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When someone questions the role of linking or dismisses it as spammy behaviour, they are often viewing it through the #closedweb lens, where linking outside the walled garden is discouraged or penalized. The #openweb, however, relies on this practice to thrive. So, before sounding off with uninformed critiques, remember: linking on the #openweb is fundamentally different from linking on the #closedweb.

#Openweb: This refers to the original, decentralized ethos of the internet, built on openness, freedom, and people's autonomy. Linking enhances knowledge sharing, amplifies lesser-known voices, and enables people to explore varied content freely.

#Closedweb: This describes platforms dominated by algorithms, corporate interests, and paywalls. On #dotcons, linking is often spam and is penalized or buried, precisely because it can disrupt the curated control these platforms wield over what people see.

I'm not usually a fan of meme translations, but I think it wouldn't be inappropriate to translate the scene where Kodachi meets Ranma and instantly falls for him with "oh no, he's hot!"

Remember also that part of the adversary here is foreign governments, not actual candidates. Their goal is not necessarily to pick the winner, but rather to weaken the legitimacy of the US government's ability to function. Disinformation about election integrity is a central weapon in their arsenal for achieving this.

The concern here is that old search engines can give you links and you can go into them to verify the content. AI taking over our search engines hides the sources of information, forcing us to blindly trust the AI and wherever it got its information from.

#AI

Instead of "bus number", we should talk about "VC number", like what's the likelihood of somebody rolling up with a dumptruck full of cash and turning the project into a promotion maximizer?

I don't want to convert my entire project to EMCAScript Modules and build it with a Bundler. It doesn't work that way and really doesn't need to work there way.

Confused about the WordPress drama? This corporate governance diagram should clear things up!

bad idea: telling people I'm a Pyþon programmer

The UTF-8 encoded BOM is an offense to engineering.

https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/113290842836069180

Oh hey TIL why the UTF-8 byte order mark is the seemingly random byte sequence <EF BB BF>. It's simply because that's the UTF-8 encoding of U+FEFF, the code point that's also used as the byte order mark in UTF-16 and UTF-32.

UTF-8 has no issues with byte ordering, so the UTF-8 BOM is an oddity that shouldn't be emitted. But it exists and is specified because it's what happens if you take a BOM-ful UTF-16/32 sequence and naively transpose it to UTF-8, the leading U+FEFF BOM becomes <EF BB BF>.

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
https://jwz.org/b/ykaO

I got offered a 300k/year rust job but they said they'd only hire me if I promised never to use cargo-mommy.

So needless to say, I'm still looking for a job.

(for mastodon reasons I must make it clear that this is a joke)

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.

All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.

#crowdstrike

can we not do the "weird" thing -_- there's nothing inherently wrong with being "weird", and lots of people who have been bullied or marginalized or oppressed are labelled "weird" in society and a lot of threat modelling is around "weird" people which tends to single out like people with mental illnesses, people of colour, disabled people, queer people, etc...

this isn't just an abstract "don't use problematic stuff" thing, leaning into the idea that "weirdos" are a threat and to be shamed is leaning into stuff that's already actively weaponized against lots of innocent people just living their lives, and no, this is not going to change the focus from them, it'll just reinforce the idea that "weird" is bad

also it's sad that "weird" resonates w/ people more than "fascist" :\

PSA: if you're in infosec red teaming an evil maid attack and you are not wearing a maid outfit while doing so, you may not be in full compliance with security standards and best practices

do remember that some industry regulators additionally require testing with cat ears for full certification. some organisations opt to further demonstrate protection against against the ‘moe moe kyun~’ blessing of a machine to auditors, but this is not currently mandatory under any scheme