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anyway since capital is like increasingly operationalized as stuff like logistics, intellectual property, attention, and surveillance, i think it would be cool if we started including stuff like communications mediums, databases, and informational organizational systems in "the means of production" when ppl talk about seizing them.

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I wish Android had a setting to disable this stupid in-app-browser feature. Honestly my least favorite feature of mobile apps at the moment. I'll take all the shitty adware crammed into apps over this "feature".

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Hell yes. Finally getting around to watching the recordings from @causalislands !

It was super fun to attend and there were lots of interesting talks.

Here's a link to the playlist (set to my talk on holistic local-first software): youtube.com/watch?v=rSvj_NQ5rh

any RSS reader recommendation? I haven't used them in years and I'm not sure what good client is out there now.

January 1st, 1970 is where the government stores all the secret things that never happened

Love how homestuck predicts the ICP will win the 2024 us election

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

Oh, awesome. It's possible to issue commands to Amazon Alexa by using frequency ranges just outside human hearing

"Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan (NUIT): Exploiting Your Speaker to Attack Your Microphone"

CVE-2023-33248

(PDF) usenix.org/system/files/sec23f

Apparently this page existed and I didn't know about it. The courses tab looks particularly helpful for any young professionals like me 😅
academictorrents.com/

having ADHD is great if you hate the idea of finishing 100% of a task but love the idea of finishing 2% of 50 tasks

If it were up to me, wasm in the browser would be interpreted by default rather than JIT-compiled. JIT for JS and wasm, WebGL, and WebGPU should be permission-gated behind a “fingerprintable/dangerous performance features” permission.

Concerned that this name sounds scary and might dissuade users from enabling it? Good.

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As "smart interfaces" become more common, regression to the mean will be a serious problem.

For example, Google's swipe keyboard has trouble with rare words. I use a lot of technical terms. It seems like the swipe gesture model has no problem understanding what I mean, but then the language model kicks in and says, "'evolutionary'? Pfft, no way. They obviously meant 'employment'."

It's annoying having to fight with autocorrect, but I'm more concerned about the large scale effects. Will AI subtly nudge all of our communication and art to the average, making our culture more homogenous and bland?

in mysql they don’t say "byte" they say "tiny int" and i think that’s beautiful

Low key want to make an SSH over HTTP request thing.

Like, you open up an HTTP request and the server registers a TTY for it, then you keep the connection open and send data between the two ends.

So not only does the new Outlook preview only support Outlook & Gmail accounts (lol) but it also shows ads huh

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talking to a buddy about this hobby he picked up, and i asked if there are specific youtube channels he follows for information or whatever.

and he said that honestly what he's learning a lot from are Discord servers. and god it makes me uneasy that those are increasingly becoming our repositories of specialized information.

i miss web pages so fucking much, lxds.

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