Abhiram

@axel@social.glitched.systems
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| Sysadmin | Full Stack Engineer |

I teach people how to code and manage infrastructure! ​​

I also run glitched.systems  ​​

Current interests:
* #nix (via #lix and #aux)
* #rust
PronounsHe/Him
My Websitehttps://foss.life
My Old Accounthttps://hachyderm.io/@axelsilverdew
Glitched Systemshttps://glitched.systems/about
Abhiram4d ago
CyberFrog4d ago

From December 27, Google and Microsoft will have to use some form of age-assurance technology on users when they sign in, or face fines of almost $50 million per breach.sigh
I am so tired
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256

Australia is quietly introducing 'unprecedented' age checks for search engines like Google

Just as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being applied to search engines and many other corners of the internet.

ABC News
Abhiram4d ago
Kevin Beaumont4d ago
Can't wait for all the orgs to fire everybody after buying generative AI tools and discovering about glue people the hard way.
AbhiramJul 11
Paul Chambers🚧Jul 11

I found my stomach laugh of the day.

"Usenet, I have never heard of that VPN provider"

LOL

AbhiramJul 10
CyberFrogJul 9
I hope website owners realize that when a cloudflare captcha page pops up, a substantial amount of nerds and professional tech people immediately exit the page

half the time the captcha is broken, and the other half of the time cloudflare popping up is a signal that whatever I wanted to read isn't worth the effort and it's more productive to leave lol
Show threadAbhiramJul 8

The four labour codes were brought without any discussion with the labour unions, who have fiercely criticised the new codes. The Modi Government has not held the Indian Labour Conference in a decade, depriving the workers of a platform for negotiation.The ITUC Global Rights Index has categorized India as a nation with no guarantee of rights, with repressive action against workers, violation of the right to strike and civil liberties.According to the 2025 Economic Survey of India, the wages of salaried men declined by 6.4% while the wages of salaried women declined by 12.5% over the last six years. Among the self-employed men and women, the decline was 9% and 32% respectively. At the same time, the quality of jobs has also seen a decline, with regular jobs declining by from 22.8% to 21.7%. Meanwhile, the profits of corporations reached a 15-year-high in 2023-24.

Show threadAbhiramJul 8

When faced with criticism over the new labour codes, the Government claimed that the new labour code would allow a 4-day work-week. But with a caveat. The per-day work-hours would be increased from 8 hours to 12 hours. This is a deceit. The demand for a 4-day work-week entails an 32-hour work-week, not increasing daily work-hours.

Show threadAbhiramJul 8

(Quoting from Reddit 🧵)

The four labour codes on wages, social security, occupational safety and industrial relations, allows for dilution of workers' rights, including restricting the right to strike, weakening workplace safety, allowing hire-and-fire policy, and increasing the work-hours from the 8-hour work-day.#india

AbhiramJul 8
It looks like workers across #india are going on a general strike tomorrow.

The strike has been called by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions against the four labour codes — Code on Wages, 2019; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020; and the Code on Social Security, 2020 — brought by the Modi Government.
AbhiramJul 6
Show thread⬡-49016 Jul 6
AbhiramJul 5
Show threadmkjJul 5

"We often have to charge an investigation fee to find out what has gone wrong, as they don't want to admit it[.]"

If a company can't even own up to the fact that they used generative AI and that that's why they are now bringing in someone to fix it…

This feels like one of those reality TV shows where professionals are brought in to straighten someone's life out, and that person won't even admit to there being a problem, much less lay out facts that will be in plain view once one looks.

@eniko

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Paul Chambers🚧Jul 11

I found my stomach laugh of the day.

"Usenet, I have never heard of that VPN provider"

LOL

Show threadJona JoachimJul 11
@paul
🤦
Show threadTim ChaseJul 11

@paul @stefano

Vixie Private Network?

Show threadradhitya 🇮🇩 Jul 11
@gumnos @paul @stefano do you mean paul vixie?
Show threadTim ChaseJul 11
@radhitya that was the intent
Show threadTim ChaseJul 11
@radhitya or should I say "that was the Name of the game…" 😆
Show threadLuke Sheldrick // an0key 🤖Jul 11
@paul “what vpn provider do you use for torrents” or something was the question…?
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Jul 11
@an0key I was looking for VPN reviews and came across it. Like all online talk about VPN, there was a sub-thread that delved into torrents, and those usually get a usenet sub-sub thread. I think in that post, the usenet sub-sub thread spun of a sub-sub-sub "..aar" (radaar, sonaar, etc) thread lol.
Show threadJim SpathJul 11
@paul alt.clueless
Show threadSnowyCA Jul 11

@jspath55
They should have asked what it was...but not all folk were raised surrounded by tech.

@paul

Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Jul 11

@SnowyCA It's not even a tech thing. It's more of a generational joke considering when the web came out, it was kind of baked into everything until AOL made it popular and then eventually killed it and then telecoms followed suit in the 2000s around the time Facebook took off. Now it is a niche techie think. It was pretty much mainstream.

You couldn't be in college in the 90s and early 2000s without using usenet, esp the 90s.

@jspath55

Show threadJim SpathJul 11
@paul @SnowyCA I started coding on punch cards, pre-internet.
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Jul 11

@jspath55 ...to think, the computer those punch cards were going into, if they had the same power and memory of the worse smart phone on the market today, would be the size of a small village or county. lol.

I was using BBS in the 80s. As a kid, I mowed a lot of lawns to buy my first modem for my IBM PC AT.

@SnowyCA

Show threadSnowyCA Jul 11

@paul

When I was in school we were still using books to look up logarithmic and trigonometric tables and personal computers were yet to be invented.👵 🤣

@jspath55

Show threadC++ Wage SlaveJul 11

@SnowyCA

That brings back memories! I still remember the bright blue cover of my book of log tables. Goodness knows how they calculated and printed that number of digits accurately in the days before pervasive computing. Perhaps they didn't. Perhaps the tables were full of mistakes. I never found any.

@paul @jspath55

Show threadSnowyCA Jul 11

@CppGuy
I didn't find any errors either.
"how" Good question.
You got me thinking about it, so I looked it up
"The Napierian logarithms were published first in 1614. E. W. Hobson called it "one of the very greatest scientific discoveries that the world have ever seen"
"John Napier wrote a separate volume describing how he constructed his tables, but held off publication to see how his first book would be received. John died in 1617. His son, Robert, published his father's book, Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio (Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms), with additions by Henry Briggs, in 1619 in Latin[3] and then in 1620 in English.[4]"

Tonight I am going to see if I can find it online

@paul @jspath55

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_logarithms

History of logarithms - Wikipedia

Show threadC++ Wage SlaveJul 11

@SnowyCA

Those books are serious mathematical equipment! IIRC, our log books only went to three or four decimal places.

@paul @jspath55

Show threadSnowyCA Jul 11

@CppGuy It was so long ago I forgot how many decimal points but yeah, the really old books are quite amazing, eh.

@paul @jspath55

Show threadCiaraJul 12
@CppGuy @SnowyCA I'd forgotten all about log books! I was about to add 'feels like something from another century' when I realised yikes, it literally is.
@paul @jspath55
Show threadSnowyCA Jul 12

@CiaraNi

I feel like I'm long past my expiry date I am asked 'what is a party line'?, or when I remember there are generations who have never lived without a smart phone.

@CppGuy @paul @jspath55

Show threadC++ Wage SlaveJul 12

@SnowyCA

Or, indeed, without a mobile phone of any kind. When were were out, we were incommunicado. It was common to turn up at someone's house, be told "sorry, he's out", and just go away again. It seems inconceivable now.

@CiaraNi @paul @jspath55

Show threadSnowyCA Jul 12

@CppGuy

edit to add: Expecting to want a measure of privacy and peace and quiet seems unreasonable to most in today's world. Disconnecting or delaying contact is deemed unacceptable.

yup.
Also, I find it rather disconcerting when faced with outraged folk who demand to know why,
-I didn't answer the phone while away from home
-I didn't check my voicemail when away
Well, I fixed that problem, now I only have to deal with shocked and very confused folk after a few months ago I cancelled my cell service because I refuse to pay more than $100.00 for spotty at best reception in my area. I was fed up with angry people constantly complaining they couldn't reach me because the signal was dropped or just wasn't available.
Now I just say, email me!
I'm done with supporting companies who won't provide decent service yet expect to be paid .

@CiaraNi @paul @jspath55

Show thread'Pa Jul 11
@SnowyCA context: it was actually a joke-about-the-joke, "alt.clueless", "alt.tasteless.jokes", "alt.religion.kibology" would be names of individual Usenet forums where people write. Given the context I would say @jspath55 's comment was more about nerding out, rather than be actually dismissive.
@paul
Show threadSnowyCA Jul 11
@pa thanks for this. @jspath55 @paul
Show threadSnowyCA Jul 11
@paul I had to look up that term. Old person and non-techie here
Show threadstony karkJul 11
@paul bro probably thinks newsgroups are the company that own Fox News
Show thread0x4d6165 (Mae or Julie)Jul 11
@paul ...i should set up usenet again
Show threadDio9sysJul 11
@0x4d6165 @paul I legit would love for text usenet to come back. I still use usenet fairly regularly, but only for nzb files, which feels like buying an old bank computer just to play nethack.
Show thread0x4d6165 (Mae or Julie)Jul 11
@Dio9sys @paul same!!
Show threadMartinJul 11
@paul 🤣🫣
Show threadAndy BallJul 11
@paul Said it at work today and a colleague thought I said "Hughesnet".
Show threadPaul_IPv6Jul 11

@paul

sure. VPN. Virtual Professionals Network. mostly virtual lawyers but some other professions regularly represented in posts there. :)

Show threadthejikzJul 11
@paul_ipv6 @paul I thought that was linkedin... :B
Show threadCromleyJul 11
@paul
Show threadToni AittoniemiJul 11
@paul We are old here in Mastodon
Show threadMatti AleveJul 11
@paul what's Gopher? 😉
Show threadChad McCulloughJul 11
@paul 😂
Show threadMysturjiJul 11
@paul
Kids today. 🙄
Don’t even know how to use a fucking phone. 🤣
Show threadNazoJul 11
@paul I think they need this emoji over there:  
Show threadStarravenJul 11

@paul

Damn, I'm old.