Notices by tef (tef@mastodon.social)

@lzg yeah i figured it might be brand specific advice i was seeing

@lzg do the charcoal-specific pencil sharpeners not work?

i'm seeing people rave about a fancy electrical one too

anyway, "world standards day", to celebrate international standards, was on october the 14th

unless you're in america, in which case it's next week, the 14th of november

even before you open up the book labelled "the guy has really skeevy opinions and doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut"

or the large overflowing binder of "people who have left free software because of his behaviour"

there's a quick summary note that says "other free software organizations have broken ties with the fsf because of him"

for someone who kicked up a fuss over sudo it is kinda tragic they're clawing onto power over others despite the consequences

"what's his job" promoting free software and providing a real alternative to proprietary systems

"how's that working out" gcc kept getting forked to stop him sabotaging the project, eventually forcing clang to exist.

"oh" immediately after he stepped down, emacs replaced the default config with something useful over his crufty defaults

"i guess" other people have successfully written microkernels several times over, their secret was not reporting to rms. he is the reason hurd does not work

to be clear, stallman has repeatedly shown that he's not a capable steward of software projects (everything that happened to hurd and gcc), and even less capable as a leader of an organization

even before you get into his toenail eating: he is very bad at his job

if free software is to mean more than a cult of personality, he should be replaced at the fsf, no question

i do not think he is capable or responsible enough to perform the job he gave himself

kinda funny how the rise of fascism gets presented as an external influence, or something more grassroots, when it's bankrolled by the rich to consolidate their power, every time

@erincandescent THIS PLACE IS NOT A PLACE OF GENDER,

just found out the factorization of 65,535 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257

ffff

the factorization of 4,294,967,295 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257 × 65537, too

ffffffff

@ironchamber @glyph

it was ad supported from the outset, and was always doing things like "i'm your player for everything!" and stealing associations from other programs, repeatedly

it then started living permanently on screen and popping up notifications to remind you it existed

as "we're the most important internet software" makes investors sleep well at night, even if it's only acting that way

i used to joke "all software becomes realplayer over time", but most people aren't of that nerd vintage to get the reference,

and we have better examples of the way in which software becomes a vehicle for a brand, pushing up against every api to get your attention, flooding you with notifications

but in hindsight with the rise of chatbots and behaviour tracking built in, it feels like every piece of software is becoming bonzi buddy instead

no one is asking questions about my t-shirt, huh

again, main point in big letters

if you build an audience on the basis of "respecting privacy and user choice" and ship an opt-out data collection service without telling anyone, you really fucked up

no matter how fancy the math is

when futurama said "technically correct is the best kind of correct" it was satire, y'know

someone has already gone "technically it's not targeting", which doesn't really address the whole "this is a breach of trust" thing

and well, forgive me for using "targeting" as a short hand for "measuring ad impact rates by surveillance of users, so that advertisers can minmax their advert spend", but again, it doesn't matter

as that's how users perceive a black box in the browser collecting statistics for advertisers to maximise their click through rates-especially the users firefox has

it is very funny to me that most tech employees will have gone through a mandatory webinar on the dangers of spear fishing and targeted attacks, and how they're used to exploit people

only to close the tab and go back to building devices that do just that. at the end of the day, it's only spam when someone didn't pay the right people

this is before you even get to ask "is targeted advertising even necessary?" let alone useful or effective

as far as i can make out, targeted advertising is about making advertisers feel in control, and forcing them to rebuy ads for different demographics over and over

i gotta say if your entire schitck is "we're the open web! we're not like that giant advertising company" then you should kinda expect a backlash from "we shipped an opt-out surveillance device without effectively telling anyone"

no matter how well engineered said device is—and no amount of "well, this is just how the web works, be realistic" is gonna undo that breach of trust

@mcc are we talking pipe organ accompaniment yes or no

and what about the drum fill, i'm trying to imagine it now

i am 1.2 miles away from the taylor swift gig