davel

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

YouTube comments are so often vile that my first instinct would be to disable them altogether.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

MV3 is shorter, and IMO less engaging. Hopefully the price reflects this.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I guess they’re on a train?

The problem with short URLs is that, when the site is down, as it is now, I can’t reverse engineer what the original link was.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

TLS seems to be misconfigured.

curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'spectreofcommunism.boo'

Is the site supposed to look like this?

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The only Buddhism I have any familiarity with is secular Buddhism as interpreted by white men.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

kids these days smdh my damn head

V. Lenin
“Patience and [irony?] are the two cardinal virtues of a true revolutionary.”

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago

They were westoids who will only consume westoid corporate media, because all other media is “biased” and/or “propaganda.”

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

On more than one occasion on Lemmy, someone outright refused to watch this due to the Al Jazeera watermark alone.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

jwz gotchu fam: Exterminate all rational AI scrapers

Today I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to my web site just to fuck with LLM scrapers, based on a "spicy autocomplete" program I wrote about 30 years ago. Well-behaved web crawlers will ignore it, but those "AI" people.... well, you know how they are.

I'm intentionally not linking to the honeypot from here, for reasons, but I'll bet you can find it pretty easily (and without guessing URLs.)

It's kinda funny.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I discovered today that the gig economy food delivery precariat are riding rental electric scooters marketed specifically to them.
https://www.hmpbikes.com/pages/rental-page

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

—2020: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic | The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.

 

The Intercept:

 
$ curl -sI https://lemmygrad.com | grep '^location:'
location: https://jfedpgh.org/israel-emergency-relief
$
 

Found via Jamie Zawinski (“JWZ”): Thread federation

This is a great (long) look at the issues around federating between Mastodon and Threads from several angles, and manages to do so without letting the white-hot rage at Zuckerberg's fetid empire shine through and overpower the discussion of practical considerations.

 

The real issue is not only that AI doesn't work as advertised, but the impact it will have before this becomes painfully obvious to everyone. AI is being used as form of 'shock doctrine', where the sense of urgency generated by an allegedly world-transforming technology is used as an opportunity to transform social systems without democratic debate.

 

If your “bio” contains a table like so, your username, on Hexbear, will appear as USERNAME [XXX/YYY]@lemmygrad.ml

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|---|---|
| Pronouns | XXX/YYY |

I haven’t looked at Hexbear’s source code, nor experimented further, so I don’t know what limitations there are, but I know you can add other rows to the table without breaking the feature.

 
 

…otherwise it’s a sparkling apartheid.

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