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sean, 4 hours ago to random

“rant about copyright and how you do have rights even if people say you need express written permission Be cool ok? Be cool.”

“[then how to follow the author] …there’s Twitter or whatever that dumbass is calling it by the time you get this…”

– @pluralistic

slow clap

sean, 1 day ago to random

34 sounds like a good score.

sean, 1 day ago to random

Remember when if the GUI had a toggle, it was actually a toggle control and not a button that sort-of-acts as a toggle control?

And remember when, if you clicked that button, it didn’t move out from under your cursor so that if you try to toggle it again, you didn’t actually accidentally click a DIFFERENT button because the button you want moved?

That was cool.

beep, 1 day ago to random

please calm down, Website I Ordered Some Socks From

sean, 2 days ago to random

I saw (by way of my feed) that React—the Thalidomide of the Web—is 11 years old today.

sean, 3 days ago to random

Plunge deep into full enshittification mode and then ask me about recommending you, 1Password?

ramsey, 4 days ago to Matrix

A single-user #Matrix #Synapse server should not require so many resources to run. 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM should be plenty.

sean, 6 days ago to random

In the late ‘90s and early 2000s, people—regular people—were often afraid of ecommerce and open source software.

We did a ton of work to build trust in both of these things, to the point where they became the obvious defaults when people had a choice.

It really hurts me deep within to see “us” cashing out the trust we’ve built in the web for the short term profits of bad and unreliable search, cheap engagement tricks, and completely ignorant “hallucinations”.

ramsey, 6 days ago to random

What’s the deal with skinny 12 oz. cans?

sean, 7 days ago to random

Saw a guy openly displaying a “FLQ⚜️” leg tattoo today. This is not okay.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec

sean, 10 days ago to random

Imagine being so bad at your job of creating log-in systems that you have to outsource rate limiting to a CAPTCHA that punishes your actual legitimate users—especially one run by a third party.

Air Canada does this with Google’s obnoxious “train our driving vision ML to see motorcycles” recaptcha scam. It doesn’t accept my answers probably 90% of the time, so I have to try over and over and over. I hate it so much that I’d change airlines if I reasonably could. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112479401587652865

sean, 10 days ago to random

Every year, my Electromagnetic Field regret-I-can’t-attend FOMO increases.

https://www.emfcamp.org/ https://chaos.social/@russss/112479896474346562

sean, 10 days ago to random

In the 1980s, there was a fad where every bit of food advertising had to make sure we knew about Oat Bran. It was added to everything, and all news/conversation about nutrition was “now with Oat Bran.”

Turns out that maybe it is actually good for you in some ways, but it certainly has no business being in every part of the conversation…

I was reminded of this ridiculous fad, as someone who just spent 15 minutes trying (and failing) to turn off an “AI” “helper” in one of our chosen tools.

sean, 11 days ago to random

Whenever I hear about big changes at AWS (like changing up the AWS CEO to Matt Garman), I not-so-secretly wish that AWS could find a way to split off from Amazon itself.

Edit: adding reference now that the server is back up. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/changing-of-the-guard-aws-appoints-matt-garman-as-ceo/

sean, 13 days ago to random

I know retro tech is big right now, but I never expected this kind of grassroots anti-TCP campaign!

(Yes, this is a 90s joke that barely 8 of you will get.)