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teajaygrey

@teajaygrey@rap.social

Incarnated as a human in the area of "Yay".
What others call the Bay.
Encountered networked computers before TCP.
Email? UUCP before SMTP.
I knew the late great Doug Engelbart, personally.
Helped patch an embargoed bug in BIND 2013-4854 by CVE.
Helped restore UNIX before C.
1 of 4 skratch deejays in ThudRumble's 33.3 Club as well.
Struggles amidst these Saṃsāric rings of hell.
My 2nd language is Japanese.
Default to English, if you please.
I'm a polyglot & read & write in multiple orthographies.

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sarahjamielewis, to random
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After writing this note on Recall (https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/112482021770758791) a few weeks back, I've received many messages under the assumption that I don't understand how DRM / OS interaction works.

As if the integration of a broken, backwards technology into the core of our computing systems happened by accident.

"No, you see the OS doesn't get to see those bits of the screen, so it totally makes sense why the system scraps your financial documents and passwords but not netflix" - utterly unhinged worldview

teajaygrey,
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@sarahjamielewis Once upon a time I was invited to a home where the albeit, former, CTO of Canonical was residing.

As the evening progressed, eventually it was decided that some people wanted to watch Jodorowsky's Dune. A copy was on DVD, but the former CTO's laptop ran Linux.

The former CTO, had never heard of all the DeCSS hubbub apparently? Even though I seem to recall some had such things printed on tshirts? Slashdot was awash in such stories, from my vantage, for years.

I asked if I could take a look and a short:

%sudo apt-get update
%sudo apt-get upgrade
%sudo apt-get install libdvdcss

Later, we were able to watch the DVD.

That Micro$oft, chose Canonical's Ubuntu for their WSL Linux BS, was completely unsurprising to me.

Even at the executive level, Canonical demonstrated profound (perhaps willful?) ignorance of DRM circumvention.

Notably the libdvdcss has apparently been renamed more than once and is at most recent check called: libdvd-pkg

Because, why would those fucking assholes want to make it easy or consistent, when they can instead keep mv-ing things so everyone else has to play whack a mole & deal with deprecated documentation?

DVD copy protections are broken & have never been meaningfully updated, so instead of accepting defeat, those who are complicit, perpetuate inordinate amounts of bull it.sh apparently?

teajaygrey, to rust
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In yet another example of things which do not inspire confidence in Rust, nor things written in Rust:

"This port has been deleted. This page will exist till another port with the name 'rust' comes into existence."

o.O

mjg59, to random
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The Airwolf theme being performed on Tesla coils is certainly A Thing

teajaygrey,
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@mjg59 Did ArcAttack! do that? Or some other Tesla Coil band?

I deejayed an anti-surveillance fashion show with some other @Noisebridge after ArcAttack! performed a set at Maker Faire many years ago.

whitequark, to random
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this is how i control heating in this place now

teajaygrey,
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@whitequark Room thermostats and HVAC are relatively imprecise in my experience.

I wonder though: perhaps if using Fahrenheit instead of Centigrade, they might have less of a range of fluctuation due to the more minute measurements of difference which Fahrenheit uses?

Probably comes a lot down to implementation and I haven't worked in HVAC or dealt with thermostat microcontrollers in an awfully long time.

shoq, to random
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Wouldn’t it be wild if there was a Sunday news show that did nothing but debunk the bullshit on all the other news shows—in real time? Dana Bash says something idiotic (again), and you quickly flip on the Bullshit Today Channel (BTC), and a panel of people who actually know something are patiently explaining what she doesn’t know, isn’t saying, or can’t comprehend?

teajaygrey,
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@LexiGirl who?

Sorry, I'm a Californian. The political BS around California being part of America is contentious enough.

Am I supposed to know who that person is?

We have approximately 333.3 million Americans presently and I will be dead and buried having never heard of most of them, let alone ever bothered to get to know the slightest thing about them presumably.

Based on search engines, she's apparently some "journalist" for CNN?

I haven't paid for cable since my marriage fell apart in 2005 and have no plans to pay for advertising laden media ever again. My ex-wife liked soap operas. I already spend too much time staring at glowing screens and don't need more distractions from for-profit morons.

@shoq

teajaygrey,
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@shoq I only do journalism in my spare time for undeadly.org for the last 20 some odd years and my general outlook on American journalism is:

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Is just about the only person left whom I have observed even trying to do that field justice.

Well, aside from the court jesters such as Jon Stewart and John Oliver. I have a penchant for mortuary humor on a dying planet.

The rest of the lot are more or less resplendently part and parcel with the oligopoly that the USA has devolved into and presumably will remain that way so long as they have advertisers' best interests at heart rather than any higher ideals.

@LexiGirl

jacqueline, to random
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i continue to be fascinated by youtube ads for ‘google ai’. every use case they show off is like totally bizarre

teajaygrey,
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@jacqueline parasocial marketing as a service?

No one needs that.

Well, except those who profit from advertising.

Namely, Alphabet Inc./Google/YouTube and others who are sucking Satan's Cock in advertising and marketing I guess?

grunfink, to fediverse
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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.53 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.

Added some (partial) support for Event object types.

Minor fixes: Allow unboosting your own posts (contributed by khm), CSS fixes for the Dillo browser (contributed by kvibber).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

teajaygrey,
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@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.53 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23996

GitHub Actions CI passed OK!

As in the past, I don't have commit access, so it will be up to someone else to merge it.

Thank you for your continued improvements and to khm and kvibber for their contributions as well!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

teajaygrey,
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@grunfink Totally unexpected yet welcome:

Someone else submitted a PR to improve the MacPorts' snac Portfile to work with older versions of gcc and tested on a version of OS X I haven't used as a "daily driver" in years:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23999

My approach with newer code on older OSes has typically been to install newer C compilers such as recent clang/llvm but there are many ways to get similar results!

teajaygrey, to random
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"We gave them $14 million to work on the protocol."

Jack Dorsey/Blue Sky are/were morons apparently. Rich, but ignorant, what a terrible combination.

Imagine what Pekka Riikonen would have done to improve SILC with $14 million?!

SILC was ALREADY libre/free open source and a protocol before Twitter ever existed.

SILC ALREADY had end to end encryption! It even implemented PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) before SSL/TLS tried to do so.

SILC even attempts to mitigate eavesdropping of its users' communications from hostile server operators, something which almost no other realtime encrypted comms protocol even seems to realize is a threat.

Why do the morons get all the money while the people who actually advance the state of the art tend to get ignored and forgotten to obscurity?

grunfink, (edited ) to fediverse
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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.52 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Posts that were liked or boosted can now be unliked and unboosted.

Outgoing message timeouts are no longer hardcoded and can be configured (see snac(8) for more information).

Fixed a bug that caused some incorrect unfollows under special conditions (with shared inboxes enabled and users from the same instance that follow each other, the internal message distributor was confused).

Mastodon API: Added support for lists.

Added a header to avoid over-zealous caching in some browsers (contributed by louis77).

Added support for running and federating inside hidden networks like Tor, I2P or Loki (contributed by iwojima).

Fixed an error processing polls coming from Pleroma instances.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

Usage tips: Use social media as little as possible. Go for a walk. Meet with friends. Read a good book.

#snacAnnounces

teajaygrey,
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@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.52 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23859

GitHub Actions CI are queued, but hopefully they will complete OK?

Regardless, I don't have commit access so it will be up to someone else to merge it.

Thank you for your continued improvements and to others submitting bug fixes too!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

whitequark, to random
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please tell me the most obscure joke you know

(feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

teajaygrey,
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@aburka Nice!

There are lots of interlingual soy milk jokes (comic examples attached).

Though, all this reminds me of DJ Statik (of Das Bunker notoriety, though in more recent years deejayin at Midnight Mess in Tokyo, Japan) going out to Indian food with me and DJ Abattoir (RIP).

He held up a piece of naan bread and asked me: "これはナンですか。”
「kore wa nan desu ka」Translation:
"Is this naan?"

Which is a homonym of これは何ですか。「kore wa nan desu ka」
Translation:
"What is this?"

Definitely one of those kinds of jokes that required interlingual knowledge and literacy to grok.

@whitequark

Carton reads: "SOY MILK" (arrow point left reads: "OPEN") Word bubble reads: "HOLA, SOY MILK*" Word rectangle at the bottom reads: "*TRANSLATION: HELLO, I AM MILK."
Carton of milk wearing a sombrero, carton reads: "SOY MILK" Caption: "HOLA! MUCHO GUSTO."

jbqueru, to random
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Hmmm. Write Z80 first, then port to 6502? Write 6502 first, then port to Z80? Write 68000 first, then port to both Z80 and 6502? Write a bytecode interpreter on both 6502 and Z80 and then code to that bytecode?

I guess I'm looking for an excuse to think about writing code instead of, you know, actually writing code.

teajaygrey,
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@jbqueru I feel as if I had similar things in my mind.... in the 1980s.

sigh Pretty sure I don't have access to any of that code. From the day I took my first programming class, until the day I got my first computer, was 12 years, and I was programming, on other people's systems, even before that first class. ;(

So many things I contributed to lost to time, and others' systems.

teajaygrey,
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@jbqueru ah yeah, I was incarnated as a human this lifetime in Menlo Park and was surrounded by others' systems that most only might know from history books.

Even today, my parents' old church in Menlo Park shares a parking lot with SRI (Stanford Research Institute) and I knew other folks at SRI like Doug Engelbart and Bill English personally.

Lamentably, I didn't begin formal instruction in programming until maybe 1981 or so? In New Mexico. Candidly, it felt as if I had gone backwards in time, technologically, by decades. ;( It was an excruciatingly frustrating experience for me, I remember crying on occasion because I couldn't yet touch type and the piece of shit mainframe that class used had a timeout on login set to 60 seconds on their green and black terminals or something clearly not designed with a six year old who had already been using GUIs for years in mind.

Not the last time such an experience would occur either. For some reason I ended up going to a college in Minnesota in the 1990s. That campus had a 56K uplink, for their entire school! I had a 14.4 modem personally and I was a poor kid, not some USR HST warez courier like some of my friends in highschool. But, already in highschool I was repeatedly being invited to tweak code (and some microcode) for the SGIs and Sun Microsystems at nps.navy.mil. Two sysadmins at the Naval Postgraduate School, even asked me to be co-SysOps on BBSes they ran for fun outside of work.

I don't even remember my first programming language anymore, but I remember taking a class in Logo in the 1980s which inspired me to learn z80/x86 and 6502 asm, because Logo was so friggin slow! I asked around how video games were rendering things so quickly and learned about going lower level and "Racing the Beam". By the time I finally got to real C compilers they seemed bloated to me. The first graphics library I used in college, felt like cheating.

I still <3 asm but find I rarely get to enjoy it like I used to these days. ;(

SRDas, to food
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Been 20+ yrs and even tho partner and I saw it a few times then, we can't seem to remember too much by way of specifics/details.
Rewatching now and it's the overall treat we recall. Hilarious too


Two people sitting and reaching out towards bowls of raamen in front of them
Chopsticks picking up pork from a bowl of ramen. Subtitles say Caress it with the chopstick tips

teajaygrey,
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@SRDas Fantastic film. RIP 伊丹 十三「itami jūzō」(the director; some think his death was actually a hit made to look like a suicide, performed by 極道「gokudō​」who took offense at his portrayals of ヤクザ「yakuza」).

For a while, the DVD was out of print. I remember finding a torrent which had like, 4 people seeding it.

I was elated when Criterion released it on BluRay.

So much so, that I purchased an extra copy and gave it to the video store in Japan Center, which was selling bootlegged versions of the DVD.

Lamentably, not only did I not see them start selling bootlegged versions on BluRay, the last time I went in there, I didn't see any Jūzō films on their shelves. ;( He directed some other outstanding movies as well, though I admit, I haven't seen all of them yet.

Trivia: The UC Theater (on University Avenue, in Berkeley California) used to show the opening sequence during their pre-movie screenings/trailers, as a kind of "silence your cell phone" message. It's so good!

If only more theaters, and patrons would get the message.

(clip for those who have not seenタンポポ「tanpopo」and have no idea what I am writing about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXmUSMPUpA)

teajaygrey,
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@SRDas The Funeral was shown in one of my undergraduate Japanese classes and has a lot of jokes that are extremely culturally relativistic (such as camera shots focusing on feet and legs while people are sitting in seiza 正坐 "proper sitting", which is very uncomfortable for many, especially for prolonged periods of time). A Taxing Woman I think I may have once seen on a PBS channel? It has a sequel as well. I still haven't seen his other films.

Hopefully someday!

teajaygrey, to random
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What was it a couple of weeks ago where I was head scratching about Taylor Swift having TWO private jets?

I re-watched Inception last week.

How could I have forgotten that they performed their Inception-errific-injection during a first class air fare (of an airline owned/purchased by the adversary) by sabotaging the target's private jet? Thus necessitating them to book a ticket on a plebeian airline?

I guess Taylor Swift's threat model is just on a different level?

I am grateful I am not so rich and famous as to have to worry about fictional threats from Christopher Nolan movies.

I have more than enough real world threats as it is.

teajaygrey,
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I am not kidding either.

My "threat level" was already set to: "we do not have multiple founding partner level employees flying the same flights" mitigations as far back as 2010, because iSEC Partners was not looking for a repeat of this disaster:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1985/08/04/estridge-among-14-in-ibm-family-to-die/

(wherein more than a dozen members of IBM died in a plane crash)

CultureDesk, (edited ) to food
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Apparently it's now a thing for dinner party hosts to ask their guests for money to help with groceries. Eater reporter Amy McCarthy says that's not OK, and offers some suggestions for cutting costs if you want to host but can't afford to. What's your experience with this? Pick as many answers as apply and share any fun stories in the comments.

https://www.eater.com/24083611/is-it-okay-to-ask-dinner-party-guests-to-venmo-you

For more stories like this, follow @Eater's @eater Magazine.

teajaygrey,
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@CultureDesk What ever happened to potlucks?

Or stone soup?

@Eater @eater

heidilifeldman, to random
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Honestly, the Supreme Court justices today sounded even more deranged and clueless than I even expected. They are just too worried about hypothetical future presidents to focus on the fact that we have a former president indicted for attempting to overthrow an election who is now running for reelection on an explicitly authoritarian, anti-democracy platform. 1/

teajaygrey,
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@heidilifeldman American law still sanctions slavery for convicts.

It's not difficult to hold that in contempt.

Moreover, that is just one of countless issues with American law presently.

kennwhite, to random

Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)

A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!

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teajaygrey,
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@kennwhite This is a good thing.

Perhaps some folks can rm -rf / with abandon and nip this BS in the bud.

sigh Alas, I doubt anyone is that forward thinking anymore.

foone, to random
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He'd get in endless arguments and canceled almost immediately (not to mention the weird shit he'd get caught liking), but I would have liked to have seen Robert A. Heinlein with a Twitter account.

teajaygrey,
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@foone Cancelled, almost immediately?

Have you seen who owns that site? ;)

teajaygrey, to random
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Library hasn't even been open for 30 minutes and I've already seen 3 women with babies in strollers, another woman with a toddler, there's a free tax workshop in the basement which appears to be at capacity just about and I didn't even go upstairs.

I mostly frequent libraries for the toilets and WiFi and a quiet place to sit and focus, but these community resources are used heavily and I don't think they get nearly enough funding and resources.

They're basically proxies for human decency in societies which largely turn a blind eye to the impoverished.

teajaygrey, to random
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@jacqueline BTW, I noticed that Cayin announced a new "budget" DAP their N3 Ultra!

Still: proprietary.

Running: Android 9? o.O ("What year is this?" meme goes here)

Has: vacuum tubes! (is there a "What century is this?" meme?)

MSRP: $529+?

So, I could buy two Tangaras for that?

teajaygrey,
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@jacqueline Sorry, did I write 9?

I think I meant Android 8.1.

At least, according to this:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/cayin-n3ultra-an-entry-level-portable-dap-that-delivers-a-complete-vacuum-tube-audio-experience.971920/

"The N3Ultra is powered by a Snapdragon CPU and operated under Android 8.1."

I guess, maybe it will run a different Android version when shipping? (Some places claim it is already in stock though, so seems as if they could check that first hand)

Near as I can guess: Cayin is using some stripped down Android build sort of like HiBy did; though their N3 Pro, they claimed it ran a custom OS that wasn't Android, I had other devices, which disagreed. ;)

A potential upshot to this is their "Snapdragon 425 DTA (SRC bypassed)" which (after doing some digging) means that Android's SRC "Sample Rate Conversion" is mitigated so that the playback isn't resampled I guess? I am still not sure what the acronym "DTA" (Direct Transport Architecture) means in practice though.

Alas, having emailed Cayin's tech support in the past, they never seemed particularly, technical. ;-/

In the world of so-called "audiophile" gear, snake oil is rampant and attempting to discern shit from Shinola is a never ending exercise is dispelling BS.

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