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jelte

@jelte@mastodon.nl

Technical advisor at NPa and HeadON. Bit of everything at Ionite. Geek and maker at home. Terrible at chess.

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mikarv, to random
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absolute chaos on a new unmoderated listserv this week as tens of people used the ‘thumbs up’ feature in outlook, which apparently now sends an email, causing an unstoppable torrent

jelte,
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@mikarv i remain convinced that the sole purpose of Outlook has always been to destroy email as a communication method

zarfeblong, to random
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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:

If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.

jelte,
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@beetle_b @mike @zarfeblong Conversely, putting free software out there puts you at the mercy of the whims of random strangers. Sometimes positively, sometimes negatively. The former generally outnumber the latter, in my experience, but the latter have much more impact on the energy and willingness to continue.

stephaniewalter, to random
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What does a PIN Number and a PDF Format have in common? They both suffer from RAS Syndrome, also known as Redundant Acronym Syndrome. It’s when an acronym is followed by a word that is also part of the acronym, and there’s quite a couple of them.

Full details and more examples on Sketchplanations: https://sketchplanations.com/ras-syndrome

jelte,
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@stephaniewalter Perhaps the people coming up with such acronyms are at fault here.

jelte,
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@fredbrooker @stephaniewalter nobody, but everyone does want to add either 'number' or (in my country) 'code', so it would probably have been better to choose a name and acronym that doesn't include either of those.

jelte,
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@fredbrooker @stephaniewalter In my language we say pincode (it's even in the dictionary), probably for the same reason a lot of people say pin number: acronyms tend to become words themselves, losing their direct connection to the original expanded words. Sometimes it then feels more natural to have a disambiguating signifier, in this case number of code, even if it is, strictly speaking, superfluous. I consider it a form of language evolution.

NanoRaptor, to random
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How many connectors of any kind have you used in your entire computing history?

jelte,
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@NanoRaptor Do alligator clips connected to a voltage regulator to charge a laptop count?

filippo, to random
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Interestingly, the .af NIC just suspended inet.af, too. It used to host Go modules. This suggests queer.af maybe wasn't specifically targeted for being LGBTQ+ friendly, but for being unrelated to Afghanistan.

https://bsky.app/profile/bradfitz.com/post/3klbnykibm32j

/cc @erincandescent

jelte,
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@filippo @flameeyes I may be misunderstanding the threat model here, but I'd say that email is better in the sense that you have more freedom to choose your domain and associated TLD, and therefore more control over what policies you wish to be subject to (well, except those of ICANN).

airspeedswift, to random
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I once had a user who refused to let us install a new version of our app on their machine, saying “I don’t want a new version, I want you to fix the version I have”.

jelte,
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@bert_hubert @airspeedswift i once heard a sysadmin say they didn't want to even report a bug because the vendor would tell them to update to a newer version

dangoodin, to random

Does anyone know of any attacks, either PoC or in the wild, that use malicious printer cartridges to infect printers? I saw this article from 2022

https://www.action-intell.com/2022/10/05/hp-bug-bounty-program-finds-reprogrammable-chips-open-printers-to-malware/

It says that HP's Bug Bounty program found such attacks are possible, but there are no details about who reported the bug that made such attacks possible. I remain skeptical about the accuracy.

Any help from experts in the form of pointers to attacks or analysis about whether printer cartridges are a viable infection vector would be much appreciated.

jelte,
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@dangoodin not misspeaking. Lying. It's not just customer-hostile business practices anymore, it's fraud.

jelte,
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@dangoodin @mmasnick @Popehat @Pwnallthethings My apologies. I did not intend for my response to be read as criticism on your post or your choice of words, I'm just mad at HP and their CEO for the linked quote.

jelte, to random
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This Word file could have been an email.

mkennedy, to python
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If, and a big IF, I were to do a @talkpython episode on “Working Full Time on Open Source” where the focus is truly doing open source for your own project full time (not say working for RedHat but they put you on OpenStack full time) type of episode, who should I invite?

jelte,
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@mkennedy @talkpython @samuelcolvin @tiangolo Perhaps @filippo

partim, to random
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Can someone convince NS to start a Mastodon presence? I want to pester them about showing the orientation of the trainsets in their app.

(Their shortest trainsets have first class on one end only and the narrow white bar over the windows is really hard to spot when the train approaches.)

jelte,
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@partim while you're at it, get them to also fix the browser back button in their web version, back from trip details should go to search results, not all the way back to the first page (like the in-page back button does)

mhoye, to random
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People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.

jelte,
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@mhoye Nobody pays for docs and error messages.

b0rk, to random
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working on a very short list of helpful command line git tools. so far I have:

what am I missing?

(I think GUI git tools are great too but that's not my focus right now)

jelte,
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@b0rk From that list, I only use the shell prompt one so far, but the other ones sound great! (as do many suggestions in this thread). My addition: I have a few aliases for git commands, mainly to find the branch point of the current branch, and to show the branch tree in the terminal.

simon, to random
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Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-injection/

jelte,
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@simon good to see that after phone phreaking, sql injection, xss, and fill in your other favourites here, we still haven't learned to separate the control and the data plane

jelte, to random
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Brand new system, latest hardware. Oh well, maybe 2024 will finally be the year for Windows on the desktop.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random

Do you have pets?

Please boost for a wider demographic, and feel free to comment with the kind of pet you have and pictures! Lots of pictures, please. 🙏 🙏

jelte,
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@dancinyogi

jelte, to animals
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I feel like cats have figured out this life thing a whole lot better than us humans.

danyork, to random
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To the surprise of probably almost no one in tech, the whole bored apes thing was a short fad… and now of course people who thought it was an actual investment are suing some of those who hyped the products…

From: @arsfeedbot
https://c.im/@arsfeedbot/110906841615346636

jelte,
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@danyork @arsfeedbot I am a little bit surprised they're not suing all non-buyers for not keeping the value up.

TechDesk, to twitter
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In a post on X today, Elon Musk said users will soon lose the ability to block other people, except for direct messages. If the move goes ahead, the platform may find itself removed from Apple's App Store. @9to5Mac explains why:
https://flip.it/trooF1

#X

jelte,
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@TechDesk @9to5Mac Those terms read like they're about bans, not blocks, so not too sure whether this would violate them.

Also not sure why people are still talking about that platform, let alone use it. It's dead, Jim.

dankennedy_nu, to TwitterMigration
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I was surprised that TweetDeck continued to work, but that's now come to an end ... unless you want to help Elon work off his losses.

jelte,
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@dankennedy_nu Lol it still says Tweet, even here.

glassbottommeg, to random
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Hahahahah. Holy shit.

So Zoom is irrevocably turning their entire network into a training data set: https://hackers.town/@devlogic/110843380784157782

EVERY "public service" company is now attempting to extract value. They're all going for it. They're gonna burn it all down to try and turn AI into a financial exit. Search engines, communication backbones, social networks, everybody.

My read is they're all shit terrified of the impact AI will have and aren't long-term thinkers, so their only short term play is to burn it all down and exit ASAP. Never mind that what they're burning down is, uh, the entirety of our infrastructure. They don't care.

jelte,
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@glassbottommeg You can tell that this is controversial because there are already phishing sites seizing the opportunity, to 'allow people to opt-out data sharing with Zoom for products of <companyhere>'. I just reported one.

partim, to random
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How can I make myself remember whether bookworm or bullseye is the current Debian stable?

jelte,
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@partim "Guess"
"Is it Bookworm?"
"Bullseye!"

Sardonicus, to random
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The Last Inn on the Sea, Rodanthe, NC
Read more here.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/29/the-last-inn-on-the-sea/

image/jpeg

jelte,
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@Sardonicus Wow. When a Series of Unfortunate Events meets Howl's moving Castle.

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