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meejah

@meejah@mastodon.social

Professional freelance programmer (#python, #haskell, #c++, #linux)
https://meejah.ca
https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org
https://carml.readthedocs.org
#twisted #python #tor #infosec #privacy
I re-toot all reasonable replies
"rumoured to be Canadian"

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dansup, (edited ) to random
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The AQI is 89!! Way above healthy limits and these people decide to have a picnic!

Please send us in Alberta some rain and common sense!!

meejah,
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@blake @dansup Counterpoint: that's not a "strenuous activity" and many people don't have a meaningful difference between "inside air" and "outside air" depending on their living situation etc etc so maybe we shouldn't judge too much based on a picture (that's all the context I have on this, anyway).
Should I have forced my kids to not ride or walk to school this week?

senanthic, to random
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still can’t think of a name for him and it’s driving me up the wall. (name must start with A, and I kinda want something candy-or-sweet-themed.)

meejah,
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@senanthic "Aero" is the brand-name of a chocolate bar here, that has a lot of bubbles in it...

rysiek, to random
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Instead of AirBNBs can we have aparthotels offering small but reasonably nice rooms with private bathrooms, plus a (shared or private) kitchen annex please?

The reason a lot of people go for AirBNBs when traveling is because it's much cheaper to cook for oneself than eat out.

AirBNBs are a horrible solution to this problem though, as their owners compete for apartments with people who need a place to, you know, live.

Hostels exist, but they do not offer the level of privacy and basic comfort.

meejah,
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@rysiek As someone who has stayed in AirBnBs (and other similar things) I agree with this: having a shared kitchen of some sort would be great (presumably making the rental cheaper than having N kitchens).

meejah,
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@rysiek @JamesLonghurst Or "hostel".
(Lots of them now have private rooms)

Mer__edith, to random
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This is HUGE. It's also a stunning example of what meaningful AI regulation looks like -- workers taking their conditions into their own hands, making demands of tech & the companies that control it.

Sincerely grateful to
@billyperrigo
for his sharp, relentless reporting ♥️🙏

https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

meejah,
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@photovince @Mer__edith "I'm sorry, as a corporate AI it is required that I report your unionization attempts to the local authorities"

gvwilson, to random
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A friend is trying to decide whether to join a startup that plans to train LLMs on the writing of particular individuals so people can chat with their loved ones after they're gone. I said, "That's pretty fucking macabre." My friend said, "That's what I thought, but the founder asked me why it was different from re-watching old family movies and I don't have an answer." My friend has lost people to AIDS, cancer, and dementia and still misses them; I honestly don't know what to think…

meejah,
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@gvwilson Isn't this a Black Mirror episode...?

blake, to random

I think we can maybe change the nomenclature for "Direct Messages" to "Whispers"? In a way to say, it can still be "overheard," just not as easily.

meejah,
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@blake That sounds like better words. (Obviously, it would be even better if they were end-to-end encrypted instead)

lightweight, to random

Interesting to see that this "Snake" malware is pitched as being cross-platform, but all the focus is on its impact on Windows: https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/09/2003218554/-1/-1/1/JOINT_CSA_HUNTING_RU_INTEL_SNAKE_MALWARE_20230509.PDF Wonder what it might look like on Linux... and what vulnerabilities it exploits to get there.

meejah,
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@lightweight Also, can they publish a tutorial on successfully deploying something cross-platform?? ;)

TheBierFrau, to random
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If you think government should be run like a business, you either have no idea how businesses are run or you want to purchase said government and know that other people have no idea how businesses are run.

meejah, (edited )
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@TheBierFrau It's possible they might also have no idea how governments work ;)

kjhealy, to random
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It's so sad that the Brits have had to resort to importing the phrase "Free Speech Tsar" when they have an essentially infinite number of freely-adaptable titles to hand domestically. The Duke of Discourse. Warden of All Chit-Chat. Equerry of Arguments. Gold Stick To The Point. The Earl of Axiom. The Keeper of the King's Premises. The Wheedle Beadle. Chief Constable Counterexample. The Postillion of Positing. The Justiciar of Just One More Thing. The Marquess of My Question is More of a Comment.

meejah,
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@kjhealy His Lordship Actually, Earl of Well.

meejah, to random
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Wow, neat -- just had an out-of-the-blue request for what I think was my very first FOSS public software: a client-side robot that played Id's Quake way back in 1998

mhoye, to random
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The shovels on the side of that cybertruck tool rack are just an absolutely iconic piece of industrial design from somebody who has never in their lives done a job, met anyone doing a job, or once gave a passing thought to anyone potentially considering a job, that might give them a callus.

meejah,
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@mhoye @SnoopJ Fine, you made me look at cybertruck pictures.

Those shovels look great for doing ground-breaking ceremonies! Just need a touch of gold around the top or something?

caarlos0, to random

I'm now backing up all my github repositories to my NAS, using @charmcli's soft-serve new mirroring feature.

Now I always have, in my network, an eventually up to date copy of the repos I need :)

TLDR: I can pull/clone/etc even if GitHub is having issues, and push later ✅

meejah,
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@suchipi @caarlos0 There's "gitolite" too, which I run on a VPS so that I can just blindly push all my repos with an alias before going remote (and not have to think about stuff like "should this be public?")

(Doesn't replace the above but might compliment it, depending on use-case). I've had zero problems with for years, it "just works".

dangillmor, to random
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"Officer-involved shooting" is a euphemism for "officer shot someone" -- and it's used, by police and journalist, to make reality fuzzy.

If all journalism organizations agreed to, as this commentary advises, abolish the "Exonerative Tense” in headlines (and I'd add, articles as well), journalism would be much improved.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emersonmalone/police-traffic-safety-headline-language-exoneration

meejah,
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@ArtBear @dangillmor
"Programmer-involved application exit."

"Cryptographer involved mathematical unproof"

"DevOps involved privacy incident"

robsonfletcher, to random
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This is one of those articles that I'd love to hear people's thoughts on, but only after they've actually read the entire article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/matthew-morin-opinion-project-sovereignty-1.6814277

meejah,
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@robsonfletcher Incredibly naive.

robelix, to random
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Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

meejah,
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@adorfer @robelix I've got some great muck over here! We could use it in the ceremony!

meejah, to random
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magic-folder 23.5.0 is released
https://pypi.org/project/magic-folder/23.5.0/
-folder -lafs

x0darkpadr3, to random

Outside of the occasional snarky comment on shenanigans or sharing of an article or two, I won't be posting much on the Alberta Election.

However, please watch this brief video by Barry Morishita of the Alberta Party.

His words resonate here. Though we need to get rid of Danielle Smith, there is no accountability or governing effectiveness if we ping-pong between two parties.

A minority govt with a moderate third party is progress.

https://vimeo.com/822565708

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 I think the problem is way, way deeper than that.
I don't know what "policy screwup" you're imagining, but nobody knows or talks about any policies.

It's orange vs. blue.

Ask anyone who "hates" some party to name a single policy (of that or any other party).

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 (Also, cool: but fix it after this election please ;)

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 I really don't see how yet another "center-right" party helps any of this. We need some actually-left style parties if you want to expand the acceptable debate in ("Overton Window")

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 The NDP is also centrist.
(What do you think is different about the Alberta Party?)

There's no "left" in Alberta currently: there's the NDP + Alberta party milling somewhere around the center and a far-right UCP trying to turn us into Florida.

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 What is a "definitely left" policy ever held by the Alberta NDP?

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 Yeah, I think we mostly agree -- except I'm saying we need more left voices so I'd way rather see a "clearly different" party rather than the Alberta Party (which AFAICT is largely similar to the NDP).

robsonfletcher, to internet
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Drew Barnes, who was kicked out of the UCP caucus in May 2021 and served as an independent MLA in Cypress-Medicine Hat, says he's not going to seek re-election.

He announced it in a video.

meejah,
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@robsonfletcher Awww, I was hoping he'd follow through on his threats to start an "even more right" party than the UCP haha

meejah, to opensource
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I guess my post has vanished in the mists of time.
I am a professional Python developer, working almost exclusively on and of the genre. I sometimes do volunteer work.
Outside of that I , , and and currently trying to become a

meejah,
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@ruari Found a nice used one, so I'm back in business! (And it's a cool green colour instead of black :)

This one does not magically go backwards yet though ;)

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