IndieWeb post types
This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:
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Pratik Patel (@ppatel@mstdn.social)
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@heydon@front-end.social Despite so much evidence, people just refuse to listen. CAPTCHA companies have no incentive to tell implementers that the crap tun of data collected by people solving CAPTCHAs is their business model.
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Large Heydon Collider (@heydon@front-end.social)
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@ppatel@mstdn.social People don't talk enough about how fucking shit CAPTCHA is. It doesn't even catch spam effectively. In my last contract I argued and argued to replace it with a honey pot. We did so and went from 100 plus spam emails a day to zero, and got rid of the accessibility barrier with it.
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Muetdhiver (@muetdhiver@piaille.fr)
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@hungry_joe@mas.to If you sit on a throne in the middle of it, does it make you an edgelord ?
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Andy Piper (@andypiper@macaw.social)
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The plenary speakers for #StateOfOpenCon are up on the website - and, the whole schedule is packed with fantastic expertise. Exciting to be a liaison for all of these speakers! Some community tickets are available. https://stateofopencon.com
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Jenniferplusplus (@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)
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Even if you ignore everything else, all the theft and fraud and exploitation, all the waste, all the manipulation, all of it. Generative AI is still unreliable. I don't understand why people are so eager to use an unreliable tool. Like, yeah, I love those wobbly hammers! It makes no sense.
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Chris Hardie (@ChrisHardie@mastodon.social)
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People say content is being locked up in proprietary silos but look all I had to do to get an RSS feed of articles on a certain site was install a mitm proxy to intercept their mobile app's requests, fake an SSL certificate to inspect them, reverse engineer their internal APIs, then write a script to discretely query aforementioned APIs and generate an RSS feed file on a schedule. Simple! đ #indieweb #rss
Between and I took 2822 steps.
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Nivex đ§ đ» (@nivex@octodon.social)
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LinkedIn loves to tell me that my post has received a bunch of impressions, but I haven't gotten a single conversion from it, so I guess that tells me everything I need to know about that platform.
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Dan Hon (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com)
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Nadella is super concerned about all the generative AI he put everywhere; we should definitely think about guardrails, he says, while putting more generative AI everywhere
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Rob Whitaker (@RobW@iosdev.space)
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I have a common dread that there will be a minor earthquake that will cause the glasses in the cupboard in the kitchen to rub together and make a horrible noise. And it has only just now occurred to me that this is absolutely batshit.
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Terra: Chaos Lesbian (@Terra@chaosfem.tw)
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I just bought some cute underwear⊠that are not meant for tucking. âŠthat are *not* meant for tucking. *THAT ARE NOT MEANT FOR TUCKING!!!!!*
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BeAware :veriweed: (@BeAware@social.beaware.live)
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I don't put projects on the back burner. I put them under the floorboards, where the ever-louder beating of their hearts drives me slowly to madness. #ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodivergence #ADHDmemes
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GitHub - pi0/tired-maintainer: đïž Notes from a tired maintainer

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đïž Notes from a tired maintainer. Contribute to pi0/tired-maintainer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Matrix Agent (@vitaminsludge@mastodon.ie)
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not sure who to attribute this to - there is NO reason any of us should have to "thrive in a fast paced environment" or "work well under pressure." most of our daily work is not an emergency and our culture of fake urgency and immediacy just to make more profit for people in the c-suite is burning people out. stop sending people into fight or flight and expecting them to bend over backward because you dont know how plan or manage resources properly
Between and I took 8527 steps.
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an int is four bytes (@chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt)
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange "no way to prevent this" says only country where this regularly happens
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SysAdmin1138 (@sysadmin1138@octodon.social)

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Attached: 1 image Have a pretty #fractal. All pinks, plasma waves, and zoomy. 1280x960

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Kat (@KatS@chaosfem.tw)
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Watching Return of the Jedi, and something grated on me for a moment. "It's an older code, sir, but it checks out. I *was* about to let them through." Surely the Empire would have better OpSec than this? ...oh, wait. Gigantic Enterprise-scale operation, driven by fear and tight deadlines, with lots of silos and mini-empires with a culture of internal rivalry for Dear Leader's favour? Never mind. It checks out; I'll let it through.
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matdevdug (@matdevdug@c.im)
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The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who havenât been through it often donât understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers. Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a âdo exactly what the ticket saysâ person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me. If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as âthis department will have 100% turnoverâ. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained. Iâve seen that pattern play out multiple times.
+1 to Hades or Rogue Legacy (1/2)
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Dan Hon (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com)
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Documentation: "This will return a 200 status and {msg: "ok", apikey: "yourapikey"} if all goes well." Me: omg, it's calling someone a pikey?! I seriously did a double-take. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey
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Cat Hicks (@grimalkina@mastodon.social)
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I do NOT enjoy the weird religious-colonialist overtones and origins of the phrase "servant leadership" it is not a good phrase I do not like it and I think it has not escaped its 1970s source enough to have transcended it.
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Shubheksha (@ScribblingOn@octodon.social)
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I am increasingly convinced that hyper independence and self-sufficiency is a trauma response or coping mechanism.
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Thomas Frans đșđŠ (@thomy2000@fosstodon.org)
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Copilot decreases code quality leading to more reverts/refactoring. Who could have seen this coming? :blobcatthinkingglare: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx #Copilot #GitHub #programming #development
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ThatSexToyGuy (@hungry_joe@mas.to)
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sing like no one's listening, dance like no one's watching, masturbate like no one's called security
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Luna (@luna@pony.social)
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Attached: 1 video extremely normal about these cut voice lines from portal 2 [content warning: degradation aimed at the listener]
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Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
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âNew GitHub Copilot Research Finds âDownward Pressure on Code Qualityâ â Visual Studio Magazineâ No shit. Iâm so surprised /s https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx
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Anders Eknert (@anderseknert@hachyderm.io)

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Attached: 1 image Scandinavian airlines sending me a â2023 wrappedâ and I canât tell if itâs a joke or not.

Between and I took 9496 steps.
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Jenniferplusplus (@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)
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PSA: Do not put git repos inside other git repos. Git is not a package manager. You will make yourself sad. It doesn't matter how many conceptual primitives they share. Don't do it. Just use a package manager. You don't even need a package repository. You can still download things directly from git repos if you want to. Just list them in a package.json or something, and let npm do it. Or go.mod. Anything. Please. For your own sake. And everyone who comes after you.
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Tanya (@solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk)

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Attached: 1 image Day 26 - my arms are wet noodles and this is the best I can manage, thanks to @tamonten@mstdn.social for providing two potatoes and an ice cream cone #YearOfPigeons #birds

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Corey Quinn (@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social)
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âThe new RHEL pricing to cloud partners will scale by vCPU count, which is consistent with the most common model for cloud virtual machines (VMs) and software" twenty years ago. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-pricing-cloud-partners-announcement
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Dan Hon (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com)
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Accidentally back on TikTok and very upset at how many aggregator accounts there are - like a cat video, see that it's been reposted and edited into an aggregator account, block the aggregator, track down the original my life is exhausting and I only have myself to blame
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Maartje :omya_ns: (@maartje@blahaj.social)

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Attached: 1 image Don't forget to bring your own cake to the #golang devroom at #FOSDEM (I do not have budget for a giant cake where i can jump out of)

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Les Orchard (@lmorchard@hackers.town)
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Oof, just heard about a massive dick move scenario for corporations that somehow hadn't occurred to me before: 1) Mandatory Return to Office 2) Employee moves to be near office 3) Employee is laid off Like, seriously, fuck these companies into the sun
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jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)
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Any time I see someone saying something about "X openly supporting Nazis" I think, "That's a *bit* hyperbolic about what happened with the XFree86 / Xorg schism..."
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Sean Coates (@sean@scoat.es)
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It *really* grosses me out when I see/hear YouTubers and Podcasters promoting BetterHelp. They should have gone out of business when this happened. https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/2023169-betterhelp-inc-matter https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/ftc-ban-betterhelp-revealing-consumers-data-including-sensitive-mental-health-information-facebook
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K. Reid Wightman :verified: đ» (@reverseics@infosec.exchange)

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kellan (@kellan@fiasco.social)
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Talking to people about your big rewrite/re-architecture project feels a bit like talking to people about your imaginary friend â people are really polite about it but keeping giving you that âare you serious?â look
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Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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The EU response to this should be simple: Tell Apple it will be barred from trading in the EU unless it commits to implementing EU requirements globally. Will the EU understand it does not require global jurisdiction in order to have global impact? Letâs wait and see. #eu #apple #maliciousCompliance https://mastodon.social/@verge/111824614624891170
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Please, donât force me to log in
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The current accelerating trend of requiring accounts and logins for everything has to stop.

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Juhis (@hamatti@mastodon.world)
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Please, don't force me to log in. One aspect of software enshittification that really grinds my gears is that more and more apps require you to create accounts and login. https://hamatti.org/posts/please-dont-force-me-to-log-in/
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Manish (@manishearth@mastodon.social)
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gaze not into the abyss, for they shall make you the editor of the international standard of abyssal management
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BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)
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If you've ever wondered why some Wi-Fi is free (like in hotels), it's because typically data about your browsing is sold to countless ad companies that will happily buy it. Had to use the hotel WiFi recently on a trip, and after clicking "agree" to their terms of service, the Little Snitch firewall on my Mac went bonkers. I must have denied 20-30 outbound requests to advertising networks. It still worked, though, so I'm guessing I didn't manage to block all of it.
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Open Source And Decoding Enterprise Security with BoxyHQ's Deepak Prabhakara
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In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, Deepak Prabhakara from BoxyHQ shared his journey in the tech world, starting from his early days in Bangalore, India. His story is one of passion for technology, leading to significant roles in startups and eventually founding BoxyHQ. The discussion centered around BoxyHQâs solutions like single sign-on, directory sync, and audit logs, all designed to enhance enterprise readiness for startups and growing companies.

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Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (@janl@narrativ.es)
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Who called it The Hobbit Part One and not Bilbo Begins?
Between and I took 8333 steps.
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Christina Warren (@film_girl@mastodon.social)

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Attached: 1 image Kudos to the one person on Hacker News who is actually funny.

Between and I took 8291 steps.