nbailey

@nbailey@mstdn.ca

Ack! Born @ 360ppm Computer herder, robot farmer, web surfer, etc. Fake London 🇨🇦
Just like the Chiquita banana company, I have not successfully overthrown a single government since 1954.

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cliffwade, to email
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After 20+ years, I made the switch from Gmail to @protonmail and you can read my blog post via the link below to find out what made me do it!

https://blog.allthingstech.social/why-i-switched-from-gmail-to-proton-mail/

Are you using a paid email service or have you switched from Gmail to something else? Let me know in the comments.

Please BOOST for others to read as well!

Blog Mastodon account:

@cliffwade

nbailey,

@cliffwade @protonmail @cliffwade highly recommend purchasing a personal domain and using that for all email. My domain has been on gsuite, ms365, and for the past six years ProtonMail. Not once during those migrations did I have to give every person and site a new email address. And if proton ever turns “evil” I can easily pivot away from there. It is in my opinion the greatest step towards sovereignty & against the hegemony of tech

futurebird, to random
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"Going anywhere for the holidays?"
"Yes, upstate."
"Plane or car?"
"Oh Jesus no! Train."
"How long will that take?"
"9 hours. But my vacation starts when I get on the train, not when I get off the plane. It's much less stressful."
"You know... I can see that..."

Folks, I may have a made a convert today. Let's be real. Driving is work, and flying is torture. A train ride, might seem "long" but did you count all the time you spend getting to the airport, the security checks? The silly rules?

nbailey,

@futurebird an airship/dirigible would be neat if they could ever become “economically viable”. You’d get the comfort of a sleeper train with the views of air travel, and without sea sickness and weather hazards. Obviously trains win over land, but we’ll need some way to cross the ocean without fossil fuels someday.

gulovsen, to ai
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Oh hey look another updated terms and conditions for a software provider (this time Mailchimp) that lets them use your sh*t to train their AI. 🙄

nbailey,

@gulovsen the funniest part about this is that the end result will be the goofiest and most useless generative model ever. Who the hell buys a model exclusively trained on the kind of annoying and naggy crap that gets sent through mailchimp? “Wow, this one can hallucinate broken click-through trackers!!”

GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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    @dangoodin @GossiTheDog for the love of god and all that’s holy do NOT put network management interfaces open to the internet! It was basically the second thing we learned in school, the first being how to set an IP on the things. I seriously don’t understand why this is still a problem. Sure, some will be compromised within organizations with a pre-existing intrusion, but switch web UI’s open to the web is amateur shit.

    aral, to random
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    If a tumour were to write a manifesto on cancer…

    https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

    nbailey,

    @aral I’d say the link preview card is pretty accurate lmao

    RM_Transit, to random
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    @RM_Transit as much as I like this on a technological and environmental level, some fundamental changes would need to come to the shipping industry… imagine a nuclear powered freighter flagged under Liberia, owned by a holdings company in Panama with insurance from Barbados and safety certifications from Tonga. Yikes. It’s a good idea, but not under our current system. Which is to say that our system needs to change, not that we need to shrug and keep burning fuel oil while we wait.

    malwaretech, to random

    I didn't realize all Elon's Twitter loans were variable rate. Dude must be getting absolutely hosed right now 😂​
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-13-billion-whip-171340881.html

    nbailey,

    @malwaretech my guy took out a $13B payday loan lmao

    eric_capuano, to random

    I was today-years-old when I realized that Sysmon event 15 now captures the contents of the Zone.Identifier ADS, showing where a file was downloaded from 🤯

    nbailey,

    @eric_capuano it’s so close to having a proper ISO-8601 timestamp

    0x00string, to random

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    nbailey,

    @0x00string 50th anniversary today, a big one

    tante, to random
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    Carbon Credits are a scam. Not just because a lot of the projects are literal scams but because the fundamental idea is fucked. The market will not solve this. Quite the opposite.
    (Title: Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1963543

    nbailey,

    @tante all the “carbon offsets” big corps have been buying up in northern Canada are quite literally going up in smoke now. But they’re not required to buy “new” offsets now that their old ones are currently carbon. It’s all incredibly dumb.

    campuscodi, to random
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    Security researchers who attended the Black Hat and DEFCON security conferences in Las Vegas at the start of the month and stayed at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino should be aware that cases of Legionnaires' disease had been reported among hotel guests.

    https://www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/news-release/southern-nevada-health-district-conducting-legionnaires-disease-investigation-at-caesars-palace-hotel-and-casino/

    nbailey,

    @campuscodi taking bets now, AC condensate, hot tub, or indoor fountain?

    GottaLaff, to Georgia
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    nbailey,

    @GottaLaff is this legit? The lighting and contrast look very inconsistent with the ones taken of the rest of his gang.

    timbray, to random
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    Feeling emotionally bruised - trying to figure out why the loss of Lahaina has hit me so hard: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/living-through-mauis-unimaginable-wildfires

    I realized it’s the first place where I have direct lived experience that has been demolished as a consequence of our poor environmental stewardship.

    Lots more well-loved places are going to go, lots more people are going to be feeling these feelings.

    At what point do we wake up and say stop?

    nbailey,

    @timbray this creates such an awful tension for me as a twenty-something, the desire to see all the gorgeous far away places before they’re all burned down or washed away, and the dire need to stop doing unnecessary and silly things that create massive pollution. There’s no winning, only bad compromises and losing from here on out…

    docpop, to random
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    Have you ever noticed that most self-driving cars don't have any passengers?

    "Deadheading" is an industry term for keeping driverless cars in constant motion, even when they have neither a passenger nor a destination. Waymo & Cruise rely on deadheading to avoid paying for parking.

    Why pay the city for public parking when you can store your car on the road for free (as long as it's moving)?

    Since I've started keeping track, I've noticed that over 90% of the self-driving cars I see are empty...

    Traffic at a busy intersection in San Francisco (Cesar Chavez and Guerrero). Most of the cars in the video are traditional cars with drivers, but three driverless Cruise cars pass by the camera. None of these driverless cars have passengers. At the stoplight, they all drive in different directions. It is not clear if they are driving to pick someone up, or just driving to avoid parking.

    nbailey,

    @docpop we’ve solved the problem of commuter cars having 1/5 passengers, by making cars with 0/5 passengers! Now that’s progress.

    w7voa, to connecticut
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    home sells for almost $139 million. https://apnews.com/article/e1182cd58bc45627fb30b9d041ce7ca7

    nbailey,

    @w7voa really serving me some "big money Groverhaus" vibes

    chrismessina, to random
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    Elon wants to build X into the "WeChat of the West", an everything app for everyone.

    Would he also impose these proposed Chinese phone usage roles?

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/tech/china-minors-mobile-phone-limits-intl-hnk

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    nbailey,

    @chrismessina well, there’s already a limit on posts you can see, so why not? Of course, the musk version of this involves the “verification can” rather than a heavy-handed attempt at improving wellbeing.

    dansup, to random
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    Have you noticed the new @pixelfed app is more responsive and faster?

    Plenty more performance improvements are coming, along with some pretty neat features and user requests!

    Something you want to see in our official app? Let me know ⬇️

    nbailey,

    @dansup @pixelfed iOS 15 compatibility would be nice, there’s still lots of stubborn people out there with old phones!

    drewtoothpaste, to random

    this looks like i made it up but it's the time zone map for australia. yes, time zones should be divided by longitude, not latitude, but australia has done both, in the most annoying way possible (by adding half hours)

    nbailey,

    @drewtoothpaste my god it’s the only place with more cursed time zones than Newfoundland

    GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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    For anybody wondering what the Mastodon security issue is - CVE-2023-36460, you can send a toot which makes a webshell on instances that process said toot.

    nbailey,

    @GossiTheDog my god it's 2005 again. Wormable RCEs on personal websites. We truly live in the golden age.

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    @GossiTheDog maybe I’m unduly dubious of meta, but doesn’t this sound like they want to pipeline the most toxic people off their network and into ours? This makes me think they want to dump banned accounts out onto the broader fediverse.

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    , there’s a pretty serious security vulnerability due to be announced this week. Make sure you apply patches when released on Thursday.

    If you’ve never patched, get the process down beforehand.

    nbailey,

    @GossiTheDog I think there should be a bit more user-interactivity for profile redirects, server self destructs, defederations, etc. Even if it’s just a notification every week or so that tells you what users have changed instances, profiles disappeared, and any other stuff that changes that a person might not really notice otherwise.

    christianselig, to random
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    Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! 😛

    nbailey,

    @christianselig what’s really funny about this is that it implies Reddit lacks a proper mechanism for automatically expiring tokens. Whoever was responsible for killing the tokens at midnight UTC wanted to go home early on the long weekend so they did it early before quitting time and thought nobody would notice… 🤦‍♂️

    seldo, to random

    The live infomercial for the airline's credit card in the middle of the flight is by far the worst "innovation" in travel of the last decade.

    nbailey,

    @seldo Air Canada now has a mandatory 90 second propaganda piece from the oil sands guys that plays before takeoff. It’s all Very Normal.

    simevidas, to random
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    Which tech companies do you trust the most? I can’t think of any other than Mozilla.

    edit: …and DuckDuckGo

    nbailey,

    @simevidas I trust Proton and 1Password a little more than the rest because they have actual business models instead of being VC coalmines, but still wouldn’t say I “trust” them. Which says a lot considering they’re by far the most important software I use.

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    nbailey,

    @GossiTheDog lmao we’ve reached the “duck and cover” phase

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