I just called my reps with 5 Calls, you should* too. They make it super easy to contact the appropriate office(s) about specific issues, and give you a script for the call.
Boost if you think this might be useful for your peeps.
Wow! This is a great example of the power of virtual platforms, #emulators, and also disciplined state control in a programming language. The fact that you can run this inside a #pdf is also instructive — yet another attack vector. Also, I’ll bet there are many packages out there to do cross-compilation from #RISC-V to other machines. Remind me never to use Adobe Acrobat.
When I last worked with laser printers, there was a PostScript program that would run Doom - about 15 yrs ago. We never had the time to actually test it, but had to do some extra work to disable the ability to do arbitrary IO.
That said, amazing job and I'm wondering if I should replace my PC with a good printer!
This reminds me of the guy who stuck an LLM inside a font. Actually, there is more than one guy who has done this.
youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uM… (this explains how he uses the LLM to rewrite your text using synonyms so as to achieve pleasing justified text without use of hyphenation).
I'm not sure what happens when you typeset your PDF-containing-Linux in a typeface-containing-an-LLM, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to be there when it happens.
@bsdphk Computers were a mistake. That ANYONE thought, intentionally or accidentally, that the ability to run this much code inside of a document deserves to be shunned back to the Stone Ages. This is why infosec is an impossible game to win. For every one person fighting the good fight, there are a hundred shitty programmers writing vulnerabilities like this and a thousand scammers waiting to use them.
@jgeorge @bsdphk Blame Adobe for adding JavaScript to PDF, back in the days when everyone wanted to slather world wide web special sauce on their products—like LLMs and "artificial intelligence" today or "crypto/blockchain" a decade ago.
It's a repeating dark pattern, dictated mostly by managers desperate to make Line Go Up by being latest-buzzword-compatible.
Even BEFORE this kind of capability came to light, I remember someone commenting, "Adobe has this hugely profitable business group dedicated to making computers emulate all of the worst usability traits of paper."
@Sweetshark @jgeorge @bsdphk And Turing-completeness is an astonishingly low bar. At least, it's astonishing to folks who haven't studied CS. (sendmail.cf? Turing-complete. Magic The Gathering? Turing-complete. And so on.)
@jgeorge One of the events in computing that I have yet to see credibly researched and documented is what I call "The deluge":
How much did "The IT industry" grow during the 1990'ies in terms of persons, and what skills did they come in with ?
My guess is a factor of more than 1000, (ie: 100000+%) and that none of those people (-epsilon) had any professional IT experience, and knew nothing about the skill&craft of IT.
@bsdphk @jgeorge You can almost certainly chart it by graphing cumulative sales of personal computers, minus machines retired as broken/obsolete, which lags by a time period … and it was undergoing exponential growth throughout this period, so the retired cohort lagged new installs by a huge distance.
Computer use in business implies support personnel numbers (IIRC in the 90s it was 1 PC tech support per 40 installed base).
Since 2007 include smartphones/tablets as well. Different ratio, OFC.
@arrrg Because they already ran DOOM on it. First one runs DOOM, then runs a tiny Linux or NetBSD distribution. Then after that, a cleverly recursive thing, in this case a fully featured PDF rendering engine, so that one can render a Xzibit meme in the nested engine. "Yo dawg, I heard you like PDFs..."
@mkoek @jgeorge @bsdphk They added javascript to the Epub 3 ebook file format, too. So you can in principle have a linux cookbook that lets you run the example code …
Basically anything that sells ePub, so Kobo.com, ebooks.com (this one has a drm free category), etc. DRM is decided by the publisher not the store so not everything will be available without protection.
If the book you want has DRM there's a Calibre plugin that is usually able to remove it.
Reddit, a platform founded in part on the premise of openly and widely sharing information, is ready to put up some paywalls. In a video Ask Me Anything (AMA) session hosted by CEO Steve Huffman following the company’s quarterly earnings report (which went poorly), the founder and exec said Reddit is actively testing ways to make some content require payment to access and plans to roll out a “paid subreddit” feature later this year.
Reddit might have some room to eat into Patreon’s model, allowing creators to put certain content behind paywalls. Lots of creators have their own subreddits already meant to facilitate community conversation in a way that comments on Patreon posts don’t totally allow for. So perhaps there’s some room for Reddit to sneak into that space.
No, they just want to control the distribution. If they do, they can insert their ads and monetize directly.
And it's not just Patreon, it's onlyfans too. We all know reddit has plenty of porn, and by that I mean onlyfans spammers. So, since reddit already has the content creators and the content consumer userbase, why not cut out the middleman and monetize it themselves?
I believe they've already updated their TOS that they own whatever's uploaded. They want to train AI and own search results and all that. That will conflict with being like onlyfans where people want legal control of their content.
I recall their TOS having a clause like that years and years ago. And usually it's not a problem for the users or the creators, since everyone gets a cut.
I don't think the creators mind too much. Even if reddit takes a cut, the net profit is still much greater due to the size of the audience.
Have you ever met creators? No most aren't so happy to give up their LEGAL ownership. Plus, that's why I said if you want. This is especially true for certain sexual content. And, exclusive or not is an entirely different concept than ownership. You just want to be a stick in the mud, I'm out of this conversation.
That’s why porn (which Reddit calls „NSFW content” not to scare advertisers) is not accessible over API at all. We should refer to Reddit as „that porn website” now because that’s what they’re going to make money on.
Welcome aboard! If you still have a reddit account, I'd encourage you to spread the love to other frustrated redditors - best way to do that that I'm aware of it to edit as much of your comment history as possibly to replace it with a how-to on getting started with the fediverse. Idk if it's smoother now, but it was kinda overwhelming when I bounced over here a couple years ago.
Isn't it great? I would suggest switching to all with hot, top 6 hours and scaled to get the best experience here. Active is the default, and it seems the least active ironically. I have it set as hot in my settings. When you get to know more communities (subreddits), your subscribed will be nice too.
It's probably the other way around. I can see him saying that paywalled subreddits won't have their data mined for LLMs so if you want to keep your content out of that mill, you better pay up.
surely the people posting in the paid communities will get some kind of remuneration for their posts, right? they wouldn’t just try to sell other people’s stuff without giving them anything in return? surely they don’t think that little of their userbase.
Its not economically beneficial to save the economic system
Economic system = our planet
Tbh, my outlook on the planet in the next 50~60 years is similar to what was shown in the movie with Tom Hanks Finch (2021). Vast part of the planet probably becoming uninhabitable with a few habitable patches here or there.
It always amazes me how well Cage's classics age, particularly his album 'Hell's Winter'... while this isn't from that album, this was a bit before. But Cage brought those emo hip hop vibes well before it was a common place. I wish bro got more love... and shout out to the homie that chose the visuals perfectly for this song...
The big question was whether the White House would obey court orders and appeal them as is its right, or whether it would thumb its nose and risk contempt. The White House so far has chosen to appeal.
Undoubtedly, a short-lived compliance. Please be a little less credulous, Sen. Markey, and stop patting yourself on the back for winning a ballgame that hasn't even started yet.
They never expected anything else from the lower courts. The whole goal is to get these things in front of what they perceive is a receptive SCOTUS.
They'll walk a knife edge line of noncompliance until they get there, in order to keep the real threat of not complying with SCOTUS as a possibility because that will likely influence how hard that court pushes back. SCOTUS will try to find a way to rule how it wants but in a way that doesn't invite such a confrontation.
This vastly improves the experience on #Friendica and is a big time improvement for web mobile users.
If you’re running a Friendica server, or are thinking of running one, I highly recommend using Bookface as the default UI. A look at this screenshot will show you exactly why.
This vastly improves the experience on #Friendica and is a big time improvement for web mobile users.
If you’re running a Friendica server, or are thinking of running one, I highly recommend using Bookface as the default UI. A look at this screenshot will show you exactly why.
First of all thank you for all the interest in this “Frio” theme scheme. I was concerned that people might have so much animosity toward Meta that a scheme to make Friendica look more like Facebook would be ill received. I originally made “Bookface” as a user content script just so I would feel more “at home” on Friendica. And I’m still using it that way myself because the instance I’m on does not offer this scheme as an option yet.
Version 1.3 represents a massive rewrite with the introduction of new features, like support for Profile Cover Photos and an “Auto” version that can detect if your operating system is set to Light Mode or Dark Mode and automatically apply the correct mode to Friendica, plus a completely New Mobile View for phones and tablets that aims to make it look and function a lot more like an mobile app. The user content stylesheets for client-side use have also been updated with the same changes, if that’s how you use Bookface. I have incorporated a ton of your feedback into this update, which I thank you for! There are also over 30 tweaks and fixes in this update.
While this is still a work-in-progress (but what on the web isn’t?) Bookface is already being used in production on some Friendica instances so I’d say it’s generally probably safe to use, but there could be issues I haven't anticipated, particularly with whatever add-ons are enabled on any given server.
Keep in mind “Bookface” is intended for recent browsers. By which I mean those that were released in the last year or two. Because I want to leverage some of the more advanced things CSS can now do. But if you have a mobile device that’s stuck running an old browser I’ve added some fallbacks so it’s still at least usable, but I’ve intentionally ignored any browser that nobody should really be using anymore for anything (like Internet Explorer). Presumably if you choose to roll with retro gear you probably don’t care about making Friendica look modern anyway.
I’ll do more detailed posts about each of these new features, but here’s an overview:
BETTER MOBILE MODE!
You may have noticed there isn’t an “official” Friendica mobile app and the webapp feels pretty clunky and outdated. You could, of course, use Relatica or Raccoon for an actual native mobile app experience, but I’ve notice a lot of people (myself included) are trying to use the webapp. And it needs improvement.
I redesigned the mobile view to look and function a lot more like people expect a mobile app to work these days. One specific thing that was asked for was a way to get the toolbars out of the way in landscape mode, particularly on phones with small screens. The mobile landscape view now hides the toolbars and presents you with a limited set of buttons down the left and right sides of the screen if, in landscape orientation, the viewport is less than 400 pixels high. That’s going to be the majority of phones on the market today. Need more controls? Just rotate your phone back to portrait.
I’ve extensively tested this new UI on more than a half a dozen actual mobile devices, including an iPhone 5s, iPhone 8, two different recent Samsung phones, and older iPad Mini, two Android tablets, and two old Android phones.
More than one of you specifically asked for a version that would automatically switch between Light or Dark depending on which mode you have set on your device. It was tricky to implement given all the colors that are set server-side in PHP variables, but I came up with a pure-CSS way of doing it. It doesn’t even need to set a browser cookie. Enjoy going over to the Dark Side. Or Light Side. Whichever.
Unfortunately there is no auto version of the user content stylesheets for the client-side. The client-side styles require the underlying “Frio” theme be set to Light, Dark, Black, or Custom (which is based on Light). There is no way for a client-side stylesheet to automatically switch the server-side theme scheme, so there will never be an auto version of the user stylesheets.
LOCALIZATION & CUSTOMIZATION
Under the Settings > Display > Theme Customization options you could previously only set the Accent Colors. There was a "Link Color" box below that but it didn't do anything. Well, now it does. You can set almost any color you please ("almost" because it does error-catching to make sure you don't set it to the same color as the background).
I’ve moved as much as possible into CSS variables at the top of the stylesheets, so modifying Bookface to your liking is easier than ever. Just change the variable in that one place and everything else follows suit.
One thing in particular I’ve noticed from people’s screenshots is the engagement counts on Action Buttons being changed to match the button color or made black, etc., to make them less distracting. Personally I like them being in my Accent Color so I can quickly see which posts/comments are getting engagement and check them out. But I can also understand that all those colored “dots” could be distracting while scrolling. So I added CSS variables for “count-color” and "count-bg" that let you change the engagement count tex and background color to whatever you want.
But I took it beyond just the colors. Bookface sets a bunch of labels as pseudo-elements, and they are in English because that’s the only language I know. I saw a comment the other day from a German user on a German server that has implemented Bookface note that the labels were in English and thought they should be localized. Well, yes, they *should* and now I made it super easy for server admins to do that!
Just change the CSS variables for the labels at the top of the stylesheets to your language!
Bookface Action Button labels localized (if the translation is laughably wrong blame Google Translate, I don't know any other languages)
COVER PHOTOS!
Every other social media platform seems to have a “Cover Photo/Header Picture” for your profile page. But not Friendica. 🙁 Until now! You can add images to your profile description and/or custom profile fields. You can also put things inside “class” containers. So I coded Bookface to detect a class container named “coverphoto” and treat whatever image(s) are in it as your big, bold cover picture.
You can also decide, depending on where you place it, whether it’s only visible on your actual “Profile” page or if it’s visible on all your profile pages, or if you want to show different cover photos on your profile and the other profile pages. If you’re really indecisive you can place up to 4 images in the container and Bookface will turn them into a striped collage.
As for what that looks like to other people who aren’t using Bookface? Well, they still see a thumbnail of your image(s) in your profile, it just won’t look really cool to them.
What is social media without hashtags right? And it’s cool that in the Fediverse you can follow a hashtag like you follow a person. But Friendica’s tags look...kinda bad. A bit distracting. Too small. Too hard to read. And some people really go wild with a wall of tags in their posts. I’m apparently not the only one who thinks they could use some improvements. There are discussions about this in Friendica’s GitHub issues going back several years.
First of all, I don’t think we need the little lightning bolt or person icons on them anymore. It’s 2025, people know what a tag and a mention are. I also replaced the “(x)” on categories with an “X” icon. Next I made the tags the same size they are on Mastodon, which is also makes much better touch-targets on mobile devices. To make them less distracting I gave them an “open” design, and recoded them so only the tag you are hovering/focused on switches to a “filled” design. For consistency I kept similar colors to the existing “Frio” tags, but adjusted them for better contrast against either the Light or Dark mode versions.
The image shows how the tags appear in both Light and Dark modes and against the different background colors for posts and comments. The first row for each background color is how they normally appear, the second is the rollover effect when you hover on them.
the sooner something like this happens, the better. The two emperors need to receive a clear and thunderous response from the American people. Shut it all down.
@avuko This is why I'm on a permanent #SpendingStrike in which, as far as possible, I avoid, redirect or postpone any spending that goes to the corporations that are killing us all.
I've also seen a call for a #BuyNothingDay on Feb 28. There's room for all sorts of different plans.
Things like this offer individual side benefits (e.g. delicious homegrown food, or money spent on a beautiful piece of local art instead of on an over-engineered appliance) that exist independently of the core objective.
@JoanneKlein ECONOMIC BLACKOUT ON FEBRUARY 28, 2025 TAKE PART & SHARE THE NEWS If you haven't heard, there will be an economic blackout Febuary 28th, nationwide. This means don't buy ANYTHING unless it's from a small business: No gas, no fast food, and definitely nothing from places like Target, Walmart, or Amazon. Get the word out! We want THEM to see that WE have the power. We will start with 1 day, then 3, then specific companies until our message is heard. Please spread the word! Thank you!
@bbelton @MisuseCase @darylgibson ? The logos are different from what I can see. And they left out the THE. I think they were being original and didn't realize there even was a "The People's Voice"
@Remittancegirl keep in mind, for a lot of people, not going to work even one day means losing their job and not being able to pay rent or feed their families. Events like this are fine, but shaming people who can't risk everything for it is not helpful.
@Remittancegirl Correct. If it's truly impossible, of course they shouldn't. But when the entire democracy and country is at stake, one would think most people would do ANYthing to save their own necks. I don't understand the resistance/reluctance either. @wjd @willbunch
@wjd @Remittancegirl Sigh. No. And you failed to read my other replies.
I shamed nobody. But you are right now.
Geez.
You clearly don't follow me or read my posts.
I followed up by saying, if it's impossible to miss a day, then of course, but most can miss a day. This is our entire existence/democracy we're talking about here. Sadly, we need to take risks we'd never take. & clearly I'm not asking anyone who can't to do f'ing anything. BACK OFF.
@Remittancegirl @mastodon.online @GottaLaff @willbunch Geeze, I'm glad I didn't post that it's a Saturday, which I was going to, in case someone got their dates wrong, because obviously a shutdown midweek would have a greater effect. I'm retired, but when I worked it was M-F. Sometimes people (I'm neurodivergent) are just trying to be helpful, not nefarious. Y'all didn't need to jump down their - @Edelruth - throat for making a comment!
@AbiNormal @Remittancegirl It doesn’t have to end on Saturday. Keep it up through Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, as long as you can. How long until the economy tanks? Repeat whenever possible.
As for Saturday, guessing they thought it would be a safer choice for the first effort at a general strike. Fewer people w/ jobs at risk. I see nothing wrong with that.
@bbelton @MisuseCase @darylgibson ? The logos are different from what I can see. And they left out the THE. I think they were being original and didn't realize there even was a "The People's Voice"
This may sound selfish but I’m a teacher (there are a lot of us) and taking a day off is a giant pain. Someone has to work if we call out. Doing this on a Saturday means we can skip spending and participate.
"because they chose Saturday I want Monday"? No actually I want any week day at all because it will have a much larger economic impact and because common sense would tell anyone that thought about it that Saturday is a lame fucking choice. That would be why. Why all the fucking attitude over such an innocuous comment?
With reports the other day of demonstrations that weren't known about by the locals (and the warnings and all), I wondered, and flagged it up without doing enough reading.
Don't just share it here in Mastodon then. Print it and post it around your community. Send it to your friends. Posting about it on the Mastodon, echo chamber IS NOT ENOUGH.
It has been a while since we released our last ISO, Endeavour Neo, and even though this new ISO comes with many improvements and technical challenges we had to tackle, like resolving issues that came with Linux kernel 6.13, the Xfce 4.20 update, sfdisk and Calamares' kpmcore, those challenges weren't the main reason for the long hiatus between Endeavour Neo and Me
Are bthere plans to enclude orca on the isos? I am a blind linux user and would love e bto be able to install but without orca this is not possible without blindly trying to install orca and speech services. Thanks.
Hi, Thats a shame as i would really like to give this a look, but untill this is done I will not be able to give this a look. I hope this is something that could be reconsitered as this would be another opsion for blind users who want to be able to use it.
Let us rectify that, and this video. Dilla never had a pop hit? How about Eryka Badus "Didn't Cha know"? Or how about Q-Tips "Breathe and stop"? Well, maybe not pop hits...
Ofc he was the producer of The Pharcyde, did De La Souls "Breakadawn" and a fair deal of Slum Village...
In any case, few modern composers revolutionized modern music like he did - and you probably didn't even know how important he was.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
The team working on a new Pebble smartwatch (maybe with a different name) already has open source PebbleOS up and running on new hardware (prototype board with an nRF52840 ARM Cortex-M4 chip with BT, NFC, Thread, and Zigbee support). buff.ly/3CDefau #Pebble #PebbleOS #Smartwatch
Free knitting pattern for the Elbe Sweater inspired by transgender pioneer Lili Elbe. Get this gorgeous wrap front pullover knitting pattern designed by Rikke Eliasen for Filcolana and learn more about Lili at this link en.filcolana.dk/elbe.html #knitting #transgender
This sweater is inspired by the amazing and brave Lilli Elbe. Lili Elbe was a Danish artist and one of the first transgender women to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
To my dear friends in Japan, I am delighted to announce the successful crowdfunding of the Japanese edition of "MY LOST FREEDOM." The children's picture book will be released in the fall of 2025. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to my friends in Japan for their generous support. Arigatou gozaimasu! greenfunding.jp/thousandsofboo…
So glad to see this essential story funded. I am supplementing my Japanese language study with reading and speaking lessons via a brilliant tutor online - he has me reading some popular Japanese children’s books for practice, so I’m definitely adding this one to the pile ❤️
We’ve been reading your book to our girls, along with “Escucha mi voz / Hear My Voice” about child separation during Trump’s first term. Thank you for sharing your story so we can pass it on to another generation. We cannot forget our past, lest we repeat it.
But getting a new update on my 2019 #nvidia #sheildtv was not on my bingo card this year. I'll wait a few day to see potential bug reports, but that's pretty awesome to receive updates and features this late in the a game. The 2015 model also received an update! That's TEN YEARS!
I really wish there as a good #androidtv replacement though. I've actually just started thinking about it given it's starting to show it's age.
Does it run your main media center with a simple controller that my wife can use? if so, please share - i'm not being sarcastic. I would rather not using android tv, but I have to accommodate the wife... She's not even a huge fan of kodi 🙁
Man, every time I see this on my feed... I can't help but share it. classics only. And let's be real... if you were into DBZ and haven't tried this... are you really into DBZ?
👋 Americans. Because important information on your government websites is disappearing you should know you can access the Canadian Government Website for Health Information. . 👉 Some information is downloadable and printable Here's a Link to start. Once on the website choose a topic and continue exploring.
Health Canada's role in disease reduction and control; links to information about symptoms and treatments, tips on healthy choices, current research, tracking and surveillance, and Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) programs and materials
thank you for this — it is easy to forget that we are not alone in all this chaos. I fear we will be leaning heavily on extra-national information resources for a while.
@nickesc You're very welcome. Here's a suggestion you didn't ask for: (sorry) : Maybe make a list of people beyond your borders you can call on for help finding info.
I discovered FLCL on the Christmas of 2016. It utterly confused me. It made no sense. Yet I couldn't help but be drawn to it. It was only a few weeks later when I rewatched it. Then again. Then again. Then again. I'm up to ~33 times today. Quickly, I realized even though I couldn't understand why, it had touched my soul in a way that no other piece of media had or has since. It became the first 10/10 I ever gave and remains my favorite piece of media ever. This is all majorly thanks to The Pillows. In 2018 I began listening to more of their non-FLCL music and they became my favorite band ever. Similarly to the way FLCL touched me in the way of TV, The Pillows was that for music. They're my most listened to and adored band of all time and always will be. They simply can't be rivaled and will always mean so much to me. My username, "Blues Drive Amelia", comes from their song "Blues Drive Monster". I'm eternally thankful I was able to see them during their last NA tour which also remains the best experience of my life. I have photos with all the members, a signed poster, my tickets, a guitar pic one of the members slid into my hand during a photo, and the Canti head patch they gave all. They're all my most treasured possessions - manifestations of what FLCL and The Pillows are to me. I grieve their disbandment - all of those who were not so lucky to catch their few non-Japanese tours, and everyone from this day on that will discover them and long for having been in the crowd for just one of the concerts - but I am all the more happy they existed once upon a time. Through their music and through FLCL, they will never stop touching hearts and souls.
@Lazarou i had to look it up... It was the Telegraph! Peak journalism! Wonder if they went to the same posh school as Liz Truss... newstatesman.com/politics/2019…
Media outlets making historical or literary references that inadvertently undermine their argument is your mole’s favourite genre of Brexit-era journalism. Remember Nick Timothy calling for Theresa Ma
also, Goliath has been taken advantage of, Goliath with 10x population & economy, nuclear weapons, head of NATO, renegotiator of NAFTA, owner world currency, loving home to billionaires, ... was taken advantage of? Must be a terrible deal maker to stumble over David's igloo.
“New York attorney general, Letitia James, warned hospitals that denying transgender care to comply with #Trump ’s order could violate state law.” #LGBTQnytimes.com/2025/02/03/nyregio…
apparently there's an expectation to first make trump voters feel good about their gender and sexuality the only way they can: by denying that dignity to their neighbors.
there's gonna be a big fight in PA soon over this same thing and the wingnuts are going to run with the name of the top pediatric lgbtq+ clinic and say a lot of horrible things merely because Children's Hopsital of Philadelphia is referred to as CHOP.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
There are different protocols that attempt to work for things like web hosting, but yes, the BitTorrent protocol is a decentralised file sharing protocol.
Would be best if there were several mirrors in several countries. It's unfortunately too large to realistically host via crowd sourcing. The best you could do is something ala Storj where fragments are redundantly distributed across various hosts.
Some of the publicly available data is disappearing under the new administration. Most notably information about COVID, long COVID, vaccines, and bird flu is disappearing. Presumably, this data dump contains the missing data.
Same, especially before the inevitable attacks on the Internet Archive to come. Who knows what nonsense will be in the works to try and get this removed, or the whole project shut down in the coming years.
Agreed, I think the biggest issue though is just scale. It’s over 100 petabytes of data. Not outside the realm of big cloud providers to mirror, but they don’t really give a shit. It would require some sort of significant distributed software solution for the community to work with. Not impossible, but as far as I know, nobody’s taken up the mantle yet as I think it would need custom software just to begin the solution of how to distribute it as a sharded set of community mirrors, different people just mirroring individual pieces.
HexOS has a plan for shared encrypted data. With the simplicity of installation and management it could take off mainstream as personal NAS are gaining popularity, but its still in early development.
IPFS is the way to go IMO, it's so perfect for archival that it pains me that it's still pretty unknown
the fact that you don't need any sort of central organization for everyone to help seed data is amazing, no more duplicate torrents splitting seeders, so long as you have identical data the network just figures it out. If you have the hash for a piece of data you can just set a computer to watch for someone to start seeding it, even if the last time anyone saw the data was decades ago and a dude just found a CD in their recently passed dad's basement, if that dude seeds it overnight and then their computer explodes, you've now downloaded it and it'll remain available. It's so fucking good.
Looking at diskprices.com, lowest prices for storage are around $8 (used) or $15 (new). I didn't look too hard, but a 30TB SSD for $80 (~$2.5/TB) seems wrong?
100K TB * $15/TB = $1.5 million
Assuming 100PB is the amount of data, we'd also need redundancy. Idk what best practices would be, but I'll say 3ish copies, so 300PB total.
So a grand total of ~$5 million.
Which is crazy cheap, all things considered. Like, it would be no problem for a single rich person to handle that.
Hell, subsidize/give away cheap little computers that you just plug power and an Ethernet cable into. Raspberry pi + 4TB drive ($60) + casing would be like... $100? Though I guess you'd need 75K of them, and the cost per TB is pretty bad.
This guy is 20TB for $280: https://a.co/d/17UOtFi
If we stick with $40 of overhead for rpi etc, that's $320 for 20TB ($16/TB), and we'd need 300PB/(20TB/unit) = 15K units. And at $320 each, all in would be $4.8 million.
The software seems to exist for connecting them all... So idk seems like it would be absolutely feasible? Would be interested to learn if I'm missing a major cost.
A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds.
sry i dont know what that is but once i have all the data ill post a link here. im hosting in france and i am also outside the us so i will not take down the data at tronald dumps request tyvm.
The Internet Archive is, and I really want to emphasize this, Fucking Huge. If you want to help archive it, every upload has an associated torrent you can download and help seed. Torrenting itself isn't illegal, only torrenting illegal stuff like copyrighted movies. You can buy a relatively cheap refurbished HDD of whatever size you want, set up qBittorrent, and torrent the uploads that you want to make sure are available even if the Internet Archive has to take them down or has a critical data loss failure.
Thank you so much for the advice! I want to preserve important documents like the bill of rights and the constitution, as well as sexual education material, especially stuff pertaining to women and reproductive health. Also banned books. Things the facists are trying to purge and things that are important to me.
I know what you're talking about is important and a necessary comment but something about your comment hit me hard. It's just so absolutely insane that it has to be said/done.
If anyone is looking for something specific to preserve, consider Our Bodies, Ourselves. It's a seminal feminist work that seeks to educate women on their bodies. It's extremely comprehensive, thicker than most textbooks.
Glad you said so. I completely forgot that I needed to grab this once home. It is now active. Once it's done downloading, I'll keep it seeding forever, since I have no bandwidth cap. Cheers.
Someone just saved ALL the CDC's public data before it could disappear! 🦅
What's the Deal?
Some mystery hero downloaded everything from the CDC's website (that's 98 GIGABYTES of health info!) and uploaded it to the Internet Archive on Jan 28th. Think of it like making a backup copy of your phone before it breaks!
Why Should You Care?
This is YOUR health data - stuff about vaccines, diseases, and public health that your tax dollars paid for! 🏥
Once this info is gone from CDC's website, it could be really hard for your doctor to get important updates
Researchers need this to keep studying ways to keep Americans healthy 💪
What's Next?
Smart folks at places like Harvard are making sure this data stays safe by keeping copies. It's like having multiple backups of your family photos - can't be too careful!
Remember folks: Knowledge is power, and someone just made sure we didn't lose a whole bunch of it!
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🚨 BIG NEWS Y'ALL! 🚨
Someone just saved ALL the CDC's public data before it could disappear! 🦅
What's the Deal?
Some mystery hero downloaded everything from the CDC's website (that's 98 GIGABYTES of health info!) and uploaded it to the Internet Archive on Jan 28th. Think of it like making a backup copy of your phone before it breaks!
Why Should You Care?
This is YOUR health data - stuff about vaccines, diseases, and public health that your tax dollars paid for! 🏥
Once this info is gone from CDC's website, it could be really hard for your doctor to get important updates
Researchers need this to keep studying ways to keep Americans healthy 💪
What's Next?
Smart folks at places like Harvard are making sure this data stays safe by keeping copies. It's like having multiple backups of your family photos - can't be too careful!
Remember folks: Knowledge is power, and someone just made sure we didn't lose a whole bunch of it! 🎯
Please be aware of the rule in the sidebar. One of the better attributes of 196 is that this kind of LLM content is disallowed. Please avoid posting content like this in the future, thanks!
Ah yes, the classic 'robot wrote this' cope when confronted with basic coherence. Your hissy-fit Ssssssyntax tells me all I need to know about your ChatGPT dependency—wonder which mid-tier writing sub you ripped that accusation template from. Stay pressed about sentences having subject-verb agreement while I keep posting actual thoughts. shrug
Please no need to resort to toxicity. If it’s not AI generated fine but I have every reason to believe it is which is why I am asking you to please follow the rules.
As a reminder, AI generated content is against the rules in this community—see the sidebar. I appreciate your instinct to bring some quality content to this space, but let’s please keep in mind that genuine interaction with diverse voices is what makes this community beautiful. 😀
Heavy use of markdown headings, bullets, and section dividers is a common pattern in LLM output
Use of “it’s like” or “it’s about” phrases as the conclusion to a paragraph are very common in LLM models like ChatGPT
Verbatim replication of content from my original post that is common in LLM output and highly indicates an LLM was instructed to create something based on the text of the original post
Use of 🎯 emoji does not match context
“100% AI generated” response o
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As a reminder, AI generated content is against the rules in this community—see the sidebar. I appreciate your instinct to bring some quality content to this space, but let’s please keep in mind that genuine interaction with diverse voices is what makes this community beautiful. 😀
Heavy use of markdown headings, bullets, and section dividers is a common pattern in LLM output
Use of “it’s like” or “it’s about” phrases as the conclusion to a paragraph are very common in LLM models like ChatGPT
Verbatim replication of content from my original post that is common in LLM output and highly indicates an LLM was instructed to create something based on the text of the original post
Use of 🎯 emoji does not match context
“100% AI generated” response on multiple AI detection websites (GPTZero, Quillbot)
Any single one of these facts would not lead me to comment, but with all of it combined it makes a pretty strong case. Thank you for your contribution to this community but please let’s keep it genuine in the future! We love and appreciate the real you 😀
I remember a time (albeit a splash a naivety and a dash of ignorance) when the #unitedstates was considered the beacon of #freespeach ... wild times. And frankly, we deserve it... #Eisenhower was right to warn us, we were just too dumb to listen. #fucktrumpsamerica
I went to a local Latino restaurant yesterday to get some takeout and saw a bunch of handwritten signs saying they were going to be closed on Monday to support the community.
The waitress said there was a movement to skip work and not spend money this Monday Feb 3 to protest the attacks on Latinos. I hadn't heard of that and didn't find much mention online. I think it's the idea by some random person in DC? I found the image above on facebook or somewhere equally horrible. Anyway I'm just posting bc this is the only protest I've seen in my area, the Democrats have been completely silent so all that's left is some rando on the other side of the country.
A day will not accomplish anything I fear. Our attention spans for news is like 2 days before we get bored and move on. Expand it to a week for anything meaningful.
but that many days off would be risky for the working immigrants. One day can be afforded much more easily. More needs strike pay. Also, give more notice. This is in less than 12 hours
Agreed, tho that's the least of the problems; the event is not very well advertised and poorly planned in general. But it's SOMETHING. The Democrats are doing nothing so far. Indivisible is just suggesting we contact Senators. The Transgender Unity Coalition had some rallies last week, I could have driven a couple hours to one, but I didn't see it in time: transunitycoalition.org/
@AnneOfGreenCables I just searched using *.gov to see what came back and was struck by the new header at state.gov. The previous home page had a simple “US Department of State” header with links to the “Results Delivered” video and other retrospectives.
I’ve seen these flying fish clips before and afraid I always suspect a member of the film crew has thrown it for effect. I don’t think the impact from a small fish would be enough to throw somebody to the ground. But glad to see he had a lifejacket on before attempting the prank
This is very similar to the last time Trump was president. People worked against his policy, making it harder for ICE to do their job, wich is a good thing.
Last time it was prisons, talking down their tv's advertising who had recently been incarcerated. This simple action reduced ICE numbers considerably.
Here's a link to the flyers as pdfs in different languages and they also include examples of what a court order looks like vs other immigration paperwork:
Know Your Rights with ICE Flyer These flyers explain what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) comes to your door or you have an encounter with immigration officials, what to do if you witness immi…
Not to mention, with the Laken Riley act a mere accusation is enough. So if a cop decides to arrest you for no reason and you're undocumented, they'll deport you before you ever see a judge.
Aggressive quotas for arrest are a notable element of the the NKVD during the Soviet purges under Stalin.
The goal of it was to create pressure on low levels to find reasons to arrest people. To cut corners and make up nonsense reasons. To create a sense of terror that scared the target population. Even those who had no good reason to be scared found them selves taking precautions and acting overly loyal.
There is a strong argument to be made that the goal was less to arrest dissenter but to increase the number of people being sent to labor camps to do free labor for the state.
eyes prison industrial complex and prison labor system of the US
Its worth remembering that ICE continues to exist even when republicans are not in the white house.
You can and should oppose ICE all the time. Less deportations happen when people resist. Direct action is more effective than voting. The work doesn't stop when your pick is in the office.
This is a huge thing the Democratic Party needs to internalize unless they want to keep losing.
Support and work with local groups doing actual good on the ground outside of election season, maybe, like, I dunno, fund them a little with that massive fucking warchest? Be a much better use of the money than a deluge of YouTube ads.
expecting activism from the party is a fools errand. That is not a thing the democratic party would consider, nor is it the role of political parties in most countries.
We need to do the activism. We need to pressure governments and individuals to do the right things, and make it more difficult to do the wrong things. That is our power. You cannot rely on someone else or some organization to do it for you.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •The obvious next step is to run Doom.
Whoops, never mind: they've got that covered, too.
github.com/ading2210/doompdf
GitHub - ading2210/doompdf: A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file
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What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV? 🤣
GitHub - ading2210/doompdf: A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Also, I’ll bet there are many packages out there to do cross-compilation from #RISC-V to other machines. Remind me never to use Adobe Acrobat.
karman
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Yet another reason to add to the list of why friends don’t let friends open PDFs…
Crazy impressive and absolutely mind boggling though. 😅
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •When I last worked with laser printers, there was a PostScript program that would run Doom - about 15 yrs ago. We never had the time to actually test it, but had to do some extra work to disable the ability to do arbitrary IO.
That said, amazing job and I'm wondering if I should replace my PC with a good printer!
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •This reminds me of the guy who stuck an LLM inside a font. Actually, there is more than one guy who has done this.
youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uM…
(this explains how he uses the LLM to rewrite your text using synonyms so as to achieve pleasing justified text without use of hyphenation).
fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
(this does more conventional predictive text stuff as you type.
I'm not sure what happens when you typeset your PDF-containing-Linux in a typeface-containing-an-LLM, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to be there when it happens.
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in reply to jgeorge • • •@jgeorge @bsdphk Blame Adobe for adding JavaScript to PDF, back in the days when everyone wanted to slather world wide web special sauce on their products—like LLMs and "artificial intelligence" today or "crypto/blockchain" a decade ago.
It's a repeating dark pattern, dictated mostly by managers desperate to make Line Go Up by being latest-buzzword-compatible.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •@jgeorge @bsdphk There is a big advantage to adding (limited) javascript to a PDF: you can use it as a form, and control input and provide help.
Think of a 3720 terminal.
Poul-Henning Kamp
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Seriously ?
JavaScript and 3270 in the same toot ?
Are you trying to traumatize people like me ?
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One of the events in computing that I have yet to see credibly researched and documented is what I call "The deluge":
How much did "The IT industry" grow during the 1990'ies in terms of persons, and what skills did they come in with ?
My guess is a factor of more than 1000, (ie: 100000+%) and that none of those people (-epsilon) had any professional IT experience, and knew nothing about the skill&craft of IT.
(Add the "Make Money Fast" incentive and...)
Charlie Stross
in reply to Poul-Henning Kamp • • •@bsdphk @jgeorge You can almost certainly chart it by graphing cumulative sales of personal computers, minus machines retired as broken/obsolete, which lags by a time period … and it was undergoing exponential growth throughout this period, so the retired cohort lagged new installs by a huge distance.
Computer use in business implies support personnel numbers (IIRC in the 90s it was 1 PC tech support per 40 installed base).
Since 2007 include smartphones/tablets as well. Different ratio, OFC.
Poul-Henning Kamp
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That's pretty much how I arrived at "a factor 1000".
But having somebody who know what they're doing, do the math with actual data would be better 😀
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Or very bad??🤔
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