Not lost on me the background of this poster and the promotion of the underlying content. Fucking Christ, this is bad. https://twitter.com/rpnickson/status/1639813074176679938. I wish more people understood how much trust people do have in stuff and how, if not informed, they won't be able to tell the immediate difference (especially if you're not already familiar with the original content).

How ... the fuck is this even possible? A minimum of twenty years and a quarter million dollars of a fine for using a VPN for "unapproved" services. ISPs are about to either snitch (or show how many others were that close to the government as AT&T was with wiretapping on consumers).

So I've heard scary stuff about this bill and frankly, I've read over 80,000 words in about 4 days and I can't read anything too serious but I need to understand this https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text

Slated for development, Lighthouse will use both header and HTML checking for rel=alternative of the document. This will permit things like static HTML documents or "less-controllable-by-users" Web pages (found on shared hosting) to also be accessible in ActivityPub interactions.

Wow, Andy's consulting site looks amazing. https://set.studio/

Currently, at $DAYJOB: https://twitter.com/CfAWorkers/status/1640383202828099585

Another place to not buy anything from. https://petapixel.com/2023/03/24/levis-to-use-ai-generated-models-to-increase-diversity/. We're really entering very fucking weird times.

Of course the first form of AI music that comes across my feeds is one poorly parodying a mainstream Black artist. https://twitter.com/hiphoph0f/status/1640119947119427586. This AI shit is going to truly cheapen everything, create "content noise faucets" and frankly, I can't see how this isn't a way to nudge pricing for "organic, human-made" content. Damn it.

And I can't think of anyone in my immediate circle or family who has either ran across those orgs (aforementioned and in the image Judd posted) or even know who they are.

Okay, real talk: who are the people taking these surveys? I sometimes don't want to think these polls are some level of BS and I know that with millions of people &mdash it's hard to poll a population, but what the actual fuck? I've been stopped more by police than by Pew Research or Neilsen. https://journa.host/@juddlegum/110095424087700811

I did it. It took weeks but my inbox is basically always empty. Mailing list stuff goes into a separate folder (and if it's not marked, it's deleted after a month). Marketing spam is gone (thanks to plus addressing and e-mail marketing making it easier and easier to sniff out trash).

Pray for me, I think I'm going to peek at a DSA event. I do think DSA takes up a lot of air and is partly alienating to low-income folks but that was from my experience in Cali (and it was by Cal at that, I remember a member mentioning that they had no plans to try to expand "south" - aka - towards more PoC) that left a sour taste in my mouth especially since no one challenged it.

So. The way Twitter responded was — frankly, the source code of Twitter needs to be public. It's not like Dorsey was any better but for those who still use the non-introspectable native app, goodness knows what kind of new unnecessary telemetry and trees of advertsting have been added in the recent months. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/27/twitter-legal-source-code-leaked-elon-musk-github

Almost as if the overpopulation myth parroted by the world's elite was ... a fucking lie that was gobbled up by the likes of WHO, the UN and what not. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/world-population-bomb-may-never-go-off-as-feared-finds-study

Adding to my list of places to vist! Those otters are too cute!

What kind of cryptography is considered "too strong" to use for exporting within the US? Asking for theory.

I think about this with the falseness in stances when it comes to wanting better for society but directly contributing and funding the systems that keep it broken — willingly!

I know that I read something about the state of escapism and its yo-yo back into capitalism. There's a reference in it to The Sims (lol).

There's more information at https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-16 but this is the kind of machine that now has hot-swappable graphics card support, even more storage (up to 16 TB), optional audio jack (which, tbh, is okay for me - I've been using some of my expansion cards as "adapters" on my work computer) and now with the input modules — I have almost no excuse to start playing around with hardware.

Oh and the input module firmware can be written in Rust! https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/inputmodule-rs. Fun times in sustainable computing!

Oh hell yes. https://frame.work/laptop-16. This is probably going to be my next main laptop (in like ~5 years, if I have to get a new PC). Using my current laptop as my new PC and upgrading to this will be a power move. Having 6 ports is such a boost.