Seirdy

Seirdy, 1 day ago to react

New bookmark: React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity.

“React and the component model standardises the software developer and reduces their individual bargaining power excluding them from a proportional share in the gains”. An amazing write-up by @baldur about the de-skilling of developers to reduce their ability to fight back against their employers.

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Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #GenAI #llms #webdev

Seirdy, 1 day ago to random

Apple apologizes for iPad ad

“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” said Tor Myhren, the company’s VP of marketing communications. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.”

Interestingly, Google used the same language to conclude its apology for its generative AI’s historical depictions of race. It explained its intention with flowery language and then said “But it’s missing the mark here”.

I wonder if we’ll be seeing more of this type of response to corporate tone-deafness (a generous term) going forward. Big “I’m sorry you feel that way (but this isn’t indicative of any problems with me)” vibes.

Seirdy, 1 day ago to random

Onto the part of this cybersec crash-course that covers OSINT and it’s talking Shodan.

It’s funny because I’ve already been using Shodan regularly but for all the completely security-irrelevant reasons. Like finding domains with Gemini capsules or Gopher holes, or for searching for sites by favicon.

Seirdy, 2 days ago to random

Everybody makes a big fuss about new ARM/x86-64 extensions but nobody seems to care about separate chips for things like idle compute (read: locally-triggered notifications and fitness tracking). I get why it exists but I’m just in awe.

“there is hardware in your pocket optimized for cryptography and hardware decoding”

ok cool

“and for secure dynamic code execution.”

makes sense

“that was made for the WebKit team at Apple for JavaScript, along with some other ARM instructions for floating point arithmetic.”

huh

“There is also a chip on your device for notifications”

now you’re fucking with me.

(redrafted from a priv post)

Seirdy, 2 days ago to random

Today’s #HiddenWebGem: The End of the Internet.

This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet. Congratulations! You’re done! Now go do something else.

Seirdy, 3 days ago to random

Doctor Who Theme: oooEEEEOoooooooooooo

me: omg miku reference

PearlescentFerret, 3 days ago to random

Announcing the public launch of of Open Torment, a FOSS alternative to The Torment Nexus.

jimmac, 4 days ago to GNOME

Opened up Apostrophe to edit a README and it launched in its sleek 3.0 version. Life is good.

#makeappsnotthemes #gnome #circle #flathub #updates

Seirdy, 7 days ago to random

Today’s #HiddenWebGem: The Nekonomicon.

A lovingly curated archive of a phpBB forum for the Nekoware community of SGI and IRIX enthusiasts. It preserves the knowledge built by its community after the site went offline.

Seirdy, 7 days ago to random

What if Unicode had a Skibidi emoji modifier? :skibidi_neofox:

In the vein of xkcd: Vomiting emoji (Transcript).

18+ Seirdy, 7 days ago to random

I just remembered that fonts can contain webassembly shaping instructions now. Supported in Harfbuzz.

Before you panic, remember that font engines already support significant parts of the SVG spec and extremely advanced shaping/hinting instructions (the latter of which are basically their own programming language).

I’m not saying you shouldn’t panic. I’m saying that you should also be aware of that before you do.

Seirdy, 8 days ago to random

Periodic reminder to automate your cert renewal so you don’t need periodic reminders anymore. @mori

RE: https://void.lgbt/objects/089ba144-e8fc-4f8e-b3af-78cfb87af716

Seirdy, 8 days ago to random

Anybody know of (ideally mobile-friendly) FOSS forum software (besides mailing lists) that doesn’t have a copyright-granting CLA or open-core model? Discourse, Flarum, and Nodebb require a CLA.

I’m aware of phpBB and bbj (read-only web UIs are available; no read-write web UIs).

astrid, 9 days ago to random

i made a thing https://ooo.eeeee.ooo/

strypey, 10 days ago to til

#TIL about #RightDao;

"Independent, Uncensored, Private Search"

... using its own index, not Goggle, Bing, or Yandex:

https://rightdao.com/

#HatTip to @Seirdy for maintaining this page on web search engines;

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

#search #WebSearch

Seirdy, 14 days ago to random

I continue to call this network’s social protocol “Mastodon’s ActivityPub-like protocol”.

Seirdy, 16 days ago to random

Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders.

“I recently noticed a new folder in the root level of my Home directory, named ai_overlay_tmp.”

Quote posting bc the OP has a screenshot of the article without a link or alt-text.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/kjhealy/statuses/112320834071504291

bagder, 16 days ago to random

#libcurl has proudly served as the HTTP(S) engine in #git for nineteen years now.

Seirdy, 16 days ago to fediverse

New bookmark: ActivityPub on a (mostly) static website.

There have been other attempts to document the process of bringing ActivityPub to a (mostly) static site, but this is my favorite so far. I wonder if I should give it a go, if POSSE ever stops serving my needs.

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Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #IndieWeb #Security #Web

TerryHancock, 17 days ago to random

Hello again.

Slowly regaining control of my accounts. :welp: