R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
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I am once again asking you to stop using LastPass. The company has a history of security issues dating back years, and has yet to make holistic security improvements — or heck even investigate incidents properly.
Good alternatives:
- 1Password is my #1 rec, best for most use cases
- Bitwarden if you want open source
- KeePassXC if you want local vaults and open source
- I hear ok things about Dashlane but don’t know a ton
https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
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Kids this is a reminder to collect physical copies of your favorite media. Corporations will axe your favorite show/movie/book in front of its family and make it a felony to retrieve it. Have a library.
@derickflorian that's LF (\n); as I understand it, VT is like LF but can go down several lines, depending on how you've set up the vertical tab stops in your teletype
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Israel Gelfand on mathematics (2006) :
“From my point of view, mathematics is a part of our culture, like music, poetry and philosophy. I have mentioned the closeness between the style of mathematics and the style of classical music or poetry. I was happy to find the following four common features: first,
beauty; second, simplicity; third, exactness; fourth, crazy ideas.”
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writing a tiny mastodon app right now for fun and I really love that all the endpoints allow CORS so the whole thing can just be a static site (no server code!!)
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I'll use Archive links, no matter how circumspect they are, most of these articles are being taken down in a few hours:
https://archive.md/tD8xX
(Google Translate works well, @DeepLcom@twitter.com works a bit better)
@tao Does this mean students who prefer doing math to prompt engineering will fail their math exams?
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"Proved the baby version of this claim, now let's do the general case!"
"Wow, it's not that easy."
"Wow, it's hard."
"Wow, it's false."
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Here's Danny O'Brien @mala (Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web) giving his talk:
“The Moment” #AaronSwartzDay2022 https://youtu.be/MZhD2Rj3Vyo
@oley Thanks.
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RT @GergelyOrosz
Paul Graham - founder of Y Combinator, and someone who was supportive of Elon Musk since the Twitter takeover - announced he’s taking a break from Twitter, and suggested people can find his Mastodon account on his website.
He was banned a few hours later.
I cannot believe it…
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@Pwnallthethings Where I can learn more?
@clairelhay What kinds of things did they say?
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My yak shave of the weekend is trying to get back into my irc bouncer.
I don’t remember what my raspberry pi is named on the local network (and sometimes it randomly changes and adds a number)
My network sniffer to find the name, Fing, no longer works on Mac (any desktop download is immediately marked as damaged and dumps to my trashcan).
Nmap, an alternative to Fing, is giving me no end of shit about openssl even when I point to my home brew install of it.
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💡 This weekend would be a perfect time to #GiveUpGitHub.
☣️ #GitHub is the #Twitter of software development, creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.
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Bring blogging back! ✊
Microblogging was designed to be ephemeral purely out of capitalist interests. We need a more permanent solution to share it thoughts, and link people to them.
I see the same points shared in here over and over. Whether they're about racism, or open source, or walled gardens, or capitalism, people keep repeating them because this place has no capability for history.
We're trying to decide the future of the internet but it's as if we had lost the ability to write. Without a permanent medium, there is no history. We're days away from becoming the online version of Göbekli Tepe.
I recall reading an old cyberpunk comic about a city where they replaced dates with "N years ago", and this was by design. Without history, people can easily lose their collective identity, which can easily be replaced by the current day's fads. This is what happened to Twitter. A ban and boom, all your post history is gone. And here we inherit the design faults of that platform. We are writing on the sand, on the dunes of short-lived server caches.
We need to claim our voices back and have permanent, calendared, searchable places to share our written thoughts. Even with activityPub, even with democratized moderation protocols, microblogging won't cut it.
We need to resurrect the blog.
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@derickflorian Unit testing is very worthwhile. Even if you don't use a formal testing framework in C, you can still code methods just for testing your code and use a #define to change the flow of your code to invoke your test functionality.
#define UNITTEST
#ifdef UNITTEST
void assertEqual(...)
{
...
}
main(..) /* unit test main */
{
assertEqual(10,foo());
...
main(...) /* real main */
{
...
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Okay, so holy crap: earlier today @permagriculture recommended this browser extension for Mastodon, and IT IS A GAME CHANGER: https://github.com/lartsch/FediAct#installation
One of the more annoying things on Mastodon is if you end up on a page on a different server.
This solves that!
It's fantastic.
I know that some people hate browser extensions, but if you're cool with them, check it out.
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Jack (yes, *that* jack)
This "Why?" is sublime. Just zero self-awareness. Chef's kiss
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
