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computersandblues

@computersandblues@post.lurk.org

I am a software developer interested in the weird and surprising bits of it, the stuff that sometimes brings everything to a halt or helps you out. More generally, I'm interested in how we construct, convey and care for communal spaces. Maps, architecture, language, and many other things. Always antifascist.

I appreciate if you interact with me before you follow me.

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selfsame, to random
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actually a Windows 'compost bin' that slowly scrambles files into random bits

parismarx, to tech
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African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to.

https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/

gwil, to random
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The Willow Sideloading protocol is a new protocol for securely delivering Willow data by whatever means possible. USB keys, email attachments, torrents, and other ad-hoc means make a “sidenet” we can use to deliver eventually consistent data using the infrastructure users already have.

https://willowprotocol.org/specs/sideloading

sarahjamielewis, to random
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social avatar

"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRM'd content.

Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.

The system doesn't work for you.

alex, to random
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i'm like chatGPT in that i also nervously consume an entire litre of water when anyone asks me questions

festal, to random
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winter, to random
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i am once again reminded of this absolute gem from the vcard rfc (6350)

akshatrathi, to random
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2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

mhoye, to random
@mhoye@mastodon.social avatar

I'm on here looking for text indexers and everything is 'lightning fast exoscale terafloops that scales to enterprise quantawarbles with polytopplic performanations' and it would be great if this industry could breathe into a bag until it remembers that one person with one computer is a constituency that matters.

mhoye,
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If your “open source software” requires a datacenter-scale strata and is optimized for, or maybe only meaningful to, datacenter-scale problems, is not open source in any way that matters. “Free as in corporate risk management” and “free as in labor arbitrage” are not aspirations.

gwenprime, to random
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Hey computer people can anyone personally recommend a course for accessible frontend development?

I've read through a lot of the documentation out there but it's all a bit mushy in my head and I think more formal instruction would be helpful to me.

This is for professional work so I can probably pay a bit but I'd need to trust the source a bit.

stephen_cornford, to random
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Old News (in fact, such old news that I was 15 when it was news)

BUT - I just found out that when coaxial telegraph cables were retired from use and replaced by fibre optics, they were reused as seismic planetary sensors by geophysicists and it has made my day.

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

mycorrhiza, to random
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Over on the Permacomputing mailing list, I just learned about this super cool project by @thentrythis:

> Last year I ran a workshop for disadvantaged families in Cornwall in the UK (a historic mining area) where we smashed rocks, collected crystals from mine waste, built semiconductors out of them, plugged them into cardboard circuit boards and made synthesisers: https://thentrythis.org/notes/2023/11/17/organised-atoms-at-flamm-festival-redruth/

hongminhee, to fediverse
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I'm working on adding a CLI toolchain to to help with debugging. The first feature I implemented is the ActivityPub object lookup.

Here's a demo.

The demo video on my terminal

hongminhee,
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The fedify inbox command, which will be shipped in the next release, is a tool that creates an ephemeral server so that you can debug and test the activities you send.

Here's a demo of it.

https://unstable.fedify.dev/cli#fedify-inbox-ephemeral-inbox-server

The demo video of the

justinhendrix, to random
@justinhendrix@mastodon.social avatar

No place for politics here, says CEO of tech company with massive impact on world politics and events.
wapo.st/3WdPCIG

thibaultamartin, to random
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Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

hello, to fediverse
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In case you haven't heard: did you know that the has an online radio station, featuring artists and music exclusively from this network?

Check out @radiofreefedi if you have a chance!

https://radiofreefedi.net/

ricci, to security
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Hey! Let's talk about and !

If you've ever looked at SSH server logs you know what I'm about to say: Any SSH server connected to the public Internet is getting bombarded by constant attempts to log in. Not just a few of them. A lot of them. Sometimes even dozens per second. And this problem is not going away; it is, in fact, getting worse. And attackers' behavior is changing.

The graph attached to this post shows the number of attempted SSH logins per day to one of @cloudlab s clusters over a four-year period. It peaks at about 3.4 million login attempts per day.

This is part of a study we did on our production system, using logs of more than 640 million login attempts, covering more than 1,500 hosts on our side and observing more than 840 thousand incoming IP addresses.

A paper presenting our analysis and a new, highly effective means to block SSH brute force attacks ("Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them") will be presented next week at by @sachindhke . The full paper is at https://www.flux.utah.edu/paper/singh-nsdi24

Let's dive in. 🧵

ancient_catbus, to random
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for Godzilla, every city is walkable

mcc, to random
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quietly under breath but in text i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity

jplebreton,
@jplebreton@mastodon.social avatar

@inthehands @williampietri @mcc "any sufficiently advanced complexity is indistinguishable from irrationality"

marta, to random
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Huh, it's estimated that starting 2026, the new Google datacenter in Norway (in Skien) will use so much electricity that each Norwegian household will have to pay an extra 440kr a year (around 40 euros) because of price increases. How... fair. https://e24.no/energi-og-klima/i/KnOwKy/analytiker-google-datasenter-kan-oeke-stroemregningen-med-440-kroner

pfsmet, to DataViz
@pfsmet@mastodon.social avatar

The pathwidth of the AirBnB full occupancy for April 7th (via @Jamie_Lane on X) is currently at 100% of the total pathwidth!

emenel, to random
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llm’s/so-called “ai” don’t actually make anything easier or more efficient. It applies the capitalist colonial strategy of externalization to individual human activities. It might feel easier for you, but only because of massive invisible labour and environmental/economic externalities that they intentionally abstract and obscure.

technomancy, to random
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uh, so ... has anybody checked in on the gzip maintainer? just to see if he's, y'know, feeling ok?

zachleat, to random
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“Tecno Spark 8C, a low-spec phone that can hit 40 FPS in Battle Royale PUBG but lags below 1 FPS on social media”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg

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