Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

the internet is broken. how does one turn it off and then on again?

Hey guys, I just need to throw something out there: The folks who insist on breaking the web for inane reasons like "this completely uncompromised certificate expired less than one day ago" and not making people safer. They're building a fragile house of cards designed to place more reliance entirely on them. And the effect is largely that people from ordinary users to engineers, disregard certificate warnings as a matter of routine.

PKI controls the entire web and it's in insane hands.

I think I know what the solution is to "no controlled replies on fedi" – post to my blog which no longer has comments… ??

Was reminded today that Bonzi Buddy was derided as spyware two decades ago for doing considerably less than the telemetry in virtually every modern application.

@alex If I were the Swiss secret service I would dedicate some budget to promoting all the services based in Switzerland which tout "Swiss anonymity and privacy" as a feature

Talk to me like a child.

My new ISP has me behind a IPv4 CGNAT but provides a static IPv6 IP address. I don't know much about IPv6 and I am starting to learn.

How can I #selfhost my #HomeLab and expose my services and domains using static IPv6.

Any videos or articles for dummies?
Thanks.
#selfhosted

saad - software as a disappointment

USB-C in a nutshell

Thinking about the structure of society in regards to information flow.

Ability for everyone to discuss with everyone dilutes "knowledge" and gives root to mob think or other tribal reflexes.

I'm really tired of the "Apple is behind in AI" discourse. Apple is mainly behind in useless bullshit technology (and tries to catch up there to appease the markets) *vaguely gesturing at transcribing all podcasts, multiple products using sensor fusion and machine learning and a myriad of other things "AI" that actually work and don't actively burn down the planet*

Some days Internet search feels like we’re at the capitalist optimum where everything is as painful as possible but not prohibitive. Can’t live without it (to find those link farms, advice sites, public archives) but also can’t find the private websites and blogs.
Is it true that Reddit managed to replace all the blogs or is it true that we just can’t find them anymore.
The real problem is the loss of trust all around.

“Let me Google it for you” was a bad reply back in the days; these days telling somebody “to google something” is insulting because we all know how aggravating it is to spend time and energy against privacy invasions and sifting through the AI slop and the grifters. Life is short and there’s no time for this.
I try to err on the side of caution and always add links to stuff if I can. I’m preparing for the total breakdown of search as we know it.

Hi, if you want to “save children”, instead of performative bullshit how about you ban guns, make paid parental leave mandatory, have single-payer healthcare for everyone, provide free higher education and make food free at schools.

Preemptive subtwit.

Let's say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren't covering it.

So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat.

Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, 'Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren't selling kitten deli slices?"

Some might say -- maybe you aren't an animal shelter any more. Some might say.

There's something infuriating about discovering that #Go, a language released in 2012, supposed to be all about getting shit done, does not have a function to compute the intersection of two arrays or remove duplicates in one. In the mean time, #CommonLisp, finalized 30 years go, has INTERSECTION and REMOVE-DUPLICATES.

two of the best feelings when programming are:
1. figuring out a really clever way to solve a problem
2. figuring out a really stupid way to solve a problem

@mike_k its actually crazy if you think about it from an evil rational perspective

you have a massive global corp. you have tons of people, all over the planet, at all times of the day, working from home on laptops that can slay webhosting with approximately the same system load as like, dropshadows on their window compositor. you have systems in place on the laptops to run whatever your admins tell them to run, and download whatever they tell them to download.

and you pay shittons* for a cdn and a waf and a cloud for your website, i’m sorry i meant ECOMMERCE MARKETPLACE EXPERIENCE PORTAL PLATFORM, to simulate the effect that your servers are next door to customers, when likelihood is you always have an employee with a laptop within an tight radius of any customer.

like, why are we pretending these crazy fast, hyperdistributed laptops and phones are dumb terminals connecting to supercomputers when so often a cloud instance is sub-raspberry pi-tier?

Forty years ago today, Bob Scheifler decided to let the world play...

"I've spent the last couple weeks writing a window system for the VS100. I stole a fair amount of code from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather than a synchronous interface, and called it X." - https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

And @XOrgFoundation is still keeping it alive 4 decades later!