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eb

@eb@social.coop
  1. Is a programmer, hacker, and maker, busy crafting intricate, exciting, and people focused experiences.
  2. Is interested in breaking barriers, building communities, and learning new things about the world.
  3. Is happiest doing what makes him feel free. Biking, skiing, travelling to name a few

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eb, to random
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Taking a detour from <new name for unreleased side project> to add the ability to backfill content from the wayback machine into ArchiveBox. More englishy:

  1. Sites that are already down are objectively the most vulnerable
  2. The Wayback Machine has the site saved
  3. Archive.org is under attack
  4. And even if it wasn't, its a single point of failure and you really can only trust yourself
  5. ArchiveBox allows you to store sites at home
  6. But it can't do that rn if the site is down
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This is actually relevant to <sideproject> because the archival feature should ideally work for sites that are already down — even though its not powered by ArchiveBox

eb,
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speak of the devil

eb,
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Archive.org has been down for 4% of this month.

I know that this demand for constant availability is sorta capitalist in nature — i've commented against it on some occasions.

But at the same time, if the archive is inaccessible and the site is also inaccessible than the content is in effect lost.

https://social.coop/@eb/112360712945981546
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eb,
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@flancian yeah, unfortunately the archive.is index is much smaller and they are in a constant ego war with Cloudflare. Much prefer box.boehs.org :)

eb, to OpenAI
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There's something funky with hacker news' moderation. Here pictured is a graph:

The black line represents the rank according to the published algorithm: upvotes^0.8 / (age+2)^1.8

The orange line is its actual position on the front page.

And I'm just saying... this was a story on the backlash to #openai at #stackoverflow.

Publish your moderation logs.

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ArchiveBox is shockingly solid, and really easy to host. Probably worth using it to save the things you love (and it automatically saves to IA as well)

video/mp4

eb, to random
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I now am the proud owner of the 3rd most wanted open mastodon pull request, and the number one that could be merged today. Please merge, I beg

eb, to random
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think about how many cop cars you could replace with one bus

eb,
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they could all fit into one of these bad boys.

eb, to random
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If an absolute maximum of 18k fedi servers (probably way less than 10k) making requests 2 requests to your server (so they can download the OG image you decided to make) can bring it down for hours, maybe your server configuration is the problem.

eb,
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Some basic truths

  1. Wordpress was a serious mistake
  2. To bandaid this mistake, you can cache images and selectively cache HTML with very minimal configuration
  3. If you are going broke from the bandwidth, you chose a bad hosting provider
eb, to random
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I'm looking for a good name to use for my pinboard/rss reader competitor. The pitch is something along the lines of "community driven website collection and discovery".

— The working name is "pinlog", but I'm not entirely satisfied with that.
— Beanbag just came to mind, but unfortunately I cannot find a good domain.
— Dartboard.com costs $46,000.

Any ideas?

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The out of touch capitalist of the day award goes to Costco: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6EdYlWx46V/?igsh=MW9wMGJkOWl0eDRlaA==

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While content is federated currently, #identity isn’t. And while that doesn’t diminish the decentralized nature of the #fediverse, having a single identity — that a user fully controls — would make it easier to sign up for multiple apps. My analysis of recent discussions here featuring @evanprodromou, @rabble, @deadsuperhero, @timbray, @osma & others. https://thenewstack.io/one-login-towards-a-single-fediverse-identity-on-activitypub/

eb,
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@nigel @ricmac @evanprodromou @rabble @deadsuperhero @timbray @osma this does not necessarily imply centralized identity

glyph, to random
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Reviewing multiple vulnerability reports in open source libraries today (some valid, some not) and it keeps coming up over and over again that CVSS is a hopelessly broken metric for infrastructure libraries. In most cases, it’s unrealistic to assess the impact of a flaw in an individual function on every application that might use it, so you have to assume the worst case scenario. But the worst case scenario is “the application made other mistakes too and the deployment network is a disaster”

eb,
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@glyph today I was notified that my HTML minifier is vulnerable to DoS attacks.... And like... Ok?

eb, to random
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@jasonkoebler's https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and-game-google-with-parasite-seo backs up my assertions about the death of social media in https://boehs.org/node/llms-destroying-internet

Though, he states that reddit won't become an AI hellscape. I disagree. It already is one.

Where do the "high karma" accounts come from? They come from huge subreddits where the bots have begun posting marginally related content that people blindly upvote because "cute animal" or whatever (+voting rings). The quality control is gone. The frontpage is governed by bots.

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@jasonkoebler and Reddit has a perverse incentive to turn a blind eye to this. The more content people scroll through, the more ads they show, and the more stuff they can sell back to google. It doesn't need to be good content. It just needs to be good enough that people put up with it.

It would be immensely simple for Twitter to stop the bot problem, or at least reduce it. But then the numbers on the graph would dip down further.

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@jasonkoebler In some communities, the moderation is tight. In many of the largest communities with "less defined" focus areas (like "BlackMagicFuckery" and "MadeMeSmile"), there's been a considerable quality degradation — the mods have given up.

This is not surprising, given the largest communities are lead by "power moderators", people who "moderate" a large number of subreddits for clout.

1/2

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@jasonkoebler

Third, I would contend that the moderators haven't won out. The protests were entirely unsuccessful. Reddit correctly understood that some people are just attached to the clout and will fill in the holes. I think a lot of the dedicated moderators have left.

But anyway, if you spend a few minutes scrolling through the front page, you can find posts that slightly don't fit, with thousands of upvotes. Quietly, in the comments, one person complains.

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@jasonkoebler Remember what I was saying about the dead internet theory? https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11615413

eb, to random
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In 2023, The Onion filed it's first SCOTUS briefing: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03%20-%20Novak-Parma%20-%20Onion%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

It was widely regarded as the 'greatest briefing of all time', for it's use of parody to defend parody (they called the judiciary "Latin dorks").

The case in question regarded a man who mocked his local PD through a satirical FB page. The PD looted his home. He sued. The 6th court ruled that the PD couldn't have known about his right to free speech.

SCOTUS said "Petition DENIED". The bad law stands.

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Because a shocking amount of people have asked:

  1. My website is open source, here: https://github.com/boehs/site
  2. The articles I post are source available, but are hosted independently of GitHub: https://git.sr.ht/~boehs/oasis
eb, to random
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What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly created any shareholder value today

eb, to random
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So, I'm back on HN. I've gotten a few comments that my post was too political.

Literally everything I've written in the past few months is political. I write about the interactions between people, companies and technology. Technology is one of the most contentious issues of our time. By nature, covering this is covering politics, and it would be inappropriate to not draw attention to the tension between the typically liberal mastodon and the very right leaning truth social.

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@hankg I didn’t submit my site to hacker news in this case. I use lobste.rs as well, I agree the community is healthier

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