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trisweb

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General nerd; work = UX manager at an infosec co, artsy/musicy, house full of: dogs, plants, vintage tube gear, various things that run Linux. He/him, trans rights, Black Lives Matter, genuinely delighted to meet you. KC1ULJ on #amateurradio

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trisweb, to random
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Trying to search for Lego on Amazon:

trisweb,
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@sarajw That is kinda cool actually. I didn't realize they were all Lego-compatible. I also discovered at least one of these is LED-lighting for popular Lego sets, which is neat.

They really have done well at genuinely chasing what their customers love—with Lego Ideas and so many brands and new sets—as opposed to just clutching pearls and going on defense. You love to see it.

kevinrothrock, to random

Welcome to Threads, everyone. Rated PG.

trisweb,
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@kevinrothrock Ah "fear" and "tentativeness" as a product strategy. That's never failed! Maybe.

dansup, to random
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it's almost time 😎

> time()
= 1696969402

trisweb,
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@dansup woohoo!

mattblaze, to random
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Reminder about Mastodon "private" messages. Aside from not being end-end-encrypted (and so visible to instance administrators), they CC anyone @-mentioned ANYWHERE in the body of the message (not just those listed at the start).

They are now called "private mentions" rather than "private messages", but if you don't fully understand the semantics, this behavior may be unexpected and/or cause unpleasant side effects.

trisweb,
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@mattblaze @jpaskaruk there it is!

Frankly I think this kind of feedback is needed. We need some kind of push to fix it, otherwise nothing will be done.

You’re completely right, a permission is not a private message and they need to be separated.

trisweb, to random
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not enough leaders have watched every episode of Star Trek: TNG and it shows

medley56, to random

@neilhimself
People here have resorted to taking screenshots of your twitter account and posting the images here. I humbly suggest moving your social media off of twitter. We love you here. And we have better moss and bird photos.

I think this argument kind of nails it:
https://throwawayopinions.io/the-paradox-of-intolerance.html

trisweb,
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@neilhimself @medley56 for what it’s worth, in my experience this has stabilized over the past year or so. It feels fairly normal these days without much attitude.

mattblaze, to random
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Someone yelled at me for posting monochrome photos again.

That's kind of annonying, but this place still has fewer Nazis than that other place, so I'll be sticking around (along with my dreary monochrome photos, devoid of all color and joy as they may be).

trisweb,
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@mattblaze da f? Ignore them, block if you have to.

The CW police are the worst part about this place and they need to go away.

trisweb,
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@Gargron @mattblaze How exciting! I remember my first roll of HP5. Pulling it out of the developing tank and seeing actual photos appear was intoxicating. I'm now addicted. Have tons of fun.

J12t, to random
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@darnell : the BBCs thoughts on mastodon and the fediverse were very nicely outlined at the recent FediForum: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/1-b/

trisweb,
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@bougiewonderland @J12t Love love love this: https://humanvalues.io/

trisweb, to random
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Too much internet lately; not enough real.

Is the internet real?

trisweb, to random
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It's time to very seriously start preparing for the end of industrialized civilization as we know it.

Either the fossil fuels go, or the food goes, or some combination of both. Either way it's not going to look the same in 10, 20, 50 years [with error bars].

raptor, to security

New !

Looney Tunables: Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc's ld.so
(CVE-2023-4911)

https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-glibc-ld-so.txt

trisweb,
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@raptor Yikes. Looks like debian libc updates are already out. Ubuntu server not quite yet.

breadandcircuses, (edited ) to science

Okay, last one for today on why collapse is inevitable, but this time with a bit of life wisdom thrown in at the end...

The official narrative is that we will get off of oil and switch to 'green energy', but this is a fantasy. Oil is the lifeblood of global industrial civilization.

Not only do we need oil to transport goods around the world on diesel-powered trucks and ships, we need fossil fuels to create thousands of everyday items we take for granted: Plastics, cosmetics, medicines, lubricants, adhesives, fertilizer, cleaning products, and much more.

Yes, some of these products could be made without oil. For example, hemp could be used to make plastic (although that could be difficult as we’re already using all of the arable land), but it won’t be cheap. Whether we use oil or not, everything is going to get a lot more expensive.

Consider the fact that we are already in a global food crisis with more people going hungry every day due to the high cost of food. In ten years, we’ll be well beyond 1.5°C of warming and approaching 2°C. Crop failures will be even more common, water shortages will be widespread, and we’ll have less energy to work with.

Now, if you could find out exactly when collapse will take your life, what would you do differently? Would you reconnect with old friends? Spend more time with your family? Read a book you always wanted to read? Learn an instrument you always wanted to play?

If so, why aren’t you doing these things right now? Given the fragility of our supply chains and power grids along with the increasing threat of nuclear war, it could all come crashing down by the end of the decade.

I’ve decided not to worry about it anymore. When people ask me when civilization is going to collapse, my answer is, “It’s already collapsing.”

Time is running out. Use what’s left of it wisely.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.ph/CgbcB

ALTERNATE LINK -- https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/when-will-the-collapse-kill-me-2c7577678be9

trisweb,
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@jackofalltrades @breadandcircuses While this is rational and there's a kind of peace to it, there's something about accepting not only my own mortality, but the mortality of all of humanity that is difficult to accept.

And I'm not sure we should accept it. I think we should, if possible, use our precious lives and time to fight against it as hard as we possibly can.

If I go, I can accept my own mortality. But I'm not so sure about humanity's. Not without a fight.

impactology, to random
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In response to article titled "Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI"

https://futurism.com/sam-altman-replace-normal-people-ai

People like this are hopeless man, like at what point in their lives do they become so closed off to humanity, so cold and unsympathetic

trisweb,
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@impactology my only solace is knowing that the future does not belong to them.

trisweb,
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@impactology I genuinely believe that people who can connect deeply with others, bring people together around problems, form creative collaborations and make the most of human ingenuity and creativity will win.

I think they'll be several orders of magnitude better than an asshole with an army of AIs. The AI might bring that up 2x, but it still won't come close to what humans are capable of when they are at their best.

trisweb,
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@impactology @trisweb Thank you! It gave me hope to write it out and read it back again.

I have deleted my Twitter account. :) But perhaps I will write a slightly longer blog post.

trisweb,
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@impactology @trisweb yeah I held it for a while, but after that decided that it was a risk I was willing to accept. I’ll keep an eye out for squatters.

jwz, to random
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Remember eleven months ago when the Tumblr CEO said that they would be supporting ActivityPub real soon now and then never mentioned it again? Sounds like they got cold feet. ("Wait, how does being open and interoperable make us money??") https://mastodon.social/

trisweb,
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@siderea @jwz My favorite variation of this is companies that think they know how businesses work driving their products into the ground by overmonetizing their product strategy.

exchgr, to random
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my mom got an induction cooktop, and it’s my first time using one for any serious cooking outside of a hotpot joint, and it’s the best thing ever. i want one

trisweb,
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@exchgr Yeah I've got to switch. They're so nice. I'm so sick of burning gas inside enclosed spaces being somehow a normal thing and after I got the CO2 meter it's impossible to ignore.

GossiTheDog, to random
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Peter Molyneux is launching a web3 blockchain NFT game next month which I’m sure will be a massive success and not at all crash and burn. https://www.eurogamer.net/peter-molyneuxs-blockchain-business-sim-legacy-gets-october-release

trisweb,
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@GossiTheDog not only did he miss the boat, the boat has left the port, sailed halfway across the ocean, hit an iceberg inside a hurricane and sank.

evacide, to random
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The story of why Elon Musk fired most of the election integrity team after saying he would expand it is stupider than I even imagined. The team's manager liked a tweet calling Elon a dipshit.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/28/elon-fires-half-of-extwitters-election-integrity-team-because-a-manager-liked-a-tweet-calling-him-a-fucking-dipshit/

trisweb,
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@evacide oh my god what a dipshit

arstechnica, to random
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$5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too

Google's digital whiteboard for schools and businesses lasted 8 years.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/5000-google-jamboard-dies-in-2024-cloud-based-apps-will-stop-working-too/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

trisweb,
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@arstechnica ahhhh dammit we have two of these in our office. They’re actually not terrible. Maybe Zoom can commandeer the hardware.

janellecshane, to random
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Chatbots like GPT-4 and Bard will "retrieve" an explanation of a meme even if it doesn't exist.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/trolling-chatbots-with-made-up-memes/

trisweb,
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@janellecshane this makes perfect sense; as they’re trained to provide language that makes sense and carries a confident tone, and they are not intelligent so have no way of knowing what’s true or not (they cannot “know” or “decide” or “think”). They will dutifully provide language that makes the most sense and has a confident tone based on anything and nothing whatsoever.

trisweb, to random
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Upgraded this private server to 4.2.0 went relatively smoothly, once I remembered to do the migrations 😶

trisweb,
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@dannotdaniel they’ll be in the db/migrate folder in the rails project. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/main/db/migrate

But you don’t really need to know what they are, just follow the instructions at that link.

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