Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

I recently read on HackerNews about a new trend called “#buildless #websites with zero dependencies".
The main takeaway is that your future self will thank you for not having to maintain build chains and fix broken dependencies.

... so I guess I did the right thing with plain HTML and (S)FTP for the last ~20 years. 🤣

Thanks all for your comments on VPS hosting. I’m going to give https://contabo.com/ a go 🙌 the Sydney location and compute value for money is pretty sharp 👌

#selfhosted #hosting

@gerrymcgovern Pump the water out of the air near areas that flood. Not out of the aquifers that take decades to refill. Show me that tech.

Who was Headphone Jack?

I keep seeing webmasters talking about how to block AI scrapers (through user agents and IP blocks) and not enough webmasters talking about the far better option of rigging their site to return complete gibberish or transgender werewolf erotica* when AI scrapers are detected.

*depending on which one you think is funnier to poison the AI models with

@thiswomanswerk Haïti is owed a lot of money, and excuses, India was looted for $45 trillion by the brithish during from 1765 to 1938. Im not sure how much Spain owes my country and Latam. The issue is also that its ongoing: Spanish banks make their bigger profits in Mexico, mines, cheap labor... Europe and the US largely live on the global south backs, but do have a lot to say about immigration of course. F'd up

@thiswomanswerk is that adjusted for inflation bc it actually sounds kinda low.

Anyone else feel like whenever something breaks the only recourse is to buy the newer, much shittier version of that same thing, because nobody makes anything to the quality standard of the old broken one anymore?

Best of both worlds!

#haiku #R1beta5 #medley #interlisp #sdl2

https://haiku-os.org/
https://github.com/Interlisp/
https://interlisp.org

/cc @thelastpsion @ActionRetro @inlovewithpda @kentpitman @screwtape @jackdaniel
@solene
@ckeen
@kensanata
@ArneBab

Zero patience for people who want to tell me about Europe not persecuting refugees and talking about “throwing bottles” as “crimes” when I spoon feed you in a thread exactly how and why the persecution is done. Take that denial and tone-policing elsewhere.

I find this strand of “we’re not racist in Europe” to be so insufferable everywhere but so prevalent on this damn platform.

@gerrymcgovern Could we possibly hear from a person of colour for once. I have heard stephen fry pontificate on every event to have ever taken place. I could probably write his material at this point. Is there anyone in Britain besides piers morgan and stephen fry who are allowed to voice an opinion????

“Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI - The Atlantic”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/microsoft-ai-oil-contracts/679804/?gift=lhL3dXSYCcu9vqTqEbg0OHfJiu_TRdq079IHN4QaSAE

> Microsoft is reportedly planning a $100 billion supercomputer to support the next generations of OpenAI’s technologies; it could require as much energy annually as 4 million American homes. Abandoning all of this would be like the U.S. outlawing cars after designing its entire highway system around them.

Fuck every single person who is helping this disaster happen

A digital gadget like a smartphone or Kindle, if you manage to use the same one for five years without replacing it, that has approximately the same climate cost as getting thirteen paper notebooks (or other books) per year.

If you only go three years that bumps it up to the equivalent of 21 books a year.

https://idiomdrottning.org/paperless