Notices by Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org), page 2

Cloudflare fuels planned obsolescence:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/ios-12-5-7-safari-cant-pass-human-verification/542035/11

One of the main purposes of the 1h Safari app limit is to help jog myself into the habit of checking the TODO list before going online. (I believe that as long as I’m being purposeful and intentional, I can be online as long as I want.)

That hadn’t happened until today; mostly I had learned how resourceful I am at getting around browser bans with scrapers or Cocoa web views or running a browser from another machine via Xorg. But that’s OK. It doesn’t have to be impossibe, just inconvenient enough that it makes me think differently; and I need to make hay and use this brief window of time to relearn my morning habits before my id gets too comfy with these rerouted accesses to web.

What’s been happening is that I start Safari as per ushe*, run out the 1h app limit, and then if I need to pay a bill or check a rule on BGG or something I’ve been using the workarounds. Today I almost did the same but managed to stop myself! Mostly thanks to how I had to do something in the neighborhood that forced me to leave my apartment, that did more to shake me out of my routine than any app limit could.

So I’m hoping this is the day!

*: Luckily my mourning routine itself doesn’t involve Safari. Teletext news scraped over Gemini, RSS, Fedi mentions via Emacs, and email in Delta Chat. But often enough there are links (the RSS is especially dangerous here).
Or perhaps I should say unluckily since the entire purpose of this was to change my habit to check the lists before checking all of this other stuff! And I don’t wanna put app limits on email—what if Mulder & Scully finally gets back to me about that UFO?

OK, so the good news is that:

1. I managed to do my important, goal-directed errands before doing my morning routine, and
2. I then did my morning routine pretty directedly & focusedly as well. And I was taking care of myself, making & eating good food which has been rare for me lately (been living off of peanuts, beer & popsicles).

The bad news is that my so called “morning” routine ended up taking almost eight hours 🤦🏻♀️

I’m so reactive-minded! From reading mail & news, I ended up writing three blog posts and 17 Fedi posts. Yeah, yeah, we all know that this kooky world needs my well-thought-through takes but, uh, I don’t know if you y’all know this but apparently if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you, albeit with mediocre success when it comes to y’alls unflappable flapper 👩🏻

So I can’t let go of this wrestled angel just yet 😰
I might need to make some life changes in this 🐝

@ntnsndr

(Most smartphones run Linux and that has been true for over 15 years)

Fick lära mig när jag var liten att “röka som en borstbindare” är fel, det är skorstenar som röker medan borstbindare svär (för dom sticker sig på halmen). Men tydligen är “supa som en borstbindare” ett mycket mycket äldre uttryck—på tyska!

This is wrong:

Using systemd on publicly accessible ssh: update RIGHT NOW NOW NOW
Otherwise: update RIGHT NOW NOW but prioritize the former

https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27

No, the exploit doesn’t rely on systemd being run or even installed. If you have the poisoned version, update right away please. The infected version is infected even without systemd (just as long as it’s run as other than arg0, which is the case with many init systems.). Now, it is because of systemd that Debian and Red Hat shipped a version of sshd that was dynamically linked to liblzma. So that’s the connection to systemd. But it’s “SSH linked to liblzma” that’s exploited, not “SSH inited by systemd”.

Delta Chat and Thunderbird both seem more afraid of accidentally sending an unreadable encrypted message than accidentally sending an unencrypted message. I kinda would want the opposite philosophy ideally.

Texinfo in particular is structured, semantic, accessible, and has a glorious legacy of being one of the very first public hypertexts.

Rather than killing it, I’d want to improve its web exported output, make it easier to write, but keep the specific reading apps around.

https://idiomdrottning.org/the-dystopia-of-web-only-documentation

@snarfed.org@fed.brid.gy

Yes, this is positive. What I want specifically is this:

• My AP posts to also show up over there on AT
• (This should be opt-in because a lot of other people do not want to be proxied, but I’d wanna give it a try at least.)
• People can post replies to my AP posts from there and I can reply back and forth in a convo
• I can block individuals who behave badly or turn off the whole bridge if it’s too many

This is similar to how I am on OFTC normally but Matrix people can reach me at the bridge on @_oftc_sandra:matrix.org and those comments show up over on my OFTC account and I don’t even have to notice they’re on Matrix.

I’m not in a hurry to start following people who are on AT 🤷🏻♀️ even though that might be fun down the line.

I’m scared AT will be way more toxic and twitterlike since they deliberately are designing for an algo-driven world/global timeline which is the opposite of the bubble-coziness we have here on Fedi.

@activitypubblueskybridge

Alex writes:

It’s not written for the day job. It’s not written to see the light of day at all. It’s not written to be looked at and scrutinized by anybody. It’s intimate and personal, it’s messy and buggy. To take a look is to transgress.

That is absolutely how I feel. But I’ve gotten better at releasing libraries, tools (like 7off), plugins that can be more polished part of the system. It’s just that the glue code of things with all its hardcoded URLs and hacky tags is… uh…

https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-16-personal-software

Most people outside of the hacker community think that other people’s privacy is only creepy.

I was listening to the news the other day and the reporter was indignantly yelling at a postal delivery company for not opening more packages to check for drugs. Even though that would be illegal to do.

However, these bans are technically not doable without a complete lockdown on all computers ever made. Like a super gooped down Android or iOS with no sideloading. Goodbye general purpose computerGgpc, hello spyware appliance.

There are plenty of good reasons beyond privacy to not wanna attempt such a horrific lockdown.

https://idiomdrottning.org/dont-ban-e2ee