I’m fucken tired of explaining to people who refuse to learn.
I will try once and then you get blocked
Eugen Rochko
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Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.
Henrik Schönemann
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'Digital Humanities is a perspective combining the understanding of a Humanities subject and the understanding of the potential of applying a digital approach to its study.' Matteo Romanello 01.01.2012 #DigitalHumanities #WhatIsDH
'Digital Humanities is a perspective combining the understanding of a Humanities subject and the understanding of the potential of applying a digital approach to its study.' Matteo Romanello 01.01.2012 #DigitalHumanities #WhatIsDH
I AM SPEED
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100m sprint in 3 seconds
Cumulonimbus
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The picture is of the future from a German magazine in 1930, 95 years ago.
Man ist nie zu alt für eine beglaubigte Kopie des Abiturzeugnisses...
@lavaeolus Öhm wie schalte ich denn 2FA ein? Ich nutze ICE CUBES auf iOS…
@late_ape schau mal hier, das geht über die Seite deiner Instanz, nicht über eine Client-App wie IceCubes
https://fedi.tips/using-two-factor-authentication-2fa-on-mastodon/
One thing to remember if you're trying to understand Trump's continual love of Putin.
Putin is an enemy of the west. He's an enemy of democracy. He's an enemy of the rights of ordinary people.
But he's not an enemy of the rich.
@ianbetteridge do east and west or nations really matter any more? It feels pretty openly "oligarchs versus the rest of us". Nations only matter when they are controlled by an oligarch (Gulf states, Russia, China, USA) but they only reject the whim of the man at the top, not any national interest
The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).
Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.
The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It takes time to create the software, it needs infrastructure and power. The time is experienced as short compared to how long it takes to create maintainable and reusable software. But once you take into account how many people benefit from reusable software, the single use software takes way more time to create than what it saves. The infrastructure and power costs are hidden because the data center isn't visible. The costs are subsidized by venture capital.
Like other single use items, single use software brings risks of unforeseen consequences. From data loss or leaks to issues for maintainers of reusable software (eg. verbal abuse, less motivation and lost income).
As an example of single use software is a German LinkedIn post of a person who slopcoded a HEMS (home energy management system). It took them more than a week. While open source projects like https://evcc.io/ already provide the same functionality. They could have used it for free or paid 100€ and got support for some additional devices. But they decided that they know better how it should work and now have a single use software. If it breaks there is nobody they can ask. There won't be updates and no community to discuss and develop new features. No organization will ever be interested in officially supporting it. And even if it works, it only benefits that one person.
(This doesn't mean people shouldn't build things that only they use. But they should enjoy doing so.)
@luca The disposable plastic bottles of the software world.
I grew up during the cold war, expecting that one day we might be at war with Russia.
I just never expected we would be at war with Russia backed by the president of the USA.
Will China form a triad with Russia and what remains of the United States? Or will they oppose the Putin/Trump monster?
Quixoticgeek
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@zzt@mas.to
> "when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal"
I don't understand how more people don't see this. They're strip-mining the internet and selling it back to you via taps that they control. It's crazy to me that people are so quick to willingly surrender to what is clearly a new form of mass oppression that's taking root.
I'm already dealing with fresh college grads who can't arrive at solutions without prompting, it's extremely alarming every time I run into these people in classes.
Also, as an aside, the people who are okay with slopping code but don't like it when art is slopped are a whole other enigma to me. Like, do you just not value your work? Is that it?
@Fbrzvnrnd nessun Half-Life?
@gubi mai coperti. ovviamente tante cose mancano, ma nei solo nove quelli ci stanno tutti
Der Mensch ist frei geboren, doch überall liegt er in Betten.
*dreht sich noch mal um*
Zweimal.
Quixoticgeek
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Hello and a good meowing everyone! 
Have a most wonderful #Caturday and stay safe ♥️😸
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@Tutanota how nice
I wouldn't happen to know someone who works for PUFFIN, would I?
I have a few questions (mostly why my test page doesn't work at all, not even the CSS.)
Ah, now I get it.
Puffin doesn’t support CSS variables!
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences.
Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure."
Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found this compromise). Don't worry, it's only accessible from your IP and you land in a dedicated FreeBSD jail. From there, you can only access the 'exchange' directory on your server, where you can upload and download files without affecting the application."
(NB: I had suggested a VPN, but they declined because it was too complicated.)
Customer: "Yes, but maybe it's still insecure. Can't we close it?"
Me: "No, unless you want to lose access to that directory."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later:
Customer: "Hi, I think we've found a solution. We've just created an app (!!!) with AI that lets us access the files anyway, but more securely than SSH (!!!). Can we install that and close SSH? Oh, and not in the dedicated jail, but directly in the application's jail, because it needs access to the application's files."
Me: "Frankly, I trust SSH in a dedicated jail, restricted by the firewall, a lot more. I don't think this is a good idea."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
Half an hour later:
Customer: "Ok, now it's secure. I had another AI check it and it found some security issues, but it fixed them all. Can you install it and disable SSH?"
Me: "I strongly advise against it. I can see problems coming."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later, my phone rings.
Their internal IT guy (who has access to the machine, which, after all, belongs to them) had given the AI the login credentials to go ahead with the operation.
Except the AI had managed to lock itself out via the firewall, without even starting the app. And now they couldn't get back in.
Fortunately, I had my own access, via VPN, to a separate jail that the AI hadn't touched (or even considered).
Customer: "SORRYSORRYSORRYSORRYSORRY! From now on, we do things your way."
Well, at least it ended well.
PS: The customer knows I'm sharing this story and agreed to it.
