Posts by cathal@octodon.social
(DIR) Post #A1RKM1R7oP17aZHhWi by cathal@octodon.social
2020-11-21T22:48:31Z
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@cwebber Dominent member of the w3c announces "Fuck standards, actually, it's just me and my anti-antitrust blanket now"
(DIR) Post #A1fEcrXtxX7MKAXY1Y by cathal@octodon.social
2020-11-28T12:05:54Z
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@dajbelshaw When it comes to the web though, there is now no alternative. Google run the w3c and have recently announced they will start banning all but their and Mozilla's engines from Google products, Mozilla are 99% dependent on Google for revenue and are forever playing catch-up. No other browser engine can keep up with deliberately rapid-shifting standards. There'd been a steady downward trend in practical browser-engine choice: only 3 remain. The world wide web is dead.
(DIR) Post #A1fFdqmSOE2kC8NoMS by cathal@octodon.social
2020-11-28T12:08:04Z
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@dajbelshaw That's not to say "hope is lost" it's to say "hope is elsewhere" - the next "web" insofar as the spirit and dream of the web, is perhaps to be found in #Gemini, though I have issues with the "get-only" design philosophy and I think they need to anticipate the likelihood that someone will introduce client side scripting like it or not, if it gets popular. But it has the look and feel of an early alternative.Mozilla are captured in the dying WWW. I think they're done.
(DIR) Post #A1rXZeUGHhbLyrXUnY by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-04T16:08:15Z
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@marsxyz Meanwhile, US Military continues literally administering performance-enhancing and empathy-reducing drugs to their troops
(DIR) Post #A1rXZefbbWfwY2qYTo by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-04T16:09:56Z
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@marsxyz Oh and I forgot all the US Mil experiments with electrically induced flow states, which amount to "when we stick this special robo-helmet on our soldiers they get ridiculously good at shooting things and their critical thinking functions take a back-seat, and we think they might be more resistant to being traumatised, too"But, uh, China is uhdoing something
(DIR) Post #A1tLW8O0MtGiQ25Z32 by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-05T11:53:31Z
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@cypnk There *is* an inverse correlation between ghost sightings and microwave ownership though.And lots of old "haunted" houses are ones lacking a microwave or where the microwave isn't in use.Maybe Microwaves are ghost-repellent, by flooding the EMF spectrum ghosts usually use to spook through?Likewise now for wifi. Maybe real ghostbusters carry cantennas
(DIR) Post #A1z5u2T3alFYh8aW6C by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-08T07:38:21Z
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@mmu_man @nathand Guy accuses Syncthing but they are already opt-in WRT telemetry and crash reporting. Kinda spammy with the issue reporting approach too it seems.Tools that spy should be rejected, asking creeps nicely isn't a winning strategy IMHO
(DIR) Post #A26koJjwWL6P5uiidU by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-12T00:19:22Z
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@tek Heads up: amp link, in case you wanna redraft while it's fresh :)Also: great news
(DIR) Post #A2KIo1DrsJuFFwzdaK by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-18T10:39:13Z
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TIL that the Scottish for "Whale" is "Sea Pig"Guys
(DIR) Post #A2PWiXGIDBz62ECrnE by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-21T01:40:51Z
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First impressions of POP!_OS (Linux Distro based on Ubuntu but without Snap or Canonical): It's a Linux Distro based on Ubuntu but without Snap or Canonical
(DIR) Post #A2PWkHH4cimT1vP10K by cathal@octodon.social
2020-12-21T01:41:39Z
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@stunder Imagine Debian, if Debian would successfully install on my machine
(DIR) Post #A2xyVbPddEarOhoIQC by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-06T16:30:13Z
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@cwebber I think the Fediverse suffers from not even fully exploring allow/block lists, because the lead dev of Mastodon won't consider implementing allowlist-based federation.TBH this is the main thing putting me off running a server of any scale: that my server will automatically federate with anyone I haven't explicitly blocklisted. How can I ensure I'm protecting my users, and not enabling abusers, without constant labour?Federation should be built on human relations of trust and consent.
(DIR) Post #A36vKg6ikoFErNZBfk by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-10T09:54:03Z
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@kawaiipunkMind not to call it "censorship" when nazis get deplatformed though. It isn't censorship but their whole argument depends on it being censorship, because then they can invoke freezepeach.Factually, they can continue to spout racist shit. Facebook and Twitter (and us) are entitled not to amplify that by offering it a social media platform. Censorship would control their actual right towards speech or writing, not access to voluntary publishing agreements.
(DIR) Post #A3Bp0gocmdzHKVzGxk by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-13T08:52:11Z
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@mike @piggo @Gina Aye, we have a few chickens and if they get grass and fresh leaves it makes a huge difference. We really wanted to free-range them when we moved to our current home but they're obsessed with the road and kept stopping traffic 😬
(DIR) Post #A3GJnb91sk7tD9zKl6 by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-15T12:56:13Z
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@InvaderXan It's reckoned that their screech may have been one of the common sources of the mythical "Banshee's wail" that, in Irish lore, signified that someone was due to die that night.The Banshee was a "Ban SÃ", a fairy woman, and was rarely described. My understanding was that she wasn't believed to *cause* death but to be a harbinger of death.
(DIR) Post #A3GJv2cO8OWqRiGn1U by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-15T12:57:37Z
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@InvaderXan It's reckoned that their screech may have been one of the common sources of the mythical "Banshee's wail" that, in Irish lore, signified that someone was due to die that night.The Banshee was a "Bean SÃ", a fairy woman, and was rarely described. My understanding was that she wasn't believed to *cause* death but to be a harbinger of death.
(DIR) Post #A3KEYpC9ddTXJ0QSvo by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-16T13:23:17Z
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Moxie, right now: "Somehow this problem could have been solved by depending even *more* on centralised infrastructure, I'm certain of it"#Signal
(DIR) Post #A3KuhgJ8FNq6QGay80 by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-17T17:22:53Z
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien @fabianhjr Improved standards of living.. provided you're the right kind of ethnicity, and conform politically to the CCP.
(DIR) Post #A3OtNvsuiYgNT5py0u by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-17T21:21:02Z
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@natecull @TheGibson "On Bare metal" as in "Borne on a thin crust above a sea of magma surrounding a massive core of metasolid Iron"
(DIR) Post #A3bYqKiTGpaJHE8GlU by cathal@octodon.social
2021-01-21T07:39:21Z
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@dansup This is great actually, Masto does not support polls with images, which stymied a few fun bot ideas of mine. :)