Hippo 🍉

a kid just began crying in front of me over hearing the news that the UN security council approved Trump's Gaza occupation plan. i fully feel you, but i kinda don't, not sure how to explain that

If all the people who work at airports told you, "don't fly that airline," I hope you would listen.

When all the musicians who have the freedom to be honest tell you, "don't use Spotify," you might consider other options for listening to music.

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/115571074603961987

Mandatory infosec.exchange questionnaire:

A friendly reminder that the #Fediverse is run by volenteers, if you like to support the server you are on check in with your admin or check the /about page that could have some more info❤️

If you would like to support the services I host you can do so via:

https://paypal.me/stuxOS […]

Ah well, look at it this way!

With #CloudFlare down and taking #ChatGPT with it, kids now need to do their own homework

Maybe this outage is for the best

A screenshot of DownDetector not working as it relies on CloudFlare

What better promotion could the new CEO of Mastodon @mellifluousbox get, than x.com and so many other sites and social networks being down due to all relying on CloudFlare, which is down.

THE INTERNET IS DOWN, THE FEDIVERSE IS UP 💪

Seeing open source and privacy companies having Discord as there support channel feels like a vegan community meeting at a steak house for events.

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]

But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned!

Liberapay team accounts have gained a new feature. Each one now has a public page showing every payment received through it, and providing the same data in CSV and JSON formats.

For example, here is a link to the new public ledger of the Liberapay team […]

@hongminhee I wish they had managed to go out on their own but maybe this is the next best thing. All the best to them and I hope they don't get given a worse deal due to having rebelled 🤞

Governments be like, 'everyone should go around naked in public so we can make sure they're not concealing guns"

#privacy

Thinking about all these repeated attempts to strip away privacy to make it easier for cops to catch bad guys.

And honestly, I get their point. Figuring out who dun the crime is really hard, there's a reason TV detectives are admired as such super-smart people.

But... I think it was Pratchett […]

Middle aged, beared, white man looking at the camera and smiling. He is wearing a white hoodie with a pink, piggie bank logo (Bónus) and blue jeans. He is standing next to a pink and white tallbike with tiny wheels. It also has a pink basket.

Tired: Everyone should have a cargo bike!

Wired: Everyone should colour coordinate with their cargo bike!

#BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes #CargoBike #FediBikes #TallBike #TallBikesWillSaveTheWorld

Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work.

Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]

Photo of Marcus presenting.

Marcus explains how to set up your own full ActivityPub server on shared hosting without root with his project Seppo.

#sfscon #fediverse

a silver colored raw aluminum laptop with a black/transparent trackball sits on a concrete floor. it's connected with a cable to an amd gpu that is connected to an sfx power supply with black cabling, all items sitting on the ground

normal computer (peak performance)

Thickness comparison of the iPhone 6 and iPhone Air, the iPhone 6 is measured at 6.9mm and the iPhone Air is measured at 5.6mm. Underneath is a measurement of two vehicles, the normal car is measured as 6.9mm and the flatbed of a semi is measured at 5.6mm. The joke here is that the camera makes the iPhone Air about as thick as the original iPhone whilst the iPhone 6 is a flat 6.9mm.

fever idea: EU law that requires that for any chip release, the chip company must release a complete emulator first (would save billions in wasted compile-reboot-pull-hair cycle time)

Perhaps funny story. Today I met with one of my collaborators regarding a paper we are writing, where all but two theorems are formalized in TypeTopology.

We discussed how to formalize one of them.

In the end, we concluded that the opposite of what the alleged theorem says is true. 🙂

The […]

It's cool that the birth of modern computing is still in living memory. I am worried that we don't have everything written down yet.

Duolingo 連續 學習 2,000日을 達成했어요!

Duolingo 連續(연속) 學習(학습) 2,000日(일)을 達成(달성)했어요!

Photo of curled up fox. It snuck its nose under the tail.

firefox

I meant "fun" whoops

AI scrapers request commented scripts A new avenue for identifying greedy, badly-behaved bots

A fund project I want to do at some point is take time off for a week or so and spend it setting up various traps for them scrapers

https://cryptography.dog/blog/AI-scrapers-request-commented-scripts/

An 8 panel comic. The title says "The Most Amazing Halloween Costume Ever based on a story by np312 art by Doctor Popular" The first panel shows a kid dressed up as Spock and sitting on a couch in his home when the doorbell rings. The text says "One Halloween our doorbell rang". The next panel shows him opening the door, expecting to see trick or treaters. The next panel reveals a door on the other side of the kid's door. A sign says "Please knock". The kid knocks twice on this pop-up door and then it opens, revealing a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers. "Oh my, look at your costumes" one of the grandmas says as they pinc the face of the the young kid. The grandmother adds, "Such cute trick or treaters" before handing the kid some candy. The college kids then close their door, pick it up, and move it to the next house leaving the young Spock in shock at what just happened.

Reverse Trick Or Treating (aka the Greatest Halloween Costume Ever). https://docpop.org/2009/11/the-greatest-halloween-costume-ever/ #HAlloween

Behind the Dumbwaiter - Stuart McMillen on 'What the Dumbwaiter Hides' I discuss my comic What the Dumbwaiter Hides, and its themes of slavery and hidden supply chains. This essay lists my 'dumbwaiter' inspirations and sources.

New metaphor just dropped

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-the-dumbwaiter/

For some reason I randomly remembered when I was new to Fedi and randomly encountered mental health content warnings (Mh- and such) and thought that people were doing a weird moan before venting (Mhh~)