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film_girl

@film_girl@mastodon.social

It's film_girl, but on Mastodon. I'm a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, a podcaster, a journalist turned developer and someone obsessed with tech, OSS, and pop culture.

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film_girl, to random
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OK, so you know the so-called "source code leak" from Rabbit for the last week? It wasn't a real leak, but what it showed was different than what I was expecting. So Rabbit Hole, the way you configure your R1 -- it only works on desktops, which I thought was rather odd. And then I went to manage my connection and I figured out why. This whole thing is a fucking VNC session in the web browser served as if it is a modal login

film_girl,
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OK, this is a walthrough of how janky the VNC is for the https://cloud.c-mac.me/Q6HhVXRd

film_girl, to Rabbits
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OK, this is a walkthrough of the weird VNC thing uses for connecting accounts. Again, I'm not saying there is anything necessarily wrong with doing this. I am saying there are way better ways to do this. And the clipboard button workaround is very funny.
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rmondello, to random
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hype is a often a critical component of grift

forestofthings, to random
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So hey...

My son was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis about a year and a half ago. He turned 18 today (wait, WHAT), and he's fundraising as part of Walk MS. His team is Caesar’s Lesion. Fallout: New Vegas fans will get a dark chuckle out of that.

You can read his story as he tells it at this link. You can donate there, too.

Donations support work on the kinds of treatments that have helped him in ways that were not possible even a decade ago. Go science! For real.

https://events.nationalmssociety.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=68369

matt, to random
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I wrote about Cleft Notes, an unexpected winner in the AI note taking space that's been really valuable for me finding structure in my thoughts.

https://thesweetsetup.com/cleft-notes-is-the-thinking-companion-i-didnt-know-i-needed/

chockenberry, to random
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The bad news: XML is going to be around forever.

The good news: XML is going to be around forever.

chockenberry,
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Speaking of which: https://github.com/chockenberry/XMLProcessor

shoq, to random
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When you’ve lost CatTurd, it’s over.

ryanschultz, to random
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MASTODON TIP OF THE DAY: This seems to be as good a time as any to remind you that you can use "in:library" with search terms in your Mastodon search (at least, with the advanced web interface), to search for text in the Mastodon posts you have made in the past. Please see the attached image for an example:

atpfm, to random
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584: Daisy Hates Ticketmaster
https://atp.fm/584

The Delta emulator, AltStore PAL, M4 Mac rumors, and some promising news about Casey's favorite company.

dschaub,
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@atpfm
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Here you go.

This is isn't as interesting a graph, but the MacBook Air base SKU RAM line really helps give context.

marcoarment, to random
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It's absolutely possible. But millions of people had strong reasons to use iPhones even before there were any apps, and then also before the apps were plentiful or compelling.

The customers were already there.

The challenge Apple faces with AVP is getting enough people to buy (and keep using) a device type that they weren't already buying (headsets), which is VERY expensive and limited, to accumulate enough customers for the content and software ecosystem to develop.
https://mas.to/@DrewTheLoud/112276696057829298

film_girl, to random
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This is obscene. I don’t care who you claim you’re trying to protect (and I love movies and much or more than anyone), trying to get Congress to enact site blocking is absolutely deplorable. Keep Congress away from regulating what ISPs can serve. This is also why a TikTok ban is such a bad idea. https://www.motionpictures.org/remarks/charles-rivkin-state-of-the-industry-address-at-cinemacon-2024/

Chancerubbage,
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@film_girl An easy way to prevent piracy is to make your catalog available, instead of hoarding it, pretending it’s no longer available, creating false scarcity, writing it off, stop selling exclusivity rights to yet another gate keeper we can’t reach.

I don’t dark web, but I support home media ownership of playable copies that don’t disappear beyond laws of nature, and the right to find films and watch them at a time of our choosing.

gedeonm, to random
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Wow…

matt, to random
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I don’t actually want Apple to make everything https://birchtree.me/blog/i-dont-actually-want-apple-to-make-everything/

ttscoff, to random
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h/t @film_girl

https://dim.moi/gW

hanno, to random
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I recently needed a script to convert mbox files to maildir, and to my surprise this was a nontrivial problem. I only found one written in perl that didn't work with my mbox files. As I don't speak perl, rather than trying to fix it I wrote one in python. It's very simple, as python's standard library already brings all the functionality, in case anyone needs it: https://github.com/hannob/mbox2maildir

film_girl, to random
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Trying to celebrate 404 day but I keep getting redirected.

drwhitt,
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@film_girl 308 Permanent Redirect was already celebrated last month.
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timbray, to random
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In my experience Russ Cox is always worth reading. But… in this case, only if you’re up to looking at extremely gnarly shell/sed/awk/etc incantations. These attackers were serious.

https://social.afront.org/@pbarker/112202000299756611

pbarker, to opensource
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If you still want to read more about the xz backdoor, I highly recommend these two posts from Russ Cox:

"The xz attack shell script" - https://research.swtch.com/xz-script

"Timeline of the xz open source attack" - https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

sil, to random
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Excellent write up on why the EU is actually doing tech legislation, and why it can be difficult to understand if coming from a different place. (And the reverse is true as well, as @film_girl pointed out recently; people who aren’t steeped in the US system tend not to understand how and why US tech regulators are doing what they’re doing, too.)

From: @ianbetteridge.com@ianbetteridge.com
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/01/antitrust-meta-apple-and-more/

AndresFreundTec, to random
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I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.

If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.

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

AndresFreundTec,
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I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc. Profiled sshd, showing lots of cpu time in liblzma, with perf unable to attribute it to a symbol. Got suspicious. Recalled that I had seen an odd valgrind complaint in automated testing of postgres, a few weeks earlier, after package updates.

Really required a lot of coincidences.

arstechnica, to random
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PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack

Automation is making attacks on open source code repositories harder to fight.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/pypi-halted-new-users-and-projects-while-it-fended-off-supply-chain-attack/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

viticci, to random
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Tired of hearing about the DMA and DOJ? I got you.

Today I've released Apple Frames 3.2, a big update to my shortcut for putting screenshots inside physical device frames. I added:

  • New frames for the iPhone 15 Pro line
  • Ability to use a Files/Finder picker instead of Photos
  • New sorting options
  • Ability to tweak spacing between framed images

Enjoy: https://www.macstories.net/ios/apple-frames-3-2-brings-iphone-15-pro-frames-files-picker-and-adjustable-spacing/

thomasfuchs, to random
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Well bitches, by the spirit of Phil Schiller, I'm posting from motherfucking Mac OS 9 on a Barbie's toilet seat iBook G3

(adding image in a reply!)

thomasfuchs,
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And this is how the original toot shows in Macstodon

sdw, to random
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I am supportive of good legislation in tech (especially for privacy and user rights) but this Apple DOJ complaint is everything that can be bad about government tech regulation: an ignorant, pointless exercise which will likely hamper making meaningful laws that help us as users.

johnvoorhees, to random
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How it started…

...how it's going

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