megfault *｡✧mostly harmless✧｡* @megfault@chaos.social

Set aside time for a hobby. Gardening, drone building, knitting, do something for the pure pleasure of it.

reposting that with the story that goes with it, my #freebsd media box kept mysteriously rebooting, no amount of debugging or tracing seemed to pick up the spurious restarts. It turns out my 2yo "expert" loved the flashing lights as it started up, and found out how to hard reset it. 3 months of wondering wtf was happening until I filmed this.

So, the doctor tells me they have new pills for paranoia, and to make sure people take them, they have trackers in them. Who the hell thought that would be a good idea to give to paranoid people?!

Puzzled . . @mako makes a clear pitch on "Free software production needs free tools" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY&feature=youtu.be
And is very clear on #commons and #P2P (though says most code comes from solo not collaboration!). Yet not a hint of coop ownership of #platforms to keep tools honest & open (GitHub!). Surely tools today become platforms? And platforms require collaboration even if code doesn't? So why doesn't #coop follow automatically, as we talk tools? How does libre not equal coop in FLOSS world?

@Ethancdavenport
The science of how trangenics are made is sound. The problem is the society they are placed into, like any science or technology.
There isn't a question that it's possible to make a stable transgenic crop, the question is the use case. It's not as if we are running out of space or running out of food, as ever the problem is soil erosion and waste. So before you can say 'this is a bad objection' you need to at least ask why its worth discussing at all.

DECEIVED BY DESIGN
How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from
exercising our rights to #privacy

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf

An impressive report on a situation not at all surprising.

Every Data Scientist should read Weapons of Distruction by Cathy O’Neil. She warns for the fact that mathematics is misused to turn subjectivity in Big Data into objective facts. She has many examples that will frighten you.

~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!

If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

irc is #500pieces on efnet

thank you (boosts very appreciated)

Does anyone knows a FOSS CI self-hosted solution that is NOT jenkins/buildbot and that DOES NOT uses docker and let us basically launch whatever commands we want?

Oh yeah and that consume less RAM than jenkins :/

I've already look at a shitload of things and everything is basically "lol docker" or "lol you can't self host".

like button: the considerate conversation terminator

Okay, so when can I subscribe to conferences and comment via #ActivityPub on media.ccc.de? #fediverse

Die TU Darmstadt beginnte eine E-Mail an alle Studierenden mit
"Liebe Studierende, Lieber Studierender".

Verstehe nicht was das soll. "Liebe Studierende" wäre doch angenehm geschlechstneutral gewesen …

If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse

Morning everyone 🌇

I've set up an account @rtwx for #gaming stuff, so if any of my followers are interested then there it is. 🙂

I spent most of the day staring at git trees and orchestrating a symphony of squash commits.

+6 git mastery
+22 stamina
-3 health
-99 mana

For those unfamiliar with network-walk based proofs of work, the concept is simple:

Instead of asking a peer to solve a hard math problem, you ask a peer to "go for a walk" around the network and then prove they did so.

A proof-of-work scheme needs to be asymmetric in that it's a lot of work (expensive) to solve the problem, but easy (cheap) to verify a solution is correct.

Network walks, asking Tor hidden services to sign a payload, ticks the boxes.

"gay swans in austria attack people in defense of their plastic cup children" wow

Software only becomes 'enterprise grade' if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.