machine that I pilot around.ย You can fuck all the way off, Apple.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-17-carplay/
So disappointed that the new 15" MacBook Air will only support a single external display, I guess I'll have to find a used 16" MacBook Pro instead.
โ In-Reply-To: 06/06/2023 @22:30
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Cyan sure knows how to tell a story and set a mood.ย Glad I backed ยซthisยปยน.
[1] https://www.gog.com/game/firmament
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โ In-Reply-To: 05/20/2023 @09:33
Please tell me that people don't actually think this looks cool...ย what kind of absolute chud would wear this???ยซViaยปยน
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/05/apple-reveals-vision-pro-headset/
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Oooh!ย The ยซBunny X albumยปยน dropped today!
[1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-minus-80/1683527512
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ยซhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48XXWvwMzEยปยน
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"AI", 2023's version of the crypto grift. ย At least it seems to use slightly less energy to separate idiots from their capital.> These guys are pumping their upcoming dump, and all the biggest disaster-stories are part of the scam: "AI will become sentient" and "AI will do your job as well as you" are both statements whose primary purpose is to increase the value of the stock in companies making "AI" technology (neither "artificial" nor you get the idea).I mean, sure, our bosses will fire our asses and replace us with shell-scripts, but they don't need *working* AI to do that โ no more than they needed working voice response systems to replace human operators. They just enshittify their products and services, and do it under cover of chasing amazing new technology, and reap the stock gains bequeathed by keyword-drunk investors.ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/20/the-missing-links/#plunderphonics
So Google couldn't get 'Glass' off the ground -- except maybe to end up inspiring the term 'ยซglassholeยปยน' but maybe Apple can do it this time.. by making you look even stupider.I know there are people who will buy this because Apple under Tim Cook is first and foremost a fashion company but I can't help but feel that this is smells a lot like the metaverse and Zuck -- some out of touch billionaire's pet project that wasn't allowed to go to a farm upstate.
[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/14/glasshole
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If Jack Dorsey isn't enough of a reason to avoid Bluesky the lack of any public facing web interface is enough of a Warning of Things To Come.
It's pretty amazing to see the progression of the Enterprise bridges and I mean, how can you resist John de Lance's narration?ยซhttps://kottke.org/23/05/tour-the-bridges-of-all-of-star-treks-starships-enterpriseยปยน
[1] https://kottke.org/23/05/tour-the-bridges-of-all-of-star-treks-starships-enterprise
Why can't I delete this? ย Is there anyplace in this amateur hour dystopian hellscape ecosystem that I can escape advertising?
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That's what unions get you: a good job that might be hard at times, and the costs of your work are borne by the employer who profits from your labor.ย ยซThe dream is aliveยปยน.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/06/people-are-not-disposable/#union-strong
I would love a behind the scenes podcast for whatever the hell is going on in ยซtoday's Penny Arcadeยปยน because I'm very here for it.
[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/05/05/wheel-saint
[1] https://www.wgacontract2023.org
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Dear the idiots over at Wired, *why on EARTH* did you break right click -> Copy Link? ย Are you monsters? ย Incompetent? ย Incompetent monsters?
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Saw ยซthisยปยน talking about some new alternative to ActivityPub/Mastodon.ย ActivityPub is a mess for sure but I don't think Nostr is any better.ย Dries tries to argue that it is, but I disagree.> Migrating to a different Mastodon server can be challenging, as your username is tied to the domain name of the current Mastodon server. However, this is not a problem in Nostr, as users are identified using a unique public key rather than a domain name.*Every* other attempt at this has proven that *no-one *wants to manage public keys much less be known as some random hex string so the *only* option is going to be being identified by some name and unless you have a single source of truth controlling name to key assignments you will *HAVE* to have some sort of domain scope which means that outside of technical pedantry there is no difference.ย > *Nostr has Zaps, which is potentially game-changing* โ ActivityPub lacks an equivalent of Zaps, which could make it harder to address funding issues and combat spam. More on that in the next section.> A Zap is essentially a micropayment made using Bitcoin's Lightning network. Although Nostr itself does not use blockchain technology, it enables each message or event to contain a "Zap request" or "Zap invoice" (receipt). In other words, Nostr has optional blockchain integration for micropayment support.Ah, optional *scumbag web* integration, because the user experience is going to be made so much better by hanging a failed money laundering scheme on the side.
[1] https://dri.es/nostr-love-at-first-sight
I am *entirely* *uninterested* in "podcasts" that are not delivered via RSS feeds.I have ยซwritten softwareยปยนย to this end.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/code.html#youtube-podcast
โ In-Reply-To: 04/26/2023 @18:24
Brain damage like this is why I wanted to be logged out of Books.app, I do not want suggestions^W advertising in an app I paid for, in a view of the things I paid for.ย Everyone at Apple is just bad at their jobs these days.ย
โ In-Reply-To: 04/26/2023 @18:24
Ah, it's one of those UX dark patterns I keep hearing about.ย Going to Settings -> Sign in makes you sign in to iCloud but going to App Store -> Picture Circle Thing -> Account -> Sign in will allow you to *choose* not to also sign into iCloud.ย Of course it also signs back into Books.app which was what I tried to get out of that caused all this.Books.app is garbage, Music.app is garbage, Podcasts.app is garbage. ย Really the entire Apple ecosystem is just a giant steaming pile of awful but it's better than the literal one alternative so fuck me I guess.
In further ยซenshittificationยปยน of Apple news, signing out of Books.app signed me out of my *whole ass* iPhone and now I can't sign back in without allowing iCloud to hoover all my private data?ย What an absolute clown show this company has turned into.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
I've been a The Adventure Zone fan for ยซlike 5 years nowยปยน.ย Each adventure has been unique and fun and engaging in their own way.ย The latest season "Steeplechase" has felt a little wayward getting started โ it uses a rather novel game system, but man ยซepisode 24ยปยฒ went completely off the rails in the way that most T.A.Z. adventures inevitably go.ย I was laughing out loud the whole way through.Such a great show.(Steeplechase starts ยซhereยปยณ, ยซwhole showยปโด starts ยซhereยปโต)
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/the-adventure-zone-is-amazing.html
[2] https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/the-adventure-zone-steeplechase-episode-24/
[3] https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/setup-the-adventure-zone-steeplechase/
[4] https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/adventure-zone/
[5] https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/ep-1-here-there-be-gerblins-chapter-one/
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โ In-Reply-To: 04/22/2023 @10:25
"everyone has always Hated twitter, even before the day elon dragged a sink into the main office while grinning like a doofus," @dril explained. "nobody respects it, it is almost certainly responsible for a sharp increase in overall human misery, and if my brand must suffer so that this entire Shit hole will perish, that is fine to me."ยซhttps://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-drilยปยน
[1] https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril
Just a quick reminder that the JSON object returned by the https://twitter.com/i/api/graphql/[nonce]/UserByScreenName call includes the following useful fields:*data.user.result.is_blue_verified*, *data.user.result.legacy.verified*, and *None*It also looks like they quietly switched *has_nft_avatar* to *profile_image_shape*.*None*Let's just say I have updated my RSS feed generator... accordingly.
ยซbasedยปยน.
[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/715014904638275584
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I'm not going to lie, watching Rusty try to make iTunes^WMusic.app work in Ventura has both made me fear for the day my 2015 Retina MacBook Pro finally dies and I have to upgrade to something more modern than Catalina *AND *feel seen as fuck in my abusive relationship with Apple products (I'd leave if I could but...).ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty/110218532074987680
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From: ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razorsยปยน> Remember when Apple created an opt *out* button for tracking, more than 94 percent of users clicked it (the people who clicked "yes" to "can Facebook spy on you?" were either Facebook employees, or confused):ยซhttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.htmlยปยฒAd-targeting enables a host of evils, like paid political disinformation. It also leads to more expensive, lower-quality goods. "A Raw Deal For Consumers," Sumit Sharma's new *Consumer Reports* paper, catalogs the many other costs imposed on Americans due to the lack of tech regulation:ยซhttps://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A-Raw-Deal-for-US-Consumers_March-2023.pdfยปยณSharma describes the benefits that Europeans will shortly enjoy thanks to the EU's Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, from lower prices to more privacy to more choice, from cloud gaming on mobile devices to competing app stores.[...]> Passing a federal privacy law would end surveillance advertising at the stroke of a pen, shifting the market to context ads that let publishers, not platforms, call the shots. As an added bonus, the law would stop Tiktok from spying on Americans, and also end Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft's spying to boot:ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victoriesยปโด
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors
[4] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories
Hard same.ย I have cameras that are isolated on a firewalled VLAN that can only be accessed from two trusted VLANs or via a mutually authenticated VPN.ย The system ALSO requires authentication handled by an on-network LDAP directory.ย All recordings are stored locally and are automatically purged after a short retention period. ย No video ever leaves my control and yet I have no cameras inside the house (there is one inside a detached garage).ยซ๐งต Tweet from @realsexycyborgยปยนยซApr 7, 2023 at 11:08ยปยฒ> ยซhttps://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1644352128738000897/ยปยณIt's been my conclusion no cameras inside the house unless you use a completely isolated physical system. I use use cloud wireless cameras, but the closest they get to inside is the garage on a mount I can flip-up. Hiding customer data from sysadmins is really really hard.Same. Treat all cameras as globally accessible windows. Don't do anything in front of them you would not want seen on the nightly news. Don't place them in locations where deepfaked video of you doing something you did not would be credible or hard to refute."I don't do anything interesting in my livingroom anyway" With a few hours of actual footage from your livingroom to work with, someone can make credible video of you doing almost anything they want these days. And you get to explain that yes the video is real but you didn'tโฆ
[1] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1644355420885237763
[2] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1644355420885237763
[3] https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1644352128738000897/
However, when Elon Musk was told about the New York Times announcing it would not pay, he not only ordered the removal of its verification mark, but also declared that the newspaper was being "incredible hypocritical" for charging for subscriptions for the newspaper yet not giving Twitter any money."Give me your product for free and pay me to promote it" whines impotent billionaire edgelord...ยซhttps://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-removes-nyts-verified-mark-for-not-paying-him-moneyยปยน
[1] https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-removes-nyts-verified-mark-for-not-paying-him-money
โ In-Reply-To: 04/06/2023 @17:49
ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas/#harlan-crowยปยน
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas/#harlan-crow
From the *never-going-to-own-one-of-these* department:> Two ex-employees said they werenโt bothered by the sharing of images, saying that customers had given their consent or that *people long ago had given up any reasonable expectation of keeping personal data private*. Three others, however, said they were troubled by it.ยซhttps://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/ยปยนI can't tell you how *incandescently* furious this kind of stuff makes me.ย Techbro culture is frustratingly sheltered, full of privilege, and thoroughly toxic.
โ In-Reply-To: 04/06/2023 @12:51
It just goes to show how unconscionable it is to have a group of lifetime *appointees, *confirmed by legislators, who were elected from gerrymandered districts that don't even represent a plurality of their own constituents much less a significant fraction of Americans act as a check on both legislative *and* executive power in this country.While we can take comfort in the fact that history will judge these people harshly, that doesn't assuage the actual suffering they have wrought today. ย We need reform now.
ยซhttps://twitter.com/aoc/status/1643974216696442880ยปยนThis is beyond party or partisanship. This degree of corruption is shocking - almost cartoonish. Thomas must be impeached. Barring some dramatic change, this is what the Roberts court will be known for: rank corruption, erosion of democracy, and the stripping of human rights.> ยซTweet from @eisingerjยปยฒNEW BLOCKBUSTER: Private jet travel. Superyacht Island-hopping. Stays at a private resort. For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from a billionaire. Appears he broke the law.ยซ@js_kaplanยปยณ & ยซ@JustinElliottยปโด: ยซhttps://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crowยปโต
[1] https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1643974216696442880
[2] https://twitter.com/eisingerj/status/1643917645157216257/
[3] https://twitter.com/js_kaplan
[4] https://twitter.com/JustinElliott
[5] https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
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It's easy to improve efficiency if you don't care about how a system fails. I can improve the fuel-efficiency of every airplane in the sky right now: just have them drop their landing gear. It'll work brilliantly, but you don't want to be around when it starts to fail, brother....> If you do economics without doing politics, you're just imagining a perfectly spherical cow on a frictionless plane โ it's a cute way to model things, but it's got limited real-world applicability. Yes, politics are squishy and hard to model, but that doesn't mean you can just incinerate them and do math on the dubious quantitative residue[.]ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/imagine-a-horse/#perfectly-spherical-cows-of-uniform-density-on-a-frictionless-planeยปยน
Whether you're burying a loved one, getting dialysis, getting your cat fixed or having your dog's nails trimmed, you are already likely to be patronizing a business that has been captured by private equity, where the service is worse, the prices are higher and the workers earn less for harder jobs. Everyone has a stake in financial regulation. We are *all* in this fight, except for the eminently guillotineable PE barons, and you know, *fuck those guys*.ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizesยปยนWe really need to start unwinding deregulation and dialing up enforcement of our anti-trust laws.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes
So, Google Glass, and Microsoft HoloLens were miserable failures but Apple's going to get it right? ๐
Sometimes the old ways still work really well. ย Cable lacing sorta per AC-21-99 wrangling my scanners.
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ยซViolet Blueยปยน of the most excellent ยซCybersecurityยปยฒ and ยซPandemicยปยณ roundups has an article on how ยซHollywood Pretends There Is No Pandemicยปโด and it's another example on how protections from this deadly, disabling, ongoing pandemic have been available from the beginning for the privileged few while the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves.
[1] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/
[2] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts?filters[tag]=Cybersecurity%20Roundups
[3] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts?filters[tag]=Pandemic%20Roundups
[4] https://www.pestemag.com/featured-posts/hollywoodpretendsnopandemic-5phhj
Sometimes I think the kids are alright.ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjiyounkim/video/7216072524734401798
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A strong, enforced, national privacy law will do absolute wonders for our society as a whole.ย Yes, it will probably traumatize most of the largest technology companies in the US but frankly, they deserve it.ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/ยปยน
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/
I've been meaning to write a post about my thoughts of the need for more simplicity in our IT systems, largely based on why I've been slowly leaving behind containerized, cloud like systems and returning to more traditional ones but the folks over at the ยซ37signals blogยปยน are beating me to it at a much larger scale.ย
[1] https://dev.37signals.com/bringing-our-apps-back-home/
I'm low-key tempted to see if I can generate OpenGraph images for blog posts using Stable Diffusion... ย It didn't take long for it to figure out my aesthetic.
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We need a Congress that isn't absolutely useless.
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Unchecked greed destroys everything...
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If your software randomly interrupts me to ask for my feedback, which I'm assured is taken very seriously, know that I now hate your software.
โ In-Reply-To: 03/26/2023 @22:47
But seriously, Kraftwerk makes me think of Molly floating somewhere deep inside Villa Straylight.
โ In-Reply-To: 03/26/2023 @22:47
I think I have two cyberpunk dystopias in my head, both are narrated by William Gibson, but the early ones (probably Sprawl Trilogy) are soundtracked by Kraftwerk and Vangelis and look an awful lot like Bladerunner.ย The later ones (late Bridge, early Bigend) start to get more punk and industrial, almost like something from the ยซCyberpunk 2077 soundrackยปยน. Not entirely sure what feels have settled in for Jackpot yet... ยซNever Fade Awayยปยฒ into something more... visceral, maybe some ยซFrench punkยปยณ.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG9ahw-5tj8&list=PLDisKgcnAC4SqX0mi1J5_gd7-hrIS5yJp&index=10
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEhrZ2s0lSI&list=PLDisKgcnAC4SqX0mi1J5_gd7-hrIS5yJp&index=47
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izovpaGOxcA&list=PLr1fy-iYjJ9fY9YF2-w2K_e9M69rtMJMq&index=2
This is such a good breakdown of ยซKraftwerkยปยน, the joy he has for the work is infectious.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9spBqoc43yI
If Apple launches an AR headset are we thinking it's going to be the next Newton Message Pad or Lisa?
I feel like if anything can be learned from the plague of the "gig economy" is that there is a market for an app to coordinate badge swiping carpools...
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I am tremendously onboard projects like ยซthisยปยน.
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I got the 2U mount for my Uniden scanners the other day from ยซAlberta Radio Supplyยปยน, I am very happy with it, it cleaned up the rack in my workshop quite nicely.
[1] https://albertaradiosupply.com/
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Huh, I didn't know this.ย Very cool. I do remember using SATAn and I still rely on software from ยซWietseยปยน every day...
[1] http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/
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...ย Tik Tok is very nearly the only piece of software in years I can think of I remember anyone expressing they felt pleasure in using.The enshittification of the web to extract maximal profit continues aplomb.ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110074209352755838
Frankly I didn't think my website was popular enough to be noticed by the scumbag web's host of crypto grifters and their spammers but my INBOX is letting me know that 'Team going-flying.com' has indeed made it.P.S. ย Friends don't let friends buy crypto. ย It's a scam all the way down.
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We could learn a lot from this energy.
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โ In-Reply-To: 03/02/2022 @11:08
So most of my newer designs these days use the ATmega328pb instead of the 328p but my CI container can't build the 328pb code... so I set about to fix it by ยซbuilding and patching the upstream avr-libc distribution myselfยปยน.So far, it seems to work as frustrating as it is to have to work around ยซa bug from 2018ยปยฒ.
[2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?54652
ยซI gotta have that cowbell...ยปยน
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlngu_uwvg8
ยซet tu?ยปยน
I wonder if Forbes knows it is garbage and doesn't care because it's audience is also garbage?
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ยซLearning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologistsยปยน> These bad takes reveal a *profoundly* out-of-touch elite, the spiritual descendants of the French aristos who went to the guillotine with sincerely baffled hearts, unable to imagine why anyone would be this angry at them.I wonder if we are any closer to having a ยซguillotine emojiยปยฒ...
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout
[2] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1650722097.html
ยซ"Multipass (I Have No Fire)" / Fifth Element Remix / OP-1ยปยน ๐ฅ
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH66WDQBIr4
There *have* to be consequences.> Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government.You canโt privatize the profit and socialize the losses.โ Halli (@iamharaldur) ยซMarch 10, 2023ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1634332933707243520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Yes, please!
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I admit I'm a little surprised *how badly* the Bel Air did but not surprised that it did poorly.ยซhttps://kottke.org/16/01/a-small-2009-car-demolishes-a-1959-chevy-in-a-crash-testยปยน
[1] https://kottke.org/16/01/a-small-2009-car-demolishes-a-1959-chevy-in-a-crash-test
As another round of folks flee the Twitmachine please make sure next location has an RSS feed.ย ๐
ยซRetweet of @sarasrabbithole by @GreatDismalยปยนยซMar 5, 2023 at 19:51ยปยฒThe CDC finally says, โEmerging evidence suggests that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially years after infectionโOh, is that why I couldn't taste or smell for a year? /s
[1] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1632544324071362561
[2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1632544324071362561
I remember the first time I read Idoru and being enamored with the Walled City.ย The language used to describe its creation, how the creators "... *turned the killfile inside out, and vanished inside of it*", was hugely evocative.ย Over the years I learned more about the place that inspired it and now I can't help but see it in basically every cyberpunk environ, from Ghost in The Shell, to Blade Runner, to Night City.It has always felt in part a hopeful testament to what people can accomplish and a sad lesson in what people are capable of inflicting on other people.ยซKowloon Walled City, China, c.1989ยปยนvia:ย ยซwilwheaton: [Reblogged from grossnational] Kowloon Walled City, China, ...ยปยฒ
[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City.html
[2] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/710920166095093760/grossnational-kowloon-walled-city-china
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From the *who-would-have-guessed* department:ยซLandlords lying to try to avoid paying taxesยปยน
โ In-Reply-To: 02/25/2023 @13:52
Putting the save games in *%LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame* instead of *%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\FactoryGame* *fucking sucks* though.ย The latter is automatically backed up by Windows File History, the former is *NOT*.Needless to say, I haven't wanted to play much after shotgunning 20 hours of my life because the save game management UI sucks and it turns out the save games aren't automatically backed up by Windows.
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ยซRetweet of @thebirdunion by @jortsthecatยปยนยซMar 2, 2023 at 19:32ยปยฒยซThis!ยปยณ Many of us came to Audubon (and stay here) because we deeply care about the work. Unionizing is a sign that weโre not only dedicated to our important mission but also to each other. The best way forward for the birds and the people who protect them is with a union contract.Want a safe place to work with a healthy work/life balance?ย Then *you* want a union!ยซgraphicยปโด
[1] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1631452448136241153
[2] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1631452448136241153
[3] https://twitter.com/nrdcunion/status/1631424794540351489/
[4] https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/
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While I think that improved natural language processing on the front end of search engines could be a good thing โ insofar as extracting a better understanding of what the user is looking for is the goal, it is really funny to watch the ยซrapidly evolving fad chasingยปยน from the search monopolists.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked
From the *any-sufficiently-advanced-technology* department:ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/ai-is-magic/ยปยนAlso, from a mathematician's perspective:ยซhttps://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ยปยฒ
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/ai-is-magic/
[2] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
Oh great, the ยซCADTยปยน at Docker decided to try to get prettier on their output which completely broke a pile of build scripts that expect some form of sanity in the output of *docker build*.ย I feel like I just bitched about this not all that long ago when they started throwing *advertising* in the output...
[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Just a tiny reminder on this, the 1097th of March, 2020... ยซshit is still not good out thereยปยน.
[1] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue?filters[tag]=Pandemic%20Roundups
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I feel like I have ยซthis feelingยปยน at least once a day...> And confidential to Substack: if I have clicked into a newsletter on the web, blocking my view of the thing Iโm trying to read with a subscription pop-up isnโt going to make me more likely to subscribe. It just means Iโm probably not going to read the newsletter.Of course it isn't like anything made for the web by a company in the last 15 years has actually been any *good*...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell
ยซAlways. Reblog.ยปยน
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Still standing, ยซViolet's Pandemic Roundupยปยน continues to deliver week after week.
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-79089154
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ยซRetoot of Hrefna (DHC) (@hrefna@hachyderm.io) by Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)ยปยนThis idea that somehow search engines _can_ arbitrate "truth" is just soโฆ not how any of this works or could even conceivably work.The reason that search engines "backstop" with wikipedia is because wikipedia is a giant curated and mostly-audience-appropriate collection of knowledge.Knowing what is "true" is so incredibly nontrivial.This with the reminder that in spite of a lot of hard work by a lot of people for a long time there is still an awful lot of utter bullshit espoused by Wikipedia.Now remember that ML algorithms like ChatGPT have been trained with this as a dataset.
[1] https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/109932271552812881
I really need to suck it up and get an ATMEL-ICE. ย Sometimes there is just no substitution for a debugger and writing a test harness to run your microcontroller code on a full blown computer is a little more work than printf.
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In what information people are afraid of, you find their true selves.
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The automation and logistic management systems in Factorio are far deeper and more complex than in Satisfactory but you can't compare the views.
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ยซ"If all the 'entrepreneurs' I worship are just laying traps for the unwary, and if I am sometimes unwary, then I'm cheering on the authors of my future enduring misery."ยปยนYes.
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security
I saw someone on Mastodon bemoaning needing to clean out their home directory because some stuff was super old.ย They provided the following.```
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I am sure the ~146 error elements returned by the Twitter UserTweets GraphQL API endpoint are completely normal and not a symbol of a smoldering fire working its way deep through the Infrastructure over there.ย Based on the response headers it took 995ms to generate nearly 32KB of JSON to load... 40 tweets.```
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/15/2023 @10:22 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The fact that you can't set Apple Watch notifications per contact or per group basically renders it useless. ย I don't want just anyone to be able to interrupt me.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/10/2023 @13:01 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
There is something relaxing about building hardware to blink LEDs.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/07/2023 @15:13 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I don't usually get excited about Kickstarters, but ยซShift Happensยปยน looks rad and I'm backer #733.ยซThe history of keyboards โ from early typewriters to modern mechanical marvels โ told in two beautiful volumes.ยปยฒ
=> https://shifthappens.site [1] https://shifthappens.site
=> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens [2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/07/2023 @13:29 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซOur Digital History Is at Riskยปยน> We need to empower libraries by ensuring that they have the same rights with respect to digital materials that they have in the physical world.Truth.
=> https://blog.archive.org/2023/02/07/our-digital-history-is-at-risk/ [1] https://blog.archive.org/2023/02/07/our-digital-history-is-at-risk/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/07/2023 @10:25 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I mean... yes.ย ๐ฅ it all down and salt the Earth.> ...meaning that facebook intentionally deceived everyone involved specifically to secure more advertising dollars. so yeah, fb is evil andโฆ probably should be stopped.ยซviaยปยน
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/708603658441523200 [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/708603658441523200
### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/06/2023 @21:00 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
An interesting distillation of the current techno-fad.ย I think the best case scenario of things like ChatGPT is likely to be improvements in natural language processing allowing for better connections to be made between what someone wants and a large unstructured dataset.In the mean time...> ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a 'bullshit generator'. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter....hopefully it uses less power than web3.ยซWe come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.ยปยน viaย ยซThe Bullshit Fountainยปยฒ
=> https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html [1] https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/02/the-bullshit-fountain/ [2] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/02/the-bullshit-fountain/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/05/2023 @19:46 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The ยซbreakdownยปยน over at 37signals about their cloud spend and why they are moving out of it is in line with what I see with a lot of customers at $JOB.ย Using the cloud is *never* the cheapest option. It never has been.
=> https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/ [1] https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/04/2023 @23:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Lets talk about how *obnoxious* this shit is. I have subscribed to Apple Music and subsequently cancelled it. I have disabled it via Settings and a custom Profile installed on my phone. In spite of these very clear and deliberate interactions Apple still insists on hawking their mediocre services at me AND insists on Facebook levels of UX fuckery, putting the dismiss tap target above the Start target so it can never, ever, *ever* successfully be activated.Bravo you merry band of garbage people. ย I truly hope to live to see your company melted down for scrap after a John Sculley-esque spiral back into impotence and irrelevance. ย You have forgotten the face of your fathers.
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## January
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/31/2023 @10:04 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm not entirely sure what's going on here but it doesn't say "ยซlets end the public health state of emergencyยปยน"...
=> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/politics/biden-covid-public-health-emergency.html [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/politics/biden-covid-public-health-emergency.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/30/2023 @13:00 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
A ยซtale of spec changes causing broken imagesยปยน is a huge part of why I still limit myself to JPEG, GIF and PNG.
=> https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/nothings-bulletproof/ [1] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/nothings-bulletproof/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/27/2023 @09:12 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Mozilla's website is utter garbage.ย They should be ashamed of themselves.ย Dear Future Me, you are looking for ยซhttps://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/ยปยน
=> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/ [1] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/22/2023 @08:57 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
So my NAS has been a bit slow lately and the culprit seemed to be smbd doing between 600 - 1000 write IOPS all day long.ย Discovered that Time Machine on my laptop was the culprit.ย After screwing around with it a bunch I eventually just deleted the entire backup from disk and restarted.ย It seems *much* happier now.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/19/2023 @14:19 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Love that my iPhone is asking if I trust my computer *every single time* I sync it now. ๐
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/10/2023 @18:37 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThis is perfect.ยปยน
=> https://brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/ [1] https://brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/09/2023 @09:16 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> A system can never truly stabilize. This is why utopias are nonsense: even if you design the most perfect society in which everything works brilliantly, it will still have to cope with war and meteors and pandemics and other factors beyond your control. A system canโt just work well, it has to fail well....> Assuming nothing will go wrong doesnโt make you an optimist, it makes you an asshole. A dangerous asshole. Assuming nothing will go wrong is why they didnโt put enough lifeboats on the Titanic.ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/01/09/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocksยปยน
=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/09/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocks [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/09/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocks
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/06/2023 @13:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Can we *please* stop plugging absolutely everything into the fucking Internet now?ยซhttps://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/ยปยน
=> https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/ [1] https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/03/2023 @20:11 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Twitch's UI is so trash. ย It's like 4 clicks to unfollow someone. ย Why isn't there just a list somewhere with a X button next to the name I can click?
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/02/2023 @09:27 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Shit like ยซthisยปยน is a nice sentiment and I'm all for it for the very privileged few of us that it would work for; however, the fact is that 99.999% of the Internet are people *who do not give a single fuck about building shit for the Internet* and just want to share cat pics and form communities.*We* built this trash fire and invited everyone to come join us, then *we* shit all over their living rooms and ruined their democracies and now it's up to them to build their own little islands to push back against our hubris?No, I think *we* need to do better somehow.
=> https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes [1] https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/01/2023 @22:56 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThis is an amazing synopsis and call to actionยปยน.ย It is really easy to point and say *shits fucked*, so much harder to do something about it.ย We have to do something about it or we *will lose* the republic.
=> https://twitter.com/fuckyouiquit/status/1609722891838578689 [1] https://twitter.com/fuckyouiquit/status/1609722891838578689
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/01/2023 @16:10 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
It's really nice to see what happens when someone if finally put in charge of a company that cares about what the company's actual mission is other than 'extract maximum shareholder value from consumers.'More leaders and less MBAs running companies in 2023, please.ยซhttps://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-andยปยน
=> https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and [1] https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/01/2023 @15:41 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
What the *fuck* is this and why won't it go away?ย Why can't I turn it off?Dear all software developers, no one ever wants *more* notifications. Especially ones with *zero* value.ย Please *stop* this.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/31/2022 @19:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Not only is this some '*be born rich you stupid poor*' bullshit, putting 3% down on a $450,000 mortgage is what we called *predatory lending* in the 2008 housing crisis so maybe don't do that.
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# 2022
## December
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/31/2022 @10:09 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Been a fan of Mike Duncan since The History of Rome. Very excited for what comes next, but if you are interested in narrative history and wonder if Revolutions is for you, his ยซfinal episodeยปยน contains a good synopsis of what you might be in for.10/10, no notes, Libertรฉ, Egalitรฉ, Fraternitรฉ.
=> https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/2022/12/final-episode-adieu-mes-amis.html [1] https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/2022/12/final-episode-adieu-mes-amis.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/30/2022 @14:21 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 12/23/2022 @17:39
All of Regina's jobs done and all the NCPD scanner hustles done. ย I'm really enjoying this V's playstyle. ย Breach Protocol + Contagion on the way in and hip firing a Fenrir makes very short work of most encounters. ย Ping + Short Circuit and a silenced Nue means I can be a little more stealthy if I desire. ย I want to switch to a smart SMG soon though.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/28/2022 @14:50 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This 100% evokes David Bamber as Mr. Collins in my head.Also if you're wondering the 1995 Jennifer Ehle / Colin Firth TV mini-series is the *correct* Pride and Prejudice adaptation.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/23/2022 @17:39 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
First play through of Cyberpunk 2077 I was so anxious to get through Act 1 that I basically did only main jobs all the way until the map opened up. This time I am being a lot more... methodical. ย Certainly changes the tone a bit.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/22/2022 @09:37 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Getting ready for the holiday break is a bit of a struggle, even on 750Mbps symmetric fiber...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/20/2022 @11:00 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Carl Sagan. ย Absolute. Legend. ย Prescient and brilliant.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/20/2022 @09:17 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
As we move into the holiday season and people start gathering it's probably worth mentioning that it would be great if you don't kill your loved ones with one of the plagues currently circulating during this, the third year of a global pandemic. ย Thanks.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/19/2022 @21:45 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซ[Reblogged from mostlysignssomeportents] neil-gaiman: Better failure for social mediaยปยนWorth reading.
=> https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/704121273675087872/better-failure-for-social-media [1] https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/704121273675087872/better-failure-for-social-media
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/19/2022 @19:40 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Man, I have some real feels when one of our robots goes to sleep...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/18/2022 @22:25 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Remind me again why socialism is undesirable? ย Oh yeah, it rejects the ultra-wealthy as they are a cancer on the public good.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/18/2022 @22:21 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I am a bit young for Twilight Zone, however every time I read it in my head it sounds like Rod Serling's voice and cadence.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/18/2022 @20:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This.ยซviaยปยน
=> https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/704004938468048896 [1] https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/704004938468048896
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/18/2022 @19:22 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Can you believe that people tell me I am hard to shop for?
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/15/2022 @12:08 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Tron had such a solid aesthetic...ยซviaยปยน
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/703685875481149440/junkfoodcinemas-tron-1982-dir-steven-lisberger [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/703685875481149440/junkfoodcinemas-tron-1982-dir-steven-lisberger
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/14/2022 @15:12 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThese imagesยปยน are stunning and this work is so important if only because sometimes we need to feel small and alone.ย It also shows us what we can do when we work together, and support each other, not for profit, or nationalism, or personal glory, but for the good of all human kind.*Everything* that has ever been wrought by human hands โ and *everyone* who has ever lived is in this picture.
=> https://kottke.org/22/12/best-photos-nasa-artemis-mission [1] https://kottke.org/22/12/best-photos-nasa-artemis-mission
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/14/2022 @08:48 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I still don't understand the hand-wringing and *urging* instead of actualย *action*.ย Public health is one of the things that we specifically have a government for and all we get is... ยซmilquetoastยปยนย pleading and outrightย ยซgaslightingยปยฒ.tl;dr, it's still a pandemic out there.ย It's getting worse because hope is not a strategy.ย Go read Violet Blue's ยซPandemic Roundupยปยณ and wear a mask.ย Try to stay safe this holiday season.(maps ยซviaยปโด and ยซviaยปโต)
=> https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142099805/indoor-masking-advised-washington-california-new-york [1] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142099805/indoor-masking-advised-washington-california-new-york
=> https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/09/20/1123883468/biden-pandemic-over-complicates-fight [2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/09/20/1123883468/biden-pandemic-over-complicates-fight
=> https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-75658604 [3] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-75658604
=> https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk [4] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk
=> https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm [5] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/12/2022 @20:21 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
It is nice seeing more and more people leave Twitter but I can't help but wonder how long until the one or two big mastodon instances getting most of the refugees fall apart and everyone goes to one of the new walled garden startups.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/12/2022 @18:14 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Remember, even if you're a apartheid profiting space Karen with a social media company the Internet never forgets.ยซviaยปยน, ยซviaยปยฒ.
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/12/you-shut-the-fuck-up-chappelle-said-as-the-crowd-booed-the-billionaire/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/12/you-shut-the-fuck-up-chappelle-said-as-the-crowd-booed-the-billionaire/
=> https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1602397193310437376 [2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1602397193310437376
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/11/2022 @17:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Fascist.ย The word you were looking for, New York Times, was fascist.ย This milquetoast excuse for journalism is indicative of the rot in your reporting that led me toย cancel my subscription. ย He is tweeting wild conspiracy theories and calling for the prosecution of public health officials. ย He has been very clear about where he stands.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/10/2022 @20:27 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซBurn it all down!ยปยนย The entire online advertising data harvesting, Ponzi scheme needs to be killed.๐ฅ
=> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/promising-new-gdpr-ruling-against-targeted-ads [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/promising-new-gdpr-ruling-against-targeted-ads
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/10/2022 @19:28 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 12/06/2022 @14:40
Imaging ยซtreating human beings like human beingsยปยน instead of batteries...
=> https://twitter.com/kirinjaan/status/1601316460223434753 [1] https://twitter.com/kirinjaan/status/1601316460223434753
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/10/2022 @19:21 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 12/05/2022 @22:07
~ NO MESSAGE ~
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/07/2022 @22:19 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I love how it's almost 2023 and trying to persuade systemd to do anything that didn't come pre-configured in your base Linux distribution is somehow still worse than going to the DMV.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/06/2022 @16:39 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
D'awwwww! ย We all deserve a friend with pockets who will stab mean people for us.ยซhttps://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702913910982000640/secondlina-i-think-at-this-point-my-crow-timeยปยน
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702913910982000640/secondlina-i-think-at-this-point-my-crow-time [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702913910982000640/secondlina-i-think-at-this-point-my-crow-time
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/06/2022 @14:40 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Wait wait, you mean a rising tide raises **checks notes** all ships?ยซhttps://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-a-wonderful-life-if-the-minimum-wage-was-raised-alongside-inflationยปยน
=> https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-a-wonderful-life-if-the-minimum-wage-was-raised-alongside-inflation [1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-a-wonderful-life-if-the-minimum-wage-was-raised-alongside-inflation
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/05/2022 @22:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The *only* right and proper response to the government invoking the Railway Labor Act over *checks notes* *one* paid sick day is to strike.Also 100% on team Bashir / Garak.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/04/2022 @19:58 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The fake outrage bot farm has reached ยซDEFCON DICK PICSยปยน....
=> https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/12/a-republic-if-you-can-tweet-it.html [1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/12/a-republic-if-you-can-tweet-it.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/03/2022 @22:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
You know, I think they are right, you do get more conservative as you get older...ย as a young man I was in the Locke camp, believing that a large, wealthy middle class could keep a tyrannical government at bay.ย Now I firmly believe our only option is to stare the tyrannical government dead in the eyes as we eat the rich so they know we are willing to starve them out.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/03/2022 @09:12 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Your semi-regular reminder that the ยซpandemic is not overยปยน and as a bonus it's ยซflu seasonยปยฒ.
=> https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk [1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk
=> https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm [2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/02/2022 @15:10 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This man knows how to work a crowd and present a message.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/02/2022 @14:18 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
You don't always need an oscilloscope when doing microcontroller development but when you do, you really do.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/01/2022 @22:26 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> ยซRetweet of @sarahlazare by @jortsthecatยปยนยซDec 1, 2022 at 18:08ยปยฒThis whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the "essential worker" discourse we've been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.Fail to support labor at your own peril for tomorrow they come for *you*.
=> https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321 [1] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321
=> https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321 [2] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321
## November
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/28/2022 @17:11 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> ยซhttps://prospect.org/economy/at-least-the-tech-winter-will-kill-off-some-zombie-companies/ยปยน via ยซRetweet of @dwallacewells by @GreatDismalยปยฒHuge profits produced an enormous pool of money at the top of society, but precisely because the rich were getting so much, there was nowhere good to invest. Interest rates on government bonds didnโt keep up with inflation and sometimes sold at actual negative rates; ordinary businesses had no prospects for large growth. The economy was like a man who is sick and feeble because a third of his blood and nutrients are being sucked up into an enormous tumor hanging off the side of his head, which for the purposes of this story weโll call โJeff Bezos.โBurn baby, burn.
=> https://prospect.org/economy/at-least-the-tech-winter-will-kill-off-some-zombie-companies/ [1] https://prospect.org/economy/at-least-the-tech-winter-will-kill-off-some-zombie-companies/
=> https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1597290946198392832 [2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1597290946198392832
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/27/2022 @18:53 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the ยซplease-not-againยปยน department:> The thing that makes the Internet useful is interoperability. These companies hate that. The thing that makes the Internet become more useful is the open source notion that there will always be more smart people who don't work for your company than that do, and some of those people will find ways to expand on your work in ways you never anticipated. These companies hate that, too. They'd rather you have nothing than that you have something they don't own.ย Letting VC funded, privately owned corporations own the centers of discussion online has *never* worked out well for humanity.ย Please let's *stop* doing that. ย Twitter isn't the 'global town square', it's the cafeteria on the 37th floor of the Salesforce [dot] com tower that just happens to be open to the public, sorta.
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/27/2022 @16:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
My least favorite part of Christmas... the one wreath with incandescent mini-lights that loves to just shit itself every year...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/27/2022 @11:02 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซ[Reblogged from ispyspookymansion] wilwheaton posted a note.ยปยนยซNov 26, 2022 at 20:53ยปยฒ> ยซispyspookymansionยปยณ:spotify is selling audiobooks nowโฆ..once again tapping the sign:ย dont give them your money when you could be supporting your local library!Stop paying corporations for things that your taxes already paid for.
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080 [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080 [2] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080
=> https://ispyspookymansion.tumblr.com/post/696234663608516608/oh-good-youre-here-now-we-can-watch-our-movie-cmon [3] https://ispyspookymansion.tumblr.com/post/696234663608516608/oh-good-youre-here-now-we-can-watch-our-movie-cmon
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/27/2022 @09:54 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Yes yes, tell me again that Space Karen Apartheid Emerald Mine Impotent Rocket Child is a genius and earned his success.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/24/2022 @10:52 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @10:04
Spent most of this week reading and listening to my iTunes^W Music.app library with the play a random album script.ย It has dug up some absolute *bangers*.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/23/2022 @19:24 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @15:24
And in case you might find yourself wondering why I have all this bullshit turned off (and would prefer it to be uninstalled)... ยซthese days you just have to assume that if you send your data somewhere it's going to get lost, stolen, or soldยปยน.ย Actually, probably all three.ย And probably even if you opted out.
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/apples-device-analytics-can-identify-icloud-users.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/apples-device-analytics-can-identify-icloud-users.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/23/2022 @18:04 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @15:24
So after all of that the connection between the watch and the phone didn't seem to actually function so I had to wait a half hour while the watch reset itself to try again. ย Now it seems I can't remove these stupid Health and Fitness apps that got force installed on my phone during pairing. What absolute mouth breather thought this was ok? ย I am not going to let you track medical data about me! ย That is just insane!
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/23/2022 @15:24 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
So far the Apple Watch setup process feels like an unpolished dumpster fire. Two *hours* to update to the latest OS version, handful of questions, then another *hour* and it is only about 1/2 way done "synchronizing," which is just as completely inscrutable a process as the upgrade was. ย I can't believe this was deemed an acceptable user experience.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/23/2022 @10:04 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/21/2022 @11:22
ยซDoug's AppleScriptsยปยน are invaluable for dealing with iTunes^W Music's complete lack of being able to work properly.ย ยซPlay Random Albumยปยฒ is particularly useful for the rare times Music does work.
=> https://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php [1] https://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php
=> https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxrandomalbumplayer [2] https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxrandomalbumplayer
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/21/2022 @11:28 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/20/2022 @17:10
Oh, and this one has no web interface, and a beta of an Android app.ย So it's essentially a VC funded, iOS only walled garden.ย I'm sure *that* will work out.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/21/2022 @11:22 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I love how every few months or so I have to spend several hours fixing shit inside Music.app.ย Moved files, duplicate albums, things suddenly split between *Music/artist/album* and *Music/Compliations/album* with no indication as to why.ย It's nice to see the iTunes^W Music team still brings the A-game Every. Single. Day. </s>Latest monstrosity was the 2010 Jay-Z greatest hits album suddenly being split between "Compilations", "Jay-Z" and "JAY Z"...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/20/2022 @19:53 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm not gonna lie.ย ยซThis slapsยปยน.
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOtAvB2SbI [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOtAvB2SbI
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/20/2022 @17:10 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
So there's some new kid popping up in the various death burbles of the birdsite.ย I'm sure another VC funded, corporate walled garden will be so much better than it was the last hundred times we tried it.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/20/2022 @08:45 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> ยซwilwheaton posted a quote.ยปยนยซNov 20, 2022 at 04:04ยปยฒThat what Mr. Musk has called the global town square can be eviscerated in a time period somewhere between a Scaramucci and a Truss makes one wonder if we should be more skeptical of all the other billionaire geniuses with ideas for our schools, public health systems and politics.I'm on team *"Every billionaire is a policy failure."*I'm also on team *"shame on us for building a town square on private property as if this wasn't always going to be the ultimate conclusion."*
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/701429232925065216/that-what-mr-musk-has-called-the-global-town [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/701429232925065216/that-what-mr-musk-has-called-the-global-town
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/701429232925065216/that-what-mr-musk-has-called-the-global-town [2] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/701429232925065216/that-what-mr-musk-has-called-the-global-town
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/19/2022 @22:19 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
So if blockchain technology isn't good for... *checks notes* ยซtransfer and settlementยปยน of financial instruments, one might seriously start to wonder if it is good for *anything at all*.That is if they didn't already know that it *isn't*.
=> https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/australian-securities-exchange-scraps-its-250-million-seven-year-long-blockchain-project [1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/australian-securities-exchange-scraps-its-250-million-seven-year-long-blockchain-project
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/17/2022 @19:22 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Reminder, COVID is not over.ยซhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74765751ยปยน(CDC map showing data from Thu Nov 03 2022 - Wed Nov 09 2022)
=> https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74765751 [1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74765751
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/17/2022 @13:00 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @18:57
I feel like this feeling has been burning in my soul for 20 years and just hasn't been presented quite so succinctly until now.How often is *disruption* just handwaving over law breaking?
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/17/2022 @12:58 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @18:57
Looks like they put this ability into ยซEyes on the Solar Systemยปยน which seems like a much better place for it.ยซhttps://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1ยปยฒยซviaยปยณ
=> https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1 [1] https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1
=> https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1 [2] https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1
=> https://twitter.com/NASASolarSystem/status/1592976122865946624 [3] https://twitter.com/NASASolarSystem/status/1592976122865946624
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/17/2022 @12:18 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I love this.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/16/2022 @18:57 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I don't know why this isn't linked on the NASA.gov homepage, or the NASA Artemis I mission page but you can track the mission telemetry here ยซhttps://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/ยปยนยซviaยปยฒ
=> https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/ [1] https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/
=> https://twitter.com/CanberraDSN [2] https://twitter.com/CanberraDSN
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/16/2022 @17:35 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
If unions and regulations end up being the legacy of Apartheid Emerald Space Karen's *Insane Machinations* then he really is playing 4 dimensional space chess!Workers Unite!
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/16/2022 @11:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @11:01
> ยซTweet from @nasaยปยนยซNov 16, 2022 at 01:50ยปยฒWe are going. For the first time, the ยซ@NASA_SLSยปยณ rocket and ยซ@NASA_Orionยปโด fly together. ยซ#Artemisยปโต I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.
=> https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528 [1] https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528
=> https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528 [2] https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528
=> https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS [3] https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS
=> https://twitter.com/NASA_Orion [4] https://twitter.com/NASA_Orion
=> https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis [5] https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis
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Straight up chills watching this.> ยซRetweet of @NASA by @nasaartemisยปยนยซNov 16, 2022 at 01:42ยปยฒ"And ยซ#Artemisยปยณ Generation, this is for you." Artemis I has a GO for launch to the Moon. T-0 time for liftoff is now set for 1:47am ET (0647 UTC).ย
=> https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768 [1] https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768
=> https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768 [2] https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768
=> https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis [3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/16/2022 @10:57 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
What is that I spy?ย Journalism?ย Finally?> ยซTweet from @NPRยปยนBREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. ยซhttps://n.pr/3THqnJMยปยฒ
=> https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1592701068995084290/ [1] https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1592701068995084290/
=> https://n.pr/3THqnJM [2] https://n.pr/3THqnJM
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/15/2022 @10:39 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I think ยซMolly Whiteยปยน managed to skirt ยซBetteridge's Lawยปยฒ here...
=> https://blog.mollywhite.net/is-web3-bullshit/ [1] https://blog.mollywhite.net/is-web3-bullshit/
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
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โ In-Reply-To: 11/13/2022 @17:58
I wonder if anyone has accused jwz of being an ยซoptimistยปยน.In the end it's all our own fault for letting a company privatize 'the public square.'
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-and-federation/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-and-federation/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/13/2022 @17:58 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I departed social media in 2015 because I couldn't stand it, happy to haphazardly toss things into the world from this corner of the Internet that I control.ย There have been a lot of takes on the whole Twitter fiasco and ยซthis oneยปยน is one I like a rather lot.
=> https://inessential.com/2022/11/13/after_twitter [1] https://inessential.com/2022/11/13/after_twitter
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/13/2022 @14:29 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Added the ability to consume Fediverse posts (well, from Mastodon instances) to my RSS feed transmogrifier. ย If people do flee en-masse from the Twitter tire fire I'll be able to continue to follow them anonymously.
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Fall cleanup basically done. A pile about 150' long this year. Not too bad.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/09/2022 @14:53 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> ยซRetweet of @oneunderscore__ by @BritishPodcastยปยนยซNov 9, 2022 at 11:04ยปยฒBefore the next election, you might want to find a better way to poll anyone under the age of 30 since they would rather pick up a pinless grenade than a call from an unknown number.I'm 41 and I have my phone set to *not even ring* if the number isn't in my contacts.ย Don't act like this is some kind of zoomer phenomenon.
=> https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225 [1] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225
=> https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225 [2] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/08/2022 @13:46 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> ยซRetweet of @RealSexyCyborg by @realsexycyborgยปยนยซNov 7, 2022 at 19:01ยปยฒIf nothing else Mastodon is introducing people into the whole Open Source tradition of trying to be enthusiastic about something really bad that doesn't work at all because you don't want to be rude to the maintainers and the thing you really want to use doesn't work anymore.๐
=> https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400 [1] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400
=> https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400 [2] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/08/2022 @13:44 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 11/08/2022 @13:37
FWIW, I've been a Howard Stern fan for 24 years and I totally agree with him here. โ๏ธ
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/08/2022 @13:37 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซRetweet of @HNTurtledove by @GreatDismalยปยนยซNov 7, 2022 at 17:19ยปยฒTFW I completely agree with Howard Stern.> ยซTweet from @thehillยปยณHoward Stern: Preserving democracy is "the only fโing issue on the table" in midterms ยซhttps://trib.al/1avQY0Vยปโด
=> https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833 [1] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833
=> https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833 [2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833
=> https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1589669279686950914/ [3] https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1589669279686950914/
=> https://trib.al/1avQY0V [4] https://trib.al/1avQY0V
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/08/2022 @11:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Re: ยซhttps://twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1589647332869824513ยปยนI am going to miss Twitter once Apartheid Space Karen is finished smothering it...
=> https://twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1589647332869824513 [1] https://twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1589647332869824513
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/05/2022 @10:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Go back Violet Blue's Memoir ยซA Fish Has No Word For Waterยปยน and then go join her ยซPatreonยปยฒ to support her weekly, free Pandemic Roundup and Cybersecurity Roundup!ย It's tremendous value for money!
=> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/a-fish-has-no-word-for-water [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/a-fish-has-no-word-for-water
=> https://www.patreon.com/join/violetblue [2] https://www.patreon.com/join/violetblue
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/05/2022 @09:48 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The self-destruction of Twitter reminds us all (and informs those who haven't been on the Internet very long) that nothing is permanent here.ย You need to always be ready to have to pick up your community and move.ย It's wildly common for some corporation to dump toxic waste in your front yard.ย I was on Geocities when it was the 3rd most popular website on the entire Internet, bought by Yahoo for almost $4 billion dollars (a King's ransom in 1999!) and then driven into the ground and simply shuttered with a small sign on the door 10 years later.If you don't own it, assume it will be melted down for parts or completely ruined at any moment. ย
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/03/2022 @09:54 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Looks like cranking logging up during a heavy development phase on Azure Functions can get stupid chatty.ย (Upped my bill this month from 9 cents to 17 dollars!)
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Looks like cranking logging up during a heavy development phase on Azure Functions can get stupid chatty.ย (Upped my bill this month from 9 cents to 17 dollars!)
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/01/2022 @14:30 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 08/16/2022 @13:14
I really should have read the manual, eh?ย Turns out you can lock the light effect with a ยซkey combinationยปยน!
=> https://www.keychron.com/blogs/news/k8-key-combinations [1] https://www.keychron.com/blogs/news/k8-key-combinations
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/01/2022 @09:49 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 10/28/2022 @20:59
In between other things I wrote a Python script to take an audio collection on ยซDiscmasterยปยน and pump it into a player so I don't have to click play on each track in the list manually.It makes for some interesting listening.
=> http://discmaster.textfiles.com [1] http://discmaster.textfiles.com
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## October
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/29/2022 @21:34 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @21:54
Yeah, every time I try to change the wallpapers on iOS 16, I want to buy a flip phone. ย Good job guys.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/28/2022 @20:59 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 10/18/2022 @10:09
I'm am astounded at how well this thing works.ย Playing and inspecting ยซProTracker MODsยปยน buried in a ZIP file inside a ZIP file, or rendering out ยซANSI artยปยฒ from a ZIP in an ISO.This is a window into the computing of my youth.
=> http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7501/cleanhpvac.zip/cleanhpvac/ACID2.ZIP/ACID2.MOD [1] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7501/cleanhpvac.zip/cleanhpvac/ACID2.ZIP/ACID2.MOD
=> http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7814/darkdomain.iso/artpacks/1990/acidnews.zip/ELM.ANS [2] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7814/darkdomain.iso/artpacks/1990/acidnews.zip/ELM.ANS
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/28/2022 @14:11 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Hah, sorry random cloud server, but I don't believe you..."Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr"
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/28/2022 @09:58 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Nice of Apple to publish a ยซSecurity Research Blogยปยน, but would an RSS feed have killed them? ย They expect me to what, check back periodically for updates? ย Like some sort of cave person?
=> https://security.apple.com/blog/ [1] https://security.apple.com/blog/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/27/2022 @15:40 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 08/16/2022 @13:14
After a couple months with the Keychron K8 I have to say that I'm pretty happy.ย It's a little nicer to type on than the Anker KM-G14, I think the engagement click is a little more decisive.ย I use it wired and I do sort of wish the USB-C port was on the back rather than the side.ย Also the light function key is really easy to bump when moving the keyboard around and it takes a little while to get back to the setting I wanted.ย I'm not fond of the animated light shows, I much rather a single static color.All told, minor complaints. ย Good keyboard. ย Well worth it.ย
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/27/2022 @14:36 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThisยปยน kind of touchy-feely, low content density, user experience design is exactly why I don't use Slack, and why I gateway Discord into an IRC client.ย I don't need software giving me ass pats for using it.ย Do the thing that I need you to do and get out of my way so I can move on with my day.Software developers stopped realizing the goal of getting shit done once they started getting paid by advertisers and the entire world is worse off for it.
=> https://mashable.com/article/slack-glitch [1] https://mashable.com/article/slack-glitch
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/26/2022 @18:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
If ยซthisยปยน isn't your jam at some level... man I don't even know.ยซ10 days remainยปยฒ
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViErk7sbA4k [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViErk7sbA4k
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/10/jwz-mixtapes-15th-anniversary/ [2] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/10/jwz-mixtapes-15th-anniversary/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/24/2022 @23:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Reddit is just about the worst site on the Internet. ย They make it that way on purpose and they should be ashamed of themselves. ย I close more pages unread than I end up reading.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/21/2022 @05:22 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Finally, a summary of some of the subconscious weight I have felt around tech over the past 20 years...ยซhttps://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/698650752589185024/it-was-all-downhill-after-the-cuecatยปยนI had a CueCat...
=> https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/698650752589185024/it-was-all-downhill-after-the-cuecat [1] https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/698650752589185024/it-was-all-downhill-after-the-cuecat
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/18/2022 @13:55 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 10/18/2022 @10:09
Wait wait, holy shit.ย ยซTheyยปยน render MOD files to mp3 so you can play them?ย *mind blown*
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1666102169.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1666102169.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/18/2022 @10:09 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> ยซ๐งต Tweet from @textfilesยปยนยซOct 17, 2022 at 20:42ยปยฒIf you give the slightest whit of a care about 1980s-2000s computer and software history, your mind is about to be very blown. Some people worked very hard on this, and anonymous credit to them. So, set aside your week, this is going to be change everything for you.Think I'm hyping up? I'm going to do even worse. I'm not going to do anything but give you the URL. ยซhttp://discmaster.textfiles.comยปยณ Happy Exploring.Can confirm this works in Netscape Navigator 4.79!
=> https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512 [1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512
=> https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512 [2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512
=> http://discmaster.textfiles.com/ [3] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/17/2022 @08:49 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This.ย I've lost so much respect for people around me because it's all YOLO, let it rip.ย My county has been in the red (High) or orange (Substantial) community transmission level basically continually this year and less and less people seem to take even basic precautions every day.ย I still have e-mails from work from early 2021 where 80 cases / 100,000 people shut down offices, restricted travel, and triggered immediate work from home.ย This week's lucky number is 112.7 and no one even noticed.> ยซRetweet of @katimcf by @jwzยปยนยซOct 17, 2022 at 01:33ยปยฒitโs so weird because seeing people post from bars or concerts unmasked here feels like a betrayal every time, but this weekend iโve been seeing ppl posting pics from the BTS concert in Busan where EVERYONE is masked and i remember it doesnโt have to be like this.Go read ยซViolet Blue's Pandemic Roundupยปยณ, winter is coming.
=> https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128 [1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128
=> https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128 [2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128
=> https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts [3] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/15/2022 @19:44 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
If you are trying to get PGP/MIME encoded news articles to work in slrn using ยซthis blog postยปยน, you will likely want to know that the pgp-verify script referred to (which was available at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2004-06/pl00000.pl but no longer works) is still available over on mhonarc at ยซhttps://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2004-06/plBpTGRJjQTR.plยปยฒ.
=> https://info.comodo.priv.at/oldblog/articles/slrn_pgpmime/ [1] https://info.comodo.priv.at/oldblog/articles/slrn_pgpmime/
=> https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2004-06/plBpTGRJjQTR.pl [2] https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2004-06/plBpTGRJjQTR.pl
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/14/2022 @14:23 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Bivalent COVID-19 booster, and quadvalent influenza boosters received. Absentee ballot submitted! ย October has been off to a productive start!
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/14/2022 @10:18 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซDigital license platesยปยน seems like a solution for the problem of 'how do we make something that works well and doesn't cost a lot of money complex, fault prone, and expensive so as to create shareholder value'.
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/digital-license-plates.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/digital-license-plates.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/13/2022 @16:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I bore of the gritty, dark, unwatchable present.ย Let us bring the dramatically lit past into the future!ยซRetweet of @ScarlettHairdye by @jwzยปยนI don't want gritty realistic lighting in movies and TV, I want night scenes lit in blue so I can actually see what's going on and absolutely nonsensical lighting choices that add drama and emotional weight to the scene (while allowing me to actually see what's going on)> ยซTweet from @ScarlettHairdyeยปยฒI'm here to say fuck realistic lighting in visual media, no strive toward realism is ever gonna have the same dramatic punch as Wei Wuxian standing on a roof at night, backlit by a spotlight for NO FUCKING REASON, with a slice of light across his eyes ALSO FOR NO REASONย
=> https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1580616509952360448 [1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1580616509952360448
=> https://twitter.com/ScarlettHairdye/status/1337435227531038720/ [2] https://twitter.com/ScarlettHairdye/status/1337435227531038720/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/13/2022 @13:23 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
A friendly reminder that the pandemic ยซis not overยปยน just because you are tired of it.
=> https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-73246405 [1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-73246405
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/13/2022 @10:56 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Automatically looping videos on websites need to stop being a thing. ย I'd like to yeet every engineer who has ever made that shit possible.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/04/2022 @17:52 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Oh please tell me The Onion actually filed ยซthis briefยปยน.ย It is SO GOOD. ย Go read it!
=> https://www.loweringthebar.net/2022/10/best-brief-ever-written-the-onion.html [1] https://www.loweringthebar.net/2022/10/best-brief-ever-written-the-onion.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 10/01/2022 @10:02 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Between The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett I think Boba Fett is a more interesting show.ย It doesn't help that Grogu is wholly unlikable.
## September
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/29/2022 @18:44 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
You won't be surprised that I'm not sold on cloud gaming being a Good Idea, but it seems like after lighting a few dumpsters full of money on fire Google has ยซdecided to kill Stadiaยปยน.ย To be fair they outperformed the ยซStadia death clockยปยฒ by something like 414 days.
=> https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/ [1] https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/
=> http://stadiacountdown.com [2] http://stadiacountdown.com
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/27/2022 @15:10 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm not usually thrilled with plucky sidekick characters in sequels but Kaoru Sayama in Yakuza: Kiwami 2 is actually an interesting counterpoise to Kazuma Kiryu.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/26/2022 @17:39 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
4x Pfizered...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/24/2022 @10:41 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I love this neยซw Apple that adds useless features that add frictionยปยน to a workflow and provide no way to disable them.
=> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254196776 [1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254196776
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/23/2022 @09:28 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
A ยซgood overviewยปยน of what the fifth circuit did to get lawyer twitter all spicy this week.
=> https://www.lawfareblog.com/fifth-circuits-social-media-decision-dangerous-example-first-amendment-absolutism [1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/fifth-circuits-social-media-decision-dangerous-example-first-amendment-absolutism
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/22/2022 @21:21 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
In spite of Substack being a bunch of spammy jerkoffs, ยซSerious Troubleยปยน and ยซSteadyยปยฒ are well worth the trade off of having to write a couple filter rules (they do insert List-Id: headers on the stuff you care about so that's good) to bin the rest of the garbage that happens when you slide your e-mail address into that sweet subscribe box.
=> https://www.serioustrouble.show [1] https://www.serioustrouble.show
=> https://steady.substack.com [2] https://steady.substack.com
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/20/2022 @21:28 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I think I'm starting to find the combat style and aesthetic of Nomad V. ย Now to see if I can find or craft a cotton candy pink tech SMG.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/20/2022 @08:31 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThisยปยน is a good reason to always have notification previews turned off while the device is locked.
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/09/credit-card-fraud-that-bypasses-2fa.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/09/credit-card-fraud-that-bypasses-2fa.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/19/2022 @11:59 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
You know, with the ยซEdgerunners DLCยปยน out I think I'll give Cyberpunk 2077 another playthrough.ย First time corpo, now nomad.
=> https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/45280/edgerunners-update-patch-1-6-list-of-changes [1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/45280/edgerunners-update-patch-1-6-list-of-changes
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/16/2022 @19:09 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 09/16/2022 @19:03
Oh, I was ยซwrongยปยน... it is even worse. ย The customization process is even more complex and it saves each one as a new profile thing on the lock screen, which also unintuitively changes the home screen. ย Who wanted this? ย What the hell.
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1663369423.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1663369423.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/16/2022 @19:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @22:51
Somehow Apple launched new lock screen customizations and made the whole thing worse? ย You used to be able to select a picture and set it to either the home screen or the lock screen and now that seems impossible. ย What a weird decision.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/12/2022 @22:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @21:54
This is allowed while locked by default in iOS 16... who thought that was not going to be abused?*Narrator voice: It already has been abused.*
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/12/2022 @21:54 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Not sure how much I should expect my skirt being blown up when the lede is "new lock screen with widgets."I guess we will see.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/09/2022 @16:37 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Dear Tim Cook. Fuck you and your proprietary iMessage horseshit you out of touch maniac.Love,Matt(ยซreยปยน)
=> https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121756012/iphone-android-text-message-green-blue-tim-cook [1] https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121756012/iphone-android-text-message-green-blue-tim-cook
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/08/2022 @08:58 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I honestly can't remember the last time I was excited by an Apple announcement. ย It seems like they just keep adding more AR stuff and emojis to everything and call it innovation while reducing the UI contrast and usability. ย It's unfortunate that the only alternatives are Google on the phone and Microsoft and Linux on the desktop.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/07/2022 @17:57 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I am frankly mortified that this is coming from the governor of my state.> itโs impossible to overstate the permanent public health damage of a sign that shows someone wearing a mask incorrectly with the label โyou do youโ. teaches a lasting misunderstanding of the purpose and function of masks for this and every future pandemic. ยซhttps://twitter.com/govkathyhochul/status/1567537998383779857ยปยนโ jess (@jessfromonline)ย ยซSeptember 7, 2022ยปยฒ
=> https://twitter.com/govkathyhochul/status/1567537998383779857 [1] https://twitter.com/govkathyhochul/status/1567537998383779857
=> https://twitter.com/jessfromonline/status/1567579860649873411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/jessfromonline/status/1567579860649873411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/06/2022 @17:35 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I get it now, I had friends whining about how they get too much e-mail and I kept chiding them for not using filters and folders and organizing their inbox like a reasonable person.ย Turns out Gmail is so bad it doesn't actually let you do that... like at all.ย It just makes 'labels' which are little more than tags.ย You can't sort your inbox at all.ย What a pile of *crap*.ย We had better e-mail software in the *late 1980s*.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/03/2022 @23:10 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I have one wifi client that continually has lowish "WiFi Experience" scores, but in their infinite wisdom Ubiquiti provides no ย explaination of what this measurement means rendering it useless and unhelpful.ย Just another reason the UniFi stuff continues to slide farther and farther away from *fit for purpose*ย in my eyes.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 09/03/2022 @00:50 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Huh.ย Whoda thought ยซYakuzaยปยน would call me out so perfectly.
=> https://yakuza.sega.com/kiwami/ [1] https://yakuza.sega.com/kiwami/
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## August
### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/31/2022 @17:30 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Worth remembering.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/30/2022 @21:09 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Given how we can barely keep a 3 year old mobile phone working I am impressed that we can keep a ยซ45 year old computer networkยปยน that is out in interstellar space working via a 160bps link with a nearly 2 day round-trip time.Seems to me like choices were made.ยซhttps://phys.org/news/2022-08-glitch-nasa-voyager.htmlยปยฒ
=> https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ [1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
=> https://phys.org/news/2022-08-glitch-nasa-voyager.html [2] https://phys.org/news/2022-08-glitch-nasa-voyager.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/26/2022 @20:00 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I see this and hear One Winged Angel in my head..
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/25/2022 @13:15 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
You ever watch someone use a computer and just can't even?ย Yeah.ย That's been happening to me a lot lately.ย Ya'll need to stop putting crap all over your desktop.ย Also, you know you can rename files right?ย *Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Spreadsheet(6) Rev 4.xlsx* makes me want to hurt myself.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/17/2022 @18:57 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
One of the un-sung benefits of being a member of ยซBigClive'sยปยน ยซPatreonยปยฒ is getting random behind the scenes looks at ยซreally cool eventsยปยณ that introduce you to ยซnew and interesting musicยปโด.ย It's not all ยซFanny Flambeauxยปโต over there.
=> http://bigclive.com [1] http://bigclive.com
=> https://www.patreon.com/bigclive/ [2] https://www.patreon.com/bigclive/
=> https://www.edintattoo.co.uk [3] https://www.edintattoo.co.uk
=> http://www.thesidh.it [4] http://www.thesidh.it
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDgOGC5Lcc [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDgOGC5Lcc
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/16/2022 @22:53 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
One of the things I love about ยซUSENETยปยน is how easy it is to ยซplonkยปยฒ an entire thread.```
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
[2] https://infogalactic.com/info/Plonk_(Usenet)
Nice to see Substack is about as scummy as you might expect.ย I put in a bogus e-mail address in to see the subscription prices for a podcast hosted there (very scummy to require that I might add) and never continued to the actual *create an account*ย phase.ย Now they are trying to e-mail me.```
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/16/2022 @13:14 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
First impressions of the Keychron K8 are positive.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/12/2022 @22:40 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
We have got to start holding companies that ยซneedlessly collect and then lose control of personal informationยปยน accountable.
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/twitter-exposes-personal-information-for-5-4-million-accounts.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/twitter-exposes-personal-information-for-5-4-million-accounts.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/09/2022 @22:42 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm a little scared that ยซ@BadLegalTakesยปยน' computer blew up trying to cope with the influx of mentions...
=> https://twitter.com/badlegaltakes [1] https://twitter.com/badlegaltakes
### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/06/2022 @14:31 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
So TIL that CloudFlare engineers are sociopaths who ยซexpect a search engine and IP geolocationยปยน to tell them which pizzeria to go to.
=> https://blog.cloudflare.com/geoexit-improving-warp-user-experience-larger-network/ [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/geoexit-improving-warp-user-experience-larger-network/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/05/2022 @19:16 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I mean... imagine calling yourself a software engineer and then thinking, yeahย ยซthis rubegolderbergian shitยปยน is better than ยซcron(8)ยปยฒ ๐.
=> https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-scheduling-system-with-workers-and-durable-objects/ [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-scheduling-system-with-workers-and-durable-objects/
=> https://linux.die.net/man/8/cron [2] https://linux.die.net/man/8/cron
### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/04/2022 @16:22 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the shut-up-and-take-my-money-department:N95 elastomeric respirator with CO2 monitor (DEFCON badge).(by: ยซ@andrewshumateยปยน, via: ยซ@violetblueยปยฒ, ยซjwzยปยณ)
=> https://twitter.com/andrewshumate/status/1550246700220141568 [1] https://twitter.com/andrewshumate/status/1550246700220141568
=> https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1555131111231041536 [2] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1555131111231041536
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/respirator-with-co2-monitor/ [3] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/respirator-with-co2-monitor/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/04/2022 @09:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซYet another reminderยปยน that if you've put your data in the clown^W cloud it will be handed over to law enforcement (or anyone putting in a ยซminimal amount of effort to impersonate someone law enforcementยปยฒ adjacent) without your consent, or knowledge.If you don't want information leaked, don't share it.
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/ring-gives-videos-to-police-without-a-warrant-or-user-consent.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/ring-gives-videos-to-police-without-a-warrant-or-user-consent.html
=> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/hackers-gaining-power-of-subpoena-via-fake-emergency-data-requests/ [2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/hackers-gaining-power-of-subpoena-via-fake-emergency-data-requests/
## July
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/31/2022 @15:30 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
No matter what, the ยซwork has to be doneยปยน.
=> https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/07/democracy-harder.html [1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/07/democracy-harder.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/25/2022 @10:19 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The only way that there hasn't been a house-cleaning at the CDC is tacit approval of the administration of the absolute shit-show they've made of the COVID-19 pandemic.> Reporter: you changed CDC covid transmission maps specifically for telling people when to mask up and that time is right now so why aren't you doing that?CDC Director: that's not my job. ยซhttps://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551311560160722947ยปยนโ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue)ย ยซJuly 25, 2022ยปยฒLiterally can't think of any other reason these people still have jobs in service of public health.> CDC Director Walensky misquoted CDC guidance before telling the public that covid symptoms are how to know if you're contagious.Fact: The estimates for asymptomatic transmission are 60% (that's 6 of 10 infected people; pre-Omicron). ยซhttps://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551304638195957760ยปยณโ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue)ย ยซJuly 25, 2022ยปโดStay safe out there friends.ย Go read Violet's ยซPandemic Roundupยปโต.
=> https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551311560160722947 [1] https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551311560160722947
=> https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551392745704394752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551392745704394752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
=> https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551304638195957760 [3] https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551304638195957760
=> https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551397147425116160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [4] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551397147425116160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
=> https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-69375517 [5] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-69375517
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/24/2022 @18:55 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 07/23/2022 @21:46
This bit amused me for a little too long...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/23/2022 @21:46 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 07/23/2022 @17:57
Followup-to: ยซhttps://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1658613442.htmlยปยนThe soundtrack is really good.ย I keep getting Nobuo Uematsu / Yasunori Mitsuda vibes which might be the some of the highest praise out of me for VGM.
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1658613442.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1658613442.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/23/2022 @17:57 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm a handful of hours in and ยซStrayยปยน is really good.ย Shows what you can do with *atmosphere *and *design *instead of heavy handed exposition.ย The desire to explore and try things is more intuitive than most tutorials and the cold open is a clear and emotional explanation of your goal.The controls and the platforming are really good and exploration is rewarding with back story tidbits, views and adorable places to take a nap.
=> https://stray.game/ [1] https://stray.game/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/22/2022 @08:48 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I think this one is my favorite Josh Hawley run...ย ยซviaยปยนย Secondary ๐คฃ at the ยซreaction shotยปยฒ.
=> https://twitter.com/The_Mal_Gallery/status/1550289866411634689 [1] https://twitter.com/The_Mal_Gallery/status/1550289866411634689
=> https://twitter.com/dprzygoda/status/1550287028029476866 [2] https://twitter.com/dprzygoda/status/1550287028029476866
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/21/2022 @21:44 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ In-Reply-To: 07/12/2022 @17:16
So yeah, after ยซwhiningยปยน about how bad Grafana's alerting system is and how I was about to rage-write some Icinga checks... Yeah.. I did it.ย I replaced a whole suite of rules with a 262 line Python script.I also went and replaced a bunch of Azure Function Monitor rules and alerts with a few calls to check_http.
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1657660599.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1657660599.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/19/2022 @22:36 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Easily in the top 5 best Babylon 5 episodes.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/19/2022 @20:50 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/19/2022 @17:32 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Read Violet's ยซweekly cyber newsletterยปยน. ย Lots of shitty consumer crap busy narcing on you and those around you to the feds.
=> https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-19-69282593 [1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-19-69282593
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/19/2022 @09:49 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I lusted after the After Dark Screensavers as a kid and now you can play with them ยซright in your browserยปยน!ย I didn't realize how much ยซamazing artworkยปยฒ Tomoya Ikeda did for the early Macintosh.
=> https://archive.org/details/AfterDark_mac [1] https://archive.org/details/AfterDark_mac
=> https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/12/16/tomoya-ikeda-macintosh-artist/ [2] https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/12/16/tomoya-ikeda-macintosh-artist/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/18/2022 @14:44 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Can we please get on with the project of feeding Facebook feet-first into a chipper-shredder?ย ยซThe world would be so much of a better placeยปยน.Though seriously... who the hell is still using Facebook?
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/07/facebook-is-now-encrypting-links-to-prevent-url-stripping.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/07/facebook-is-now-encrypting-links-to-prevent-url-stripping.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/15/2022 @23:24 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Corporate America is so mind-bogglingly out of touch it is embarrassing.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/13/2022 @19:25 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซClimate change makes techno-scam that helps cause climate change unprofitableยปยน, marketing machine goes brrr while line goes sad trombone.
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/07/texas-is-now-too-hot-for-bitcoin-mining/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/07/texas-is-now-too-hot-for-bitcoin-mining/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/12/2022 @17:16 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Alerting in Grafana is so trash that I'm seriously about to write Nagios/Icinga plugins to just watch values from InfluxDB. ย They should just throw the alert system in the trash and let some software fit for purpose do the work.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/12/2022 @10:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
These EBL LiPo 9V batteries seem to have no protection in them so if I don't get to them fast enough I have to recover them before their charger will agree to charge them. ย Not recommended.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/11/2022 @19:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I think it's super great that the demoscene is still alive and strong producing ยซrad stuff like thisยปยน.ยซsourceยปยฒ
=> https://demozoo.org/parties/4444/ [1] https://demozoo.org/parties/4444/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/10/2022 @23:49 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I miss the days when a ยซmonopoly didn't controlยปยน what I could do with my computer... and in such a rank amateur fashion.
=> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/10/2022 @10:36 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I love ยซthisยปยน, though I kinda wish it had a bigger screen and talked to a bluetooth keyboard instead of having a tiny rubber one.
=> http://violence.works [1] http://violence.works
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/08/2022 @20:14 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
One of my favorite features of my RSS transmogrifier is that it prefaces any tweet, quote tweet, or retweet of a user that has `core.user_results.result.has_nft_avatar` set to True with the following HTML:<img src="https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/images/nftbro.png"><br><h1>NFT BRO ALERT</h1><br>If it wasn't so funny I'd just killfile the tweets.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/06/2022 @19:27 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
All I wanted was to re-wire 4 outlets in the front room... ย after a solid day of working I have 2 re-wired and about 1/2 of the rats nest of other things that were sharing that circuit cut out.ย
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/05/2022 @09:59 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Some of the options inside Outlook are downright insane these days. ย I can't believe that they paid people to work on these.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/02/2022 @23:46 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
So based on previous experience with both a ยซrandom eBay batteryยปยน and an ยซiFixit batteryยปยฒ, about a year and 100 cycles is what you can expect before you start getting Service Recommended.Time to order another sketchy eBay battery then!
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1599790606.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1599790606.html
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1622814354.html [2] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1622814354.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/02/2022 @17:14 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Ooh!ย Another ยซBig Panda Tiny Dragonยปยน book for pre-order you say?ย ยซA signed copy is available you sayยปยฒ?ย TAKE MY MONEY *PLEASE*.
=> https://www.jamesnorbury.com [1] https://www.jamesnorbury.com
=> https://linktr.ee/jamesnorbury [2] https://linktr.ee/jamesnorbury
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/01/2022 @15:57 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
If there was ever a reason to dance with jubilation at the crypto world burning other than fraudsters losing their ill-gotten gains I think ยซtaking the foot slightly off the pedal speeding us to an inhospitable planetยปยน would be a good one.
=> https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1542930303232122880 [1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1542930303232122880
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/01/2022 @15:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I feel like not enough people realize the lesson ยซhereยปยน...
=> https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/01/gom-jabbar [1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/01/gom-jabbar
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 07/01/2022 @13:23 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซA Declaration of Independence From The United States Supreme Courtยปยน
=> https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-declaration-of-independence-from-the-united-states-supreme-court [1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-declaration-of-independence-from-the-united-states-supreme-court
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/30/2022 @23:12 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the *sounds-too-much-like-common-sense* department:> โ
No maskย โ
No vaxโ
No con> Should you start going to business conferences again? ยซhttps://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.htmlยปยน via ยซ@computerworldยปยฒ & ยซ@sjvnยปยณ I've made three business trips this year, and I'll be doing more. But, should you? No, you probably shouldn't. ยซ#COVID19ยปโดโ Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (@sjvn) ยซJune 30, 2022ยปโตโ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue) ยซJune 30, 2022ยปโถ
=> https://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.html [1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.html
=> https://twitter.com/Computerworld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/Computerworld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
=> https://twitter.com/sjvn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [3] https://twitter.com/sjvn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
=> https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [4] https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
=> https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1542590425520807937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [5] https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1542590425520807937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
=> https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1542594186058248192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [6] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1542594186058248192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
## June
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/29/2022 @17:29 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThisยปยน.
=> https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/06/when-good-men-do-nothing.html [1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/06/when-good-men-do-nothing.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/28/2022 @11:17 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the *screaming-internally* department:ยซhttps://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761ยปยน
=> https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761 [1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/27/2022 @17:40 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The "Homepage" thing on mobile Firefox is such a garbage fire anti-feature.ย Why did you remove my ability to have my own start page?ย It is almost like the comittee that makes these decisions would rather you not use their browser.ย A pox on your houses.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/25/2022 @09:01 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Real feels.ย ยซViaยปยน
=> https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1540572644126257157 [1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1540572644126257157
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/24/2022 @18:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> From the solutions-without-problems department:> This is my basic argument: blockchain does nothing to solve any existing problem with financial (or other) systems. Those problems are inherently economic and political, and have nothing to do with technology. And, more importantly, technology canโt solve economic and political problems. Which is good, because adding blockchain causes a whole slew of new problems and makes all of these systems much, much worse.Via: ยซOn the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchainยปยน
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/23/2022 @13:58 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From this *you-damn-kids-today* department:> It now occurs to me that some people are assuming that I cannot possibly be running a dedicated server in this day and age instead of some virtual server. Those folks have never tried to run a collection of files like the ones on textfiles.com and deal with the TOS.โ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซJune 23, 2022ยปยนMeet the server that brought *this* website to you.
=> https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1539890900985339905 [1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1539890900985339905
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/22/2022 @17:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I keep abusing this ship and it keeps getting me home.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/20/2022 @22:15 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the *turtles-all-the-way-down* department:I vote we go ahead and give up on the Web.ย We did it wrong.ย We did it so wrong someone thought it was a good idea to hook a ยซheadless browser up to your browser via WASMยปยน.ย So you have a browser running in a VM delivering draw commands to a JIT compile program running in a VM in your local browser because we stopped just delivering hypertext over the hypertext transfer protocol.ย We truly have forgotten the face of our fathers.
=> https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-link-isolation/ [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-link-isolation/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/18/2022 @11:18 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the *are-you-kidding-me* department:> Jun 18 10:34:35 imladris postfix/smtpd[1174295]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from dhcp-thirty.internal.ub3rgeek.net[192.168.196.30]: 550 5.7.1 <smtpclient.apple>: Helo command rejected: Host not found; from=<[REDACTED]> to=<[REDACTED]> proto=ESMTP helo=<smtpclient.apple>I don't know why iOS mail isn't using the FQDN assigned by DHCP to the device (which is what mail on macOS seems to do) but using a FQDN that doesn't resolve and isn't controlled by the user seems amateurish.ย I guess I get to go exempt more stupid behavior from the strict checks in my ยซPostfixยปยน configuration.
=> http://www.postfix.org [1] http://www.postfix.org
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/17/2022 @13:26 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> RSAC followed San Francisco city covid protocols for the event, which do not follow the science and is why we're in a long, bad, endless surge here -- and SFDPH *does not care*.Also, yes I've been reporting on this for 2 weeks. โ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue) ยซJune 17, 2022ยปยน
> RSAC branded a 'super spreader event' as attendees share COVID-19 test results ยซhttps://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/ยปยฒโ The Register (@TheRegister) ยซJune 16, 2022ยปยณ
=> https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1537611031999967232 [1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1537611031999967232
=> https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/ [2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/
=> https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1537555028830994432 [3] https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1537555028830994432
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/17/2022 @10:46 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the completely-on-brand-for-both-parties department:
Notorious, convicted scammer hops on board the NFT grift is super peak NFT.
via: ยซjwzยปยน, ยซweb3isgoinggreatยปยฒ
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/06/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/06/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts/
=> https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts [2] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/15/2022 @22:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the *sometimes-because-physics* department:
I swear I didn't park it that way.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/15/2022 @18:27 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
From the *are-we-sure-Blake-is-sentient* department:
ยซPreach, boysยปยน.
=> https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/06/15/sorcelator [1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/06/15/sorcelator
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/12/2022 @10:12 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The mailman 3 web frontend sucks so much compared to pipermail (the mailman 2 web frontend). Apparently using static files on disk is gauche these days so of course it has to use a database and an ORM and all this other crap. Anyway, I needed to migrate from SQLite to MariaDB and Django's tools kept triggering the Linux OOM killer so I had to find a way to do it at the database layer. SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB produce slightly incompatible dump formats so after trying to fight with translating a 5GB dump file I found ยซsqlite3-to-mysqlยปยน which Just Worked. If you end up needing to coax some performance out of the trash pile that is Hyperkitty, it *Worked For Me*.
=> https://github.com/techouse/sqlite3-to-mysql [1] https://github.com/techouse/sqlite3-to-mysql
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/10/2022 @17:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThis is just one of many examplesยปยน of the *garbage* journalism being published in the New York Times that lead me to cancel my subscription.
I won't even go there to play Wordle.
=> https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534903354274488322.html [1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534903354274488322.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/10/2022 @12:16 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
You know, if you're looking for some rad stickers to not-so-subtly show off your belief that all human beings are deserving of rights, that allowing a highly virulent, rapidly mutating, mass-disabling and still little-understood disease run rampant is an *awful* idea, and that felines are the superior pet, check out ยซViolet Blue's RedBubbleยปยน shop.
=> https://www.redbubble.com/people/viblue/shop?asc=u [1] https://www.redbubble.com/people/viblue/shop?asc=u
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/08/2022 @23:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
CAPCHAs largely don't work but I don't think the answer is to cement a duopoly into infrastructure even further. Hopefully this can be disabled on the device. I'd rather have a CAPCHA (as shit as they are) than have Cloudflare and Apple chat with each other to show me a website.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-and-macs-using-new-standard/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/08/2022 @10:49 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Not going to lie, watching inventory management in Escape From Tarkov tickles a very specific part of my brain.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/07/2022 @23:47 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The progression to the scumbag web suddenly makes sense to me.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/04/2022 @23:32 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I shouldn't be so smug at the repeated failures of The Scumbag Web, after all they are still ruining the planet and people don't deserve to be led to ruin by scammers... but the memes are so... *chefs kiss*
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 06/02/2022 @16:22 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I was dialing in some control mapping for my HOTAS and I discovered that the Avenger Titan is a pretty tough little ship.
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=> tough-titan-30fps.mp4 video/mp4
## May
### โโโโโโโฃโ 05/30/2022 @15:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Set home to Microtech this wipe in ยซStar Citizenยปยน and it's amazing how every city in the game so far has such a distinct feel at night...
=> https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5 [1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 05/16/2022 @18:34 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
As if handling something like 10% of the HTTP/S traffic of the global Internet isn't enough reason to avoid Cloudflare, they've ยซcome up with another reasonยปยน. Buying into the scumbag web is just shoveling more energy to keep the grift alive.
=> https://blog.cloudflare.com/ea-web3-gateways/ [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ea-web3-gateways/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 05/11/2022 @19:45 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
- name: disable microsoft repository
shell: if grep -q '^deb.*microsoft\.com'
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list; then
sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /'
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list;
fi
If you don't use Ansible, this sed(1) command should do what you want.
sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
### โโโโโโโฃโ 03/03/2021 @16:59 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Every few months when I go back to check up on the few ยซUSENETยปยน groups that I still follow I can't help but shake my head at how much usability we threw away poorly porting^W "re-inventing" everything for profit^W the web. Entire generations growing up without proper threading or ยซkillfilesยปยฒ.
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
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=> slrn.png image/png
### โโโโโโโฃโ 03/01/2021 @16:27 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> Double March. The date is now Monday, March 366th, 2020. Sorry, you don't get a new March until you've finished the last one. If you see anyone claiming that today is March 365th, congratulate them on fucking up their leap year math. perl -e 'use... ยซhttps://t.co/Hhp62JW38sยปยนโ jอฬ ฬฆฬชอฬอฬฬพฬอ
wฬงฬงฬณฬชฬอฬอฬพอขอ zฬขฬฬอฬบฬฬฉฬฬฝฬฬอฬฬฬออ (@jwz) ยซMarch 1, 2021ยปยฒ
=> https://t.co/Hhp62JW38s [1] https://t.co/Hhp62JW38s
=> https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1366436622535909379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1366436622535909379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
## February
### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/22/2021 @14:35 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Why have we not shamed Bitcoin into irrelevance yet?
(via ยซjwzยปยน)
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/02/stop-adding-bitcoin-as-a-checkout-option-like-its-not-a-planet-killer/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/02/stop-adding-bitcoin-as-a-checkout-option-like-its-not-a-planet-killer/
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=> stacks-network-plans-to-leverage-btc.jpg image/jpeg
### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/18/2021 @15:59 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Congrats to the ยซ@NASAPersevereยปยน team for their successful touchdown on the surface of Mars.
=> https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere [1] https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/12/2021 @10:24 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซMood.ยปยน(ยซImage Credit)ยปยฒ
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SzRiXTAY [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SzRiXTAY
=> https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/pale-blue-dot-images-turn-25 [2] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/pale-blue-dot-images-turn-25
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/11/2021 @10:21 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซThisยปยน is a pretty good look at some of the glaring trust problems with programming language package repositories. Personally, I don't use npm at all, and for Python I prefer to either stick to the standard library or use packages provided by my distribution. You can never audit all that code, so how can you trust it?
=> https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610 [1] https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/01/2021 @20:02 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
What I find most amazing about ยซBBC Micro Botยปยน is that is emulating a BBC Micro computer, with it's plucky little ยซ6502ยปยฒ processor... in JavaScript. Oh and it's running a dump of the original BASIC ROM in there to turn ยซcodeยปยณ in a a tweeter into video.
=> https://www.bbcmicrobot.com [1] https://www.bbcmicrobot.com
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
=> https://bbcmic.ro/?load=1244318975695208448 [3] https://bbcmic.ro/?load=1244318975695208448
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 02/01/2021 @11:15 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I am equally in a place of 'how is this a thing?!' and 'OF COURSE THIS IS A THING!'.
ยซhttps://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417ยปยน
=> https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417 [1] https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417
## January
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/25/2021 @13:20 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> Hello friends. As I said in the latest episode...Hero of Two Worlds has a cover! ยซpic.twitter.com/XVm9nAQfRgยปยนโ Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) ยซJanuary 25, 2021ยปยฒ
Highly anticipated and now pre-ordered.
=> https://t.co/XVm9nAQfRg [1] https://t.co/XVm9nAQfRg
=> https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1353751555019833349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1353751555019833349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/18/2021 @20:30 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> The Internet was a Mistake. TeenageStepdad: ยซhttps://t.co/9pgOWtgHGzยปยนโ jอฬ ฬฆฬชอฬอฬฬพฬอ
wฬงฬงฬณฬชฬอฬอฬพอขอ zฬขฬฬอฬบฬฬฉฬฬฝฬฬอฬฬฬออ (@jwz) ยซJanuary 18, 2021ยปยฒ
=> https://t.co/9pgOWtgHGz [1] https://t.co/9pgOWtgHGz
=> https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1351273017431773186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1351273017431773186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/14/2021 @14:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I thought I ranted a lot about Apple's poor engineering direction lately... ๐ ยซThis guyยปยน has me beat.
=> https://macperformanceguide.com/autoTopic.html?dglyTP=Apple%20Core%20Rot [1] https://macperformanceguide.com/autoTopic.html?dglyTP=Apple%20Core%20Rot
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/13/2021 @20:11 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> Ironically, staging an insurrectionary riot at the capitol has driven corporate money from politics. Vive la revolution?โ Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) ยซJanuary 13, 2021ยปยน
=> https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1349461360611106816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [1] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1349461360611106816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/13/2021 @15:10 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Ugh. Work laptop updated to Big Sur last night. Whoever did the UI design clearly thinks that iOS is the pinnacle of UX. The modal dialog boxes are a travesty, cranking up the padding on all the UI elements to fit the new border radius on everything is a huge waste of space, all the contrast is completely gone. I'm sure many users won't notice but I can't imagine long time Mac users thinking this is actually an improvement.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/08/2021 @21:16 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm not usually into computer cases marketed towards gamers (my gaming PC is in as small a case as I could fit it in, which is my jam) but the ยซFractal Design Node 804ยปยน has been easy to work on so far and has a minimal number of silly gamer things (really just a window). I think it is silly it only has mounts for only 8 3ยฝ inch hard drives. There is room for at least 12 in there.
=> https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-804/black/ [1] https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-804/black/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/08/2021 @20:47 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Still no APU, but I have all the other bits for ยซna-tardisยปยน So I might as well do a test fit. So far so good!
=> https://www.going-flying.com/network.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/08/2021 @09:38 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Happy ยซMarch 313, 2020ยปยน, the good news is that there will be ยซno leap secondยปยฒ added if we ever make it to June 2021.
=> https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html [1] https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html
=> https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/16_BULLETIN_C16.txt [2] https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/16_BULLETIN_C16.txt
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/07/2021 @19:32 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Clamshell replaced and tested good in an hour 42. Not bad. Could have been faster if I didn't miss the backlight cable and bury the mic cable the first time I put the logic board in. No spare fasteners, which I take as a bad omen.
### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/07/2021 @19:09 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Keys all work! Backlight troubleshooting time...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/07/2021 @18:35 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
When we joke about technology being held together by bubble gum and string, we aren't quite as literal as Apple...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/07/2021 @18:24 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
About half way through reassembly. Signs of life.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/07/2021 @18:18 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I love how easy it is to replace the "e" key on my obsessively engineered Apple product...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/06/2021 @22:00 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Just waiting for somone to restock of the Ryzen 3400G so I can finish the upgrade of ยซtardisยปยน. I refuse to pay the scalpers.
=> https://www.going-flying.com/network.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/03/2021 @02:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Man... I thought I had an infatuation with LEDs... ยซFriday Night Lites - Fly at Nightยปยน
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfq6sFnExY [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfq6sFnExY
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/01/2021 @01:37 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
In spite of being ยซwildly profitableยปยน during the pandemic ยซApple has received almost a billion dollars in welfareยปยฒ?! Yeah. It might be time to resurrect Madame la Guillotine.
=> https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/ [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
=> https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/12/30/which-companies-you-should-shoplift-from/ [2] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/12/30/which-companies-you-should-shoplift-from/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/01/2021 @01:30 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I have been a long time shadow member of ยซalt.fan.jwzยปยน and even though I live a continent away I am a proud supporter of the ยซDNA Lounge Patreonยปยฒ. I think the ยซlatestยปยณ from jwz on the DNA Lounge blog shows how worthy a cause this is, even if you never actually go there.
=> https://www.jwz.org [1] https://www.jwz.org
=> https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge/ [2] https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge/
=> https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/12/31.html [3] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/12/31.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 01/01/2021 @01:08 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The first car that I owned was a 1985 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE with a 13B rotary engine. As such ยซthisยปยน is 100% my jam.
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjxmNPnIOE [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjxmNPnIOE
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# 2020
## December
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/31/2020 @09:44 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This is a really amazing look into the construction of the ยซBioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccineยปยน. It shows that in scientific endeavor almost nothing is done in a vacuum, and that decades of research in seemingly unrelated subjects can come together in a time of need to create miracles.
=> https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/ [1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/19/2020 @20:35 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Wait, the guy who wrote taskman.exe is on ยซYouTubeยปยน telling stories and building things with ยซRGB LEDsยปยฒ? I know what I'm doing for the next several hours.
=> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX0YGp0poUQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX0YGp0poUQ
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/16/2020 @19:29 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I feel like I shouldn't have had to spend an hour searching for this ยซstupid changeยปยน in Docker 20.10. I get that people reasonably think that it's a positive change for security (which people will likely promptly turn off) but either Debian or Docker (or both) dropped the ball because it broke every single one of my deployments and I had to go figure out why by searching. Nothing obvious in systemd's journal, nothing obvious in syslog, just cryptic ass OpenSSL errors. The documentation wasn't updated anywhere obvious, certainly not the daemon's help text (dockerd --help), or the manpage (dockerd(8)), or the ยซcanonical release notesยปยฒ. Setting --tlsverify=false even being a thing was something I had to infer from the PR. I guess 'not being able to use the API' counts as secure at least. ๐
=> https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/41285 [1] https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/41285
=> https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/ [2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/14/2020 @22:37 โ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝโโโโโโโโโโโ
> ยซpic.twitter.com/gtoOm93PeMยปยนโ itsagundam (@GundamIsHere) ยซDecember 14, 2020ยปยฒ
=> https://t.co/gtoOm93PeM [1] https://t.co/gtoOm93PeM
=> https://twitter.com/GundamIsHere/status/1338576194820845575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/GundamIsHere/status/1338576194820845575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/12/2020 @20:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
A new ยซClickspringยปยน post?! Christmas came early!
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/12/2020 @19:29 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm going to need to build a handful of ยซtheseยปยน for all the power banks I have!
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOL3ic8msas [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOL3ic8msas
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/12/2020 @19:26 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I don't care if you like cooking or not, you really must watch Alex's just-completed series on ยซsaucesยปยน. It may re-define what you think about sauce.
=> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWX1T2WSXhPwL110La-GxjYY [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWX1T2WSXhPwL110La-GxjYY
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/09/2020 @16:03 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I mean... no shit? Water is wet and the sky is blue unless your state is on fire...
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 12/09/2020 @15:53 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This is why I never used Chrome and don't ever login to my GMail account... Google continues to prove that its users are its products and I want none of that.
> Two years ago, Google modified Chrome to automatically sign users in without their consent. But, we were told, this wouldnโt send your content to Google โ that would still require users to press the โsyncโ button.Shocker: guess whatโs happening now. ยซhttps://t.co/MOPQbjFlWrยปยนโ Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) ยซDecember 9, 2020ยปยฒ
ยซPreviously...ยปยณ
=> https://t.co/MOPQbjFlWr [1] https://t.co/MOPQbjFlWr
=> https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1336677175412527107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1336677175412527107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
=> https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/ [3] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
## November
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/29/2020 @22:36 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
In case you still think that corporations ever think of humans as anything other than resources to be managed, note that trillion and billion dollar multi-nationals are nit picking over not supporting slavery, in 2020... ยซhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.htmlยปยน
=> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/24/2020 @22:59 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
That one is wise.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/23/2020 @22:25 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Oh look, someone else's ยซIoT build logยปยน turns out to be a perfect illustration to why I have no desire to have any of that garbage in my life. I'll leave debugging someone else's science project when I need to turn on a light after a power outage to other people.
=> https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/ [1] https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/23/2020 @15:00 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I rewrote some of the image processing pipeline for Thoughts today to simplify things a bit. Let me know if anything ends up looking... different, especially if you are using the RSS feed.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/22/2020 @15:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
It turns out that by listening to science and having a plan, we could have actually still had a good time this year. ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/ยปยน
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/22/2020 @14:55 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
There are some absolute gems being restored to life in the ยซInternet Archive'sยปยนยซflash software collectionยปยฒ. Wonderful old gems about ยซcowsยปยณ, ยซbasesยปโด, ยซBadgersยปโต, ยซmonkeysยปโถ, ยซa horseยปโท and so much more.
=> https://archive.org/ [1] https://archive.org/
=> https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash?sort=titleSorter [2] https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash?sort=titleSorter
=> https://archive.org/details/cows_with_guns_202011 [3] https://archive.org/details/cows_with_guns_202011
=> https://archive.org/details/flash_allyourbase [4] https://archive.org/details/flash_allyourbase
=> https://archive.org/details/flash_badger [5] https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
=> https://archive.org/details/dancemonkeys [6] https://archive.org/details/dancemonkeys
=> https://archive.org/details/466-horse-3 [7] https://archive.org/details/466-horse-3
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/21/2020 @16:40 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> So, there's Google, trying to split the web again. Google will be knocking out an entire Browser ecosystem by making it you can't log into Google services without their special browser webkit.ยซhttps://t.co/aYYtv2bWKxยปยนโ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซNovember 21, 2020ยปยฒ
It's almost like they are acting like a monopoly... weird.
=> https://t.co/aYYtv2bWKx [1] https://t.co/aYYtv2bWKx
=> https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1330150314406780928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1330150314406780928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/21/2020 @12:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
On what planet ยซcan you buy only part of a contractยปยน? *โI'll take the bits where I get to use your work but you can keep the parts that say I have to pay you.โ* Yeah, I'm sure that is how contracts work.
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyxcrEOjJo [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyxcrEOjJo
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/21/2020 @12:10 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Is there anything quite as hilariously tone-deaf as ยซbillionaires having a slap fightยปยน?
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQv5_9TpRF0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQv5_9TpRF0
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/20/2020 @15:58 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> People are uploading true classic flashes thought otherwise lost. Here's a personal favorite: FLY GUY by Trevor Van Meter. ยซhttps://t.co/zxf4XQqMFNยปยนRight-click on it, set it to full-screen, and press arrow keys around. It's amazing. ยซpic.twitter.com/lc6K8zVsoAยปยฒโ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซNovember 20, 2020ยปยณ
=> https://t.co/zxf4XQqMFN [1] https://t.co/zxf4XQqMFN
=> https://t.co/lc6K8zVsoA [2] https://t.co/lc6K8zVsoA
=> https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1329839581689245696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1329839581689245696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/17/2020 @12:07 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Oh, remember all those times I bitched about ยซHome Control turning itself back on after rebootยปยน? Now Siri is doing it for the Podcasts app. I am not sure why the Siri options are even available as the profile I have forbids Siri, but it isn't like Apple has cared about software quality for the last decade so I suppose I should be happy the thing works at all.
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1600295997.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1600295997.html
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/17/2020 @11:54 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Almost everything these days that says *BLOCKCHAIN!* on it anywhere is a sham to try to extract money from venture capitalists and angel investors. Anyone who tells you otherwise is at best wrong and at worst profiting from it. I usually just point at ยซMatt Blazeยปยน when conversation turns to electronic voting but now you can also point at ยซBruce Schneierยปยฒ who has a link to the obligatory ยซXKCDยปยณ and a new MIT paper on the topic. tl;dr though, software is *awful* and doesn't actually address any of the problems we have with voting. How about we ยซfix the Post Officeยปโด instead? #PostalBankingTooPlease
=> https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1034486679925678080?lang=en [1] https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1034486679925678080?lang=en
=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/on-blockchain-voting.html [2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/on-blockchain-voting.html
=> https://xkcd.com/2030/ [3] https://xkcd.com/2030/
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/16/2020 @16:55 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> Rapid antigen tests trade sensitivity for speed. They return a result in <30 minutes, but can only detect COVID-19 when you're absolutely riddled with it. What's bogus is that Space Karen didn't read up on the test before complaining to his millions of followers. ยซpic.twitter.com/a1Snfpm03hยปยนโ Emma Bell PhD (@emmabell42) ยซNovember 14, 2020ยปยฒ
Welp, there goes thinking of ยซ@elonmuskยปยณ as anything other than Space Karen ever again.๐
=> https://t.co/a1Snfpm03h [1] https://t.co/a1Snfpm03h
=> https://twitter.com/emmabell42/status/1327586649765769218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/emmabell42/status/1327586649765769218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/16/2020 @10:13 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
ยซWhy Isnโt Dread Lord Nyarlathotep Respecting Our Time-Honored Peaceful Transition of Power?ยปยน
=> https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-isnt-dread-lord-nyarlathotep-respecting-our-time-honored-peaceful-transition-of-power [1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-isnt-dread-lord-nyarlathotep-respecting-our-time-honored-peaceful-transition-of-power
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/14/2020 @00:44 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> To be clear, I'm not opposed to a shut down for health purposes.What I oppose is our leaders, and their corporate funders, demanding that working people shoulder the burden of the shutdown while Jeff Bezos, landlords etc get richer.This is medieval.โ The British History Podcast (@BritishPodcast) ยซNovember 13, 2020ยปยน
=> https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1327362937611173888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [1] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1327362937611173888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/13/2020 @17:30 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
It was super charming to watch Z and his dad ยซrock the W in CoDยปยน.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/13/2020 @09:34 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
> I'm up, so I may as well post Friday's super controversial strip. ยซpic.twitter.com/e32JlzER5nยปยนโ Gabe (@cwgabriel) ยซNovember 13, 2020ยปยฒ
They are both right. The present day shit in AC has always been the worst part of the game and nuts in brownies are *correct*.
=> https://t.co/e32JlzER5n [1] https://t.co/e32JlzER5n
=> https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1327169856710475782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [2] https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1327169856710475782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/12/2020 @20:54 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Clearly a release that necessitates a minor version bump... so many emojis.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/11/2020 @16:27 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Speaking of another monopoly that should be put head first into a wood chipper... ยซTicketmaster is the worstยปยน (via jwz).
=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/ticketbastard-wants-your-medical-records/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/ticketbastard-wants-your-medical-records/
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/11/2020 @13:59 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
In today's episode of crap frontend developers think is totally fine: 20,000+ lines of <style> in <head>.
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/10/2020 @14:06 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
I'm sick of these awful ยซยง 230ยปยน takes and all of the big tech censorship claims. I'm sorry but YouTube and Twitter are the digital equivalent of private property and the ยซFirst Amendmentยปยฒ (US Const. ammed. I) doesn't have anything to say on what someone else's website can and cannot do with information you submit, however; it is likely that the confusion is the result of most of the tech giants being monopolies. Instead of worrying about imposing legislation that creates moderation standards, how about we fix the root cause instead. eg: U.S. v. AT&T (ยซ552 F. Supp. 131 (D. D.C. 1982)ยปยณ).
=> https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
=> https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment [2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/10/2020 @09:51 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
How you know your front-end developers are pros... ๐
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### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/09/2020 @21:31 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Leonard French has a really well reasoned look ยซat fair use and live streamingยปยน that is well worth the watch if you are at all interested. There is a *LOT* of confusion around fair use in the context of copyright and he does a really good job on his channel going through it. Bonus quick look at BGM in streams at the end.
=> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmzxw0t6Ok [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmzxw0t6Ok
### โโโโโโโฃโ 11/08/2020 @10:17 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ
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