So I've got back into playing this mud lately[1] and recently learned, to my surprise, that the source is in a public github repo. A few months ago, I think that I crashed the mud, and the higher-level imms haven't been around lately, so I thought that I'd help them out by debugging my crash. I set up a local instance on my computer, tried to create a character called Sanctity, and struggled to figure out why it wouldn't let me log in. I attached gdb to the process and eventually figured out that it was being flagged as a banned name. There's a file listing names that are not allowed, one of which is "tit", and the code calls strstr against all of the banned names. So there you go: sanctity is not allowed because it contains "tit," which is a banned name. Make of that what you will.
[1] roninmud.org [the web site is kind of outdated, and the game is not nearly as active anymore as it might have been in the past]
New WhatsApp web app, you can kindly go suck my ... Like, wow. I just recorded a voice message but pressing the send button does nothing. Yup, nothing. And generally, this is just garbage. Why? Why why why why. I'm going back to fucking Telegram and Elten Messages with this type of shit. btw the fix to actually trigger the send button is going into focus mode and pressing it. And make sure you don't hit the view once radio button by accidant.
Days since Brodie Robertson has blocked progress on Wayland while blaming others for doing exactly that: 0
He knows the consequences of what he does, he knows his viewers turn the threads toxic, he knows that it destroys any remaining progress, he knows that developers get harassed and receive death threats because of it.
He has been told by the CoCC that this behavior is a problem.
He denies any responsibility.
This has been going on for years at this point.
Brodie often features free software developers in his videos/podcasts, which gives him some relevance and is partially responsible for his following. So this is to my fellow developers: if you collaborate with Brodie, you are contributing to the harassment and I will hold you accountable for it.
The sign of abuse is when someone asks you to stop and then you make a video saying you won't. I'd give him a shovel, but the hole is already pretty deep.
Today I wanted to talk about why I cover the projects that I do, why I talk about so many FOSS repos, why I talk about projects like Wayland as much as I do....
>*points at targeted individual* - "guys, don't harass this person!" >*puts individual in the spotlight* - "guys I repeat, don't harass this person!!" >*repeatedly mentions this individual negatively, makes them the center of attention several times, with full knowledge that their viewers are known to harass this person* - "guys stop harassing this person!!! y'all are not normal!!! It is totally NOT me making them an easy target, obviously!!! oh by the way, feel free to insult them on stage :D" >*surprised pickachu face* - "why does this individual not like me :c"
Seriously. I don’t record enough audio, but I’ve recorded a lot of freight train horns. UP started using some different locomotives around here recently so I get to hear a wider assortment of weird chords now. Here’s one from last night.
@pesh Unrelated, sort of, here's a recording I made of a long freight train shipping furnature in January of 2018. Recorded with a Sennheiser Ambeo Smart Headset and an iPhone 8. Try counting the cars. I got lost somewhere along the way.
Vamos a probar @Jami a ver que tal, suena bastante interesante el concepto, me recuerda a la mensajería noventera "pierdes el acceso pierdes la cuenta, tan tan" y la app se be bonita. Probándola en Windows y Android, luego la trastearé igual en algun Linux. Lo mejor que es open source.
@schnedan assuming the protocol has a URL spec and is upload/download oriented someone brings a proposal and code and there's a discussion. Over time we have raised the bar.
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@Bri Those already do exist (in PHP, also Perl I think), and the... peak moment of shitstorms over names seems to be behind us now (and good riddance).
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@matt this video on "Vehicular Cycling" (a.k.a. "I'm an avid cyclist (namely, I'm a racer) and I'm here to tell you that any cycling infrastructure is bad and expensive", which was spearheaded by John Forester and had huge impact on why American infrastructure is so behind Europe. There's a kind of person that is youngish and fit and takes cycling as a personality trait and thinks that because they are comfortable riding fast and in traffic, every other cyclist should too and if they don't they "are not a cyclist so they should drive". These people hate the idea of bikes as a transportation method instead of a sport.
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So in other words, the assumption is that the cyclist should be responsible for adapting to a transportation environment that's designed for cars. I see that as being kind of like saying that each individual blind (or otherwise disabled) user should be individually responsible for adapting to a computing environment that's designed for the typical set of abilities, by learning to master whatever assistive technologies can be awkwardly retrofitted onto a (usually proprietary) GUI.
@matt exactly, but even more insidious detail: it's like a blind person making that argument because they have already adapted to the far from perfect status quo. And pointing at people who haven't and blaming them saying that if they don't put the effort to figure it out then they shouldn't be using computers. Now that I write that out, I have encountered people like that.
There are in fact blind people who look down on the use of certain devices that are designed specifically for blind people, as opposed to the mainstream option that, yes, is accessible once you learn how to use a screen reader, but isn't necessarily the easiest to use.
It's fair to say that the tech industry at the moment is not in a good place. Software engineers tend to be detached, demotivated and unwilling to care much about the work they're doing beyond their paycheck.
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I have just found a nice document scanning app for android that can do automatic edge detection, cropping, multipage scanning, OCR, PDF export and more. It's called #makeacopy and it's using #tesseract engine to perform the OCR directly on the device with no internet connectivity requirement at all. The app has almost full #a11y support for screen reader users in the sense that all the controls are clearly labelled and it's easy to navigate. I can't resist and I have asked the developer if it would be doable to add a screen reader compatible notifications making the automatic edge detection somehow accessible as well. Now I'd appreciate comments from low vision screen reader users, mobility trainers, people assisting other blind people or others who might be able to tell if my idea is viable and how much you like it? Here is link to the github issue I have started: github.com/egdels/makeacopy/is…
@ondrosik I think iPhone has got something like that built-in already as I've tried several mainstream apps and they all seem to be providing guidance, including the Whatsapp's feature of sending photos of documents.
@Paweł Masarczyk Yes, the developer has not dismissed the idea and he is considering implementing it eventually. We have discussed it with additional comments in that github issue. CC @ondrosik
Da mich diese Frage umtrieb: Sollen wir auf Plattformen wie NIUS interagieren?
Mein Fazit nach zwei Angriffen in drei Tagen.
Ich habe mein Schutzteam gefragt, ob es klug war, dass meine Community unter dem NIUS-Artikel kommentiert hat. Danke an alle, die durch ein Newsletter-Abonnement dieses finanzieren!!
Die Antwort war eindeutig: Ja. Warum?
Ressourcenbindung: Jeder NIUS-Follower, der dort in den Kommentaren gebunden ist, hängt nicht bei mir ab und attackiert mich nicht direkt.
I am on an academic committee that for some reason tomorrow is discussing the ChatGPT Atlas Browser: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_…
Several objections will be raised!
Some of my concerns are to do with critical reasoning, natural resources, user lock-in, the extraction of training data.... but I would appreciate hearing your thoughts about other themes I might bring up. Thanks in advance.
I'm also concerned about those things, but more than that why do people want this? Does anyone want this? I don't really care. Honestly, I would never use it. I'm not anti AI, I think it actually is really cool and can have good utility if used in the right way, but if it's not able to help you complete tasks more quickly and just summarizes pages or whatever why is it necessary? Doesn't really make sense to me. Also the models should be local, not hosted on a cloud somewhere.
Weeks before Thanksgiving, the GOP is going after food and flights, scaling up goon squads and keeping the House shut down to suppress the Epstein files. They're governing like there won't be a country in a year.
Immer häufiger kommt es offenbar vor, dass Anwälte sich auf Quellen berufen, die von KI-Chatbots erfunden wurden. Ein französischer Jurist sammelt die Fälle – und wurde auch in Deutschland fündig.
Duck Duck Go has added a tremendously useful feature to their search -- a permanent block. Any site can be added to a block list to never show up in any of your search results again.
I will be using this on any site that is obviously spitting out AI generated "articles."
Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise.
Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So if you send someone a DM that says "That @mattblaze guy is an ignorant moron", I get a copy.
A while back I was making an animation of some caterpillars & found dragging the timeline scrubber back & forth in time with the music playing in the room most entertaining.
Now, if this makes you think "what a foolish thing to be entertained by" you probably want to scroll on. This post is not for you.
If this makes you think "hey - I want to make a caterpillar dance" then you want to click this link. Oh aye.
Can someone who uses voiceover on iOS 26 please confirm this? Or am I going mad?
Opened the kindle app, did a thing, continued with ma day. Cycled back to it later in app switcher, voiceover fully announces the app as “shit”. If you swipe up, it says close kindle. I’ve yet to check but I’m pretty certain this isn’t a drunken / stupendously high dictionary entry, as it reads kindle normally everywhere else.
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the UI has been completely rewritten into web technologies and Anaconda is actually a web app running in Firefox. It uses the same framework as Cockpit does and the design language should also be similar.
Yall: I'm sorry but blind and kinky folks are not doing themselves any favours. Part of me wants to put out like a primer on how to have non-normal interests but also not be a complete fucking weirdo to blind girls on the internet.
I was talking to some (totally straight, non-queer, non-kinky AFAIK) blind people a few yrs ago. The subject of accidental breast touches somehow came up. They were all surprised I don't "fake" such accidents, especially around sighted people who don't know any better. I was apparently the only one in that group who didn't.
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I started going to IETF meetings. Those events take place 3 times a year, with ~1000 people attending in person and another ~1000 remotely. A good chunk of those are paid to be there and some are employed by big companies like Apple and Google. This is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being improved. TLS 1.3, HTTP/3, MLS to name a few.
With this in mind I have no fucking clue what Moxie was on about when he said interoperable protocols are stuck in the 1990s.
#QUIC (and #HTTP3) exists to serve the interests and needs of #Google.
In particular 0-RTT is basically a low-level cookie that allows deterministic user tracking below and before #http: if it will ever spread, disabling or deleting cookies, even out-lawing them, won't be a issue for #SurveillanceCapitalism.
So these days what happens at #IETF is much more lobbying than engineering. Overpaid engineers lobby against the users to further cement the power of their corporations.
I wouldn't call these as "improvements".
These days, sadly, IETF is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being ^^enshittified**.
Just to add to the discussion, it would be great to see any counter-arguments for blog.cloudflare.com/even-faste…, if anyone has the time to contribute
One of the more interesting features introduced by TLS 1.3, the latest revision of the TLS protocol, was the so called “zero roundtrip time connection resumption”, a mode of operation that allows a client to start sending application data, such as HT…
@giacomo @lorenzo IETF protocol specs regularly include sections with privacy considerations just like security considerations. These point out such problems and guide implementers to get them right (eg. to only use 0RTT if user tracking is of no concern because cookies would be on anyway). If a browser implements that wrong, it's for other lacks but awareness.
@giacomo @lorenzo I did not review that particular spec, but for those I do, I'd raise hell before publication as #IETF if such problems were unaddressed, and know many other reviewers who would do the same.
Well @chrysn@chaos.social, I really appreciate your good intentions and will to fight for users' #privacy. But I was not talking about you or the few independent developers who still volunteer at #IETF these days. I was talking about IETF effects on the Internet standards as a whole. I'm afraid the impact of a few independent engineers is not going to balance the power of organized and well funded #BigTech lobbyists.
As an example, let's stay on topic and look at RFC 9001, "Using #TLS to Secure #QUIC". All that is said about the impoved ability of the server to identify (and thus track) the user are in two lines about session resumption (emphasys mine):
Session resumption allows servers to link activity on the original connection with the resumed connection, which might be a privacy issue for clients. Clients can choose not to enable resumption to avoid creating this correlation.
Now please notice the #hypocrisy: the wording is set up as if clients should opt-in, but it's pretty unlikely that users will be given a choice between a personal data leak at protocol level and an imperceptible increase in connection time, in particular with 0-RTT where " Endpoints cannot selectively disregard information that might alter the sending or processing of 0-RTT".
So while I'm pretty curious about @bagder@mastodon.social's perspective, I see that #Google managed to get a protocol designed to thwart user privacy and reduce its own server costs (even just the energy consumed during TLS hadshakes, amount to thousands dollars each day).
This way, if EU would decide to forbid tracking cookies at all, Google would get a competitive advantage over all other #AdsTech companies.
Now a properly working IETF would have rejected such shit, knowing that it would have been leveraged against people (and democracies) though #Chrome browsers and #Android defaults.
> Now a properly working IETF would have rejected such shit
I think this shows that you don't really understand how IETF works and the how its specifications are made. Please keep me out of further comments in this thread.
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