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Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash.
github.com/p8952/bocker

Has science gone too far?.. :scaredycat:

h/t to @czesiekhaker for pointing it out to me

Makdaam

@rysiek @czesiekhaker So "in 1 line of Perl" is the next logical step, right?

Wayne Werner

@rysiek @czesiekhaker love to see it, actually.

I'm often of the opinion that most of the things that exist in tech are just excessive anyway...

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

PSA: there is a new fedi instance called mastodon[.]tech. Confusingly, it is running Pleroma. People behind it set up a @Tech account, and reached out to me (and I can only presume others).

I told them in private what I am telling everyone in public now: I find it very sketchy, based on the interaction with that account, and on mastodon.technology-lookalike domain.

I have on good authority they are in no way affiliated with or endorsed by mastodon.technology. I will stay away from them.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

Just to be very clear, there is nothing wrong with using Pleroma!

But calling an instance mastodon[.]tech and using Pleroma to run it is something I find somewhat sketchy.

Eugen Rochko

@rysiek It seems that @Tech blocked me so I’ll repeat it publicly. As I told them privately before, Mastodon is a registered trademark and permission to use it in a domain name is only given to those running Mastodon on the domain. You cannot run Pleroma and call it Mastodon. Trademarks are meant to prevent confusion and this is a clear cut case of infringement.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

It just hit me...

Same people who complain about how #Gemini is "limited" ("no styling! no in-line links! no nested lists!") and ridicule it for that, tend to happily publish their opinions on :birdsite: , often in long threads of tweets — with no styling, no in-line links, and no nested lists (or lists of any kind), of course.

:thaenkin:

#SmallWeb

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

When defending sites like kiwifarms by saying something along the lines of "but there was so much good/important/etc stuff there, the horrible stuff was only a tiny minority!" please consider:

1. if you add a glass of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage;

2. if you add a glass of sewage to a barrel of wine, you also get sewage.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

euractiv.com/section/politics/

> A draft bill submitted to the Russian State Duma calls for repealing the Decree of the State Council of the USSR “On the Recognition of the Independence of the Republic of Lithuania.”

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

I work at a ccTLD (.IS), and lately we are seeing a *lot* of new accounts immediately registering multiple domains that all had been registered in the past. I suspect we're not the only ccTLD that sees this.

We know of at least two instances of this being used to take over social media accounts that had e-mails in expired domains set as backup e-mail addresses.

This seems to be organized and well-resourced.

Please double-check you don't use e-mails in any expired domains anywhere.

#InfoSec

ALYSSA ALYSSA ANTIFASCISTA

@rysiek The flipside to this, of course, is that when you use a domain for e-mail you should think of it as a commitment to hold on to that domain forever, or at least many years after you stop using it. #InfoSec

Ludovic Hirlimann

@rysiek I guess my cleveland.freenet.edu email is safe.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

What do we want?
Now!

When do we want it?
A reliable way to avoid race conditions!

tomasino

@rysiek time is, like, just a construct, man

Future Sprog, XP

@rysiek

What do we want?
Exclusive resource access without deadlocks!

When do we want it?

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

Just saw a CC No Derivatives licensed artwork fly through my timeline. I have opinions on -ND:
rys.io/en/101.html

Short version:
ND doesn't stop bad things (say, appropriation) from being done, while stopping good things (say, translation) from being done.

On a broader level it makes promoting and building libre-culture together harder.

ShareAlike is as effective at stopping some bad things (say, corporations using stuff in ads) from happening, while explicitly allowing the good.

#Art #Culture

Just saw a CC No Derivatives licensed artwork fly through my timeline. I have opinions on -ND:
rys.io/en/101.html

Short version:
ND doesn't stop bad things (say, appropriation) from being done, while stopping good things (say, translation) from being done.

On a broader level it makes promoting and building libre-culture together harder.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

I dive deeper into my reasoning in the blogpost (inb4 "like and subscribe").

Sorry about the subtoot (kinda-sorta), but didn't want to jump into the artist's thread and do a reply-guy thing.

Obviously everyone has the right to choose whatever license they like and feel suits them best!

But I feel there is a lot of mythos around what No Derivatives can and cannot do, and I believe it is harmful to the broader libre culture movement.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

Dziś w #OkoPress, mój tekst o #Elongate — przejęciu :birdsite: przez oligarchę Muska:
oko.press/musk-twittera-czy-pr

> Problem stworzenia niezależnej przestrzeni debaty publicznej w Internecie jest szerszey niż nasz osobisty wybór tego, gdzie dziś wyrazimy nasze zdanie na ważny dla nas temat. Warto jednak pamiętać, że scentralizowany model grodzonych ogródków nie jest jedynym modelem zarządzania taką przestrzenią.

> Sami operatorzy tychże grodzonych ogródków przyznają, że nie jest to model najlepszy.

#Polska

Dziś w #OkoPress, mój tekst o #Elongate — przejęciu :birdsite: przez oligarchę Muska:
oko.press/musk-twittera-czy-pr

> Problem stworzenia niezależnej przestrzeni debaty publicznej w Internecie jest szerszey niż nasz osobisty wybór tego, gdzie dziś wyrazimy nasze zdanie na ważny dla nas temat. Warto jednak pamiętać, że scentralizowany model grodzonych ogródków nie jest jedynym modelem zarządzania taką przestrzenią.

michcio (backup)

@rysiek jestem w pracy więc otworzyłem tylko żeby przescrollować do komentarzy i zobaczyć czy już ktoś go broni

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

Binance gave Putin regime information on users who donated to opposition leader Alexei Navalny
web3isgoinggreat.com/single/bi

"""
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, shared customer data with the Russian government according to a Reuters special report. Reuters detailed how Binance provided the Russian government's financial monitoring service with data on Binance users who donated to Alexei Navalny, anti-corruption activist and prominent opponent of Putin.
"""

dOnOaTe AnOnYmOuSlY iN cRyPtO :thunking:

Binance gave Putin regime information on users who donated to opposition leader Alexei Navalny
web3isgoinggreat.com/single/bi

"""
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, shared customer data with the Russian government according to a Reuters special report. Reuters detailed how Binance provided the Russian government's financial monitoring service with data on Binance users who donated to Alexei...

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

For your consideration:

If you go around asking random people on the streets about X, in a country where criticizing X might land them in jail for 15 years, you will only get responses that are pro-X.

This does not, in fact, prove that all these people are pro-X.

Jumping to such conclusions is not just bad journalism, it is simply disingenuous and borderline malicious.

gudenau

@rysiek Heck, even if it isn't illegal they can still lie about it if it's a "non popular opinion" to save face. Asking people questions is full of pitfalls.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

I never had to hide my real opinions from the secret police, under threat of jail or worse, but my parents most definitely have.

This is a lived experience of 50+ people in Poland, and a *very* real thing for their children (simply because it was so present during our upbringing).

Watching armchair sociologists / political scientists pontificate on how deeply the population of a certain Slavic country supports the state that is oppressing them is something I just cannot stand, on a very personal level.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

It's been exactly one year since the #Fagradalsfjall eruption started in #Iceland. 🌋

My old thread about the experience of visiting that eruption site while it was still active:
mastodon.social/@rysiek/105968

Erupting volcano in the background. A somewhat blurry hand holding a sushi roll in the foreground.
Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

Zdaje się, że serwer pocztowy MSZ blokuje wszystko z domen z "hacker" w nazwie. Na przykład z "hackerspace.pl". Gamonie.

reykjavik.info@msz.gov.pl
host mx3.msz.gov.pl [91.183.129.233]
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
554 5.7.1 You are not allowed to connect.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

People are protesting and otherwise voicing their opposition to the invasion in Ukraine in Belarus and all over Russia. there are protests, vigils, petitions, public statements.

Let me be very clear: this is nothing short of heroism.

For people in #Russia or in #Belarus, doing any of this is dangerous, including physically. They get arrested. They get beaten. They get blacklisted, and put under state surveillance.

Russians and Belarusians are not attacking #Ukraine. #Putin is.

A sole anti-war protester in front of a government building in Sakhalin.
Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

The #Ukraine situation is getting heated. There are fedi discussions about this, and there will be more.

It is worth being mindful of the fact that there are plenty (if not a majority) of Russians who do not condone nor support the aggressive course of action taken by the Kremlin.

They have protested in the thousands on the streets when they were denied fair elections. Many have paid the price for trying to have a voice.

It's easy to drop into using "Russians" as a mental shortcut.

Let's not.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

This is important, so reboosting myself, because shit like this is proposed:
forbes.com/sites/stuartanderso

Russian people are not the aggressor. Students studying in the West are not a threat. Putin is.

And the biggest threat to him is an educated population able and willing to govern itself.

Almost 5000 Russians got arrested in Russia for anti-war and pro-Ukraine protests.

Russian people are not the aggressor. Punishing them (as opposed to Putin) is only going to make matters worse.

This is important, so reboosting myself, because shit like this is proposed:
forbes.com/sites/stuartanderso

Russian people are not the aggressor. Students studying in the West are not a threat. Putin is.

And the biggest threat to him is an educated population able and willing to govern itself.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting.

On the page that loads there is the article, but also, somewhere on the right, often near the bottom, there is a small video player. Inexplicably, it was not blocked by your ad-blocker.

It is auto-playing a news video that is not connected to the article. Sound is often on.

You:

Anonymous poll

Poll

find this wonderful; the Web always needed it!
5
1.9%
don't care one way or another.
4
1.5%
get damn annoyed; who t.f. thought it a good idea?
259
96.6%
268 people voted.
Voting ended 5 Dec 2021 at 21:13.
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valacado
@rysiek * i block that website in my hosts file so i may never have to deal with that bullshit again
gudenau

@rysiek I want to know how that works, it's the worst thing ever.

Григорий Клюшников

I really wish browsers would come with a way to block <video> elements. As in, literally pretend they have no idea what a <video> is. Back when flash was a thing, you could usually set it to only load when you click the element, with per-domain exceptions.

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

This is a reminder that Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 snow plows have all the best names, and can be tracked live here:
arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/i

I mean...

GRITNEY SPEARS
BLIZZARD OF OZ
SALT DISNEY
SNOW CONNERY
BEAR CHILLS
WILLIAM WALL-ICE

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