atax1a

@atax1a@infosec.exchange

mixed-mexican-pueblo-sephardic non-white mostly-coyote genderterrorist that eventually disassembles everything xe touches // used to work at the bird site ∴ posts untagged birdside content // casually self-hosts our own email from our house // plural, not an entire SRE org // kween of the ambiguous parse // they them // xe xer

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atax1a, to random

Bluesky has really good press people, because it’s been over a year of glowing reviews about what it technologically can do, rather than what it does.

atax1a, to HashtagGames

can't read shit without a light on, sorry

atax1a, to random

@stablehorde_generator draw for us tony soprano playing the piano with a totally normal and not excessive number of fingers

lzg, to random
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    atax1a,

    @lzg @igb jorge luis borges is always like "i know a spot" and then takes himself to a park bench where he meets his past and future selves in a simultaneity so ambiguous that it is unclear which one of them narrated the story

    danhon, to random
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    Some sort of Reddit-ish karma mechanism where you need to have earned x amount of karma before you're allowed to reply to me so I don't get annoyed at all the Well, Actuallys

    atax1a,

    @danhon i think aphyr suggested a client-side feature that tracks the ratio of your replies to those peoples' interactions with you, and if you keep replying to people who never ever ever interact back then the client should take you aside and not let you post for a bit.

    atax1a,

    @trochee @danhon for some reason this made me start thinking of representing fediverse accounts as SimCity 2000 tiles and using the query tool on them

    atax1a, to random

    dying laughing at this zoë schiffer article about how the dumbshit nerds elon brought in thought the birdsite could run on 1 datacenter so they killed smf

    and then elon decided to prioritize stability over speed and theyre recommending 4 datacenters

    the cluelessness, the clowncar

    atax1a,

    you know what you need to turn up datacenters at twitter? you need a bunch of knowledge that ain't even locked away in our head, it's locked away in our old teammate's heads. we were just there to deal with the edge cases.

    atax1a,

    you never had to deal with Audubon or loony or Wilson or it's bastard child WLM or the bespoke YAML-fronted graph-reduction sub-turing interpreter that someone made to orchestrate around the range of possible outcomes and failure modes of operations sent to those systems

    our headspace holds experiences of all of these things; this place is not a place of honor, my good bitch, and that isn't just a cute meme to us, it's a worldview

    atax1a,

    you stare into the abyss and feel driven to drink

    the abyss calls us up at 3AM, absolutely sloshed, bawling about its ex

    we are emphatically not the same

    0xabad1dea, to random

    there is something painfully tragicomic about a professional programmer who was sent up the river for murder in 2006 suggesting that the recipient of his letter go ahead and post it to slashdot to make sure we all see it https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/convicted-murderer-filesystem-creator-writes-of-regrets-to-linux-list/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    atax1a,

    @0xabad1dea our storied experience with slashdot is why we never went to digg, reddit, hackernews, lobsters, et alia

    atax1a, to random

    hearing about the rust foundation purging the transfemmes and staring directly into the mcfucking camera here

    https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/110448332794558304

    atax1a, to random

    yall realize that cory doctorow is an entertainer whose job is to sell sci-fi books, not an anticapitalist tech visionary, right? like part of how we got here is people treating sci-fi concepts as tech visions, doctorow is part of the problem, not the solution

    atax1a,

    @mrcompletely thank you for understanding the thing we're upset by :)

    hazelweakly, to random
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    I'm not sure if people are aware, but I sound almost identical in person as I do in my writing. My writing style is very much a copy over of my voice and linguistic patterns, warts and all

    Which means all those long soliloquys about tech that I end up writing on here? Yeah, that's a 3 minute long on the fly answer in person

    I am very sorry I'm like this 😭

    (I'm not that sorry, but if you were expecting me to not sound like a textbook, a tight 5 standup routine, or an essay irl, whoops...)

    atax1a,

    @hazelweakly this is what we tell people too: we write like we talk, and we talk like we're writing a book.

    atax1a,

    @hazelweakly honestly the best way we've heard our idiolect described is as "the Alexes plays full-contact English"

    dangoodin, to random

    The real headline here should be:

    "Even after being purged with no explanation, prominent journalists cling to toxic platform hellbent on undermining a free press"

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d948x/x-purges-prominent-journalists-leftists-with-no-explanation

    atax1a,

    @dangoodin @angelastella we keep saying "jack dorsey walked with nazis so that elon could run"

    atax1a, to random

    truly baffled by the number of people who react to being asked to mask during a respiratory pandemic like we just asked them to hand over a kidney and their firstborn

    atax1a,

    @falcon your position is incoherent with the principles of public health, hth

    atax1a,

    @falcon my immunocompromised partner cannot get medical care at the hospital without incurring massive risk! and weren't you just subtooting people about COVID alarmism? are you fucking serious here?

    hrefna, to fediverse
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    I have now seen multiple, multiple people run into the same set of obstacles with . Some of them bounce off entirely, some stick with it, but they all run into the same approximate issues in similar places of the dev cycle.

    That's one of the major situations I'd like to see improve in 2024 on the . Above any feature other than trust and safety related items.

    I'd like to see it become easier to develop in this space, with confidence that you are doing the right thing.

    atax1a,

    @hrefna something went direly wrong in the standards realm sometime around the OAuth2 RFC, which says verbatim that following the spec as it stands will produce implementations that don't interoperate. ActivityPub has the same nature and when we complained about it last year we got a bunch of dweebs telling us that the activitypub spec is fine because it has optional protocol annexes that "all the real implementations" follow

    i want to scream

    atax1a,

    @erincandescent @hrefna the way weve been summarizing it is that AP was designed and implemented by people who wanted to make "twitter but it works like email" while understanding neither twitter or email

    atax1a, to random

    back when classic macos included an LDAP client in the file-finding app

    atax1a, to random

    if you follow the money, the provenance of the standards, and the history of the implementors, the entire bluesky project smacks of 'cryptocurrency trojan horse', and given that dorsey is on the board and hand-picked the original dev crew from a cryptocurrency project, it is rather on the bluesky promoters to convince us that it isn't blockchain related

    trysdyn, to random
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    The last time Facebook embraced an open federated standard they did it for precisely long enough to saturate server-to-server contacts between an already existing userbase and their stuff, then shut off that federation and told anyone cut off by it to just come to Facebook instead.

    This is literally something they did. This is in their playbook.

    The people running the stuff behind the scenes were blindsided by it; it was an executive decision. Those people wanted to build the thing in good faith and the Business Plan was to let them until the time was right to strike.

    That we're again going "It seems to be done right, let's give them a chance" is a little infuriating considering I was pretty impacted by the fallout of the last time.

    atax1a,

    @trysdyn pouring one out for that brief 10 minute period in mid-200x when our Psi client connected to AIM and could talk to gmail and farcebook users

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