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vorlon

@vorlon@mastodon.social

Portland, OR. 1312. Exiled from Twitter before it was cool. I was there at the dawning of the Third Age of Free Software.

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vorlon, to random
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A lot of people seem to be upset about the kolektiva.social database compromise because the data was unencrypted on a disk. I think this displays a failure to understand how little effective encryption of data happens on servers.

The admin should have been using encryption on their local drives. They also shouldn't have had the data local where it could be caught up by an unrelated warrant.

But if the warrant had been for kolektiva.social itself, served against a cloud provider?

juliank, to random
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I forgot to post lunch today:

Pasta aglio e olio e peperoncini, in steps

I use La Molisana organic spaghetti, and 4 large cloves of fresh green garlic. I find Fresh garlic is very mild. Small fresh chili added. Both are sliced.

Fun fact in Germany some call the long red chili Peperoni or Pfefferoni. People weird!

vorlon,
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@juliank well in US English pepperoncini always refers to a yellowish-green pepper, so

(And "pepperoni" was originally the name of the pepper, not the sausage)

liw, to rant

I don't like fragile tooling that keeps breaking whenever something small changes in my development environment. Such as Python minor version.

The tool works just fine with Python 3 in Debian 11 and in Debian 12, but hard codes the minor version in the shebang, which is different between Debian versions. There's no need to include the minor version in the shebang.

#sigh #rant

vorlon,
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@liw lol can we talk about dependency declarations in rust crates

vorlon,
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@liw it's fine in principle that the dependency declarations ensure that you never have bugs as a result of incompatible versions of dependencies in use. In practice, it's all very brittle, particularly from a distro perspective where there's added latency to picking up reverse-dependencies.

I think distros should only be packaging the crates that are needed for building applications or public libraries, but even so that ends up being quite a lot and we end up waiting for things to converge.

vorlon,
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@liw not clear from a 10km view how much of this is overly conservative semantic versioning, and how much of it is lack of maturity/stability of APIs

vorlon, to debian
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"he's polling high because his name is Kennedy"
Ah fuck, the impact of name recognition on elections is not to be underestimated. Even in project leader elections, where one maybe assumes an informed electorate that votes on the issues, I witnessed this over a decade ago where a candidates who were less well known ranked poorly, regardless of platform content - and one of these candidates who ran multiple years got a boost from having run before.
https://mastodon.social/@baratunde/110611956826840593

juliank, to random
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Again, do not rely on tabs and session management. Sessions get lost all the time. Use bookmarks to bookmark stuff.

vorlon,
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@juliank it's not acceptable for sessions to be lost. I should not have to manage bookmarks in order to not lose things from my working set of pages. The interfaces for managing bookmarks are terrible and not an adequate substitute for session management.

I use Session Buddy under chromium and it works reliably, where the browsers' own session management does not.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Jill Wine-Banks:

If 1 county in gives corporations and LLCs the right to vote, the consequences are unimaginable. They outnumber people in the state.

David Cay Johnston:

A Delaware city is set to give the right to vote in elections, ⁦@Cbsnews⁩ reports.

Since there are no limits on creating corporations, business voters could overwhelm humans. https://t.co/jN3ONa0gwF

vorlon,
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@GottaLaff @Cbsnews how old does a corporation have to be, to be eligible to vote in Delaware?

Get ahead of this. Figure out how to mass register voting corporations in Delaware.

emilygorcenski, to random

Whhooooo yeah baby travel is back and it BLOWS

vorlon,
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@emilygorcenski wait, the airport or the encoding?

Oh, it works for both

juliank, to random
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Recycling is when you cycle the same route a second time.

vorlon,
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@juliank e-cycling is when you do it 2.718 times

juliank, to random
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German waste disposal is weird because we have a recycling system with a split for packaging and paper and other waste, often also separate biowaste. 3-4 bins per household.

So if you take a piece of plastic from packaging, it goes in the packaging bin, but if it's a piece of plastic from a toy it goes into the other waste bin and gets burnt instead of recycled.

Because this isn't about recycling so much as who paid their packaging recycling scheme membership fees.

vorlon,
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@juliank of course, if the recently reported numbers on microplastics from plastic recycling are accurate, we're better off burning it all for energy anyway. Yes it releases CO2 but we're doing that anyway, so better to do it using the oil we already took out of the ground and turned into plastic instead of taking more oil out of the ground to do it.

alienghic, (edited ) to random

Anyone have any resources targeting a 6th grade reading level answering the question why republicans and/or conservative christians want to ban books with LGBTQ characters?

Kid asked me to read politics, so thought I'd read about the debate over how much access to social media and phones teens and tweens should have.

But unfortunately one of the worries about the internet control legislation is informed by the current wave of republican book banning.

So kid asked obvious question "why do the christians want to ban books about LGBTQ people".

And I feel the answer "they're a bunch of meany headed jerks" lacks depth.

vorlon,
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@alienghic resources: no.

Off the cuff answer: the Christian Right's social project involves subjugation of the individual to a proper, "natural" order which is overtly patriarchal and racist, with justification cherry-picked from the Bible. Permitting LGBTQ relationships, or even the consideration thereof, subverts this project: in a queer relationship, there is no room for "the man is the head of the household."

lauren, to fediverse
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*** Mastodon and Kafka ***

So now I'm being told that a few people on a instance with 1000s of users who complain that you don't use CW or alt-text the way they want can result in your being blocked for the entire instance, even when you've never received any notification of this.

Sort of like how you'd get arrested in fascist countries and never told why. Kafka would recognize this for sure.

I would assert that this makes even more of a toy than I thought it was, and utterly unreliable for much beyond trading photos of kitties. Leela the Siamese Snowshoe approves of kitty photos of course, but beyond that anyone depending on might charitably be called "misguided" at best, if my understanding of the situation is correct.

And I feel that the public needs to understand that they're buying into this sort of nonsense if they're looking at as an alternative to Elon's hellscape.

Now I'll probably get blocked for this post. -L

vorlon,
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@lauren I mean, yes? You can? It entirely depends on the policies and practices of the administrators of the particular instance, for which there are no universal standards. That's what federated means. How does that make it any more of a toy than Twitter where you can be arbitrarily shadow banned across the whole service?

What you describe is an instance with shitty federation policies. If this is based on a real occurance it's appropriate to point that out to the community. 🤷‍♂️

vorlon,
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@lauren will you name the instance? Users (and prospective users) have a right to know what's going on, even if this particular case is now resolved

vorlon, to random
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I have been uncomfortable with boosting these kinds of messages, because

It's not okay to just care about the software.

It's not ok to decide to care about the fate of trans people only because they give you something.

They are PEOPLE. You should care about them because they're PEOPLE.

If seeing these messages helps you understand that they're people IN YOUR COMMUNITY, then that's good.

If you need to be told this in order to care what happens to people, that's bad.

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/110421372391376663

alienghic, (edited ) to random

I have crushing despair, I think it's usually due to how America's response to COVID just destroyed my hope that America would be capable of responding to global warming.

So what, if anything, would be the most effective responses.

Also if anyone else has got any good ideas...

vorlon,
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@alienghic so, direct action is ruled out?

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Are there any documentaries that cover the mass gaslighting and disinformation regarding how serious covid is?

vorlon,
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@markusl @WuMargaret @djohngo @BlackAzizAnansi the thing is, the risk varies wildly (hello, exponential equations), and as a society we've denied ourselves the data to know when the risk is higher or lower AND the mitigations that might make it safe (air filtration/UV) even when spread is high.

In most parts of the US, spread remains "high". Because it's now endemic.

Your overall risk if you mask in public otherwise and eat out once a week remains lower than that of people not masking at all.

emilygorcenski, to random

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    vorlon,
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    @emilygorcenski no that part tracks

    juliank, to random
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    The COVID test is negative and the symptoms are incredibly rapid so um I guess it's mistery virus.

    vorlon,
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    @juliank I'm sorry. But still better if it's not COVID!

    evan, (edited ) to random
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    Which makes a better liberal democracy?

    vorlon,
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    @evan who cares, liberal democracy is a failed system that ultimately decays to fascism

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