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eb

@eb@social.coop
  1. Is a programmer, hacker, and maker, busy crafting intricate, exciting, and people focused experiences.
  2. Is interested in breaking barriers, building communities, and learning new things about the world.
  3. Is happiest doing what makes him feel free. Biking, skiing, travelling to name a few

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The Hierarchy Of Memes

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BUT I WAS UP ALL NIGHT

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I'm no Apple fan but I haven't seen a PC beat the Mac on battery life, and I highly suspect the performance metrics are rigged (it seems the Qualcomm used has 4x peak power draw!)

Tbf apparently the QC 23w model does edge out the Mac in multicore by 7% (Mac wins 12% in single)

I really wish Microsoft and the rest of the laptop gang would stop pulling numbers out of their asses. For all Apple's faults, they give honest numbers. Stop acting like you have shit to hide, just say 7%.

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I like AI sometimes and that makes me feel like a hypocrite. I love, for instance, the fact that I can search "dog" in Photos.app and see all my dog photos. The thing is, this feature isn't advertised as AI. Its just something in the background that makes stuff work intuitively. Behold this rant, a culmination of like 3 months of mastoposting:

https://boehs.org/node/old-tech?refresh-og-image-pls-mastodon

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Roundcat

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Huge thanks to Garmin for not adding a subscription service to access the health data from my $600 watch

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Taking a detour from <new name for unreleased side project> to add the ability to backfill content from the wayback machine into ArchiveBox. More englishy:

  1. Sites that are already down are objectively the most vulnerable
  2. The Wayback Machine has the site saved
  3. Archive.org is under attack
  4. And even if it wasn't, its a single point of failure and you really can only trust yourself
  5. ArchiveBox allows you to store sites at home
  6. But it can't do that rn if the site is down
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There's something funky with hacker news' moderation. Here pictured is a graph:

The black line represents the rank according to the published algorithm: upvotes^0.8 / (age+2)^1.8

The orange line is its actual position on the front page.

And I'm just saying... this was a story on the backlash to at .

Publish your moderation logs.

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ArchiveBox is shockingly solid, and really easy to host. Probably worth using it to save the things you love (and it automatically saves to IA as well)

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I now am the proud owner of the 3rd most wanted open mastodon pull request, and the number one that could be merged today. Please merge, I beg

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think about how many cop cars you could replace with one bus

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If an absolute maximum of 18k fedi servers (probably way less than 10k) making requests 2 requests to your server (so they can download the OG image you decided to make) can bring it down for hours, maybe your server configuration is the problem.

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I'm looking for a good name to use for my pinboard/rss reader competitor. The pitch is something along the lines of "community driven website collection and discovery".

— The working name is "pinlog", but I'm not entirely satisfied with that.
— Beanbag just came to mind, but unfortunately I cannot find a good domain.
— Dartboard.com costs $46,000.

Any ideas?

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The out of touch capitalist of the day award goes to Costco: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6EdYlWx46V/?igsh=MW9wMGJkOWl0eDRlaA==

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@jasonkoebler's https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and-game-google-with-parasite-seo backs up my assertions about the death of social media in https://boehs.org/node/llms-destroying-internet

Though, he states that reddit won't become an AI hellscape. I disagree. It already is one.

Where do the "high karma" accounts come from? They come from huge subreddits where the bots have begun posting marginally related content that people blindly upvote because "cute animal" or whatever (+voting rings). The quality control is gone. The frontpage is governed by bots.

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In 2023, The Onion filed it's first SCOTUS briefing: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03%20-%20Novak-Parma%20-%20Onion%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

It was widely regarded as the 'greatest briefing of all time', for it's use of parody to defend parody (they called the judiciary "Latin dorks").

The case in question regarded a man who mocked his local PD through a satirical FB page. The PD looted his home. He sued. The 6th court ruled that the PD couldn't have known about his right to free speech.

SCOTUS said "Petition DENIED". The bad law stands.

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Because a shocking amount of people have asked:

  1. My website is open source, here: https://github.com/boehs/site
  2. The articles I post are source available, but are hosted independently of GitHub: https://git.sr.ht/~boehs/oasis
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What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly created any shareholder value today

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TRUTH SOCIAL SENT ME THEIR SOURCE CODE: https://boehs.org/node/truth-social

Fedi takes another huge win. I wonder what we'll find.

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So, I'm back on HN. I've gotten a few comments that my post was too political.

Literally everything I've written in the past few months is political. I write about the interactions between people, companies and technology. Technology is one of the most contentious issues of our time. By nature, covering this is covering politics, and it would be inappropriate to not draw attention to the tension between the typically liberal mastodon and the very right leaning truth social.

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Has the replaced tech twitter? Instead of listening to Elon Musk, let's check Hacker News.

Our first statistic is the number of posts. As you can see, twitter lost some activity post-musk, and the fediverse took it. Big disparity, though.

But wait. The drop in quality on twitter is much more drastic. Despite similar volumes, it's upvoted less.

Our final chart shows that posts on the fediverse are, on average, regarded slightly higher than twitter ever was.

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With local software, there is no DDoS
With local software, there is no need to scale your cloud
With local software, there is no XSS
With local software, there is no SQL injection
With local software, there is no SSRF, CORS, and CSRF
With local software, there is no broken authentication
With local software, there is no V8 sandbox escapes

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Inspired by @ieure, my first

macOS likes to slowly drift the audio balance of my bluetooth headphones to the right. This has been a bug for like 15 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZtEXgUsbQo&t=7s

The solution? A hammerspoon script that has faithfully run every 10 seconds for the past year to reset it.

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