Posts by Uraael@kitty.social
(DIR) Post #AohKfqT97WCUfUctKy by Uraael@kitty.social
2024-12-04T08:37:55.504Z
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@bartholin@fops.cloud draw me like one of your french girls loaves:ablobcatfat:
(DIR) Post #ApMwBe2knzAUKxwk9w by Uraael@kitty.social
2024-12-24T10:55:21.208Z
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(DIR) Post #AsaWE2TyUoYoiZqCDQ by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-03-30T13:15:26.402Z
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Vivaldi and Proton VPNA couple of days ago Vivaldi 7.3 brought with it small surprise: the inclusion of a new toolbar button that would set you up with a Proton VPN account (using your Vivaldi credentials). There was mixed reaction to this in the Fedi. Some lauded the inclusion of VPN from a known and trusted company, while others reacted in horror because of an incident that Proton's CEO, Andy Yen, was involved with in January of this year. where he seemingly publicly praised one President Donald Trump.When hearing of the furore for the first time I asked for information and was provided a link that I read and quick-fire reacted to, but I knew I'd need to take a deeper look to settle the issue to my satisfaction. Fedi, I don't think he's a Trump Supporter. If he's guilty of anything it's naivety. I'm not sure he sees the threat Trump or the GOP represent.Have a read of Medium.com's piece analysing the situation. I agree with their points and certainly can't dispute their findings. Proton do seem to be Good Guys, folks who are on Our Side as much as they can be.I think using Proton's email or VPN is fine IF you are using these services carefully, e.g. don't give Proton recovery email addresses that can then be used to reveal your identity. They do hand over data, although this is whatever metadata you've given them - your content is always secure, as advertised. Not ideal, but then what is in this crazy, complicated world? I'll also point out that they actively fight back against unlawful requests, and particularly any from the US.I also don't think this is any reflection on Vivaldi the company or Browser, so I will be forcefully rejecting calls by anyone to boycott company or browser on this basis. Vivaldi simply need money, and this partnership is another way they're trying to keep themselves afloat.Both companies have excellent, evidenced track records that speak to who they are. Both companies have excellent staffing, of the kind we on Fedi should at the very least have no issue with.I personally will not be using Proton's VPN; I already have one I've been using since 2016, though I am shopping for a new one. I've also taken Proton's Vivaldi offering out for a wee test drive because #SoftwareGeek. My rejection of their service is no comment on the company or software itself.Vivaldi is still a top-tier browser. I 100% believe you can use it safely and ethically. Their politics are YOUR politics (unless you skew extreme). The Fedi is wonderful but the Fedi is also VERY Black and White at times. Sometimes critical thinking is missed in lieu of solidarity with the trending winds.But back to here and now I'm rejecting this VPN brouhaha as a storm in a tea-cup.#Vivaldi #ProtonVPN
(DIR) Post #AsbqCx8j4Dpa6Eca8G by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-03-31T01:23:56.307Z
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I think dancing makes me a better coder.It's developed my sense of algorithm.
(DIR) Post #Asy52CxRxoBPCFsCDg by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T02:54:25.770Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @koimoa@binky.fish @weeble@fedi.bungle.online @coolboymew@shitposter.world Yep. Drives me nuts. Folks used to be this exact form of mocking dicks about Mastodon too, because of course using that takes PHD-level rocket surgery. (In fact ths attitude can still be found over on Bluesky).
(DIR) Post #Asy6cM13rXfjfZMV9s by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T03:11:43.452Z
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@weeble@fedi.bungle.online @coolboymew@shitposter.world @koimoa@binky.fish @sun@shitposter.world @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love Yep, and Linux can absolutely be that simple for them.But speaking for myself I'm glad I learned computers when I did (the 80s) because it's helping me learn the more complicated parts of Linux now, which is proving immensely enjoyable.
(DIR) Post #AsygiiaaRjY3lXJRkO by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T09:48:56.469Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @weeble@fedi.bungle.online @koimoa@binky.fish @coolboymew@shitposter.world @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love That sounds super-exhausting. My god, no. I appreciate a challenge, grit makes pearls, but I wouldn't want all challenge all the time. Sometimes it is vital that things just work easily and with the absolute minimum of fuss, and sometimes I just need to relax, you know?Look. Some of the comments here are veering off into kind of abusive/derogatory/judgemental regarding device-usage, and I just want to be clear that wanting a box with one big shiny button on it is, by itself, not any kind of failing. You don't know what that person does in their lives that might mean they don't have the resource to sit and troubleshoot bugged code for four hours a day. Other people just aren't that way inclined, and that is perfectly valid. Computer illiteracy isn't a crime, or some societal death-knell. [#Relax]. What bugs me personally is when that becomes obnoxious crowd-pleasing mockery; those people can fuck off. But perhaps if we weren't calling them "retards" and making them feel stupid they'd be less inclined to be like that?But for your basic 'I just want email that works' person I have no beef with them whatsoever. I have a colleague at work who finds IT use really really hard and it shocked me how little she understood basic concepts, but from her I learned that people with IT skills need to have tolerance for and patience with those that it doesn't come easy to, and not try to berate/guilt them into becoming sysadmins.
(DIR) Post #AsyiaNGK3TDnDHz1FI by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T10:10:34.313Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @koimoa@binky.fish @coolboymew@shitposter.world @weeble@fedi.bungle.online @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love Disagree. There's nothing inherently noble or valuable about tool-complexity. Believing so is an ideological bias.The whole foundational principle of software is that it makes work easier, allows us to do more than we can do by ourselves. If you're building it with the intent to aggravate users into becoming more capable software users, you're doing it wrong.
(DIR) Post #Asyj4Dp1iaDeceRrBQ by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T10:23:01.480Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @coolboymew@shitposter.world @koimoa@binky.fish @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @weeble@fedi.bungle.online But why? Why force people to learn if we don't have to? That's as obnoxious as the OP tweets.
(DIR) Post #AsyjC3ZZhydF9SxNZY by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T10:21:42.963Z
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@ageha@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu @sun@shitposter.world @koimoa@binky.fish @weeble@fedi.bungle.online @coolboymew@shitposter.world @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love Oh, exactly 100% this, yes.The people who want others to become better computer users are hypocrites.They accept a metric-shit-tonne of conveniences in their own lives, other people doing things for them, but when it comes to computers they think they have the right to withhold skills and demand better proficiency.These people aren't hunting or cooking their own food, growing their own textiles to make their own clothes, building their own cars or tools...they stand uplifted on a mountain of other people's skills and labour and think they get to look down on others asking for software and computers to be easy to use.We teach people to drive cars because you don't kill someone using a computer inexpertly.
(DIR) Post #AsyjgKbawiWofHKzoW by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T10:30:46.703Z
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@p@fsebugoutzone.org @koimoa@binky.fish @coolboymew@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world @weeble@fedi.bungle.online @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love In your kitchen example you've just said that there is a choice between what tools can be used. A Chef would make different choices than an ordinary cook.The Chef isn't out there demanding that ordinary cooks use their tools.That's the point I'm making. You don't need to force people to use complicated tools, just because you find them better for your tasks. Plain, simple tools are fine for those that want them. I'm not saying complicated software is bad - I routinely choose more complex software in my personal life, KDE over Gnome, Vivaldi over Chrome and so on. All I'm saying is there's nothing wrong with software being ABC simple. I hate Gnome's simplicity but Gnome suits people other than me, and that's brilliant.
(DIR) Post #Asyjq9NTXs5ijqPorA by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T10:32:16.800Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @ageha@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu @coolboymew@shitposter.world @koimoa@binky.fish @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @weeble@fedi.bungle.online Not heated at all this side; enthusiastic, is all. This is a great conversation and I'm enjoying it. Sorry if I'm coming across in any way hostile.
(DIR) Post #Asym4OcNsVkry6JFY0 by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T10:42:30.586Z
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@hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info @sun@shitposter.world @ageha@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu @coolboymew@shitposter.world @koimoa@binky.fish @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @weeble@fedi.bungle.online Sigh. I meant generally speaking, for the billions of people who uses email and Facebook. I didn't think we were talking about the highly specialised use of computers in modern aircraft.
(DIR) Post #AsyotRWH3AWvdzv7IW by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T11:16:01.765Z
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@hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info @ageha@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu @koimoa@binky.fish @coolboymew@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world @weeble@fedi.bungle.online @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love Okay, getting well off point now so this will be my last input on this branch of the conversation: 1. No-one died.2. This isn't even a failure of training; if you read the article it's a pressure error, of the type even a highly trained individual could make when expected to be 100% accurate at speed. The failure in your article is nothing to do with complexity or training; it's in not providing adequate safeguards and stressing your system to the point where it breaks.
(DIR) Post #AsytE4BZOr4vAnKFou by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-11T11:59:48.177Z
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@hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info @ageha@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu @koimoa@binky.fish @coolboymew@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world @weeble@fedi.bungle.online @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love Indirect deaths as a result of these occurrences is so far away from the original point I was making you're becoming ridiculous.Stop trying to gotcha me. You're not good at it and it's clearly bad faith snark rather than a sincere attempt to engage with the conversation. I ain't your chew toy. You want someone to needle, go find a friend or family member.
(DIR) Post #AuPdfkxZ923wr2pqsq by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-05-24T06:51:46.134Z
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@ownlife@mastodon.social For All Manknd is fantastic and I'm very fond of Foundation as well, though that's not a cosy show by any measure. Silo was also intruiging mystery-box viewing. Their TV game is surprisingly strong.
(DIR) Post #AvqKdwkLzjDdodGBKC by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-07-04T07:21:40.270Z
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@WhoDisturbsMySlumber@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social One author I follow has moved off Ghost because of this....and went to Substack where she doesn't have the same problem (meaning I now can't support her work unless she posts here). When you're counting every penny these things matter, sad fact of life.
(DIR) Post #AvwHNIoFZuzOPCDKOe by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-07-08T21:29:37.564Z
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@vkc@linuxmom.net Plasma. It's the choice of the discerning Linux user. sips darjeeling, posh pinky extended
(DIR) Post #AwH0aQIfhCTERBNWj2 by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-07-18T13:11:32.322Z
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@williampietri@sfba.social Yes, you are missing some things. It's less of a Privacy issue and more of a Consent issue.The fedi is a large cluster of interlinked servers but it is also a Culture. We have Moderation standards here usually higher and stricter than elsewhere, by design. So you nesd to differentiate between Fediverse and Not-Fediverse for reasons of protecting people here used to our level of protection and safety standards. The Fedi did that when Meta's Threads wanted to link up; over 700 server admins refused to connect with it because Meta don't Moderate anywhere near as effectively as we do here. They were a large risk in safety terms as well as Meta being very problematic on various philosophical and ethical grounds.The fact profiles and posts are ' public' here means we've given consent for them to be discoverable on the Fediverse. It does not mean open house for the rest of the internets' networks and services to farm at will, or we'd have joined those services and provided that data ourselves.In the case of the specific user reporting the issue here, their post made it to Bluesky without their consent and also during the crossing it was muddled to give it a very negative spin. That user suffered horrible blowback here when a campaign was mounted to have him blocked en masse, all because of a coding mistake.
(DIR) Post #AwH0aSU5Zin9DAjfnc by Uraael@kitty.social
2025-07-18T13:34:01.264Z
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@williampietri@sfba.social Yes, but making a profile accesible to anyone with a browser is a very different thing from saying it can be hosted specifcally by another network or organisation. Ownership is also key.Why do you think places like facebook say they own everything posted there? By your logic, because it's public anyone can steal it and host it themselves. Whatever the Fedi stsrted out as it emphatically did not give license for data theft, wholesale or piecemeal.