yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

How I imagine the user story for every large social media platform adding autoplaying videos that often can't be disabled: as an Instagram user, I want videos in my feed to start playing automatically but muted so that I always miss the first several seconds of audio should I want to hear it.

“Mr. Shatner wept. He was struck not by how much was “up there” but how little. “Everything I had thought was wrong,” Mr. Shatner wrote later. “The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness.” He suddenly understood how fragile the home planet was, and he knew it was all we had.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-brownsville-texas.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Final Frontier @final-frontier-mike

I learned today, from reading the obituary of Lorne Greene’s son, Charles, that Bonanza was filmed in Incline Village Nevada. Which got me reminiscing about a fellow from there who came up to LaRonge to disappear in the wild. It didn’t go as he had it drawn up.

https://kiggavik.typepad.com/the_house_other_arctic_mu/2006/11/how_not_to_disa.html

#Chromium (and #Chrome) begins phasing-out Manifest v2.

https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html

This means, among other things, that uBlock Origin is about to be disabled in Chrome. Google will choose a different extension to recommend but it can not be as effective as #uBlock Origin.

Following #Google's example, may I instead recommend you switch to #Firefox.

Firefox will continue to support Manifest v2, and consequently uBlock Origin and other extensions that can not be implemented with Manifest v3.

Happy browsing.

The future of support: "I wasn't able to convince the support AI this was urgent enough to grant me access."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40529033

If mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood, they'd be more popular.

Today's data: inflation rate falls to 2.7% in April. Would have fallen more, but gasoline pushed the rate up. Shelter remains largest contributor, but pace of increase is falling.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240521/dq240521a-eng.htm #cdnecon #cdnpoli

just backed @mwl's “Run Your Own Mail Server" kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

I'm way too lazy to run my own email infrastructure (I don't even run my own webservers!) but I'm looking forward to learning about what's involved in running an email server anyway

I say it over and over. Read absolutely every word @Doubleemmartin writes. Every single thing she writes. https://open.substack.com/pub/melissamartin/p/green-line?r=4iztn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

"If there was any doubt remaining that Alberta's nearly seven-month moratorium on renewable-energy projects was a political decision — made in the halls of power rather than in the offices of expertise — it was erased by internal documents released to the public last week."

My latest analysis for CBC, based on original reporting by @drewanderson for @thenarwhal

🔗 : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-renewables-pause-moratorium-aeso-foip-1.7196943

#alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #canada #renewables #renewableenergy #energystorage

Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet

> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

Source: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418

In 2016, Arlene Westervelt’s body was recovered from Okanagan Lake after a canoe trip with her husband, Bert.

Her family believes she was murdered. But missteps by the coroners service and police have left the case unresolved. @jenstden reports.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/05/07/Flawed-Autopsy-Dropped-Murder-Charge/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Two years later, this story remains as wild as ever:

'Fixer says former Alberta justice minister hired him to get reporter's phone logs'

🔗 : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/denis-alberta-justice-minister-former-fixer-phone-logs-reporter-1.6415532

#alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #canada #journalism #journalists #law

Did you know there are 7 main types of plastic? Some (1,2,4) are recyclable ♻️ None of biodegradable :(

Part of a larger infographic looking at the plastic crisis https://geni.us/IIBplastics

The diagram attached to this post about CORS https://jub0bs.com/posts/2023-02-08-fearless-cors/ just helped something click for me that I'd previously missed

The OPTIONS request for CORS has request headers Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers - which directly correspond to the returned response header names Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Access-Control-Allow-Methods and Access-Control-Allow-Headers!

Somehow I'd never made that connection between those header names before

The details behind the PuTTY private key disclosure vulnerability are super interesting.

Because Windows didn't have a secure number generation API in 1999, they used a "clever trick" that incorporates the hash of your private key as a random number during some parts of the authentication flow.

In one SSH algorithm, that "clever trick" has a bug that can be abused by the server to recover your private key.

Windows has had a secure random number generator since Windows XP (2001). Rather than move to that, however, they decided to use a more advanced version of their "clever trick". Not the choice I would have made.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

Now this is #datascience. Which is the best Mario Kart Deluxe kart combo out of 703,560 possible customisations?

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto