When I touch a website I don't really think of it in terms of boxes with text and buttons. I think of the data being pulled from the backend. This kinda opens your eyes to how much "validation" on the front end is just a flimsy layer of tissue paper. What's fun is JS-heavy apps are usually the easiest to subvert by sniffing on network traffic and pulling the raw data by duplicating requests.
@m455 LMK if you find or make something like that. I'm also into the use case.
@m455 Like reading one poster at a time with flags for read/unread? Seems pretty doable with small adjustments to reader.distributed.press
So since #Github has decided to break their website with the latest website once you disable #JavaScript, it's worthwhile revisiting gh-cli. At first it baffles me how gh-cli can be an 80MB installable for what I hoped was a thin REST client ...
... until you realise that visiting a Github repo downloads 6.5MB of JavaScript. Then to visit the issues page it's another 10.5MB. Then to read a single issue it's 7.5MB. JUST JAVASCRIPT. Nothing else. Per page.
They Want You:
Worried
Stressed
Scared
Confused
Irrational
Impotently Angry
Directionless
Hopeless
People like this are easy to control, People like this stop trying. Sometimes it feels like, "What can I even do?!" Times like this I think about this quote from P.J. O'Rourke:
Everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes.
Small things matter, my life has been changed by small acts of kindness. We don't have to save the world, but we can make our small part of it better. A lot of you probably do this already, and you don't even think about it. Remember being kind includes being kind to yourself too!
beware of Proton (mail, VPN, etc)
resharing this after they deleted the thread. I think people might want to know that the CEO of the tool they are using to protect themselves with is a JD Vance fan...
(the whole thread is on https://web.archive.org/web/20250115164340/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833074076075466)
@nonlinear I love that trope personally.
@jonny Web archives. Gotta love em!
https://web.archive.org/web/20250115164340/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833074076075466
@cwebber transition goals 😫💜
The DIY FOSS Cyborg https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-foss-cyborg/
Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!
@tychi That's interesting. I was thinking of using a combo of dpad + amalog stick. Analog stick rotates to select one of 6 zones, then clicking the dpad in six directions to type the character / symbol. My main issue is I really need all the special characters needed for programming which drastically increases the number of combos I must represent 😅
10. This is like the final step in evolution for me. It's purely a controller meant to hook into external displays. Some folks have already managed to get Linux on it too. Main thing it's missing is a keyboard. If I could figure out a proper text input scheme with a controller and get that working with my LUKS encryption it'd be golden.
@ana Could I be symmetrical on the horizontal plane with a double torso? It's important for shareholder value
@xeiaso.net Perform a demonic ritual to ressurect steve jobs
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.