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2026-05-17 23:16:26 UTC

Next time somebody says something along the lines of “the government should require websites to verify that each user is not a child”, try substituting “child” with “woman”. See if it still sounds like a good idea.

2026-05-11 08:01:52 UTC

I wonder what would happen if you put up an open VNC server that controls Windows 3.1 (presumably running in a VM).

2026-05-10 04:42:09 UTC

Just temporarily set this 27-inch 4K screen to 100% scale instead of the usual 150%.
Holy smokes, look how much fits on the screen! It's incredible!
Too bad I'm not still in my 20s. My eyes can't take this kind of punishment for long. But I sure wish they could…

2026-05-08 22:06:24 UTC

Yep, called it. Another zero-day local-root vulnerability in #Linux, and this time it's in the core kernel, not a module you can remove.
And this so-called #security researcher is apparently more interested in having a flashy website than in responsible disclosure.
https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html

2026-05-08 16:24:31 UTC

Video games, tabletop games, television, comics, magazines, books—all were subjected to widespread censorship (or self-censorship) soon after their invention, the justification being that they were corrupting children's minds.
They were new, therefore they were bad. And that was the full extent of the thought process.
Eventually, they were uncensored, and then…nothing. Harmless all along.
How many times must these ridiculous knee-jerk panics happen before people learn their damn lesson?

2026-05-07 21:08:30 UTC

Oh good, another high-severity #Linux #security vulnerability that somebody botched the disclosure of, turning it into a high-severity zero-day.
Because #CopyFail wasn't bad enough. Now we've got #DirtyFrag too.
Can #cybersecurity people please stop botching vulnerability disclosure? Thanks.
https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag/blob/master/README.md
#security

2026-05-05 16:58:23 UTC

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When my parents were young, you know what their parents would've said if they decided to go on a bike ride and chat somebody up at the mall? “Have fun, dear.”
That's normal. That's healthy. This “stranger danger” paranoia is not. And I fear what will become of society if this continues.

2026-05-05 16:41:52 UTC

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Even the alternative, supposedly-better “safety by design” plan from people like Patrick Breyer is designed to stop people from talking to each other.
The idea there is that all profiles are hidden from public view by default and all contact from strangers is blocked by default.
Insanity.
When the hell did everyone become so violently antisocial? This is not normal! This is not healthy. This is not how people were when my parents were young.

2026-05-04 20:37:58 UTC

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@nprofile…3wf9
What happened?

2026-05-03 00:21:56 UTC

“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.” —seen on a bumper sticker

2026-05-02 19:51:30 UTC

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Wikipedia: “…one of the US patents in the MPEG LA H.264 pool (granted in 2016) lasts at least until November 2030.”
You mean to tell me you can invent something, patent it 13 years later, and get #patent protection for more than 27 years after invention?!
This technology is a museum piece! Why the hell are people not up in arms over it still being encumbered?

2026-05-02 19:48:23 UTC

Somebody wanna explain to me how the hell a 28-year-old video codec (MPEG-4) is still #patent encumbered?

2026-04-28 20:42:21 UTC

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@nprofile…49gk
Some of these laws even prohibit charging a fee for age verification! I can't help wondering if these politicians are *trying* to wipe out non-profits.

2026-04-28 20:38:46 UTC

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@nprofile…49gk
Cannot afford to.
Age verification is devastatingly expensive. $2 per attempt, from what I saw, even if it's a kid making a failed attempt.
Only way any site can afford that is if it monetizes users' eyeballs, and the whole point of the Fediverse is to *not* do that.

2026-04-28 19:19:11 UTC

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@nprofile…49gk
Just the whole big age verification push. Age verification is expensive, so I fear it will destroy the Fediverse.

2026-04-28 18:34:49 UTC

Why? Why me? Why, in the name of protecting children, are they destroying the communities I'm part of? None of us ever harmed any children!

2026-04-28 15:43:46 UTC

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I'm going to miss you all terribly. 😭🫂

2026-04-28 15:43:23 UTC

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I work from home, so there's no one to talk to here. But even if I didn't, workplaces are for work, not hanging out.
Hanging out stopped being a thing in the 1980s. Then “stranger danger” took root and talking to people became faux pas.
Small wonder social media emerged to fill the resulting void. But now it's being turned into cable TV 2.0, and any further efforts to fill the void are prohibited by law.

2026-04-27 13:56:32 UTC

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@nprofile…8yrp
The closest I know of is mrustc. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc It's a relatively simple Rust compiler written in C++.
It generally assumes your program is valid. In particular, it doesn't do borrow checking (although that is planned).
The main purpose of mrustc is to compile the regular Rust compiler on a machine where there is a C++ compiler but no Rust compiler.

2026-04-26 03:55:28 UTC

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Well, except the physical effort required. Assembling a computer from parts is pretty tiring when you're in your 40s and you have to do it on the floor! 😵

2026-04-26 03:53:09 UTC

I'm in my 40s and still don't have any trouble setting up new devices. Jealous? 😏
https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/gbjlx/you_dont_realize_until_it_is_too_late/
https://imgur.com/you-dont-realize-until-is-too-late-eJSuf
#Reddit #RageComic
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/468/961/870/344/579/original/7bf70a759d36d3a8.jpg

2026-04-26 00:22:25 UTC

Oof. Got the runs from a perfectly ordinary cheeseburger.
Luckily I was only a few feet away from the apartment door when it struck. If I'd been only a minute or two later to get home, that would've ended much worse.
Note to self: eat more yogurt. Those bacteria are not optional!

2026-04-25 02:46:10 UTC

What #Firefox #LibreWolf extension are people using for script blocking these days?
I'm still using #uMatrix, and it works, but it's unmaintained, so…
#browser

2026-04-25 02:13:48 UTC

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@nprofile…nrd7
Don't forget hamburgers.

2026-04-23 23:56:32 UTC

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@nprofile…cslf
I am mildly curious, but I'm not debugging any games, so this doesn't really matter to me. 🤷‍♂️

2026-04-23 23:46:13 UTC

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@nprofile…cslf
Sure, because the game will un-grab the mouse when you try to switch away. But what if the game gets suspended by a debugger? Then it never gets a chance to release the grab.

2026-04-23 23:42:28 UTC

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@nprofile…cslf
And, again, even if popup menus were implemented in some other way that doesn't grab the mouse and potentially soft-lock the desktop, this will still be a problem when running a video game in a debugger.

2026-04-23 23:41:43 UTC

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@nprofile…cslf
In my scenario, nobody stole the focus. That's not the problem.
A popup menu legitimately had the focus, which includes a mouse grab so that clicking outside the menu causes the menu to go away.
But then, before the menu actually goes away, the debugger suspends the app. The app never gets a chance to dismiss the menu, and I can't interact with the debugger to resume or terminate the app. *That* is what soft-locked my desktop.

2026-04-23 23:33:01 UTC

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@nprofile…cslf
This is Java Swing with the X11 backend, so it implements popup menus the old-fashioned way. Wayland probably has some other, saner way of dismissing menus without grabbing the mouse like this, but that doesn't do me any good here.

2026-04-23 23:30:07 UTC

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@nprofile…cslf
Kwin allows apps to grab the mouse, if that's what you mean. I think most window managers do.
This sort of grab is typically done for popup menus and the like, so that the menu is dismissed if you click outside it. But obviously that can't happen if a debugger has suspended the app that's showing the menu…

2026-04-23 23:10:49 UTC

The bane of #GUI programmers everywhere: hitting a breakpoint while a popup (from a menu, combo box, etc) is showing.
It grabs the mouse and keyboard, so you can't interact with anything other than your application…but your application is suspended in the debugger!
#programming

2026-04-21 17:36:17 UTC

Be me.
Write a program that checks if an IP address is inside one of a list of ranges.
Use binary search. On each iteration, check if lower bound <= address >= upper bound.
Benchmark.
Realize that the upper bound check could be skipped until the very last iteration. Rewrite accordingly.
Benchmark.
No effect.
The optimizer apparently already spotted this and eliminated the upper bound check!
Are the #LLVM devs named Duke Nukem? Because damn, they're good.
#programming

2026-04-21 16:57:10 UTC

Sigh.
Just got told by a company internal app that it's time to change my password.
Can we please stop with the fake #security? My password is a long string of randomly generated characters. Nobody's going to guess it any time soon.
#cybersecurity #infosec

2026-04-20 21:39:44 UTC

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@nprofile…9xcl
I'm not hearing people scream to ban kids from Facebook and TikTok. I'm hearing people scream to ban kids from absolutely everything—search engines, video games, forums, Mastodon, Wikipedia, even their own computers.
That's not how you protect children from harm. That's how you *cause* terrible harm, to children and adults alike.
@nprofile…c7pr

2026-04-20 18:55:55 UTC

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@nprofile…c7pr
Can't confirm. These machines made my life possible at all. When I got bullied in school, Internet chat became my only available form of social contact.
That was when I was 12.
Which is why it absolutely breaks my heart to hear people say kids should be kicked out of social media. No. Absolutely not! That is a horrible idea and it's going to ruin a lot of innocent children's lives.

2026-04-20 17:55:09 UTC

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@nprofile…cf6a
I spent entirely too much time writing an equivalent program in Rust. https://codeberg.org/argv_minus_one/byte-heatmap

2026-04-19 22:12:18 UTC

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@nprofile…pt0k
Personally I've been using laptops for nearly 30 years and not one of them was ever stolen. Neither were any of my phones.
Maybe I've somehow been living obliviously in some kind of low-theft bubble all these years, but it seems to me that this all is a solution in search of a problem.
@nprofile…sftd @nprofile…mjwl

2026-04-19 21:58:29 UTC

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@nprofile…pt0k
I wonder how the numbers shake out if you count repairs prevented and secondhand sales deterred as instances of theft.
I mean, if pirating a movie counts as theft by way of denying revenue to the movie studio, then preventing a secondhand sale of a laptop counts as theft too.
@nprofile…sftd @nprofile…mjwl

2026-04-19 18:58:39 UTC

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@nprofile…pt0k @nprofile…sftd @nprofile…mjwl
This proves that the Mac obeys Apple, not the Mac's owner. How can you trust a computer that obeys someone other than you?

2026-04-19 07:23:29 UTC

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@nprofile…em57
I'm on a 4.1 instance. Admins are working on it, but they're having to basically populate an entirely new database from existing records instead of going through the normal migration.
Now here's another instance stuck on 4.1. 🤔
Is there some issue with 4.2 that makes migration fail…?

2026-04-19 03:22:34 UTC

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@nprofile…49gk
You mean yesterday evening? I didn't play any video games. I was reading on my phone.
I suppose I could have just sat there and stewed in my emotions instead, but that's not a great option.

2026-04-19 01:22:07 UTC

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@nprofile…49gk
Didn't really have a choice this time, sadly. I wasn't at home and didn't have my laptop with me. Only my phone.
Until now I was under the impression that this problem only happens with my DS for some reason. I haven't had it happen with my phone before.
Now it seems like it applies to all small screens at half-arm's length, not just the old Nintendo…

2026-04-19 01:03:07 UTC

Hmm. My eyes are straining again.
I haven't played on my Nintendo DS in a couple of weeks now, but I did spend several hours looking at my phone yesterday evening.
And now my eyes are straining and struggling to focus on my desktop screen again.
Disturbing…
Maybe when money isn't so tight, I should go see an optometrist or buy some reading glasses or something. Looking at computer screens isn't really avoidable for me, but there must be some way I can make it easier for my eyes to do so…

2026-04-19 00:20:35 UTC

The problem with #nuclear energy is not that it frequently goes wrong.
It doesn't. Its safety record is almost spotless. I'm actually shocked at how rare it is for a nuke reactor to go sideways.
The problem is that when it does go wrong, it goes very *very* wrong…

2026-04-18 23:50:58 UTC

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@nprofile…2fwk
Yeah, we already have the mother of all satellite dishes pointed at them.
I wonder what the funeral will be like. Because goodness knows there will be a funeral.
@nprofile…9g3d @nprofile…k2kd

2026-04-18 20:52:59 UTC

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@nprofile…9g3d
If they turn it back on, it'll only be because they succeeded in their clever plan to reprogram the Voyagers to be more energy-efficient.
Which is a bit like trying to double your gas mileage just by reprogramming the ECU. It'll be one hell of an achievement if it works.
But if it doesn't work, the Voyagers won't last more than a few years…
@nprofile…k2kd

2026-04-18 05:05:10 UTC

There was a time when I looked down on #Amiga fans from my lofty x86 PC perch.
There was, after all, nothing their Amiga could do that my PC can't, and many things my PC can do that even a souped-up PowerPC Amiga had no hope of doing.
But you know what? Nowadays I feel like I missed out on something special. The PC scene is lovely and lively, of course, but every now and again I see a mention or an artifact of Amiga culture, and…I think I might've liked to be part of that.

2026-04-17 22:00:39 UTC

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The Rust compiler is SO SLOW digesting this giant match statement, though. Sigh.
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!

2026-04-17 19:13:28 UTC

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@nprofile…v4t3
The floor is lined with gravity plates. Gravity seems to still affect them, so perhaps the gravity plates in the floor are still solid to them.

2026-04-17 19:05:23 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
I'm sure they brought a few with them when they beamed to the Enterprise, but they'd dissipate very quickly if they don't interact with normal matter.
It's like somebody getting thrown out of a pressurized airlock into space. Yeah, some air gets ejected into space with them, but they won't be breathing it for more than a few milliseconds because the air molecules will scatter in all directions.

2026-04-17 18:33:09 UTC

If La Forge and Ro are out of phase with normal matter and therefore can't interact with most of it, then how are they able to breathe? How are they still under air pressure? How are they still able to hear each other? Being in that state should have the same effect on them as being exposed to hard vacuum.
And how can they see each other? If normal photons don't interact with them, then they should be invisible even to each other.
This friggin' episode, man.
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG

2026-04-16 18:44:50 UTC

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@nprofile…v5q3
Although to be fair, just because the whole federation isn't down doesn't mean *your* server isn't down. The instance I'm on has certainly had its fair share of outages.

2026-04-16 18:32:15 UTC

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@nprofile…y8dy
Having gotten into computing in the 1990s, it always struck me as odd to see code on paper instead of a screen.
Although maybe coding on paper was still kinda a thing in the 1970s or early 1980s when I assume this game was written. 80×25 was considered baller back then, let alone the gigantic viewports we have now.
@nprofile…sfce

2026-04-16 18:18:47 UTC

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@nprofile…v5q3
The closest equivalent in Fedi is if mastodon.social went down.
Which would be big news, but it wouldn't bring the whole federation down. Everybody on another server, including almost everyone in this thread, would still be around to shitpost about it.

2026-04-16 18:11:10 UTC

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@nprofile…qhlc
At first I tried to read @nprofile…y954 as a list of chemical elements, but then what the heck are Ar and Xn?

2026-04-13 00:52:04 UTC

I've heard that there is an epidemic of illiteracy among kids these days.
Pardon my skepticism, but aren't kids these days also known for communicating primarily with text? I imagine it'd be pretty hard to write social media posts and SMS messages, as kids these days are wont to do, if you don't know your ABCs.

2026-04-11 22:36:40 UTC

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@nprofile…a4mq
That you did, but that's not the question I asked. I asked if anyone *else* has looked through the discussion archives and published *their* findings.

2026-04-11 17:40:21 UTC

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@nprofile…a4mq
Has anyone other than him done that task and published their findings?

2026-04-10 20:34:18 UTC

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@nprofile…y6rq
Why do they want non-hybrid KEMs and signatures, anyway?

2026-04-10 18:37:32 UTC

My cat is a cat who cats because she is a cat.

2026-04-09 18:03:39 UTC

You can periodically take samples of air pressure, quantize them, and end up with enough information to reconstruct a sound wave accurately enough that a human ear can't tell the difference.
Since we also have computers hooked up to a global network, this means you can send that information to the other side of the planet and *they* can reconstruct the sound wave too, just as accurately as you can. No attenuation, no extra noise, etc.
Neat.
#PCM #digitalAudio

2026-04-08 14:56:50 UTC

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@nprofile…dk7w
It thinks é is a hidden character? 🤦‍♂️

2026-04-06 21:19:40 UTC

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@nprofile…48uy
It's going to be a sad day when the transistors in these old machines' chips start failing.
It is taking a weirdly long time for that to happen, but it's going to happen sooner or later…

2026-04-06 02:02:45 UTC

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@nprofile…04jl
No. See Mastodon gGmbH 2024 financials: https://joinmastodon.org/reports/Mastodon%20Annual%20Report%202024.pdf
No billions of euros here. They did get a rather hefty €1.5M donation from Jeff Atwood, but other than that, their revenue that year was below €1M.
(I don't believe they've published a 2025 report yet. Which they may not, now that their German non-profit status has been revoked for some reason.)

2026-04-05 00:45:06 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
Since kids prefer laptops, perhaps parents could get an old 40+ inch 1080p TV, along with a mouse and keyboard, and plug those into the laptop while the kid is at home? 🤔
That's four cables to plug in, though. Kind of annoying. Just one if you have a dock, but those cost extra, and most parents aren't rich…

2026-04-05 00:35:32 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
This would seem to suggest that parents could mitigate this problem by getting their kids a PC with a large desktop screen. Mine, for example, is 60cm from my face and is on an arm that can extend up to 80cm away.
Most kids aren't fond of big honking desktops, though. The biggest screen they usually use is a small laptop. Even the 15-inch CRT I had as a kid is big compared to that.
I'll tell you one thing, though. Kid me would have been SO JEALOUS of adult me's big 4K screen. 😜

2026-04-05 00:20:36 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
Although now that phones are a thing, even kids who aren't especially highly educated are going to have this problem…
The International Myopia Institute says the relevant risk factor here is doing near work for an extended period, where “near work” means less than 20cm from your face and “extended period” is 45 minutes. https://myopiainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023.02.12_IMI-Clinical-Myopia-Management-Guidelines_English.pdf

2026-04-05 00:14:18 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
It's not inefficient as such, but it does adapt rather badly to the modern eyeball use-case of reading books and screens. The muscle doesn't cost much energy, but it does get tired.
If you do stare at a book or screen throughout your childhood, your eyeballs may try to adapt by growing axially elongated, but that makes you nearsighted. That's why highly educated people are more likely to be nearsighted: loads and loads of reading!

2026-04-04 23:53:18 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
HTTPS has never used 4096-bit encryption. 4096 bits refers to RSA key length, which is only used to exchange AES keys. AES is then used for the rest of the HTTPS connection.
I'm vaguely under the impression that RSA could be used to encrypt the entire connection without a symmetric cipher like AES, but doing so would be brutally slow, so it's just used for AES key exchange.

2026-04-04 23:39:44 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
Both! AES-128 and AES-256 both exist.
This particular server has a CPU model from 2012. It was high-end and expensive when it was new, but it is not even remotely new. It does have hardware AES, though.

2026-04-04 23:28:12 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
So I guess nature made the correct trade-off after all. 🤷‍♂️

2026-04-04 23:26:58 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
Not in an artificial camera, no. The lenses stay where they are unless moved (by either your hand or the auto-focus motor). As long as no such force is applied to them, friction holds them in place.
Which might be a problem in biology, now that I think about it. Biological systems tend to be rather wet inside. Not much friction available. And if the focus mechanism was dry and held in place by friction, it would probably wear out and fail rather quickly.

2026-04-04 23:20:19 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
That's true. I'm watching `top` on my employer's web server, and MySQL and PHP are using some CPU time (and so are systemd and NetworkManager for some reason), but the CPU load of Apache (which does its own TLS) is so negligible it's not even showing up.

2026-04-04 23:07:06 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
Man-made cameras have just such a focus mechanism. The shape of the lenses is fixed; they're pieces of a solid, rigid material like glass.
Instead, they have *multiple* lenses, and move the lenses closer or farther apart to change focal length.
This nicely avoids the exertion problem, but this mechanism is a great deal more fragile and mechanically complicated than biological eyes. You'd probably go blind just by getting punched in the face once.

2026-04-04 23:03:17 UTC

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@nprofile…6cvp
Well, the way focus works in a biological eye is that a muscle pulls on the lens to deform it into the correct shape. To hold it in that shape, the muscle must exert continuously. Do this long enough, and you get eye strain, because that muscle gets tired just like any other muscle.
To avoid this problem, you'd need either a muscle that can somehow maintain its pressure without exertion, or a completely different focus mechanism that doesn't rely on deforming the lens.

2026-04-04 22:52:48 UTC

At first glance, the fact that the human #eye muscles must continuously exert to remain focused on a given distance seems like a pretty serious flaw.
In your typical man-made #optical system like a camera, mechanical force is needed to *change* focal length, but if no force is applied then it stays at whatever focal length it was previously at.
But this mechanism is slower and has more moving parts than the human eye, so perhaps that's why?

2026-04-04 22:42:04 UTC

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This is also a moot point because I just did download all of my packages through the Fastly mirror. If they want to know, they already do. 🤷‍♂️

2026-04-04 22:38:21 UTC

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To be fair, I'm downloading packages over plaintext anyway, so there are several big tech companies (my ISP, various backbone operators) who are already privy to the aforementioned information.
I guess I could try to find a Debian mirror that offers HTTPS, but that's kinda hard on the server's CPU, and I'd hate to burden #Debian infrastructure any more than I already do. They've been my most trusted and cherished operating system for nearly 30 years, after all. ❤️

2026-04-04 22:34:24 UTC

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http.us.debian.org, on the other hand, is a group of three servers at Oregon State University and the Wikimedia Foundation. Good wholesome non-profit organizations, but rather scarce on bandwidth.

2026-04-04 22:31:14 UTC

Wowzers.
I was just downloading some #Debian packages from http.us.debian.org, like I've always done, and I noticed it was going incredibly slowly.
Switched to deb.debian.org (which I gather is what all the cool kids these days are using) and now it's going as fast as my fiber connection can carry it.
deb.debian.org is hosted by Fastly, so that'd be why. Lots of money, lots of bandwidth.
Can't say I'm overly comfortable with a big tech company knowing which packages I install, though…

2026-04-04 22:18:44 UTC

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@nprofile…mh8c
If this is the night side of Earth, lit only by moonlight and presumably photographed in long exposure, shouldn't the city lights be much brighter than this?
Or are city lights a lot less visible from orbit than I've been led to believe? 😵‍💫

2026-04-03 22:52:11 UTC

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@nprofile…20r7
Netscape isn't a common gigantic user agent, though. Hasn't been in decades.
And let's be honest. If one day the major browser vendors got together and decided to stop this nonsense, they could. Sites would be forced to play along, because otherwise they'd be broken in every browser at once.
Also, who the hell thinks banning unknown user-agent strings is going to stop bots? The only bots that'll stop is the honest ones, and those aren't the ones overloading everybody's servers.

2026-04-03 22:34:35 UTC

Can #browsers please stop sending such ridiculous user-agent strings?
Chrome is not a 25-year-old version of Netscape, for goodness' sake.
Are there seriously still sites that break if you don't pretend to be Netscape? And even if there are, can't we just put together a database of them and only spoof the user-agent for them?
And now I see that Chrome pretends to be Safari. Even when it's running on Linux. You gotta be kidding me.
#webdev

2026-04-03 21:01:34 UTC

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My eyes don't hurt when looking at the DS, and the image is razor sharp (I can easily see the gaps between the pixels), but now I'm looking at a PC screen and it's blurry.
Maybe I should go touch grass and look at distant things for a while?

2026-04-03 21:00:01 UTC

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I want to say that gaming on a PC doesn't do this either, but that's not true. I've spent most of my day staring at PC screens for the last 30 years. I became nearsighted shortly after I began doing so, and have been nearsighted ever since.
Seems like the DS is doing the same thing to my eyes, except even worse.

2026-04-03 20:59:03 UTC

My eyesight gets significantly worse after #gaming on a Nintendo DS for a few hours.
That can't be good…
It seems temporary, in that it will go back to normal in a day or two if I don't play on the DS any more, but still, what's going on here?
Looking at my phone doesn't seem to do this, although I don't play games on it and therefore don't focus on it that hard for that long.
Perhaps I need to hold the DS further from my eyes? Kinda hard with such a small screen, though.

2026-04-02 21:03:31 UTC

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I'm more concerned with the fact that extensions *can* be detected this way. Web pages should not be able to detect the presence of extensions. If they can, that's a security vulnerability.

2026-04-01 18:46:34 UTC

Is it just me, or do all of the #StarTrekDS9 alien languages look like an absolute pain to hand-write?
Cardassian https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cardassian_language needs a pen with variable stroke width.
Bajoran https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bajoran_language consists of highly complex pictogram-like glyphs.
Ferengi https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ferengi_language requires variable stroke thickness again, and also requires you to draw flowchart-like lines.
Dominionese https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dominionese has large filled shapes.
#StarTrek

2026-03-31 20:39:52 UTC

Fool! #DoctorDoom #toots as he pleases!
#toot
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/325/710/882/675/393/original/56c5ecaecf386081.webp

2026-03-30 20:45:37 UTC

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Can we, like, make you president of everything? That'd be great.

2026-03-30 20:32:24 UTC

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Hmm. If you found out that hell is real and you're in it, then that would imply that you aren't actually alive. Therefore all hunger, pain, disability, etc is an illusion and may be simply ignored.
Also, the hellspawn are evidently so weak that they rely on mental manipulation to do their evil things…and you'd be awfully hard to manipulate now that you know their big secret.
That would give you an awful lot of power. Like, “make the Doom Slayer jealous” kind of power.

2026-03-30 20:14:15 UTC

If one day you tapped on a random wall and it opened up to reveal the corridor of a starship, and it turned out that you and your family were abducted by aliens days ago and now you get to hang out with the aliens, how would you feel about that? What would you do? What would you ask of them?
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG

2026-03-30 02:43:54 UTC

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May I have a link?

2026-03-30 00:16:43 UTC

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@nprofile…n2wj
Neat! Did you publish it anywhere?

2026-03-29 08:25:54 UTC

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Also, the constructs are powered by lightning.
Computers are magic, man.

2026-03-29 04:34:52 UTC

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@nprofile…ulnl
Why, did AOMedia offer to defend everyone who uses AV1? I'm not aware of such a promise.

2026-03-29 04:18:44 UTC

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Personally, my primary concern is that my collection of #WebP images will suddenly become inaccessible because all the image viewing/conversion/editing tools suddenly lose support for it.
I guess it's not the end of the world if that happens, but it's pretty scary to think that the data in my possession might suddenly be yanked away like that.

2026-03-29 04:13:28 UTC

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Open source developers and organizations are really easy to sue. They don't have any money with which to defend themselves.

2026-03-29 04:02:31 UTC

Now that #Dolby has launched a #patent lawsuit over #AV1, unless I'm mistaken we're about to have a repeat of the #Unisys #GIF patent situation where all #browser⁠s must remove support for widely-used image and video formats, namely AV1, #AVIF, #WebP, #WebM, #VP8, and #VP9.
This is really bad. The only other widely supported video codec is #MPEG-4 (which is also patented) and the only other widely supported lossy image format is #JPEG (which is rather inefficient).
What do we do?

2026-03-28 05:14:42 UTC

I miss #rageComics so much.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/305/086/869/940/233/original/b8697c8c33292fc2.png