Alright. My first mentions—which were picked not so randomly, LOL—are @prologic@twtxt.net, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, and @movq@www.uninformativ.de. I am also posting my first image too, which you see below. That’s my neighbourhood, in a “winter” day. Hopefully @prologic@twtxt.net will add my domain to his allowed list, so that the image (and any other further) renders.
Everything starts at a “hello world”. At least around these parts; the nerdy parts.
LinkedIn Is Training AI on User Data Before Updating Its Terms of Service
An anonymous reader shares a report: LinkedIn is using its users’ data for improving the social network’s generative AI products, but has not yet updated its terms of service to reflect this data processing, according to posts from various LinkedIn users and a statement from the company to 404 Media. Instead, the company says it … ⌘ Read more
Beginnings of a little notebook app. Doesn’t actually run any code yet. https://akkartik.name/images/20240917-notebook.png
I just ran dwarf fortress on #openbsd O:)
It feels like an A’ Hole pointing at typos while other people are the ones doing the real work ! 😅
I’ve got 100G to copy from one disk to another. This is going to take forever…
Message to the void : présentation. https://si3t.ch/log/2024-09-17-message-to-the-void.txt
afaik nobody has done this, but i really need some numbers that can indicate the relative performance of various git servers (cgit, gitea, gitlab) on comparable hardware. cgit claims to be hyperfast, but what does that mean in practice?
Can anyone recommend a decent Android ROM that strips out as much of the spyware as possible? Is GrapheneOS a good option? I need to get a new phone anyway so I don’t mind buying within a supported device list as long as I can get one on the used market for $300-$400 or less.
If anyone could recommend some learning resources for this stuff I’d really appreciate it.
So, today I created a space where you can send an email to the void: https://void.si3t.ch/ gemini://void.si3t.ch/ #smolnet
Thank you @movq@www.uninformativ.de Things are working again!! 🙏
On my blog: Developer Diary, Ozone Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/16/ozone-layer.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Chosen https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/15/chosen.html #fiction #freeculture
Crap, I can’t find how and why rdomain is not set using /etc/hostname.if #openbsd
@prologic@twtxt.net earlier you suggested extending hashes to 11 characters, but here’s an argument that they should be even longer than that.
Imagine I found this twt one day at https://example.com/twtxt.txt :
2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rsync -a “$HOME” /mnt/backup
and I responded with “(#5dgoirqemeq) Thanks for the tip!”. Then I’ve endorsed the twt, but it could latter get changed to
2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rm -rf /some_important_directory
which also has an 11-character base32 hash of 5dgoirqemeq. (I’m using the existing hashing method with https://example.com/twtxt.txt as the feed url, but I’m taking 11 characters instead of 7 from the end of the base32 encoding.)
That’s what I meant by “spoofing” in an earlier twt.
I don’t know if preventing this sort of attack should be a goal, but if it is, the number of bits in the hash should be at least two times log2(number of attempts we want to defend against), where the “two times” is because of the birthday paradox.
Side note: current hashes always end with “a” or “q”, which is a bit wasteful. Maybe we should take the first N characters of the base32 encoding instead of the last N.
Code I used for the above example: https://fossil.falsifian.org/misc/file?name=src/twt_collision/find_collision.c
I only needed to compute 43394987 hashes to find it.
And here the Tommos camp with Mum and Dad in the trailor at Myall Lakes.
Boy I could tell you some stories here, like the time we got dozens of spiders all in the tent one night, and the time Dad yelled to Bob to get the red belly black snake that crawled over Brains sleeping bag. Up I jump grab a shovel and cut the head off. silly me !! We camped out with all our partners too.
Karen was treated like family with the 5 siblings and Mum and Dad. It was a great time. Happy camping James on your birthday!
Here is a picture of me aged 1 yr in a bucket at Muttabun Sheep Station, a place near Goodooga in NSW.
And here is James with Emily as a very young boy
Here is a picture of Sunshine House in 1970, I am the tallest one at the back. The house got a new roof and some more bedrooms before you lived here after Belmont Hospital.
Happy Birthday my Son, I guess you are still camping and celebrating your special day with family.
You were born on a Wednesday on 15 September 1982 at Belmont Hospital, which is a lovely low set place outside Newcastle, as you were brought home to live with my Mum and Dad at Sunshine in our first few months as a married couple, at Sunshine near Morriset NSW. Enjoy your special day.
Happy Birthday my Son, I guess you are still camping and celebrating your special day with family.
You were born on a Wednesday on 15 September 1982 at Belmont Hospital, which is a lovely low set place outside Newcastle, as you were brought home to live with my Mum and Dad at Sunshine in our first few months as a married couple. If you subtract 9 months and a bit, the term of your pregnancy, that makes your conception date a few days after our marriage, and the first time both of us had sexual intercourse together, sometime around Friday Saturday or Sunday beginning on 4th December 1981. We were married at Gosford and arrived in the Sydney Hilton Hotel on that evening Thursday 3rd December, it was such a quiet place so far above the street level, the tiny cars below looked like ants. Because you were the first child, we have special sessions each week to attend to learn how to be parents after your birth, and care for the Mum during your delivery. If I remember yours was a breech birth, the doctor had to turn you around somewhat before the normal course of action took place. Karen was brave, being only on gas. Enjoy your special day.
Weird, I can’t set up my iwm0 interface to rdomain 1 : ifconfig: SIOCSIFRDOMAIN: Invalid argument. What am I missing? #openbsd
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Aumyr, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/14/aumyr-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
We need more support summer software :(
@sorenpeter@darch.dk !! I freaking love your Timeline … I kind of have an justified PHP phobia 😅 but, I’m definitely thinking about giving it a try!
/ME wondering if it’s possible to use it locally just to read and manage my feed at first and then maybe make it publicly accessible later.
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 09/09 to 09/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/13/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
The Fediverse Files ⌘ https://notiz.blog/a/9L7
been rather uninterested in technology lately for some reason. it’s probably the US Election’s fault, since I live in the US and all
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Cause and Effect https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/12/cause-effect.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
I just received a thought… When you visit a server home page, or any page, why can’t the server sent you a page full of images, asking the human to click on three ants, or four ducks, or two trees, or five cars?
Can an AI machine do such a thing? After a few seconds of human time, the page they wish is downloaded for them. Would this work all you computer experts? (I am getting sick of bots reading my content and stealing my copyright)
aujourd’hui, j’ai configuré un serveur caldav pour éviter les oublis de rendez-vous avec ma chérie, et j’ai configuré unbound pour qu’il fasse le résolveur DNS en même temps qu’être le point de sortie de mon VPN #wireguard. Ça traînait depuis trop longtemps. C’était pas une si mauvaise journée ^^
quelqu’un peut me dire pourquoi https://buymeacoffee.com/ ça serait mieux que https://liberapay.com/ ?
Cette nuit, j’ai rêvé de PV Nova qui reprenait RATM et modifiait très légèrement le rythme, c’était vraiment excellent. J’ai maintenant la musique dans la tête :)
Summer, going too fast. :(
Ford Seeks Patent For Tech That Listens To Driver Conversations To Serve Ads
Ford is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month. The Record: “In one example, the controller may moni … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Chrysanthemum Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/09/chrysanthemum.html #programming #project #devjournal
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1087 ARCHIVED:78676 CACHE:2491 FOLLOWERS:17 FOLLOWING:14
On my blog: Holding Universal Access to All Knowledge Hostage https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/08/internet-archive.html #politics #rant
Inside the out feeling
Where do I download more hours for my days? not having more than 24 hours a day S U C K S !
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Aumyr, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/07/aumyr-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
https://galusik.fr/fridayrockmetal/2024-09-06-frm.m3u Tonight #fridayrockmetal playlist
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 09/02 to 09/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/06/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Telegram Disables ‘Misused’ Features As CEO Faces Criminal Charges
Following the arrest of its CEO Pavel Durov last month, the encrypted messaging service said it has disabled some “outdated” and “misused” features used by anonymous users. The Verge reports: The first changes to the app following his arrest in France last month affect its built-in blog posts and a “People Nearby” location-based feature. […] … ⌘ Read more
PwC ‘Tipping the Balance’ of Hybrid Working and Will Start Tracking Its Workers’ Locations
PwC has demanded staff spend less time working from home – and it’s going to start tracking their location to ensure they comply. From a report: The accountancy firm informed its 26,000 U.K. employees in a memo that from January they’ll be expected to be at their desks – or with clients – at leas … ⌘ Read more
rm -fr, remove french-style: merciless colonizer. thief and destroyer of worlds.
maybe i’m overly restrained when it comes to making changes in a codebase, but i do a lot of the work in my head before committing to code.
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Outcast https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/05/outcast.html #scifi #startrek #closereading