Just in case you were wondering, Mr. Tailwind CSS himself is all cool with the fashy vibe. (This comes as no surprise to anyone paying any attention for the last several years…he's always palling around with best buddy DHH.)

Got some Substack spam. Or at least, I don't recall following this particular writer. Now, I'm not a firearms *or* anatomy and physiology *expert*, but... Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about? 1. Rifles don't fire the entire cartridge. Rifles are not […] [Original post on tenforward.social]

Yay! #tor #onion #onions #orbot #censorship #kindnessmode #torproject

Do software "engineers" EVER dogfood their own software anymore? I swear the shit that gets pushed to prod at MASSIVE companies is embarrassing. What's that? You'd like to *organize* the list of channels in your Microsoft Teams Team? Too fucking bad! Alphabetical ascending order ought to be […]

Chrome is moving towards a new experience that allows users to choose to browse without third-party cookies.

I mean www.yahoo.com/news/article...

im watching a YouTube video posted in the year of our Lord today and the YouTuber is downloading a DLL off of limewire. help

#thematrix #4a

Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?

The old web was decentralized: - Newsgroups - Personal Websites - Bulletin board - Email as a service, not a platform - Internet relay chat (IRC) - Early blogs Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became […]

Windows 10 support ends on October 14. Help the people around continue to be protected by helping them switch to Linux. They don't need to go buy a new computer just because Microsoft made a decision for them. Follow @Endof10 for success stories and resources for how to help people switch! […]

The thing you learn by debating for a decade is that debate is a game, there are structural means of winning that game, but they are inescapably dependent on an audience since there is no neutral rhetorical plane upon which arguments can be validated, and therefore debate is fucking shitty and […]

update: spent it on a haircut. thank you mark zuckerberg

it was all worth it, in the end

MTA fucking up the CSS in light mode, forgetting to flip the text color

What if the first instance of a federated system is not a generalist instance that inevitably weighs down and becomes a problem for the rest of the instances, and is instead a specific and focused instance that forces the creation of other instances and forces the software to develop a plugin […]

I may have let things get a liiiiiiiiiittle out of hand when trying to handle the edge cases of this percentile function in #Desmos.

unfortunately i had to take a look at that pseudoscience book about mitochondrial dysfunction that catcher's mitt looking guy who is the boss of all our health has apparently diagnosed all of us with. this is the very first page of the introduction and i […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Protip: never write shit like this to anyone

regardless of how you feel about EITHER "AI" or piracy, if they are successful in making it legal for facebook to pirate every book ever written to build an enormous company-stakes product, but illegal for me to pirate anything, that would be an unambiguous, unmistakable sign that everything in […]

the secret about getting up early they don't tell you is that a) you have to be old and tired all the time and b) you have to allow yourself to get bored early even if there is more cool shit in the world that day

["AI" Schadenfreude, reddit screenshot] @jonny regexes are $0/mo, imagine the savings

["AI" Schadenfreude, reddit screenshot] lol, lmao even

#deltachat is being used in virtually all world regions where one or more other messengers fail to work. We recently released a major milestone (V2 security hardening releases) that prepared the ground for chat profiles to have multiple #chatmail relays at once ... failure or blocking of a […]

presenting improtant work

every day we get closer to someone realizing my vision

listen up nothing you ever do will be this cool

the haters all scoffed when i "embedded a whole set of bitmap fonts for a single use" but i knew i was following the light and the way. #sciop is in its "intelligibility" era, where we will do things like "tell people what is going on" and "comment on […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Alright. Ive gotten like a half-dozen different emails from various companies notifying me about updates to their arbitration/TOS/TOU/Dispute resolution/etc etc. What case law just dropped?

@jonny proud to be 100TB of that, and I have some more drives sitting in a box that I need to install

We'll be finishing off some basic features like reports and comments, adding in-site IRC chat to get the party vibe up during all-scrape events, and then we're starting work on a new bittorrent v2+ client and tracker federation to bridge human archives from small groups through huge institutions […]

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Representative democracy was designed to give the illusion of democracy, while allowing the already powerful to retain power. There are other forms of democracy that ensure political independence, such as sortition, direct, etc..., but "Representative […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

["AI" schadenfreude] Can you imagine if instead of returning a 401 a web server served you a fake page saying try again until you asked if it was lying to you

I was saying the other day that I never get any funding. Well big relief today while all our labs other grants are frozen, a grant with a bunch of my ideas came thru so I get to continue to be employed, which is cool.

Thinking about the series of changes I would need to make in my life that are the shortest path from here to having a goat

When i wrote this in March 2023, propublica had just put out their piece on prior approval at cigna and lighthouse/wired had just put out theirs on Accenture in Rotterdam using decision trees for benefits. Criticism was still mostly focused on language […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Fuck this from the bottom of my heart > The federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some procedures, like certain spine surgeries or steroid injections. Similar algorithms used by insurers have been the […]

Does anyone know the social history of `libtorrent`? it now appears only sparsely maintained and still almost exclusively by arvid, really huge bugs go unresponded to, and i'm finding tons of offers to help with stuff also getting just ignored? like how did this whole protocol get built on top […]

First post on the #sciop blog - on adding webseeds from the web interface and why this is cool for bridging archives and bringing bigger systems into the swarm. If you can't run a bittorrent client but still want to seed, this post is for you! with art from @aud and @lina […]

"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software. Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority: - sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon) - sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from […]

if research software has a published paper but no docs, its ass does not run

Can anyone recommend a non-gboard android keyboard? Can use fdroid. The keyboard im using now is no longer maintained and is lagging so hard I get like a 500ms delay between keys

Im making a blog for #sciop because we keep doing dope shit and not writing it down. Putting a call out for guest artists who want to contribute fake GeoCities era banner ads

For a while now LinkedIn has been offering me a "verification badge" if I give it my real-world ID. And I'm just like, who on earth would want to impersonate someone with my employment history

Because I'm a pragmatist, I tend to weigh my words. That's helped me build a rep for creating effective campaign messaging that pulls moderate supporters away from my opponents. I'm proud of that! But because I have those skills and habits, I sometimes feel treated like "one of the good trans […]

Airline counter at the airport in Hyderabad. #tilingtuesday

LLMs truly pushing boundaries in methodology for task failed successfully https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161