FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

This is a bit of a #subtoot but I'm going to say it anyway:

If you're a new person to any project, open-source or not, doing "maintainer work" of re-organizing the code-base isn't as helpful as you think it is.

Go ahead and re-read that if you have to. Yes, every single project has a backlog of that sort of work. This file should be there. That include crosses module boundaries. Yes, it's a mess. Yes, it needs to be cleaned up. No, you're not the person to do it.

What this says to me is if anyone anywhere is still using Twitter as a commercial promotion / news feed, they *should not do so*, because Twitter will be not only withholding your new posts from logged-out visitors, they will be doing so in a "silent"/misleading way. A user who gets one of your tweets and follows it to your profile, rather than seeing news, will see a random post you didn't select, *and will not realize anything is missing*. They may then assume you have no more recent news.

Something I didn't discuss above, but is interesting:

I mentioned Twitter-logged-out users can't view links to profiles. What I didn't mention is you can still *access* profiles— — *sort of*.

Imagine someone links you a tweet, and you click the there-linked profile logged out. If you access the profile in this way, following a link from *within* Twitter, it *will* show you the profile

*Inaccurately*.

The tweets will be shown out of order (popular first?), and pinned tweets will not be shown.

i think we should start calling AI what it is: "Corporate Piracy".

para$$$ites have paid data hoarders to scrape whole websites, digital libraries and archives filled to the brim with copyrighted work; so they can repackage all that knowledge as if it were the serendipitous labor of sentient ghostly robots.

it's bullshit.

if unpaid sampling is copyright infringement; then scraping our social media and blogs, and passing it as their own knowledge, has to be as well.

bitch better have my money

This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.

If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.

Reddit users figured out that some bot crawlers scrape popular threads and auto-generate AI articles based on user comments, so they decided to create some fake hype to confuse them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/154umm2/im_so_excited_they_finally_introduced_glorbo/

It worked.

https://archive.li/2023.07.20-203104/https://www.zleague.gg/theportal/world-of-warcraft-wow-players-excited-for-glorbos-introduction/

This is why real journalism matters.

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/

#introductions We cobbled together a free-to-use dialup ISP out of trash and spare parts. dialup.world is composed of four modems for simultaneous connections delivering speeds up to 33.6K.

This is currently a bunch of USR Sportsters hooked into Linux, but we are currently working on setups with Cisco gear, as well as some musings in 56K, other weird dialup appliances, and retro networking.

We also supply dialup access to the WebTV Redialed project (http://webtv.zone/) which means if you dig your WebTV out of storage and hook it into a phone line, it *just works* with no modification needed on your part!

I invite you to watch our bad ideas become reality.

#modems #dialup #retronetworking #webtv

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