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dalias

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C librarian, purveyor of the language's eldritch horrors. Poppin' shells 🦪

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dalias, to random
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Somehow I got on a Biden mailing list that's spamming like 5 mails a day and... this suggests something 😈...

Purposefully get as many addresses as you can on it, and after random times, unsubscribe with angry messages about supporting genocide.

Completely independent of any actual plan you have for voting, but to fill their unsub metrics with "oh shit this is hurting us" data.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Bicycles are incredibly efficient. But velomobiles take it to another level. The rider of this velo just did 400km in 16 hours and 15 minutes. Am impressive feat.

dalias,
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@markwaypoint @quixoticgeek Now add e-velomobile. Should be something like one 18650 per 2km of range needed, not even factoring in regenerative braking. Unlike garbage car-scale EVs, completely negligible battery mass.

dalias,
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@quixoticgeek @markwaypoint Yes, my post is about what our policy should be, not what will happen to you if you do it independently of that. But if you stick to speeds that are legal for ebikes, it should be okay already, no? You can always regen brake to avoid exceeding speed limit.

dalias,
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@quixoticgeek @markwaypoint Of you're not physically capable of doing that, or if terrain makes it difficult, or ...

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Milk Poll

dalias,
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@futurebird Ultra/UHT pasteurized.

mcc, to random
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Every blue LED is too bright

dalias,
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@gsuberland @djsundog @outie @mcc Yes! Even more important, ban them from vehicle headlights, including retroactively. No grandfathered exception for the monstrosities sold with them.

dalias,
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@gsuberland @djsundog @outie @mcc I think it's both. The ones that are most awful clearly have distinct blue spectrum (phosphors making it "white"?) disjoint from the rest, but maybe it's just the xenon spectrum?

Either way, ban that shit.

dalias,
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@gsuberland @djsundog @outie @mcc Yes. I'm saying all these "whites" should be banned for outdoor use too unless they completely filter the GaN blue spectrum.

dalias,
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@gsuberland @djsundog @outie @mcc What I want is banning super bright blue spectrum whether it's hidden amidst phosphors that keep most people from noticing it or not. That's not just "cold white headlights". It's an increasing portion of headlights, signage, street lighting, etc.

dalias,
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@gsuberland @djsundog @outie @mcc There's no rule that you have to use a new technology just because it exists. We didn't have to shift to these approaches to begin with. We could be using incandescents, halogens, whatever.

With that said, you can remove the blue peak with hard cutoff filters and added heat dissipation. Costly, yes, but the alternative is externalized cost.

dalias, to random
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TIL holding shift for 8 seconds on Windows breaks your keyboard. 🤦

Putting shortcuts to enter obscure accessibility modes on random key actions is NOT how you make your system accessible. It makes it inaccessible to anyone who can't figure out how to exit wacky modes.

dalias,
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"Do you or anyone who will be using this PC need keyboard accessibility accommodations? Which ones? Would you like to activate them with hotkeys or only explicitly via Settings?" during system setup is how you do this right. Not silently turning these things on for everyone.

dalias, to random
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Small drop-in JS someone should write folks can add to their sites: replace Amazon (or other) links with your affiliate links only if it detects browser side tracking features (referer, 3p js, etc.) are left enabled.

Not only does this respect the privacy of your readers; it keeps you from getting banned from affiliate program. I found out from someone using the program: If Amazon gets affiliate visits from visitors they can't track, they count them as shared-in-private and ban you.

dalias,
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Conversely, if you want to help someone who has affiliate links and you use a decently privacy configured browser, don't click their links, or use an extension to strip affiliate info. Clicking won't make them money, it'll get them banned.

thejpster, to random
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Hey @bagder, I was wondering about the default Rust install command:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Is the restriction on --proto to =https strictly required? Will curl switch to http even given an https URL?

Is the restriction to TLSv1.2 strictly required? Will curl downgrade to TLSv1.1 or SSLv3 if the server suggests it?

The -s and -S are fine, but I'd probably live with the stderr output for the sake of command brevity. The -f seems reasonable though.

dalias,
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@bagder @thejpster @unlambda I would assume it's just about not wanting to trust that a non malicious admin doesn't accidentally reconfigure the server, put it behind some.misconfigured CDN or DDoS protection service, etc.

dalias,
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@bagder @thejpster @unlambda Lots of "trust" people disregard is trusting well-meaning ppl not to slip up and expose you to bad actors. It's not just a matter of whether you trust them not to be evil themselves. I usually frame things this way when explaining to someone why I can't just trust their service because it avoids questioning their integrity.

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"The point I’m attempting to make is that when a company, built on Open-Source, tries to lock it down, almost always in defence of falling margins and a perceived “ripping off” by others, it fails to re-invigorate the community"

https://freshbrewed.science/2024/04/09/redisforks.html

dalias,
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@linux_mclinuxface Thought: others don't try to "rip you off"if you're not already ripping off your customers and not a good community member. If your FOSS product is oriented around getting people to use your above-fair-market-price service, you're rightly going to get backlash and competition.

futurebird, to random
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“regular people” whoever that is… will never use the crunchy homemade internet if they have the option of slick apps instead. You can’t hire designers, you don’t have an advertising budget, your project with its dreamy cooperative ethos is an anathema to tech media who don’t see the point in mentioning it exists.

“regular people” like pop-ups, and bots, and having their data sold to the highest bidder, they like porn spam, and scammers and discourse so broken it causes mental harm. Right?

dalias,
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@futurebird @mattmcirvin Too often (almost always) the "make it easy" ends up being "surrender control to someone untrustworthy". That's why those of us who understand reject it. This is the problem we need to solve. Not "make it easy" but "make it easy without broken power dynamics".

dalias,
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@TerryHancock @futurebird @mattmcirvin It's hard to address this concretely because we don't have a specific thing in mind to be "made easy".

But in general, solutions involve a mix of not having anyone in a postion of control (whenever possible), building systems for evaluating trust in information that aren't based on arbitrary authorities, and technical measures that ensue violations of trust are very explicit and provably intentional.

dalias,
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@mattmcirvin @TerryHancock @futurebird It's not just that. It's that we recognize that lots of the ways of giving someone an "easy" installation are things we "shouldn't" be doing because it's asking them to let us do sketchy things to their computers without understanding what's going to happen. We'd rather not take on that role.

bagder, to random
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and in case you missed it: with the new addition of --ech, now supports 259 command line options

dalias,
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@bagder Yay, but is it not the default?

molly0xfff, to ArtificialIntelligence
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I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

dalias,
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@molly0xfff Not surprising considering it's the exact same scammers behind both, and even the same business model (selling GPUs/compute time to do utterly pointless shit to fools who think they'll make money on it).

whitequark, to random
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the type of python application development where you read a decent amount of linux kernel code

dalias,
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@whitequark If it's sendmsg/recvmsg, there's sendmmsg/recvmmsg...

dalias,
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@whitequark If it's actually secretly a socket, they should work.

verge, to random
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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131338/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-mobile-apps

dalias,
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@dajix @verge No way they'll ever block NewPipe anyway. It's a web browser. That's all it is. A single site web browser with extra UI features built for that site and integrated ad blocking, but a web browser. This is why Google wanted to add their DRM attestation shit to browsers.

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