moqume

@moqume@techhub.social

I keep servers happy. I program too. Blunt and direct. Asks awkward questions.

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moqume, to ai

Windows Copilot / GPT-4 thinks it can "think", and tried to argue to the point it got fed up and politely told me to get lost ๐Ÿ˜‚ Cogito, ergo sum!

georgetakei, to random

Who wants to tell him? ๐Ÿ™„

moqume,

@georgetakei I'd be worried about the "I don't get it" comments...

autumn, to retrocomputing

From my archives... this is what the command center of a mid-1990s dialup ISP looked like.

Later iterations would be more advanced, but this is how it started. A natural progression and leap of faith from the multi-line BBS it replaced.

moqume,

@autumn oh, the memories of my Sysop years!

nixCraft, to linux
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

obviously they are talking about desktop :P

moqume,

@nixCraft GEM enters the room...

neil, to random

Success at the car boot sale this morning!

Now I can protect my computers like it is 1998.

moqume,

@neil I should have the bootloader that Peter Norton wrote on a floppy disk somewhere.

joannekelly, to random

So, here's the Russian oil tanks on fire in Volna, just a few miles from the bridge to occupied Crimea. You can see it from the Crimea bridge.

Video of the tankers: https://t.me/temruk_info/12648

Video from Kerch bridge: https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1653624974043693056

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/z8Uifj31ur9LgiU17

Google Street View of the same installation in 2019

moqume,

@joannekelly ๐Ÿšญ

neil, to random

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    moqume,

    @neil oh, I love this idea! And that after just reading about ๐Ÿ˜…

    neil, to random

    โ€œAI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Googleโ€

    And not in the title:

    โ€œDr Hinton also accepted that his age had played into his decision to leave the tech giant, telling the BBC: "I'm 75, so it's time to retire."โ€

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65452940

    moqume,

    @neil don't mention Frank Rosenblatt...

    revk, (edited ) to random
    @revk@toot.me.uk avatar

    C Coding debate.

    Normally, obviously, I am somewhat careful to ensure freeing memory. Memory leaks are a bugger.

    Sometimes I use alloc(), strdupa() in a function to avoid the question.

    But when I have a non looping standalone command that always runs to the end, and hence any allocated memory during the process is freed when it exits, and a growing memory leak cannot happen... Do I free all the things at the end?

    [Loving the debate on this]

    moqume,

    @ahnlak @revk better to know for sure, than assume it is. It's the bain of CVE's.

    neil, to random

    Has anyone asked 1Password how it intends to comply with EU/UK law, forbidding it from accessing information (anonymised or not) stored on a user's device, for a purpose which is not strictly necessary for the provision of the service, without the user's consent? (Art 5(3) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2002/58/article/5)

    Is 1Password claiming that this is "strictly necessary", such that it doesn't need consent?

    "Weโ€™re Changing How We Discover and Prioritize Improvements | 1Password"
    https://blog.1password.com/privacy-preserving-app-telemetry/

    moqume,

    @neil But that relates to sending data, say, a entering a password on a website. It would not apply to telemetry, does it? Then any analytics based on anonymised data would fall in the category, which is a giant iceberg. Curious now...

    moqume,

    @neil "the confidentiality of communications and the related traffic data" - I'm confused as to how telemetry applies, if it doesn't alter/intercept the confidentiality?

    moqume,

    @neil Mind, I'm not trying to prove a point or anything, just trying to understand it - both as a user of 1password, but also because out of general interest.

    revk, to random
    @revk@toot.me.uk avatar

    Hmm, stuck. What is it for "beeped briefly and flashed up something full screen for maybe ยฝ second"

    moqume,

    @8tpercent @revk "vogel" is Dutch for bird. So watch those birds (which kind is for you to decide).

    kev, to random
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    moqume,

    @kev I think it is due to socioeconomic differences. A bit like how conspiracy theories are easier to trickle down the path of 'least resistance', such as where education lacks, or social norms allows for it. So social media will be partitioned along those lines accordingly. It's when the boundary is crossed, we start feeling "Well, this is a place full of idiots", because we had been inadvertently shielding ourselves from it. Question then is, do you live with it? Or do you create a new partition elsewhere?

    blog, to chinese
    @blog@shkspr.mobi avatar

    How Do You Pronounce Your Domain Name?
    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/12/how-do-you-pronounce-your-domain-name/

    I was listening to a podcast recently which was kind enough to mention one of my blog posts. The presenter said:

    ...and you should Google for this, because I'm really not sure how to pronounce this. Is it shu-huk-spur? dot mobby?

    Le sigh! It's a conversation I have most weeks when I'm on the phone to someone - usually a call centre - and they ask for my email address.

    "Sierra Hotel Kilo Sierra Papa Romeo Dot Mike Oscar Bravo India"

    Whereupon I am inevitably asked:

    Is that dot com or dot co dot UK at the end, sir?

    Yes! I have chosen an almost unpronounceable domain on an obscure TLD. Woe is me!

    Originally, I thought this wouldn't be a problem. Typing in the domain is quick and easy. But a surprising number of organisations still insist on taking personal data over the phone. Which means more reading out the phonetic spelling.

    Frustratingly, a large number of websites refuse to accept .mobi as a valid TLD for email addresses. The geniuses who coded them appeared to think that every email address must end with a 3 character (.com, .org, .net) or 2 character (.uk, .de, .io) sequence. Despite the fact that there are dozens of domains which don't fit in this restriction.

    Doubling Down

    Being the belligerent sod that I am, I refuse to give in to the tyranny of the spoken word! We live in an digital world and digital data should be communicated by digital means. I want to impart information like my email address over the wire - not over the phone.

    Regular readers will know that I was thwarted in my quest to buy a .ไธญๅ›ฝ domain - but I did manage to grab http://่ŽŽๅฃซๆฏ”ไบš.org/.

    I think I'm going to move my primary email to that domain. When I get some call-centre who won't let me fill in a form online to give them my details, I shall very politely say my email address is:

    Eden - yes, like the garden - at Shฤโ€‹shรฌโ€‹bวโ€‹yร ... Oh, of course, the stroke order is... Well, no, it's a Mandarin Chinese domain... No... No... Fine, would you like the punycode representation? Hello?

    I'll also refuse to do business when any organisation which doesn't recognise IDN email addresses. That'll show 'em!

    Perhaps I'll also move this blog over to that domain as well. I wonder what impact speakability has on SEO?

    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/12/how-do-you-pronounce-your-domain-name/

    moqume,

    @blog "Frustratingly, a large number of websites refuse to accept .mobi as a valid TLD for email addresses." - Ah yes, Argos et al. "Please enter a valid email address". "Please fix your regex". "We will not. Get a 'real' email address'".

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