@hikari@social.noyu.me I still miss when YouTube allowed people to submit translated subtitles for videos. That was such a great feature.

two replies i got that i want to highlight:

• someone wished social media could crowdsource alt text, and i love this idea. i'd rather have a diverse set of interpretations than make it an all-or-nothing obligation on the original poster
• a tiny summary is better than nothing

I drew this 12 months ago, as LLM code assistants were just becoming available.

Has it held up?

#auspol #furry

Sometimes I wished we had more weird stories of people unfamilar with internet culture unknowingly create furbait

PSA for Android users: Uninstall Simple Mobile Tools apps!

The developer of Simple Mobile Tools, an Android app suite which has been historically well respected in the FOSS space, has sold their apps to a company called ZipoApps, a company that buys apps from independent developers to add advertisements and trackers to them. I highly suggest uninstalling any of the Simple Mobile Tools apps you have on your device and looking for alternatives.

Sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/187w64x/simple_mobile_tools_bought_by_zipoapps/

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGr4H7QLVRs

repost to add alt text

@neauoire another thing that's part of this “myth”, i guess, is that the website i put up, https://hikari.noyu.me/, has this flying stars effect i'm really proud of, using WebGL. it's sort of a way to show off my graphics programming skills, but in truth, it was actually the first time i'd successfully written anything non-trivial in OpenGL — the skill i was demonstrating was one i had only acquired by the process of demonstrating it. and it ended up being useful in my career!

‪a twitter bio is a lie you tell yourself about who you want to be, that with some effort, might eventually be a truth‬

personal change is a funny thing. it would be easy for me to say i haven't changed at all in half a decade, but it's not true. when i came up with the current version of my personal myth like six years ago, i don't think i actually believed it, but now, maybe i do…

We considered ourselves to be a powerful restaurant.

seize the day? no, seize the NIGHT! the darkness is no hinder, you'll shine so bright

become the star that guides someone through the night

Seven swans to rule them all
Six geese to find them
Five gold rings to bring them all
And in the pear tree bind them

With the recent Substack news I think it’s time to watch that segment of @bcantrill’s “ethical dilemmas” talk again: https://youtu.be/0wtvQZijPzg?feature=shared&t=1795

Okay, now I'm a bit sad that I won't be at #37C3, and it's because of this talk:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/smtp_smuggling_spoofing_e-mails_worldwide/

Presenter #TimoLongin found an exploit in SMTP, notified commercial vendors GMX, Microsoft & Cisco in July, then published a blog post in the week before Christmas that describes how the attack works. Free software maintainers and admins were not warned in advance and had to rush to build workarounds.

Would've loved to talk to him about his idea of "responsible disclosure".

#SMTPSmuggling

Rich people are Like That.

#Capitalism #TaxTheRich