Somehow my mind always transposes the letters and reads sr.ht as the Mastodon version of "shitpost". 🙃

My original opinion of Kurt Vonnegut's story "Harrison Bergeron" was that it was a strawman argument against Affirmative Action. But damn if Our Current Troubled Times haven't created the precise embodiment of what that story was decrying. Except in reverse. Instead of forcing artists to […]

Best thing about Codeberg's new anti-slop policy: When someone shares a link to a project on Codeberg, I don't have to dig thru the project information trying to figure out of it's slop before boosting or considering using it. It makes the Codeberg name a sign of some minimal level of […]

a third lab would like to announce that they, too, ran an AI model against a hacking capability benchmark while it had a real internet connection and they, too, were astonished to find out that it was attacking real people and organizations with the real internet connection that they gave it […]

I so hate the captcha variant that slowly fades-in new images to click. The slowness/waiting is completely disruptive of whatever mental state I had prior and messes up the ability to get anything done quickly after finally getting past it. 🤬

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their […] [Original post on scholar.social]

Maybe a good sign of bubble bursting: musl libc site was previously getting hammered with >1500 abusive scraper connections near constantly. Checking both now and about 12 hours ago, I only saw 70-150 connections.

Fun thing we learned when printing out a copy of the petition to give to CEO Bernadette Meehan @ Wikimania: #MediaWiki's PDF renderer breaks on ordered list items past 1,000. I pointed this out to her when we handed her the petition. She didn't immediately see […] [Original post on wikis.world]

1,280 #Wikimedia volunteers have pledged willingness to go on strike in solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity, making us less than 100 signatures from being the most supported proposal or […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Hot take (non-serious): curl should add a feature whereby, when stdout is a pipe, it inspects procfs to find the other end of the pipe and aborts if it's bash.

"I’m not a traditional Democrat. I’m a classical liberal and former Tea Party activist who understands rural values and can speak to independents and Republicans who believe in freedom, accountability, and the rule of law." 🤡 running in VA-5 primary...

When gmail has vandalized links with trackers, is there a way to decode the ust=... url parameter to unmask the associated account?

Fucking slopbros. My hosting provider for musl-libc.org received an LLM-slop nastygram claiming nonexistent vulnerabilities ("serving static content is a vuln" bs) resulting in a potential escalation to account suspension. I have hopefully addressed this replying to the bogus ticket and opening […]

Why is everyone suddenly talking about some douchy coinbro blogger high on cat farts who I've never heard of as if he's someone who matters?

Both of those claims are central to Gessen's thesis, but both are absolutely wrong. But it's the "there is no memorial" claim that I find especially upsetting. Not only is there very much a memorial, obvious to anybody who cares to look, but *just open a map*! You can't miss it! Heather Heyer Way!

First, their claim that there is no visible marker of the August 12 Nazi invasion of Charlottesville. They were looking in the wrong place. The murder of Heather Heyer didn't happen in Market Street Park. It happened on 4th St. SW, renamed "Heather Heyer Memorial Way" by the city years ago.

lets goooooo > Alperin alleges he learned insider details about APC pricing as a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association, including “outright unlawful conduct” and “conspiratorial discussions” among the publishers, the complaint states. This included strategies by the […]

The linux-man project has been quietly taken over has a hostile fork. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/am0RdPxvbIYUKAL-@devuan/T/#m277b916c39713d644d36a42d82debbff1df6bfc5

One thing that is disturbing about the interview with the former Flock employee is how he explains that he came from a background in civil rights law. He must have known about the issues with this company and technology. But because it was a good job he let himself be brainwashed. Would it be […]

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113866093397576803 What is it like to work at FLOCK what is is like to work at palantir? What is it like to work for ICE... not on the ground but doing their website, or their payroll? I posted about this just after the election and this interview reminded […]

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If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it. "The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND […]

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

you know, I do a lot of complaining about modern linux, but the fact that I can just run `<package-manager> install <obvious-name>` and mostly get what I expect is something of a miracle, and the fact that I can (even if I don't *assume*) trust the distro servers to not ship me something […]

Niftski just got the TAS tie from 4-2 to end. Full TAS tie is gonna happen soon. 🤯 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AZy6c-VNdI

Protip for using gear pullers: ignore the bolts meant to tighten the arms midway up and instead use vise grips to clamp the end of the arms around the thing they're pulling.

[CEOs] I think I get it now. CEOs are influencers. The CEO of a public company, or of a private company that needs to raise a lot of funds can't just run the company and try to make money, they need to be a public person, interesting, controversial. They need to say things that will aid in […]

[CEOs] "CEOs are influencers" seems really obvious now that I think about it and I apologize if I should have noticed this sooner. We need to look at these guys the same way we look at Kanye West or Kardashians.

New cat skill discovered: positioning tail directly over ambient light sensor to fully dim phone screen to get attention.

Patreon has gotten worse. It's trying to be a platform and it's really annoying to manage the "memberships" you have, super clunky and slow. I don't know what they did to the site. I just wanted to cancel one membership and increase a few others, but it's taking forever. They also seem to want […]

It's interesting to know about some of the historical strategies for preventing revolution. There were basically two strategies to protect the institution of monarchy. Metternich believed that brutal repression was the only answer: censor the press, monitor communication, create a coalition of […]

Does anyone actually use Organic Maps for navigation? I've tried and although it will do routes between cities and stuff it seems useless for trying to get to an unknown address. Entering (at least US formatted) addresses in search doesn't work at all. Sometimes just searching for the street […]