🤚 incandescent rage
👉 fluorescent rage

#shitpost

This is what happens when you let @nprofile1q... write #IETF protocol standards.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meow-mrrp/

#shitpost

Happened upon an MP3 from 1996 called “The Sleeping Dragon” by someone named Kevin Shepherdson.

This came with my old Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold. It's on the disc image at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/soundblasterawe64iso but Fluidsynth doesn't seem to play it properly.

Anyway, I recorded it using actual AWE64 hardware back then, and now that I hear it again, I think of all you lovely #dragon #creature⁠s, especially @nprofile1q....

https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/318/839/877/468/439/original/87c07fb6c27eac18.mp3

Am I the only one who kinda actually likes #SQL?

Like, I've been gathering data on Fedi servers and throwing it into SQLite, and I've written a query that gives me:

* server name
* language
* country
* active user count
* software
* captcha type
* how many people I follow are on this server

…and filters out servers that aren't accepting signups, have troublesome captchas, or aren't running the software I want.

How cool is that?

#database #programming

#Australia is escalating its attacks on the Internet. Its existing laws targeted 10 major platforms, but an upcoming law drastically expands its scope and requires the disabling of:

* “an endless-feed feature” defined so broadly as to apply even to 1990s web forums

* “a recommender feature” defined so broadly as to ban even chronological feeds

among many other ruinous demands.

Australia is no longer safe for the #Fediverse.

https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/exposure-draft-online-safety-amendment-digital-duty-care-bill-2026

#ageVerification #censorship

#KDE is reportedly planning on shoving #AI into the desktop, seemingly following Microsoft's lead.

https://fosstopia.de/kde-plant-ki-desktop-kadai/

Between this and the news of violent extremist imagery being displayed at Akademy, the news has been absolutely heartbreaking. The KDE I loved for nearly 30 years has been taken away from me, and replaced by something terrible.

#Trinity #TDE is going AI as well. It offers no safe refuge. https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/289

The existence of security vulnerabilities is a terrible damn problem for #FOSS.

If not for that, I'd be a lot more comfortable ignoring the #AI hype, because if it does end up creating a mountain of tech debt and breaking everything, then we'll just keep using the old versions.

But we can't do that because the old versions are insecure! Now what the heck do we do?

Kinda wish I could get a PCIe Wi-Fi card that has all the transmit power, automatic channel selection, etc of a Wi-Fi router.

Because I seriously do not trust Wi-Fi router firmware and would much rather run it on a PC with a decent operating system…but I get an atrociously bad signal that way.

Found a site that tracks #censorship / #ageVerification / #digitalID laws by jurisdiction.

https://censorshiptracker.com

Unfortunately it does not track whether a given jurisdiction's law applies to not-for-profit/non-algorithmic sites like most of Fedi.

Still, this is a useful tool for figuring out where to look for your next Fedi account.

The guy who sprayed #IlhanOmar with vinegar at a town hall just got sentenced to 14 months in prison.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/man-who-sprayed-rep-ilhan-omar-with-vinegar-sentenced-to-14-months-in-prison

As I recall, she was about ready to deck him herself, but the security guards got him first. Not your average politician, that one.

I'm slowly developing a mental model of different Fedi platforms:

Mastodon: corporate (non-profit)
Misskey: greetings from Japan
Sharkey: blåhaj and blåhaj accessories
Pixelfed, Loops, WordPress, Bluesky: corporate (for-profit)
Lemmy: Karl Marx's #1 fans
Threads: we are the Facebook resistance is futile
Friendica, NodeBB: old school
Wafrn: a challenger appears
LittleFedi: will survive the apocalypse
Forgejo: glorious git revolution

#shitpost

The grocery store chain Safeway was so named because it operated exclusively on a cash-and-carry basis, and did not offer credit to customers. It was a “safe way” to buy food, in that you wouldn't go into debt in the process.

Grocery debt was common at other stores, which contributed to the Great Depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeway#History