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"repost this if trans people are safe with you"

well maybe now is the time to do a bit more for trans people than click a button on your phone. yknow. we're not going to post our way out of this one.

nlpol, huisvesting, validisme en ander zulk ongein 

Blijkbaar is men bezig met het 'versoepelen' van de woningbouw: volkshuisvestingnederland.nl/o

In het eerste rapport staan her en der wat positieve dingen (zoals het gratis toegankelijk maken van feitelijk verplichte NEN-normen), maar vooral gaat het om een verlaging van de woningkwaliteit - minder geluidswerende/isolerende maatregelen, en bijvoorbeeld het schrappen van toegankelijkheidseisen voor nieuwbouw.

"I have thought about it and decided that I don't care" is the theme song for today

Well, that's a first. Ran into a JS package on npm that ships its entire website, image assets and all, within the package.

You have heard of "dead internet theory" but you probably haven't looked at the theory as originally posted.

It's often summed up as "the internet is just a bunch of bots talking to each other" ... and it's tempting to nod along: it's fun to say that "things were better in my day" and YES many sites have too many bots.

However I wish to present the take that the now four-year-old "The Dead Internet Theory" is ... Bad Actually. 1/

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

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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.

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.

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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?

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.

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

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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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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