Hey @stefano,
Do you have anything to do with that I can't access https://media.bsd.cafe/ without a VPN?
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Do you encrypt your SSH keys?
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I think I'll move my website from XetHost to Cloudzy.
At least while I haven't set up a server in my living room, after which... who knows. Maybe it's not the best idea if I get to the HackerNews frontpage again.
I'm only sad that I won't be supporting this lovely Hungarian small business with a single datacenter and a UI from the 2000s, but that's life, I guess.
Cloudzy is a bit more expensive but doesn't require contacting support to reboot the server, among other things :-) And supports paying with USDT on the TON network, which maybe I should also leave for something more established.
[#]selfhosting
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Relying on robots.txt to scare away crawlers is like using a 'no trespassing' sign instead of a lock. No legislation will change that as long as there's competitive advantage in ignoring the file. If you're serious about preventing parsing, use CAPTCHAs.
Or, if you're serious about your information being used (and about not annoying me when I try to contribute to #rssbridge), let it go.
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Ah, also that chart is wrong because I've made a mistake in setting the "is_reply" field somewhere.
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[#]gnuplot is great. I've been feeding the results of #sqlite queries into it via org-babel, and it works almost perfectly; the only exception being that I can't use column names in the gnuplot dataset.
Maybe I'll write a blog post about that... In some moderately distant future.
It feels much less accessible compared to #matplotlib, but not more so than #emacs, I guess. And it's great not to carry any dependencies except the gnuplot library, particularly for the Org Mode use case.
The charts sometimes look like a hello from the 90s, but to me it's a plus that they don't give the "matplotlib on defaults" vibe which is omnipresent in modern science :D
[#]orgmode
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Rest in peace, #JimmyCarter 😢
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Is there a generic #SQL (#SQLite) query builder for #Emacs?
There's emacsql, but it's not designed to interact with arbitrary databases.
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Maybe I'm just out-of-touch.
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I just wonder...
If you're planning to get a group of n=40 people to sign some Very Important Papers in the last week of December, without any alternative dates, isn't it immediately obvious that:
1 - (1 - p)^n = 1 - (1 - 0.007)^40 ~= 1 - 0.755 = 24.5%
And that is assuming the infections are conditionally independent and people don't regularly meet each other.
How is it even possible not to think about it and not plan for contingencies?
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I'm getting weary of the continuous AI hate in my timeline.
Should I just unfollow everyone?
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I think I'm gonna try the following pipeline:
To convert MentalOutlaw's channel to the superior textual format. I think I want to follow them, but I won't return to watching YouTube for this.
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Please don't call if you can write everything in text, a superior communication format.
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A week ago, I made an #RSS bridge for #Anthropic Research.
It was a complicated one: getting a list of articles required parsing JSONs in JSONs in obfuscated inline tags, but articles themselves were plain HTMLs, fortunately.
It broke yesterday.
First, GET https://www.anthropic.com/research/ (and GET any HTML on Anthropic) started returning 500 for no reason. Just a normal response with the 500 status code.
Second, the articles are now also JSONs in obfuscated inline tags.
What the heck is that? Have they noticed I'm parsing them?
[#]rssbridge
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"Unsubscribe" is a misnomer because, in most cases when I click on that button, I never subscribed in the first place.
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[#]OpenAI: Makes an #RSS feed
Me: \o/
OpenAI: puts rss.xml behind #CloudFlare's CAPTCHA
Me: O_o... X_X
Right.
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Alright, here's what I'll do.
Before I post or message anything negative/controversial/disagreeable/etc., whether in public or in private, I'll write the whole thing down in an Org file, where it will wait at least 24 hours.
"Read-it-later" works great [1], so maybe "write-it-later" will also.
I was about to say something about "say-it-later" but, I suppose, that variation usually becomes "never".
Sources:
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And this is why, kids, we should use decentralised social media which can't be coerced to comply with information controls.
There just shouldn't be a central point of failure which can be blackmailed to do the government's bidding.
With #Mastodon, even if Mastodon gGmbH is put in line, there's no way to enforce the ruling on thousands of private instances. So:
The former is more likely because Mastodon isn't that important, but I wish it were the dilemma any such lawmakers faced.
And, anyway, Mastodon doesn't have many of the issues that made that bill even conceivable. #Bluesky will be more interesting to watch, because it's much more like the old #Twitter. So we'll see:
Also, seriously, this story gives me Mother Russia vibes: ~one week to pass the bill, two readings in one day, maximally vague formulations that give power of interpretation to bureaucrats and law enforcement, and, of course, it introduces information controls to protect children.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7284
[#]privacy
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It hasn't been a great day, so... I've spent until 3am making #RSS bridges to help me recover from the last Great RSS Feed Purge of mine.
It seems like #Google Research has discontinued their RSS about 8 months ago? Whyyy? D:
[#]rssbridge
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My work chats in a nutshell
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