Gregory's Server
I don’t think I can continue watching For All Mankind after they sprung a surprise torture scene on me. 🤮
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You receive a call on your phone. "Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right? The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank." Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see. Still think it is a scam?
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   You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank. You hang up and call back to the bank yourself. End of story. If the caller objects to you doing that, that by itself is an enormous red flag. You never, EVER take incoming calls from "your bank" seriously. I myself have an additional rule that I always reject calls from unknown numbers, unless I expect one (delivery, taxi, etc). My website has a "blog view" with date pages as they are being created and a "wiki view" with pages I changed on a particular date. The two are very different (and both have a feed, of course). Blog view: Federation shower thought: The fact that my server has my moderation policies is the only reason for running my server. This is true for both fedi and IRC servers. Once I share values with an existing server or IRC network, I can use my client to connect there and there's no need to run my own. There is an upside to how dysfunctional Google has become in it’s post-layoff all-in-on-Ai era. For every spam website that rises to the top of their badly maintained search engine a dozen pirated movies and TV series that are otherwise unavailable in Iceland get hosted on Youtube  Youtube has always been lax at taking down black and white movies and older European movies (like 60s and 70s stuff) I’m guessing that’s because studios have to submit material for content ID and don’t care or don’t have the files for older stuff, but I’ve been seeing HD videos, both old and newish (post 2000) so it’s starting to look like their content ID system isn’t working as well as it used to  Found via the #Sourcehut mailing list. While I'll still be sticking to Sourcehut because of its friendliness to low-end machines, I think this is still worth reading.  @csepp i think it's quite misguided. Codeberg is easily visible enough and well used, and particular projects draw their own contributors, as is clear with mastodon.el but also many other similar projects (emacs and otherwise). Codeberg also has good seo or whatever so projects are easy to find from a search. He doens't really seem to have considered it, to my mind. I think the whole emacs and free/diy community should really leave the gh hellscape, otherwise you're just making "free" software for Uncle Sam. @csepp I think I agree on a lot of the author's points, but disagree on some of the conclusions. The big one being that politics are wholly separate from individual action and there's some, what I read as, governmental solution to GitHub. Microsoft maybe, but GitHub was pushing towards a monoculture long before MS bought them. Can't fault the author, though. There's only so much time in the day and you need to pick your battles. This is unprecedented. Brown University strikes a deal with its students to end their peaceful protest & encampment, in exchange for a formal divestment vote from Israeli interests. And no student will be punished for protesting. This is democracy at work.
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@QasimRashid we must protest & keep on protesting everywhere throughout the world. To be silent with genocide is to collude  Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was. https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
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@molly0xfff It's so good to read something with a positive and encouraging bottom line. Thanks for this article.  @deshipu @katzenfabrik I have Battleship Galactica on the calendar for this Sunday. Is that still a go? The amount of hours I sunk into this Markdown-to-plain-text converter is harrowing. But I think it works, now. With tests.  So a more honest description would be: "If you're lucky and have a solid hydroelectric/geothermal base you can complement that with a few percent of solar and wind" but that doesn't have the same ring to it. 🤷 I started programming in 1982. Though I'm known as a #Perl developer, I tried to remember every other language I've programmed in. #BASIC, #C, 6809 Assembler, #Javascript, VBScript (and its many variants), #Java, #Prolog, #RakuLang, #Python, #Kotlin, #COBOL, Easytrieve, and probably a few others. I wish I had gotten a job in Prolog, primarily because I loved what I could create with it. I don't love programming; I love creating. What are you languages?
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@ovid A bit different: Fortran, Algol6 (for the RC4000), Pascal, COBOL, Concurrent Pascal, PDP-11 assembler, Univac 1100 assembler, Basic, Algol68, Simula, C, C++, Perl, rust - and probably a lot of others I've forgotten. @ovid #BASIC, 6502 #assembly, #Pascal, #Delphi, #Perl, #Bash, #Javascript, finally #ABAP. I've looked at #Java and #Python several times but can't get on with Java at all. My job is 50% ABAP and 50% trying to understand what the client needs and not what they say. Loved BASIC on my old C64, and have a soft spot for TuboBASIC and TuboPascal. Did a lot of Perl and found it good for what I wanted, but not used it much of late. @ovid To highly varying levels of competence : Basic, Z80 Assembler, C, VB/VBA, COBOL (w/ Datatrieve ... VMS > MVS 😉 ... though also used CICS and wrote JCLs from scratch 😖, plus some "4GL"s like Mantis), Gambas(!), Processing, Perl, PHP, JS (WSH JS!), Java, Dialplan, Pascal(!), i386 Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Forth, Python, Go, Lua, Z. FuckFuckNo. 🤦♀️ I just want a search engine that works. I have zero need for a godawful "AI" hallucinating mansplainer in my results. Just… no. Time to move off of DDG. What else is out there? Edit: yes, it seems to be for real: The problem with summer around here is that now I wake up at 6am as the day dawns but I still go to bed at midnight. That’s not good. 🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ChatGPT creator OpenAI OpenAI openly admits that it is unable to correct false information about people on ChatGPT. The company cannot even say where the data comes from. Read all about it here 👇 https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it  The problem is not AI, the problem is the corporations behind it. They're pushing an underdeveloped software to act as a trustfull news source, because 1) it's making money and 2) billions of people are training their software for free,which means saving even more money and 3) with the upcoming european elections these errors are a great tool for lobbying. ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.
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Distracting myself by installing TidalCycles.