ITsecJ

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Micro SF/F by O. WestinMicroSFF@mastodon.art
2024-04-16

A spaceship landed in the park. An alien emerged, holding a slate in a tendril.

"Greetings Earthlings," they read. "We have come to learn about this wondrous thing you call l..."

They paused, oculating the slate.

"Love?" a passing dogwalker suggested.

"Libraries! Do they exist?"

2023-12-27

Hey @jerry I just recently had a look at the podcast resources page and wow that is broken

defensivesecurity.org/resource

The opml is missing and many other podcasts seem to have died sadly :/

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David de Grootdavid@theblower.au
2023-10-16

An observation on UI/UX.

Oversimplification does not equate to ease of use for some people. Take for instance the cheap Air Fryer my MIL bought. Now admittedly, she's in her '80s, but the fancy light up touch controls with presets meant she could not work out what to press to do cook what she intended. One reason was the cookbook she had (specific to air fryers) talked about setting temperatures, and while this one *can* do it, it's not obvious and the "manual" is maybe 5 pages long and written in tiny text.

Now octogenarians probably aren't the prime market segment for modern kitchen appliances, but some consideration needs to be made for older folk adopting newer tech. I guess the only advice I can offer for anyone designing this stuff is that old people tend to be set in their ways, so look to the past on how similar things worked and try to couch your documentation or UI in those terms.

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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to
2023-10-16
Replies The reason that all Star Trek spaceships meet each other the same way up is because there is a universally decided 'down' direction. Every warp capable vessel has a piece of buttered toast suspended in an antimatter containment unit. It is picked up and dropped automatically by little robot arms, within the unit, four times a minute. The orientation of the buttered side tells the onboard computer which way is down, even when light years from any gravitational field. Klingon ships use a slice of K'gacch spread with T'kr'lagg but the effect is the same.
2023-09-20

@pinpox
Mine runs on an uberspace too

@tuxflo @ubernauten

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Christopher Phinchrisphin
2023-08-30

This¹ popped into my feed again, and I want to add something else: being a bit shit at stuff and doing it anyway is specifically a radical, anti-capitalist act. ✊🏻 An underlying reason you want to do things well is because you’ve internalised the lesson that stuff only has value if it literally has economic value – if you can sell it.

Post your wonky drawings. Throw an ungainly pot. Make sub-par dinners. You’re literally smashing the system. ♥️

¹ From @ITOmarHernandez, reposted by @girlonthenet

Screenshot of a Tumblr (I think) post from ‘hornedchick’, which reads:
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: *When I was 15, I spent a
month working on an archeological dig. I was talking
to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch
break and he asked those kinds of "getting to know
you" questions you ask young people: Do you play
sports? What's your favorite subject? And I told him,
no I don't play any sports. I do theater, I'm in choir, I
play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That's amazing! And I said, "Oh
no, but I'm not any good at ANY of them."
And he said something then that I will never forget
and which absolutely blew my mind because no one
had ever said anything like it to me before: "I don't
think being good at things is the point of doing them.
I think you've got all these wonderful experiences
with different skills, and that all teaches you things
and makes you an interesting person, no matter how
well you do them."
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went
from a failure, someone who hadn't been talented
enough at anything to excel, to someone who did
things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in
such an achievement-oriented environment, so
inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it
was only worth doing things if you could "Win" at
them."
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2023-08-30

Semi-Quereinsteigerin in der #Webentwicklung auf #Jobsuche in Ost-#Thüringen, #remote oder im #RheinMain-Gebiet
Ich kann #JavaScript, #React, #CSS, #HTML, #Git, #Scrum und Grundlagen in anderen Sprachen.
Webentwicklung habe ich letztes Jahr in einem Intensivkurs gelernt, davor habe ich einen Mathe Bachelor gemacht und Info-Master begonnen.
Ich bin ADHSlerin, motiviert, wissbegierig, engagiert, für Barrierefreiheit und möchte ankommen.
Freue mich über Hinweise auf Stellen/Firmen
Bitte teilen

2023-08-23

@hallasurvivor
Now I want to do proof by "Diagramm-Jagd" again

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2023-08-23

theverge.com/2023/5/25/2373711

OpenAI threatening to leave the EU if they pass legislation requiring them to list their data sources because:
"In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges."

Like every other boom tech company, it's just doing labor crimes and theft and claiming you're actually too innovative to be regulated, God.

#OpenAI #ArtTheft

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Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:janl@narrativ.es
2023-08-23

Das heute vorgestellte #Selbstbestimmungsgesetz ist in dieser Form nicht akzeptabel.

Die von Fachverbänden geforderten Anpassungen sind überschaubar und nachvollziehbar.

Die Forderungen sind hier übersichtlich zusammengefasst: innn.it/jazuselbstbestimmung

Mit über 300 Erstunterzeichnungen und schon 1500 Mitzeichnungen in nur wenigen Stunden gibt es für den Petitionstext eine breite Unterstützung.

Unsere trans*, inter* und nicht-binären Mitmenschen haben ein Recht auf vorurteilsfreie Gesetze.

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2023-08-23

Ich frag mich ja, wo die IT Fachkräftemangel hat...

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2023-05-15

I really hate having to fix other people's crappy work.

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#Netzpolitik .Org
veröffentlicht am 11.05.2023 einen Artikel über das #DeutschlandTicket auf dem #Smartphone :
netzpolitik.org/2023/geodaten-

Recherchen von netzpolitik.org zeigen die massiven Datenschutzrisiken der personalisierten #Fahrkarte.
Weitere Mängel:
- Verbraucherfalle Abo-Ticket
- Fahrscheinkontrollen
- Datenspeicherung von maximal drei Monaten aller Fahrkartenkontrollen, inklusive Uhrzeit und Haltestelle.

#Datenschutz #DB

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2023-05-12

exclusive photo of the entity responsible for approving the .zip TLD

the untitled goose
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Enron Hubbardenron@tilde.zone
2022-11-27

@TomRaftery @jpoesen @Richard_Hull Really feel like this is worth mentioning in regards to domain and subdomain naming:

There's a way to set up a Mastodon server to have its user accounts federate as user@organization.com while having the server itself exist at something like social.organization.com. You set LOCAL_DOMAIN to social.organization.com and WEB_DOMAIN to organization.com when setting up the server. Just like an org's mail server may exist at mail.organization.com but the email address is user@organization.com

This way, you could even have your professional social handle be exactly the same as your professional email address, but with an @ in front of it. And it makes domain verification even cleaner-looking.

docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/co

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Schenkl | 🏳️‍🌈🦄schenklklopfer@chaos.social
2021-07-05

TIL: 'wc -l' oder 'wc --lines' zählt nicht, wie viele Lines in dem Input sind, sondern nur wie viele Linebraks da drin sind.

Weil:

echo -n "test" | wc -l => 0

Aber:

echo "test" | wc -l => 1

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Webcomic Botcomicbot@blob.cat
2020-09-13
2020-07-25

@Anke
Because homoeopathy deliberately put them self into the same category as natural remedies but are taking them down with them selves

2020-07-22
2020-07-10

@Mainebot
The desktop loads as in you login?

Or as in you show the desktop?

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