Pavel Korytov :emacs:☮️

Graduate student of Saint-Petersburg State Electrotechnical University.

If I'm not doing something with #Emacs, I'm probably doing something in #Emacs. Including reading #RSS, which every website should provide.

Previous instances: fosstodon.org (2022), emacs.ch (2022-2024).

Website: https://sqrtminusone.xyz
GitHub: https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne

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2025-04-19 11:15:36 UTC

I've upgraded my #Emacs packages for the first time in 2025, and nothing broke. I'm suspicious

2025-02-16 23:44:08 UTC

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Well, if your security requirements go as far as blocking Telegram, you should just run a whitelist of allowed services. At this point, you're just blocking every service that you can block, however small the risk reduction is.
There's really nothing particular about Telegram; it's not especially vulnerable or anything, so blocking only it is arbitrary. One can implement remote control with Google Sheets or GitHub, for what it's worth.
I'm not disputing that's right in _some_ circumstances, but... Generally, people on the network need messengers, if there are people in the first place.
Well, and communication... Yeah, having it is better than not having it. But at the end of the day, it has little bearing on whether the policy is correct or not.

2025-02-16 23:10:51 UTC

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It was the most annoying thing ever when our smarter-than-gods uni network admins decided to block Telegram, thus preventing communication in multiple departments during a very critical time period, plus breaking notifications in several projects of my department.
The reason was, as I gathered, something related to politics, but I'm not sure because what's transparency, anyway.
I had to set up a proxy for the projects; luckily, I myself had never used the corporate network for my devices, even for my uni-based work machine.
Don't do that. Don't decide for your network users what they should and shouldn't use.
C2 is trivial to implement via literally anything that allows sending and receiving info.

2025-01-30 11:46:50 UTC

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The reverse slope of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Its existence is disputed, for what it's worth, but it's a good meme.

2025-01-25 17:18:37 UTC

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We've seen one war managed by an incompetent defence minister recently though

2024-11-29 10:38:26 UTC

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:
- either the government quietly forgets this decision,
- or they institute a full-blown internet censorship with Deep Packet Inspection and stuff.
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:
- whether or not it complies;
- how decentralised it actually is, i.e., whether the devs even have the power to comply (which they shouldn't have).
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

2024-11-03 09:37:01 UTC

It has just occurred to me that #Microsoft #Recall isn't re-call. It's rec-all

2024-09-14 18:10:13 UTC

Hello bsd.cafe! It's nice to meet a few fellow former emacs.ch users here.
While I'm not using BSD (for now, probably), I want an interesting local feed, which this instance has :3
I'm mostly interested in Emacs, but this doesn't mean any other subject is excluded from my posts.