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Zelda

Mar 16

Julia :v_bi::therian:Feb 26

And they call it "reproducible", despite the fact that NixOS users will never reprodu-

Zelda

Feb 2

Stuart Celarier ❌👑Feb 1

[Repost] Clean YouTube links. When you get a link from YT, it includes an ID tracking back to YOU. It's a "query string" on the end of the URL like this:
...?si=[tracker_ID_here]

This ID allows YouTube (and their owner, Google, and *their* owner, Alphabet, and ALL of their associates) to track the people who click on the link, and the apps they used, back to you, building a network of none-of-their-business.

Good news: DELETE the "?si=..." part & the link works just fine without the tracking.

Zelda

Nov 2

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Mx Rey (Fuck ICE) 💜 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 2

@spottyfox so they're basically the same: semiconductor junctions that deal with photons. if you apply enough light to a LED, it'll produce a voltage. if you apply enough voltage to a solar panel, it'll emit light. neither do a good job of doing the wrong thing, but they do

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Oct 21

kravietz 🦇Oct 21

A funny case study of the 21st century “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

Michael Zimmermann (@zimm3rmann) on X

@m_franceschetti Is 16+gb/mo a normal amount of telemetry? Can you not do any local compute of “get hot” or “get cold” with a multi core processor and multiple gigabytes of memory? Can’t just repeat the previous nights settings? It’s bad enough that you slapped a $200/yr subscription on things,

X (formerly Twitter)

Zelda

Oct 14

Unnamed TNG skant beefcake Oct 14

"But why did Musk buy Twitter? What was his strategy?"

HE DIDN'T WANT TO

He was legally compelled to do so

The reason he was in that situation was because he lost the most ridiculous game of internet edgelord chicken by not backing out before too late

He didn't have a strategy

He didn't do this

This happened to him

Zelda

Oct 11

Dr Zoyander Street Oct 11

Hank Green's vlogs this year just constantly have me imagining how much of a difference it could make if he was to set up a PeerTube instance. He just posted one today that argues:
- The structure of the internet* today does more harm than good
- These systems are integral to so many people's ways of life
- We need to design systems that take our agency back
- This is tied to larger problems rooted in oligarchy

PeerTube materially returns agency to the content creator and even the viewer themself, and takes power away from oligarchs. The biggest barrier that I face as someone who wants to make larger use of it is the lack of viewership. This is a rare occasion when the "rising tide that lifts all boats" would actually be a reality. We need popular creators to set up PeerTube accounts.

It's trivially easy to set up a PeerTube account that mirrors a YouTube or Tiktok account. Nobody has to totally pivot their workflow in order to achieve this, and yet doing so could make a huge difference to the structure of the internet itself.

* in a colloquial sense that refers almost exclusively to social media

Zelda

Oct 7