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skrrp

@skrrp@meow.social

Back-end programmer and fledgling information security officer, working on boring business software because I like to eat. I am working on a MUD server in my spare time because I must have committed some grievous sins in a past life. Amateur writer, hope to publish one day.

Brit living in Germany. It's so much better here.

He/him.

Content scraping of my profile or posts to train AI models is strictly prohibited.

Content bridging to any other service run by capitalist shysters is strictly prohibited.

Ryan Barnett should go smoke a fart #nobridge

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foone, to random
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Nobody uses imagemaps anymore. The mid 90s web was absolutely lousy with imagemaps. These days? Nothing!

skrrp,
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@foone you don't need them anymore.

Web development has now reached a point where management sends a Word document of the site to the designer. The designer splits it up into 15 billion divs each with a separate image. The developer then attaches an onMouseOver and an onClick to each div.

This only costs 5MB in the raw HTML transfer and only requires 3GB of RAM to render the page. Progress!

renchap, to random
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I saw some people asking: no, this spam wave on the Fediverse does not have any relation to the security fixes published last week.

skrrp,
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@renchap do they have anything to do with the security fixes published next week?

NanoRaptor, to random
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The iPod server was a powerful first iteration music sharing device. While not designed for convenience, its internal RAID can still be expanded with modern compact flash cards for 1.25TB of on-the-go storage.

skrrp,
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@NanoRaptor I once had a Mac guy turn up at my workplace and tell me 'the document you need is on this iPod'.

I plugged it into a Linux machine and it mounted the filesystem just fine.

The horrors I saw in that filesystem, how it was laid out and how the iPod needed to use its database to present real names to the user ....

I never want to see that again.

philpem, (edited ) to random
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I don't know what surprises me more - that someone is selling a home-made "encryption" app on ebay, that it's on a monthly subscription, or that someone actually bid on it.

"It uses newly created proprietary algorithm that has 8192 bits public key and PIN" 🤯 ⁉️ 🔕

First rule, don't roll your own crypto...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204644271829

skrrp,
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@philpem with all the shit going on right now I was thinking of writing an 'encryption' app for fun, but really my design is a key manager wrapped around the stock RSA functions.

skrrp,
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@philpem thank you kindly. I would have just called the enc/dec functions ;)

owen, to random
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Exxon Mobil predicting 1.1° C warming by 2023 in ... 1982!!

HT @tsrandall

skrrp,
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@owen @tsrandall

Why we are not hanging up fossil fuel executives by the ankles and letting the children of tomorrow beat them like piñatas is beyond me.

heliomass, to random
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I’ve permanently switched on the VPN on my phone and set it to London, so from now on all my podcast adverts will be voiced by Idris Elba.

(and I’m not even kidding, this is actually what happened last time)

skrrp,
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@heliomass why not just block all adverts?

skrrp,
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@heliomass have you tried piracy?

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Ideally roles like "president" or "supreme court justice" or "mayor" would be more like volunteering to be banker for monopoly, or a role in the church Christmas play. A well-defined role, a service to the community with some prestige and an opportunity to be trusted.

It's not really all that important who exactly is doing the job. Someone simply needs to wear the "president hat" and "do the president things."

I'm aware this view isn't exactly typical. 1/

skrrp,
@skrrp@meow.social avatar

@futurebird

I think the correct way to choose politicians is;

  1. Ask for people that want to do the job
  2. Shoot everyone that applies
  3. Choose people randomly from the adult population to do the job
ChrisJagged, to gaming
@ChrisJagged@mastodon.social avatar

I do NOT like video games with an isometric perspective. I've never managed to finish one because it's such a turn-off for me.

Your turn...what are your biggest gaming turn-offs?

skrrp,
@skrrp@meow.social avatar

@ChrisJagged

Escort quests where the target dies too easily.

Escort quests where the target moves faster than your walking speed but slower than your running speed.

lauren, to random
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The Bitcoin ETF ads have already begun. Millions of people are going to lose everything.

skrrp,
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@lauren

Today I saw Europol proudly announce that they had busted a crypto-jacker and I was thinking ... the entire thing is a Ponzi scheme. Why are you wasting scarce public resources protecting scammers from other scammers? Let them all rot in their festering pool.

philpem, to random
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Collecting together some of the links to coverage of the Post Office Horizon scandal and public inquiry:

ITV "Bates vs the Post Office" series: https://www.itv.com/watch/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office/10a0469 (video likely UK only)

Inquiry documents: https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/

Searchable transcripts: https://postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk/

Bates vs Post Office appendix: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bates-v-post-office-appendix-1-1.pdf

skrrp,
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@avon_deer this affair has really pissed off those of us that have been in the know all this time. It's frankly disgusting and should have ended with some people from both the Post Office and Fujitsu being in prison.

@philpem The Register has been truthful in its coverage all along and has been one of the sources banging the drum about it. They don't seem to have a tagging system, so here's the latest article from them. There's 'more about ...' on the right.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/08/sunak_promises_faster_justice_for/

Private Eye has also been honest and accurate in their coverage.

petergleick, to random
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Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

skrrp,
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@Sh4d0w_H34rt @petergleick

This is the answer. Society is currently optimised around the collection of capital into ever increasing pools that we plebs are kept out of.

We have to work 40 hours a week so that those pools can get bigger and the owners get to do what they damn well please off the back of our labour.

Only if you are rich can you achieve Maslow 5, because you are granted the leisure time and the capital to pursue your own interests. Everyone else is stuck at level 4. Some people are even happy with this and don't wonder why they can't progress.

ben, to Youtube
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk avatar

Cheeky fuckers.

have deployed Javascript that delays video load if the user is using

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/

skrrp,
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@ben better a 5 second wait than multiple 30+ seconds of unskippable ads.

athena_rose922, to random
@athena_rose922@mstdn.social avatar

I overall really liked the Blue Beetle movie and I thought it was very true to the tone of the comics but there was one scene that as a medical person I couldn't help but scream at the screen at.

skrrp,
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@athena_rose922 yeah, I know.

And I think the real reason they don't on a TV show is to stop kids copying what they see and trying it in the playground.

Still irritating to watch ;)

skrrp, to random
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@Binder thank you for boosting all the stuff you do. It's rare for a day to go by without finding someone new and interesting to follow.

TodayInTwitter, to random
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When Apple leads, everyone follows.

Expect a mass exodus in the coming days.

skrrp,
@skrrp@meow.social avatar

@TodayInTwitter fascinating to watch all the Android manufacturers move to USB-C after Apple led the way.

Mrfunkedude, to random
@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social avatar

Leaf blowers are the bane of the voice actor who works from home.

skrrp,
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@Mrfunkedude

When elected I will pass a law making it a requirement that anyone using a leaf blower must also pick up the leaves after they've finished blowing them around.

cstross, to random
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... Because his AI girlfriend dumped him in favor of an AI artist.

skrrp,
@skrrp@meow.social avatar

@cstross getting arrested for that isn't very techbro libertarian. It's his apartment and he can set it on fire if that's what he wants to do with his property.

EU_Commission, to Bulgaria
@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu avatar

Today, we requested information from Amazon on how it meets its obligations under our Digital Services Act to protect consumers online and regarding risk assessments, including:

🔸 the dissemination of illegal products and the protection of fundamental rights;
🔹 compliance of recommender systems with the relevant provisions of the .

Failure to reply by the deadline could lead to the imposition of periodic penalty payments.

Read more: https://europa.eu/!4QQ6M4

skrrp,
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@EU_Commission

Could you possibly explain how the current plan to allow member states to break our encryption is compliant with our fundamental rights?

eniko, to random
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oh no im feeling the urge to fire up openttd. i can't afford to lose that much productivity right now!

skrrp,
@skrrp@meow.social avatar

@eniko

whispers Simutrans.

johnnyryan, to random
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@wchr @skrrp yes (and it already is illegal)

skrrp,
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@johnnyryan @wchr

Sorry, I'll rephrase that.

Since it is illegal and I have never consented to any of this in my life we should be forcing these companies to delete their datasets and starting from nothing, getting real consent as they go.

mw1cgg, to random
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Superb!

skrrp,
@skrrp@meow.social avatar

@chris @mw1cgg those clauses are invalid in the EU. If we're being paid it's the property of the company. On our own time it's ours.

This stems from the right to work that is part of the most basic rights we have.

petergleick, to random
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Here you go. How dare people, especially young people, vote, says the GOP.

“You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote...pure democracies are not the way to run a country,” Santorum said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4299354-santorum-ohio-results-pure-democracies/

skrrp,
@skrrp@meow.social avatar

@petergleick

Posting for the 1 person who was not aware of this;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22

kcarruthers, to random
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social avatar

Mike Johnson’s 'Christian Zionism' is 'fueled by fantasies of a cataclysmic war': analysis https://www.alternet.org/mike-johnsons-christian-zionism-is-fueled-by-fantasies-of-a-cataclysmic-war-analysis/

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skrrp,
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@kcarruthers they gonna be very confused if Christ does return and then immediately demands all the Christians convert to Judaism.

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