chlod :blobhaj:

🇵🇭 student. programmer. wikipedian. open-source software developer. screamer into abysses. Q124309390.

i edit and make software (volunteer) for #wikipedia and the #wikimedia movement. i'm also a college student, spending most time at home.

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chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-21

literally the only thing i was drinking besides water in Prague

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-21

the joke of me liking apple juice is slowly becoming a not joke

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-16

*sigh*

Presentation open response section. Question is "what is your key takeaway from today?", one response writes "Make Wikipedia more alpha and less skibidi".
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nixCraft 🐧nixCraft
2025-05-13

The European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems euvd.enisa.europa.eu/

chlod :blobhaj: boosted:
2025-05-12

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling
addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results
appear first."
The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple
times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.
chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-11

@rexo as much as being Tom Scott would sound fun, i don't want to look like i never take showers

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-11

@LucasWerkmeister not really, but it's kinda funny to see the same shirt on the same closing day of the same event. it implies i don't have much variation in clothing (which is true!)

now, if i really wanted to commit to the bit, i have to wear that to the closing of the next hackathon too...

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-11

i had the error of not dating my clothes in advance so i ended up wearing the same shirt in this year's wmhack closing as last year's. luckily, i had a sweater vest which covered it up and made it not obvious

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-11

downside of having a small set of clothes: it's very evident when you compare photos of me between events

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-11

@boz now that's a really good idea actually

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-11

almost mindlessly shut down my VPS by typing "sudo poweroff" after logging in

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-09

just got off the starting work of the day. finally time to cook breakfast! at 8:25 pm...

chlod :blobhaj: boosted:
2025-05-09

While we wait, here's a quick look at the web traffic currently hitting Wikimedia projects — can you perhaps guess when the reports of white smoke from the Vatican first started?

Total HTTP request volume graph — at around 16:00 the requests a second goes from 170 req/s to 220 req/s
chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-08

"why didn't you tap on his shoulder when you noticed that you didn't have utensils since he was just one chair away from you" you overestimate the social skills of a terminally-online nerd who stays at home 96% of the time.

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-08

late to tell this story but on the flight back from Istanbul, they ran out of the meal i wanted and so they gave me the other option, but the tray didn't have utensils and so i had to wait for the attendant to walk back to the front (they weren't answering the call buttons)

luckily they not only gave me utensils after that, but also gave me some of the extra pasta they had. so i had two in-flight dinners. yippeeee

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-06

awake at 6 am. when i said jetlag does NOT affect me, it was ACCURATE

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-06

both survived. my packing is impeccable

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-06

finally home. eyes heavy and somewhat dizzy and i want to pass out but... i haven't played strinova in a while and i miss the thrill

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-06

just watched as the NAIA airport workers dragged my luggage and dropped it on the floor because they didn't grab it right

did i mention my mug and keyboard were there

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-05-06

oh hey, i flew directly over my hometown on the way to landing

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