magitism

@magitism@mastodon.online

Magitism: The Force of Magic is a Hard Science Fantasy novel by Will Brall

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schizanon, to passkeys
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PassKeys seem like a bad idea. Google backs them up to the cloud, so if your Google account is compromised then all your private keys are compromised. I don't see how that's an improvement over password+2FA at all.

Now security keys I get; keep the private key on an airgapped device. That's good. Hell I even keep my 2FA-OTP salts on a YubiKey.

magitism,

@schizanon I use zero knowledge access. I just make passwords impossible to remember, then reset them with my email every time. Only my email needs to be secure. This is a good plan, right? Right??

alda, to wordpress
@alda@topspicy.social avatar

"WordPress is easy" said the person who never had to add a single field to the WooCommerce checkout form.

Yes. This is 628 added or modified lines of code and the relevant documentation.

For a single text field.

#WordPress #WooCommerce #PHP

magitism,

@alda I am 90% sure I could write a whole framework and CMS in ~600 lines of code.

magitism,

@alda I checked and the most recent framework I made in PHP is under 200 lines. That includes the mysql manager. Looking at the models and views, 400 more lines to make an /admin page with login and the ability to crud markdown seems doable.

I’d share it but it is a private app.

docpop, to SanFrancisco
@docpop@mastodon.social avatar

I'm a sucker for weird and esoteric tags, like these word squares someone has been writing in our neighborhood lately. Each square is a type of acrostic that can be read horizontally or vertically. For example:

T R U S T
R A N C H
U N D E R
S C E N E
T H R E E

A trash can where a tagger has written the words: mind, idea, neat, data
A section of sidewalk where a tagger has written a word square. This can be read horizontally or vertically and it says: Heart, ember, abuse, resin, trend.
A tag on the wall that says: feast, earth, armor, stone, threw. Each word is written above the other word in clear columns, so the words can be read vertically or horizontally.

magitism,

@docpop Turns out trying to create these makes chatGPT go batshit.

P A N E
A R E A
N E A R
E A R N

Then much later:

F L A R E
L A M E R
A M E B A
R E B U S
E R A S E

dramypsyd, to actuallyautistic
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I've been asked to create a training on mental health care for autistic adults in burnout.

If you're comfortable, I'd love to share quotes from adults and their experience with burnout, and what support actually helped you.

If you want to give a quote, please comment below or submit here: https://resiliencymentalhealth.com/contact/

Please include how I should cite you in the presentation.

@actuallyautistic
💜

magitism,

@dramypsyd @actuallyautistic I wrote a book one year, then barely was able to do my day job for the following year.

roberto, to php

PHP function: levenshtein()

Calculating the distance between two strings

https://drops-of-php.hi-folks.dev/05-string/16-str-levensthein/

magitism,

@roberto Does anyone have a real concrete example of Levenshtein being useful in the wild? I used it once to do a 404 page suggestion system, but other methods ended up being much faster and smarter.

syntaxseed, to php
@syntaxseed@phpc.social avatar

😆

magitism,

@vintprox @bobmagicii @syntaxseed Naively, you are correct. But in the real world there should be multiple intelligent layers of caching. Only content that needs to be regenerated should be. On the PHP side one ought to cache generation based as closely as possible on the data, and on the edge, through your CDN, based on time. Such that only 10% of your requests for dynamic content hits PHP, and only 10% of those requests (or fewer) full page gen.

MikeDunnAuthor, to random
magitism,

@MikeDunnAuthor I see lots of folks take from this saying that they shouldn’t give the poors money; then skip the whole taking responsibility for helping them achieve real success.

ElleGray, (edited ) to random
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    magitism,

    @ElleGray What does @neilhimself think?

    GreatDismal, to random
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    We’re doing that thing with BookBub starting today. The ebook price will be lowered across all US retailers to $1.99 from November 9 to November 16, and an email will be going out from BookBub promoting the discount on November 11.

    magitism,

    @GreatDismal Do you think BookBub is a good idea for no-name indies like myself?

    Gargron, to random
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    Sometimes I think about how much media will be forever lost in decades to come because everything is now on streaming platforms that delete things on a whim instead of physical media.

    magitism,

    @alexanderhay @HelenG How. Please, how do I vote to save, say, Floor Is Lava, with my wallet?

    magitism,

    @alexanderhay @HelenG Where can I buy Floor is Lava on physical media?

    magitism,

    @alexanderhay @falcon @HelenG Where do I, today, vote with my wallet to save all three seasons of Floor is Lava. How. Walk me through how you think this works. Specifically.

    magitism,

    @alexanderhay @falcon @HelenG The point I am trying to make, Alexander, is that the solution to this problem won’t be everyone deciding to buy DVDs again. It can’t work. Not just because my mom won’t do that, but because a huge amount of modern media isn’t available that way anymore. These companies won’t just start selling physical copies again just cause a few hundred nerds start buying DVDs again.

    magitism,

    @resuna @alexanderhay @falcon @HelenG Me in the present has spent over $10,000 storing media on about 240 TB of drives. But, this too, is not a reasonable solution to the underlying problem.

    magitism,

    @alexanderhay @denki You seem to have fled the argument you were losing to keep making the same argument here. What’s that say?

    andrewfeeney, to php
    @andrewfeeney@phpc.social avatar

    Is anyone aware of any freshly disclosed #PHP vulnerabilities?

    magitism,

    @andrewfeeney I have a truly marvelous vulnerability of PHP that this toot is too narrow to contain.

    magitism,

    @andrewfeeney Is this flirting?

    MsHearthWitch, to random
    @MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop avatar

    So, I posted in a discord server looking for players for my campaign. I specifically made the point, as I did in my post here, that I am looking for folks of marginalized genders and sexualities.

    As I don't know these folks, unlike those I've gathered from here. I sent a message to those who indicated interest.

    Just like, "hey, thanks for the interest, I just want to check one thing: I absolutely do not tolerate Republican/Conservatives at my table."

    This person blocked me LMAO.

    magitism,

    @MsHearthWitch Though I don’t understand them; rep/con queer folk do exist. I’m not sure I would have understood that they weren’t welcome from the initial description. I’m sure I would be less likely to understand if I was one.

    aral, to fediverse
    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

    Mathematical italic capital h mathematical italic small e mathematical italic small l mathematical italic small l mathematical italic small o.

    WTF?

    Oh, I just said “Hello” to you in italics.

    (That’s similar to what someone who uses a screen reader hears when you use fancy non-alphabetical Unicode characters to simulate italics or boldface on your fediverse posts. So please don’t do that.)

    #fediverse #acessibility #a11y #unicode

    magitism,

    @aral Wouldn’t it be cool if Mastodon and other systems detected and converted this on the fly? Maybe requiring a special mode for advanced text to be read as math instead of converting these symbols to plaintext?

    When did it become acceptable to pass on the responsibility for bad web UX to end users?

    Hold web technologists responsible.

    Girgias, to php
    @Girgias@phpc.social avatar

    I kinda need ideas for talks.

    Do people want to know something particular about #php?
    Be that internals, documentation, whatever insanity or pet peeve that goes through my mind (although that feels more like a regular podcast segment).

    I'm all ears! :)

    magitism,

    @Girgias Why hasn’t client side PHP caught on? 🤔

    magitism,

    @Girgias It was a joke. But you CAN run it in the browser via web assembly.

    futurebird, to random
    @futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

    Micro horror:

    A historian notices that obscure old photos they have been scanning from original magazine and photo collections show signs of being AI generated (the kind of uncanny errors that give such images away, but these are chemical photos from long before computers)

    At first it's just a few images in the oldest collection, but each day it seems to spread.

    No one believes her of course.
    "That's Nordstome the famous magician, he really had 6 fingers."

    magitism,

    @futurebird

    aral, to random
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    It’s really rather simple: either our species continues to tolerate bullshit or it survives.

    (And, yeah, billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations most definitely count as bullshit.)

    magitism,

    @aral @rooftopaxx For most, tooting is about all that’s in our power. Donate money? To who? How do we evaluate the success? Donate time? Similar problem.

    It is great to say we need to do something, but what something should we do?

    georgetakei, to random

    Ok. Enlighten me. How does this even happen? Stranger things, indeed. https://www.comicsands.com/woman-divorced-catfished-dacre-montgomery-2664019070.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    magitism,

    @georgetakei Annoyed to see so many people making fun of this poor woman. Sometimes when you’re in a toxic awful situation you don’t look that gift horse as closely as you should. You got someone telling you what you want to hear, you got deepfakes and photoshop, is it really that hard to believe that someone could be taken in by this?

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