Notices by Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)

@mikael This has been my experience with #verizon. If I had Verizon residential IPv4, I’d get residential IPv6 automatically. To get static #IPv4 I had to go to Verizon Business, and #IPv6 was not available so I had to get a hurricane electric tunnel. #homelan

@namedbird it’s a cute idea, but I don’t know how to do that. It’s not really an option? I don’t have any ipv6 business ISPs?
@mikael

@gyptazy in my case, I’m paying for the static IPs and business grade service. I would resent having to also pay for a VPS to make it work. And if you have a 500Mbit or gigabit service to your house, how much of that will you get if you route all your traffic through an inexpensive VPS? It seems like paying more and getting less.
@namedbird @mikael

@patrickcmiller It was only “not for politics” during a short time when—completely coincidentally—their preferred politicians were not in power. Once that changed, and their politicians are in power and want greater reach, #politics is OK. Also, people don’t make those choices, #meta does. They opted everyone out, letting them opt in. Now they opt everyone in but can people opt out? It’s simple, naked power play. It is hard to view this at all the way they say. It just isn’t believable that they care about some concept like “quality of conversation.” That’s just bullshit.
#uspol #meta

This article from @Daojoan is interesting. She uses the term PICO (peak inside, crash outside). Ignoring the substance of her work, just to focus on this, it reminds me of what we at work call “watermelon projects”. When’s. Project uses Red, Amber, Green to indicate it status, watermelon projects are those that are green on the outside and red on the inside.

PICO is describing the time lag between when insiders realise it’s red and when outsiders realise it’s red.

A work we watch for projects that are posting “green” statuses alongside existential “FYI” items that might actually mean the death of the project.

These topics are only slightly related. Learning this term PICO made me reflect on “watermelon” status.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyones-buying-the-maga-pico-top/

@ramsey I dunno mate. Seems a wee dodgy.
#monsterdon
@steggy

I'm not sure I followed the plot, so lemme see if I get it:

1. Devil Girl lands and doesn't want to take any of them.
2. Devil Girl wants to take the little boy.
3. Man switches places with little boy.
4. Man steals toy remote
5. Devil Girl returns man and now will just kill everybody (including the man and boy)
6. Professor makes a bid to go by being a London Tour Guide. Other folks make some cases.
7. Devil Girl says she will take on and kill the rest, so pick your one.
8. Crazy woman releases the convicted murderer and everyone hides. He gets to be the one to go with her.
9. Devil Girl takes convict man onto the ship.
10. Devil Girl leaves without killing anyone
11. Devil Girl and convict man explode and die.

#monsterdon

I saw some discussion of "Virtue Signalling" and "advocate for your position but don't tell me what to do." I have thoughts. It seems like this meme needed updating. I'll write more later. #protest #resist

@pixelpusher220
Boobs are not porn. Unless you can see the nipple, in which case they’re totally porn, unless you think the person with the nipples doesn’t have vagina in which case they’re totally not porn. But if the nipples look like they belong to someone who has a vagina, even though the person might not have a vagina, then the nipples are probably porn.

It really couldn’t be simpler.

https://www.404media.co/when-does-instagram-decide-a-nipple-becomes-female/

@martinschlegel @vagina_museum

It's funny that twice FramesDirect sent me emails asking "how was your experience" and twice I basically replied "It was so bad that I blogged about it" and included a link to my blog about shopping there. They never replied. #shopping #glasses #framesdirect.

@feld Ok. So their market share is flat. That’s not making the argument that AI is good for Mozilla, either. My point is that end users are not clamoring for stick-a-chatbot-in-there. Nobody is saying “I might switch to a Mozilla product if they had really good AI.” Users don’t want chatbots from Mozilla, from Microsoft, from Apple, or from anyone else. None of this pivot to AI is moving anybody’s revenue needles up, but they are moving everybody’s cost needles up. A reckoning of cost to revenue must come for Mozilla and everyone else caught in this hype.

The argument is that Mozilla is not doing what its core users want by focusing on AI. We seem to be arguing whether the loud anti-AI people are the “core users” or whether there’s some quiet majority who are more representative of Mozilla’s “core users.” Either way, if their market share is flat, Mozilla isn’t benefitting from its AI efforts. People’s expressed preference appears to be something else. (And I would argue no businesses other than NVIDIA are benefiting from the AI boom, either)

Maybe AI is orthogonal to Mozilla’s and its users best interests. Neither here nor there.

@feld I’m not sure on that. “Silence implies consent” is also a problematic approach. The fact that someone is louder than average doesn’t necessarily mean that their opinion deviates from the majority, even if the majority are less outspoken.

Climate change, for example. The vast majority of people support environmental regulations, decreased pollution, etc. but only a tiny minority vigorously advocate for those things. That tiny, loud minority is in alignment with the majority.

Back to AI, plenty of studies have been done that showed little to no enthusiasm from end users for AI. I can’t name a single product/service that offers an AI-enhanced version at a higher price than a non-AI version, and then sells more of the AI-enhanced version than the non-AI version. We know that the AI-enhanced products cost more to deliver because AI is expensive. And yet no business is able to leverage the added value of AI to raise its prices to cover the increased cost of using AI.

My thesis: The value proposition for AI is for the shareholders, not the end users of a product or service. Those shareholders are the problematic vocal minority who put their own interests ahead of the interests of the majority. @nixCraft

For people under the age of 30, she can tell by the fact that this light is on that he is on the telephone. #monsterdon

@Lazarou Almost exactly. My recording is 1:27:27, which is 5247 seconds. If we're right that the monster is on the screen less than 1 minute, let's call it 50 seconds. 50/5247 is 0.95%. #monsterdon

We've got one of these guys. So we know it's authentic. #KungFuSat

@xinicit Nice pipe. I smoke them from time to time. @steggy gave me some pipes that were given away via Freecycle. The story was that someone’s grandfather passed and they were giving them to a good home. The grandfather had been in the US Army as a Judge Advocate General. He had been present at the Nuremberg trials. So some of my pipes may have been smoked there. They’re ordinary. But special.
Cheers.

I feel like I follow really liberally. People just need to be real and I’m probably interested. And yet I only follow 850. Clearly my opinion doesn’t match the facts. I’m gonna follow a bunch more people.

Please don’t give #spotify your time, attention, or money. They hate musicians. They hate record labels. They hate you. They love money. They’re generating fake slop and stuffing their playlists full of it. They do it deceitfully by making up artist names and putting the same track out dozens of times under different names, different artists, and different playlists.

And they’re making artists pay (or accept lower royalties) in order to have any hope of appearing.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/?utm_source=mastodon

Reported first by Ted Gioia.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

@scribe if you have Nextcloud (which lots of self-hosters do) you don’t need the Joplin server. Joplin integrates with Nextcloud as a server. One less thing to run.

@patrickcmiller Hacked by peeling back a sticker to see what it was covering.

https://boingboing.net/2023/08/04/hp-printer-usb-port-covered-with-warning-sticker-in-hopes-you-wont-use-it.html