HarkMahlberg

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Sovcit cancelled his child support so leave him alone or he'll send you 22 page letters. in c/[email protected]
Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Let's be real, SO didn't need AI, most of it was already a shit salad. It became increasingly less useful from 2016 to now.

Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow? in c/[email protected]
Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

@atzanteol I said Alternative, not Regurgitative.

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Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow? (kbin.social)
 

Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow?

#programming

Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He might be popular here on left-wing Internet forums, but his voters don't turn out.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sanders-banked-on-young-voters-heres-how-the-numbers-have-played-out

Bernie and Warren are great at pushing progressive policies into the public consciousness, don't get me wrong.

Sovcit submitted some documents to the court. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You're not even going to tell him which line number? You monster.

There is no hate like Christian love in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I gotcha. :)

There is no hate like Christian love in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

it costs nothing to keep your bigoted opinions to yourself

I used to not understand the concept of opportunity costs but now I'm beginning to believe that there is such a thing even when spouting disgusting, obnoxious, dogshit opinions. Like, some people in the world are losing out if they don't take an opportunity to slander and disparage someone else.

They're lower than dirt.

There is no hate like Christian love in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I mean, I get that this is basically the last standing GOP policy, but to read those verses correctly, you have to remember that "to suffer" is another way to say "to put up with," and he's talking to his disciples, not the children. He's just saying "Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!"

Do the "Ernest needs to add more maintainers to KBin!" comments remind anyone else of the xz social engineering malarkey? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

When I started to read breakdowns about the social engineering behind the xz backdoor I was like, "Waaaaitaminute, I've seen that sort of talk before." I found it notable to point out the similarity and maybe poke around at it.

People decided to use the thread (to my excessive chagrin) to talk shit about kbin and rehash the exact same pressures I was attempting to analyze.

It's a shame, because I noticed similar patterns was looking forward to some good discussion about it here. Alas...

Do the "Ernest needs to add more maintainers to KBin!" comments remind anyone else of the xz social engineering malarkey? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's not the boeh.org link, but here is a similar timeline of events: https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean... they didn't specify it had to be random (or even uniform)? But yeah, it's a good showcase of how GPT acquired the same biases as people, from people..

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Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity (wedistribute.org)
 

It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

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US Steel, once the world’s largest corporation, agrees to sell itself to a Japanese company | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
 

US Steel has agreed to be bought by NIppon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in a $14.1 billion deal.

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Blocked users who move instances don't stay blocked (kbin.social)
 

Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all.

On Mastodon, if you don't like your instance or it's in the process of shutting down, you can migrate your account to another instance. I was aware of this feature, but I hadn't considered how such a move federates to kbin, until now.

I had blocked a user of a niche Mastodon instance, and then they migrated to a larger instance. After the migration, I started seeing their posts again, with my blocklist only containing the old account, not the new one.

Now to my knowledge, this feature of Mastodon is not a standard component of ActivityPub. I think it's a great feature actually, but I'm concerned that enables a sort of harassment whereby an attacker can harass someone, get blocked, migrate to another instance, and continue harassing their target. This feature being non-standard, I don't know how it gets broadcast to other instances, let alone if/how kbin should handle it.

Should kbin automatically update blocklists with the newly migrated account name and instance name? That feels like the ideal solution, but I don't know how feasible it is. Just wanted to open this up for discussion and awareness.

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Diplomas for sale, $465: Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools (projects.apnews.com)
 

Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

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This carpet took years off my life just looking at it. (media.kbin.social)
 

Like I'm pretty sure this is the color of the blood that Akira Kurosawa used in Ran. It's fucking haunting.

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[Folding Ideas] This is Financial Advice (www.youtube.com)
 

Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the shares

I tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes with the broadest strokes or you settle in for a rabbit hole made entirely out of onions and ogres. Conspiracy theorists flock together and constantly try and rope each other into the orbit of their personal hobby horse conspiracy, so once you break the surface suddenly you're digging through endless side stories, each with their own cast of characters, trying to figure out if some tertiary claim is true, was maybe true in the past but is no longer true, or was never true, and discover that the only sources on the matter are the same three people quoting each other in an endless circle of false legitimacy.

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"In 1 hour" post at the top of microblog/newest: bug or feature? (media.kbin.social)
 

Does anyone else see this post by t2aki at the top of https://kbin.social/microblog/newest ? I'm not sure if it's a federation bug, like some kind of miscommunication between kbin and their instance on the timestamp of the post, or some kind of scheduled-in-advance post that is set to go live one hour from now. I'm not even sure it will ever stop being "1 hour from now."

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So funny thing about #kbin . I post a photo thread. I go to my profile and see the thread. I cl (media.kbin.social)
 

So funny thing about #kbin. I post a photo thread. I go to my profile and see the thread. I click on the image preview icon. I immediately get sent to https://kbin.social/u/undefined. Not only is Mr. Undefined a real user, hello @undefined, but somehow my image now directs to his profile.

As I dig into Firefox dev tools to find out why, I see that uBlock Origin has blocked the request for my image. But that's odd, I have no specific blocking rules for kbin, and kbin.social doesn't run ads. What's up?

So it turns out my image got uploaded to the following URL: https://media.kbin.social/media/ad/b2/adb203028331eada7f99f2b4547cbc0a7efc0ba4e203a71d9d193c02d38aa4f1.jpg

.../media/ad/... That's what uBlock was upset about. So by blocking that request, the target of the AJAX fetch is... undefined. Hence my trip to a random user's profile. XD

#kbinMeta

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My favorite magic ability (media.kbin.social)
 
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Oddly, I don't feel disgusted about having a robust list of blocked users, communities, and domains on the fediverse. Instead it actually feels like I have some level of control over what I see, rathe (kbin.social)
 

Oddly, I don't feel disgusted about having a robust list of blocked users, communities, and domains on the fediverse. Instead it actually feels like I have some level of control over what I see, rather than say, "suggesting" to YouTube that I don't want to see more neo-nazi propaganda and hoping it actually listens to me.

#fediverse

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I want to hear from people who have two ActivityPub instances running in Docker containers, on the same Docker network, and have them federating with each other. (kbin.social)
 

I want to hear from people who have two ActivityPub instances running in Docker containers, on the same Docker network, and have them federating with each other.

#fediverse

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