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ocdtrekkie

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Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.

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vampiress , to random
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The strange thing about living in Australia is you're used to terrible, nocturnal screeching things, many of which fly. You're used to spiders as big as your hand, or ignoring one of the 10 most deadly snakes turning up while you're walking around the block. You're used to, on a hike, running into furry things as tall as you hopping around the place while carrying their young in flesh pouches.

But raccoons? That’s so weird. They're real things? For serious? That rummage through your garbage?

ocdtrekkie ,
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@vampiress Sometimes they just come hang out on my back deck at night.

Strandjunker , to random
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At this point in time, “Blacks for Trump” makes as much sense as “Jews for Hitler”.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@Strandjunker Yeah, but it is sort of worth understanding why it happens: Democrats often talk better, but the racism still happens and the promises still don't get delivered upon. So a Black American could become a Trump voter under the simple nihilistic view that our current system of government isn't helping them so might as well see it torn down.

I don't support that viewpoint, but the point is when we do have control, we need to do a lot better than we have.

jerry , to random
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The new Recall features is a good reason to remind everyone to not do personal shit on your work computer. Please.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@jerry I mean, to be fair, my work computer will never do this because I will cripple this functionality with all of the immense group policy and firewall power at my command.

But in general, yes, that is still good advice.

jerry , to random
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Sometimes I feel like I need fedipedia dramatica to help me understand what’s going on here

ocdtrekkie ,
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@jerry Yep, a place I can go that will just tell me who today's main character is and why everyone is mad at them.

jerry , to random
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FYI to all you clever Palo people who disabled telemetry to mitigate CVE-2024-3400:

In earlier versions of this advisory, disabling device telemetry was listed as a secondary mitigation action. Disabling device telemetry is no longer an effective mitigation. Device telemetry does not need to be enabled for PAN-OS firewalls to be exposed to attacks related to this vulnerability.

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-3400

ocdtrekkie ,
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@jerry Or Palo Alto really wants that telemetry. ;)

eeyam , to palestine group
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Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians
https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-possible-to-minimize-1851085308

@palestine

ocdtrekkie ,
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@eeyam I never really bother reading Onion articles, but the headlines... always pretty spot on.

FediTips , (edited ) to random
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If you're a Fediverse admin, this is a plea for you to defederate threads.net

is part of Meta/Facebook, and their track record on moderation is as horrific as it is possible to be:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/.

The victims of prejudice, violence and genocide cannot "block" attackers that were radicalised online. Victims of bigotry and hatred cannot opt out of being beaten up or murdered.

Please defederate Threads/Meta/Facebook 🙏

ocdtrekkie ,
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@FediTips @wonkeythemonkey Mark's policy on this is also likely an honest mistake. :P College kids who stumble into becoming billionaires making bad websites aren't necessarily experts on... well, anything. Hopefully in the last six years he has adjusted his views a bit.

charlesrandall , to random
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hello federation admins, is there an updated list of known servers that meta will use to federate?

ocdtrekkie ,
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@shanie @charlesrandall The notion that the fedi has all this "juicy" data when the fedi was designed to be relatively privacy-protecting from the get-go and Meta has literally hundreds of millions of users running their invasive software directly is... sort of silly.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@charlesrandall @shanie I look at it as providing an escape hatch. I feel like a lot of people would leave Facebook platforms but feel like they can't because someone they need to follow is there.

If people can get their must-haves from proprietary social on ethical social, they have a path to move here.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@charlesrandall @shanie I mean, IMHO if you want to block anything, you should block it, but I find the idea Zuck is salivating at the idea of getting access to your toots is patently silly. Federating for them is almost certainly about antitrust and DMA compliance, with a tint of "if we're the first big company here we have an advantage" probably.

msw , to random
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How it started: "This change has zero effect on the Redis core license, which is and will always be licensed under the 3-Clause-BSD."

How it's going: "Beginning today, all future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses. Starting with Redis 7.4, Redis will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1)."

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #OSS #FOSS #Redis

ocdtrekkie ,
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@msw Wow, they really do. <3 They're clearly funding developers building the open source products they use instead of other companies which will probably announce a fork to avoid paying for anything like bathroom breaks for drivers.

Huge respect to Microsoft for this one.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@scott @ariadne @msw That's correct. SSPL is basically complete harmless unless you are a cloud provider using your proprietary platform to undercut and destroy the developers of the open software. SSPL literally only works against companies using closed source to compete.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@wwahammy @scott @ariadne @msw But that's what Amazon gets, effectively. It's impossible for an open source company to compete when it has to both pay the developers and it's competitor can subsidize with proprietary code.

Anyone can compete with a SSPL code developer without paying anything... provided they are also an open source company. Amazon isn't that. We should definitely have licenses that give open source companies advantages over proprietary ones.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@ariadne @wwahammy @scott @msw Saying it's not open source because the Amazon-backed corporate shill outlet says it's not is a tautology. We can fix that by throwing out the OSI.

And a company which releases all of their code under GPL or MIT can use SSPL code for free. It's literally a license that promotes open source.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@theuni @schmittlauch @ariadne @wwahammy @scott @msw @Atemu The SSPL authors likely would've clarified it in a 1.1 version if the OSI was willing to meaningfully engage, but the desire to protect their sponsors was too strong. While clarification in the terms would be nice, I don't think there's actually an intention to say open source licensed components would have to be relicensed to meet the license's needs. They were trying to keep the license text as close to AGPL as possible.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@theuni @schmittlauch @ariadne @wwahammy @scott @msw @Atemu I think we should replace the OSI with people who aren't equally invested in leaving this license in limbo.

I think it's safe to say Mongo doesn't want to pay their lawyers to provide fuel for Internet arguments if it isn't going to get them anywhere.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@ariadne @theuni @ocdtrekkie @schmittlauch @wwahammy @scott @msw @Atemu I mean in comparison to Amazon? I really feel like if people are rooting for Amazon over companies that made their entire business around open source code, maybe they have missed the forest for the trees.

ocdtrekkie ,
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@wwahammy @aynish @ariadne @theuni @schmittlauch @scott @msw @Atemu I mean, I'd agree they have issues, but they all very specifically cite Amazon as the problem. Case in point: The relationship with Microsoft has not changed. Elastic also said basically every major SaaS provider was unaffected except Amazon.

This is, and continues to be, about Amazon.

GottaLaff , (edited ) to random
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Via Josh Gerstein:

NEW: Insurance giant Chubb issues letter to customers defending $91.6 bond for #Trump to facilitate his appeal in #EJeanCarroll libel case. Company calls itself 'part of the justice system plumbing' & says bond 'fully collateralized' if verdict is upheld.

ADDED: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24479707-trump-bond-3132024

ocdtrekkie ,
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@GottaLaff I wonder if they have the deeds to a few Trump properties in exchange.

ocdtrekkie , to random
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Fun fact! If someone in your family served in the US military during a certain period of time, it's very possible the United States has absolutely no idea about it. https://www.va.gov/records/get-military-service-records/reconstruct-records/

hrefna , to random
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To reiterate: my problem with consensus approaches is that they present a "false consensus" of the world.

Whatever biases are in the source lists? Are present in the output. Often amplified.

Whatever priorities are in the source lists? Are present in the output. Often amplified.

The idea is to remove biases, but that only works if biases in your source lists are normally distributed

Which they aren't. Thus: amplified

But this is obscured and it is presented as "more fair."

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ocdtrekkie ,
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@hrefna Yeah I was relatively fond of the Oliphant min and 0 lists but as his source pool has shrunk the lists have become much quicker to tilt. It's still a fantastic reference though because it pulls so many sources including Seirdy and Gardenfence into one place.

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