Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

Let me make something clear: VPNs do not remove the trust you place in your ISP. They shift that trust to the VPN provider!

Which can be a useful thing, and probably is where I'm seeing VPNs getting recommended right now...

"Centering on css solved"

submitted by Petrazole
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vkj2xw/centering_on_css_solved/

The types of Plugins I support in my browser engines:

1. Regexp-based autoredirection & blocking extensions
* I'll preinstall a Farside.Link extension for damage-control.
2. Alternate/additional CSS stylesheets
3. Lua sandboxed CGI-like locally-dynamic pages.
* How I'd implement Rhapsode's auditory chrome.

The 3rd is useful mostly only in Rhapsode, where they'd be triggered via voice commands.

I wonder if others are interested in writing such addons? Or building a discovery site?

1/2

#feditips Remember to check you're not spam.

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed today that RCS Labs, an Italian spyware vendor, has received help from some Internet service providers (ISPs) to infect Android and iOS users in #Italy and #Kazakhstan with commercial surveillance tools.

#Spyware #ISP #iOS #Android
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spyware-vendor-works-with-isps-to-infect-ios-and-android-users/

Classical music with a modern drummer is one of my favorite types of internet music. It makes 1700s music sound like a hair metal band, and delights me to no end.

I ask because I suspect there are some solid answers.

To all the JVM users out there, other than momentum/ecosystem, what is the primary elevator pitch for doing JVM-based webdev in 2022? What does the JVM give us compared to Node, PHP, or Python?

From Twitter: Your annual reminder that #react-select is not accessible to screen reader users and does not follow the ARIA specification for custom controls.

This library is the reason for many #a11y blocker issues on the web. It affects us all.

https://github.com/JedWatson/react-select/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+Accessibility

Diwedd y tywydd poeth?
End of the hot weather?

RT @ChrisGr93091552@twitter.com

Explored github copilot,a paid service, to see if it encodes code from repositories w/ restrictive licenses.

I checked if it had code I had written at my previous employer that has a license allowing its use only for free games and requiring attaching the license.
yeah it does

https://twitter.com/ChrisGr93091552/status/1539731632931803137

GitHub Copilot… or, as I like to call it, Untested Library Injection as a Service (ULIaaS).

#microsoft #github #copilot

This wiki is about #permacomputing, a radically sustainable approach to computing inspired by permaculture.
https://permacomputing.net/
🌻

So Google Chrome is actually going ahead with killing off ad-blockers and privacy extensions. I wonder if this will signal a shift back to (the far superior browser) Firefox?? https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/google_blocking_privacy_manifest/?td=rt-3a

I worked in telcom and telcom adjacent fields for the first several years of my professional career, and it utterly shook my faith in any company in the world to have my best interests in mind, especially w/r/t data security.

The whole tech industry is a trash fire, but especially companies that *should* know better are disgustingly cavalier with our data.

If your threat model includes ... I mean, anyone even remotely savvy, any state actors, any skillful non-state actors, destroy your smartphone.

It's interesting to see so many discussions around #LaMDA, sentient AI and so on.

It's just a shame that, beyond the two partisan camps ("it's human!"/"it's not human!"), there isn't much room to ask a simple question: if an AI had ever to become sentient, how would we know that?

We're way beyond the Turing test here. You can now entertain a long conversation with an AI without even realizing that you're not talking to a human.

So how do we know if the AI is actually coming up with independent thoughts or just mimicking and elaborating on pieces of the huge datasets it's been trained on?

How do we know if those thoughts were genuine or just words that statistically maximized a sophisticated cost function?

And how do we even define "independent" and "genuine" thoughts? Humans say and do a lot of things just to maximize social acceptance or personal gain: does it mean that our thoughts and actions are sometimes "less" human?

We are discussing a lot about human intelligence and sentient models, but we haven't even come up with a shared definition of what makes something "sentient" or "conscious". How can we even get to agree on something that we haven't even agreed on how to measure?

Why did nobody tell me about Consent-O-Matic? It's a browser extension that automatically clicks on GDPR consent dialogs to indicate that you do not consent to your data being shared. Available for all major browsers.

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic/#introduction

Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust

https://tauri.studio/v1/guides/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://tauri.studio/v1/guides/

#programming #rustlang

Best practices for inclusive CLIs

https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/10/cli-best-practices/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/10/cli-best-practices/

#a11y #practices #programming #unix