Posts by dvandal@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AvCYw84E97Eg2GXpSq by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-16T22:20:25Z
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@futurebird anyone wanna help me figure out connecting my old TRS-80 model 100 to the internet? and figure out an ActivityPub implementation that is written in basic and can run on… I think it’s got 16Kb of memory?
(DIR) Post #AvMd5JcUuB9vrxoFIe by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-21T15:38:01Z
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@strlcat @davidgerard not to be pedantic but is it really monopolization when the main developers of X11 have since move on to another project deliberately to replace the old?Like to my understanding, it isn’t about “competition” in this case, but about moving standards from one system to another and making that work happen. Ie. we use computers in 2025, not 1985, and the way graphics for computers work has changed significantly from then til now, and part of the reason Wayland exists is to be able to modernize graphics on anything that uses it. So it’s a shift in standards vs Competition. Especially when it’s all X11 devs who moved on to Wayland and have generally stopped putting much work into X11 as is.(And that isn’t even touching on most of the code added to base X11 from the founder of XLibre being reverted out due to breaking changes and weird modifications of licenses retroactively as people started looking over the commits and noticing some issues..)Idk, I think a lot of the arguing around this issue is stemming from a handful of malignant actors that are deliberately throwing chaff into the wind and getting into everyone’s hair about it while fundamentally misunderstanding what is going on and why we have Wayland to begin with. Arguably deliberately misunderstanding for the sake of arguing and causing drama.Are there technical issues with Wayland? Yeah! But there’s also a fuckload of technical issues with X11 as well, and the decision was made to focus on Wayland and modernizing graphics on Linux rather than maintaining something who’s primary promise of network transparency stopped being true decades ago.
(DIR) Post #AvOUmW0aD5xjTLWGx6 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-21T17:40:04Z
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@david_chisnall @strlcat @davidgerard If all the maintainers for Old Thing have moved over to working on New Thing, wouldn't it be incredibly irresponsible of them to not declare Old Thing as deprecated? Is that not the literal definition of Deprecation?X11 as a fallback option has been supported for well over a decade at this point. The goal being: Push people to the new standard so the new *standard* can be developed more fully and flushed out and fix the majority of the gaps.*Standards take time to change, with all the presumed growing pains in between*. It's not easy to shift standards, but when the devs have flat out *moved on*, it's not about a competition between the standards. It's that people are moving on to a new Standard to work on.We did have competing modern display protocols there for a bit. Do you remember Mir? Didn't Mir just flat out lose out in terms of gaining market share and so forth to Wayland?Suffice to say, framing a standard shift as Monopolization is *really really weird* and fundamentally is at odds at the reality of what the ongoing process actually is. The developers *moved on.* Nobody stood up to take their place and continue developing X11 until recently, and even then the first thing that project did was break from the Standard (lol)I understand the annoyances and the pain of this process: I've been daily driving Fedora Desktop since Fedora 11. But I also understood, especially in the early days, that Wayland was *heavily* under development and to expect bugs, and I went into it knowing full well that I could revert to X11 Fallback as necessary (which I used a ton in the early days!). We're well into a decade past that at this point and I literally have more issues in X11 than I do with Wayland. It's been like that for about 3 years now, personally.But again: Calling it a Monopoly when the core maintainers just Moved On is, frankly, weird.
(DIR) Post #AxvwESpzO3ZVOwvY9o by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-06T15:27:41Z
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@futurebird @amorphophalex "The council of Aunties has spoken"
(DIR) Post #Ay4LEJ7RZX99NXnDl2 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10T15:21:09Z
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@briankrebs The screenshot is from a JP Morgan article released last week where it discusses how Capital Expenditure towards AI is fully 35-45% of the entire US economy GDP for the past 3 fiscal quarters.We are fully in a recession/depression except for one industry that is a statistical outlier of fanatics with more wealth than brains dumping into a dead end technology stack at the expense of basically everything else.Our economy is kept afloat by a Spider Georg outlier industry.
(DIR) Post #Ay4LENX7A23d4JpmKG by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10T15:25:32Z
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@briankrebs this is where the charts are from, it’s in the pdf linked on this page:https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/insights/latest-and-featured/eotm/fair-shakes
(DIR) Post #Ay5M0cZSkQSklXtcxc by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-11T04:28:55Z
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@futurebird When one’s participation in politics is just Parasocial Relationships replacing both community and political though processes, it really makes sense why so many people are galvanizing around one primarily online guy with a podcast.It’s like putting flags half mast for a talk show radio host passing.Utterly bizarre behavior until you realize that for a large portion of the Right, Politics to them is just Parasocial Relationships with online celebrities. Then it makes sense why the figure head would stand out more than one’s actual elected representatives
(DIR) Post #B29r5dMDNNGm7Mn3GS by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-01-11T00:04:24Z
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@futurebird i mean this with more love than the earth itself can hold: Pica has such incredibly strong Cave Govlin vibes and this is her natural habitat, regardless of whatever evolution or some diety might have in mind for “The Cat”:This is the domain she was created to inhabit and God themself descending to earth to disagree would not sway my opinion and I would infact murder them for heresy for disagreeing.(Give her a pat for me when she is receptive)
(DIR) Post #B3Y6NBjuRb8HdRLruq by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-02-21T14:40:50Z
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@futurebird her eyes are broadcasting such a look of sincere love.Gobbless her RBF, but this expression is like when my Bean is staring at me deeply while deciding to move from the heater to my lap 🥹
(DIR) Post #B4idSBEs6Xkl7W51DU by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-03-28T14:13:19Z
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@SeanPLynch @futurebird @Meowthias I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what an irrational number is going in here. Because regardless of the base that is being used, or the counting system at play, you can’t tweak how you count to make the irrational numbers suddenly rational.The “ratio” in rational is about how the number can be described as a ratio of two other integers. To be irrational means that it “cannot be expressed as a ratio between two integers”Whatever base you use does not get around this. Using a base that is fractional doesn’t change the fundamental definition of “expressed as a ratio between two integers” either, it just means that it is incredibly difficult to do math because you have to express things in complicated addition and subtraction chains to represent a whole integer.
(DIR) Post #B5IiaSbeuVl2lM3zm4 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-15T00:17:52Z
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@futurebird Final Fantasy X-2 ah shortsIf they come in black or leather Final Fantasy 15
(DIR) Post #B5gkLlN5itjGJtPJj6 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26T14:30:41Z
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@futurebird a friend of mine shared a video of a husky throwing a tantrum at a store when he was told no to getting a toy.He completely missed the AI cadence of the voice, the toy slipping weirdly on the “belt” and bumping into something that is later depicted much further back, and how the dog’s face clipped into the side of the checkout stand’s shelf a little weirdly.The video had a “deep fried” sorta filter over it, and AI voice has some give aways so my flags were up right away.I went and looked up the name for the account and found a facebook page just packed with similar videos with the similar bit being “Husky throwing tantrum” and frankly some of the videos were just unnerving.I do a lot to keep slop out of my feeds and I didn’t realize how surface level real they started getting.I really think we are gonna have to break the backs of the Platforms with strict legislation and a requirement by law that generated content is labeled as such and restricting monetization options for AI generated content. Or something.I don’t know what to do about it at this point because it is all foisted on us against market demand due to the ability to mass produce slop for cheap to make edge earnings on platforms and platforms happy to embrace the viewership (“Oh! This person watched the video 10 times! It must be because they like it, not because they are evaluating whether it is authentic or generated content at all!”). Maybe when the real cost is being applied and it isn’t being subsidized by VCs, the situation will resolve itself a bit.
(DIR) Post #B5gkeVVmuh7qdMPfbk by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26T14:31:59Z
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@futurebird sorry I kinda rambled.I am just very exhausted over slop and this era and I will never forgive the industry for making me have to look at animal videos with suspicion.
(DIR) Post #B5glLY1bRfqysdokbo by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26T14:41:50Z
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@futurebird unironically one of the better parts of Fedi is that most of us on here are happy to be filters against AI content.In light of that, have some suspicion free pics of my Bean, as a treat 🥰
(DIR) Post #B5glYkqF6WOyOZnk6i by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26T14:44:15Z
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@futurebird The lack of cat/dog body language fluency, or at minimum understanding, is SUCH a sore point for me with a lot of it, you are so right.We need mandatory lessons in school on animal body language. 😤In this essay 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️
(DIR) Post #B5joXpO1bU3VXQjSPg by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-28T02:01:48Z
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@futurebird I wanna see the unkillable plant!
(DIR) Post #B5jomNTBgC8bIe5Jgm by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-28T02:04:28Z
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@claralistensprechen3rd @futurebird The plant is home to fairies or gnomes or something. It looks enchanted.
(DIR) Post #B5joyOCGnmGt1utpFg by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-28T02:06:38Z
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@futurebird @claralistensprechen3rd Do you think they have got a symbiotic relationship going on and maybe that is why it is so hardy?
(DIR) Post #B5jpKSRpg3YsaKhZR2 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-28T02:10:37Z
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@futurebird @claralistensprechen3rd “Yeah, this bad boy right here? This is my free range carrots.”
(DIR) Post #B5p14KqyJfZddcL43U by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-04-30T14:15:43Z
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@futurebird time to get some orcas together to show this yacht club what’s what 😡