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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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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”

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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.

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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.

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.

eb, to random
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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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We'll see how long this lasts on HN, it won't for long. But I don't care. I didn't submit it, because this story isn't the type that's well suited for it.

Still, this was interesting to see:

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I've added this note to the end:

"Finally, I want to thank Truth Social for complying appropriately. While we couldn't be further apart politically, I respect that they followed the law in a timely manner without a fight."

I don't like Truth Social, and yet we need respectful discourse in this country. I need to draw attention to good examples of conduct, regardless of partisan lines.

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Lasted until 30 minutes. Lot longer than I thought it would.

Interesting discussions in the comments honestly. Lot better than I thought it would look.

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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

eb, to internet
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TRUTH SOCIAL SENT ME THEIR SOURCE CODE: https://boehs.org/node/truth-social

Fedi takes another huge win. I wonder what we'll find.

#trump #socialmedia

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@vwbusguy trump's developer army is incredibly productive. think about all the value they provide to shareholders

eb, to fediverse
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Has the replaced tech twitter? Instead of listening to Elon Musk, let's check Hacker News.

Our first statistic is the number of posts. As you can see, twitter lost some activity post-musk, and the fediverse took it. Big disparity, though.

But wait. The drop in quality on twitter is much more drastic. Despite similar volumes, it's upvoted less.

Our final chart shows that posts on the fediverse are, on average, regarded slightly higher than twitter ever was.

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gruber, to random
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Electron.

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@gruber @kraigschmidt isn't Capacitor just packaging a webview for iOS and Android? I'm not convinced on this claim.

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@nyquildotorg @gruber @kraigschmidt ah, that makes sense, it was just confusing to see that statement in the context of 'webapps pretending to be real apps use a lot of resources'

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@glyph you were incredibly generous with xcode in this screenshot

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@glyph my xcode uses like 3gb, I meant generous to xcode

eleventy, to random
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Our very first speaker reveal for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers

Henry Desroches @henry

This is their web site (made real good): https://henry.codes/

eb,
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@eleventy @henry Why jQuery 😭

eb,
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@zachleat @eleventy @henry it’s a long way to write $ = (query) => […document.querySelectorAll(query)]

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@zachleat @eleventy @henry that’s completely fair, thank you for calling me out.

It’s a very pretty website, I was mostly just curious how it was made, somehow I latched onto jquery which is completely contrary to the things I preach.

@henry, please accept my apologies

eb, to random
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Feeling cute, might start a beef with Trump Media & Technology Group

eb,
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actually, it could be time for the big guns

eb,
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@luis_in_brief if, theoretically, I wanted to get the ball rolling on this, how would I go about it

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