Notices by chris@strafpla.net (chris@mstdn.strafpla.net), page 2

The #exploding #pagers are not devices that can be called with a phone number like I read by the usual angry people. These are devices used by closed groups building their own communications network.
The devices are configured to be clients of one single network at a time. Civilians would rarely have a new pager with booby-trapped batteries **and** be connected to HezbollahNet.
This is very targeted and crippling* attack.
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* I am no geostrategic analyst

And I’m really curious how the ambassador of Iran came to be injured by a pager connected to HezbollahNet…

Ich frage mich, welche “Tipps” man der Berliner Polizei per **email** schicken muss, damit sie ein Büro stürmt, anstatt vorher die Glaubwürdigkeit der Quelle und die Situation zu klären.
#Swatting #Berlin #Polizei #ReneRebe
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-dev-swatted-live-during-a-development-video-stream

I just found a mistake in a handcrafted website that I published in 1997. The only copy is in the #InternetArchive’s #Waybackmachine.
This will haunt me forever 🤪

Mache ich einen Witz über mich, ist das etwas anderes, als wenn Du einen Witz über mich machst. Und wenn Du als Mitglied einer dominanten Gruppe einen Witz über mich als Mitglied einer diskriminierten Gruppe machst, dessen Pointe meine weitere Diskriminierung ist, muss ich mich fragen, warum Du das tust.
Kommt Dein Publikum vor allem aus der dominanten Gruppe, dann lachen sie gemeinsam darüber, dass sie mich diskriminieren können und bestätigen sich gegenseitig darin.
#mockridge

If car manufacturers insist on not selling cars, most would download a car.
#bobiverse

It seems I can only preorder #bobiverse book 5 as an audiobook but not as an ebook for #kindle right now.
I’m wondering if this is by mistake or if #Amazon is trying to “optimize” sales.

Hm, forcing your *readers*, who have been counting the days up to the release of your new book, into a subscription service for an audio book instead does not seem to be a winning move.
It’s an asshole move and I still can’t believe it.
#bobiverse

Die #FDP sucht ihre Clientele also jetzt komplett unter eher dümmlichen Dieselfahrern. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass das lange gut geht.

My #iphone 11 decided to dimm the #screen to nearly pitch #black. It boots with normal brightness, shows the lock screen to taunt me and then, before I can unlock, it smoothly dims to black.
I have NO idea.

The flags of #prideAmsterdam24 are brilliant, I really like how the design disintegrates the current cluttered #pride flag and reintegrates it into complex textures of #diversity.

Waschbären halten #cybertrucks für Mülltonnen und beschädigen sie beim Versuch, den Deckel aufzukriegen.
(Das ist echt eine ziemlich plausible Idee.)
https://mas.to/@bascule/112793660647233531

Ich habe mich mal wieder über laute Rollkoffer geärgert und dabei #NetzwerkRollentausch gefunden. Die #reparieren #Rollkoffer und ich bin begeistert, dass das jemand tut.
#RightToRepair #Repair

https://rollentausch.eu

While I think that #recall is a stupid idea, it’s amusing to read that “My BiG and IMPorTanT Employer would never capture the screen to record user sessions”.

@mcc IIRC Mastodon is older than Lemmy and the current move to Mastodon/Fedi happened in multiple waves, so it may be too early for higher expectations.
For stackoverflow I expect some degradation of quality since they accept “AI” generated content. This may additionally frustrate high quality authors and motivate them to leave. We’ll see.
What would a federated stack overflow look like if we were to invent it?

@mcc I personally see less problem in scraping a federated pool of knowledge but I absolutely hate that stackoverflow now owns this knowledge and can keep people from using it but sell “AI” as a service to them.

@mcc So we’d be looking for Schrödingers license, allowing and forbidding closed derivative works at the same time :-)

(I have a feeling that a lot of licenses only work because nobody has a close look at how their objects are used.)

@mcc @BillySmith This is really sad, I’m sorry.
But it shows again that information can only persist if it is copied and spread.
That’s why publishing on corporate platform, exclusively is such a bad idea. Just imagine youtube would really successfully lock ‘their’ content away one day.

@mcc @BillySmith Good times. Though the husk of slashdot is still around but Kuro5hin is not :-/

@mcc So developers will stop sharing information on #StackOverflow and future #Copilot and friends will be forever stuck in the past, answering questions about historically relevant frameworks and languages.
#LLM #StuckOverflow