Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
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I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
@dgar My dad asked if this was the Great Duck Spot.
@handle My roommate in college used to refer to this as "the tabs game".
The tabs would become so small that he can't really tell what each one is anymore, so it's a gamble every time he would be in class and trying to find the right one, hoping that it doesn't auto play an episode of one piece at full volume or something.
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*whispering to a date while watching RoboCop when the RoboCop first appears on the screen* That's the RoboCop.
@reese It looks like a section of a prickly pear cactus.
@vkc here is the example of how i deploy it using docker
and its added to the blog template here:
https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/sequentialread-caddy-config/src/branch/main/ghost-theme/partials/addons/comment.hbs
@vkc I wrote my own self hosted one because I was frustrated that I could not find any which would disallow bots without requiring an account, bigtech tracking, or requiring manual approval of each comment.
Mine doesn't support moderation review/ manual approval yet, it just uses my bot deterrent and that's it. It can notify of new comments via email, and has an admin panel which allows deleting comments.
It relies on JS / WASM for the bot deterrent.
Source code: https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/sequentialread-comments
You can test it out on my blog here: https://sequentialread.com/now-with-comments/
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#Oops: The seminal (strongly influencing later developments) paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715
@notplants where's your head atttttt? A true metaphysical question
@eta I don't believe that the glue work is any less technical. And it's not just people who have ADHD who suffer from these kind of problems. It's everyone.
I personally believe that the core and root of this problem is this thing that I call tech elitism.
It basically says that you only have to apply the principles of software usability to the end product. The machine that makes the sausage does not have to adhere to any of the software usability principles. The manual should not contain any fully formed code examples. That is the essence of tech elitism.
Honestly, I really believe like... Who makes the big bucks for the corporates?? Its the people who understand usability and they know how to develop it, cultivate it, and maintain it. The disciples of Steve Krug.
That's why "libre” software is often such dog shit usability wise, because
1. Usability is legitimately hard, humiliating, and un-fun to work with; folks typically dont do this kind of work " for fun " or pro-bono
2. the market for that kind of work is so competitive, even moreso than "Basic" software development work.
And I guess a lot of corporate opensource falls into a similar trap. Why invest millions in making the sausage machine easier to operate when you already invest tens of millions on elite "ninja" sausage machine operators? Especially because doing so in an open environment will not give you a competitive advantage, it may in fact donate to all of your competitors.
@peter shoutout to 3blue1brown for that awesome series on the math behind deep learning
@blainsmith if you put fully formed code examples in the manual, I'll be happy to read it.
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There's still this widespread misconception that the EU mandates cookie banners on all websites, and that is just plainly untrue.
Most websites do need a few cookies to function properly. And those are perfectly fine according to EU legislation. It is only the malicious cookies for tracking purposes that require consent.
All those cookie banners you see on the web are examples of malicious compliance with EU law. The operators of these websites want to track everything you do because they want to earn money off of that. That's why they implemented technically unnecessary cookies, and that's why they have to ask your consent when you visit their website.
The important takeaway is: the EU regulation isn't the problem. The profit motive is. And the shitty things it makes profit-oriented companies do.
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Linux/BSD Fix-It Clinic
<p>Layer Zero, Saturday, November 22 at 01:00 PM CST</p><h1>Linux/BSD Fix-it Clinic</h1><p></p><p>Bring your Linux/BSD desktop or server questions or woes to Layer Zero, and we'll work them out together! </p><p>Saturday, November 22, 2025</p><p>1 - 4 PM</p><p>Ping zico for questions</p>
@notplants It's based on XMPP, so do with that information what you will.
@notplants This is something that I also deeply want but I kind of suspect that the best you might be able to get is going to look something like "burner phone as a service" and even then it might be hard to keep that going without those SIM cards being deactivated.
@notplants I'm pretty sure this doesn't / cant exist. Even Twilio is a freaking nightmare to try to use these days, buried in compliance paperwork and kyc
And a lot of places will even block or ban phone numbers that come from "sketchy" providers.
Based on your comment about wanting it to be easy and actually work, for example, work in the browser, I suspect you may have already run into jmp.chat 😥
@reese 192.168 or 10.0.3
last night's aurora pictures
@reese Poor tate suffered from a GPS blackout and got slightly lost during this time ! The Sun had something to say on the RF spectrum.....
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mister lan-man
what's your ip
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
