Notices by lj·rk (ljrk@todon.eu)

@zleap It's exactly what I was asking for, thank you! :)

No idea whether this can in the end be used, but I like the idea of covalent polycule members in contrast to members of the same polycule who do not share bonds/partners (e.g., A & B and B & C have a relationship, but not A & C). This is a useful notion indeed!

@freemo @zleap Ohhh this is getting much more serious than I expected and I love every bit of it!

And indeed, graphs are much more well-suited to describe polycules (and a meeting of polycules, a forest). We could even discuss certain practical implications like variations of min cut problems: "given a fall out between this set of people and their relationships of depth N, what's the minimum number of edges to cut to get two polycules that do not internally hate each other?" :'-D

That being said, the initial idea to use molecule-inspired terminology stems purely from the name polycule itself, being a portmanteau of polyamory and molecule. It's probably not helpful to stick to terms of related concepts for this though!

So gays, I recently had the need to describe a (possibly proper) subset of a polycule with a term. I improvised with polycouple ("a couple of X" can be more than 2) but maybe there's a better term?

We could look at molecules for inspiration again. Is there a term for parts of a partition of a molecule that may span more than just one atom?

@cas ffs i hate those trainings. A lot to be said about them. Also I scan QR codes as much as I like pfft (long rant incoming)

Honestly, trainings that just make you "scared about all the danger in the Internets" are bad. They drive the notion that computers are black boxes that cannot be understood (which, yes, is not completely wrong of course but ...). Instead you want users feel that afterwards they know better and feel more in control:

1. Give them easy options to report mails. Usually it's your goal is to try for /everyone/ to /never ever/ fall for a phish – which is unrealistic. This way you crowdsource spotting, thus increasing your chances to pull the mail/put out some IoC/block the URL/... and empowers users to contribute to overall security.
2. Ensure they're not ridiculed by the IT Dept for asking whether something is a phish, a healthy atmosphere is crucial. They shouldn't feel as if they're a liability but that they can contribute!
3. In the training, don't make them the victims. Either choose someone "up there" as example victim in any demo or *show the users how it's done*. Prepare some evilnginx to 99% done and let the users play "hacker" by doing some finishing touches. This piques interest in the topic and makes them understand much better how this works!

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@steeph I think we should move bookmarks and history handling out of the browser and build an API for external bookmark managers that combine the features of "read later" like pocket/wallabag and possibly even RSS readers and have browsers basically just display web pages.

Search should also be something that's configured in the OS and then just opens the web page in the browser.

Ideally, we have tabbing window managers but I suppose that ship has long sailed.

@lanodan @domi @toast @navi Kinda funny how POSIX started out from/as an attempt to document similarities (XPG) but now has become a standard so slow-moving that there are attempts to do the same... outside of POSIX.

@ryanc I'm still lost on why the heat pump requires an e-mail account o.O

@clacke @krono @cjust Jup, basically Jackrum was "she" again and Mal suddenly presented in "female" uniform:
https://www.tumblr.com/falseficus/728290585888292864/i-read-a-physical-copy-of-monstrous-regiment-soon

:(

@krono @cjust Hm, you know which version the epubs are/who the publisher is? They differ wildly in quality and the US version in addition had some questionable changes in e.g. Monstrous Regiment that made the Sgt. un-trans...

@krono @CppGuy @cjust The scanner didn't find anything specifically "wrong" with the site though, it's just a "credibility rating" by Sophos. Since Google & Co. anti-phish do not classify it as anything evil it could just be a fluke.

My ADHD says y'all need to give me more updoots because my dopamine levels are low!

@baldur The deno sandbox is quite badly broken though :~

https://secfault-security.com/blog/deno.html

@Melissabeartrix It never really occured to me what trans is or what it does entail. Having a trans partner (my first partner) helper. Realizing I am trans did the rest. Uhhh

While #Ladybird is trending, keep in mind the devs are misogynist and transphobic fucks 0:-)

https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/112716764371132291

Like:

> This is a purely technical project. As such, it is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics or religious beliefs. Any changes that appear ideologically motivated will be rejected.

(https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#on-ideologically-motivated-changes)

Uhuh, so, using implicit "he" in technical documentation is so not-ideological and so technical/rational, but changing it to a neutral(!) term is not.

Or:

> In Ladybird, we treat human language as seriously as we do programming language.

... so you're enforcing some, like, standards of how you speak friendly with each other, right? Haha, no:

> The following applies to all user-facing strings, code, comments, and commit messages:
>
> * The official project language is American English with ISO 8601 dates and metric units.
> * Use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
> * Write in an authoritative and technical tone.
>
> Everyone is encouraged to make use of tooling (spell checkers, etc) to make this easier.

(https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#human-language-policy)

This is so friggin' toxic. But going to report every date where they use "2024-07-02" as date format and not the full version including timestamp and timezone as demanded by ISO 8601 /s

@HauntedOwlbear @thomholwerda Jup.

@mattdm @mcc Unfortunately `-n` doesn't seem to be race-free though :/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/248544/mv-move-file-only-if-destination-does-not-exist/248547?noredirect=1#comment428238_248547

With that in mind (if still true), I don't see any worth in a `-n` flag (invoking the "it's not UNIX" meme here :D). Then again, while there are many very bad options added by the GNU project if you ask me (GNU/tar's --checkpoint-action flag springs to mind), but this'd be a really useful flag in principle.

@mcc @mattdm

We had such an intense discussion about #FediBlock'ing #Threads and #FediPact... and in the end the problem just solved itself lol. We could've thunk that beforehand tbqh.
https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/112689839172827974

@anneroth Aber bitte nur, wenn's nicht strafrechtlich relevant ist (was ja mittlerweile recht viel sein dürfte, "Unterstützen von Terrorismus" undso). Das föderierte System von Matrix bedeutet eben auch, dass Nachrichten auf deutlich mehr Systemen liegen als nötig, schwer (rechtzeitig) gelöscht werden können und es mehr Ansatzpunkte gibt für Cops einzudringen. Und es gab zu viele Probleme in der Crypto als mir lieb ist.

Ich nutze Matrix auch gerne als Discord/Slack/Mattermost/Teams Ersatz zum organisieren von großen Gruppen. Aber Aktionen von LG o.Ä. sollten nicht via Matrix koordiniert werden.