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Seirdy

@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net

Skim before following: https://seirdy.one/about/fediverse-greeting/. It describes how I accept follow requests, block people, etc.

Interested in #Accessibility, #Privacy, #Security (in that order).

I am made of microplastics and can be trusted with your forklift. @alizasystem's boywife, together since 2023-12-04.

tech-stuff: check my "uses" page: https://seirdy.one/about/uses/
Other tech interests in no particular order: linked data, the #IndieWeb, the #Gemini protocol (more into the community than the technology).

Politics: Leftist, capitalism bad, anti-consumerism.

Neuro-atypicality: #anxiety, #ADHD, #ActuallyAutistic.

:QueerCat_Pansexual:

Boundaries: if you're a minor or if we've not meaningfully interacted before, then don't be lewd/flirty with me. otherwise it's fine, in moderation.

Hashtags for #fedi22 searchability: #shitposting #poggies #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #panro #InclusiveDesign #ScreenReader #SearchEngines #anime #webdev #blogging #linux #Fedora #Sway #zsh #IndianAmerican #StarTrek

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“Fads swept the youth of the Sprawl at the speed of light; entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.”

Neuromancer on Harambe

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Please stop using service workers for your text-and-image websites without testing in secure browsing profiles, with privacy/security features designed to fuck up how service workers behave.

Seirdy, to random
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  • What a week, huh?
  • Captain, ISO-8601 weeks start on Monday
Seirdy,
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I got some questions in private. Since answers may be appreciated by others too, I’ll summarize what I said/found.

Basically, ISO-8601 defines a format for every possible date/time-related information: week dates, day-month-year timestamps, durations, offsets, time zones, etc. It’s the bible of how to specify something date/time-related, if you’re willing to purchase the standard (WHY is it paywalled??). Other subsequent standards with narrower focus generally subset this standard and relax some of its more strict requirements.

RFC-3339 is about how computers should display dates. A much narrower focus makes it a subset, though it does make some parts of the ISO-8601 notation optional (most notably the separator between the date and time: you can say 2024-05-19 05:46:52+00:00 instead of 2024-05-19T05:46:52+00:00, or use a different separator like a lowercase “t”) to also become a slight superset. Both RFC-3339 and the HTML Living Standard avoid any significant contradictions with ISO-8601.

Weeks starting on Monday appear to be a thing in all three standards. We are still in 2024-W20 right now according to HTML and the ISO, and tomorrow (Monday) will be the beginning of 2024-W21.

There’s a good visualizer of the overlap between the three standards by Iain MacDonald here. It’s followed by a more accessible table.

Seirdy, to random
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Reminder that labelling yourself as a bot in your profile is fine but you will get automatically filtered out of many other users’ timelines.

18+ Seirdy, to random
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Concept: two-dimensional plurality (any combination of two alters integrate at a time to form a new persona, giving you N^2 possible personas for N alters and forming a coordinate system to visualize who you are at a given moment.

We can extend this to N^N possible personas if more than two alters can integrate at a time.

Extending our personality to arbitrary topologies poses unique challenges I attempt to explore with a new NumPy library for personality matrices. In this essay, I will—

Seirdy,
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At a given moment, some alters integrated into our current persona may have more inertia than others, and be less likely to leave the persona than others. We can represent this with mass.

As our personality changes in one direction across our personality space, it has momentum. Altering the trajectory requires force, either external (stimulis) or internal (willpower). We represent personality changes with through personality force, the rate of change of personality momentum.

When personality oscillates between two combinations of alters, we can represent this as a personality spring that obeys a simple law—

gets dragged away from the podium by a TA

Seirdy,
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I unironically think that springs are a good metaphor for how much, how fast, and how long my personality oscillates across a one-dimensional plane in a lonely calm environment (a frictionless vacuum).

Seirdy, to random
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If someone instantly reacts to the existence of data collection and inference by saying “isn’t this against GDPR?” they probably don’t know what the GDPR is or does, but they’re also probably right.

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Quoting this on Global Accessibility Performative Awareness Day as a reminder that LLM-based tools like MDN AI Help naturally amplify their datasets’ biases, including biases against disabled people.

RE: https://pleroma.envs.net/objects/ead2ed19-7ebf-4211-9beb-23a8c0acb79f

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re-reading the xenofeminist manifesto in a browser that doesn’t support forced-colors was a mistake

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why do some people hate "The Bad Space", i have been trying to figure out what the deal with them is but i havent seen anything sketchy from their websites or anything, and their "about" page doesnt seem bad, i dont notice any 4channer vibes, it just seems to be like a fediblock supporter, does anyone have any context to add? maybe im missing something? why do people seem to hate them? im genuinely confused about the whole situation.

Seirdy,
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@puppygirlhornypost @paragon I don’t think it’s possible to organize many people together for a “democratic” blocklist without some combination of infighting, scandals, irreconcilable differences, retaliation, etc. making the group either fall apart, become horribly toxic and cult-like to shield certain higher-ups from criticism, or hide bad actions behind bureaucracy. It’s why FediNuke is a one-person project despite occasional favors, advice, etc. from others.

I’d rather see collaboration happen by making someone’s work a dependency of someone else’s. collaboration itself isn’t always a good thing.

18+ Seirdy, to random
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Was there anything non-GenAI announced at Google I/O besides the annual Android hardware update or can I ignore the whole thing

Seirdy,
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@kytta wait what that’s actually an interesting tidbit.

I mean I’m not sure how I feel about the feature (I don’t feel super positively tbh) but it’s actually useful to know about.

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If you argue that your GUI toolkit is better than others because it’s “suckless” I’ll assume it completely lacks any kind of support for bidirectional text, advanced font rendering necessary for several non-Latin languages, or accessibility.

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New static site hosting provider hit my radar: statichost.eu. Ticks all the boxes, plus offers custom headers, OCSP Must-Staple, etc. which half the providers don’t do nowadays. I like how they do manual review and start conversations with customers for traffic spike billing instead of automated flagging and expecting users to reach out.

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Firefox shoud now support extensions’ content scripts on pages with a sandbox CSP/iframe directive:

Bugzilla bug 1411641: CSP ‘sandbox’ directive prevents content scripts from matching, due to unique origin, breaking also browser features is resolved in the v128 branch, coming in a few months.

Meanwhile WebKit doesn’t even support media controls on pages with a sandbox directive, requiring me to relax it on any page with a video or audio element.

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An incomplete list of expensive fads in Silicon Valley:

  • Tablets will replace PCs en masse instead of complement them (the “Post-PC era”).
  • Blockchain (cryptographically-verified, decentralized pyramid schemes) will replace databases.
  • Prompt engineering would replace creative labor.

What came before the Post-PC era?

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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.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE).

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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,
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TLDR: Apple showed its ass, and they’re sorry you feel that way.

Seirdy,
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bangs head on wall

The problem isn’t that people didn’t like something you did. the problem you need to address is why they didn’t like it.

Corporate apologies like this prove that they observed people unhappy about something. It reads like an apology to investors for making people unhappy, not an apology to the people who got angry. It would be ten times better to say nothing at all.

Why do PR departments keep doing this? Do they think statements like these work better than actual apologies?

Seirdy,
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Apple TV ad features actor who climbs out of TV screen and punches every viewer in the face.

Apple spokesperson Captain Obvious releases statement saying that iPad is meant to celebrate the integrity of its users’ intact noses and front teeth, and that inflicting blunt-force facial trauma on eight million people “missed the mark”.

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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)

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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.

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Today’s : 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.

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Doctor Who Theme: oooEEEEOoooooooooooo

me: omg miku reference

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