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
2025-06-15

wikibase card (from #wmhack 2025) has arrived home! surprisingly the first one to arrive; beating the philippine one even though it's been out for a week now 😂

Wikibase postcard back side.
chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-06-12

it's commented now but it used to be not commented

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-06-12

wondering why my ssh agent forwarding was not working until i found this shit in my .profile that i never remembered i added there

export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$HOME/.local/run/ssh-agent.$(id -u).socket"
chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-06-11

so that's $10 of server costs a month now, i need to find a job in the next 10 years or else my servers will all explode

chlod :blobhaj:chlod@wikis.world
2025-06-11

decided to enable autorenew on a joke domain i bought because i realized that this domain could be used for not-so-good purposes 😔

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

@rexo @LucasWerkmeister i used to pray for times like these...

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".
chlod :blobhaj: boosted:
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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.

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