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dentangle

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#FOSS hacker. Founder of the #Librecast Project, working on improving #privacy and #decentralizing the Internet with #multicast.

Also, tractors. Has a language habit.

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I've been trialling @Mojeek search again.

I really like the lightweight front page. Feels like Google used to circa ~2000.

Some more feedback:

  1. I can choose the interface language (English, Deutsch, français). Great. However, this defaults to English. My browser has already sent you my language preferences in the Accept-Language[1] request header. Better to use that.

  2. Mojeek has a dark mode option in settings. Why not use the prefers-color-scheme media query?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Language

dentangle,
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@Mojeek 3) Location is "detected automatically" based on IP. IP addresses are not accurate for geolocation. Better to turn off location and let the user enable that if they want it.

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@Mojeek With Accept-Language set to the same value in Firefox, I get English from a UK IP address, and French from a French IP, so it appears to be ignoring the Accept-Language header that Firefox constructs.

FYI. This is with language preferences set to fr, en-gb, en

Firefox translates that to an Accept-Language header of "fr,en-GB;q=0.7,en;q=0.3"

Perhaps you're not processing the weighed quality values, but only checking for the languages "en", "fr" etc.?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Language

dentangle, to random
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No Mojeek, entering a query in Russian does not mean I'm a bot. I'm just trying to search for the lyrics of a song. A little less xenophobia, please...

dentangle,
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Search for "hi" or any string in English, query is processed just fine.

Search for "O чем Поем Гитава" and I get a 403 forbidden error.

And if I correct my typo to "О чем Поет Гитара" (What does the guitar sing about?) I get an explicit error saying it doesn't support my language!

That's a first. In 30 years on the web I've never come across a search engine that forbids languages. You don't need to understand it - just index it!

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Apparently @Mojeek is on Mastodon. Care to comment?

dentangle,
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@Mojeek Nor Ukrainian. There are over 7000 languages spoken on earth. Are you going to add them one at a time?

You don't appear to support Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew or Arabic.

There are major world events going on at the moment involving millions of people who speak these languages.

What's the rationale for limiting page indexing based on language? On what basis do you decide which languages to index?

It's not numbers. You do Dutch, but not Arabic or Russian which have more speakers.

dentangle,
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@Mojeek Thanks for the response. Unfortunately filtering by language introduces bias, something that I know you try to avoid:

https://blog.mojeek.com/2018/08/independent-and-unbiased-search-results.html

Language is the strongest filter bubble we have. You can't avoid bias by locking us into a small subset of Western languages.

If you add Russian, but not Ukrainian, we only get one side of the story. There are major world events unfolding, and Mojeek is not indexing any of the primary sources in Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew or Arabic.

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Has anyone else noticed the list of languages @Mojeek supports? After being initially grumpy that they don't index a whole bunch of major world languages which I tried to use, I had a look at what they do have listed as search languages. Not the list you might expect.

Mojeek apparently supports:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Aragonese, Aymara, Bislama, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Fijian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, German, Haitian, Ido…

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…Indonesian, Interlingua, Interlingue, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Latin, Limburgish, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Rundi, Sango, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tahitian, Tonga, Tsonga, Volapük, Walloon, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu

Quite the list!

I need to play with this more.

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dentangle, to random
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NB: I'm not saying community service is a bad thing. Far from it. But it should never be compulsory.

I earned my Queens Scout Award from age 14-18, which involved hundreds of hours of community service. It's valuable, educational and humbling, but it shouldn't be handed out as a punishment, or used as slave labour.

If the point of is education, make it part of schooling. Learning by doing, in the community, while at school? Sure, but we don't call that

dentangle,
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@hedders These days I'd like to chisel the royal titles off these things, but yes. It was great training. Initiative and creative thinking are emphasised, not discouraged.

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@Theriac @hedders Rather ironically perhaps, it was the community values instilled in me while working on my Queens Scout Award that largely led me to be staunchly anti-monarchy. The values I was taught are not compatible with Queens and Dukes, compulsory and other fascist concepts.

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Just so we're clear: people do understand that military training is psychological abuse?

It's not a side-effect. That's how military training works

The training is designed to change the way you think and behave. It instills obediance to authority above all else.

As recruits you are subjected to constant gaslighting. You'll be told you've done things wrong, even when you do everything right.

Are we sure we want to destroy creativity and initiative in civilians?

dentangle, to programming
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ThreadSanitizer seems to have improved a lot since I last used it seriously. Incredibly useful tool for working with memory barriers / atomics.

I think I'll integrate it it into our test suite for

#C

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@how was at #EmpoderaLIVE this week, talking about #Palestine @NGIZero #SocialHub @fediverse @NGI_Taler and #Synware...

https://www.youtube.com/live/Q5TepScCW5w?feature=shared&t=12683

EmpoderaLIVE is an intimate conference gathering experts for two days in #Málaga, organized by https://cibervoluntarios.org/

This year's topic was decoding digital colonialism.

This session was particularly improvised as the original plan was to share a dialogue with @hellais on open technologies to guarantee human rights. Enjoy!

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@ps @how @NGIZero @fediverse @NGI_Taler @hellais I'd be very interested to hear what the story was there. Certainly looks like it was censored.

emailed me an invitation to speak, but after confirming with them that they had no nor in place I declined. A pity, as it otherwise looked interesting.

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@how @ps @NGIZero @fediverse @NGI_Taler @hellais It was a good speech and an important message. I hope they'll upload the full talk soon.

I'd love to go to another time, if the organisers can be persuaded to adopt a and - I'm afraid that's a hard requirement for me to attend any event. If the event is as welcoming as you say getting those in place for next time should be possible. I'm happy to help with writing the policies if the organisers are keen.

dentangle, to random
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My next task involves hitting something with a hammer. 🔨

I have the hammer.

I have the training.

I am ready.

dentangle, to programming
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After protracted negotiations, ThreadSanitizer has blessed my threadly abuses.

#C

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Google breaking its core product for the lulz wasn’t on my bingo card.

dentangle,
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@slothrop They broke you?

dentangle, to random
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0630 and starting my first coding session of the day.

Don't think I slept at all last night. Tired. Angry. Trying to direct what energy I have to create something positive.

Chance of success: "bugger all squared" as Rod Jory used to say, but what else am I going to do?

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First hour session done. Into the next. Trying to convince myself it's these multicast routers I'm really angry at and not ... other things.

Packet forwarding is "recommended, but not required" is it? Hah! Now there's a surprise. I saw you attend that conference with no routing policy at all, dropping your packets all over the place.

Yes. It's the routers that are making me angry.

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Just voted in the #RIPE NCC Executive elections.

I must say I'm hugely impressed with the diversity on offer @ripencc this year!

The lineup is perfectly balanced: 3 men with beards and 3 without. Finally we can start to address the beard imbalance of the present board which (not including one woman) is tipped 5 to 1 in favour of men with beards against one clean-shaven.

https://www.ripe.net/membership/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2024/executive-board-election/candidate-biographies/

dentangle, to random
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Apparently Microsoft has done a Bad Thing (TM) and there are people that believe this somehow might persuade users to move to Linux or BSD.

Sure, be ready to help, but we're talking about an abusive relationship here. They're locked-in. If it was that easy, they'd have left already.

If someone is still using Windows in 2024, they likely don't see the world the same way you do. Hell, they probably still have a Facebook account. They might even still be on Twitter.

😲

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14 days for tracked post to get from the UK to France.

This appears to be fairly typical now, when it turns up at all. I'd estimate that less than a third of our mail has turned up from UK to France post Brexit. It wasn't previously an issue. No problem with mail or packages within the EU that I've noticed (aside from the occasional lost delivery driver).

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