How cool is this

https://thehardtimes.net/music/new-crayola-crayon-color-hammer-smashed-face-red-to-accompany-release-of-cannibal-corpse-coloring-book/

Python can be so frustrating sometimes.

The car industry is even worse for your privacy than the worst tech company -- and that's because the worst behavior of the tech industry is embedded in every car. This report from @mozilla@mozilla.social is what Consumer Reports should have done years ago -- and it is infuriating. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Exactly 20 years and 20 minutes ago, this happened.

@plaidman my cat growls and goes into murder mode whenever she hears a doorbell

If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.

snes.party: play SNES games with instant online multiplayer in the browser; also: nes.party https://snes.party/

@mcc they're excited for the Barbie movie

<script>if(navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity!==undefined)document.querySelector('body').innerHTML='<h1>Your browser contains Google DRM</h1>"Web Environment Integrity" is a Google euphemism for a DRM that is designed to prevent ad-blocking. In support of an open web, this website does not function with this DRM. Please install a browser such as <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a> that respects your freedom and supports ad blockers.';</script>

As a detective who has investigated heaps of CSAM cases, I am comfortable stating that this bill is total bullshit; a civil rights grab of the worst and most fascistic kind, cravenly disguised as “for the children”. Please, if you are American, contact your representatives and tell them you’re against this. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications

How do cats always know to walk over your keyboard whenever there is a terminal open?

We've all been there

Holy _shit_ this paper, and the insight behind it.

You know how every receiver is also a transmitter, _well_: every text predictor is also text compressor, and vice-versa.

You can outperform massive neural networks running millions of parameters, with a few lines of python and a novel application of _gzip_.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

POLL:

Do you mostly use music streaming services or do you still listen to music files on your #Linux laptop/PC? 🎧

(Edge case: streaming local music files from a media server you own - choose local files)

Hey if you’re new to Mastodon, here’s some tips:

- Don’t worry what server you’re on at first. If you see accounts you enjoy, take note what server they’re on. If there’s a confluence of people you like from a server, consider joining them! Migration is fairly painless
- Follow everyone who posts something you like, even once. You can always unfollow
- Follow hashtags! There’s no algorithm, this is the best way to fill your feed
- Use lists to avoid missing your favourites once your feed fills

I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but here we are.

If you get into a disagreement with someone here or for whatever reason the person you’re messaging with asks you to disengage, just stop. I’ve been around since the dawn of online arguments and I’ve never seen a person realize the error of their ways because someone was trolling and/or being an asshole to them in the replies.

If someone asks you to stop, stop. If they block you, take a cue from Elsa and Let It Go. Don’t find alternate ways to continue engaging. I’m sure it the parting shot feels good, or you think you have the perfect reply to help them see the reality of a situation, but it isn’t so.

Please, just stop and think: AITA in this situation?

Since I keep seeing developers use ‘pretty’ IP addresses like ’1.2.3.4’ in example configurations; a reminder that you MUST NOT use publicly routable addresses that you do not control in your code.

Instead, use one of the available 'TEST-NET' IPv4 or IPv6 ranges documented in RFC 6890;

192.0.2.0/24
198.51.100.0/24
203.0.113.0/24

❌ 1.2.3.4
✅ 192.0.2.4

and for IPv6;

✅ 2001:db8::/32

Pass it on to all of your fellow developers, documentation writers, and so forth.

Full RFC for special purpose addresses;

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6890/

Reserved for documentation, IPv4 and IPv6;

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5737/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3849/

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