Notices by Lewis Cowles (lewiscowles1986@phpc.social)

@Flux @hrefna @Azuaron @aredridel

For me it's not about the harmer, but the harmed.

If you inheritted a house, and then rented it to your child, I think it would meet your standard and mine.

If you were already paying your mortgage, or rent, but then bring in another so you have "a little extra", or "enough to get by"; I think the harmed doesn't change one bit.

Of course not everyone considers themselves harmed. :shrugs:

@hrefna @Azuaron @aredridel
I love this. Folks renting rooms are not in the same vein as doctors and lawyers though. They haven't mastered any skills past having one too many rooms.

I Guess a real-life version could be what happened to farmers in a few revolutions.

So I ask if you know any farmers? I do, hard working, clever. Maybe not cash rich, but definitely not asset poor, and usually, the job has been in the family for generations.

Oh, they tend to rent out whole buildings, not rooms

@ClaireH @alexskunz
There wouldn't be scrapers if sites (I never scraped people) had structured data in a stable format.

@aral if the EU systems, fund creating these people, I don't see an issue with them moving to the USA, because the starter pipeline is healthy.

Let the USA drown itself in VC backed debt.

There are of course lots of EU companies who don't care about VC nightmares, and are quite happy.

@onepict @aral
To be clear, I was not suggesting Aral personally takes money from EU funding projects.

I think (and I re-read my post) I suggested folks moving to USA that start successful ventures are only adding to their nation increasing debt burden. Even when "successful", they collectively couldn't wipe out that debt burden.

I went on to suggest VC money isn't the only model.

I Agree the EU should fund Libre software (as an ideal) and Open software where there are no Libre alternatives.

This is my favourite content about the crowdstrike fail.

@killyourfm @Linux4Everyone @nextcloud
WeKan.

I built the HTML export, so you don't even need others to have WeKan to host your content.

It runs inside a docker and is trivial to import from Trello, and use.

@eaton I have only been able to find data going back to 1977, if you have more information; I'm willing to receive it. But also how far back are we going to need to go?

I Was pretty sure due to religious objections, shrimp, like lobster being a bottom feeder, would have made it undesirable for all but the servants. Lobster also used to be very cheap, far back enough.

I Obviously don't care about such things as part of my dietary choices; but I would have thought if cherry picking was an issue.

@eaton
I'm a data person so I just searched to see if I could find what you just asserted, but it seems plain incorrect. 1977 to 2024, inflation adjusted $20 of shrimp back then, would now be $100

As a consumer, you have a 5x increase in costs.

Again, I've looked into shrimp farming; the book you read seems to be the misleading thing here.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

@eaton Are the shrimp prices low though?

Used to be 500g for £3.50; now its 150-200g for £4.50

over 20 bucks a kilo feels not cheap. Chickens, a much larger animal cost less, and are supposed to be actually cared for, rather than extracted from an ocean.

Like most guilt porn, there may be some truth; but what have been the outcomes since "we learned about this" over a decade ago?

@eaton
comical, sure; but likely ignoring that they might get location data; interest data, and with interests companies can jack up the cost of the things you like doing.

There are a million ways folks under-estimate the future value of present and historical data

@eaton
first they attribute the data locally, unbeknownst to users, then they gradually roll-out more "features".

Apple sells user data, they just publicly make a lot of noise about how they try to stop anyone else doing the same.

@eaton
s/fun facts/crimes against users/gmi

@GossiTheDog
Detection of what though?

Everything? (lies)
Or detection of a specific thing? (why won't you name that thing or things?)

@GossiTheDog
Perhaps there are use-cases I'm failing to appreciate, but I just don't believe this to be true.

- Is it not turn-key enough?
- Is it that your vendor, like crowdstrike is not that good with [a specific] Linux?
- Are you mistaking threat detection, for backdooring your own users to "scan billions of events"?

@GossiTheDog
Good read, but several takes, like windows has better EDR (Endpoint Discovery/Detection Response) were shocking

@patrickcmiller
I wonder if there might be other ways to convey this.

"Incompetent morons, ask for your personal data, and through total uselessness lose 2M records to foreign actors"

Feels like it sums up the article. SQL injection has been top 10 OWASP for so long.

@nixCraft
Even if your boss is not requiring in-office, in-person, don't do after hours

@eaton
I sometimes use Pup to get the contents of pages I curl by CSS-selector. It's sub-process, so not applicable for your use-case, but for example; if someone, like the UK government were to store all registered company data on a HTML web-page...

https://github.com/Lewiscowles1986/OpenData/blob/5b8793ede695ef3590f11e19a08b064370629000/companies-house/run.sh#L4-L5 is an example of the current selector to get a URL value.

There is no exit code for a failed match though, so using `[[ -z "${yourvar}" ]]` can be a good way to catch empty content.

@eaton
PR sent; have you done or read a write-up on the netlify setup you have on that repo?

Pretty dope that preview URL's just show up. Locally I was just using `python3 -m http.server`