zand

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A simple raccoon that has fallen into the e-waste bin too many times.
#AmateurRadio, #ComputerNetworking, #CyberSecurity, #RustLang

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Websitehttps://zand.dev
Githubhttps://github.com/zand
zandMar 4
@patcharcana @licho Minecraft used blockchain technology for their chat reporting.
zandMar 4

I sometimes get sad about the recent storage costs, but then I remember that anything I pipe into `/dev/null` will come out of `/dev/urandom` eventually.

Infinite storage!

Show threadzandMar 3
@rileywd That is why we need to password protect stuff to protect it from our incoherent selves before we get a chance to sleep on it.
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@leaf It might be better to go over the profits and missed potential during the past 10 years or so. Last year could have been profitable, but there could be a fear that the next years won't be. Ironically, they probably won't hire staff until it starts to negatively impact profits.
Show threadzandFeb 19
@JadedBlueEyes Something I learned the hard way is that angry customer are still going to be angry even if you put them first. At least handling calm customers first makes them happy and improves your overall rating. This is something I try to keep in mind when dealing with customer service to resolve issues.
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@kitkat The blog welcomes Cloudflare and boasts about how their servers use Cloudflare to centralize their traffic with all the other people. Refers about how what Cloudflare did as "very cool." Refers to the outcome as being "unfortunate", as if it was some sort of accident. Stats that they "feel a bit bad for the author" who continued to show ill intent by trying to cover up what they did. Understates the problem with using LLMs and is dismissive to those that are critical of them. Calls out the people that disapprove of what they did. They "sincerely hope the author can bounce back", thus stating that they would like to see more broken AI slop.

They finish it by confirming that the goal is to get money from Cloudflare.

Show threadzandFeb 18
@kitkat
Are you trying to claim that Cloudflare posted that blog to matrix.org? I am pretty sure that would make the situation far worse, not better.
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@kitkat

https://matrix.org/blog/2026/01/28/matrix-on-cloudflare-workers/

"On the Matrix side, we’d like to welcome Cloudflare to the ecosystem anyway - we just wish it had been a smoother entrance! Thank you for building on Matrix. The good news is that the demo successfully serves its purpose to illustrate how Cloudflare Workers operate, and the code could certainly be used as the basis for a working server in future. Meanwhile, there’s a whole host of other places where Matrix and Cloudflare could play nice together - e.g. td’s proof of concept for using Cloudflare Calls as a MatrixRTC backend, and meanwhile Cloudflare’s CDN has been invaluable in protecting matrix.org’s web traffic over the years."

Matrix on Cloudflare Workers

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Show threadzandFeb 18
@xssfox My last attempt at removing potting resulted in bits of it getting stuck on everything within the workspace.
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@kitkat @xssfox
Matrix was the new alternative to XMPP. Instead of using the preexisting auth libraries, they rolled their own until finally deciding to switch to using OIDC. I tried to wrap my head around how transferring room ownership worked without a risk of breaking the room before they did away with it in room version 12. It's been 4 years since I last took a serious look at MEGOLM and how the clients use it. I do recall there being a proprietary solution at the time.

The big recent kicker for me was the matrix org CEO supporting pushing insecure AI slop as production ready and centralization. That kinda killed my faith that the people that founded Matrix have any clue about what they are doing.