ersatzmaus @ersatzmaus@mastodon.social
Code Wrangler; Film Buff; Nerd²; 🖖
Trap lightning in very flat sand.
Trick lightning into doing maths.
Profit.
"I like to add � and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug"
https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/722565868719177729
I'm in Strasbourg, lobbying hard. Updates soon, but was able to talk to Axel Voss, the main guy behind the current (bad) versions of #Art11 and #Art13. Doing my best to #SaveYourInternet.
Lessons from today:
- Pro-Art11/Art13 MEPs do not know how copyright law works (no surprises there, the copyright law is a mess!)
- Wikimedia Commons is a very good example of a service that could suffer very much.
- As during #ACTA, MEPs are not entirely against sitting down and discussing the issues.
"It’s actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results" - DuckDuckGo's CEO explains how it’s become profitable without gathering user data
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-revenue-generation-model-for-DuckDuckGo/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg
This is my friend's cat Angel. She is 20 years old today. Boost this toot to wish her a happy birthday! #mastocats
Britpol, but actually USpol could do with some of this.
“Lieber Vodafone-Kunde, Sie erkennen Phishing-E-Mails unter anderem an der Anrede. Wir sprechen Sie im Text unserer E-Mails immer persönlich an.”
techpol, action needed Show more
Thanks to UKClimbing.com I had a database of over 427k rock climbing routes to feed to a neural network. It did pretty well. http://aiweirdness.com/post/175339699997/blue-boulders-problem-1-more-rock-climbing-routes
cooking with marijuana?
haute cuisine.
compulsory cakes: obligateux.
I've reach a point in #ick where it seems to work, for me and for other people, and rather than add more features, I am going to take a little breather while I ponder what the next steps should be.
Meanwhile I'll read about #rust, and who knows, maybe I'll start using Rust to write more ick in the future.
“it's on the shoulders of technologists to learn the lesson of EME: contributing to technologies that stop the public from adapting or auditing their tools is a profoundly unethical act, one that widens the gap between people with disabilities and the (temporarily) abled people who don't (yet) need to make those adaptations.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/disabilities-vs-drm-world-cup-edition
#drm #copyright
This might be a stretch, but anyone on here as an employee inside Microsoft, Google, and/or Amazon that are working inside to petition them to break their relationship with ICE? DM me as I know someone working on a story about it and would like to connect you #TechWorkers #Organizing
Just to reiterate because it's not obvious from the excerpt, Smyte is some kind of anti-harrassment API that a lot of large platforms (like npm and zendesk) were using. Twitter acquired it as a solution to their own harrassment problem and immediately shut everyone's access off, even though many companies had multi-year contracts with them! 😂
In reality, they are not real. In fact, while I can say with all certainty this will not happen in the foreseeable future, it is entirely possible that all of the borders dividing all of the countries all over this world could be erased in a single day.
In a sense, we are hostages of the countries in which we are born, held captive by artificial borders. We are not asked if we would like to be a citizen of the nation in which we’re born."
-- Margaret Donnelly
xx: "I am seeing problem X"
me: *investigates*
me: "It's a symptom of Y"
xx: "Ok I'll do Z to work around it."
me: "Won't work *full-explanation*"
xx: "I tried Z and it didn't work."
xx: "You are obviously wrong."
On an unrelated note I must report that I have not yet developed scanners-style head-exploding powers.
Another run bites the dust. 6.6 k / 39:14.
Not great, but approaching acceptable.
Cheap roomba!
