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firefly

@firefly@neon.nightbulb.net

I am a #bibliologer and a #cryptologer. I study the Bible, codes, and ciphers among other things. I enjoy #poetry. I like #neologisms. I burn with insatiable curiosity about everyone and everything.

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limebar, to random
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I used to religiously read a single book at a time. I am now actively trying to have at least 2 or 3 going at once. I am finding that I am finishing many more books in less time.

Is this common? And why did I not discover this about myself before now?

firefly,
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@limebar

Some brains revolt against remaining focused for too long and seems to prefer variety, change of focus, change of scenery, etc. It is more natural to break things up and come back to them in chunks. This is more natural and efficient for many minds.

Hence there is writer's block, brain fog, burnout, etc. Also working an assembly line doing the same thing repeatedly can really drive one nuts. It seems some programming and engineering jobs are like that, facing the same dull grey wall ...

firefly, to random
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Wendy's Greedflation Exposed: A Social Media Hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIq3Ih5rgF0

They will do anything to call attention to their app and get you to install it on your phone.

adiz, to random

WeChat honestly sucks.

firefly,
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@adiz

weechat is a wee weapon ...

firefly, (edited ) to random
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Is there a way (via cli or by calling a snac function from a script) to poll and auto-accept follows to a certain profile, and then auto-boost all posts that mention that profile address?

The idea is to function like a group on the local server so that all followers will be able to see all toots addressed to the profile.

So user Bob is following user @boost. User Alice posts a status mentioning @boost. The account @boost automatically boosts the post from Alice. Then user Bob eventually can see the boosted post in the timeline.

If there is a way to hack or cobble this I'd probably rather go that route rather than trying to author C code for it. I haven't even tried to write C code for like 20 years, and even then I was not proficient at it. A hackety solution is just as good for my purpose, if anyone can suggest any.

I know I can emulate this behavior by scripting a mastodon client to do it with a cron job. But if there is a way to use snac commands or a config hack I would prefer it.

@grunfink

firefly, to random
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mikarv, to random
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if your mobile provider tries to stop you tethering (including when roaming) using your allowance, it's worth trying (on mac):

sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.ttl=65
sudo sysctl net.inet6.ip6.hlim=65

this adds +1 to the time to live of your computer's packets and fools simple detectors which try to block tethering on the basis that it is one extra hop from computer to phone before going to the telco.

firefly,
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Enjoy using Orbot or TBB for proxy tethering ...

$> adb forward tcp:8118 tcp:8118 (http)

$> adb forward tcp:9050 tcp:9050 (socks)

firefly, (edited ) to christianity
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The Cult of the Eclipse - ROBERT SEPEHR

"Eclipses have inspired fear and awe among civilizations throughout history. In this video I explain its occult esoteric significance and how that relates to the cult that covertly rules the world."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw4Ez4PSC50

@religion @christianity @christianity

PrivacyDigest, to privacy
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The is Trying To Help Victims of Get Their Money Back - Slashdot

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/01/2026233/the-ftc-is-trying-to-help-victims-of-impersonation-scams-get-their-money-back?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

firefly,
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Will the FTC help citizens get their money back from the IRS?

kde, to kde
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We write all recipes for our juiciest empanadas in our notebooks. Version 1.1.0 available now!

https://carlschwan.eu/2024/04/01/marknote-1.1.0/

Flatpak coming today!

@kde

firefly,
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@kde

Is there a Debian package or a Debian build script for Marknote?

djm, to random

Here's my 2c on the xz incident.

This is the nearest of near-misses. Anyone who suggests this was any kind of success is a fool. No system caught this, it was luck and individual heroics. That's not acceptable when unauthorised access to ~every server on the internet is on the table. We need to find a way to do better.

1/n

firefly,
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So much for the pithy slogans about magical eyes on open source code ...

firefly,
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"Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful."

https://www.haiku-os.org/

@Zerush

firefly, (edited ) to programmerhumor
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Difference Between Nerd and Geek

Has anyone written a scientific treatise on the differences between nerd and geek?

On the one hand, I could instigate endless debate about the finer points of nerds.

On the other hand I could construct nerds with a 3-D meat printer.

@programmerhumor

firefly,
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Exactly as expected!

firefly,
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This is genius. ^^^

Analysis of the styles and colors of Venn diagrams by nerds and geeks could be represented in yet another Venn diagram. Somebody call Banach for help.

firefly,
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@pelespirit

"Taxation without representation ..."

rek2, to usenet
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@rss feeds on <3 with on the usenet server, part of the new usenet with no binaries, only plain text, no spam, no google only hobbiest, hackers, tinkers and awesome people.

firefly,
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Old school tools rule!

yunohost, to random

About this “people are abusing FOSS volunteers” subject, we had to write a whole TOS to feel entitled to reject explicitly the abusive requests or to ban abusive people, otherwise these people are defended by others or just come back to whine publicly and it’s an endless loop of energy and motivation sucking

The TLDR part is quite eloquent:
https://forum.yunohost.org/tos

firefly,
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> “Free software is not about volunteers doing your bidding” clause: messages that simply ask when a feature, fix or update will be available, that are intentionally or unintentionally insistent, without any form of politeness, benevolence or intention to contribute, are not welcome.

When can we expect the final TOS to be available? ;>

firefly,
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O, the irony of the hammer!

GossiTheDog, to random
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HT to @wdormann here - somebody has backdoored the open source project XZ which has downstream impacts.

For example, although OpenSSH doesn’t use XZ, Debian patch OpenSSH and introduced a dependency which translates as the XZ changes introducing a sshd authentication bypass backdoor it appears.

One dude bothered to investigate in his free time about why ssh was running slow, so it was caught fairly early - i.e. hopefully before distros started bundling it.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

firefly,
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> As I said, the impact here will be very limited due to how quick it was caught. Everybody owes the finder a beer.

This is wishful thinking, but thanks.

The very nature of this means the actual impact is unknown and unknowable.

How many other packages are bent like this and have not yet been discovered?

Dependency hell is not just about package managers but package maintainers!

firefly, to random
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Before the internet was, BBSes ARE

https://rocksolid.sybershock.com/random/article-flat.php?id=102&group=alt.bbs.ads#102

18+ freakazoid, to random
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What iteration of "for-profit company whose services I use has made some awful change and now I need to find an alternative in a hurry" are we on now?

firefly,
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@freakazoid

@Codeberg has secured financing for the long-term and takes good care of the users. I have no complaints.

firefly,
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The metric system is fascist. It was invented by aristocratic elitist control freaks. It is arbitrary and totalitarian.

https://archive.ph/EB5Qu

"The colorfulness and descriptiveness of the imperial system is due to the fact that it is rooted in imagery and analogies that make intuitive sense."

I'll save my own rant until after I've seen the zombies froth.

firefly,
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The meter is an French fascist measurement made by the court jester.

"Since 2019 the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of
1/299792458 of a second ..." [Wikipedia]

What is wrong with this definition?

The metre claims to be a 'non-imperial' basis of measurement.

But the basis of the metre is the imperial or ephemeral second, which is the ultimate imperial measurement. Seconds are an imperial unit. The measurement of time is fundamental to the ruler ... get it?

So the arbitrarily devised metre is founded upon the imperial second. Oops. Now why again did you say the metric system is 'superior' to the imperial system?

Metric supremacists are fascist rubes who don't realize they were pwnd by the empire before their rebellion even had a name or gang sign. They wanted to overthrow the king and based their coup on the king's fundamental unit of regal measurement: time. Oops. This is a case of killing the baby in the cradle.

Imperial units of measurement are based upon things found in nature. The second is a division of the solar and astronomical day. A second is 1/86400th of a day, and is based again on sexigesimal math, which is found EVERYWHERE in nature.

Every good programmer should already know where this is going.

Day: 86400 seconds.
Day: 24 hours.
Hour: 3600 seconds.
Hour: minute squared.
Minute: 60 seconds.
3600 seconds * 24 hours = 86400 seconds.
60 seconds * 60 minutes = 3600 seconds = 1 hour

There is nothing arbitrary about this. The imperial measurement is neatly aligned to solar and astronomical cycles and to the latitudes and longitudes of the earth. In short, the imperial system of measurement had already measured the equatorial and tropical circuits of the earth and the sun's path over 3000 years ago, and based measurements upon that.

Then along came the metric aristocrats, who pretended this had never been done before, speculated a false circumference of the earth, and came up with a flawed metre based on that false measurement, then changed it decades later to the distance traveled by light in an imperial second, unaware that no constant speed of light has yet been proved conclusively, but only assumed.

Whereas the imperial system is based upon measurements which have been observed unchanged, verifiable, and reproducible, FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

Tell me again why the metric system is, 'superior'?

The metre is merely a speculation and the so-called speed of light has NOT been conclusively proven, considering special relativity and all that other aristocratic bollocks. Also complicating the matter is the specific definition of, "light traveling in a vacuum." OK, sparky, how are you going to locate a laboratory in a vacuum at least 1 light second in length to conduct this experimental measurement and prove it?

This fallacy is called an 'unfalsifiable' claim. Yup, The metric system is based upon a pseudo-scientific conjecture and fallacy. Whereas the imperial system is based upon thousands of years of repeatable observation. And yet 'scientists' somehow are confused about the reality of the situation.

As I've said elsewhere, worldwide science and academia have been growing progressively more delusional for the past couple of centuries.

In the end the aristocrats will bow to the king they hate. Thank God Americans have refused to bow to this dumb idol. Stay strong Murrikanz.

Here's a shout out to the limeys who still weigh in stones! Long live the king's foot!

academicchatter@a.gup.pe

firefly,
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No, you once again are playing the smug, snide troll just insinuating your cult speak nonsense. I explained the true motives behind censorship, as opposed to the pretexts supplied by the liars. My point was that these people are liars who play mind games and wordsmithing games, just like you are doing. You are a false accuser and a slanderer trying to pump his preconceived cult notions. Your arguments are banal, childish, and simple-minded.

Don't bother responding. I won't see it. The next time you nymshift to harass me I will immediately block you and report you to the system administrator. Quit following me around the Internet, creepy stalker kook.

rek2, to usenet
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One of the many reasons I love #usenet all the #hackers are still #hackers with
out all the cry babys in the http space! fuck google get out of our usenet!

firefly,
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You can take the Usenet out of google but can you take the google out of the 'useRnet'?

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