mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

can you tell i'm bored

concluding all my incident reports with "root cause: 'out of such crooked timber as humanity is made from, nothing quite straight can be built.'"

Hackers Posed as Aerobics Instructors for Years to Target Aerospace Employees https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/hackers-posed-as-aerobics-instructors.html

I do sorta understand the cleverness of

"Ha-ha! "This sentence cannot be derived in this system" Derive THAT in your system! I win I win I win you lose Bertrand you owe me a beer, a proper one, not that English stuff"

but

the actual human reaction is generally "ok, so if that's a proof, what system are you doing THAT proof in? And the proof of that system?"

And I guess the system is just "I have a strong feeling and so do all my friends"

Engineering-oriented organizations inside of businesses go through this time and time again: someone will make the (cogent) observation that the code would be much cleaner if it only did one thing, write a version that does only do one thing, and then discover that they are unable to answer basic business questions like "how many people paid us to use this last week" and "how much does it cost us to run this."

Man was born free, yet everywhere he is in blockchains

Dear Mr. Wfejwfhiunz,

Thank you for your application to nominate your recent toot as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Unfortunately,

“Romanticism’s aesthetic disgust with rationality and technology finally has less to do with their effects than with what they reveal about how differently the world really works from how it appears to myth. Its true enemy is less alienation than demystification, and so it will always accept collaboration with Traditionalists.”

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5125-agamben-wtf-or-how-philosophy-failed-the-pandemic

Exit and voice in open source software http://catern.com/exitvoice.html | https://lobste.rs/s/gkpvqc #practices

Good morning!

s͝to̢irb̷úc̛ks͏™

one thing I hate about twitter is having zero control of your posts’ reach. it strips agency, flattens context, contributes to uncontrollable harassment in the service of “connection”. imo mastodon’s insistence on following the same value of maximization, removing any ability to foster small local community, is equally harmful. if decentralization is about control then why strip that at the individual and community level? it’s no better than twitter. glad to be on the hometown fork

There is a really bad privacy bug in the new “official” #mastodon #ios app. If you reply to a dm it defaults to totally public. This is honestly a really awful bug that has already resulted in mistakingly posting publicly something I meant to be private.