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meejah

@meejah@mastodon.social

Professional freelance programmer (#python, #haskell, #c++, #linux)
https://meejah.ca
https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org
https://carml.readthedocs.org
#twisted #python #tor #infosec #privacy
I re-toot all reasonable replies
"rumoured to be Canadian"

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Miriamm, to random
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These are the type of statues we should be putting up. Danuta Danielsson hitting a neo Nazi (1985).

ezio, to random
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thanks for telling me how to bypass copy protection avermedia

andymoose, to random
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"Thank you for your message. Because you may be using a Microsoft Recall enabled PC, I am unable to respond to you with any sensitive or confidential information. I apologize for the inconvenience."

And he was left alone, living happily, until the end of his days.

NanoRaptor, to random
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1989's Macintosh SE/30L is remembered as one of Apple's biggest flops. MacWorld criticised its rotated L display as "...bringing all of the issues and none of the benefits of a true L display", while MacWeek called it "Some kind of deranged P display nobody asked for".

ElleGray, to random
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ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

mcc, to random
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Gonna upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 24.04… expecting that, like everything else I have done on this laptop involving Ubuntu, I am going to regret this

mcc,
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Oh

Oh hey, about 24 hours after upgrading Ubuntu I finally found the thing that broke. It was—

—are you ready? are you ready, I'm going to say the line—

My Python environment is broken

forrestbrazeal, to random
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SQL is undefeated

davew, to random
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ChatGPT is a vast library that comes with its own librarian.

Griffey, (edited )
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@davew That's like saying a first aid kit is a doctor. ChatGPT is a librarian in the same way that it's an artist...it isn't capable of thought, it isn't capable of evaluation of new input, and most importantly it doesn't have a moral or ethical center from which to base decisions. It's a fancy word-based pachinko machine.

That is an atrocious take, belittling to librarians and fundamentally misunderstanding both ChatGPT and the work of a librarian.

Mer__edith, to random
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Signal strongly opposes the newest proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

mhoye, to random
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Moving from screen to tmux, this post was very helpful for bootstrapping the experience-tailoring process: https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/

After a quarter century in screen, remapping c-b as the magic prefix key back to c-a, where all my muscle memory wants it, was helpful and pleasant. So are the mouse menus, and the "list the URLs on the screen" function is a nice touch.

estherschindler, to random
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A long time ago I was given this advice about coding estimates:

Take the programmer's estimate. Double the number and Increment the time measure.

Thus: 1 hour -> 2 days
3 days -> 6 weeks
4 weeks -> 8 months

aral, to Israel
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How does genocide happen in 2024?

It doesn’t, of course. As Graeme Wood from The Atlantic explains, there are only tens of thousands of legally killed children, that’s all.

(Thanks, Graeme, we were all apparently very confused.)

See, y’all were getting worked up for nothing.

https://archive.is/sT6ne#selection-1057.275-1057.295

voxpopsicle,
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@aral when you find yourself writing "legally killed children" is when you need to stop and check yourself and wtf you are doing

ayoub, to random
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I said a week or so ago, but for those who don’t wanna take my word for it: here is the former Israeli Prime Minister, the former head of Shin Bet and a former head of the IDF all saying that Netanyahu boosted Hamas to prevent a two-state solution https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4XlHb1stgC/?igsh=MXR3M3gycG40MG54dw==
https://spore.social/@ayoub/112456680198406808

Israeli politicians and military officials saying that Netanyahu boosted Hamas

foone, to random
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Terrible idea: an author writes a book, but instead of releasing it, they train an LLM on it, and release the model.

So readers can ask the LLM to generate text based on it, but can never know the original text.

glyph,
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@foone I seem to remember a performance-art bit in the floppy disk era which was a single-user experience (a hypertext book, IIRC) that deleted itself after viewing, and was never put online. This reminded me of it but I cannot remember what it was called. Fitting, perhaps.

jacqueline, to random
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check this out

it's the same device, but now it's lying on a table. it's off. you can see some of the buttons and the sd card slot on the side.

GossiTheDog, to random
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"Nobody uses Mastodon"

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MsHearthWitch, to infosec
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Infosec people: Looking for suggestions on a secure video camera for work.

We're a non-profit barn that wants to set up a camera to monitor the driveway for security of our horses.

NO cloud storage, wifi access, etc. We need the video to be secure due to the nature of our work.

Talk to me about what we need. (I have already looked into the legal stuff, I need equipment recs).

Alexlee, to academicchatter
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Nobody told me about the snakes! @academicchatter

robsonfletcher, to microsoft
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So ... any suggestions on getting started with a Linux machine?

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-ai-feature-takes-screenshots-of-your-desktop-every-few-seconds-and-i-cant-imagine-wanting-that/

ghorwood,
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@bamboombibbitybop @robsonfletcher thirded on pop_os. it's my daily driver.

however, any of the popular distros will do the trick. honestly.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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I am a:
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 bear

looking for a:
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to add to the sauce to give it more tackiness

Farbe, to random German
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@feminist_collages_nyc insta

NO ONE WILL SAY I LIKED THE BEAR ATTACK
THE BEAR SEES ME AS A HUMAN BEING
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freakazoid, to random
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iFixit's had enough with Samsung. That secret contract was only part of the problem.

Anyway, I've been saying Samsung sucks for years. Not sure why it wasn't obvious to anyone who's used one of their crapware-laden devices.

iFixit divorces Samsung over lack of real commitment to self-repair program
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ifixit_samsung_repair/

davidism, to python
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Flask-Mail 0.10 released, after a 10 year hiatus! Thanks to @wlach for picking it up at the #PyConUS sprint. This is part of my Pallets-Eco initiative to get old popular extensions maintained again. It's been unarchived and refreshed. I went through and closed out a lot of the issue backlog. We'll have to figure out what a 1.0 release will look like. https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-mail/releases/tag/0.10.0 #Python #Flask

wlach,
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@davidism That felt like a good use of time! Thanks again for all the guidance and help (not to mention all the work you did to get this over the line). Great illustration of why events like #pyconus are so valuable to the community.

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