Today is probably the right day to rewatch the best video essay ever made (IMO). Nothing stuck with me that much: Carlos Maza's "How to be Hopeless"
youtube.com/watch?v=iJaE_BvLK6…
How To Be Hopeless
To everyone who fights the plague -- on the streets and in our minds. If this video meant something to you, I'd love to hear about it.PATREON: https://www.pa...YouTube
I'll summarize the story for you so you don't have to waste any precious moments of your life reading it: Privileged American couple move to France and find out that France has its own culture **AND LANGUAGE** that they refuse and/or are incapable of learning so they hate it.
This was on the landing page of CNN, just under the election dross. This story of intolerance and incompetence was deemed important enough to be on the landing page. Marked as "featured".
Yesterday's news leads me to forecast the next big thing in SF/F genre fiction: the Cosy Dystopia—a future or fantasy setting in which the backdrop is ghastly but the sympathetic protagonists are running a tea shop in the borderlands.
Think Warhammer 40,000 space marines, with added knitting. (Narrative focus STRONGLY on the knitting.)
Cinco apuntes sueltos:
1- Trump esta vez ganó el voto popular. Cortó fuertemente ventaja en lugares fuertemente demócratas. Eso se explica en parte por la insatisfacción con Biden pero también porque la persona estadounidense promedio (igual que la persona promedio en todo el mundo) se parece más a Trump que a Harris.
Esto que significa?
la persona estadounidense promedio (igual que la persona promedio en todo el mundo) se parece más a Trump que a Harris.
La reelección de Trump es una mala noticia para los pueblos del mundo.
Representa el autoritarismo, el pisoteo institucional, el matonismo tabernario internacional y el desprecio a la clase trabajadora.
Y por otro lado, es garantía de privilegios a los ultrarricos y a los genocidas.
En Europa, el trumpismo traerá aranceles y tensiones.
El debate que tenemos delante es si Europa asumirá el rol de sumisión para continuar con la agresión genocida e imperialista en Ucrania, Oriente Próximo y Asia, o si replanteará sus relaciones con EEUU para no pagar los platos rotos de su política exterior.
Por la parte que nos toca, es urgente deshacernos de la influencia estadounidense para que sus guerras no nos arrastren a la miseria y la barbarie.
Tenemos que explorar el nuevo horizonte de relaciones multilaterales que se abre en torno al BRICS para fortalecer unas relaciones internacionales de cooperación de y paz.
They don't have a big enough margin in the Senate to pass just anything. I don't know about the House, yet. They may stay as disorganized as they have been the last two years.
None of that is good... But hopefully it will be useful.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow there are only three things you need to do. They have not changed and will never change.
1. Enjoy life.
2. Be someone you would love.
3. Make things better.
Every act, every word, every breath that is not one or more of these things is wasted. And there is not a single day in which you are not capable of all three.
btw, did YOU know that cookie names are case sensitive?
github.com/httpwg/http-extensi…
RFC 6265bis: clarify that cookie names are case sensitive · Issue #2938 · httpwg/http-extensions
I think the spec would benefit from getting this fact explicitly specified. FooBar and foobar are two different cookies.GitHub
I actually assume that everything is case sensitive … with the exception of mail addresses and domain names.
Filenames are often also not, but its safer to assume they are.
(I once formated a mac in HFS+ extended journaled case sensitve ... for FUN. Yeah, … "fun" I had)
curl disclosed on HackerOne: CVE-2024-9681: HSTS subdomain...
## Summary: Suppose my HSTS cache file has the following content: ``` .domain.com "20241107 01:02:03" .sub.domain.com "unlimited" ``` Now, I connect to https://sub.domain.com/. Suppose this domain...HackerOne
En este artículo, Mozilla explica cómo han implementado su IA de Firefox para generar textos alt de las imágenes de forma local y con un modelo open source. Explica cómo han intentado atajar los prejuicios en las descripciones.
En este tipo de cosas me parece que Mozilla va bien encaminada aunque en otros temas como la publicidad da bastante asco.
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai…
Help us improve our alt text generation model
Firefox 130 introduces automatic alt text generation model for PDF images and an improved alt text flow, improving privacy and accessibility.Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Dolomites
Credit & Copyright: Alessandra Masi
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241106.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2024 November 6 – Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas over the Dolomites
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
« But, Nick, you’re not a US Citizen, this election doesn’t affect you ».
Do you know how shit the internet has become since Trump was elected the first time? Do you know how fast and far the quality of online interactions has dropped since that orange fascist opened the gates to let all the trolls from under the bridge?
Anyone who makes content that has even 2% of political notions (and FOSS is definitely political) will be confronted to more brainwashed maniacs and bigots.
That’s not even talking about how the US tends to reflect what happens in the rest of the world. All the crazy conspiracies and imbecilic notions that Trumpists have?
They also arrive in Europe about 3 to 5 years later. We have people fighting against « woke » in France now, even though it was never a real thing in the US, and even less so in France.
We are already going down, fast. This will harm the entire world by ricochet. This election is a blow for humanity as a whole.
And if someone says « but he won the popular vote », I will scream.
Yes, that’s the problem. The problem isn’t that this fringe dictator spewing conspiracies and lies every single time he speaks has SOME supporters.
The problem is that regular, normal people also were convinced by his crazy shit. That’s the problem. Normal people are now falling for this scam, again. More people now think this shit is fine. Preferable, even. That’s what difficult to swallow. Humanity is moronic.
got cash and not using it for direct aid? the same nonprofits that have been fighting the anti-trans laws are still gonna be doing it tomorrow and they're gonna need money now more then ever:
Home - Lambda Legal
We are a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV.Lambda Legal
Sat here waiting for a large download whilst on an active Teams meeting and still in awe that I am receiving over 8 megabytes a second whilst sending and receiving stereo audio and video.
The very fact that I can work from home whilst remaining so connected is tremendous. I'll have been in my current job for 9 months by the start of next week and I can't believe the difference in stress and worry. I spent so many of my evenings over the last couple of years on alert that I've struggled to come to terms with working a very different type of job at a better rate of pay but with less pressure out-of-hours.
So I'm taking a moment not to worry about politics or indeed all the problems I still have and to enjoy the rewarding feeling of what I tend to think of as good luck, but I am assured is hard work and dedication and deserved. Still not quite feeling that on a personal level but everyone seems to be saying so!
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BTW, if I post or retoot something without a proper CW, feel free to call me out at any time or to request a CW. I'd like to think I'm doing a good job, but my barometer for what's fucked up is, itself, also fucked up.
And everyone else? Please, do better about CWing, too. I'm tired of seeing something I'd absolutely boost in a heartbeat, if it weren't for the lack of CW.
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Because #BotsInSpace is shutting down (😢) I'm looking for a new home for my bots.
I have an RSS feed which posts to BlueSky…
And I have Bridgy which converts BSky to Fediverse…
So… Welcome @openbenches.org !
(This is an experiment. Feedback welcome. I might try self-hosting. Not sure yet. I don't know how to move followers across.)
Hmmm. About 1,000 followers have moved over to the new account - @colours
I can see my messages being sent. But they don't seem to be received. Not entirely sure what's going on and am half a bottle of Malbec into the evening, so probably shouldn't be futzing around with code.
One for the morning, I fear!
OK. What is going on here?
A bunch of people can see the posts sent out by @colours - but lots of people can't.
As far as I can see, Mastodon.social isn't sending me back an HTTP response when I send to a shared inbox. But other Mastodon-based servers happily accept it.
Here are the headers
gist.github.com/edent/1f41d1b2…
Any help #ActivityPub friends?
Mastodon Rejected this
Mastodon Rejected this. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
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in reply to 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 • • •Oh my, this reads so incredibly absurd: in France they have bureaucracy, we do too but it's different because we know it, also no frozen yoghurt.
What the hell.
Imagine, when you move into a different country they speak a different language and do things in different ways.
I'm sure moving is not for everyone and people will miss things, but it sounds like they just wanted to have the same experience, at which point why bother moving.