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janxdevil

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"Hey now. We devils can do a lot of damage in a classroom armed with nothing but the clothing God gave us. Sometimes all it takes is a carefully chosen pronoun or a noteworthy historical date and next thing you know it's blood and guts everywhere."

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cstross, to random
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What COVID19 has taught us about the Zombie Apocalypse is that there will be zombie denialists, zombie virus infection parties, zombie conspiracy theorists, and politicians ruthlessly exploiting lies about zombies to kill off demographics who won't vote for them—and when a vaccine against Z-virus is invented there will be zombie anti-vaxxers (some of them funded by the Kremlin for shits and giggles).

janxdevil,
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@cstross Re: Your Brains, by Jonathan Coulton was not a satire. It’s how your Return To Office policy will actually work.

JoshuaHolland, to Israel
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Two things are true:

There's been an explosion of really vile , some coming from pro-Palestinian protesters. It's terrifying.

Calls for a ceasefire and condemnation of Palestinian civilian deaths are being labeled antisemitism, even when they come from Jews. It's slanderous.

These things feed into each other.

It's a terrible time to be a pro-Palestinian, anti-occupation Jew. We're really getting hit from all sides right now.

janxdevil,
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@JoshuaHolland I’m a not-Jewish atheist who identifies as a socialist, and I’m wary about joining the calls for a ceasefire and condemning the atrocious crimes against innocent Palestinian civilians by the Israeli state.

Why? Because as an atheist and socialist, I’m automatically assumed to be not just antisemitic, but also aligned with Russia. Any sympathy I might normally have for the rights of the Palestinian people to armed resistance against systematic oppression and occupation by the IDF, is badly damaged by Hamas attacks on civilians, but it’s completely reversed by pro-Palestinian protests that don’t actively exclude antisemitic and fascist elements from affiliating with them. I simply can’t join with that, and the causes I care about would be damaged if they were seen to be supported by someone assumed to be antisemitic and aligned with Russia.

I don’t see how this war doesn’t end up tearing asunder basically all the various left and center-left coalitions.

stevesilberman, to random
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Every reporter in America should stop what they're doing, read, and absorb the importance of what Will Bunch says here. We are one election away from a fascist state ruled by a career mobster with a sadistic craving for revenge. That's what's at stake in 2024! https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html

janxdevil,
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@stevesilberman Not gonna lie, I’m not sure the outcome of the election is really likely to make anything change in their day to day work flow.

evacide, to random
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"Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised."

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/iphone-privacy-feature-hiding-wi-fi-macs-has-failed-to-work-for-3-years/

janxdevil,
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@evacide Oh FFS, they were using the HW identifier in mDNS advertisements? That makes me extremely sad.

ElleGray, to random
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my ancestors: hunting a wild boar and grinding corn by hand so they can have breakfast

me: trying to stir a jar of natural peanut butter jesus christ will my suffering NEVER end

janxdevil,
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@ElleGray I am 58 years old and only a week ago learned how to do this without making a giant mess and bending my cutlery out of shape. I feel your pain. I’m sure our ancestors would be appalled at both of us.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc

(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)

janxdevil,
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@b0rk “merge strategy”

petergleick, (edited ) to random

You have to admire how totally on brand it is for the Republicans to choose a climate-denier, gun-loving, anti-democratic insurrectionist, homophobic, anti-woman, religious extremist as House Speaker.
Oh, and anti-contraceptives...
🤯
Checks all the boxes.

janxdevil,
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@petergleick also too: an activist for creationism.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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if you're an infrequent command line user -- what text editor do you use if you need to occasionally edit a file on the command line (other than vim/emacs)?

curious about what people use to edit a git commit message etc

if you picked 'other', I'd love to hear what you do in the replies!

janxdevil,
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@b0rk vi (not vim)

TexasObserver, to Law
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Local boards have until March 1, 2024, to choose whether to allow religious chaplain programs in their . It's tempting in a state that's often short on counselors.

However, expert Charles J. Russo explains how the new program is pushing the limits of what could be constitutional. From our friends at @TheConversationUS:
https://www.texasobserver.org/public-school-chaplains-first-amendment/

janxdevil,
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@TheConversationUS @TexasObserver Thanks for just! I have never understood why the U.S. military doesn’t allow atheist chaplains, and it’s depressing to find out that prisons and universities have opened up to them, while the military continues to discriminate.

janxdevil,
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@TexasObserver @TheConversationUS They gonna allow atheists to have a chaplain? Asking for a friend.

Sheril, to random
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Tonight my 10yo asked if a woman might run for president next year.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because if a woman runs, you should vote for her,” he explained. “In almost 250 years, there haven’t been any women presidents. We need someone to be the first.”

Couldn’t agree more kiddo.

janxdevil,
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@Sheril There’s one running right now. Her name is Nikki Haley. She’s the leading GOP rival to Donald Trump.

pluralistic, to random
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The great irony of the net's platformization is that platforms are intermediaries, and the promise of the internet that got so many of us excited was disintermediation - getting rid of the middlemen that act as gatekeepers between community members, creators and audiences, buyers and sellers, etc.

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/13/this-is-for-everyone/#revisiting

1/

janxdevil,
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@pluralistic As the main author and editor of https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6092, I have to tell you that it has all turned out just as I was predicting it would. I fought like hell to make sure there was something somewhere in there that would allow ad-hoc peer-to-peer networking between endpoints behind residential gateways, and I mostly failed. There is one tiny vestigial clause, like an Easter egg, hidden in there about BTNS that I hoped would eventually enable the evasion of the platform monopolies that I was fighting against. Buried treasure, and nobody seems to be digging it up.

janxdevil,
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@pluralistic The reason this matters: with IPv4, the NAT in your home gateway is the pinch point where ad-hoc peer-to-peer networking can be prevented from functioning with quality that compares favorably with centralized platforms. In theory, with IPv6, where a NAT is unnecessary, that pinch point would not be a hindrance anymore. Which is why they needed someone to write RFC 6092— so that pinch point would still be there even after IPv4 and its NAT came to be replaced by IPv6.

And now you know why I cried all the way through LITTLE BROTHER.

janxdevil,
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@pluralistic The backstory on how I came to be the dipshit volunteered to write that RFC is kind of tragic. The earliest drafts called for the firewall to be in “transparent mode” by default and require an explicit opt-in by the interior network administrator to enable blocking of ad-hoc peer-to-peer protocols. The contest over that recommendation in the working group lasted years, and the pro-transparency faction that I favored ultimately lost. The commercial service providers made clear that they had no intention of following that recommendation in the gear they would be providing to customers who didn’t bring their own gateway, and their own standards for equipment vendors would include explicit deviations to the IETF recommendation.

cks, to random
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Current status: reading about IPv6 address allocation plans and wondering if there are reasons to give any of our existing IPv4 subnets something larger than a /64.

(Our subnet firewalls don't run routing protocols so it's hard to see how multiple interior IPv6 networks on a subnet would work, even if people wanted to give, eg, their VM cluster an entire /64 for itself. Maybe it'd all work out?)

janxdevil,
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@cks Reason people use DHCP-PD instead of a real routing protocol is it’s mostly zero human knowledge required for deploying a router for the delegated prefixes. You just plug it into the network, and it gets a prefix and routes for it. All the headaches are with the integration of the DHCP server with the actual routing protocol. This is why CableLabs and other insisted on building it that way, and it’s also why it’s a giant headache and doesn’t work well in any kind of generalized way. (We tried to fix it in the HOMENET working group in IETF, but the effort exploded in the worst kind of IETF stupidity that I still can’t discuss without anesthesia and muscle relaxants.)

janxdevil,
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@cks So a reason to hand out more than /64 to a subnet is you plan to delegate prefixes to routers that connect to they subnet. Typically not with a routing protocol, but with DHCP-PD.

marcprecipice, to Cruise
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I’m interested to see the 2023 reports when they get released. These are all (for and , at least) from before they were driverless. I have a suspicion disengagements happen pretty often for the “driverless” cars, and I’d love to see how often. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/disengagement-reports/

janxdevil,
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@marcprecipice I’ll be honest. That miles-per-intervention score is suspiciously low to me. I have a tough time believing it was that low, but if it was, hoo boy, no wonder they got creamed.

janxdevil, to random
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Today I’m feeling especially demoralized about the state of politics, at all levels: local, state, national and global.

The impression I have is that a certain similarity can be observed in the dysfunctions at every level: an absolute refusal even to consider the possibility of long-term consequences of policy choices.

It’s like the entire world of human politics at every level has adopted the axiomatic view that the long-term future simply does not exist and therefore any reasoning that accounts for it is obviously invalid.

I simply don’t know how to live in a world where that’s the dominant mode of thinking. And today I’m despairing more than usual about it.

janxdevil,
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Clearly it’s a world where billionaires have arranged everything to suit their own preferences for thinking about the long-term future, which is to say not at all. At a basic level, billionaires understand they have no real control over what happens to their vast wealth after they die. All their efforts at shaping their legacies are dependent on unreliable systems they cannot totally control in life much less after death. So they’re organizing around simply denying the importance of having a legacy at all. Allowing billionaires even to exist was our greatest mistake. I used to think it was the hydrogen bomb and the fossil fuel refinery. Nope. Those were just consequences of allowing billionaires.

janxdevil, to random
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You know, as true as this may be, Clinton is the wrong spokesperson for the cause.

From: @kcarruthers
https://mastodon.social/@kcarruthers/111388489655085445

danyork, to random
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AVFTCN 023 – What WILL happen with all the LEO satellites burning up in the atmosphere?

5:19 am What’s going to happen when 25+ satellites are burning up in our upper atmosphere EVERY DAY? In a really weird bit of synchronicity, after sending out my message yesterday where I ended saying that the environmental effects of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites was an entirely separate conversation… I was scrolling through Mastodon and the very first posts I saw were…

http://crowsnest.danyork.com/2023/11/04/avftcn-023-what-will-happen-with-all-the-leo-satellites-burning-up-in-the-atmosphere/

janxdevil,
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@danyork You might also be interested in the hash tag.

janxdevil, to random
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Seriously considering doing something radical to my physical appearance so that I don’t look on first glance like a Nazi mass shooter suspect. Need to figure out what viable options I might have. One option is to just stop wearing pants.

janxdevil,
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@paul Not until now… thanks!

lauren, to random
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One giant flaw in Trump's plan to weaponize the DOJ if he's ever in a position to do so, is that he'd also have to have judges that go along. Even the current Supreme Court is unlikely to play nice with him at that level.

janxdevil,
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@SteveBellovin @lauren I would also like to remind our assembled luminaries that significant power can be vested in prosecutorial discretion to dismiss charges against political allies and also to protect them from scrutiny in criminal investigations.

CliftonR, to random
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For those of you who know what T.BOBs are (or were once) - does anybody remember what year HITT.BOB was? '93 maybe? '94?

I know that's where/when I first met some of you F2F, including I think Ceej & Annie & Dr. Strychnine/Janx & Dominus & of course NJ & Morrisa & many more.

janxdevil,
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@paul @CliftonR It was. At Chez Iguana.

danyork, to random
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Count me as one of the people who actually liked the on my MacBook Pro. It isn’t something I have to use.. it never became a strong part of my workflow. But now and then in different apps it provides a quick and convenient way to do things. I always kind of wished it was on the Apple magic keyboard so that I could program some shortcuts into it.

However, that is all going away…

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23938841/apple-macbook-pro-touch-bar-discontinued-proof-of-concept

janxdevil,
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@danyork Yep. That I think was the big mistake. If there had been a TouchBar on the external keyboard, I would have paid the Apple Luxury Tax for it. Building it into the MacBook keyboard meant that it wasn’t available to me where I really need it. So I never bothered to train myself to rely on it.

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