SF Giants
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same as it ever was — this is not to criticize the article, as it's entertaining, but anyone with a history in san francisco remembers the seagull mafia at the 'stick as well. it seems to have taken them a little while to figure out the move, but theyyy're heeere.
what i haven't seen return are the hot dog wrapper twisters, where a section's worth of paper and foil would assemble into an impromptu tornado in the outfield come the 8th inning.
if giants brass really wanted to be rid of the scavengers, they'd need to change how we package and how easy it is to dispose of it properly. we don't have a culture of everyone bringing their cups and wrappers upstairs, and if everyone decided to do that one day, there's nowhere near enough waste receptacle space.
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we've normalised the idea that we own celebrities, that they owe us continuous intrusion into their private lives as a condition of fame. there's always a line, a fuzzy one, currently drawn somewhere near paparazzi (they're evil vs they're a necessary evil, how else would we get our pics).
society is built on these lines separating the acceptable from the unacceptable. they change, more quickly than we remember. we don't smoke in restaurants. we do wear seat belts. but the people who fought those battles, not that long ago, were pariahs.
ellen degeneres (before she became 😡 ellen 😡 for different reasons) was blackballed for coming out. chappell roan is kissing women in her videos. if she wants to try to move the privacy line, and risk being a pariah for it, good for her. she's either proven right or wrong over time. she'll either pay or she won't. but she's using her capital for something that's important to her, and that she sees as important to her industry. everyone's entitled to try.
OpenStreetMap community
What is the best way to mark an inactive bus stop?
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i'm no expert — consensus sounds like putting disused only on the main tag, and when i've encountered this, i haven't marked anything disused at all. i've only looked at the stop/platform to make sure they weren't in any relation (transit line relations may include the passing way but shouldn't include the disused stop/platform). and i make sure route_ref isn't set on the stop/platform. were the stop to be used again, i figure it would have the same ref/stop id and operator, so i don't remove them. listening for better ideas though
I've tried Magic Earth a handful of times, but each time I dumped it because it marked a street as closed or wrong-way, creating a circuitous detour. There's no such issue in OSM; it simply hallucinated something. I was testing it so I knew where I was going, but I'm reluctant to rely on it when I really need nav. Have I been supremely unlucky?
XMPP
Modern XMPP is an independent project launched to improve the quality of user-to-user messaging applications that use XMPP.
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I'm torn, because on the one hand, yes! — the hour I spent figuring out which PGP XEP was the right one is an hour I won't get back. But, "only the XEPs you need to implement for a modern messaging application, ignoring historical cruft and excessive backwards-compatibility" sounds so much like the beginning of an extend-and-extinguish cycle.
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thank you… more of a thought experiment now than a true need, but it seems like if it became a need, i'd be better off building a matrix account. i suspected this but had hoped for more :/
My primary home is in XMPP for Reasons, but it would occasionally be useful to DM someone in Matrix. I know there are bridges, through aria-net if I remember correctly, and I know encryption is impossible through a bridge. Aside from encryption, is connection seamless or is it glitchy, and if the latter, are we talking occasional nuisance or Cone of Silence?
Sopranica
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since you have another jabber id, just pop into xmpp channel discuss@conference.soprani.ca
Amateur Radio
(CW: misogyny, mention of murder) I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the culture of this hobby
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got my tech within the last year, was stunned at how not old-white-guy the class was. all age groups, balanced genders, mixed races. many seemed there for neighborhood emergency teams. the airwaves are dead most of the time i've turned the rig on, except during the net hour. i feared exactly what you've heard but thankfully haven't run into it. yet.
i sent out a plea for spanish pop music and this came back. it's exactly what i wanted
I have Dino 0.4 on Ubuntu. Whenever I upgrade anything in flatpak, it tells me that Dino is using a GNOME 44 runtime and that it’s out of support. Is Dino under active development, and I should just hold tight? Or should I be looking for a different XMPP client?
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i had drifted away from sabrina over the years but she just cut me off and slid back into my lane
i am the only person you know who's seen her live. any 'you' 😛
youtu.be
Taylor Swift
All collector's edition CDs are back in stock
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5 months ago
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aye, sailors, i see. are the bonus tracks purchasable loose, or do they try to make you buy the whole album?
whole lotta history 4k remaster just came out. i don't know how soon i'll be able to watch it again, since it ends with sarah walking wistfully along the seine. i hope the girls are able to remember her somehow on the tour.
Amateur Radio
Foundations of Amateur Radio: The skyhook dilemma ...
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6 months ago
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it seems to me that flying drones into trees would be a massively expensive hobby
Taylor Swift
Watch Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) | Disney+
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6 months ago
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wth 'taylor's version'? like there was an o.g. eras tour that made money for scooter?
youtu.be
je suis d'une génération désenchantée…
Carly Rae Jepsen
Revival Post - Carly Rae Jepsen, Alanis Morissette & Black Pumas to Headline Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago
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The last show of hers that I saw was on the Dedicated tour in 2018. She played in San Francisco during Pride Week and worked it perfectly. My +1 was out of town and that was likely for the best. It ended up being the gayest show I've seen, and I've seen Kylie six times.
Amateur Radio
Global net?
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2m fm, 146.820 (in new orleans)
I'm away from home and stumbled onto some kind of global net controlled today by a Scottish guy. It was probably 4pm Chicago time, so 2200 UTC. What is that, how is there a global net? I think they said something about EchoLink but I'm new and really only recognize the name but not how it works.
flathub.org
Organic Maps is available on Linux! It's on flatpak and several package repos (but not apt). I don't know how long it's been there — I just discovered it. The splash screen cautions that this Linux beta doesn't have parity with the mobile apps yet, but it's still a huge leap over Gnome Maps. Vector rendering, so you can zoom in as far as you want, and free / open source / not shitty (notwithstanding the big scary EULA, which just contains all the OSS licenses for all the pieces).
OpenStreetMap community
Why do maps that use OSM as a backend have more detail that OSM?
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OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can't zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.
I've read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that's a battle that's been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.
Amateur Radio
Introducing Onno VK6FLAB
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Welcome! I'm a new amateur in the States. Like you, I peek in here and find that at the moment, it doesn't take long. The frog boil has worked quite well in Reddit; the frogs are staying in their pots even as enshittification becomes obvious (pro tip, it's spelled IPO). Unlike you, I'm new enough that I have nothing worthwhile to contribute yet.
As for Mastodon, I'm on an instance with a 5k character limit. Some instances run modified versions known as glitch or hometown, which allow the admin to set a limit (well) above 500. I didn't find a handy list of these easily, but a little searching in google or r/Mastodon may turn up ideas.
Washington, DC
DCist is no more
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i hadn't realized that the ist's were separate
last seen at https://aus.social/@stufromoz/111957688144936077
"Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium" screenshotted by @ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social, which is quite a clever handle https://aus.social/@ThermiteBeGiants/111956562036638352
stolen from @MikeElgan@mastodon.social, who asked: who made this? https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/111875668342669529
Amateur Radio
Rubber ducky, you're the one
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It's a very heavy building - multiple stories in earthquake country, and I'm not on the top floor. Everything dies when I leave the nook with the windows. NOAA works literally only on the windowsill, TRACON almost never clears the noise floor once I'm not near the window, and I hear some smaller UHF repeaters away from the window but haven't yet heard the 2m (it's not super high traffic, so can't say I haven't just been unlucky).
We're allowed on the roof and I've been up there, everything's peachy. When I'm at the office downtown, I'm on a high floor, so I can pick up the 2m easily even though I'm on the other side of the building.
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department - APRIL 19
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NO. HOW MANY OF HER ARE THERE TO BE DOING ALL THIS?!
I have a license whose ink is still wet and a shiny Yaesu HT with that new ham smell. I can see my 2m repeater from my window - maybe a couple of miles away - but I have to be in that window to hear anything. I assume actually mashing PTT and saying anything will just sound like static. That window is attached to an HOA-governed apartment, so outdoor antenna no va. What I've read so far is that my rubber duck might not be terrible by rubber duck standards, but that an N9TAX Slim Jim might be a good deal better, even inside the window. But that's 2m. I also like to listen to aircraft, just below 2m. Will an antenna tuned for 2m make it easier or harder to hear TRACON?
As a Truly Casual Taylor Fan Honest™, I've been amused at just how many news categories she's dominating by not even quite being there. Every macho man in the U.S. is wound up about her either for politics (or rather, the fear that she'll say something about politics) or for football (or rather, the idea that she'll be a distraction from Real Football). I wish I could find some way to twist all this attention and use it for good evil. I will spare you all the Macho Man GIF, which you know I was thinking about.
Washington, DC
DC implements $100 fines for using bus-only lanes
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they're trying to save time, so i had always wished for something that would waste their time. like a bollard that popped up and stayed up until the next bus came. money matters, but it does indeed matter differently by how much you have. these are misbehaving dogs. the corrective is best served up right at the point of infraction, and by taking away the advantage they were trying to get
Environnement
Santé : l’eau en bouteille déborde de centaines de milliers de nanoplastiques par litre
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8 months ago
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« barbie girl » du groupe aqua. je mets pas de lien, on me tuerait
OpenStreetMap community
Why can't OSM zoom in farther?
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The main URL points to this:
www.openstreetmap.org
In the web UI, OSM can't be zoomed in far enough to see the names of POIs in reasonably dense areas. I can get around this by going into edit mode, and mobile apps don't have this restriction. But the out-of-the-box experience, for non-insiders just using the web site, doesn't reveal all that OSM has to offer. Does anyone know what the rationale for this is?
Scrobble - Last.fm, ListenBrainz etc.
Strawberry's surprisingly strong integration with ListenBrainz
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MusicBrainz' Picard app could start that, in a huge batch. But it would still require a bunch of eyeballing. I only do an album at a time, now and then.
[Strawberry Music Player](https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/) provides ListenBrainz with a lot more metadata than any other player or scrobbler I've found. I had a track that ListenBrainz consistently attributed to the wrong album, but on a lark, I put the folder into Picard and had it tag the files. Since then, listens submitted by Strawberry have the correct album cover art, but those from Pano Scrobbler still have the wrong one. Looking at Strawberry's source code, it's picking up release and artist MBIDs that it finds on your music files and including them as part of the submission. This cleans up a ton of weirdness that one could see in ListenBrainz but not last.fm (which I scrobble in parallel), such as plays for live and greatest-hits albums being attributed to whatever studio album they came from — something that didn't happen all the time, but frequently enough to be maddening. last.fm has its own quirks, above all considering Unicode ‘smart quote marks’ and ASCII 'dumb quote marks' to be different things. Which they technically are, but last.fm's automatic tag correction fixes many other minor things like periods and spacing, while never matching up different quote marks.
DeGoogle Yourself
Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps? · Issue #241 · SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion
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it's perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.
github.com
with the simple tools suite being sold to a purveyor of non-foss things, remind me of your favorite lists of recommended apps? i was using simple contacts and am not immediately sure of a good replacement. i would want one without internet permissions, which was why i disabled the google builtin.
Privacy
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i rather doubt a government would push people out of signal-protocol apps and into Some Other App if they didn't already have a backdoor into the designated substitute
(i own this in digital format, we are not the same)
I had reimaged my old Samsung on LineageOS as it seemed to be the only alternative that supported my model. It was fine until I installed OSMAnd, which couldn't get a location. Shame on me for not noticing that I would need microG for that. Not feeling comfortable with all the rooting and flashing needed to shoehorn microG into an existing image, I figured I'd try LineageOS for microG. Having loaded a lot onto this phone already, I wanted to try a dirty flash first, knowing full well it might not work. The first prerequisite is to use an image of LOS/µG that is dated higher than the image in the phone. I had just updated, so I needed to wait for the next one. The docs say that LineageOS for microG will be updated "a couple of times a month". But the latest LOS/µG image has remained at 11/2/23. This means I haven't had an opportunity to try the dirty flash, but it's also a security warning sign for me—LOS updates weekly like clockwork. Irregular and slower-than-promised updates make me a bit nervous for this aspect of device safety. It's not just my model either; most of the images are backdated more than two weeks. [https://download.lineage.microg.org/](https://download.lineage.microg.org/) (Yes, I know my boot loader is unlocked, and no, Calyx and Graphene don't support me, so I made my choice between physical insecurity and Google insecurity.)
PopHeads
“It’s Gonna Be The Nostalgia Of Your Life”: Girls Aloud Tells Vogue Why The Time Is Right For A Reunion Tour
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no idea. impossible to rule out. there's no good answer to 'why' that i've seen
www.vogue.co.uk
Ten years after the Ten tour that became a farewell, the girls are planning a tour but not new music — because the studio would feel too weird without Sarah Harding, who has been claimed by cancer.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Firefox update?
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strangest thing. i updated firefox and now i have no notifications. only a limited number of sites have notification perms; they still say they have that permission and my system settings still have firefox allowed. i have another machine running ubuntu (with firefox from the PPA for apt) and notifications are unchanged there.
Open Source
Mollysocket
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Prerequisites
- Internet-facing web server with reverse proxy and domain name (preferably SSL of course)
- Server behind the reverse proxy with Rust environment
Installation
- Don't bother downloading the source code to your server; installing it that way gives you a big debug executable
- Instead just
cargo install mollysocket - Move the
mollysocketexecutable if desired - Run
mollysocketonce so that it will emit the default config
Configuration
- Fish the config file out of
.config/mollysocket/default-config.tomland copy it somewhere.
config.toml
- In the new file, replace the
allowed_endpointsline withallowed_endpoints = ['*']. The default 0.0.0.0 config appears to be a bug; this setting controls access to endpoints within the app, not IPs from outside. Leaving the original value causes mollysocket to reject everything. - Put a proper path in the
db = './mollysocket.db'line rather than just having it land wherever you're sitting. - Delete the
mollysocket.dbthat was created on first run (even if it's already where you're intending to put it). This is just to make sure the web server creates it and has the correct permissions.
Run script
- The environment variable ROCKET_PORT must be set or the server will sit and do nothing. It's best to create all of the environment variables mentioned in the README, whether that is in a user profile script or in a shell script that wraps startup. You can change any of these values, but they must exist.
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export ROCKET_PORT=8020 export RUST_LOG=info export MOLLY_CONF=/path/to/your/config.toml
Proxy server
- You'll need to proxy everything from
/to your mollysocket server and ROCKET_PORT. - Exclude anything that you may need served from your web server, such as .well-known.
Things to know
- I get this warning on startup: "Forced shutdown is disabled. Runtime settings may be suboptimal."
- I also can't stop my server with any sane signal; only SIGKILL brings it down.
- Some discussion here: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/discussions/1880
Open Source
Mollysocket
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Open Source
Mollysocket
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you probably already found this, but for others who might be curious:
Open Source
Mollysocket
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in the settings if you change notification method from websocket to unified push, the UP settings come up, including a server address (which is what they intend to be used) or some air gap mode that i can't find documented
The Molly fork of Signal now has a variant that supports UnifiedPush, but it requires a helper called Mollysocket to be installed on a server somewhere. I can't get my head around the (we'll call them 'lean') docs, and I've never encountered such a helper for other UP apps. They just ask what to attach to, and they attach. Has anyone fought through this?
Scrobble - Last.fm, ListenBrainz etc.
iOS scrobbler recs
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thank you. sounds like i get the official working, or nothing at all.
DeGoogle Yourself
Calendar / event / sync / invites
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if your threat model were 'encrypt everything at rest', invitations to people outside your own service would be tricky as they have to be machine-readable text in a specific format. i'm sure it's possible but you'd have to be specific in looking for that as a feature.
my needs are more modest - don't store email in GAFAM or particular regimes - and i use runbox, which is bog-standard except for being stored somewhere else, being paid, and having slightly more homely webapps. using 'evolution' on linux, a bog-standard email program that's also a bit more homely than alternatives, invitations go out to whomever i choose and look normal. i make recurring events for myself all the time and remove individual occurrences. i've added on ical subscriptions for things like country holidays, which are the first thing you'll notice missing when you leave outlook.
the mail's just imap and the calendar's just caldav. when you get into providers that don't provide imap or caldav for (valid) security reasons, that's when you're more likely to get integration issues with regular people.
Asklemmy
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i'm shopping for mp3 players for precisely this reason - a friend has an ipod touch that abruptly stopped scrobbling. the last.fm app is stuck in a loop sucking battery. and she needs bluetooth anyway. she has always kept music and phone separate but now we have to ask the five whys on that before getting her a new unfamiliar gadget.
github.com
i hadn't fired up my python project in an age, probably two vscodium updates. when i did, i had no more syntax checking and the alert window showed errors reaching the 'jedi' server. [downgrading the vscode-python extension to 2023.16.0](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/22176#issuecomment-1754688996) was seen as the surefire way to clear this. it worked for me, too - got my syntax error highlighting back and no pesky errors in the alert pane. they created a [new issue](https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions/issues/714) against the extension, or the packaging system, or something, which was closed immediately though the problem still persisted. the chatter was about a cache, somewhere, with a lot of 'perhaps' and 'if'. one day i'll try bumping this back up, maybe after vscode-python passes the problematic 2023.18.0 version.
My friend's Last.FM app has died on iOS. While we try to get it working, would anyone like to recommend a favorite third-party app?
Taylor Swift
1989 (Taylor's Version) is out now!
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i am confused. the online store says '1 of 4 versions' in the description of the vinyl, but only shows blue. target show only tangerine and it's a lot more expensive. what are the four editions that the online store alludes to - other colors that are sold out? why is target $8 more?
songwhip.com
every so often someone posts a link and someone else asks, where can i get a link that's on a different service? [songwhip](https://songwhip.com/) is an aggregator that provides a page with links to multiple services. obviously if you want to post the exact video or the exact remix, a direct link is what you need. but it's quite useful for 'joe bob says check it out' scenarios.
News
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part of humans learning to drive safely is knowing that flouting traffic laws increases your chance of being stopped, fined, or if you're not the right demographic, worse things. we calibrate our behavior to maximize speed and minimize cops, and to avoid being at-fault in an accident, which is a major hit to insurance rates.
autonomous vehicles can't be cited for moving violations. they're learning to maximize speed without the governor of traffic laws. in the absence of speed and citation data, it's hard to measure how safe they are. there is no systemic incentive for them to care about safety, except for bad press.
Selfhosted
Transitioning from GnuCash
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again not foss so won't dwell at length — but i use fund manager from beiley software. commercial, but works double-entry and handles more investment complexity than a human could ever need. windows app, i run it under wine on linux and crossover on mac. (i don't own a windows box — that's how irreplaceable it was for me.)
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summary (not sure why it didn't get included here): jmp.chat pilots another way to detect unauthorized certificates
We’ve been hard at work on a different tool that can also help with defense-in-depth for this kind of situation. Ultimately, a MITM will use a different public key from the one the server uses, even if it is wrapped in a signed certificate declared as valid by a trustworthy authority (like Let’s Encrypt). If we know what key is seen when trying to connect, and we know what key the server administrator expects us to see, we can detect an ongoing MITM of this variety even when the certificate presented is valid. The tool we have developed is in early testing now. We call it CertWatch.
The premise is simple. The server administrator knows exactly what public/private keypair they are using (or can easily find out) and publishes this in DNSSEC-signed DNS records for our tool to find. The tool then periodically polls the XMPP server over Tor to see what certificate is presented. If the key in the certificate matches the key in the DNS zone, we know the session is not MITM’d (some caveats below). CertWatch checks the current setup of any domain entered, and if not yet declaring any keys, it displays setup instructions. It will either tell you to enable DNSSEC or it will tell you which DNS records to add. Note that these records are additive, so it is safe to add multiple sets when serving multiple domains from one host through SRV records. Once everything looks good, running a domain through CertWatch will display a success message and instructions for getting notified of any issues. It will then poll the domain periodically, and if any key mismatches are found, those subscribing to notifications will receive an alert.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Safe to take firmware?
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asus pn51, a mini nuc-like box
A few updates ago Pop started nagging me to accept firmware updates. My layman's reading of the release notes is that it's a Microsoft package that can block boot based on an ever-increasing number of packages they don't like. Is it safe to take an update like this? Unlike a kernel change, I don't know how to recover if this goes wrong.
Selfhosted
Hetzner server hosting potentially running MITM proxies on hosted servers
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so per wikipedia and confirmed at MDN, firefox is the only major browser line not to consider certificate transparency at all. and yet it's the only one that has given me occasional maddening SSL errors that have blocked site access (not always little sites, it's happened with amazon).
i don't understand how firefox can be simultaneously the least picky about certificates and the most likely to spuriously decide they're invalid.
*ooooh, give you up* h/t @cmconseils@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/111284052730734939
Chromium derivatives like Vivaldi and Brave decried the Google Web Environment Integrity… um, 'feature', at varying volumes, back in the summer when it became widely known. But can any Chromium-based browser actually avoid implementing this? Have there been more recent statements?
Open Source
Firefox telemetry unstoppable in PPA?
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well i feel stupid now for not doing the obvious. but…
Blocked Page
Your organization has blocked access to this page or website.
on the PPA box, this is what it showed me (meanwhile it was attempting to connect to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org). another symptom of displaying respect for enterprise policies but in fact ignoring them. (as i had mentioned, on this box all of the settings look locked down as they should be, but it's still attempting to send telemetry.)
Since the integrity environment gunk, I've switched all boxes over to use Firefox as primary. This took a lot of configuring, as Firefox out of the box brings… a lot of stuff I don't want. One of those things is telemetry — whatever that means to Mozilla — that was tamed only with a combination of an enterprise profile (hi sudo!) and user.js hacks. However, the policy and user.js changes don't work on the Ubuntu box, where I've installed Firefox from the PPA to get it out from under Snap (and thereby usable with a password manager). The policy locks down and disables the right configs and the configs all have the right settings, but it keeps pinging incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org. Two Macs and a Pop!_OS box don't ping Mozilla at all with these settings. No harm no foul, I just blocked them in NextDNS and laugh in their general direction. I just wonder what else is different in the PPA.
www.mozilla.org
Every few Firefox releases there's one where they helpfully throw new junk in your face or mess with your settings. Firefox 118 is both. Mozilla has added a translation engine that they say is client-side, based on an engine called Bergamot that they created. They removed all languages other than the one I'm writing in from my settings, even though I read (poorly, and for sport) in other languages. And then they put a pop-up over every page that's not in English - including some I've deliberately switched to other languages - offering to translate it. Getting rid of this requires an about:config hack that I saw only on The Site We've Chosen Not to Use. So here's the incantation: `browser.translations.automaticallyPopup false` and if you're really angry `browser.translations.enable false` And put back any languages it removed from your site preferences. Honestly, if I didn't know these people weren't Google, I'd be really suspicious. But with Chrome's stellar Ad Privacy, I have to put up with Mozilla's crap, as the clock has to be ticking even for the 'good guy' Chromium derivatives.
www.openstreetmap.org
on a block of downtown san francisco, there are two block-long lines labelled 'address interpolation'. there aren't many nodes along this block, but the ones that exist mostly have explicit addresses assigned. these were created 14 years ago (potlatch 0.10f). what do they do, are they valuable to renderers or to the map itself?
just saw katy's vegas residency. i was expecting decent, with a back-of-mind fear of cringe, but it was really an amazing show. she said she's been battling a cold and one could hear that, but the staging and production values were top-notch. a couple of sections meant to provide her a breather were a little too long and not that engaging. her voice (barring the cold), her dance moves, and that face of a silent film star added up to a great show, a good deal better than i had expected and light years away from what i had feared as worst case.
fortune.com
… Swift’s team worked around the major studios—represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, in the ongoing labor negotiations—altogether when it came to producing and releasing Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. The film was self-funded, with Swift reportedly spending $10 to $20 million to produce it and her parents working directly with AMC Theaters on distribution. … Though Swift’s film may not do Barbie numbers, she is set to break even more records when it opens next month. Already, it’s on track to make up to $100 million in its first weekend—and could open as high as $145 million, according to BoxOffice.com. That’s unprecedented for a concert film, and would put it in the top five theatrical openings this year.
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time out's article on sugababes, their one-night-only reunion concert and new single 'when the rain comes', and reclaiming their music and their name in modern times. it's an uplifting mix of nostalgia and hope for all of us who remember them fondly.
i was cruising the music site looking for backfill songs i might buy, and was rudely reminded of the state of music criticism in the 80s (to be fair, this was from a zine, but was put in front of me by qobuz, so it had some staying power). this hatchet job on the blink-and-you-missed-it "don't you (forget about me)" by some scottish dudes called simple minds, for the soundtrack of a very niche and forgotten film, reminds me of everything i escaped. it's probably from "the big takeover" issue #17 from 1984. i closed the tab. no sale. > For six years this was a creative and interesting Scottish band that used synths in artistic ways to go with Jim Kerr's Roxy Music-like yearning, poetic vocals to forge lovely, danceable, moody soundscapes full of promise, enchantment, and sinewy shadows. So now they get to do a hit song for a bad movie, and they suddenly turn into every cliché you've ever heard, complete with Kerr doing what he said only last year he never would: singing the word "baby" in a pop song (repeatedly at that!). They didn't write this song, but it's their name on it and they recorded it, and sure enough this awful garbage is heard everywhere after no one in the U.S. ever played one of the band's great songs outside of nightclubs. Sorry Jim, this is obviously the most forgettable thing you've done so far. Hopefully the next LP will make this look as asinine as it is, a bad one-off, but experience tells us that once you open Pandora's box, you can't close it again, especially if it yields sales instead of ridicule. > > © Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover /TiVo n.b. all good pop songs have "baby" in them. repeatedly. sorry, jack
www.businessinsider.com
[ingrid burrington](https://everything.happens.horse/@ingrid), an author i follow, lifted this scooter quote from the linked business insider article, [the many faces of scooter braun](https://www.businessinsider.com/scooter-braun-profile-manager-bieber-ariana-grande-kanye-taylor-swift-2022-2?utm_source=perfectsentences&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=perfect-sentences-35): > In 2014 he married Yael Cohen, an elegant mining heiress whom he met after watching her TEDx talk about founding a cancer charity. in her newsletter [perfect sentences](https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-35/), she added some snark and finished with: > I have no stake in the disintegration of this guy or the careers of the celebrities he manages/previously managed, but I appreciate an eye for the absolute worst details. i don't actually know anything about the guy, but it seems like the hate pretty much writes itself.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
well, huh, as if we needed more evidence, taylor's been made into a little golden book. i guess she's actually legit successful. pushed to me while looking for completely unrelated things
In SF we have some really long bus lines, 6 miles long and a ton of stops. One of those lines has a part-time extension now - it runs to an underserved overground rail station. It's a very high-value extension but runs only on weekdays, not weekends. Normally we have separate relations for the weekday route and the weekend route. But others built those routes. I help maintain the ones we have, but I can't think of any way to get iD to clone a relation. Is anyone either in SF and wants to clone the 31-Balboa, or knows of a tool that can do this? I've looked at JOSM and simply couldn't figure it out. I'm happy to do the grunt work of extending the line; I just have no good starting point.