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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Renewed my free #RedHat Developer subscription for individual developers by simply logging in at developers.redhat.com after a year. Another year of up to 16 machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux for free, yes, even with production workloads.

Mathieu Poussin

@jwildeboer oh I though developer licences were not to be used for production?
Also I think it's limited to 10 licences?

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

In case you want to have a better web on your machine: consentomatic.au.dk #Consentomatic is a browser plugin/extension that does all the clicks on these annoying consent popups for you. Not by simply clicking "accept" β€” by doing the opposite. Automated opt-out :)

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xaph but smaller 🐁

@jwildeboer started using it a few days ago and I'm already up to 310 clicks saved!

OctoFloofy :Splattershot: :tower_badge: :callie_badge:
@jwildeboer oh cool, wondered how that's different from adblock until I got to the last line lol
Scott Williams 🐧

@jwildeboer I've started to notice a number of sites showing a message "opting out of cookies due to your browser preference" and dismissing the banner lately after checking that box in #Firefox, both on desktop and mobile.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

We call stuff we don’t understand but that entertains us β€žmagicβ€œ. The best magicians are really good at misleading us, so they can surprise us and we are awed and want more. Most of their tricks are quite mundane, so we prefer to not know how they work.

That’s current β€žAIβ€œ/LLM explained, IMHO. Like a good magician it plays with our expectations. Unlike a magician in purely mechanical ways. We are awed. We think it must be more than it actually is. That’s my current position.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

And knowing that it IS a trick is why we love good magicians.

Plot twist: That’s why I would say that prompt engineering is like trying to find out how the trick works without really wanting to know the trick. Because that would take the magic away.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Tech bros love to whine about "The EU cookie policy" that simply doesn't exist the way they imagine it. All these popups are the most radical way to interpret the explicit consent demanded by regulations when sending data to a 3rd party. An ongoing provocation by the ad/tracker industry to blame their ruthless data hoarding on the EU.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Every time you see such a cookie consent pop-up, you know you are on a website that has accepted to share your data with some data collecting entity. That they are willing to hand over parts of the page content to be filled by a 3rd party. And allow that 3rd party to aggregate and sell their visitors data to the highest bidder. So stop blaming "the EU" and ask yourself if this is the internet we want.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Dear @Gargron and other #Mastodon devs, can I point your attention to PR #22149 and #22150, referenced in github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i which would solve a growing problem on a lot of instances where header/avatar images are effectively immutable and eating up too much storage with currently no way to do something to reduce it? PLEASE :)

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

If you, any of my dear followers, have a connection the #Mastodon devs - can you please boost? This would really help a lot of instances running on (virtual) servers with limited storage. I am now at 44 GB used just for header/avatar media on my single user instance with a 50 GB storage limit and there is no way to reduce that amount :(

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

I'm just curious. In which timeline do you spend most of your #Mastodon time?

Anonymous poll

Poll

Local
140
17%
Home
592
71.8%
Federated
93
11.3%
825 people voted.
Voting ended 11 Nov 2022 at 13:50.
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@jwildeboer It used to be local, but then my instance shut down and I had to move, and it's not the same anymore.

BOFH πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
I spend it in #Pleroma and elsewhere because there's so much more to the #fediverse than #mastodon, why would I want to limit myself? 😎
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

#unpopularopinion. I am fine with Multiplatform for software being an afterthought. I develop since many years Linux only. The exponential burden of multiplatform support limits my creativity and enthusiasm. Linux is for free, so deal with it. #SorryNotSorry

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

#Mastodon considered harmful by #Twitter. Wow. So much for being open and inclusive, Twitter?

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Funny thing: my Toot got crossposted to Twitter, so it seems to be a specific block for mastodon.social (and maybe other instances too?)

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

#Python creator Guido van Rossum puts it plain and simple. Asked about what role python could play in the #web3 world, he says

β€žLet web3 die in a flaming ball of fire.β€œ

twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Yes, it seems that when you’re vaccinated and boosted, your experience with Omicron can range from asymptomatic to mild to quite tough - but almost never to life threatening levels. Still - it’s not a cold or flu. #WearAMask😷 #GetVaccinatedNow

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

#LifeHack Be decent. Ignore Hot Takes that only serve some fringe wish for recognition driven by fear and anger. Your like of that doesn't make things better. The opposite, actually.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

OK. This is quite technical. But TL;DR - the neural hash system #Apple uses for their CSAM detection has been confronted with its first possible collision by some good hackers. This dog might be marked by the system as suspicious. Ouch. Issue 1 at github.com/AsuharietYgvar/Appl

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

To all those that still think #Covid19 might not be that big a thing. Here’s the death toll of Covid19 compared to SARS and H1N1. Sorted by days since outbreak. #StayAtHome🏑 #WashYourHands🧼 #WearAMask😷 Source: cv19info.live/

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