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hnapel

@hnapel@mastodon.social

On Mastodon since late 2022.

I work in IT.

Opinions are my own.

Recurring statement: What did you expect?

Cover art by the awesome Adriana Artmeier.

#nobridge

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dangillmor, to random
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  1. Washington Post CEO came from the Murdoch empire.

  2. He has been implicated in the (still not fully unraveled) UK "phone hacking" scandal that exemplified the sleaziness of the Murdoch empire.

  3. He told Post editor not to publish a story containing references to his alleged involvement.

  4. She published the story.

  5. She's gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html

hnapel, (edited )
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@dangillmor

The NYT added 2 bylines, they're making sure to get their story absolutely straight and covered to write about their peer in the industry.

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GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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💥🔥

TO REPEAT,

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

hnapel,
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@GottaLaff

OMG forgive me by double checking this on a reputable news site. 34 counts, unanimous jury, unprecedented in U.S. history, what a day and what a time to be alive.

grimalkina, to random
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This post made me feel like maybe I would consider allowing knowledge about Linux into my brain

https://kind.social/@PurpleJillybeans/112480588977913630

hnapel,
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@grimalkina

This reminds me of the tiles thing (officially 'Metro', then 'Modern UI'), everything needed to be tiles, then people started scrambling to find ways to get the old icons back.

Also the demand for a TPM made me convert some Windows 10 PCs to Linux and now they are faster...

And now this, each blow M$ deals itself drives adoption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)

lzg, to random
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finally the org is large enough that there's another Lena at work. let the namespace collision begin!

hnapel,
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@lzg

The Lenas will soon be able to team up and share all their corporate secrets!

alcinnz, to random
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The key I find to understanding CSS: Knowing its philosophy, its politics.

In the 1990s webdevs were demanding webdesign. CSS was introduced to steer them towards achieving their webdesigns in a way which embraces the web's "universiality". Instead of abusing tables & images.

Its that dream I share that webpages could "look" beautiful in any conceivable device, given it has a browser.

CSS isn't perfect, it hasn't achieved this dream yet. But the core ideas are great!

hnapel,
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@alcinnz

Or write different html for each useragent, how many are there anyway?

AkaSci, to random
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Incoming! A severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to arrive around 02:00 UTC Friday night / Saturday morning.

At least 5 Coronal Mass Ejections took place over the past 24 hours, directed towards Earth. These originated from a large and magnetically complex sunspot cluster (NOAA region 3664).

There is potential for disruption of communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.

And bright auroras as far south as Alabama!

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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hnapel,
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@AkaSci

Some results from the Netherlands...

Aurora above Netherlands, taken with phone, camera sensor picked up more than visible with naked eye.

geekymalcolm, to random
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Nice to see my snowflake docker container being useful to some people!

hnapel,
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@geekymalcolm

This is great, I'm running this thing too, this picture shows basically only ❄️ proxy traffic because it is a spare connection not otherwise used.

mcc, to random
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Nix is too complicated. I have decided to fork Nix and create a minimal distribution named "Minix"

hnapel,
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@mcc

Your minix is my unix.

sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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Quick poll: off the top of your head, without searching online, do you know what "Kessler Syndrome" is?

hnapel,
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@sundogplanets

Deorbit Envisat! If that 'bus' breaks up we're toast if we aren't already...

hnapel,
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@thomasfuchs @michael_w_busch @sundogplanets

Haha Kessler did!

evelynefoerster, to random
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My family is temperamental, half temper half mental.”

hnapel,
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@evelynefoerster

This cracked me up 🤣

eff, to random
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Have you set up a username on Signal yet? https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal#set-or-change-your-username

hnapel,
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@eff

Yes!

lzg, to random
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    hnapel,
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    @lzg @Wolven

    I thought it was already invented for gilded jewelry.

    davemark, to tech
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    "I deleted keys generated by our TV for 5 straight minutes. 5 Minutes of like 200BPM clicking. I restarted. Everything worked again. I laughed so hard I cried. I felt like I'd solved a murder."

    Tech people, THIS IS A GREAT FANTASIC READ!!!

    The title is, "DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S"

    https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t

    hnapel,
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    @davemark

    I hope you realize you found a DOS attack vector on good old Windows, the TV was the culprit but Windows should rate limit it or something.

    nixCraft, to random
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    Question: Why do most programmers/developers use a dark theme while writing software/code?

    Answer: Because light attracts bugs.

    hnapel,
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    @nixCraft

    https://hackertyper.net/

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Via Kyle Cheney:

    JUST IN: Rep. Bennie Thompson (former chair of the Jan. 6 committee) has introduced legislation that would terminate Secret Service protection for, uh, anyone sentenced to a year or more in jail.

    hnapel,
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    @GottaLaff

    Thinking ahead I ❤️ it.

    🎺

    thibaultamartin, to random
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    Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

    Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

    We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

    hnapel,
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    @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome

    Basically it's just the battery that wears down. I remember reviving my old Nokia several times with a new pack. But of course that doesn't fly with shareholder value or whatever so they glue them in, without laws that prohibit that on penalty of hefty fines they will keep doing that of course. To sway politics the first order of duty is to kick out the lobbyists (from any industry), it's all quite simple, follow the money basically.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

    Study tracks the past costs of climate events and projects them into the future.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/climate-damages-by-2050-will-be-6-times-the-cost-of-limiting-warming-to-2/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    hnapel,
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    @arstechnica

    As long as that cost is not for the rich they will not do anything about it.

    bagder, (edited ) to cisco
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    I was reminded of the great #Cisco security fix of 2019

    #curl

    hnapel,
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    @bagder

    I looked up the curl man page, especially the example for changing the user agent:

    Example:
    curl -A "Agent 007" https://example.com

    😎

    lzg, to random
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    hnapel,
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    @lzg

    A 'joke' in the sense that whole platform is now a joke, alas it's not so funny.

    molly0xfff, to random
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    In case it might be useful to anyone else, I just wrote a quick Chrome extension to download all PDFs on CourtListener when there are multiple attachments to one docket entry.

    https://github.com/molly/courtlistener-download

    hnapel,
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    @molly0xfff

    OK, great public service, but what particular ([slurp]juicy) case prompted you to dive into all this?

    davew, to random
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    Back in the 80s before most of you were born, you could buy a word processing program, which was basically a text editor, and you could use it to write and then when it came time to send that writing to other people, you would print it. And get this the printer could take its input from any of those writing tools. There were no tiny little text boxes. The printers didn’t come with their own editors, you had choice and therefore there was lots of competition. Amazing, right?

    hnapel,
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    @davew It was Wordperfect.

    pluralistic, to random
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    I was on a book tour the day my editor called me and told me, "From now on, your middle name is 'Cory.'"

    "That's weird. Why?"

    "Because from now on, your first name is 'New York Times Bestselling Author.'"

    --

    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/15/your-new-first-name/#that-dagger-tho

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    hnapel,
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    @Drbruced @pluralistic

    What happened to embiggen?

    festal, to ai
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    The state of , as summarized by @pluralistic

    "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job."

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/#four-hour-work-week

    hnapel,
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    @festal @pluralistic

    This is basically the point Angela Collier makes also at around this section of her video called "AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway". Fun to watch the whole thing.

    https://youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE?feature=shared&t=2620

    molly0xfff, to Bitcoin
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    Just noticed my work was cited in SEC Commissioner Crenshaw's dissenting statement regarding the bitcoin ETF approval 😳

    https://sec.gov/news/statement/crenshaw-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023#_ftn16

    hnapel,
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    @molly0xfff

    That's awesome, also they must have considered it recently or been following your work carefully as they are linking to your new domain, which is a great boon!

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