 Please go vote in the coming election! 🇪🇺 🗳️ It’s important we get a lot of participation in the coming elections, and even more important y'all don’t vote for fascists and their friends :) Positive change in the EU can only come about if we all vote, and we all vote for a more sustainable future and against hate. 💚   New #blog post! I once wondered why Algeria has DZ as its ISO country code, and literally nothing could answer this for me. https://www.kytta.dev/blog/why-is-algeria-dz/ CW: I talk about LLMs in it (negatively)  Without opening the link: because of its Arabic name. I know because I flew through it. Algeria Air is the worst airline I've ever flown, never again no matter how tantalizingly cheap it would be.  Hard screaming agree. Own your web presence. Funnel everyone and everything to it. Make it your single source of truth. I know writers and artists who invested heavily in a presence on MySpace and Geocities. They had to start over. Many never recovered.
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 @JoeUchill remember When people said that robots revolting and attempting to extinguish humanity was just science fiction and could not happen? This is it, this is how it starts: this right here! It has already begun.  @JoeUchill I will do you one better, here is a research paper, fully peer reviewed and edited (more than once), published in an eminent scientific journal. PSA: If you use a piece of software, encounter a bug, and find out it was already reported, DO NOT comment with "I have the same issue" if you have nothing else to contribute. At the very least, add data that might be useful. ESPECIALLY DO NOT leave any comments if the maintainers already said "we are working on a fix". My mailbox is dying under the load of all the people who have the same bug as me and also have the urge to comment about them having this bug 🙄 Sometimes this frustrates me this much (also it's always those avatar-less new accounts) 
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 Over almost 15 years of watching YouTube, my sub feed has slowly evolved into mostly British-made videos. That, plus the fact that I didn't actually speak English for 6 years until late 2023, somehow made me speak in a very bad approximation of RP 😂 Like, even as I'm typing this post, my inner voice sounds British. And now that I actually do have to talk in English again, it feels very weird, because I can't really associate myself with the accent I now speak in 🥴 Tried looking up the average height of one story of a building, in the current era of the internet. I wonder if this is what having a stroke feels like.
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 @stefan not just the fediverse but I really want a :mastodon: share button across the websites and popular platforms like we have for Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc (it's a shame YouTube dot com still doesn't have it) The adoption will come after the intrigue and familiarising it via a share icon will be of great service. @stefan the same bookmarklet code you use for Diaspora should work for Friendica too. https://wiki.friendi.ca/ressources?s[]=share
“Never ever ever ever ever mess with my browser. It's not yours, it's mine. I'm letting you use it for free to render your bloated sites. Don't do this to me. I get to copy paste whatever I want whenever I want. When you get your own browser you can do whatever you want but while you are living in my house under my rules I get to copy/paste whenever I goddamn feel like it.” https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/ What a delightful read from @matdevdug I've had the same feelings yesterday, but, unlike Mat, I gave up after it didn't let me paste the password from Bitwarden, and accessing the field via JavaScript would wipe the whole thing clean again. @matdevdug mind sharing a .torrent with the DMG? 😂  @kytta @matdevdug I avoid websites like these when possible. When not, I use this https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/enable-pasting-text-websites-block-it/. Last week, I was given the ‘opportunity’ to write some IE11-compatible #ECMAScript 5. No transpilers or bundlers, only a few polyfills. At first, I was not excited for this. But at the end, I’ve had quite some fun! It was quite a nice challenge, and I’ve learned something new about the language I’ve been using every day for ages. Gotta do this more often. Today, 16 years ago, Debian published a security advisory announcing CVE-2008-0166, a severe bug in their OpenSSL package that effectively broke the random number generator and limited the key space to a few ten thousand keys. The vulnerability affected Debian+Ubuntu between 2006 and 2008. In 2007, an email signature system called DKIM was introduced. Is it possible that people configured DKIM in 2007, never changed their key, and are still vulnerable to CVE-2008-0166? https://16years.secvuln.info/
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@hanno Possible you could check the DNS records for entries that haven't been modified since 2008. Would you rather have an email from someone that has no DKIM or a DKIM from 2007? @hanno@mastodon.social i´m using one of the email providers mentioned- oh no :neocat_googly_shocked: 
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@albertcardona currently traveling from Nantes, France towards Norway. I love my trip, I'm having a lot of fun, but it could have been waaaay easier. @albertcardona On distance over 200 km the cheapest and most convenient way to travel is to travel with car. @albertcardona yes, I agree. Moreover, in Italy train system became terrible, not only for delays, but also for interconnections and obviously prices. The high speed trains are only a small part of the possible routes and on the “normal” (“regional”) routes travelling is a nightmare. Sometimes we -6 people family- wondered how to get to Munich or Geneve by train but we gave up shortly after. 🤯😰 "I’m still doing this because the world is flooded with overpriced, crappy, subpar software. It hurts people and it hurts the economy." Jason Fried - https://dctr.pro/2pi Is it just me, or does this fit modern day Apple as well? https://chaos.social/@obrhoff/112369907442905273
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 My biggest gripe nowadays with Apple is, that it is too much of a „Product“ company. Their view of customers are shallow like a „Persona“ made up from three bullet points. Their „customer journeys“ feel like a theme park attraction on rails. @tonyarnold I think a bit of this is inevitable at a hugely successful company. (Keep iterating on the same thing that makes the most money!) But I also see Apple *trying* to make great new products in the Watch and the Vision. (And the Car?) Which is good, even if they aren't entirely successful.  In the past, I’ve really wanted to try out other search engines: Mojeek, Kagi, Ecosia; but there was one thing that made me stay with DuckDuckGo — the Bangs. Well, not any more! Introducing #interro: https://codeberg.org/kytta/interro interro is a shim for your search engine that enables DDG Bangs, but better! Instead of routing your requests via DDG, it loads all Bangs into memory and handles redirects locally. You can use any search engine as fallback. Another useful feature: Custom bangs! You can create bangs for any website you want. I’ve deployed a test instance, so you can try and see how it works: https://interro.deno.dev/. On this one, the fallback search is Mojeek, and there is a special bang `!ky` that will search the contents of my website. The page is very much WIP; interro was built to be used from the browser’s search bar 😅 No. that's a paywall. If I can't see content without giving you something (in this case, personal data,) then it is a paywall.
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@exador23  @exador23 Still a paywall my friends. Payment doesn’t have to be money. I would close the tab. |
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