Seirdy

Seirdy, 2 days ago to random

Certain search engines have reached out to me since I made my list of search engine indexes asking to be moved from the Bing-based engines section to the semi-independent engines section because they have their own indexes.

All returned zero organic link results for some time during the Bing outage.

Qwant has contacted others (not me) regarding claims of Bing-dependence whenever it became a hot topic, insisting that it mixes results from its own index with Bing (something usually against the Bing ToS unless you somehow manage to negotiate an exception, which rarely happens and has finer details covered by NDAs). Has anybody seen evidence of Qwant using its own index? It’s one of the engines whose organic results went completely dormant during the Bing outage.

Seirdy, 3 days ago to random

“Fads swept the youth of the Sprawl at the speed of light; entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.”

Neuromancer on Harambe

Seirdy, 4 days ago to random

Please stop using service workers for your text-and-image websites without testing in secure browsing profiles, with privacy/security features designed to fuck up how service workers behave.

Seirdy, 6 days ago to random

• What a week, huh?
• Captain, ISO-8601 weeks start on Monday

Seirdy, 6 days ago to random

Reminder that labelling yourself as a bot in your profile is fine but you will get automatically filtered out of many other users’ timelines.

Seirdy, 8 days ago to random

If someone instantly reacts to the existence of data collection and inference by saying “isn’t this against GDPR?” they probably don’t know what the GDPR is or does, but they’re also probably right.

Seirdy, 8 days ago to random

Quoting this on Global Accessibility Performative Awareness Day as a reminder that LLM-based tools like MDN AI Help naturally amplify their datasets’ biases, including biases against disabled people.

RE: https://pleroma.envs.net/objects/ead2ed19-7ebf-4211-9beb-23a8c0acb79f

Seirdy, 9 days ago to random

If you argue that your GUI toolkit is better than others because it’s “suckless” I’ll assume it completely lacks any kind of support for bidirectional text, advanced font rendering necessary for several non-Latin languages, or accessibility.

Seirdy, 9 days ago to random

Firefox shoud now support extensions’ content scripts on pages with a sandbox CSP/iframe directive:

Bugzilla bug 1411641: CSP ‘sandbox’ directive prevents content scripts from matching, due to unique origin, breaking also browser features is resolved in the v128 branch, coming in a few months.

Meanwhile WebKit doesn’t even support media controls on pages with a sandbox directive, requiring me to relax it on any page with a video or audio element.

Seirdy, 12 days ago to random

An incomplete list of expensive fads in Silicon Valley:

• Tablets will replace PCs en masse instead of complement them (the “Post-PC era”).
• Blockchain (cryptographically-verified, decentralized pyramid schemes) will replace databases.
• Prompt engineering would replace creative labor.

What came before the Post-PC era?

Seirdy, 14 days ago to react

New bookmark: React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity.

“React and the component model standardises the software developer and reduces their individual bargaining power excluding them from a proportional share in the gains”. An amazing write-up by @baldur about the de-skilling of developers to reduce their ability to fight back against their employers.

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Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #GenAI #llms #webdev

Seirdy, 15 days ago to random

Apple apologizes for iPad ad

“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” said Tor Myhren, the company’s VP of marketing communications. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.”

Interestingly, Google used the same language to conclude its apology for its generative AI’s historical depictions of race. It explained its intention with flowery language and then said “But it’s missing the mark here”.

I wonder if we’ll be seeing more of this type of response to corporate tone-deafness (a generous term) going forward. Big “I’m sorry you feel that way (but this isn’t indicative of any problems with me)” vibes.

Seirdy, 15 days ago to random

Onto the part of this cybersec crash-course that covers OSINT and it’s talking Shodan.

It’s funny because I’ve already been using Shodan regularly but for all the completely security-irrelevant reasons. Like finding domains with Gemini capsules or Gopher holes, or for searching for sites by favicon.

Seirdy, 15 days ago to random

Everybody makes a big fuss about new ARM/x86-64 extensions but nobody seems to care about separate chips for things like idle compute (read: locally-triggered notifications and fitness tracking). I get why it exists but I’m just in awe.

“there is hardware in your pocket optimized for cryptography and hardware decoding”

ok cool

“and for secure dynamic code execution.”

makes sense

“that was made for the WebKit team at Apple for JavaScript, along with some other ARM instructions for floating point arithmetic.”

huh

“There is also a chip on your device for notifications”

now you’re fucking with me.

(redrafted from a priv post)

Seirdy, 16 days ago to random

Today’s #HiddenWebGem: The End of the Internet.

This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet. Congratulations! You’re done! Now go do something else.

Seirdy, 16 days ago to random

Doctor Who Theme: oooEEEEOoooooooooooo

me: omg miku reference

Seirdy, 16 days ago to random

New static site hosting provider hit my radar: statichost.eu. Ticks all the boxes, plus offers custom headers, OCSP Must-Staple, etc. which half the providers don’t do nowadays. I like how they do manual review and start conversations with customers for traffic spike billing instead of automated flagging and expecting users to reach out.

Seirdy, 21 days ago to random

Today’s #HiddenWebGem: The Nekonomicon.

A lovingly curated archive of a phpBB forum for the Nekoware community of SGI and IRIX enthusiasts. It preserves the knowledge built by its community after the site went offline.

Seirdy, 21 days ago to random

What if Unicode had a Skibidi emoji modifier? :skibidi_neofox:

In the vein of xkcd: Vomiting emoji (Transcript).

Seirdy, 22 days ago to random

Periodic reminder to automate your cert renewal so you don’t need periodic reminders anymore. @mori

RE: https://void.lgbt/objects/089ba144-e8fc-4f8e-b3af-78cfb87af716

Seirdy, 22 days ago to random

Anybody know of (ideally mobile-friendly) FOSS forum software (besides mailing lists) that doesn’t have a copyright-granting CLA or open-core model? Discourse, Flarum, and Nodebb require a CLA.

I’m aware of phpBB and bbj (read-only web UIs are available; no read-write web UIs).

Seirdy, 28 days ago to random

I continue to call this network’s social protocol “Mastodon’s ActivityPub-like protocol”.

Seirdy, 29 days ago to random

Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders.

“I recently noticed a new folder in the root level of my Home directory, named ai_overlay_tmp.”

Quote posting bc the OP has a screenshot of the article without a link or alt-text.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/kjhealy/statuses/112320834071504291

Seirdy, 1 month ago to fediverse

New bookmark: ActivityPub on a (mostly) static website.

There have been other attempts to document the process of bringing ActivityPub to a (mostly) static site, but this is my favorite so far. I wonder if I should give it a go, if POSSE ever stops serving my needs.

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Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #IndieWeb #Security #Web

Seirdy, 1 month ago to random

Some user-agents that hit my site this week:

“W3C standards are important. Stop fucking obsessing over User-Agent already.”

sorry.

“I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said–\x22Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my User-Agent, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

i’m happy for you, or sorry that happened.

“loli_spider”

um.