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Frank Skornia

So someone made this post on Mastodon:
infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116

And that led another person to make this site: boat.horse/clock/index.html

This feels like some real old school internet stuff. For the younger folks out there, this is the kind of stuff that would pop up all the time on the internet in the late 90s and early 00s. No reason for it beyond it being cool and beautiful.

While the animated clock in the link sort of hurts my head, it still is beautiful.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Want something for sharing anything and everything where even Mastodon isn't decentralized enough?

Make a Web 1.0 website. All you need is a text editor, paint editor, file manager, FTP uploader, and old school website host. You already have the first 3.

Want federation for your Web 1.0 website, too? Adopt button badges for your favorite websites & join some webrings.

Yes, Wordpress-free website hosts & webrings both still exist.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I heard everything Bluesky-adjacent went down at the same time Jack Dorsey's "I rebuilt Twitter but better, I promise" service went down. Yet I heard from Bluesky itself that it's federated.

That's like my federated instance being dragged offline by an outage on John Mastodon's OG instance.

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Weasel

hey, unlike bluesky, my website functions, because I wrote it by hand with no "vibes" involved, and it does exactly one thing (displays information and unwarranted opinions)

netizen.club/~wildweasel/

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Taggart :ifin:

@campuscodi FYI, this thing is almost certainly slop. Also see the nonexistent OAuth8 (??) and other proposed specs, none of which exist.

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Luddicus Mus

A hard ban on LLM/"AI" use in a FLOSS project is the moderate stance. I am not a moderate person.

Giving space to these machines is throwing the millions of people whose work they stole, the millions of people who suffer under their crawlers' assault under the bus.

We do not throw each other under the bus in a civil society. I hope you understand this to be the bare minimum.

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Spottyfox斑狐狸

I do not consent to my likeness being used to create an AI homunculus after my death

I do consent to my voice being used to create an UTAUloid and performing duets with Hatsune Miku

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

IPv8: too many cylinders and not firing on all cylinders.

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Soatok Dreamseeker

lol no ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thai

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RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:

The whole 'Take Back Tech' crap can be summarized thusly:

"We need to take email back from Google!"

Great. This is correct. So what is your plan to deal with spam, distribute your SMTP, and provide IMAP for clients? How are you going to educate people about how email actually works and help them build their own or build out alternatives?

"What?! No! We meant everyone should pay this other company for email!"

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Dio9sys

we need less anthropic models and more anthropomorphic modeling

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

:neocat_flop:

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Shannon Prickett

No one can make you feel inferior w/o the written express consent of Major League Baseball.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

re: usgov, taxes, legal/uspol 

Also, the tax prep site didn't show me terms & conditions until AFTER paying, & gave me no path to a refund without a forced agreement. Pretty sure that's de-jure illegal, but de-facto clowns with guns run the circus.

So do I accept forced binding arbitration, or do I opt out in favor of forced jury-less trials in the jurisdiction of Dallas County & North Texas?

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re: usgov, taxes 

Holy slop, all the AI fuck integration is too much!

And this marks the first time I've had to fight off *all* the "modern website" pop-ups throughout the whole filing process. Who the hell wants to subscribe to a newsletter in the middle of entering tax return data, especially after saying no on login? Why would you want to cover up one unwanted pop-up with a *second* unwanted pop-up just two seconds later?

Next year, I'm sending paper forms USPS.

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Ramses Revengeday ​:cv_purple: :revengeday:

I was bored, so I did this. Do with it what you want :D

🎨 revenge.day/art/burn-down-ai-d (High Res)

#XBIN #FuckAI

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phooky

Mastodon in a nutshell

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🌸 lumi-nhac :catbite: :no_ai: :antifa: 🌱

genai, humorous 

many free software projects are banning contributions that were made partially or fully by generative models

the genie is out of the bottle, and we can't get it back in. genai bans are here to stay and will eventually take over the whole industry

don't get left behind! ban genai on your project as well!

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Amber :neodog_box:

it's always bad gateway and never

aww who's a good gateway yes you are! you're a good gateway hands you packets to munch on

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usgov, taxes 

Today is tax day in the US, the deadline for individuals to:

1. take numbers the gov gave us,
2. perform arithmetic the gov already performed,
3. give the gov other numbers it already knows,
4. pray our arithmetic matched its, and
5. pray it made our employers withhold too much money from our paychecks so the gov owes us the refund it knows it does.

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