@hanbaobun i would prefer that you link my articles instead of hotlinking my images so i don't have to put referer checks on my image serving.
@hanbaobun thanks for the kind words. i appreciate people taking the time to read my bullshit.
@morb not a ton but also it's sort of janky, although that is partially the fault of my reverse proxy sending everything with the same client ip to the app. if i had to do it again i'd use pleroma, and maybe run the masto frontend talking to it (pleroma implements the mastodon client-facing api)
@morb missed you, frand
wow, watching steve jobs recite this alan kay quote, >10 years ago, on this week that apple just shipped macs sporting their own chips, gave me literal chills:
@tedu hahaha that is amazing.
i actually quit twitter because they started censoring search results for qanon-related shit. i was trying to keep an eye on the spread of those whackjobs their memes of the hour and twitter decided it was too dangerous to let me read.
https://twitter.com/rop_g/status/1328571676657934338
@rop_g: I found out what happened with all these QAnon nuts wanting to follow me all of a sudden. It's funny. It all started with an interview on Fox, where Lou Dobbs speaks to Sidney Powell, attorney for Michael Flynn and now also of Trump. youtube.com/watch?v=rNQNw6…
@rop_g: In the interview, she claims to have lots of damaging information about Dominion, one of the major voting machine companies in the US. At the end of the interview, she claims they will "Release the kraken", and all will be good. (A common right-wing trope these days.)
@rop_g: Now to the QAnon people, nothing is just a figure of speech. Everything has hidden meaning, a message just to them. (Any psychiatrist will tell you this is a common delusional pattern.) So, what does a good QAnon-sufferer do? "Research"
@rop_g: Which is Q-speak for wildly Googling about with a manic desire to see obscure connections. And in their state of mind this is way, way too easy. So they Google "kraken" and "voting systems" or "kraken" and "hackers" or something.
@rop_g: And ... up pops my wikipedia page, which has me appearing (in 1985) in a Dutch book called "Kraken en Computers", (which means "Hacking and computers", computerkraker was a common word for hacker back in the day.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gongg…
@rop_g: The same page also talks about my involvement in showing weaknesses in voting machines and has some Wikileaks and Julian Assange thrown in for good measure. This settles it. They decoded the secret message!1!! I am Kraken and about to come forward to save Trump. Sigh...
@rop_g: Now it is well possible that there are all sorts of interesting things to find out about Dominion and other voting machine manufacturers if one digs deep enough; this entire industry is plenty shady. Do I think there was major fraud or that any of this will save Trump? No.
@rop_g: But what it will do is set the stage for an elaborate long-term alternate reality in which their beloved dictator did win the election but an evil voting machine company swapped the votes. Which will have all sorts of interesting implications going forward.
@rop_g: More broadly: the power-hungry have discovered that inequality, pandemic, climate and general dystopia is driving enough people over the edge psychologically that they become a formidable political force. A few smart ones are seeing that they created a monster, but it's too late.
@rop_g: If you believe that elections should convince the losers they lost, then a mainstream thing going forward will be somehow negotiating assurances regarding election outcomes with obscenely large and well-networked crowds of psychotic people.
google is reversing course on its aggressive AMP strategy (good news).
@paoloredaelli web apis suck and can't do most things. also html/js is trash. jobs was right, native apps are a million times better.
@Crocmagnon no, i tend not to criticize individual strivers. sircmpwn's heart is in the right place mostly, from what i can tell, and i hope he does okay for himself. i just don't think the product decisions in play there will result in srht becoming even medium-sized or remotely mainstream. it's specifically anti-graphics and anti-social from what i can tell, which limits its usefulness for collaboration on software with large groups of strangers. great for lone wolves.
@yaaps@banana.dog @emsenn i already muted that crazy person though, unlike their lies i actually don't wish to engage with idiots
@yaaps@banana.dog @emsenn i will reply forever
us fed pigs will execute unarmed people if they think they pose a political threat:
you're lying. if you were avoiding conversations with people like me, you wouldn't be replying telling me how much you avoid conversations like this.
you don't get to control what other people say on the web. your participation in all conversations on activitypub is optional, and opt-in. if you don't want to talk to me, you know where the mute and block buttons are, and nothing forces you to hit reply.
few things are worse than someone posturing like this, tbh. *you* opted in.
@sir i don't think it's a problem. the web is large now and webservers need to account for that, unless there's some specific bug that's causing things to get hit more than there are eyeballs
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