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He/him. Web developer for klasse.be, Podcaster with https://mastodon.cloud/@tech45. #ttrpg GM & player. Technology is what makes us human. This is a personal account.

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alda, to random
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Can someone tell me why wearing 9-12 different belts is what people do in modern-ish fantasy and post-apocaltptic sci-fi?

toon,
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@alda to make absolutely 100% sure they're not caught with their pants down?

repo, to random
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https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/04/23/klimaatimpact-koffie-hoe-groot-en-hoe-terugdringen/

toon,
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@repo Stemmen voor mensen die ervoor zorgen dat je als consument geen supply-chain specialist moet worden over alles wat je koopt, zou ook nog eens een gedacht zijn. De verantwoordelijkheid bij de consument leggen is de geniaalste truc die de industrie heeft uitgehaald.

rebeccawatson, to random
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Richard Dawkins recently made headlines by claiming to be a “cultural Christian.” What he actually meant, in my opinion as a fellow cultural Christian, was that he’s a bigot https://skepchick.org/2024/04/richard-dawkins-cultural-christian-or-supremacist-bigot/

toon,
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@alda @rebeccawatson He wasn't always like that, though, was he? For me The God Delusion was the main letdown and just a book full of vitriol and spite, without any insight. Dawkins was great when he was popularizing science and zoology. The Ancestor's Tale is still one of my favourite books. Seems like either he turned 'angry old white man' in the 90s or he just didn't let it show before.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to threads
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De-federating does NOT prevent from accessing your public feed.

This is demonstrably false. Almost all servers that de-federate Threads still broadcast the RSS feed of your posts. This is available to everyone, even servers that are de-federated from yours.

If you don’t believe me, test this out for yourself. Append “.rss” to the end of your profile URL (exampleserver.com/@username.rss), and see what happens.

Hell, if I wanted to build a search engine for the Fediverse and not use ActivityPub, I could use RSS instead and I could index most of the Fediverse – whether you opt into it or not.

Let’s stop spreading the myth that de-federation by itself prevents Threads from accessing your public feed.

@fediversenews

toon,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews But does it prevent them from doing so legally? I can create searchable indexes of lots of things I find online, but that's often a copyright violation.

toon, to random
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jmaris, to meta
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I'm all for criticising and , but this post is seriously misleading.

The data described in the privacy policy is what is necessary to federate comments. Whether this implies they can then use this data for other purposes is still up for debate.

Doing so would likely be illegal in the EU though.

- https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111585528118111249

toon,
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@jmaris it would indeed be illegal for them to profile EU non-threads users based on data collected on the fediverse.

gvwilson, to random
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I don't know if I'll ever teach another undergrad course on software engineering, but if I do, I'm going to include a lecture on red flags and warning signs in job ads and interviews. This will be included.

toon,
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@kittylyst @gvwilson the whole 'reverse requirements' concept is a red flag imho. It says. 'These nerds like weird and quirky right?' above all else.

toon, to random
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Met @tech45 zoeken we extra panelleden. Heb jij een mening over technologie en heb je een achtergrond, stem, imzicht dat nog niet aan bod komt in de podcast? Mailen maar naar redactie@tech45.eu // boost = nice

toon, to random
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You haven't really experienced file format compatibility issues and jargon confusion until you've tried to design a PCB in Affinity Designer and/or Illustrator.

toon, to random
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Drie jaar geleden lid geworden van Ministry of Privacy, maar inmiddels toch redelijk teleurgesteld in hun toch nogal vage werking. En allesbehalve goedkoop.

toon, to random
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Gisteren in de boekentas een brief van de school over 'de Italiëreis'. €1000 en de impliciete veronderstelling dat iedereen dat gewoon kan ophoesten. Ik dacht dat we dit soort uitsluitmechanismen achter ons hadden gelaten.

toon, to random
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Anyone found any cool new game soundtracks they like?

toon, to random
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Long shot, maar heeft er iemand een idee wat voor karakters er kunnen voorkomen in een naam in het rijksregister? Meer dan 'speciale tekens' staat er niet in hun documentatie precies, en dat gaat dan over accentkarakters en weglatingstekens. Boost = tof.

toon, to random
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I've got a question: I'm generating SHA-256 hashes of 20 million numbers (salted with a shared secret). I'd like to know how long a chunk of the hexdigest needs to be to be very likely to be unique across the dataset. Experiment says they're unique from 14 digits onwards, but I'm wondering if this can be determined in any other way and if it depends on the input at all?

toon, to random
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Tripje aan het plannen naar het Jubelpark, en dan zou een geharmoniseerd openbaar vervoer toch een gerief zijn. Eenvoudig één ticket kunnen kopen van A tot Z, dat geldt op trein, bus en metro, zou een gamechanger kunnen zijn. Nog beter op EU of Benelux niveau 🙏

toon, to random
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Yesterday I was driving home from Germany using Waze. At some point I got a surprising warning prompt I'd never gotten before: 'animals on the road'. Weird, on the Autobahn, but i kept my eyes open as a deer or a loose dog could be dangerous. My heart sank when at the approx. location I saw a broken down car with a black woman waiting beside it. I, and lots of other drivers, got subjected to a racist 'joke' through Waze. Waze has no way to report this, but I'd like to. The user is known to them.

billmason, to StarTrek
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An excellent thread on why to save Star Trek: Prodigy

(via https://twitter.com/NerdForce5/status/1686121027405819905)

@startrek

toon,
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@jdavidnet @rdviii @billmason @startrek I'd watch a Space:1999 remake too. That show caused a world shortage of beige for years.

toon, to random
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Is it me, or are ready made microwave meals not a thing in Germany?

axbom, to privacy
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The reason I recommend @duckduckgo as your default search engine is not only about privacy.

Did you know that DuckDuckGo can transfer your query to many thousands of different, subject-specific online search engines?

This could be Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or beyond that: media, forums, shopping or research sites. Or even XKCD.

You control where the search ends up… with a !bang.

https://axbom.com/duckduckgo-bangs/

toon,
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@axbom @duckduckgo Been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for years now. It's mostly superior to Google, except for the 'that movie with that guy with the hair, it had a yellow poster, something with a 'W'' kind of queries that require some complex analysis logic.

toon, to random
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This will surely lead to a wave of quality content and reduce the overall need for moderation /s (via The Verge)

toon, to random
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Given the recent situation with various siloed internet platforms, I'd like to point out that if you value your online presence, you need to own it. You don't need any coding skills, the most important thing you can do is get your own domain name. Anything else can me configured/moved/redirected in most cases. Hosting companies will be glad to help. And it literally costs 'less than a coffee a day'.

toon, to random
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Got blocked by a hysterical @aral , is he on drugs or something?

toon, to random
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So, I have a mastodon instance with my account. Which is great. Now if I want to post image content a la Instagram, should I just use a different client or set up a separate pixelfed instance? I actually kind of dig the idea to just use another, more image-oriented client.

toon, to python
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My script to archive your own content and any posts and comments you have saved, including linked images/galleries: https://github.com/toonvandeputte/reddit_archive
Quite quick 'n' dirty, you are welcome to improve upon it. But I thought I'd get it out there, seeing as there's a deadline 'n' all.

toon, to internet
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Just canceled my subscription, after the whole paid-API-situation. I really hope they turn around, but I'm not hopeful and I'm certainly not giving them any more of my money. If they continue on the Twitter road, I hope I'll find another community that's so rich and diverse, because I'll sure be leaving Reddit.

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