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@michael "You may wish to consider implementing hCAPTCHA yourself to protect your own instance,"
Please note that if you do this, it will prevent many blind people from signing up onto your instance. hCAPTCHA does not have an audio version; instead, if you cannot complete the visual version for whatever reason, you have to give them your email (!), so they can send you a link to a site for setting an accessibility cookie.
This cookie frequently does not work at all. It has a time limit before you can set it again, so if it fails to set, or if you close the browser and have automatic deletion of cookies enabled, as you should, you'll just have to wait. And of course, it only works within browsers, not applications; Discord is an excelent example of a non-passable captcha.
Enabling application signups is a much more accessible way of avoiding spam. If this is something the admin team cannot handle, it is time for going invite-only.

gore, Allegra/Corporate Memphis art style, fine art parody 

Oops, boost with CW because there's gore (but, given the art style…) @epilys chaos.social/@epilys/110383660

thinking about the ancient Roman Tikkus Tokkus, and how everyone kept mindlessly swiping him

Easy to fix though, and would only be exploitable by a malicious Matrix homeserver affecting their own media, so no point. I was keying thumbnailed cache entries as $mxc-$crop-$widthx$height, but those are all characters that could be added to a (malicious) media id on the same homeserver

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lol lmao just realized there's a glaring cache poisoning vulnerability in my refactored code

very sudden urge to work on my fediverse client again even though I have so many more pressing things to work on

@cblgh that's a good set, I remember at one point there's the rollerblade song in the movie hackers that start up 🔥 :moar:

purchasing something called "knotting solution" from the hardware store and once again regretting the day i ever went online

The current level of academic discourse on LLM's 

Anyway I brought this up at the LLM discussion group at an academic conference this week:

time.com/6247678/openai-chatgp

(tl;dr—Kenyan workers are being paid exploitative-level wages to manually filter out the worst stuff from the internet and this is necessary for how LLM's work)

And in that hour, only one person even addressed the issue, and their take was ~ "colonial exploitation is good, actually" and everyone just sorta nodded their heads

I removed the custom CSS for my profile for now to show off the work @f0x did on the GoToSocial web view for profiles. Go open this in your browser, and go 'ooh' and 'ahhh' and 'woooo', and also 'hunnnhhhhhhhh'!

https://goblin.technology/@tobi

having to share Folding Ideas in a company meeting to try convince them that going with NFTs, surprisingly, isn't the ethical solution lol

i would just like to spend like 8 hours with nothing but a room of cats

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