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autiomaa

@autiomaa@mastodon.social

Learning something new every day.

Interested in many topics. UX, technology, design, Open Source, digital communities, remote work, distributed infrastructure, etc.

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campuscodi, to random
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Modern-day web development is so complicated. What the hell happened over the past 10 years.

Why do I need Node.js just to edit some CSS? :thonking:

And when did SASS become SCSS?

Ok, I give up.... too much catching up to do :hurb:

autiomaa,
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@campuscodi Way more than 3... 🤣🤣

More like 300,000+ different stacks.

LukaszOlejnik, to random
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Surprise. The mere compliance with cybersecurity standards does not mean there are no cybersecurity issues. Treating such standards as check-box audit excercise is insufficient. But that’s how it’s often done. Including for compliance. https://josiahdykstra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NDSS2020_Compliance_Cautions.pdf

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autiomaa,
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@LukaszOlejnik If food package contents would be audited as little as most companies' information security systems, people would have tons of more health issues. There's really a great need for more testing of systems.

dansup, to iOS
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I’ve never seen this before, I wonder what “advanced privacy protections” they mean

autiomaa,
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@dansup Probably they should say that those "anonymized" web statistics are in fact less anonymous than expected.
https://the-federation.info/info/#privacy-policy

"The Company is a U.S. company and some data infrastructure are located in the U.S."
https://umami.is/privacy

autiomaa,
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@dansup @tomwor Unami collects geolocated IP data, so it seems that the privacy relay works nicely for preventing that.

bornach, to medicalcannabis
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So the single-use #vape #ewaste problem is not just the UK

"The report also highlights that 844 million vapes were discarded. Collectively these vapes weighed as much as six Eiffel Towers and contained enough lithium to power 1,500 electric cars."
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1013/1410603-ireland-e-waste-recycling/

autiomaa,
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@bornach It's larger than 1,500 cars, as the original infographic image on article says 15,000 cars. Apparently there's writing error on the RTE article's text, as those don't match.

tqbf, to random

The best, funniest thing about Bernstein's crusade against NIST's selection of CRYSTALS-Kyber for post-quantum key exchange is that if NIST had selected Bernstein's own submission, then, by his own logic, he should trust it less: it would be an indication NSA had secretly broken it.

autiomaa,
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@tqbf As much as he has done things in the past, it's difficult to see how one person could always be better than a team effort of many skilled people.

When looking at the https://pq-crystals.org/kyber/resources.shtml page, there are at least 10 authors for the specification document. Constant review process while co-authoring something as complex as that system must generally be more trustworthy, than individual doing things alone.

osma, to random
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Every blog hosted on Wordpress dot com now is enabled to post not just to the web, but to the social web (fediverse) too! All you need to do is install the free ActivityPub plugin and activate the feature. Your blog's domain name is automatically a social address and can be followed by any Mastodon or other fedi user. Couldn't be much simpler - no faffing about with IFTTT or any other third party services.
https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/
https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

autiomaa,
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@osma Most likely WordPress integration will grow a lot larger than Mastodon service amount, because it's a lot cheaper to start (in comparison to having a full system to maintain).

autiomaa,
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@osma Few friends have been using the original WordPress ActivityPub plugin for a longer time, and it's rather useful for marketing automation use. Less need for manually posting about having published something new.

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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October 12, 2011: iCloud launched ☁️

autiomaa,
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@BasicAppleGuy Comparison to Google accounts is very much relevant, as those current have 15 GB of storage for the non-paid accounts. That amount has also been growing during the past decade, though I don't remember what it was back in 2011.

There are technical implementation differences in how that works, compared to iCloud, but the amount is easy to compare.

"Each Google Account includes 15 GB of storage, which is shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos."
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9312312?hl=en

sarajw, to random
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Getting to be time for me to hide or delete news apps again. I care. I don't want to put myself on a news diet.

But I can feel the temptation to just... kill off the feelings. Let myself get numb to it. Lose the empathy and compassion. And I don't want that either.

autiomaa,
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@sarajw Fortunately there are things that you might like. "Cat news" is a real thing. 🐱 https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/plants_animals/cats/

For example this https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231004105157.htm article says that:

"The study's findings -- while not constituting an outright falsification of the previous theory -- are a clear indicator that the current understanding of cat purring is incomplete, and warrants further research."

autiomaa,
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@sarajw Oh yeah. Lets bring back the personal websites. ☺️

Trying to practice SQL myself...

AnnaAnthro, to Canada
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    autiomaa,
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    @AnnaAnthro That article also looks rather impressive visually when viewed with the inuktitut language selected. It's like the letters themselves are a forms of art.

    ct_bergstrom, to random

    I wanted to consolidate a few thoughts on google, misinformation, large language models, enshittification, and the fate of the web as we know it.

    It started when Carl Zimmer shared this remarkable example of Google being fooled by machine-generated bullshit online.

    autiomaa,
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    @jonny @eloquence @ct_bergstrom Some years ago one professional sports player asked for help, because Google was broadcasting personal details of his family in the auto-generated snippets. He had tried to contact Google, but didn't have any luck with that. He was stressed out that relationship details (completely unrelated to work) were shown to anyone who searched his name. Google didn't care.

    rolle, to fediverse
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    :skull360: Mementomori.social stats: We are very active and use relays. Based on api/v1/instance we federate with 20735 different servers. To my knowledge, that's most of them.

    autiomaa,
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    @rolle Interestingly, that server amount is a lot larger than what Mastodon's official numbers show. It might be possible that the official statistics are lagging behind a lot, if part of services have restricted the statistics data collection (or there are some other stats related limitations).

    From the https://joinmastodon.org/servers page:

    "Monthly Active Users: 1.4M"
    "Servers Up: 8.7K"

    "Data collected by crawling all accessible Mastodon servers on Oct 07, 2023."

    stefan, to tech
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    I'm just learning that Gmail is apparently getting emoji reactions.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/gmail-unleashes-email-emoji-reactions-onto-an-unsuspecting-world/

    via @researchbuzz

    autiomaa,
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    @stefan Yeah, noticed those in the spring, as teachers at school have been using Outlook emoticons for marking messages as "received". 😅

    autiomaa, to random
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    Started wondering if there is a way to subscribe to block lists on Mastodon, in a similar way that adblocking works on web browsers.

    Basically, there are several types of lists that would be useful:

    • Keyword-based lists of topics to mute/hide/block.
    • Account-based lists of known trolls.
    • Server-based lists of harmful servers that should be disconnected/blocked from the feeds.
    autiomaa,
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    @jonikorpi For sure, it's not exactly easy to agree, but there are ways to merge frequent signals together. Automated text analysis, server reputation, account age, amount of messages, etc. tell a lot. Basically similar things that Twitter used to use for spam/abuse filtering before that side stopped being done.

    And yes, it can be expensive, but even more expensive is when nothing is done.

    bastianallgeier, to random
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    autiomaa,
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    @bastianallgeier Might be caused by the notification settings of a mobile app? If they got tons of notifications, however nice the contents were, it might cause negative reaction.

    But in any case, it sounds odd that they are blaming a platform they haven't really used at all.

    andy, to random
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    📝 New Little Design Tip!

    Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.

    https://set.studio/simplify-sharing-with-built-in-apis-and-progressive-enhancement/

    autiomaa,
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    @andy @flori The only positive use of UTM was yesterday. Noticed that a person had added Mastodon as a source of traffic for link to a site that doesn't include it on their share widget. Essentially getting that news publisher to see new traffic sources on the analytics, so that they might actually start to use Mastodon...

    matthiasott, to random
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    Wow. That’s a shitty move.

    “Say you search for ‘children’s clothing.’ Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for ‘NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,’ making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company.”

    Ka-ching!

    https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

    autiomaa,
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    @matthiasott Wondering how many decades that has already been happening. 😧

    Sarahp, to random
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    Amid Twitter chaos, Mastodon grew donations 488% in 2022, reached 1.8M monthly active users: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/02/amid-twitter-chaos-mastodon-grew-donations-488-in-2022-reached-1-8m-monthly-active-users/

    autiomaa,
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    @Sarahp Link to the article is broken.

    Link gateway (consent . yahoo . com /v2/collectConsent) doesn't work properly when trying to visit.

    osma, to random
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    autiomaa,
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    @osma Quick search found nDPI https://github.com/ntop/nDPI that might be useful. But there are also some open source -based firewalls that have DPI integrated.

    autiomaa, to random
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    "Santa https://github.com/google/santa is a binary authorization system for macOS", developed by Google. It is actively in use there, according to an employee.

    Kernel module and userspace tools for improving security of macOS devices, allowing companies to monitor and disallow applications that might be potentially harmful for system security. It is designed to be used together with a shared blocklist, making it possible to control wider amount of desktop devices at once.

    autiomaa,
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    @kornel It's just one of the tools, Google surely has a lot more layers of defence than just that. There are a lot of Objective-C++ code still in existence, for better or worse.

    Google has "Objective-C Style Guide" https://google.github.io/styleguide/objcguide.html that also points towards old ~2014 documentation about "Programming with Objective-C".

    cassidy, to linux
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    OS devs: please provide regularly-refreshed install images/ISOs with your cumulative updates between major releases.

    I don't love downloading your entire multi-GB OS image just to have to wait for hours for all the updates to the OS and included apps to download and install.

    Also, security updates! If CVEs have been fixed since your release, you're shipping known-insecure software, expecting a user to install all updates before they do anything on the web.

    autiomaa,
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    @jbqueru @cassidy It might be somewhat similar to how Steam is pushing small patches to large games. Often just a few hundred kilobytes can fix the problems from an application that is ten gigabytes.

    jeffowski, to random
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    autiomaa,
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    @jeffowski Your meme is rather unscientific, since most of the education and research was run and funded by churches during the "not so dark" ages.

    Even the person who created the "dark ages" term, Petrarch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch was a Catholic priest, so it was not a critique of religion.

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