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Migueldeicaza, to random
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Finally the EU will allow trust and bridges to be rebuilt for struggling couples!

https://spydrill.com/best-keyloggers-android/

mbpaz,
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@Migueldeicaza AFAIK installing a keylogger in someones phone is illegal in all EU countries.

If your argument is "the EU does not want to allow apple to control which apps are available on their phones and thus they are responsible for scumbags spying on their couples", sorry but I don't buy it.

GottaLaff, to Israel
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Via Emptywheel:

As you read about advising that ethnically clean Palestinians out of their home to build a beach resort, remember that at his behest, on December 22, 2016, Mike Flynn "colluded" w/Russia to protect Bibi Netanyhu fr accountability for illegal West Bank settlements. 1/...

mbpaz,
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@GottaLaff war for oil is something we have assumed. Now, war for seaside real estate is a real innovation.

harriorrihar, (edited ) to ai Spanish
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When you get the raw materials by stealing from millions of workers around the world and you call your 40 thieves employees.

#AI #aiart #AIArtwork #work #art

mbpaz,
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@harriorrihar is the chart adjusted for inflation, which would cause that curve by itself? Just asking.

pluralistic, to random
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Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.

Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

Google Maps, showing the storefront for Golden State Lock as an empty building.

mbpaz,
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@pluralistic the sad thing with gmaps vs a community managed system like openstreetmaps is that gmaps is theoretically moderated, managed, "cleaned" by a dedicated, professional team. Sigh. A nearby street has had a typo on gmaps for years and they don't care.

mbpaz,
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@trantion @pluralistic Google Maps even allows bar owners to create a beach right in front of their bar (and within walking distance of the actual beach, already in maps with almost the same name).

Wonderful, isn't it? Snap your fingers and whoa, a new beach.

mac84tv, to random
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When Pioneer sold Macs 🥵

mbpaz,
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@juandesant me: rotting synapses raise from their grave at hearing "CHRP / PReP"...

nixCraft, to random
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I wish there were a framework where I could leave it for ten years and it still runs. I’m not sure if it’s possible.

mbpaz,
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@nixCraft I got a call yesterday asking for help on a system I had deployed on a TV operator 11 years ago. It was a hardware glitch. Unfortunately they rebooted the operating system: 3588 days of uptime. The software in question had been restarted in 2015.

Mostly and some C.

Gargron, to threads
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If for whatever reason you never wish to interact with #Threads, you can personally block it for your account. This hides all posts and profiles from Threads, prevents anyone from Threads from following you, and stops your posts from being delivered to or fetched by Threads. Simply click the "Block domain threads.net" option on any Threads profile or post you see in Mastodon.

mbpaz,
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@PopOfAfrica @jcrabapple @tasket @Oozenet @Gargron what stops them from creating a random instance, apparently with no ties to them, and slurping all data via API there?

tdp_org, to devops
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Hands up if you caused a global outage today...
Just me?
Sorry!

I was making a change to our "outside the UK" CDN config today for www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com & the change included 2 bugs which pre-testing didn't spot:

  • A regex typo which caused 404s on www.bbc.co.uk
  • An incorrect TLS cert on the CDN origin which caused 503s on www.bbc.com

These caused ~7 minutes of significant global outage.

I spent most of the afternoon writing tests to catch this for next time.

#DevOps #WebDev #CDN

Cache status graph for www.bbc.com which shows a significant spike of "error" for ~7 minutes

mbpaz,
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@tdp_org thank you for being open and honest. Errors do happen.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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mbpaz,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat so... the cat was ONE WHOLE DAY WITHOUT FOOD????

chrisschmitz, to Russia
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The "Directorate C" of the FSB released some training shots. This one is interesting, as it shows a rather unusual DJI Inspire 2 Drone, usually used for actual cinema production.

This drone should be rather outdated, as its cameras do not offer significant zoom or other tactical payloads, so that choice is highly unusual, as a Mavic 3 can do more for far less weight, noise and cost.

mbpaz,
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@chrisschmitz the inspire is significantly faster than mavics, however.

Free_Press, to Ukraine
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Billboards appeared in temporarily occupied Ukrainian Melitopol advertising a children's military camp in North Korea.
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mbpaz,
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@Free_Press I would expect to find "Doc" Emmett Brown next to the sign

noelreports, to random Dutch
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Palestinian VDV 🫠

mbpaz,
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@noelreports and just a week ago my son was laughing at the absurdity of baddies on paragliders in a James bond movie

GossiTheDog, to random
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    mbpaz,
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    @GossiTheDog
    March 2020 at Microsoft: everyone is going to be working from home! Facebook is pushing the metaverse! Zoom is eating market share from teams!
    June 2020: as a result of the latest 57 meetings we have decided to add avatars to Teams
    ...
    October, 2023: avatar feature released! Hello? Anyone?

    Purely fictional story. Based on direct experience with multiple large corporations.

    noelreports, to random Dutch
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    Honest question. How alive is Mastodon?

    mbpaz,
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    @noelreports fewer insightful comments than I used to read on the birdsite years ago, and a very very tiny fraction of the hate you can find there now. Overall, best social platform I've found so far.

    fkamiah17, (edited ) to UKpolitics
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    Morning (again) Mastowarriors. Get out your bingo cards.
    Trains are woke. 🙄
    Edit: stolen from @Stuzipants on the other place: "The Wokomotion" 🤣🤣

    #UKPolitics #FFS

    mbpaz,
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    @fkamiah17 now ask The Sun who is sponsoring that view.

    If at some point govt says "trains are great but too expensive to pay with public money, so let's find a private investor who pays for that in exchange for running the line for a few decades...", then we'll have found him.

    Migueldeicaza, to random
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    Magical: https://mastodon.social/@icanzilb/111063284402021112

    mbpaz,
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    @Migueldeicaza that's very cheap magic when thousands of apps have been doing exactly the same with SMS 2FA for years.

    What amazes me is that Apple marketing hasn't given this its own name and blurb.

    mapologies, to coffee
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    Frijoles! Porotos! Habichuelas! Alubias!
    Scream as many as you want, but all of them are just in

    https://mapologies.com/el-atlas/

    mbpaz,
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    @mapologies Funny - I've heard galician speakers (NW Spain) call chickpeas "porotos".
    There were massive migrations from there to South America in the XIX and XX that may have brought the word.

    mbpaz,
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    @mapologies sure! I'm in Europe - I meant emigrants probably brought the word back home sometime.

    anneapplebaum, to random
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    I met the engineers whose sea drones were blocked when Starlink didn't function in September 2022, because Musk feared "World War Three." But they tried the same attack again a month later, and they hit several targets in Sebastopol.

    World War Three did not break out.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

    mbpaz,
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    @anneapplebaum (On supposedly blocking Starlink in the Black Sea.)

    Leaving aside the obvious national security, ethics and commercial issues...

    If a customer calls and you in turn call your biographer, you are a straight-from-the-book narcissist.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    A true method actor.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    mbpaz,
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    @lowqualityfacts please, please, please make sure chatgpt and their relatives do ingest your extensive, truthful and varied knowledge base.

    Andy_Scollick, to random
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    Some of us don't have any choice other than to keep posting on Twitter: in my case, I have several thousand defence-related contacts there. Until they all migrate over to mastodon and Bluesky, I'm caught in a bind.

    mbpaz,
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    @owainsutton @Andy_Scollick so, could you double-post on twitter and here? Otherwise, it's chicken -and-egg

    Andy_Scollick, to random
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    Speeding to oblivion with the pedal to the metal https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/02/coalmine-approvals-in-australia-this-year-could-add-150m-tonnes-of-co2-to-atmosphere

    mbpaz,
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    @Andy_Scollick oh, be understanding about it - there must be little wind or sun in Australia to provide cleaner alternatives.

    dansup, to random
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    Transcoding is no joke, for @pixelfed Stories, I decided to offload the transcoding process to your device so servers aren’t overwhelmed and the UX trade off in terms of users having to wait is ok

    This doesn’t solve the quality issue, either we prioritize quality over disk space which benefits UX or prioritize disk space over quality which benefits instance admins.

    I’m leaning towards prioritizing disk space for now, and am looking into HLS + delayed backend processing to solve this long term

    mbpaz,
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    @dansup @pixelfed I understand you are targeting mobile users mostly. How do you intend to offload transcoding to browser users?

    More generally - most platforms transcode everything server side so that they can re-encode content again in newer profiles or codecs as needed, to validate uploads (everything is transcoded to common profiles) and to improve quality/space tradeoff (mobile encoders tend to be really poor).
    But that means server bills, of course.

    Andy_Scollick, to random
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    Republicanism = American death cult

    mbpaz,
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    @Andy_Scollick when they say "believe in human caused climate change", it sounds like "believe in God" or "believe in people's goodwill ".

    Political positions should differ in priority assignment, or in choosing the best policy to face a societal problem. Basing a political position on which facts one accepts or refuses is wrong and dangerous.

    Can I stop believing in gravity so that I don't have to spend any effort in avoiding falling down?

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