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Mauve 👁💜

It's amazing how much money companies have managed to make from glorified todolist / blog post viewers when that is such a miniscule part of what computers can do.

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Watching Hackers with my partner finally. God I love this movie.

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

There's a special hell for sites which have password requirements that are like 16 letters, one or more numbers, upper case and lowercase, at least one special character, and we disabled pasting/password managers

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Mauve 👁💜

Fug, I think I am a cranky old fart type already because I like to write code closer to the metal instead of using all the fancy new tooling.

Maybe I should swallow my pride and install vscode and try copilot or whatever it is kids these days are using.

Also I'm still using nano for all my text editing so I might be imposing a deeper limitation on myself than most minimalists. :P

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Dan Goodin

arstechnica.com/security/2023/

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Mauve 👁💜

Kinda wild that after years of people being stuck in zoom calls we still need to constantly be like "Can you hear me now?" or "Oh, you're muted" or folks leaving their mic on while loudly typing.

I am guilty of all these things, FWIW. >:P

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bx

love documentation pages that you can just download as an html file and view + use offline

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DWeb

Tomorrow's DWeb meetup will be hosted by @mai with talks by:

* Kevin Nguyen about our DWeb Node organizing work
* Bruno Vianna about DWeb+Coolab Camp
* @mauve + fauno of @sutty about Distributed.Press
* David Casey of Funding the Commons
* Guo Liu about ZuSocial Hacker House happening this month in Istanbul

We'll end with an informal hang on Gather.town

Hope you can join us !

eventbrite.com/e/dweb-virtual-

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Major Hayden 🤠

I stumbled upon Standard Ebooks last year, and they're awesome! If you have a common type of e-reader for books, you can pick up books from them that have gone past their copyright dates.

I read some Voltaire and Herman Melville from them last year and their formatting is fantastic.

standardebooks.org/ebooks

#books #reading #kindle #kobo #ereader

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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

the EU privacy regulators are going ham on adtech folks right now, it's fuckin' glorious.

"users must consent before you can target ads at them or track them in any way"
"ok but what if-"
"DID WE FUCKING STUTTER"

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Mauve 👁💜

Any e-signature services out there that charge per document instead of a subscription per month / year? I don't think I can justify 200 dollars a year for the 5 or so I need and I don't think I can keep making new accounts for the free trials :P

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Mauve 👁💜

Gonna start pasting the entire bee movie script whenever a marketing chatbot pops up while I'm trying to read a page.

For reference: pastebin.com/raw/e90ZUNtD

Hopefully they get billed per word.

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Daniele Pantaleo 🦥:verified:

@eevee silver lining on devving for :linux:

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Mauve 👁💜

Low key wish Github would stop adding features. The changes this year have made things way slower and more buggy. Now I have the pleasure of the "submit review" button not working anymore which is a pretty big chunk of my job. :P

It could be related to my ad blocker not letting them log every single action I take to their analytics though.

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Ralf Bendrath

A German court has just declared a "Do Not Track" #DNT signal from your browser as legally binding, pursuant to Article 21(5) #GDPR. vzbv.de/urteile/gericht-unters

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Mauve 👁💜

Useful bit of code I keep handy in my devtools buffer:

```
document.body.parentElement.style.filter = "invert()"
```

This will apply a color inversion filter on an entire page so that you can force a dark mode on sites that don't ssupport it. (e.g. Google's suite)

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees

In fact, Banach later proved that differentiable functions are a "meager set" of all continuous functions.

Differentiability is a fairy tale we tell our students to protect them from the horrible fact that most continuous functions are monsters.

Mathematically speaking, monsters are everywhere.

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Mauve 👁💜

Caught a cold when I went to an in person work thing and now I gotta cancel my halloween party 😭😭😭

Last year I missed it because I was at a conference so I'm really feelin the pain of not being sufficiently spooked.

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mcc

The nature of life right now is that you can wake up on any given day and discover that a giant corporation or maybe just one very rich man has taken something important away from you,

and there's nothing you can do about it,

and there will be no consequences for them at all

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Mx. Aria Stewart

@jalcine @ajroach42 So! I helped operate one of the _early_ wireless ISPs (1996) and I have thought about this a _lot_.

I think it looks like a discord, more or less. That's the right social shape. Possibly several discords, since towns are too big to have cohesive _single_ social structures.

It looks like a library, too. Or a shared network drive. Or a simple web page. Maybe that looks like dropbox.

You need more radios than that if you're using wifi. The blind client problem is a _huge_ problem over larger-than-building-size distances: wifi nodes will talk all over each other if they can't hear their peers (which if you add distance or directional antennas, becomes true)

But it's still a small enough problem now that a single person with a tech salary giving up their Xbox habit would not struggle to fund the whole thing without difficulty.

The biggest problem now is getting people to use it, instead of centralized services. You have to either have it be a network of last resort, a hobby project with interested nerds being the main users, or lucky enough to make it compelling socially so that people abandon Facebook etc for it.

But it's such a worthy project. And a hell of a lot of fun.

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