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Aatube

@Aatube@kbin.social

[He/Him, Nosist, Touch typist, Enthusiast, Superuser impostorist, keen-eyed humorist, endeavourOS shillist, kotlin useist, wonderful bastard, professinal pedant miser]
Stuped person says stuped things, people boom
Maybe migrating to kbin.melroy.org

shawnhooper, to programming
@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org avatar

Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", and more, passed away on January 1.

Wirth's law, named after him, is an adage which states that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.

jacobydave,

@shawnhooper I read once that he said that Europeans passed him by reference (pronouncing his name correctly) while Americans pass him by value (pronouncing it as "Nickel's Worth")

aral, (edited ) to apple
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Whenever anyone says “Apple stuff Just Works™”, tell them you can’t use the backspace key in iCloud Calendar on Firefox.

Then laugh in their faces.

#apple #justWorks #iCloud #calendar #firefox #web #dev #trillionDollarIncompetence

anparker,

@aral Works for me in iCloud Notes and Pages. At least on mac, don't have linux at hand to try. Firefox 121.

grickle, to Starwars
@grickle@mstdn.social avatar

Can't connect to the Force.

kernellogger, to linux
@kernellogger@fosstodon.org avatar

Annoyed by having to put in front on [1]?

Then use this instead[2]:

$ journalctl -k

It should work if the user executing this is a member of the groups "systemd-journal", "adm", or "wheel".

[1] which is the case if CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT is turned on in your 's .config – which recently switched on, something many other distros did already a while ago.

[2] works for the common case, for some fancier stuff you might still need dmesg

sandro,
@sandro@c3d2.social avatar

@kernellogger alias dmesg='journalctl -k'

dannym, (edited )

If you’re not aware, the hack was performed by Arion Kurtaj, an 18 year old, who has been put in prison a psych ward in a uk prison. He hacked rockstar at a hotel, where he was left with no computers or phones, only to find that the TV had a chromecast, which he used to buy a phone and a keyboard (presumably by selling his monero).

  • He hacked into all major uk telcom providers: EE, BT and Orange.
  • He hacked into nvidia

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

Don’t get me wrong, he deserves a long and drawn out lesson on morals, but also a stellar salary where he can do what he’s doing for the right side.

EDIT: I have made a mistake in my original comment, which has been pointed out. My bad, he’s technically in a psych ward in a uk prison, because he’s aggressive and unstable. I still stand by what I said (and what I clarified in the comments below), but I wanted to correct the record

InfiniteFlow,
@InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world avatar

The ones with the rabbits are pretty messed up as well!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ea599bb9-beec-41cf-91c4-95535a482cb0.jpeg

peertube, to fediverse
@peertube@framapiaf.org avatar

We tried to simulate 1000 viewers on a video, and then on a livestream. (Note that 99% of twitch livestreams are under 1000 simultaneous views.)

We optimized accordingly... And here are the results: it works!

With a ~20$ server, PeerTube can now support such usecases.

Read all about these stress tests on our blog : https://joinpeertube.org/news/stress-test-2023

abhibeckert, (edited )

Apple is one of the companies behind the USB standard. There are other major companies (especially Intel) but they often make really stupid decisions and I don’t think the world would be using USB today if it wasn’t for Apple coming on board and doing some really awesome work. USB-C for example was designed by Apple. And Thunderbolt - another Intel project - was pretty much exclusive to Apple hardware… and it’s rumoured that Apple pushed intel hard to make serious improvements such as using copper instead of fibre optic and including it modern USB standards (thunderbolt, if you don’t know, is basically PCI-E over a USB cable - it works so much better than a regular USB connection the only drawback is it costs slightly more).

They took KHTML, a niche rendering engine that nobody had heard of which didn’t work for major websites… and made it into the foundation that backs every browser except FireFox.

The ARM CPU architecture was technically an independent company, but Apple provided nearly all their funding in the early days, provided ongoing funding for decades before they did anything interesting, and ARM’s founding CEO was an Apple employee.

Most of the best programming languages in the world, especially modern ones but even some old ones that have been re-architected, depend on LLVM which, while it’s an open source project, for many years was exclusively worked on by Apple (who hired the university student that started it as a side project and gave him an unlimited budget to make it what it is today).

They figured out how to make touch screen phones work. It existed before, but it was shit - in particular typing was unusable and while it wasn’t as good on the first iPhone as it is today it was Apple who was the first to find a way to make it “good enough” and that was some seriously innovative stuff. It looks like a tiny keyboard with touch buttons but that is not what’s going on under the hood. It’s far more complex.

Going forward - the Vision Pro headset has some pretty awesome innovations.

I could go on, but you get the picture. A really common theme is they took something that already existed (e.g. the mouse) and figured out how to actually make it good enough for people to adopt it. It takes a lot of R&D to develop something as comprehensive as, for example, the HIG:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/39db7ddd-58c9-4b27-8f7d-020aa035cd87.jpeg

Could someone else have achieved those innovations? Sure. If ARM/Apple didn’t do it… I’m sure someone else would have figured out how to make a fast processor that could run all day on a battery small enough to wear on your wrist. But with that and so many other things, Apple’s work was critical (a lot of that was software, not hardware - for example technology like ARC was critical to reach acceptable levels of efficiency). Somebody else would have done it eventually, but I’d argue Apple made it happen decades earlier than it otherwise would have. And once they proved it could be done, others coped them. Which is awesome - as Steve Jobs loved to quote Picasso “good artists copy; great artists steal” and said they do it shamelessly and expect their competitors to do the same… as long as they don’t steal branding. That’s when Apple’s legal team gets fired up - as they did with the early Samsung phones where everything, even the icons on the home screen which could have easily been unique, looked like an iPhone.

LaurensHof, (edited ) to fediverse
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Flipping the Federation Switch: Flipboard joins the fediverse

“It’s the future of social media, and the future of the web!” Speaking with Mike McCue makes it immediately clear why Flipboard has joined the fediverse. Monday, the company announced that Flipboard has begun federating, and that people from other parts of the fediverse can now interact and follow with Flipboard accounts.

The plan is to implement federation in three steps. The first step started this week, and allows full interoperability between a selected group of 27 publishers and creators. In January 2024, all Flipboard accounts will federate, with people from the fediverse being able to follow and interact with any public curator. Finally, Flipboard plans for April 2024 for all Flipboard accounts to interact with fediverse accounts as well.

infographic showing the logos of the flipboard accounts currently joining the fediverse, such as The Verge and FastcompanyThe Flipboard accounts that are now available in the fediverse

McCue explains Flipboard’s Magazines, by saying that if you are interested in a subject, for example Mountain biking, you want to see all of the content, and not limit it to only one type: not just posts (microblogs), but also videos, photo’s, articles. Flipboard’s magazines is a collection of all these different types of media. He says that federation presents a great opportunity to introduce people to the concept of Flipboard and its curated magazines.

McCue is also thinking on how Flipboard maps onto the current structure that most fediverse software uses. In Flipboard, one account can maintain multiple magazines, and you ‘flip’ the content into one specific magazine. With the current implementation of federation, you only follow a Flipboard account, and all the posts you see in your feed get the text “Posted Into [Magazine]” added. You cannot follow an individual magazine from an account yet. As Flipboards Magazines do not easily map onto the structure that other fediverse platforms use. The closest analogue might be PeerTube’s Channels, which also don’t federate.

Flipboard is also thinking about how to share their work on content moderation, stating in their announcement post that “we will share [our red/green domain list] with other instance owners in the Fediverse as soon as is practically possible”. McCue explains that the red/green domain list is used by Flipboard to determine if websites are trustworthy, with quality content and fair reporting (green list), or untrustworthy or harmful for the red domain list.

Flipboard uses these list to determine on how to approach accounts and posts in their recommendations. The fediverse has been thinking and working about various initiatives on how to share information about whether other fediverse servers are trustworthy. For more information, The Nexus of Privacy has an extensive look at three major initiatives in the fediverse, FediSeer, FIRES and The Bad Space. There are many open questions on how Flipboard’s work will look, but it does represent an expansion in the thinking of how the fediverse can work together to share information about trust.

The steps by Flipboard to federate represent two trends going on in the fediverse currently;
a transition of the fediverse towards an open social web, where products and organisations can add a social components to their product by adding fediverse integration. The other is in placing an increased focus on content curation. A significant group of people in the fediverse express skepticism about algorithmic discovery. Hand-curated content represents an alternative way of finding new content in the fediverse, and Flipboard makes that easier now, with their federation of magazines.

https://fediversereport.com/flipping-the-federation-switch-flipboard-joins-the-fediverse/

masimatutu,

"As Flipboards Magazines do not easily map onto the structure that other fediverse platforms use. The closest analogue might be PeerTube’s Channels, which also don’t federate."

Ever heard of kbin?

b0rk, to random
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this guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html

(they seem to think everyone should use info pages instead, which I personally have never used despite having used GNU tools for 20 years)

ploum, to github
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It told you it was time to leave :

https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html

I was wrong.

Leaving is not enough.

It is now time to burn it to the ground, to push every single MBA holder in the fire, to eviscerate everyone with "online marketing" in their title then pour salt on the ashes before marking that place a forbidden land for at least several generations.

https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html

(through @sebsauvage )

squalouJenkins,
@squalouJenkins@fosstodon.org avatar

@ploum @sebsauvage is it a github issue, of douchbags behaviour issue ?

I mean : github sure allows these behaviours, but does it promote it ?

I mean : douchebags will be douchebags

echo64,

I actually work in cloud engineering and regularly price this kind of thing up.

Their costs are salaries not aws bills.

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

im going to treat it like any other email instance server. trust until they give me a reason not to, and then known contingencies can be implemented.

rolle, to opensource
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I’m so tired of the capitalist argument that an open source project cannot be successful because it’s based on nonprofit or donations instead of vc funding and corporates.

Some people seem to actually believe in this narrative that Linux, Mozilla products and the Internet itself are all alive solely because of for-profit industries while forgetting that the actual people, inventors, universities and organisations do exist in this world. Also the contributing factors by companies do not nullify the brilliance of the original project. FFS, it is not all because of the money.

mwfc,
@mwfc@chaos.social avatar

@rolle
I am not sure I would include Linux in it, given that kernel work is really a lot of corporate work.

I consider a better example. A lot of academia goes into it and helps to foster a full ecosystem that is dependend on it. Yes, there are plenty of sponsors like Intel, but in its core it has been driven by academics for a long time.
And there are plenty of other ubiquous libraries. Maybe even products like
sadly is too, being neglected by funding for too long.

mrdk, to fediverse
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Today is John Mastodon Day: On this day one year ago, a journalist misunderstood some facts and created the person of “John Mastodon” of them (https://web.archive.org/web/20221216232836/https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter). On that day, the Fediverse got a new meme, a patron saint and a running gag at the same time.
Let us all celebrate it!

feditips, to random
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  1. Meta/Facebook has a horrific track record on human rights:

  1. Meta/Facebook is trying to join the Fediverse. We need to defederate them.

  2. If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net" (here's how on Mastodon https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon/)

  3. If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net". Your admin is listed on your server website's About page.

AudraTran, (edited )
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BoydStephenSmithJr,
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@AudraTran @feditips For now, I'm going to try to stay on an instance that will federate with threads.net, but if an instance thinks defederation is the best way to serve/protect their users, they should do so.

Sometimes a "net split" is the healthiest solution. Intolerance cannot be tolerated, if we are to preserve tolerance.

gadgetfrog,
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@feditips Isn’t this what we want? For all major social media to federate with each other using an open standard? A big company takes the first big step towards this, and now we suddenly don’t want federation with them anymore?

BoydStephenSmithJr,
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@AudraTran Tolerating intolerance can happen over any information transfer mechanism.

I don't think any of the accounts covered by the current Threads beta has been intolerant, but I have heard there are intolerant organizations with a current presence of Threads.

Federation that included transferring their intolerance would be tolerating intolerance.

blogoklahoma,

@angiebaby @feditips I did accuse them of gatekeeping. They might have taken that badly.

I don't think Threads should be blocked at all. Everyday users there have nothing to do with Meta. If you want to block, your choice, and I stand by your decision.

I've been blocked before and will be again. Mostly from RWNJs. Some people just can't hear different opinions.

liaizon, (edited ) to fediverse
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Way more interesting and healthy fediverse news is happening in the shadows and is barely getting discussed! Discourse has federation between different instances of itself and other software such as Mastodon working!

Attached is a demo video from Angus McLeod via their announcement here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/117

Ensign_Crab,

This is the same detention center that had an employee who embezzled 1.2 million dollars worth of fajitas over the course of 9 years. He only got caught because he took the day off to go to a doctor’s appointment and a delivery of 800lbs of skirt steak showed up that no one else was expecting.

What I’m saying here is the Darrell B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center isn’t known for the fastidious oversight of its employees.

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