Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
explaining the joke
All of Facebook's "open-source" libraries have special internal versions used in Facebook itself and so all their build scripts are littered with conditionals that do something different if it's an 'internal build'.
If you audit or package software regularly you've probably gotten sick of seeing these by now
caps, horror story that only a few people will probably understand
IF(FACEBOOK_INTERNAL)
You don't get to ask "what does this cost the taxpayer" unless you're also committing to do a cost/benefit analysis based on the answer, before you publish your findings.
That means you, journalists.
@schoentoon You appear to be very much the exception, unfortunately
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and that effect was because the artists saw how fast the ai slop was produced compared to them spending several hours to make each image.
Their own work was drowned out and often didnt get much comment, or was replied to with the same positive comments that the ai slop got which no longer encouraged them to make more or improve.
It fully destroyed the space artistically. Pretty soon after the game itself replaced a lot of its own art with ai art, the community became a ghost town.
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For the last 20 years ive been part of a small online modding scene for a very niche sandbox video game where a large part of the communtiy is people of all art ability contributing to produce work for the game either in written, 3d or 2d art form.
the introduction of ai generative image work into the community lead to 95% of the human designed 2d and 3d graphic art to stop being produced entirely.
1/2
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this cat came up to me, meowed and then walked away. is there anybody fluent in cat who can translate? have i just been given a quest?
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So if anyone finds a yubikey 5c please return it. Sadly with the size does not have much hope
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Deployed a small trick in front of my forge: Caddy checks if an x-bot-check cookie is set. If yes, it reverse proxies as usual.
If the cookie is unset, and the request path is not allow-listed, it will serve a small HTML page that uses JavaScript to set the cookie and reload.
The expectation is that bots will not run the javascript, and thus, will not have the cookie. It does require JavaScript, but my forge requires that anyway. Human visitors should see minimal interruption.
Will see how that plays out in the longer run! I do need to add this to my logs, though, so I can actually measure the effectiveness.
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there literally isn't a single linux distribution that I can recommend to a new person without adding a sentence long "but..."
An endless torrent of verbose compiler warnings is how you know that you're compiling C or C++ code
@KFears Right, but "updating the dependency to latest" is more or less the direction I'm thinking in. Some kind of process to make that an (economically/time-wise) viable thing to do in a software maintenance process.
For a bit of context for those not familiar with the industry (which I suspect is going to be most people): the DDoS mitigation industry has a *long*, multi-decade history of trying to drum up business by scaring people into believing that they could fall victim to a fatal DDoS attack any moment.
The reality is that that is very unlikely to happen unless you become an Interesting Target (there's only so much firepower to go around after all), and this was even more true in the front half of that history, when stuff like organized extortion through DDoS wasn't even a thing yet.
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ACAB
invasion of ukraine, deaths of anarchists
For all the fearmongering that Cloudflare and other mitigation companies do about "DDoS attacks from cybercriminals", turns out that it's actually the nominally 'legitimate' (LLM) companies that end up breaking people's websites.
Funny how that works.
So, has anyone figured out an efficient process yet to 'freeze' all releases/versions of a piece of software so that people can keep using it as it is forever seemingly unchanged, while still providing security updates and ensuring interoperability of eg. file formats?
(This is not a "recommend me a tool" question. This is a *process* question.)
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Given they have a year to go at best, they'll be trying to raise money again.
DO NOT INVEST IN THE W3W CROWDCUBE. They've done it three times now, and I expect they'll do it again out of desperation. You will lose all of your money.
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It's What3Words accounts filing day 🎉
The good news! They reduced yearly losses to £10.6m from £16.4m, and turnover increased from £1m to £2.1m!
The bad news! They achieved this by laying off 36 staff, and that £1m increase is probably from a single EU client.
They have £15m in assets remaining
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A thought for trans allies in this time:
You often ask us what you can do to help. Well, here's something you can do. Wear trans badges, buttons, pins, scarves, whatever you've got. Explicitly. I wanna see that blue and pink EVERYWHERE.
Because the more of you cis folk do that, the safer we will be in crowds and such. It will mean that wearing a badge of support for trans people doesn't necessarily out that person as trans.
"But wait," you're thinking maybe, "if I do that, people might think *I* am trans!"
Well, why is that a problem for you? Would you be offended by someone thinking you might be trans? Would you be scared? Welcome to our world.
This is your time, cis people. You were all ready to call yourselves allies when it didn't matter more than changing your PFP background. Now the rubber meets the road. We need you. We need your help to normalise our existence to other cis people. It could save lives.
If someone accuses you of being trans (imagine being *accused* of existing while trans?), don't deny it. Ask why it matters to them. Keep calm.
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@joepie91 it's to make sure you know it's not for extra security, they just hate you
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
