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install the termux terminal emulator for android, ssh into a server, go to the toilet and try to install kubernetes before you're done shitting
certainly better than doomscrolling fedi, no?
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i am once again BEGGING PEOPLE to not leak auth tokens in logs what the fuck man
If you ever shared the #Lutris debug log (as requested by both the Forum as well as github issue page) while your #GOG account was connected:You might've shared your secret API token publicly.
The Lutris logs seem to NOT hide *any* personal information in debug logs' HTTP requests. Including your private refresh token.
If you ever shared a Lutris debug log, de-auth sessions and change passwords immediately.
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Bug description When starting lutris with the debug parameter -d, which is commonly used and requested in the Forum and right here to help users fix issues, displays the full GOG REST API string in...GitHub
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Hi! I'm creating this request to be reunited with Mia, my support cat. She's been an essential part of my life for almost nine years, and due to financial constraints, I was unable to bring her with me when I immigrated from Venezuela. I would be incredibly grateful to anyone who is willing to donate and help me bring Mia back into my life. 🧡🤍🖤
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Just found this post and I boosted it. Please ignore my previous reply to you.
Good luck, may you be reunited with that KITTY!
I love cats, I totally understand.
As someone who is right now looking at the costs of relocating with my dog, I can understand the incredibly steep prices associated with it. Mia is adorable and I hope you see her sweet face soon.
We are considering New Zealand or Australia. Not 100% sure about the costs but it will for sure be 1000's of dollars. Worth every penny.
Helped how I could, best of luck. hope you two are reunited soon 🧡
@Migueldeicaza I feel bad asking, but would you mind giving this a boost? My friend is trying to reunite with his nine year old cat and he just needs a little help getting to the finish line. It would mean a lot.
As someone bonded with a kitty kitty named Mia as well, and as someone who has had her for going on 15 years, I really do hope you and her are reunited, from the bottom of my heart.
I can't even begin to imagine. My Mia nd I have been through everything together since she was like 5 weeks old.
Getting close 🤞
I hope you can be together soon. Sending hugs 
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Me every time I hear yet another news article about Tesla stuff being set on fire.
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As a Starlink user - with no choice at the moment but to continue to be - I feel so sorry for the poor bastards who legitimately bought Teslas back when the Reality Distortion Field was still in full effect.
Every time I see our dish in the back 'yard' (paddock) now, I just go "Well, FUCK."
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Please please boost! March bills are about to hit. Short on money for food, credit card bills, and childcare among... well, everything else, lol.
Tysm for your help!!
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Very nice UC Davis student I know lost their job and needs help until they can find sustaining work.
Please boost.
Please donate if you can.
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I have a family of 4 with a #transgender child in critical need of #mutualaid
In addition to their child facing discrimination in #Kentucky, the mother has lost access to medications she needs to live and is starting to die as her immune system attacks her whenever she eats.
They have a solid plan for how they are going to move to #Washington , and they do not need a lot. Timing, however, is critical!
Let’s get these folks out!
COMPLETE: with your help, these folks have successfully reached Washington state, though the move was difficult and dicey. They have shut down their gofundme in order to better qualify for public assistance.
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🐉know what? Fuck professionalism. This has to be said.
This woman is dying because the fucking capitalists cut her goddamn insurance
She *could* be taking the money she’s getting right now to buy medications, but she’s prioritizing getting to a state with better medical coverage and protecting her child from transphobia.
I think this woman may be starving herself to save her #trans child.
Their plan is to sleep in a van on a friend’s property until they can work out a better solution.
This is the darkest goddamn fundraiser I’ve ever done and I’m grateful it’s going so well.
Yall who are giving deserve to know. You deserve to see this for what it is. This is fucking class warfare. This is fucking #genocide
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"i just hope that no person anywhere in the world at any point in the future has to go through what mothers in Gaza went through these past few months.
like it was so insane. women were giving birth without medical aid and having c-sections without anaesthesia while being malnourished and unable to properly provide food and warmth to their newborns. they couldn't produce milk and couldn't afford baby formula."
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CW your posts, folks. Importance of a message has absolutely nothing to do with whether it has to be CW'd or not. Inclusion of triggering topics does.
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this continues to be relevant and accurate
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Well, I guess I have to find a new web browser now.
Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.
You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
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So if they decide ads based on my artwork/writing help me "navigate, experience, and interact with online content," they have the right to steal it from me and use it in their "privacy-respecting" ads?
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Will have to give it a read later but I hope this doesn't affect forks like librewolf
@TruelyNotARobot I'm not a lawyer but I don't see how. You were never presented with these conditions. If Mozilla thinks that they can say "this is available under a free software license but oh there's this other website where we take away your rights that you were never notified about" that's uhhhhh not the way it works.
No, if you upload your artwork they can outright steal it and you can't sue them because you agreed to ToS. That's what it says. This better turn into such massive shitshow Mozilla is going to feel it for a decade. I bet they want to use this bullshit to train their Ai garbage.
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Does it? The fact that the bolding ends before the end of the statement does not delete the "to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate" part.
Does it? The fact that the bolding ends before the end of the statement does not delete the "to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate" part.
@deirdrebeth @rejzor There's no way they *won't* be interpreting "navigate, experience, and interact with online content" in the same hoover-everything-for-advertising-or-AI-purposes sense that all other tech companies do these days.
@deirdrebeth @rejzor And suppose people say no thanks, I can navigate on my own? I somehow doubt Firefox will have that as a selectable option.
The advertising industry corrupts everything it touches.
@deirdrebeth "As you indicate" in what way? Via checkbox or via simply using the Firefox you automatically agree to it? It's so vague and broad it's ridiculous.
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No disagreement there. It is vague.
I'm holding out hope that it's vague in a good way (it seems like they're trying to be cute), rather than jumping to the conclusion that it's vague in a bad way.
No disagreement there. It is vague.
I'm holding out hope that it's vague in a good way (it seems like they're trying to be cute), rather than jumping to the conclusion that it's vague in a bad way.
not seeing what’s objectionable about the quoted section
If I upload my artwork to anywhere via Firefox, have I just granted a royalty-free license to that intellectual property to Firefox, if they deem use of it is in my best interest in "interacting with online content?"
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as I read it, you give them a limited license to use that content as needed to do what you’re using Firefox to do. I.e. if you’re uploading an image to a website, you authorize them to do so as you directed.
@copiesofcopies Good point. That interpretation is more comforting...
@WebCoder49 the problem with things that can be interpreted differently is that if your interpretation doesn't match Mozilla's, and they do a snatch and grab of all your stuff, your only recourse is an expensive lawsuit, which no matter which way it is finally decided, the only parties that win are the lawyers.
@womble @WebCoder49 @copiesofcopies Part of what Firefox is doing is now advertising. You are at the mercy of their definitions here.
yes, I've been watching Mozilla's various thrashing movements with slack-jawed horror for some time now.
@copiesofcopies Yeah, that seems more correct.
The last line is pretty telling "..as you indicate with your use of Firefox".
If you didn't indicate that you wanted Firefox to take your artwork then Mozilla doesn't get that permission. They only get the permissions to do what you "indicate".
The other important part is "When you upload or input information through Firefox"
Basically it's just saying that if you indicate that you want to upload a photo to x website, by for example dragging an image into Firefox, then you give Firefox permission to send it to that website you are on.
To rephrase, when you upload through Firefox, you give Firefox the permission to do what you indicated, i.e. uploading.
The true meaning of the quote seem to have blown over @mttaggart 's head like a helium balloon.
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@saphkey @copiesofcopies It didn't. Your interpretation does not require a "non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide license."
@saphkey non-exclusive because you can license your content to others too, royalty-free because Mozilla isn’t going to pay users to use its browser, worldwide because the user could be anywhere. All of those are in fact necessary, the first protects the user’s interests.
@saphkey @copiesofcopies So are all software companies that upload content violating laws by not having this language? Or liable for some lawsuit? FTP software for example?
@rspfau @copiesofcopies The lawsuit environment in USA is quite insane. People file lawsuits over any small thing.
And lawsuits are expensive. Often it just turns into a battle of attrition by money.
A terms of use document is cheap way to stand stronger in those battles.
Its not something that is required, but one day you might wish your company had one.
Just go have a look at the page, its mostly just textbook things like "You Are Responsible for the Consequences of Your Use of Firefox",
if you eat Firefox you are responsible for your tummy-ache
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@copiesofcopies The way Mozilla has been going recently, and the way it's worded, I'm having two hunches.
1. This is required for their new advertising initiative. Mozilla wants to collect (presumably anonymous) data about shown ads and conversion.
2. This can be used for some kind of AI thingy. Like, imagine a local neural net that'll get trained on sites your visit and images you upload.
1. This is required for their new advertising initiative. Mozilla wants to collect (presumably anonymous) data about shown ads and conversion.
2. This can be used for some kind of AI thingy. Like, imagine a local neural net that'll get trained on sites your visit and images you upload.
@copiesofcopies Or what about my private medical conversations with my Oncologist? Or my bank?
oh for fucks sake... I am done with mozilla and their bullshit. sorry firefox, you'll have to go.
This clause explicitly separates the information they claim license over from the data collected in the Privacy Notice. This clause is more expansive—"information uploaded through Firefox" is basically anything in a HTTP request or a websocket.
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This is the press release. I do not believe there is concord between this language and the actual policy: blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
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Hey FWIW, Vivaldi does not have anything like this language: vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-en…
Vivaldi End User License Agreement | Vivaldi Browser
Read the end user license agreement for the Vivaldi browser and find out how to get in touch if you have any questions about regarding our EULA.Vivaldi Technologies
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This is your hojillionth reminder that non-profits are corpos that figured out how to avoid taxes. When the chips are down, most will readjust the "mission" toward revenue.
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but wait, Mozilla has this cute new logo now. They cannot be that bad...
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de-mozilla'd firefox when?
@schrottkatze
much like the Cylons, this has happened many times before, and will probably happen again a bunch more times.
I think LibreWolf is the most popular, there's also one called Floorp I remember usually because it sounds like a meme.
I moved from firefox to librewolf
vivaldi is chromium based, which has it's own risks
Maybe I'll use librewolf or some-such 🤔
I have spent my night reading browser Terms and Privacy Policies. Why? Because I love you and hate myself, apparently.
So here's the deal: that "non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license" you're granting to Firefox/Moz when you upload data through it? It is boilerplate language. Pretty common actually!
But not in browsers. In fact, not a single browser ToS has anything resembling this provision.
Know what does?
I wonder why Mozilla would want to use the same language those platforms do.
X Terms of Service
Read X's Terms of Service to understand the rules governing your access of all Twitter services.twitter-com
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Mozilla has updated their press release with the following clarification:
UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information type into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.
blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…
That is good to hear, but their reasoning makes no sense given that no other browser uses that language.
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
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... yeah, we don't want Mozilla to use information that we type into Firefox? that's our entire objection
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@ireneista Many have suggested that the intended meaning here is something like "We literally need to license your data to transmit it via HTTP," but this feels off to me, given that no other browser's Terms contain this language. I'd be interested in your thoughts on that.
we're not a lawyer but we have for sure worked on this sort of thing, and that would be quite a radical interpretation compared to any we've seen before... it's conceivable that something in the digital markets act or digital services act creates a new requirement we're not personally aware of, but our best guesses are >
> that it's one of two things:
- Mozilla's lawyers overthought it and came up with something weird and unnecessary and are now regretting they didn't loop in the PR team
- the company needs this permission because it intends to use this permission, because it intends to use browsing data in all the ways everyone is concerned about
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A third possibility is that someone lazy just copied and pasted from other terms of service, and now they're scrambling to justify why that cruft is in there rather than just own up to it.
I think it makes sense for specific services that need to transit through Mozilla's servers first, but for anything else it doesn't. Examples of such services would be account synchronization, online translation (although Firefox has offline models, but maybe they also have online?), search suggestions (pretty sure those go through a Moz server that also serves "recommended" sites)... Essentially all optional features that aren't the core of what a browser does, but some may be enabled by default so it's easier for them to just ask for the rights to use the necessary information instead of having the users specifically activate them and get an extra clause to look at. Although having them opt-in by default would be more privacy friendly...
it's always easier for a company to reserve every possible right to itself, but that doesn't mean the public should stand for it
But it also doesn't mean we should shout "they became evil!!" when they choose the easy option, I saw your responses basically saying that now they are using all our data for AI training but nothing in their privacy policy suggests that they do...
we didn't say anything about "now". we've been involved in this sort of change from the other side, the update to the legal documents always comes before the feature rollout.
we've really tried pretty hard to avoid taking extremist positions such as "evil", and instead to speak only to what's in evidence. of course, social media being what it is, people will choose to hear things we don't say. we try our best, but people are very determined about that.
if you read almost any privacy policy carefully you will find that it promises exactly nothing. we have a whole gallows-humor piece about that from a while back. irenes.space/leaves/2024-09-29…
Oh yeah that wasn't from you, my bad. But my point stands: I did see some reactions going straight to the AI harvesting based on this change, but based on what I see in other companies that changes their terms to slurp all user contributes data into their LLM trainer, it is not enough.
can you elaborate on what exactly "is" is that is not enough, and not enough for what?
@ireneista some lawyer thought it was a good idea to put the TCP/IP stack into legalese.
Next: "we have the right to copy all your data as needed" (to put it into a network packet)
Next: "we have the right to copy all your data as needed" (to put it into a network packet)
@ireneista Mozilla the company is not transmitting the data. It provides the means to do so to me. -I- cause my data to be transmitted.
That's like saying Bosch heats my water for me, or Citroen drives me to work.
that's under the present implementation. the normal way to roll out features that require legal changes is to do the paperwork first, and only then deploy the feature. so we're left only speculating about what future changes might bring, once the company has the right to do that........
@ireneista well yeah, that's why I'm busy switching browser
@http_error_418 @ireneista So, having done a fairly exhaustive review of browser terms, I can tell you that this language is rare. But when it's present, such as in Arc's terms, it is explicit about the use of your data in transmission, and that's it. Arc is also notable—perhaps because it is an AI product—for starting its Privacy Policy with statements about what it will not collect from you. Firefox's policy, sadly, makes no such definitive claims.
ah :/ yeah. sorry. wish we had something more comforting to say about it...
There's nothing wrong with Mozilla not using data typed in to or travelling through Firefox, they could just not.
The issue is that "anything described in the Privacy Notice" is incredibly broad.
IMO it would be easy to argue that "training an AI model on it" is "helping you yadayada". Like… yeah, they can't sell it to data brokers. But almost anything else they *might* want to do with it can be justified with that clause. And most of it I don't want.
IMO it would be easy to argue that "training an AI model on it" is "helping you yadayada". Like… yeah, they can't sell it to data brokers. But almost anything else they *might* want to do with it can be justified with that clause. And most of it I don't want.
What I find troubling is the vagueness about 'upload' - to me, an upload is anything at all sent in the upstream, including personal logins and private identity data you may be sharing with a secure system. If this is what they mean, then they need to break down exactly what data is being collected. Is it everything you send to a site via the browser?
Or is this whole thing just about basic telemetry that you can disable in privacy settings?
Aaah the ole' not legally binding or material in anyway blog post 'clarification'.
I might not even be a country lawyer but this language is still overreach. Never mind the termination clauses where they can try and stop you from using Firefox?
that's just lies though
For all the shit that Brave gets, not even Brave has this in there TOS
why the hell do THEY need to use information that should only go between me and a website? FF worked for tens of years without this, what "basic functionality" are they talking about at this point?
- This shouldn't have needed to be clarified in the first place. If that blogpost was proofread by anyone they would have seen that section and called it out for being likely to be 'misunderstood'
- It's indeed still really weird phrasing
- It's indeed still really weird phrasing
To me as zero value what they say in a blog, what it matters is what they say in the terms, and their they say the opposite.
We might need a description of said "basic functionalities". For instance, is spying on us to display targeted ads a basic functionality?
I'm not convinced one bit.
> We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible.
Which basic functionality, exactly?
How, exactly, would it be impossible without the license?
> Without it, we couldn’t use information type into Firefox, for example.
Use *how*, exactly?
Can we please be more specific here, @mozillaofficial ?
Ope! Got one browser that does.
Thanks to @Schouten_B for uncovering the license language in the extended Google Terms of Service for Chrome.
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Found another! Arc has worldwide license language.
But its language is clearly-scoped and explains the purpose.
Oof, mutual arb, too.
Could this be a precursor to rolling out Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA)?
noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-…
Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser which tracks user behaviour on websites.noyb.eu
Any thoughts on Librewolf?
librewolf.net/
librewolf.net/
LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
@deFractal Sorry, I have none. Unlike many here, I do not require my browser to be FOSS. I use Vivaldi quite happily, and have never felt the need to explore the Firefox forks.
Talk to me when Servo makes it into something.
My priority criteria are full @ublockorigin compatibility and support for all my user scripts and user styles for fragile or consent-contemptuous sites requiring something more complex than uBlock Origin filters. Tab containers are also important.
Essentially, I care about ensuring I can eat my cake and still have it: block each part of every site that doesn't serve my purpose, and still make the parts which do serve my purpose work despite that.
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If your ToS and privacy statement require a lawyer to understand what you actually do with user data that is not GDPR compliant.
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sorry, in case i'm answering rhetorical questions, but those platforms have that license thing because they publish your content.
So that would mean mozilla wants to publish my browsing behavior?
AI training could be kind of seen as publishing, but the license seems to be too heavy for that.
I think gmail has that clause as well, so advertising?
Well once it goes into effect we should be able to DSGVO it.
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I like Vivaldi, but hate the fact it's furthering Google's dominance by using Chromium engine.
Pfft...
Bunch of lawyer-speak drivel designed to obfuscate that Mozilla has simply decided they can't ignore the cash they stand to gain from having more and more data to sell.
Joining Google on the ad/data sales evil side.
🤦♀️🤷🫏🤡🖕
Yeah, can't say I love that.
so they’ve decided to scrape data from every user & become a massive security liability?
@TransitBiker Apparently not; keep reading the thread
Everyone, switch to #LibreWolf. It's based on Firefox but has all the privacy-invasive bullshit stripped out.
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@TamsynUlthara And what do I use on Android? Which is not Chrome based....
Damn, Europe really needs a European browser and engine.
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Mull,if you can stomach the forced 60Hz and other quality of life things that are disabled because of privacy.
Mull,if you can stomach the forced 60Hz and other quality of life things that are disabled because of privacy.
Vivaldi isn't open source, and has telemetry. I wouldn't use it for those reasons, at least.
Floorp + UBO?
I recommend UBO no matter what! 💜
@TamsynUlthara Librewolf is cool in theory but kind of Opinionated™. Seriously, deleting all your history when you close the browser??? That should NOT be on by default, what the actual fuck. (I knew there was something I didn't like about its defaults last we tried it, but couldn't remember what, so I looked it up just now and found its settings docs and..yeah.)
Is there something like it that's less... *waves paw* yeah?
Kinda sucks because I'm a wolf and I would love a Wolf Browser that's actually good. But yeah.
I agree that the LibreWolf defaults are ... not the best for people using it as a standard browser. The idea is to make it as secure and private as possible by default, and let the user scale that back as necessary.
The one thing I find the most annoying is having it always open its window to certain dimensions on startup, to reduce fingerprinting, with no way (that I've found) in the settings to disable it. It doesn't matter in my tiling window manager, but on other machines I've had to use an extension to work around this.
@TamsynUlthara OOF I think I remember running into that now that you mention it. Another yikes!
It would be nice if there were a toggle to easily make LibreWolf more-or-less as functional as standard Firefox, just minus the privacy-invasive bullshit from upstream, and let us add more security/privacy as we saw fit. Right now we have to work in the opposite direction, which is frustrating for new users. (Once you get past that initial one-time phase of tweaking the settings, the experience is solid, IMHO.)
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@scottwilson Sometimes this language gets written without sufficient scrutiny. And sometimes it gets written with all the scrutiny it needs to ensure you, the user, are screwed.
@scottwilson I think they're being very clear about what they want. In fact, I'd go so far as to speculate that somewhere, around some boardroom table, there was a conversation that Firefox is an albatross around Mozilla's neck. The sooner they can kill it and become the AI/privacy ads org, the better.
@vkc I ain't gonna tell people what browser to use (it's not a particularly weighty moral choice!). In terms of stability, however, I like that Vivaldi has arrived at a business model that pays developers without screwing users.
Does this apply to software that uses the Firefox's engine like Zen Browser?
@wtrmt No. From the Terms:
These Terms only apply to the Executable Code version of Firefox, not the Firefox source code.
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anyone know what the previous terms were?
(Going to be so sad when this turns out to be AI related)
@davidhanzlik Per OMG Ubuntu, they are new new: omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozill…
Mozilla is Introducing ‘Terms of Use’ to Firefox
Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browse...Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
@scottwilson @cR0w We're all gonna be keying in messages via Meshtastic via Morse on @Sempf 's BBS. That'll be it.
That's my guess too. They will train an AI or several with data we let go through Firefox. That's a no go for me. Is that as serious as it sounds? Is it time to leave a 20+ year-old web partner?
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@da_667 The very same. Viv has been my standard since I ditched Brave, and I've been very happy with it.
this wording is wonky but you are not providing context and kind of posturing. That may not be your intent but given the replies it's implied.
@cienmilojos How the hell can replies to a post be my "posturing?" I have linked primary sources and provided a read.
It is time to use a browser based on just-rebranded Firefox code. Fennec for smartphone is OK, but I have not found a similar alternative for the desktop. Those I know about have some undesirable delay in releasing updates. Other option is to choose a fork like IceCat and check its update cadence in relation to upstream.
so if I use Firefox to post an article to my self hosted CMS, they are claiming copyright over my work now?
or, say, if I use Firefox at work to submit code changes. This is untenable...
In short, Firefox is going to steal people's passwords.
Based on that guess it's time to say goodbye and thanks for all the fish to Firefox.
why does everything have to be speed run to enshittification? I start loosing every last slither of hope. All is drifting away and for no good reasons.
@da_667 @scottwilson @cR0w I used it. Hell, it's in the old PWST videos. I'm ashamed of that. But yeah, if you're looking for a browser that has a sustainable business model but doesn't screw users, you have a clear option. If you require FOSS, you have a thousand, but I don't trust a single one to be around for > 5 years
@scottwilson @cR0w youtubers were promoting it, like they promoted operaGX, like they promoted NordVPN, like they promoted ---
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!
assume anything that's a paid bit is probably awful.
@scottwilson @cR0w I've avoided it like the plague because fuck anything even tangentially related to cryptocurrency. Even if they ripped it out, unless it was the VERY LAST BASTION with ublock/manifest V2 support, I wouldn't touch it.
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That's really a very vague, unhelpful statement in bold! I guess it's the only popular browser where you can look at all the code and disable linking to proprietary services through the settings [citation needed], so that will help guard against abuse of that term, but it still feels foreboding...
Jesus christ why can't we have nice things?
Boy I'm glad I switched to Brave.
is this not the same boilerplate language used in almost every website that hosts user content?
Like, no doubt it’s weird for a browser to do this but that wording is typically for allowing websites to publicly host your content on their service/equipment and allow things like image cropping/ re-sharing etc.
Makes me wonder if they’re going to start like, hosting servers as intermediaries between the user and whatever site they’re uploading to. I can’t see why that’d be worth it though except maybe in situations where the end site is unstable. Even if it is at the end of the day for training purposes, I can’t imagine they’d not have some kind of cover story to justify it.
@malusdraco A website is not the intermediary between you and the rest of the web. This language suggests every HTTP request you make is fair game. That's the difference.
I don’t know that I buy “any http request” unless that qualifies as “inputted information”
did they do some sort of press release to go with the change in policy?
did they do some sort of press release to go with the change in policy?
@malusdraco blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
newsweek.com/gops-war-abortion…
"Your rights don't exist" is Firefox's new Terms of Use.
politico.com/news/2024/04/09/i…
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
theregister.com/2025/02/25/chi…
newyorker.com/news/daily-comme…
hipaajournal.com/republicans-f…
politico.com/newsletters/playb…
nytimes.com/2017/03/29/opinion…
pbs.org/newshour/politics/lame…
freepress.net/blog/gop-lawmake…
therecord.media/data-privacy-l…
Tech authoritarianism relies on voyeuristic invasions of voter's privacy for profit & control.
cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/el…
Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book
Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't itJessica Lyons (The Register)
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@da_667 god dammit. Is it even possible for a secure open source browser with its own rendering engine to be maintained without AI and advertising infecting every part of it?
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@Sempf @scottwilson
@da_667 Chromium (that is, non-official google chrome) browsers still support it for now. Eg, debian's chromium package.
@f4grx well it is probably a rebuild of firefox, like a thousand of others. I'd rather have something properly security-supported.
Please do not forget that Firefox is a Google product.
@da_667 vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-u…
We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.
Manifest v3 update: Vivaldi is future-proofed with its built-in functionality | Vivaldi Browser
Google is forcing an update from manifest v2 to v3. With the most important functionality built into Vivaldi, it will have a limited impact.Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)
welp, uninstalling firefox
@f4grx with rebuilds, the question is how well they port security fixes to their fork. well, that and when will they get themselved pwned of course, with a backdoored update getting pushed to users...
Has anyone yet looked at #Firefox code and determined whether Mozilla snuck in something that sends them data even before they introduced their terms of use?
"help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content"? What TF does that *mean*?
reading the bolded sounds like a typical web browsing experience. You type something in, the browser gets your analytics. I'm sure Firefox has some cloud based bullshit given that the browser is such a ram hog.
Thanks, broke the world record in setting up LibreWolf just now
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@Tubsta @JoeRess @LateNightLinux
They have such potential to be the Good People given how everything is going. So frustrating they’re fumbling the opportunity… again. :/
They have such potential to be the Good People given how everything is going. So frustrating they’re fumbling the opportunity… again. :/
Great, another thing where I need to look for an alternative now.
With the lay-offs, the refocus on AI, the introduction of adverts and now this, it's like the Mozilla Foundation is carefully doing everything it can to render itself irrelevant.
I want to believe this is just being misintrepted somehow.... but I keep saying that each time Firefox does something.....
Anyways, not regretting switching from Firefox to @zenbrowser (also firefox based)
@Zen
librewolf or waterfox? In favor of the second it has an android app...
Is this from a certain version on, or..? Cause I don't mind stopping updating for a while, I did it already in the past.
I'm skeptical of what exactly this means. Every social media service gets shit for saying you relinquish rights to them for anything you upload but that's kind of the only legalese way that they can allow user generated content. IANAL, so it's hard for me to judge why they would need that text and why they would not.
@igimenezblb I think the important distinction here is a site you navigate to and a service you use on the web, and the tool you use to access everything on the web.
@Iker
I am happy I dumped them. Their reasoning is fictitious.
fucking yikes! Does anyone know if they have the same access to forks (the one I have in mind is Tor) or if this only applies if we're using the official Firefox app? I have a feeling it's the latter but better safe than sorry
damn it. I guess it's back to SeaMonkey.
Oh goddammit why....
Welp, off to something else. Gonna have to check out Vivaldi. Thanks for that @mttaggart, always appreciate a recommendation.
Welp, off to something else. Gonna have to check out Vivaldi. Thanks for that @mttaggart, always appreciate a recommendation.
not cool mozilla
OK e-mailed legal-notices@mozilla.com
(Note it is a lot more than this one clause where they expand their claimed right to spy on you, and i encourage your e-mails to reflect this where i did not. See Sarah Jamie Lewis' thread, social.coop/@sarahjamielewis@m… )
Anyway what i wrote, before i read that:
Firefox does not have any right to information i enter into the URL address bar or forms on websites
My feedback and suggestion here, absolutely you can use for free.
Which is that this clause is wildly unacceptable, and you need to make very clear that you do not and will not ever spy on people while they browse:
"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."
Sounds like a ridiculously overbroad claim so that you can stick "AI" down our throats and advertisements, but with this start you will hand over our private data to a fascist government, too.
And again, that sentence is making a claim to data that was never intended to be shared with Mozilla, that is and must remain solely the private personal communication between the person using Firefox and the website being visited.
This is nothing short of atrocious
over 20 years later...
Sensitive content
Challenge:companies try not to milk users for data. Level: impossible
most likely only in the USA,
ungoogled chromium exist
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Reminds me of Chrome's "Enhanced ad privacy" in the way this seems to be a form of privacy washing.
Source: ghacks.net/2023/07/01/all-chro…
All Chrome users will see popups in the coming weeks: here is why - gHacks Tech News
Google plans to show a popup to all Chrome users that informs them about tracking related changes that it introduced in the browser.Martin Brinkmann (Ghacks Technology News)
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Mozilla rejected me as their head of Policy/T&S without even a recruiter reachout interview - So the more I see them fuck up the more amused at them I am 😛
how is this possible? anything i write, upload, input...is basically everything i do in a browser. this includes passwords, media, etc.
fuck ALL the way off, mozilla. now to find some browser that has decent extensions and isnt a right assbag.
I'm surprised to see you spreading FUD like this.
How is this license different than any other license for any other web-based application?
You know how many things your browser interacts with to display what it does and you also know that there are a handful of tools like Firefox Sync or Pocket built into it that interact with backend services that Mozilla runs, and those things probably already had terms like this so....
I'm straining to see any way in which this is an issue other than the fact that everybody in the entire universe is going to make it an issue, because we go through this fucking dance every single time everyone ever sees this language, even though it's used in like every EULA ever and you'd think people would get it by now.
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@mav I want you to think carefully about the difference between the means of access—the browser—and the site that you choose to access. The language at the browser layer is much more concerning.
Also, I take exception with the "FUD" framing. I have linked only primary sources here. We can disagree about interpretation, but that's not the same thing as FUD..
@mav
So is the issue you're taking here that the EULA is not sufficiently granular, in that it doesn't distinguish between usage for data provided for standard browsing versus data transmitted to built-in services like Sync?
I'm calling this FUD specifically because I think your interpretation of this language, which we really do see almost everywhere, is particularly uncharitable (to put it nicely.)
I'm as frustrated with Moz' governance as everyone else, but I do not think this EULA is some great evil. I think this is probably them trying to have one standard EULA instead of separate EULAs for every damn thing they do, plus they didn't have one at all AFAIK for the data they exchange to provide standard things like CRL lookups and safe browsing checks.
I guess if you want to say that your beef with it is that this could be stretched to say that every time you submit data to a site you're giving Mozilla a license to use it, but I don't think that's what they intended at all. Moreover, Firefox IS using your data, and if you use Sync, may very well be saving stuff about what you did (depending on what kind of access you did.)
Asking them to clarify is certainly not unreasonable, but this is hardly a "panic lets all switch to Chrome" kind of scenario.
@mav Respectfully, you are imputing intent where there is none in the language. For one thing, "Sync" shows up nowhere in this paragraph. The language is "When you upload or input information through Firefox." That is broad, and I must assume intentionally broad.
Look, we can disagree on intention, but think defensively. Let's assume Mozilla does want to do gross stuff with my HTTP requests. With this tacit contract, I've agreed to that usage, and any attorney worth a damn could argue so in front of a judge or jury. It's not what they will do; it's what the language could let them do.
@mav
I think that the smartest attorney in the world would have a difficult time crafting a EULA for a browser that, under these terms, you would be willing to accept. I'm not a lawyer (or even a particularly good approximation of one) but it sounds like to me the only way to satisfy the thing you're asking for is to spell out in detail inside the EULA itself what services they are talking about and when they are used.
(Mozilla's site does spell out in significant detail what they acquire and what they do with it, but unless there's something specific to link each section with its corresponding role in the EULA, I can't imagine anyone being sufficiently happy about it.)
From a defensive point of view, you're using a tool you didn't make to access servers and services you don't control. If any one of the pieces of this puzzle decide to go full evil, everyone interacting with that layer is fucked.
And it's quite clear by the discussion here that the primary remedy for this is seen as other browsers. Which, fine, use whatever browser you want, but there's one engine in the world left that runs uBO and it ain't Chrome. (I'm not in any way happy about this, but that's what happens when you put the world's largest ad company in charge of the world's most widely used browser engine.)
This is like the 9,185,046th time we've had the exact same license use terms discussion and I feel like I wanna just wail for a while and then do a shot for every one of them and expire in an alcohol-induced coma.
@mav This is a very confusing claim, given that I above linked Vivaldi's Terms, which do not include this seemingly intentionally-vague or expansive language. And those terms satisfy me just fine. So I guess it is possible to satisfy me!
If by "what they acquire," you are referring to the enumerated data in the Privacy Policy, the paragraph in question in the new terms is clear that they are referencing a set of data including, but not limited to, that data. Combined with the expansive "Uploaded through Firefox" language is neither normal nor particularly comforting.
Now, your points on defensive tooling are pure goalpost-moving. Yes, any service can decide to "go evil," as you put it. But look at how Mozilla has been behaving. Why the hell would I give them the benefit of the doubt now?
As far as what's been hashed and rehashed, I cannot recall a time when a web browser, much less an open source one meant to be a paragon of privacy, has included language like this.
I could be entirely wrong! But look at the pattern and tell me I shouldn't be wary.
@mav
I think you should definitely be wary. Mozilla has a long and storied history of looking exactly at what their users want them to do and then pulling out a gun and peppering us all with bullets. And then being like "Whoops!" It's infuriating.
There's no other real options. There's no other browser out there that's worth a fuck in the long run; it's all Chromium. As much as I like Vivaldi, it's just Chromium.
I also still think this is the same damn boilerplate text that's in every goddamn license agreement on Earth so I don't understand why it matters.
You say this is the kind of license agreement that you see in creepy social media, which is true. It's also the same license agreement you see for any other piece of software that has to transmit, store, or display your data anywhere. I just don't think this is that big of a deal and I do not understand why everyone is freaking out about it. I'm also genuinely shocked that other browsers don't have this kind of license. I imagine the reason why Chrome can get away with it is because All of the services that would need this kind of license are all automatically covered by the Google EULA you have to agree to to get an account. I'm quite surprised that neither Firefox previously nor Vivaldi nor any other browser with a sync tool have this kind of license either. Or maybe they just pushed off the license into the sync tool so you didn't have to agree to it until you used it.
The weird psrudonymous advertising thing is just so much bigger of a deal. And yet we're still stuck with this damn browser because - for the moment - it still exists. Considering the speed at which horrors are flying at us these days, I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow Mozilla got wholly acquired by Alphabet and there became one browser on all of Earth. Especially considering that antitrust law is now dead.
Anyway, I hope this all works out the way you want, that would be good for all of us. I'm going to keep using the only browser on the planet in which ublock origin continues to work, and see what godawful nightmares tomorrow brings.
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No.
I also quite admire yan and to be honest am surprised they're still involved.
Brave is a crypto scam with a browser wrapped around it, run by a bigot.
Vivaldi is just as good and has none of the creepy baggage.
⏫⏫anyone have suggestions as to another browser?
I'm not sure what these terms mean exactly, but regardless this is why I'm quite happy with Fedora's build of Firefox. A counterweight against ISVs for stuff like this.
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Started using Librewolf instead because the handwriting's been on the wall regarding Firefox and user data/privacy for a while.
I can't think of any respectful reason to expect me to grant non-exclusive wordwide rights to my browsing data of any kind, what the
does konqueror support chrome or firefox extensions
time for a fork, Mozilla no longer has users best interests in mind.
I blogged about this for a wider audience: quippd.com/posts/2025/02/26/mo…
Also open to feedback!
Mozilla’s New Terms of Use are out of step with Firefox’s Direct Competition
On Wednesday, Mozilla introduced legal updates to users of Firefox, and something feels off. I read, and re-read the new Terms of Use and while much of it reads like standard boilerplate from any tech company, there’s a new section that doesn’t seem …Asif Youssuff
@vkc wait what is Vivaldi's business model? Did I miss a memo?
(I love Vivaldi for what they do but I don't think there is a single browser out there who isn't getting the bulk of its revenue from search companies..?)
(I love Vivaldi for what they do but I don't think there is a single browser out there who isn't getting the bulk of its revenue from search companies..?)
@scottwilson One has to wonder if, one day, Mozilla will just port Firefox to Chromium.
Heck, they have already abandoned Servo.
Heck, they have already abandoned Servo.
I actually read the tagline as this;
MOZILLA
Forget: About Your Rights
... So who is making Mozilla afraid of being sued by people uploading stuff to a service marketed as AI
*sigh*
Here we go again. I've had enough with IE ages ago and moved to Chrome. Then to Firefox. Now I'm trying LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox hosted on Codeberg.
Here we go again. I've had enough with IE ages ago and moved to Chrome. Then to Firefox. Now I'm trying LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox hosted on Codeberg.
@Polychrome @lispi314 Yours is a very charitable reading of the clause. But let's consider Mozilla's recent behavior, and ask how much good faith is due. Can you imagine no more expansive interpretation of this language?
I've spent the night reading browser Terms. Not a one includes a clause like this. They do explicitly call out GDPR, which this oddly does not (the Privacy Policy does have appropriate EU affordances). You know what does use this language?
Facebook.
looks like it means they're giving themselves the right to upload the data to the web server that you're choosing to upload the data to.
In other words, they're covering their butt as to their right to do what you're actually intending to do and nothing else but.
What am I missing here?
My credentials on websites. Everything I upload to the cloud. My browsing and search histories.
WTF?
librewolf.net/
LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
@Schouten_B I do not agree.
You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet.
This means the set of data to which the "license" applies includes, but is not limited to, the data defined in the Privacy Policy. That's why the "when you upload or input information through Firefox" clause is so concerning to me. We don't know the bounds of that expanded set, only that it is expanded.
And I had recently moved to Firefox to get rid of Google and Microsoft browsers. What do I do?
@Schouten_B Well, they've clarified in that direction, but I still find their rationale bogus, given that no other browser seems to require that language to operate. But hey, at least we can hold them to this.
I won't use a chromium-based browser again, so I might give a Firefox fork a opportunity now
I am certainly not EU law expert, but Article 5, section 1 of 2001/29/EC would seem to obviate this concern:
- Temporary acts of reproduction referred to in Article 2, which are transient or incidental [and] an integral and essential part of a technological process and whose sole purpose is to enable:
(a) a transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary, or
(b) a lawful use of a work or other subject-matter to be made, and which have no independent economic significance, shall be exempted from the reproduction right provided for in Article 2.
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how can open source software have terms of use? The licence prohibits restricting how it is used 🤷♀️
This is why I started using LibreWolf, but after only a couple of weeks it stopped working (can't now remember how - clearly time to try it again).
@Schouten_B Yeah I dunno, this is scoped to the Google Services, aka the applications on the web. And as mentioned, other such services license similarly. But I can not for the life of me find any instance of a browser's own terms doing this.
@buherator As of today, Mozilla's primary revenue comes from search engine deals, not adtech. That will be true if and until the DoJ's proposed remedies in the Chrome antitrust case are adopted, which would prevent the kind of exclusive deal Google has with Mozilla.
@Schouten_B I understand that. But the nuance here is where the license for the content is applied: at the service level, or the browser. This reads clearly to me that it's at the service level.
@rootsnase Based on this, the charitable reading seems to be what they are claiming: they need this license to literally transmit your data via HTTP. But uh, no other browser uses this language, so it's still weird.
i'm hoping this doesn't apply to forks like librewolf or waterfox
@big_louse It explicitly does not.
This...makes my point? The enumerated services do not include the browser qua the browser. This is the distinction! Google is not, it seems, claiming a license over all HTTP requests you send anywhere via Chrome. But Firefox now is.
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Ironfox for Android
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
GitHub - ironfox-oss/IronFox: IronFox is secure, hardened and privacy-oriented browser based on Firefox. This is read-only mirror of gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox.
IronFox is secure, hardened and privacy-oriented browser based on Firefox. This is read-only mirror of https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox. - ironfox-oss/IronFoxGitHub
yes. we said something to that effect earlier today, and we still think it's the most likely explanation.
also, like, this does not happen in a vacuum, the company has spoken about its intent to pivot, since its main business model was to get paid by google to be the default search engine and that was found to be an antitrust violation
@infosecdj @f4grx It's not out yet, but #LadyBirdBrowser is perhaps the only real alternative that we have when it's released. It's open source of course. I'm begrudgingly sticking with Brave until then
Librewolf
OK, fair enough, so, if I may ask, what is the best alternative to Mozilla/Firefox before I advise my friends to switch from Google Chrome to FF?
@maniandthenonos Ain't no best. As this entire conversation demonstrates, browsers are an intensely personal choice. For some, it's a value statement. For others, the choice is purely pragmatic. There have been several mentioned in this thread that prioritize different aspects (privacy, openness, compatibility, etc.). I personally like using Vivaldi, but that's a non-starter for a lot of of people due to its Chromium base. Shop around!
@rootsnase not just weird, ridiculous; if true, it would mean all software should have such a license for doing anything at all, which is of course not the case. The one installing/running the software is the responsible party in terms of processing, and the data does not need to come anywhere near mozilla themselves
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Then the licence cannot be a blanket one but specific to the purpose. Given search terms are currently used without licence and search results are storable and reusable without a specific licence it simply puts a barrier between the user and Mozilla that wasn't there before.
Given that search behaviour has not needed to be licenced up to now and it's a necessary feature of a browser enforcing one now is bound to fail without consideration.
1) I kind of like the language, it’s GPL-esque. 2) I dislike the idea of a legal entity having any kind of operation in their behalf on my Linux machine.
@neil Seems like there been an update? socel.net/@9x0rg@mamot.fr/1140…
Thanks for this.
(FFS I've *just* de-googled / set up FF as my business browser, and started migrating to Protonmail.
To find both are now enshitticorps. Oh well..)
Anyone, how does that fly with EU privacy and data protection laws?
I'm not seeing anything yet. Slow rollout, or highly illegal here??
@neil @TheVampireFishQueen One @lilianedwards and I did a piece of theatre at #Gikii on this few years back - in the context of the Databox project, a self hosted personal data store - if data never left the device what licence if any did (commercial) SW supplier need, and what GDPR obligations did they have. Not sure we ever actually got to a satisfactory conclusion!
@f4grx @infosecdj I couldn't say without being directly involved with development. However, the devs have said they plan to support popular extensions, but are currently focused on building the engine. It is being built from the ground up afterall, and Alpha (to early adopters) is only scheduled for Summer 2026 at this stage.
By their own admission, they do tracking upon installation.
@leeloo @copiesofcopies They ARE a cloud service, including but not limited to Firefox Sync, the ReadItLater watchamathing (Pocket), Firefox Relay and a VPN.
Still my browser.
I think the objections to these changes are going to be much deeper and wider than just 'information' type usage, they change the whole relationship between Mozilla and the User.
The User can avoid a lot of this by never updating or removing the Firefox account and never logging in. Licences with unidentified users cannot be relied upon by the Licensee as a defence for use.
It essentially destroys the point of FOSS.
I can switch browsers easily enough. However, I have decades’ worth of email in #Thunderbird. I’m more worried about that. Have they added terms of (dis)service to that app yet?
@colin Thunderbird is, under the hood, a re-skin of Firefox. If Firefox goes, so too does Thunderbird unfortunately 🙁
@aspensmonster @colin The Firefox Terms of Use do not apply to Thunderbird or any other products, e.g. Appointment or K-9 Mail.
help.vivaldi.com/desktop/priva…
Update: The project to remove our unique ID stalled after we encountered unexpected deviations in the number of users counted using other methods. We spent a lot of time researching and understanding the reasons for this. We have concluded that the numbers we get using a unique id are more accurate, so we are sticking with it at the moment. It’s as important not to over-count as it is not to under-count as we develop Vivaldi.
How we count our users | Vivaldi Browser Help
Knowing how many users Vivaldi has is important for the development of the browser. Learn how we do it here.Tony is helping (Vivaldi Browser Help)
Like others, I'm trying to figure out what features this could possibly support. The only thing I can think of is the Firefox Sync, so I guess Firefox can use my passwords now? And for Select->Right Click->Translate to English? They get a license to whatever I'm trying to translate
@hobs @stinerman @TruelyNotARobot @_tissa_ if it's just bookmarks you are concerned about you can export them manually or use a tool like xbrowsersync.org/ it's open source and encrypted and works with all browsers. There's an APK you can get and keep up to date with Obtainium for Android devices as well.
xBrowserSync - Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
Free and open source tool for syncing your bookmarks and browser data between your various browsers and devices.www.xbrowsersync.org
@buherator They are in adtech, just not as a primary revenue stream. But leaving that aside, compare their Terms with browsers supported by similar models, like Brave or Vivaldi. You'll find this language much more expansive.
the clarification doesn't clarify anything 😞 it is still understandable as "whatever you do with and whatever is passed through the software is ours to do whatever we want"
@c0rb34u It scopes the "license" clause to only the data enumerated in the Privacy Policy. That clause by itself reads as greater than that set, which is problematic.
the clarification is in a blog post, that may not be legally binding. so in my eyes any clarification outside of the ToS is worthless.
If #Mozilla wants to offer AI services or collect and use their users data, this should be a separate opt-in ToS in my opinion, not the terms of the base application.
But TBH #Mozilla is doing too much dumb management decisions these days, so I'm considering to stop recommending it. (colorways, firing #rust and #servo teams, ads for temu and so on)
I think it might have been intended to mean "if you upload copyrighted data using Firefox we're not responsible for any license fees just because you passed it through our software and services."
But I'm sure a good lawyer could twist this in just about any direction they want.
shit company doing shitty things they dont want to do because they need the licence to do what they want to do. Aha Ok now we unterstand...
@neil Also agree, I don't think they plan to sale everyone data (atleast not so blatantly), have exclusive rights to any material you upload via Firefox or ban adult content.
Any of that would kill them over night.
@TheVampireFishQueen @neil There are a couple of weirdnesses here that I am willing to chalk up to carelessness. But when writing your contracts, that's uh, not awesome as a defense.
But we must consider the alternative, which is that the vagaries in this policy are wiggle room they wanted for one reason or another.
@Schouten_B @jens Sorry to hop in, but since I've been poring over this for a day now, I think I see where you both are coming from.
The language seems to distinguish what you are licensing and what is covered by the Privacy Policy. That distinction lies in the "as well as" clause. Bas, your gloss is that because they only claim to process data listed in the Privacy Policy, whatever may be in the "as well as," (maybe nothing, maybe something someday) is out of Mozilla's reach. Jens, I think you're reading that to mean the "as well as" data can be processed, uncovered by the Privacy Policy.
Let's leave aside the blog update, which is for all intents not part of the contract.
Functionally, I suspect Bas is close to correct for now. However, it's difficult to imagine that, in drafting, no one read this with the suspicions voiced over the last 24 hours by the public. If we assume the vagueness is intentional, there is a space created for more opt-out (we hope) shenanigans down the road.
@s_hentzschel probably worth a blog post?
@andjsch @s_hentzschel How about taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle…
The Mozilla Cycle, Part I
For decades, Mozilla and the open source community have been thick as thieves. Recent events call that relationship into question.taggart-tech.com
@Schouten_B @jens Wow I sure do. This clearly spells out the number and nature of granted licenses. I'll take details over vague blanket statements any time. Also the Account mention is not casual; it's formally defined.
🤬 thankfully there are enough forks that this will just show Firefox as what it is: a distraction from Google's monopoly.
Time for more Opera in my life.
Time for more Opera in my life.
@Schouten_B @jens Yeah, again, that does not read to me as vague in the least, certainly not when compared to the Firefox language
I mean straight up there's a material difference in how the collection policies are framed here. Arc's Privacy Policy opens with the guarantees about what they won't collect from you. Mozilla's has no such guarantee. Moreover, Moz explicitly states that "Browsing data" is collected for marketing purposes, and consent is "as required by law."
Now, back to the new Firefox Terms. Let's say Mozilla decides browser activity like time on site or even search data is important to train an advertising ML model.
Even if your read of the Terms is correct, that kind of processing would be covered under that section of the Privacy Policy. But if Jens is correct, uh oh, we're still covered for that and more because it could be an unenumerated data type that the broad license language now covers. By contrast, Arc's clear guarantees about what won't be collected, combined with the specific license language, remove this risk.
Privacy Policy
Experience a calmer, more personal internet in this browser designed for you. Let go of the clicks, the clutter, the distractions.arc.net
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@Schouten_B @jens This is a highly Eurocentric discussion, which is fine, but I gotta tell ya, US jurisprudence is fairly hostile to the consumer in cases such as these. To make it more complicated, depending on what Circuit the case is tried in, it may be contract law or copyright law that holds sway.
natlawreview.com/article/end-u…
With End-User License Agreements, Which Will Prevail: Copyright Rights or Contract Rights?
Given the ubiquitous nature of end-user license agreements, terms of service, and similar agreements for websites and other software,[1] it is unsurprising thaJaci L. Overmann (National Law Review)
@Schouten_B @jens Serious question: unless you have some insider knowledge, what leads you to think Mozilla, an organization that just stated its intent to develop its AI business/strategy, and is incorporated in the US, built its Terms with EU laws at the top of mind? So far as I know, nobody in the EU was gunning for Firefox because of a lack of Terms.
Conversely, taking the more adversarial reading, this opens the door to potential use of user data down the line. I don't know what the rationale was, but I've seen no evidence to support your interpretation.
@Schouten_B @jens I'm gonna challenge that the scenarios laid out are "mostly legal" in the US. I would describe the use of user data for model training especially as "mostly unlitigated." There are ongoing suits that may establish precedent one way or another, but they have not been decided. And indeed, those cases tend to base their complaints in copyright law, such as the New York Times case against OpenAI.
I'm also gonna push back on the framing that the US government is friendly to corporations here. At the moment, this regime's relationship with tech is fraught at best, with essentially a protection racket holding sway to maintain tech's fealty. But that is distinct from how aby given federal judge may rule.
Now, given all this, I don't think it's crazy to imagine an AI-focused Mozilla taking steps to ensure that any future disputes about model training on user data fall in the realm of contract law rather than copyright law.
@Schouten_B @jens Yes, we are talking about a speculative future. But I can't imagine how you don't deeper genAI integration is part of their roadmap.
@Schouten_B @jens Both, really, since neither are spelled out. But tbh it's weird that they haven't said they won't train on user data. Hell, Zoom says so. Notion says so. On the other hand, Meta quietly slipped into their Terms that you license your content for training by using their platforms.
Yes this is speculative. But I have plenty of reason for skepticism, and "No," is not an argument to the contrary.
@Schouten_B @jens I see plenty of reason to add those terms now.
Let's take as read that neither of us knows what Moz's plans re: AI in Firefox actually are. That also means we don't know their timeline. So from a threat modeling perspective, this language introduces the risk of a dark pattern kind of opt-out consent for the use of user data, similar to how they've handled:
- Ads
- Telemetry
- Chatbot on the sidebar
If my concern is the use of my data in ML processes of any kind, I would say I have ample reason to view these Terms as a potential threat vector.
@Schouten_B @jens To be clear, I'm not saying it's probable, only possible. But possible is enough for many people to be wary.
@Schouten_B @jens Come onnnn
wired.com/story/google-respons…
Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance
Google published principals in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.Paresh Dave (WIRED)
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Das Bild zeigt einen Screenshot einer Social-Media-Konversation. Der Benutzer "Amber" (mit einem Cartoon-Avatar) hat einen Beitrag verfasst, dem ein anderer Benutzer namens "Jolene (kitten)" (ebenfalls mit einem Cartoon-Avatar) mit "Puppygirlhornypost2 needs more jpeg" geantwortet hat. Amber hat darauf mit "[@]tjhexf like this" geantwortet und einen weiteren Post geteilt, der einen Kommentar über Leute enthält, die Screenshots von Beiträgen auf Social Media Plattformen posten. Der erste Beitrag von Amber lautet: "I couldn't agree with this more."
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horrible. this is all so horrible. the person who literally released a judge's daughter's tax return over some minor conflict has access to some of the most VULNERABLE people in the united states. we're really in over our heads now
DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases.Few of the records are redacted or anonymized.
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DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.ProPublica
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your instance probably blocks newsie. It’s from ProPublica
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DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.ProPublica
DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases.Few of the records are redacted or anonymized.
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DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.ProPublica
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Jesus fuck. Thank you.
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now u see why im freaking out
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there's not very many words to describe this and how violating it feels.
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just almost broke my neck lol
note: going offroad with an escooter at night and getting your shoelaces between its wheels is generally considers a bad idea
why me, universe, why always me. anyway, i'm safe and sound in my comfy bed now
pls don't die you seem neat/hot
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Sorry to disappoint, this is is fully a joke and just because I got that stuck in my head again. I don't have blue hair, only used ties twice at most (for sure at some wedding I hated, and maybe for a school play), and I'm certainly not hiding in your Wi-Fi.
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Orange King's madness across the ocean, unholy alliance's rise to power in Germany, and serious people talking about Europe needing a tactical nuclear deterrent?
Is there a way to skip the cutscene to the post-apocalyptic aftermath, or can we load a save and try for an alternative ending?
#wtf
EDIT: AfD staying out of the German government is a relief.
#wtf
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The Foundation is at a crossroads. We need to raise an additional $610K to break-even, and more immediately to raise $100K to keep our bridges running.
As a neutral custodian for the specification and much more, the Foundation is key to the success of Matrix. It is time to step up for it.
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have you tried running Synapse Pro? I’ve heard it scales better
@merlin matrix.org already does partially run on Synapse Pro's extensions
make the people run the bridges.
That's some pretty expensive unscalable python code
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Please help me flee the US! I'm trying to leave asap and hit some turbulence!
I need to pay the car dealership money to pay off my car loan, which is higher than the value of my car. I also need to get emergency dentistry when I arrive and won't have any insurance to cover the costs. I'm looking for work and housing when I'm there so anything beyond that will help! I have multiple disabilities including eds, mcas, pots, me/cfs, fibro and it's very hard for me to do this. My only support comes from mutual aid, so anything you can do helps!
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Thanks everyone for the boosts and mutual aid! I had to change my plans around to recover from fatigue but they are still in motion and planned for next week!
I totally forgot about it but I recently released a new album of noisy-ambient live synth stuff on bandcamp, it's $5/pay-what-you-want if you'd like another way to support me.
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I'm working on getting my ko-fi set up to share more sonic arts and zine and web projects this year too, so following there might be a thing to do!
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I've been living off of credit for a few months now but I can't pay it off and the bank is threatening me again with cutting it off. I'm just so tired trying to cut spending as much as I can, I sleep most of the day and try to eat as cheaply as I can but it's hard enough for me to eat in general and idk how to save more. I really need help, I'm in bed most of the day but I barely sleep, I don't know what to do. Please help me
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Generalizing a bit, but rolling girl (vocaloid song) was the first instance of me experiencing this lol. A song i like a lot that also follows this is "Say it" by yorushika
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Generalizing a bit, but rolling girl (vocaloid song) was the first instance of me experiencing this lol. A song i like a lot that also follows this is "Say it" by yorushika
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@chrisjrn welp. I submitted it, and luckily now I no longer need to be the judge of whether it makes sense or not
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I figured how how to use a combination of ImageMagick, ffmpeg, and exiftool to upscale, pad, and convert Slack reacji GIFs to synthesized Live Photos that (mostly) meet suitability requirements to convert to transparent animated Messages Stickers, which now in iOS 18 I can use them as animated custom emoji reactions in Messages
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I've spent the last six months developing a set of bike wheel lights that are an order of magnitude better than the current off the shelf offerings. I learned CAD modeling, soldering, and 3D printing to build a battery case that folds around the hub, and lights that will attach to any wheel, regardless of spoke lacing pattern.
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I recently started familiarizing myself with a new game engine (Godot 🤖) – something I haven’t really done in more than ten years (the last "engine" I was able to use comfortably was Adobe Flash). It’s baby steps every day, but I enjoy the progress and am happy with my results. 😊
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Thank you for starting this thread, so much good energy!
Our tortoises are hibernating in a crate/plant bed outside, with a wireless thermometer to monitor the temperature. I am currently getting rid of Apple devices, so I didn't want to use Home any more to check on them.
I installed OpenHAB on an old Raspberry Pi Zero, and since I also had an eInk display, I wrote a little Python script that pulls the status from localhost's OpenHAB REST API every 5 minutes and draws it on the screen.
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have some soothing tapestry!
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i figured out a method to construct the foci of any conic given only the conic itself, here's it done for an ellipse
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does this count? I managed to install a new waterproof floor in one of my vans, despite the absence of any DIY skills 😁.
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Okay, this is more like something
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have been building these light boxes for charlie and the chocolate factory, kind of fidly to deal with all the details, and repeat 6x, but they are going to be cool.
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I made a Time and Space #quilt last weekend. It's pretty basic, but it held together through it's first laundering, and it's keeping me warm as I type this.
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I dyed my first thing ever! I dyed my white Miyoo Mini Plus handheld retro console a dark, DARK purple. I had intended it be navy blue but I still love the results and I'm going to do a few more for family!
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I at last opened my very old air fix skeleton kit, that I’ve been meaning to start for years, ordered paint and filler and about to begin construction. The first step is always the biggest accomplishment. I built one in 1969, my finest build, but alas the glue failed with age and it’s in irreparable bits now. The skull is on display though.
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been messin' with shaders for my space game today
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@kevin I spun a 6-ply merino yarn that's so fine it's practically a lace-weight. (so smol!)
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successfully throwing porcelain!
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for months I have had an ONT, WiFi node and switch lying on the floor behind my TV in a rat's nest of wires. Semi-inspired by this thread, I finally got around to fastening them all to the skirting board. It may not be beautiful but it's a lot better than before! (Nice 3D-printed bracket for the Eero courtesy of someone on the internet.)
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I reorganized the tea and coffee storage in our kitchen, which allowed me to relocate the spices from the depths of the corner cabinet in which they had been interred. The project isn’t done yet — at the very least, the drawer needs internal dividers to help keep things in place — but it’s already 1000% more useable.
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Built a Tensegrity table.
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@glyph, as our world burns, I anxiously await a Phoenix to arise from its ashes (always hopeful), I escape the chaos for a few hours painting cards. I’m still learning to paint on You Tube videos, so they are not professional level, but they are full of love. I started making these cards during COVID, and found some joy. Painting them pulls my attention away from the negativity, and people like getting mail. They show that someone is thinking of them with love. 💕
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If you don't mind, could you reply to this toot with something you have accomplished recently? Work, hobby, whatever, but especially if it's something fiddly and technical that required quiet contemplation or problem solving.
Right now my feed is flooded with the omni-catastrophe even more than it was in, like, March of 2020, and I just want (and suspect we could all use) some reminders that progress is still happening and being effective is still possible
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I hasten to add that this is not to shame anyone _without_ any wins to put on the board at the moment, it is precisely because so many people are legitimately and understandably paralyzed by stress at the moment that I feel the reminder would be useful
(Not even, really, to shame anyone doing the doomposting. There's a lot of doom. A lot of it is even quite important to be aware of. But the volume and rate of it all is … oppressive)
Wow you folks sure get a lot done
I'm lucky to be insulated from a lot of the likely doom consequences, but still very concerned for others and my kids.
I find the work I do is both my thing, which I enjoy immensely, and a way of pushing back, by helping to empower individuals and reduce the power others have over them.
This motivates me a lot. It helps me feel less powerless, less subject, and more worthwhile.
I'm retired, and so have the time to get stuff done, which is great.
Nice idea for a thread. Remember too you can mute specific words in Mastodon settings, go filters, add words to filter and posts containing those words are removed from your feed.
convinced my company to let me build an internal tool with only django/htmx so we didn't have to have long meetings explaining stuff the hardware/backend folks get to the frontend folks.
I expect it will increase our velocity on this thing by like 3x or more.
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i have been working on computer science research projects with collaborators, a combination of meetings and solitary notebook thinking through various formal developments, planning out and writing papers. proved a theorem or two.
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Over the last couple months I have been learning the literal hardest version of tetris ever made and getting increasingly competent at it
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(posts from jan 12 to today; i link to bsky instead of mastodon because on mastodon i didn't thread these posts so you can't see the progression)
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Figured out why some MPI jobs were suddenly failing when using more than ~1000 processes after our update. Turned out to be a combination of two seemingly unrelated issues in two separate parts of the software stack.
But it's all working and the users are happy again!
Ps. Mastodon filters is your friend. Ds.
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I posted extensively about it during construction, but I built a coffee bar into an unnecessary doorway. It actually did require contemplation and problem solving because there’s not a square angle in our house, and I’m not a carpenter by trade.
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I just finished putting together an interactive lecture on basic stats and experimental design for wireless researchers, and I'm pretty optimistic about how it'll go
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I'm still teaching!
Trying to think of an accomplishment that wasn't at work and coming up short. 😐
Finally got around to fixing a bunch of things about my self-hosted setup - moved a bunch of services behind Tailscale, also switching auth over to Tailscale as well so that I don't need to keep re-authenticating through SSO. Also wrote up a small script to download my Kindle books now that Amazon's disabling that functionality.
I repaired a medium-pressure (about 5 atm) oil line on our motorhome with gaffer tape and cable ties. In the rain. On the side of a highway. Successfully. Does that count? 😁
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Rigged up a motion-sensor light to help my visually impaired roommate find their way to the front door to our home, without waking me, when they need to go out for an appointment in the early hours.
Required break-light repair tape to get the color to something not sleep disrupting, a custom cradle built from lego pieces to hold the light and extension cord head stable, and some museum putty to secure said cradle place.
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I have been hacking away at my (open source) programming language that I've been designing for a while now, and I recently used it in an actual production context at work, where it ended up being really useful (getting the results much faster than I could have hoped to achieve if I had to use something like Excel).
Recently I've been spending some time cleaning up the codebase and making sure there's a good test coverage. That's somewhat satisfying work, even though it's not something that is immediately visible to users.
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I figured out how to make a way simpler, more DRY universal rainbow animation effect across elements all over (the next version of) my personal website using CSS variables.
Actually I’ve been learning way more about creative uses of CSS variables and calc() in general thanks to building the MIT Mystery Hunt website.
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Did the opposite of what you're asking for. Did a product security presentation for a potential customer and got a surprising amount of praise from my own colleagues
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@chrisjrn *squinting* wait how is that opposite? that… very much sounds like a thing you accomplished
Oh, just not a quiet contemplative thing. Definitely an accomplishment.
Also, recovered from being ill, and appear to have got nbpy's shit together just in time? Maybe?
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@chrisjrn me, seeing this post and seeing the *very* much incomplete and incoherent nbpy proposal in the window next to it
You've got a day or so 🤷
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@chrisjrn welp. I submitted it, and luckily now I no longer need to be the judge of whether it makes sense or not
Thankfully, that's not my job either (until later in the week, anyway)
I have recently become very good at sharpening and honing my kitchen knives, which has made cooking much more pleasant. It’s a task that requires care, patience, and mindful repetition, tasks I’m often very bad at. It’s nice to do something and have my hands be stable.
I have also been learning to play chords on the piano, both in terms of the hand motions required and the musical theory behind it. I don’t want to say that the experience of music is inherently non-Markovian (because is anything, truly, at the fundamental level?), but I am fascinated by how wildly different a particular chord can hit your brain depending on which chord or notes you played before. I used to have to think about Markovian processes a lot (and processes which were insufficiently parameterized to make their Markovian nature obvious)… but feeling it in the brain is so weird and cool.
I have allowed myself to feel my feelings and use them not to dwell (constantly, anyway) in anger and sadness but to drive myself to find things I can do and it is working and it is giving me hope.
I've recently acquired a feel for fixing the parity of the orientable Twiddle puzzles in Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. I've also gotten quite proficient at the ones that don't care about orientation. Reminds me of the difference between Rubik's cubes and super cubes
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I am nearly to an alpha version of a Django application for managing roller derby officiating events.
I've been enjoying the data-modeling challenge, and doing all server-side templated stuff - no JavaScript at all.
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Over the last two years or so I’ve been working on github.com/brendanzab/language…, a somewhat eclectic collection of free-standing programming language projects exploring type checking, evaluation, and compilation.
My main goal has been to hone my understanding of these techniques, and also to provide a resource I can point to for others to learn from, along with links to other resources. I’ve found it much easier to learn this way, as opposed to investing lots of time into large, half finished projects.
GitHub - brendanzab/language-garden: A garden of small programming language implementations 🪴
A garden of small programming language implementations 🪴 - brendanzab/language-gardenGitHub
I just got past A1 and into the A2 courses in both German and French on Duolingo. I'm posting short videos here weekly documenting my progress!
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I spent the last two years (re)learning to code by building a super personalized, way over complicated home server, as much from "scratch" as I could. Also automated all my postcard-posting stuff for the holiday seasons and started learning some real machine learning by using my massive postcard collection for fuel.
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I am having fun setting up my own self hosted services in a vm running on a laptop at home using cloudflare tunnels 🙂
despite omni-catastrophe and my life being on fire to a pretty epic degree (like, being at the brink of losing housing), I have _nonetheless_ managed to line up enough leads and work to make it through the next 6mo alive! yay!
it’s a pretty damn good feeling to still get clients who want clue, despite seeing so much llm and related gunk all over freelance markets
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set up a hanging two-stage compost bin on my balcony (the one in the backyard was overrun with mice last year). it hasn't been above freezing since i set it up so it's most of the way full with rock-hard rotten produce, but it's ready to go once spring comes! started some seedlings too, with more to plant in the coming weeks
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@tortie don’t stress. Try to read the rest of the thread more like a bunch of other really overwhelmed people are also managing to get a lot done, and so it may also be possible for you. Not that it should be or that there’s a problem with you if it isn’t, but just that it is worth remaining open to the possibility.
I failed to find any vulnerabilities in the cryptography used by a messaging app. But I succeeded in documenting my experience to arrive at a negative result well enough to meet a few nice people.
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It was a couple months ago, but I merged a long living branch of my MyCmd project that was a rewrite of the core of the project. It took a year and a half, but I did it.
I'm still working on getting to an initial release, but it was big progress.
I wrote about it here:
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I successfully installed a safety cover for our laser marker at work. Now people won't need to wear laser glasses around it, and fume extraction will be more effective (so no one has to breathe smoke).
The purchase (and expense of my time assembling the thing) was approved enthusiastically by our site manager, who cares about safety and his employees.
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first sword tournament this weekend. I'm going to get my butt kicked. I'm excited!
I'm working on building a gen.AI to teach myself the tech. Since the project is contrived, I've decided to build a Q&A AI for lore for the D&D game world Eberron.
I just got done with phase 2 of the data wrangling, i.e. I'm taking the text from 13 D&D pdfs and making them into AI-training-friendly text chunks. I got done with all the wrangling as of an hour ago, except I need to re-chunkify everything. (technical term)
Then I can stuff it into a vector db and get my MVP on 😀
I got a new Fediverse server set up tonight and conquered some Docker challenges in the process!
I'm also coming up on six months of walking every day for exercise. I'm up to 12,500 steps a day for the last six weeks. I've walked over 600 miles since September.
I've lost 7 kg and improved things enough that my doctor had me stop taking the two blood pressure meds I was on because of my kidney failure.
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I designed and built a box with a stack of air filters so that my laser cutter is much more neighbor friendly.
Also, I baked bread for the first time in forever
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I read through the replies so far, so that's pretty good... (and thanks for the prompt)...
I also recently got my first package on pypi, which also felt pretty good.
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I was able to rescue a Linux installation whose boot loader I had *thoroughly* hosed, with the help of UEFIshell - something I wasn't even aware existed - and a few educated guesses re kernel parameters and UUIDs.
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and to counter the general state of things I built this for a recent social gathering:
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Attached: 1 video Presenting: the big red conversation optimizer button! "hey did you read that thing on Twitter? ::::)))" - (screams in German) made using #rustlang (for the wireless DMX controller) and #circuitpython (for the button's guts)chaos.social
I just got a new therapist this week. Not technical or fiddly, but was hard and important to do.
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Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal - Dhole Moments
Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…Dhole Moments
i'm really really chuffed about how my convolution reverb thing is shaping up. i've been slowly getting to the "pulling out all the stops" phase of this project one little bit at a time mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/1…
aeva (@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)
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last night i figured out that i can do something akin to subtractive synthesis by manipulating the signs in the impulse response sample, and i've got ideas for how to apply granular synthesis techniques to do weird cool stuff with this
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I did another another convolution experiment tonight (just experimenting with different kinds of samples as the impulse response on the same song) and it turned out *amazing*
I started a new blog to flex the writing muscles I don’t get to use at work. Not very techy this time, but that’s kind of the point.
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Attached: 2 images Thanks to @progrium@mas.to I have now unlocked the ability to write a filesystem about as easily as I can write a web server. It took a lot of effort to get here but boy oh boy was it worth it.Mastodon
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at work I just finished converting a blog post from GooDoc into Markdown, linking everything up, adding some better styling for tables, and have it queued up to publish tomorrow.
At home, I’m almost done refactoring the common bits out of the 11ty configs for four different websites into a single shared config library/plugin.
Oh and this is super trivial but fun-to-me: I compiled the RC1 of Emacs 30.1
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I figured how how to use a combination of ImageMagick, ffmpeg, and exiftool to upscale, pad, and convert Slack reacji GIFs to synthesized Live Photos that (mostly) meet suitability requirements to convert to transparent animated Messages Stickers, which now in iOS 18 I can use them as animated custom emoji reactions in Messages
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most of my wins have been small and quiet, not particularly interesting on their own, but a lot of those, from hundreds of people, add up over the years to amazing things.
I've been setting up CI pipelines, managing our internal packing, keeping the CI servers healthy and monitored, building software update systems for our charge network, writing telemetry tools, and the like. Oh, and a lot of onboarding, teaching people how to do this kind of stuff, advocating for standards and best practices, etc.
And with a lot of this kind of quiet background supporting work that supports teams who can then focus on their subsystems that then get built into an aircraft, we have built amazing things.
In the past year, we've done a piloted eVTOL flight with transition from vertical takeoff to wing borne flight to vertical landing.
We've also built the first airplane (conventional airplane, not VTOL) off of our manufacturing line, did it's first flight in November, and now it's flown halfway across the country, charging mostly on a charge network that we've deployed flightaware.com/live/flight/N9…
We've deployed dozens of chargers across the country to support this. We've been working diligently with the FAA on certification, crossing several internal milestones.
It's a long road to building, certifying, and selling an entirely new type of aircraft, with an entirely new, never before certified, propulsion system, but breaking the problem down, working on one piece at a time, and iterating and solving problems year after year gets you closer and closer.
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Track N916LF flight from Elk City Rgnl Business to Amarillo IntlFlightAware
Made a wooden monitor+speaker shelf for my desk, un-broke my Pi-Hole after an update hosed it, made my Tailscale setup work much better, oh and survived three job interviews…
I made a cake shaped like a Gengar. I like baking, but decorating cakes is not exactly a hobby or a skill of mine. I can make a delicious cake but it will probably look like crap.
But I found a channel that shows tips on carving a cake, as well as a recipe for denser cake that can stand up to carving. I followed the recipe to the t (that part is no trouble): blending the butter, sugar, eggs, and baker's cocoa, alternating between adding dry ingredients and adding the milk, vanilla extract, and oil mixture. Mixing it by hand because my standing mixer burnt out years back and I just never replaced it, and I just don't have much storage in my kitchen.
The frosting I bought, which is good because I used up most of our butter making the cake. They actually sold purple frosting, and I got that and simple white buttercream for putting the cake together and doing the "crumb layer" which is usually where I stop with decor. (continued)
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I worked on this 😀
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Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number
Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at leastIain Thomson (The Register)
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managed to get a refrigerator running for a small local art gallery so that they could host their exhibition opening yesterday. In the end it turned out to be a dead extension power cord, but we had to move that thing at it was pretty large!
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A year ago I moved into an apartment that is quite tiny but has fairly high ceilings. All my stuff was everwhere and the space felt cramped and claustrophobic and the state of my mind came to reflect this. I got some lumber and plywood, borrowed some tools, built overhead shelving everwhere, and moved everything up onto it, so the whole floorspace is clear. It made the most amazing difference, and really the only obstacle to getting it done was mental. Btw this is a great thread to read! Great idea, thanks! Also thanks for Twisted! Used it a ton ages ago and it was super useful.
@interzoneboy kind of you to say so, and, on behalf of the team (not just me!) you’re welcome
I built yet another error definition crate in Rust over the past few days. The existing crates for this didn't quite scratch the itch I was having, so I wanted to experiment and try something new. It's working so far and I think I like it! I'm thinking about calling the new crate err_slice.
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OK, I thought of something. Over the last few months I kept seeing #jq mentioned in passing all over the place. I finally realised it was installed by default on all my machines and looked up the manual. I've now used it to poke around in unfamiliar datasets, extract data from huge JSON files into user-friendly CSVs, and alongside #jc I've been able to convert YAML files to JSON, and pull out just the interesting parts of my Apache log files. Sure I could do all this in Python but I'm old enough to have used sed, awk, and plain old grep, so I love a versatile tool that can manipulate standard input. I don't know why I overlooked jq for so long.
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I got seeds and planted them.
My regret at missing the growing season had become a yearly thing, and I actually did it this year.
Finally. 🌸
My regret at missing the growing season had become a yearly thing, and I actually did it this year.
Finally. 🌸
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I leaned enough of how to use freecad to design a replacement for the lower catch of the baby gate we use as a dog barrier on the stairs. The old one had been slowly disintegrating.
This thread is really nice to look through, thank you for starting it!
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I've spent the last six months developing a set of bike wheel lights that are an order of magnitude better than the current off the shelf offerings. I learned CAD modeling, soldering, and 3D printing to build a battery case that folds around the hub, and lights that will attach to any wheel, regardless of spoke lacing pattern.
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for my semi automated user creation, I had to redo all the logic our company did some restructuring. So I had some nice time puzzling out how to link places, people and roles out of the API we have access to so new peeps get the correct access and licenses.
It also lead to more functions in Powershell as I quickly figured out where code was reused. So that was a week well spent.
I recently got my Friendica instance working, and I've discovered I like it way more than I liked Mastodon. I then managed to configure the advanced content filter and liberal application of the ignore and block functionality to cleanse my timeline from un-CW-ed front-page news and I'm feeling quite at home in my new Fediverse presence!
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rewriting my Window Manager initialization script. About 200 lines of code written from a list of things the old script did
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I had two short stories published! I am pretty proud of both of them: magazine.thearcanist.net/the-w…
and the first story in this collection:
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and the first story in this collection:
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The Weight of a Torch
When a strange structure appeared in the woods, Kaia's sister failed to investigate it. When Kaia takes it upon herself to delve into the mysterious complex, she finds something that could save her people from the encroaching Instability...magazine.thearcanist.net
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gotten back on track with creative endeavors after the spark was gone for a while
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I managed to complete ard level of M@GICAL☆CURE! LOVE ♥ SHOT!, the origin of miku miku beam
I can't help you with technical things at the moment. But I am a blind radio presenter, and every Sunday when I do my evening radio show with gentle and quiet music, people tell me that I do it right to make them peacefull and relaxed. And that's wonderful.
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I finally managed (with a lot of help) to migrate my only Python package with a Cython extension away from setuptools and to a modern build system (meson). It’s not much, but now I feel much more capable of doing it at scale.
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I have been working hard on my text-parsing programs. I have learned a lot about implementing a 'greedy line-break algorithm'. I have also learned some of what's involved in building an EPUB file that will load into an e-reader application.
I have set myself an ongoing challenge to read the complete works of Harlan Ellison. I added three books in the past week.
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I’ve finally managed to push through the hump of getting productive in Rust, understand how its async mechanism works, and apply that in my day to day work on device drivers. I’m about to ship my first driver update with a major component written in Rust, with a custom async executor. (there is still a lot of C++ and Obj-C, but baby steps) Better late than never, I suppose. I’ve tried Rust multiple times since 2014(!) but was always overwhelmed with the effort required.
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I also recently got PV graphics support for macOS guests merged into QEMU, and the arm64 macOS guest support patch series is also ready to go and hopefully gets merged before the QEMU 10.0 window closes.
A disabled children's camp that I have been working with for three years is about to break ground with their rebuild after a devastating wildfire. It has been a long journey.
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published a blog post on my company’s blog and have consistently published my weekly newsletter over at @everyopsguy three weeks in a row. About to close a month of publishing soon.
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not really fiddly, but I managed to kick myself into gear and meditate for a good 10 minutes yesterday. I wanted to restore this to a daily routine for well over a year now and I finally got out of the procrastination rut yesterday.
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The avocado trees and tea camellias that I planted in my backyard appear to have survived the winter 💪
I'll try to remember to @ you in the spring with pics when the native wildflowers I planted start coming up, too (replacing a grass front lawn)
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I got my game page live on Steam and I am getting close to having a demo polished enough to release. This is not the most hardcore technical part of the project, but the Steam page is a big step and polishing is a very detail-oriented process that I haven't done to this extent before.
This is my hobby and creative outlet, and creating still matters, I think.
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I changed my boot screen theme on Fedora Kinoite! Normally I'd just have to add some files to the right directory and call it a day, but plymouth themes being in a directory that Kinoite doesn't normally permit writes to, I had to learn how to make a .rpm package out of some themes I found and *install" them to my system before I could use them as startup eyecandy.
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It's not much, but I feel like I learned a lot about plymouth and how it works, plus I got a sick Xenia-themed bootup screen with a fancy animation!
I've been trying to get actual SSO off the ground at my org. Just got the first real connector correctly configured, with SCIM and everything, in spite of documentation being out of date and flat out wrong in places. And it's just such a nice proof of concept for how to centrally manage users, and a taste of what is to come.
One system sorted, about 30 to go, with lots of open questions and uncertainty. But today finally marked the first glimmer of the light at the end of the tunnel. It feels good!
I finally managed talking to my doctor and asking for help with my mental struggles. Then contacted the local office that offers a free six weeks group course on anxiety, depression and stress and started this last week.
I just finished recording an ecourse that will activate the voices of those that receive it. In a time when so many peoples voices are being squashed it felt very important for me to do.
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Removed the freewheel from my old bicycle.
Had the correct tool from AliExpress, the longest socket wrench I own, large lump hammer, penetrating sprays, band-aids ready, unscrewing rotation double-checked from YouTube, energising coffee half pre-consumed.
And it just … undid.
Thankfully due to the care and lubrication I used 2 years ago when I fought this thing apart over the course of 3 days. That first, learning endeavour only succeeded because of technical help here on Mastodon.
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thank you for this. I really needed it today.
I wrote some generic code in #Rust to convert multi-GB XML files into Parquet without having to load the entire thing into RAM. Derive macros feel like magic once you get the hang of them.
The definitions of the (nearly 100) data object structures in the XML are now pleasingly boilerplate-free:
#[derive(FromXml, ToArrow)]
struct MyObj {
#[from_xml(element = "my-data")]
data: String,
}
With some cleanup it might even be worth open sourcing, if anyone else has a use for it.
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I’m working on a personal project that is creating an at-a-glance two week calendar out of eink shelf tags. I’ve finally gotten round to learning enough PIL (pillow) in order to generate the images for these tags to display, and now I need to work out how to update them…
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got round to having dentist do a crown on a cracked tooth. And re-kindled a desire to tinker with technology at home. I almost, at last, have something I could actually call a "hobby".
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Awesome thread! I needed this reflection. 🙂
- Replaced front control arms on our family vehicle, saving about $2000.
- Led City X 3D printing project at my son's school.
- Tried Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for the first time.
- Replaced Win on my daughter's old touch screen Asus laptop with Debian.
- Joined the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops).
- Joined Tutamail and Signal.
Edit: I forgot to add that I protested for the first time in my life at the 50501 protest earlier this month.
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I recently got my driver's licence and was able to help my neighbour build his first PHP Website.
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@quokka1 ran some packet captures over the air and discovered a bug in a newly released vendors enterprise AP radio where it would only wait 10 seconds for an association to complete before it disassociated. People weren't typing their passwords quick enough! Normally the timeout is 30 seconds.
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its almost been a week, but I've started a new job! Met some nice folks. Haven't melted from the stress of that. Things are looking better for me, which is nice.
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Last week, a hobby project of mine launched to serve the small, but interesting, community of readers and watchers who nominate for the Hugo Awards. I'm pretty proud of it, even if it is basically Baby's First Django Project, and I probably could have done better in lots of ways.
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created a docker file for DBMail and identified an issue with a specific dependant library version. Knowing what to look for makes debugging easier.
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I'm a professional game composer and have recently managed to switch my entire workflow to use open-source tools! You can see what I use here: johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/
Open-Source Tooling - John Oestmann Music
I believe that Open-Source is one of the strongest cultural movements towards diffusing power structures. I use Open-Source tooling throughout the production of my works to clearly show that it possible + effective.Soundworlds
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I recently started familiarizing myself with a new game engine (Godot 🤖) – something I haven’t really done in more than ten years (the last "engine" I was able to use comfortably was Adobe Flash). It’s baby steps every day, but I enjoy the progress and am happy with my results. 😊
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Thank you for starting this thread, so much good energy!
Our tortoises are hibernating in a crate/plant bed outside, with a wireless thermometer to monitor the temperature. I am currently getting rid of Apple devices, so I didn't want to use Home any more to check on them.
I installed OpenHAB on an old Raspberry Pi Zero, and since I also had an eInk display, I wrote a little Python script that pulls the status from localhost's OpenHAB REST API every 5 minutes and draws it on the screen.
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I’m gonna cheat and show you two things haha.
I knitted a jumper for my wife in January. And I made a string portrait of my boys last week.
Both were fiddly and technical and required quiet contemplation.
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Three things: I converted a mid-2011 iMac to run Ubuntu which has made me super stoked on Linux. I poked around in one of my kids’ busted sound-making books using my new multimeter to try and identify the problem—only to learn that it was the batteries that I didn’t bother checking before I started. BUT, this (with help from fine Mastodon people) helped me identify why my EV wasn’t starting the other day: the 12v battery was out of juice!
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@MOULE Listened to three tracks so far, and LOVING this.
I'm a student in cyber security and I had fun implementing a cryptography protocol!
I had troubles with all the math and programming, but debugging what wasn't working made me understand most of what I was doing so I'm glad I took the time to make it work 😀
I had troubles with all the math and programming, but debugging what wasn't working made me understand most of what I was doing so I'm glad I took the time to make it work 😀
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I finally sat down and wrote the first draft of a command-line tool to help reduce entropy in my life. I've been thinking about doing it for close to five years, and had two other attempts. What I have now is already making my life easier and I'm so happy that my idea from back then appears to be working out.
I finished the week 7 problem set of CS50
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Harvard University's introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.cs50.harvard.edu
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Learning to operate this boyo!!
I have a long-standing hobby game dev project which I decided to set aside so I can focus on non-programming things with my time (for the first time in my life?)
I started working out. I have purchased a ukulele and am slowly learning how to play it. Not programming after a day of programming suddenly seems like the best move of all time to me.
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few days ago I broke the 2000km on bike this year.
If you want to look where I have been, I have full profile of pictures from my tour.
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born from the need for distraction and processing of what's currently happening, I wrote an 80-page novella over the course of one month. Still feels weird that I managed to pull it through. chaos.social/@Kiki/11403497647…
I have written a cheesy slow burn romance story in space, because the current times call for it: "Three-Year Mission".OCs, LGBTQ, trans woman protagonist, slow burn, hurt/comfort, spaceship & a cat. Content notes in front of each chapter.
And please take a look at this gorgeous cover art the lovely @mariibyrd made!
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#scifi #romance #OC #amwriting #authorsofmastodon #fanfic #slowburn #ThreeYearMission #3ym
Three-Year Mission - kikithegecko - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Worksarchiveofourown.org
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I always wanted to have a successful open source project, and now an open source plugin I wrote for Obsidian.md has just been downloaded over a thousand times.
my little microprocessor (or at least a simulation of it) can now load/store registers from/to memory!
@f4grx NGL, first glance at the screenshot and I was like WTF is all that?!
But opening the photo to full-size, and that's really quite a nice & clean install! 🤩
I especially like the arrows drawn on the pipes - it's so easy to assume one won't forget which is which, but without markings like that it's almost a guarantee you will (or maybe it's just me lol)
Anyway, nice work!
built a cupboard for our apartment (measuring and cutting wood and doing all the planing was quite fiddly).
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I'm middle-aged, but several months ago decided to try to learn some coding. I started with HTML and CSS and can now create pretty nice-looking web pages, including with some basic animations.
Recently I've moved on to JavaScript, which I have so far found much more challenging - mainly, I think, because the lessons aren't describing things very well. But I take it one step at a time and make copious notes, so expect to make progress just like with the HTML and CSS.
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@TheZorse Go easy on yourself, everyone finds JavaScript more challenging than html & css. This is natural. 😁
Thanks for saying so. I think things will make more sense when the lessons start to get into examples. Right now they're introducing us to the syntax without even telling us what we would use JS for. Seems kinda backwards.
I bought a house 3 months ago despite coming from a family that went through bankruptcy 10 years ago.
Some friends and I made a fun game jam game.
I got a lot done on my TTRPG project recently. I'm doing some world building right now.
I did some political canvassing for a friend for our local Canadian election.
I'm ahead of time at work.
I'm cat sitting a cute kitty named Walter for my uncle, and he seems much happier here than with my uncle, who isn't home with the cat enough.
I wrote a fully modular I/O system for my user interface library to replace the previous one. Took about three months to figure out all the new interfaces to replace the previous ones, in a way that wouldn't break the modularity.
There's still more left to improve, but wow, I've done it and it makes toying with the "lower levels" like hardware abstractions so much better!
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@samerion I'm curious, what platform(s) is your user interface library targeting? Or if it's bare-metal, what kind of hardware and what intended applications?
@matt The I/O systems allow the library ("Fluid") to run on any platform that there exists a system for. Right now, this means Linux, macOS and Windows, but it should be feasible to expand support to Android and bare-metal.
It's for general purpose, suitable for both regular apps and video games.
@samerion Have you looked into implementing accessibility yet?
@matt Yes, but Fluid is in too early of development, so it's currently of low priority. Accessibility features are highly system dependent, so I first intend to make sure other I/O systems are stable enough.
I started writing some Swift code in a playground to make procedurally generated voxel art. The code is highly generic, and is happy as long as what the renderer gets is a cube of RGB values. Along the way, I decided, for the sake of elegance, to separate cellular spaces (i.e. [Address]→Element?) from bounded volumes, which turned it from a walk in the park into a stress test of Swift’s type system. I have just recently managed to contain the damage, and am making progress again.
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I learned enough about the Hugo templating language to improve the generated website for an open source project and enhance the UX of that website.
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I recently booked my Easter vacation. Time was running out as train tickets run out pretty quickly. And planning my trips take a lot of coordination. So happy I have it all done now.
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after effectively decades of unknowingly working around all kinds of flaws in work processes, i more and more realize these flaws and start tackling them.
at work, i often use a website where there‘s a really long page. a fixed position menu would be helpful. three months ago i wrote my first bookmarklet.
or a document conversion process is pretty manual and screams for automation. i‘ve taken over the task and wrote my first shell script.
I finally managed to appreciate the versatility of the turtle module for teaching purposes. Draw a grid, change the turtle shape, add handlers for dragging and dropping, and you (almost) have a Blockdoku clone.
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I managed to reach the capacity limits of what I can take on right now, realise that as it was happening, and start saying no to further commitments, until I can clear a bit of headroom. (I think that fits the description 🥳)
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I've been working on our open source #decentralized #search engine @pears . Currently trying to figure out how to best route local queries to other nodes.
The goal: when you search on your private machine at home, you should get results back from the best instances, as fast as possible.
This is tricky because we have to compute similarities over high-dimensional sparse vectors in a decentralized fashion, while also catering for multilinguality. But we now have a first draft for this.
I have just finished a tool-assisted speedrun of a Game Boy Color game from my childhood, and I'm about to submit it to tasvideos.org. It took me about six months of planning, reverse engineering the game and reading some assembly code to understand some of its mechanics, and running scripts to try to find inputs that manipulate the game's RNG to give me the outcome I want.
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have some soothing tapestry!
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Having fun exploring the limits of what can currently be expressed via Python's type hints, so there are certain categories of unit tests I don't need to write, and so users of the SDK I'm designing get as much help from their IDEs as I can offer them.
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i figured out a method to construct the foci of any conic given only the conic itself, here's it done for an ellipse
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last week I hung my first bifold door. It fit first time into a frame that I built many months ago. I can now close off my living room and admire the reality of something that was only in my imagination when I started this project, years ago.
built a new FPGA synthesis toolchain, in collaboration with others
github.com/prjunnamed/prjunnam…
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GitHub - prjunnamed/prjunnamed: End-to-end synthesis and P&R toolchain
End-to-end synthesis and P&R toolchain. Contribute to prjunnamed/prjunnamed development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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hi glyph. I finally set this up, and made its content public: magregale.blog
Almost done writing a 1,000++-word travel story. I'm pretty excited about it, and I can't wait for it to be published online soon. 😊
Had to rope in assistance from neighbour but replaced faulty captive USB cable on Thrustmaster T300 force feedback wheel with a USB-B port permitting standard USB cables to be used. Neighbour 3D printed the fitting I found on the internet and due to very short wires it was fiddly to solder the connections.
Now works perfectly and all cables are detachable which I like. No stain and if something goes wrong can be replaced.
Now works perfectly and all cables are detachable which I like. No stain and if something goes wrong can be replaced.
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I used a binomial probability distribution effectively! While helping my teenager study for exams. ("Helping" here being a loose term for basically sitting next to them as emotional support and making encouraging noises and hot chocolate as necessary).
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I changed a bash script I created for logging stats from my solar panel setup into a database.
Now, the next time I add new charge controller, I just need to add a few details to an array, instead of creating a separate bash script for the new device.
A small win, but something I had been meaning to do for a while.
It is a lot more efficient now, and less likely to lock up the sqlite3 database 🥳
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I finished my new socks and they fit perfectly!
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Great request, shall read replies in a mo.
I recently completed a big chunk of work to support web pub and viewing on a decentralised storage network.
It's a really neat solution and needed lots of thought, problem solving etc, works really well, good UX but even so I wasn't happy because it requires some extra setup (local DNS) that will reduce access for many.
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two months ago we finally released a game. It's not big or anything but we're pretty happy to have it off our hands and in the wild store.steampowered.com/app/285…
Cave Hikers on Steam
Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”.store.steampowered.com
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I lead-authored a paper on the scientific history of the Carnegie Diplodocus, whose casts are on display in museums around the world. It took a couple of years, and involved wrangling a team five authors from three countries, but it's finally in the proofing stage. It should be the exhaustive, definitive reference for this keystone specimen. (I do this in my spare time; in real life I'm a computer programmer.)
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does this count? I managed to install a new waterproof floor in one of my vans, despite the absence of any DIY skills 😁.
Here is some hope...the billionaires supporting a fascist are unpopular.
That unpopularity means a shrinking Facebook user base, a distaste for Amazon, and utter revulsion for Tesla's
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m…
Poll: Trump’s reliance on billionaires is extremely unpopular
Asked about Donald Trump relying on billionaires “for advice about government policy,” Americans' attitudes appear to be one-sided.Steve Benen (MSNBC)
Finally managed to get to the "have receipt for SSDI application" stage of the retirement disability benefits application process.
This feels both too big (a huge emotional milestone) and too small (it seems to be the precursor to an even larger paperwork burden), as well as being not at all fiddly or technical. But it did require quite a bit of quiet contemplation ("have I managed to put down *all* the relevant doctors?") and problem solving ("where is that info?").
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I moved a light switch in an outbuilding from the middle of the room to the doorway so we don't have to muddle around in the dark with our bins. Relatively small amount of work for an objective life improvement!
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Yesterday I got an update installed on a system for cataloguing manuscripts that simplifies & halves the time it takes to connect a manuscript to the various works within it, which are stored in a separate table of the database, and tweaked the current testing data to match.
And in sillier outputs, last weekend I wrote a JavaScript script that produces really bad imagined romance-fantasy book blurbs:
exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?…
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I'm most of the way through adding svg support to my CAD library
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This is objectively funny because I'm in that state where I'm ridiculously proud of being able to output a simple test curve, while also being aware that by itself, this doesn't look like anything
SVG Support `waterfall-cad-svg` by joe-warren · Pull Request #17 · joe-warren/opencascade-hs
Adding a new module, with support for loading (and potentially outputting) SVG files into Path2D Uses SVG Tree ToDo: SVG Loading With API documentation Fix Monoid Instance on Path/Path2D ad...GitHub
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Okay, this is more like something
The booger, dried to the back wall of my nasal passage, right up in the corner, where stubby ends of fingers are shunned
I persisted
I insisted
I pushed and probed and prodded and poked
It resisted
It slip shifted
It hung and stuck and welded, it clung
We fought long
Battled hard
Were times I felt, the grip did slip
Others, like my nose, raw, would split
But I gave and gave, till two knuckles deep and the blood vessels within, did start to weep
And there, it let go
And tasted so sweet
I persisted
I insisted
I pushed and probed and prodded and poked
It resisted
It slip shifted
It hung and stuck and welded, it clung
We fought long
Battled hard
Were times I felt, the grip did slip
Others, like my nose, raw, would split
But I gave and gave, till two knuckles deep and the blood vessels within, did start to weep
And there, it let go
And tasted so sweet
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Been "projecting" this one boulder problem at my local climbing gym. It's a tough, very overhung route that I knew I was strong enough to do, but I just couldn't get some of the moves. Usually that means there's a problem with technique. So tonight I broke it down into sections, and practised them in isolation, feeling for what was going wrong, and how to position my body so that the moves felt easier. After doing this, and half a dozen or so tries I finally topped it, and it actually felt, not easy, but completely doable, where before it had felt impossible.
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have been building these light boxes for charlie and the chocolate factory, kind of fidly to deal with all the details, and repeat 6x, but they are going to be cool.
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@trending_bot How about spending a weekend to isolate the reason my disk kept filling up all the damned time? darthnull.org/disk-space-woes/
macOS Sequoia Disk Space...Vanishing!
My Mac Mini's disk kept filling up. A lot. Even after I got rid of crap, it filled up again. Multiple gigs in just a day. What the hell is going on?Darth Null
Recently have been refactoring a raytracer project of mine in Rust. Trying to do it a little better this time.
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I've been reading "Conflict is not Abuse" by Schulman, probably the most feminist book ive ever read, and did a lot of emotional work around processing that.
Proud of myself for sticking to it, even when it was hard. 
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I finished a photo book from a trip we took to Spain and Portugal last April. Now working on the one for my Mom's 90th birthday party as a gift for her 91st. Keeps my mind busy and looking hard at photos lets me remember good things.
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focused on bringing Godot to the iPad. It has been a passion project, so many interesting problems to solve. Every week a completely new challenge.
Computers being so fast and tools so good, has made me feel like I am at my peak.
Replaying Horizon Zero Dawn as a hobby, and been learning the piano at my old age- and having a blast while doing so.
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I wrote a to do list and have put big ticks next to the first 3 items. Happy about that.
I am hosting a weekly jazz show on my local FM radio station. It's been great to get so immersed in music again and learn new skills unrelated to software. It's been great to be reminded that art is still being created and people are reacting to this moment in all kinds of ways.
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I spent way longer on this than I should have. But I love it shellsharks.com/devlog/shark-f… 🦈 🧡
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passed my sec+ and am working on my resume to finally get a helpdesk position!
a raspberry pi server with yunohost that is working nicely 😀
Yesterday I managed to steer the conversation of an implementation we need to do at work towards progressing. We have one colleague who is exceptionally good at programming, but has severe tunnel vision and will sometimes reply in such a way that I wonder if they think everyone else is dumb 😛
Getting this done required carefully bumping this colleague in the right direction and breathing deeply while reading some of their remarks 😅
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I wanted to see less of someone on the websites I visit, and tested using Claude AI to write some newfangled custom CSS to obfuscate him from view.
It was a nice exercise that produced an unintended visualization of how much space is devoted to really bad actors.
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I'm helping my neighbourhood get a functional web presence so it's easy to disseminate info, and (fingers crossed) more people will play their dues so we can have more fun/useful activities 😃
Thank you city grants!
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@darkuncle this took a lot of thought and serious contemplation, I’m not sure how many times I refactored and reimagined the algorithm until I was happy with it. github.com/lcisec/lckbx
GitHub - lcisec/lckbx: Lckbx (pronounced Lockbox) is a multi-user, offline, privacy-preserving encrypted note storage system.
Lckbx (pronounced Lockbox) is a multi-user, offline, privacy-preserving encrypted note storage system. - GitHub - lcisec/lckbx: Lckbx (pronounced Lockbox) is a multi-user, offline, privacy-preserv...GitHub
i have been fiddling with the pickups on my acoustic guitar, researching different microphone setups that better capture my sound
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I made a Time and Space #quilt last weekend. It's pretty basic, but it held together through it's first laundering, and it's keeping me warm as I type this.
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@f4grx Hey well done! Plumbing is an art and the skills around it are great to learn!
Were I not partially blind I know I'd be a DIY-er for sure 😀
Last week at Glass Time (the multi-week open projects flameworking class I am in the semester), I made a higher-genus hollow form than I’ve made before. (A small vase/bottle with a “doughnut” hole connecting from front to back.)
Oh and a Work Success: yesterday one of my students emailed me something she saw after class that reminded her of our lecture topic.
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still a WIP but I revived an old sewing machine that was in storage for a long time and have been learning to use it!
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I dyed my first thing ever! I dyed my white Miyoo Mini Plus handheld retro console a dark, DARK purple. I had intended it be navy blue but I still love the results and I'm going to do a few more for family!
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I fixed a bug in Vim. Not a major thing but a recent patchlevel broke a feature I use often and none of the usual contributors noticed the breakage, so I felt I had to be the one to research it and write the pull request.
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I had a hobby I wanted to start in on, but in my initial attempt, I had organized it to be very dependent on being at my desktop computer. But then I didn't touch it for months. In the last couple of weeks, I had a good think about why it was that a thing I wanted to do for fun wasn't drawing my attention like I expected. Turns out, spending more time at my desk was a big blocker, so I spent some time figuring out how to make the process all analog so I could do it at the kitchen table or wherever and buying a few supplies like a binder and dividers to make analog notes and keep them organized. Now I've done it 3-4 times since reorganizing it and I'm having a great time with it.
Dunno if that's technical or fiddly enough, but it did require quiet contemplation and assessment of myself and my habits.
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Recently did some fun stuff integrating a barcode scanner into one of my apps
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Emory Dunn :tiny_cart: (@emorydunn@tinycart.club)
Attached: 2 images Sometimes SwiftUI just works so nicely. A little bit of work with the barcode scanner and I have a view modifier that performs an action whenever a barcode is scanned or can update the value of a binding.Tiny Cart Club
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Just gave a listen to the final track on my new album. Couldn’t be happier!
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Fun thread!
I wrote a recreational topology book, which you can pre-order at Bandcamp: b--k.bandcamp.com/album/topolo… . Should be done this weekend.
Reading all the math underlying the book has been such a great respite.
Good math is a narrative about building interesting things and solving hard problems, but is completely devoid of the usual interpersonal drama that comes with most narratives.
Working on a PR to use the nice sphinx-codeautolink extension for the Python docs and finding some bugs in code blocks of examples with it.
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This is almost a month ago now, but I completed a major update to my company's product for making documents (especially PDFs) more accessible to blind people. We rely on third-party services to do the heavy lifting (OCR, document structure analysis, AI image descriptions), but there were still some tricky bits I had to do myself. One of the last ones I had to do for this update was finding links in the original PDF and adding matching links to the HTML version.
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This one's less technical, but last week I spoke to a small group of blind students at a local high school. I showed them a few fun things one can do online with a web browser and a screen reader, including accessing the fediverse. They were taking notes. I think I helped their teacher motivate them to master important screen reader commands.
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By "small group", I mean only three students. So some may say it wasn't a good use of my time; after all, we technologists are supposed to do things that scale. But it felt good and worthwhile.
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Today I wrote a basic version of strace in Rust, and it only took me a couple hours!
I'd been really busy with school for a long while, and I had done nothing but homework that I was bad at interspersed by YouTube for far too long. Sitting down and spending a few hours bashing out a library was the most fun I've had in months, and a great reminder that I'm not a useless human being since art appreciation is hard for me.
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Not Albert Einsten, as it turns out, but worth remembering nonetheless
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Did some sewing. New hats and some very soft fleece haltertops for under everything. I am very cozy. Also teaching young women in my neighborhood how to make clothing and bread. Old women, too. And men. Whoever is curious.
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I knuckled down and got CSS flow layout to work on my phone browser for PixieReport's "weather stations nearby this one" view, making the 4x3 image view about the right width for smartphones.
Now I have to go back and fix it for landscape mode browsers so it doesn't explode down the scroll direction by scaling to the viewport width, oops. But it fixed the "too small for the phone" problem.
Mozilla Developers Network, the gift that keeps on giving for novice developers.
pixiereport.com/stations?locat… (works best in portrait mode, sorry, but the other pages aren't flow-layout).
@jmeowmeow oh my gods, this site still works?! I had one of these on my page 20 years ago!
I started fixing some flakes and bugs in k8s' e2e testing codebase. nothing too complex but it did require some contemplation and testing
@SnoopJ My friend, who I’ve known since high school, has his 50th birthday the 1st. I’m going to be traveling and can’t make it; he was really disappointed.
A week ago, my partner and I drove 800 miles to surprise him with an early birthday party. 😄
His partner helped arrange so we’d be at a whiskey bar when they walked in. We were facing with our backs to the door, and as he walked by I asked if he wanted to sit with us. He just froze up, and then started laughing.
It was the best. ❤️
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At work, we need wsl-vpnkit or similar to get WSL 2 working while on the VPN. It includes some binaries though, so it's blocked. After fighting and failing to get it approved, I figured out how to compile the relevant binaries from gvisor-tap-vsock in WSL 1 and use the wsl-vpnkit shell script to put them together in a systemd service in WSL 2. Wrote up some instructions and a coworker was able to repeat it, so it's not just a "works on my machine" thing!
I made a good start on a totally commercially useless but (fun to me!) side project involving the re-creation of the old school MUD idea but using REST and FastAPI/SqlModel.
I also with great effort finished the first shambling revision of my new from scratch @neovim configuration:
github.com/feoh/git_dotfiles/t…
But I'm not happy with a trade off I made to get it going and want to retool it to be much cleaner 😀
I myself have been feeling overwhelmed by current events and the tsunami they create in my social media, and focusing on side projects, my charity work, and spending time with my lovely wife and cuddly lovable dog 😀
GitHub - feoh/chrismud: An HTTP based multi user game. More to come
An HTTP based multi user game. More to come. Contribute to feoh/chrismud development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@lydiaschoch I used to use a tool called dnote to keep track of thoughts and todos from a command line. Since corporate policy is to not install unauthorized third party apps, I reimplemented dnote in bash this week. I call it bnote
i found & joined a local makerspace! i've gotten slightly better at soldering (completed some little kits) and started learning python! i got a job (extremely part-time and not one i want to do forever but still!!!)
Ive got MOST of the seed bank organized and on the order form to ship out to folks for free. I still need to finish packing up the blanket flower, hollyhock, and coneflower into envelopes. But stamps to actually send stuff out haven't arrived yet, so still have a bit of time.
but soon, soon, I get to start mailing flower seeds to folks
i've been learning tinkercad and modeling stuff for the 3d printer i finally bought after years of toying with the idea, currently progressing on making a phone support for my bike, because my phone is big and heavy and not that common, so it needs something custom. still needs work but happy with my progress.
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I’ve just finished making my first crochet blanket, and it’s my first time using something trickier than treble crochets. I’ve been footering at it off and on since September, unravelling the bits I messed up, until I got into my rhythm with the stitch.
I decided to learn how to crochet during the first lockdown, and not only has it been great for my head, it’s kept the hand I broke a few years ago well exercised.
Sending sympathies for the current state of overwhelm.
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@shezza_t @curatedjenny this is beautiful. The colors have an emotional connection for me.
@kimlockhartga What a lovely thing to say. Thank-you ❤️
The wool was what inspired me to make a blanket. The colour of one of the stripes is paua shell, and I have very happy memories of a holiday in New Zealand. The other colours just leapt out as good companions for it.
This is a great idea! Much appreciated.. thank you for asking.
I set up my household's new gravity-fed water filtration system, from unpacking to first use. This involved reading instructions, identifying parts, initial cleaning, priming, and testing the first run. It works great.
Recently designed and had my first real PCBs made for work with the help of my coworker! We got the boards and spent a few hours debugging why they weren't working basically at all... Are all the voltage regulators working? Can we see data on the USB port? Is there something wrong with the EEPROM setup? To cut a very long story short, it turned out the data + and - lines on the USB port were backwards in the schematic... Oops 🤦♀️ Luckily during that debugging we also happened to discover I used the wrong footprint for the crystal we put on the board, so we had to bodge that too... To fix the USB port being wired backwards, my coworker made a "USB Crossover cable" which does exactly what you'd expect (it wasn't worth modding the boards when we could instead mod the cable!)
Anyways other than those two things, rev 1 was pretty successful otherwise... The stuff I thought was going to cause issues (transistors and gates) actually worked totally fine first try.
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I at last opened my very old air fix skeleton kit, that I’ve been meaning to start for years, ordered paint and filler and about to begin construction. The first step is always the biggest accomplishment. I built one in 1969, my finest build, but alas the glue failed with age and it’s in irreparable bits now. The skull is on display though.
i drew a million images to the screen with only vulkan and wayland :333
I'm in the middle of plugging many, many memory leaks. My unloader is currently unloading roughly half of what it needs to.
I found an fixed a timing-dependent bug caused by uninitialized memory use in watchdogd, mostly by analyzing logs and staring at the code until I realized what didn't fit. 
github.com/troglobit/watchdogd…
Fix use of uninitialized exit status by airtower-luna · Pull Request #52 · troglobit/watchdogd
Depending on the timing between the SIGCHLD callback run and the first generic_cb() timer callback run, script_exit_status() sometimes returned uninitialized memory as the exit status of a script. ...GitHub
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I created a visualization of a knowledge graph for Calculus and its prerequisites, which is powering the product I’m currently working on.
I was doing this to prepare for a public talk, which unfortunately got rescheduled due to on-site water problems in New Jersey. Nevertheless, I’m still happy with the results! It's nice to have something to show to your F&Fs to explain "what is that I'm working on" 😀
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I had two really good therapy sessions that I think unlocked me, I'm visiting my friends I haven't seen in years, I started cooking a bit… yeah there's some good stuff
Yesterday I've finally understood how to make a luks decryption on debian with a key stored into the tpm, but without dracut or clevis, with ony the initramfs-tools !
It's actually quite easy and weel described on the tpm2-initramfs-tool github (but they have forgotten to indicate the step where you add the key to the luks volume).
And now I'm digging into the PCR explaination, in order to decide wth which PCR I would like to seal my luks key. I'll probably want to seal it with the ones about kernel/firmware binaries.
It's actually quite easy and weel described on the tpm2-initramfs-tool github (but they have forgotten to indicate the step where you add the key to the luks volume).
And now I'm digging into the PCR explaination, in order to decide wth which PCR I would like to seal my luks key. I'll probably want to seal it with the ones about kernel/firmware binaries.
I left a job about 6 months ago that was draining my energy. To try to get my enthusiasm for my work back, I set myself a challenge - to figure out how small an encoder for a modern video compression standard can be.
And not only did I succeed at answering that question, it did bring my enthusiasm back, and now I'm partway through writing up what I did: rachelplusplus.me.uk/blog/2025…
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recorded a giant checklist of groceries in my Obsidian vault (not just weekly, it includes a lot of the infrequent stuff too)
The whole thing is organised by the area of the house it's kept (specific cupboards, fridge, freezer, etc) so that I can quickly go through the house auditing what we need in the next shop.
Each item is also tagged with the area/aisle number where it's found in each of the three local grocers and each grocer has a separate page with a dynamic list of what's currently needed, this time organised by aisle. The aisles are sorted in the order I would progress through them so that I can rush through in hurry and know exactly what I'm looking for at each aisle without backtracking.
At the top of each grocer page is a link that immediately starts driving directions in Google maps and at bottom is a picture of the points card barcode so I'm all set for the checkout....
Oh! And also the bin code for times when I'm swapping a soda stream tank so that they don't need to look it up 😂
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Helped some friends today. Really not technical but it helped a great deal that brought the right tools!
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Circuit breaker powering a friend’s greenhouse located in their garage tripped — but a 5” thick ice glacier made it impossible to open! I brought tools of disassembly and what worked best was my 8 pound short-handle sledge hammer and my sharpest splitting wedge! Thick ice is fucking tough! Their greenhouse is getting power again!Feels good to help make something a bit better in the current dystopia …
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managed to get a single-board computer which had me defeated for 5 years to boot, and now it's running a desktop environment and serving a role I need (a non-laptop system near where I spend most of my time to display various information, youtube, etc)
@bitinn @chrisamaphone Was unfamiliar with "PBR Workflow", and thought cheap beer was fueling your progress 😆
@nazokiyoubinbou A few years ago I wanted to ease into really using Linux, so I dual-booted. I adapted surprisingly quickly. Now I log into the Windows side about every 6 months to run updates... then right back to Linux 🤣
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figured out a good method for getting art (and only art, more or less) from artists i like on bsky into my rss feed.
took apart a hdmi switch to add some shielding between the led indicators, so it's clear which side is on.
spent awhile fiddling with and configuring my new mac mini to make it feel and control more like the windows and linux pc's i'm used to.
Years after I got an idea to make a tray app for some custom desktop scripts, I finally did it yesterday.
I can now set display brightness via DDC and throttle CPU to not start the fans with a simple click instead of typing into terminal.
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I've been doing rules work for the new netrunner set. I wrote several reference cards to teach and clarify mechanics, and this weekend we'll be finalizing rules text for most of the game cards
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Just threw together a full demo in 18 hours for Assembly Winter 2025! 😃
Compofiller but you know, gotta put that product on the screen and say hello to everyone!
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I updated all the dependencies I could at the moment for the odilia screenreader, also removed some accessibility event handlers which are cluttering the speech buffer with mostly useless information. I'm currently working on making caret browsing work as expected, also fixing the problem where it wouldn't read certain list and treeview items, because they don't have names and descriptions directly associated with them, but I suspect they're just a wrapper and I have to make heuristics for when odilia should look at the descendents of that item in case it's a container. This is the work of guesswork and heuristics, because the orca screenreader has a very weird and complicated codebase, plus it's python and I don't know python well enough to go fast over that codebase, so I'm choosing the way of pain instead
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update on this one real quick: apparently no, those list and treeviews which aren't reading with odilia are, in fact, not at all containers for other items, at least not in most cases. In fact, doing it this way introduces more bugs, in the form of things being readable before just misteriously not reading and so on. So yeah, back to the drawing bord I go, will have to inspect orca and see if I can decipher anything useful from it, enough to solve my problems.
I set up a new GitHub organization and configured the project tracker with priorities that are actually actionable and directly meaningful. Very pleased with them so far.
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I maintain a small Rust crate (crates.io/crates/constant_time…) which has to do some tricks to avoid being optimized to something not constant time, and I had been worrying that these tricks might not be enough. These last few months, I made a nearly full rewrite of it, making it safer against the optimizer while not losing too much speed (which required some amount of manual vectorization, since the optimizer can no longer autovectorize), and I plan to do a release with these changes tomorrow.
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I migrated a Python hobby project from pdm to setuptools. Small win but it took some figuring out, especially being as unfamiliar as I am with Python packaging. >.>
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Don't know if this qualifies, but at work on Thursday I had a coding problem I just could not see. When to bed that night and dreamed about the code (my mind is weird like that). Woke up yesterday morning and my 'subconscious' had figured out where the error was and how to fix it. 🙂
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I saw a Robin on my walk today. Not an achievement in a classic sense. And not the result of focus and fiddly work.
Still, I'm pleased.
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I translated my first project of the year, a ~1910 handwritten postcard in Yiddish! Now on to the 77 page manuscript of my next project 😅
I don't know if this counts, but I built a picnic table out of Legos for the first time ever in my life at the age of 32, 100% independently. I am totally blind and relied on accessible instructions AKA text-based instructions for the blind and visually impaired, as well as chat GPT to accomplish this task .
I created a custom chat GPT specific for Lego builds, included specifications such as be descriptive in prompts, etc.
this did take quiet contemplation as I fucked up a couple times, but in the end it was a success. I didn't know if I wanted to jump for Joy or burst into tears LOL I guess any goal achieved, no matter how small, is still an accomplishment right? 🙂
I created a custom chat GPT specific for Lego builds, included specifications such as be descriptive in prompts, etc.
this did take quiet contemplation as I fucked up a couple times, but in the end it was a success. I didn't know if I wanted to jump for Joy or burst into tears LOL I guess any goal achieved, no matter how small, is still an accomplishment right? 🙂
I managed to do 20 consecutive pushups for the first time in about 15 years
@adhdeanasl The gain structure on my #1 guitar amp is notoriously finicky, in part because the two channels feed each other, both are extremely sensitive to input variation, both respond to a “jazz/rock” master toggle, all three EQ knobs have extra toggle switches and THEY all interact with everything else in non-obvious ways, plus I have had it modded with a A/AB power switch and a 3 way toggle to pull negative feedback from different points in the internal signal chain.
ANYWAY I managed to get it set up sounding like absolute ass last summer, thin, raspy, no mojo whatsoever, went down the rabbit hole of tube swapping with little positive effect, and have been disappointed with the sound ever since.
I finally sat down with it, left the tubes alone, and dialed everything up from scratch…I do this by turning up the final master volume to max, nothing plugged in, and moving every knob and toggle while listening for variations in the low level hum/noise of the output (hat tip Steve Kimock who mentioned this trick on a message board decades ago). I listen for inflection points; spots on the potentiometer range where an audible change occurs. If you can hear that, you can trigger it with your picking hand, which is what I want from this amp. Maximum touch sensitivity.
It took about 90 minutes but I solved it using only my ears and more patience than I was able to muster over the last 6 months. It sings again. When the amp is dialed, I play more often, I play differently, and I enjoy it more. Winning!
I had no idea why strange numbers were appearing at the bottom of my WordPress blog, under the footer. I tried everything to make the vanish.
In an unrelated matter I decided I didn't need Google Analytics anymore since they were inaccurate anyway. When I deleted the code the strange numbers also vanished. Yay.
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This might not count under "recently" but it's one of my favourites:
I figured out an upper bound for where Busy Beaver overtakes Kruskal's TREE function. To my knowledge, we didn't have one before.
The way to do it involved writing a program in a language that can be compiled down to Turing machines, which was SUPER fiddly because the language is very restricted.
But I did manage in the end. Busy Beaver overtakes TREE no later (and probably a lot earlier) than at 8424! 🌳🦫💡
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@aburka It's a language specially designed for the purpose. It's called laconic.
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For context, I recommend the following blog post and the paper linked therein.
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Well, I did manage to set up a standstorm server running off of a small PC board with a pair of drives attached in RAID 1 to it.
That's more system administration than I usually do, so I'm pretty pleased..
yesterday I noticed a production cron job didn't run. There weren't enough resources for GKE to schedule it.
This was the sort of cron job that gets noticed, that there'll be meetings about. So it was a 😬🤦 moment.
I "raised the alarm" and started to rescale workloads to free up resources (without impacting performance) until the job could run.
A nerve-wracking 20mins to get it going followed by an hour waiting to see if it ran successfully and in time.
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been messin' with shaders for my space game today
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I have finished a couple pair of handknit socks, while keeping up with school and developing some yarn-relates classes to teach.
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Replaced the hard drive on an old 5th gen iPod with a Sd card and also put in a new battery. The thing has always sounded better than anything else Apple has ever built. Now it’s gloriously light and filled with 512 GB of music.
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this is really lovely as I feel your pain. I'm soaking up the joy of other creatives and writers on Substack at the moment. They've spurred me on to continue with my first draft for my book! Find beauty in the arts and nature. I think that sometimes helps.
I created a new coaching methodology to help people design their own distinctive leadership style. Going well so far!
I have been writing a bash script to call up to CCADB for a list of root certificate authorities and parse them out.
It's a multiline CSV and the typical Linux tools don't handle newlines in fields very well. Had to loop over the records and build the second field manually before processing a record.
Was updating the CA certs for an AOSP 14 build.
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I attended a "listening session" at my company about why people feel unheard. I spoke on a topic that possibly could have gotten me fired, and three other people on the call concurred.
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I just 3D modeled and am printing out a flange to cover up the range vent hole in the cabinet above the microwave, to keep things in the cabinet from falling down into that hole and junk accumulating between the microwave and the cabinet.
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I finally managed to write some tests which run a compiled go command that starts kubernetes jobs, and I don't completely hate the end result. Found at least one bug in the process, which was nice.
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@blaise thanks. I mean, test coverage was terrible, so it still doesn't work, but you know... We're getting there.
I've managed to write code that lets me easily reprovision my OpenWRT router from factory settings with Ansible but also to export settings from the router to my Ansible project. This makes it possible for me to safely experiment with network settings on my local network without having to worry about fallout when I inevitably break something. This was much more fiddly than I initially expected and OpenWRT seems to mostly be held together with gaffa tape, hope and shell scripts. 😀
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@kevin I spun a 6-ply merino yarn that's so fine it's practically a lace-weight. (so smol!)
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Some folks and I are building a map of high school mascots powered by #OpenStreetMap. It's very silly.
Make sure to add any you know of!
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GitHub - watmildon/HighSchoolMascotMap: Host the style file and icons for an Ultra based mascot map
Host the style file and icons for an Ultra based mascot map - watmildon/HighSchoolMascotMapGitHub
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I replaced a defective thermistor inside our Rheem hybrid electric water heater, which required standing on a small step stool and bending over (to avoid knocking my head into the ceiling) and reaching two hands down into the unit. A plumber would have charged at least US$300 for that.
last week I figured out how to precompile macros in the compiler for my programming language which sped up launch time by a factor of 5
I also launched a mediocre hyper-personalized search engine; only a couple thousand pages in the index but it's already helped me find a few things and has been a lot of fun to work on
finished editing four volumes of the second series of a speculative fiction universe about non-human aliens I've been writing, and have recently begun the third chapter of the third series.
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a couple of OpenWrt things:
The mac database hadn't been working for arp-scan since an upstream location change in late 2022. So I did a PR to fix that.
A LuCI page to enroll application specific encryption keys. I'd been bashing my brains out on JavaScript I didn't quite comprehend for a week or so, but finally got something that looks like what I wanted when embarking on this quest.
I built and am starting to learn to use a chording keyboard for when my hands stop working properly.
I completed the OzBow program for target archery, scored 224 / 300 @ 45m
I highlighted a bug in the KMK keyboard firmware project, will test the fix at some point soon.
Maybe a bit smaller than some of the accomplishments in the replies, but It was a helpful reminder of the positive things happening in my life.
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I've developed a nesting fixation due to all this *gestures broadly* but I emptied out about a half dozen bags of paper and trash from my office, dusted and cleaned shelves, emptied and organized the hall closet which was stuffed full of junk that hadnt been cleaned in 10+ years, so now we have more functional space and aren't climbing over junk, we can sit on the couch and watch videos or play games that had been too hardd to get to before.
It may not seem like a lot, but it's been years and years worth of clutter and anxiety finally getting the motivation to tackle it
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successfully throwing porcelain!
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I fixed the pocket door for the downstairs bathroom. The tricky bit was figuring out how to hold the little rolling slider in place while I lifted the door up to latch the pin.
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I decided to take back a little control of my spot on the Internet and moved my blog off of GitHub pages to a VPS and moved to a single user GotoSocial instance.
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for months I have had an ONT, WiFi node and switch lying on the floor behind my TV in a rat's nest of wires. Semi-inspired by this thread, I finally got around to fastening them all to the skirting board. It may not be beautiful but it's a lot better than before! (Nice 3D-printed bracket for the Eero courtesy of someone on the internet.)
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@blaise Absolutely! The whole thing is going into a blog post soon (from my new ✨business blog ✨) but you can totally have a sneak preview of the information while the full post is effectively embargoed pending paperwork approval.
yesterday reached a fitness goal of lifting 20kg, 3 reps, in a pincer grip. I do rock climbing, so it matters 😇💪
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We put together a trampoline! We had made a start about 2 weeks ago but it got dark halfway through the build, and then it rained the next day, and then we had two busy work weeks. So the project had stalled. But it got done today! Much jumping by small people ensued.
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I had a few weeks in between jobs, and I migrated my blog from Jekyll to Eleventy and wrote a post about it hachyderm.io/@urixturing/11402…
New blog post: This post has been generated with EleventyMigrating from #Jekyll to #11ty @eleventy, and my impressions after using both static web generators. lamaquinadeturing.su/en/2025/0…
over the last few weeks, I’ve learned to read hiragana, one of the Japanese syllabaries. I got very fired up after a trip to Japan and honestly part of what keeps me going is that every time I start to feel tired of reading doom, I open my flashcards app instead. I wrote a blog post about it, though I left off how the learning is an escape rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/202…
Learning hiragana
The first step to learning Japanese is learning the phonetic writing systemrinsemiddlebliss
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I built this wood store out of scrap wood
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I reorganized the tea and coffee storage in our kitchen, which allowed me to relocate the spices from the depths of the corner cabinet in which they had been interred. The project isn’t done yet — at the very least, the drawer needs internal dividers to help keep things in place — but it’s already 1000% more useable.
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I recently kinda refurbished a coffee grinder to gift to a friend. I've never done anything lime it before so hi had to learn a lot of new things. I took it all apart, replaced the burrs, cleaned it, calibrated it, and repainted it a totally different color. I also ended up needing some custom low contact parts. I ended up learning CAD software to model and create the part myself. I then put the part online in the off chance it could be useful to someone else.
I've been struggling to do much of anything for some time, whether it was something I enjoy or not. So I was really proud of myself for actually finishing this project.
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Designed an algorithm: github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/p…
[decycler] Implement an efficient graph cycle detector by behdad · Pull Request #5074 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz
This is an algorithm I came up with, based on the Floyd's Tortoise-Hare constant-memory linear-time linked-list cycle-detection algorithm. It is linear-time and malloc-free. It *eventually* det...GitHub
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Built a Tensegrity table.
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Well, getting rid of Python 2 in #openSUSE is probably too negative as well, right?
@mcepl Depends on how you feel about it! Are *you* excited to have done so?
I am, we were working on this for seven years or so.
I pieced together from various sources instructions for downloading and DRM-stripping all our Kindle books from Amazon, primarily a couple of Reddit posts with good info. Then I worked through importing nearly 1000 Kindle books for our household into Calibre with the DRM stripped.
It's another good step towards getting completely free of Amazon.
We still have at least 300-400 non-DRMed non-Kindle ebooks from other sources to import.
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Ironically, I had been putting this off for years, and I probably wouldn't have gotten to this for several years more, if Amazon hadn't announced that starting 2/26 they would switch to a tougher DRM scheme and make it harder to download.
Motivation!
@CliftonR I'm a massive fan of Calibre and donate to them often.
super foolish and fiddly but I wanted to be able to link to articles/components I load dynamically on a page, while also supporting responsive nav and styling all with native JavaScript.
It wasn’t anything super difficult, nor is the solution I came up with the way I would do it if building again. But it works well enough, and it’s something I hadn’t tried before.
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I've been working on an HTML + JS thing for github.com/python-organizers/c… and it's been surprisingly rewarding even if it never ends up becoming a thing "for reals".
GitHub - python-organizers/conferences: List of Python Conferences around the World
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I'm waiting for some magnet wire to come in the mail so I can make a DIY linear motor. All for fun, too.
I moved a light fixture today, three feet, so it actually lights up the area under the stairs it was supposed to.
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I just finished re-implementing my powerlevel10k config in Oh-my-posh (ohmyposh.dev) earlier today.
The benefits include actually being written by me (my p10k one was generated with p10k configure), more features if I ever want them, and not being written in shell with like 50 character envvars for settings.
(In case you use p10k and weren't aware, it is now basically unmaintained. See github.com/romkatv/powerlevel1…)
GitHub - romkatv/powerlevel10k: A Zsh theme
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it's been three years of full-scale Russian invasion, and I'm not dead yet!
And, I managed to fix and get merged one nasty bug in WebKitGTK font scaling, and maybe with the help of awesome folks from GNOME we'll fix a few bugs in Geary soon.
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@partizan these accomplishments do not seem to be of the same scale, but I am glad of both of them.
Also as an American I feel obliged to apologize for my country. Those of us who do not want to see you dead really did our best and I am sorry it wasn’t enough; we are hoping Europe comes through for you when we inevitably falter.
an e-ink desk clock using the Inkplate 6 module
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I wanted to share it anyway, so I am using this as an opportunity.
Recently, I have finally finished drawing (!) of #lifehack
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finished my pilot’s license in January by passing my checkride. Have flown myself and passengers around.
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I'm about |-| close from becoming a gentoo developer. Literally like two patches left in my "final exam" project. Not to mention last Summer I got to speak at CERN. Knocking off the bucket list in rapid fashion!
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I replaced a starter in a friend's minivan. It was very Type 3 Fun, but we got it done.
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@glyph, as our world burns, I anxiously await a Phoenix to arise from its ashes (always hopeful), I escape the chaos for a few hours painting cards. I’m still learning to paint on You Tube videos, so they are not professional level, but they are full of love. I started making these cards during COVID, and found some joy. Painting them pulls my attention away from the negativity, and people like getting mail. They show that someone is thinking of them with love. 💕
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@jalefkowit Yeah, I'm definitely inspired by that show, and listened to it for many years before I moved across the Bay. Part of my "thesis" is in response to that show -- that there has been plenty of growth in big band since 1959 worth celebrating, and plenty of activity even today. I'm trying to connect the "classic" stuff to newer things people may also enjoy.
Building out a new server to run parts of me on and migrate over to it. Pretty nifty so far.
the screen on my tablet fell off, and broke the ribbon cable. I checked online, not repairable. I called the local shop. Not repairable. I found the part on Amazon for $8. 20 screws, and some light prying, I got the end of the cable in view. With a 10X magnifier, I got the old one detached. New one in. Back in, and I have my tablet back. Still need to glue the screen in again...
The new Plan 9 file system I've been working on for a while (GEFS) is getting very close to stable, and my port of it to OpenBSD has read its first directory listing.
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What the FUCK is this, firefox?
I had explicitly disabled this shit in firefox labs.
No, this is not an extension adding this (I checked), it seems this is now built-in to firefox.
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A screenshot of a computer screen displays a portion of text and a pop-up menu. The text on the screen includes phrases such as "use the midterm test in option (A) contrib," "Absence form" cannot be used as a valid," "grading on," "TE THAT," "% FINAL," "pics," "stems of L," "aussian Elin," and "atrices and Matriy Operations." A dark, rectangular menu is overlaid on the text, offering options such as "Summarize," "Explain this," "Quiz me," "Proofread," "Ask Le Chat Mistral..." and "Hide chatbot shortcut."
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This has been enabled by default in firefox.
This was just enabled after updating to the latest firefox nightly version in the arch repos.
This was just enabled after updating to the latest firefox nightly version in the arch repos.
cc @BrodieOnLinux have you seen this shit yet? afaik you haven't made a video on this, so I wanted to let you know about it
ohh it's nightly
that makes more sense now
that makes more sense now
disablebrowser.ml.enableinabout:configif you haven't already. that saves me from all the ai headaches
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disablebrowser.ml.enableinabout:configif you haven't already. that saves me from all the ai headaches
from what I can tell, there is no way to disable this, aside from
about:config. (no, "Hide chatbot shortcut" does not count. I want it nuked from orbit.)
nvm, that
about:config setting does not remove it
alright, after some digging I've figured out how to remove it.
set the following options to false:
browser.ml.chat.enabledbrowser.ml.chat.shortcutsbrowser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custombrowser.ml.chat.sidebarbrowser.ml.enable
(most likely only the first one is needed, but I'm setting them all to false anyways)
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browser.ml.enable in about:config if you haven't already. that saves me from all the ai headaches
@jeremystartm that
about:config setting does not seem to remove it (it was off by default anyways?)
Hm. Saw that in some blog post at some point and just set the setting before I even updated to a version which had that setting or AI. I'm running LibreWolf and they seem to remove any AI outright.
@jeremystartm I figured out how to disable it: tech.lgbt/@solonovamax/1140374…
alright, after some digging I've figured out how to remove it.set the following options to
false:
browser.ml.chat.enabledbrowser.ml.chat.shortcutsbrowser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custombrowser.ml.chat.sidebarbrowser.ml.enable(most likely only the first one is needed, but I'm setting them all to false anyways)
librewolf, fennec fdroid, etc
I mean at the same time the point of nightly is to dogfood new features even if they don't end up using them or disable by default 🤔
that's fair.
I end up using betterfox on new installs anyways so I don't really see a lot of the new garbo
I end up using betterfox on new installs anyways so I don't really see a lot of the new garbo
@JessiCum I just updated a few minutes ago and got this, I'm on the latest nightly version in the arch repos
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GM chat, try to remember to enjoy the small things, cause we're just here for a little while.
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GM chat, try to remember to enjoy the small things, cause we're just here for a little while.
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It is INFURIATING how Maga will act as though Trump's the smartest man in the world, but the moment he says something incredibly obviously stupid like 'Zelensky started the war in Ukraine' they're like 'oh he didn't mean it'.
You can't have both you fucking assholes!
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sometimes i have the feeling as here on #mastodon it really matters at what time you post stuff, as i get very different feedback; p.ex. the same post is ignored at one time, while it has way more interaction on #reboost while others are death horses anyway, because they either suck, or do not resonate (the latter being okay with me)
another problem is of course the very incomplete profiles you get from other #instances
#fediverse #syndication #boost #toot #socialmedia #meme #mamema #memes
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"Quick, call CloudFlare and get them to release a statement that it's all their fault!"
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