Search for "debian hamster" on DuckDuckGo and got some questionable results... which apparently, are from Bing. No, no, Bing, I was searching for "Debian Hamster" (which is a work related time tracking tool for tracking time spent on projects). Not this other search. But, SURE, let's throw LLMs at your crappy search data instead, that will fix the problem, I am sure. #Linux#SearchEngine#crappy
Ok so I'm trying #firefox. Setup 2 profiles and am logged in on my main personal and main work account. Switching between them is... ugly (go to the task bar and pick one, or enter "about:profiles" and pick one).
Also the 1password extension isn't behaving correctly (e.g. setting up a Firefox account for sync and I can't use 1Password to set the password?).
It's 2023. Firefox is probably fine if you use one account, but for multiple accounts, meh. And the fact that it's having issues with 1password plugin is a bit of a deal breaker sadly.
@kurtseifried
Just setup multiple menu items/launcher icons with the -P option for different profiles. Can be done with both Linux and Windows environments.
Good morning Mastodon! Planning to subscribe to Peacock today for the Dolphins Chiefs playoff game? Because, you know, enshitification. Don't hold back. Tell us how you feel.
@mastodonmigration
I don't follow football. Texas versus Browns as a wildcard playoff appears to be on NBC over the air in about an hour (16:30 EST). I guess/assume other games will also be OTA.
Yesterday many left leaning pundits and journalists were suspended from TwitterX without notice. Some were subsequently reinstated after very public complaints from a few prominent individuals.
We have seen this tactic before. Musk uses the ban hammer to enforce self censorship. The message is clear, step over the line and you will be silenced.
I don't respond to emailed surveys any more, even when I have a reasonable belief that they're legit based on recent activity and they're not coming from a third party site. I may, occasionally, respond to a survey on a site that I'm currently logged into, but even most of those I skip now.
@lauren
This might be part of why polling shows 25% of people believe the Sun orbits the Earth (I believe from one of another thread today). If a survey asked that question I would be even less inclined to respond at all. The responders may not be very representative. I know some statisticians can attempt to control for things like this but it must be difficult.
@mastodonmigration Like others have said they need all of the information in order to handle your threads interaction like any other mastodon server.
Likewise all of that information is publicity available. I don't know details or how any instance data restrictions can or are communicated. Is there some sort of machine readable privacy policy the mastodon server supplies on all queries?
Somewhat implicit is that the advertising and analysis is for their users not the mastodon user. However since Facebook does create shadow accounts we know the do aggregate external information on non Facebook users already. This is already an issue outside of Meta.
Lastly, my mastodon account is not publicity tied to any Meta account I might have. There is the problem that if they ever join accounts they can retain that join forever. Someday they might get enough text to use AI (I hate using that acronym today) to relate authorship. These are problems with any anonymous account.
Public figures may have different issues, but those are unlikely anything new. They probably have other more private accounts.
Did you know that on 64-bit Windows you can execute x64 Assembly inside of a 32-bit process?
All you need to do is perform a FAR call or jump using the segment selector 0x33. This will transition the CPU mode from 32-bit to 64-bit, a technique commonly referred to as Heaven's Gate.
@malwaretech Interesting. Is there a way to return to 32 bit mode or is this a one way change? Edit: I missed the CALL operand which would presumably return to 32 bit mode.
My assembly programming was between 8008 and 286 Intel processors. Plus a few other DEC any IBM systems.
The really fun part about a one-way feed from Meta Threads to #Mastodon is that when you see total disinformation from there, you can't reply or comment in any other way back to the post. It's just a one-way vomitus feed.
Will they ever permit replies back? I assume eventually, but they will want to very tightly moderate and control those, because they won't want to be inundated with CSAM and other garbage that flows forth from various Mastodon sites.
@lauren
Google is apparently disconnecting from usenet soon. Just seen as a posting from someone else:
"Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of historical data will still be supported as it is done today."
#usenet still lives but on various occasions has been a source of spam (apparently currently happening). Whether losing Google will be ultimately good or bad is yet to be seen.
I know some people don't want their public Mastodon posts to be searchable. This reminder isn't for them. It's for everyone else: Please take a minute to update your Mastodon preferences to make your public posts searchable. This ensures more people can easily find your public posts on a given topic. This makes Mastodon a more useful place for all of us and gives Mastodon holdouts more incentive to join the fediverse.
@dangoodin
Since most of my posts are not very interesting junk, I don't want to clutter searches with my noise. This post isn't worth being searchable. A search should find your post instead.
I don't know what to do about rare posts the might be worth being searchable. Is there a way to tag something more "important"?
I think some interested in my boring post history can check my timeline. I also try to delete older no longer relevant posts.
Maybe this isn't ideal, but "simplifying" US elections isn't simple. It would involve deep (constitutional) changes in the way the federal, state, and local governments are organized.
It's worth noting that this process, in which the House has been unable to agree on a Speaker for two weeks and therefore can get nothing done with no end in sight, was created post-9/11 to ensure efficient continuity of government in emergencies.
Handy Hint from the days of computer punched cards: Take a black marker and draw a DIAGONAL line from corner to corner across the long edge of your card deck. This creates a reference that can be very helpful with cards that don't have printed sequence numbers, in the unfortunate circumstance that the deck gets dropped on the floor. Seriously.
@lauren
You also had to redraw the lines periodically as you edited your code. I tended to use different lines for different subroutine groups.
You also could know how many copies of a program existed. I still have the one copy of my high school senior project (a very basic BASIC interpreter for an IBM 1130). The ordering lines run all which way and different colored cards are mixed through the deck.