Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@mav @mattblaze I don't think you are the brigade, but your replies here are part of a microaggression pattern that forms the brigade in aggregate. And this is a microaggression folks with important things to say get A LOT on fedi. And it's not cool.

@kattekrab Wow, this is hilarious. I've missed Kelsey since the birdsite burned.

@mav What I'm seeing is people fetishizing the IDEA of content warnings, without regard to what they do and don't help with.

Protecting people from content they aren't interested in doesn't seem very compelling. Protecting people from harm would be, though.

And like all the others, you refuse to provide a specific example of anything I've posted that's harmful.

@mattblaze @mav The ideology of the HOA CW brigade is that people have a duty to compartmentalize themselves into posting categories so that anyone who wants to can consume a part of them without having to think about the other parts of the whole person.

Now, it's possible we may *want* to do something like that with alt accounts, tagging, or whatever, for the people we want to have as our audiences. But when we do that, it's by choice. It's not so that nasty people we don't know get to consome sterilized versions of us that don't challenge anything.

@dotjayne @molly0xfff Sounds like laundering campaign funds into personal slush by pretending to lose it "investing".

@glyph Probably because heavily subsidized LLM chatbots make it cost-effective to target such niches.

@hipsterelectron @whack I can answer that. You can, but only if you give them credentials to connect to your display. If that wasn't needed, other users could connect to steal keystrokes, grab screen contents, pop up fake authentication request modals, etc.

@catsalad @webhat @fullywoolly Was? IRC is still here.

@fullywoolly @catsalad in case you don't know, these are some more IRC classics

http://www.megalomaniac.com/~andrew/funny/bloodcyber.html

@mattwillis @carnage4life Imagine opening a carpentry business where the whole selling point was "we don't have racist creeps you have to let into your house".

Really really stupid advertising antipattern:

"Save $X!" where $X is an order of magnitude more than I'm currently paying your competitor.

All it says is "look how overpriced our shit is".

A very readable explanation of "Entryism" by Dr. Olivia Guest, @olivia, an amazing computational cognitive scientist:

https://olivia.science/entryism/

@silsby @olivia

Here is my core takeaway,

I have a core take away from reading the article:

"I must repeat: just because somebody claims to be anti AI does not mean they are not doing entryism. Sadly, that is (in isolation) entirely consistent with entryism. Yes, these people lie about their beliefs."

Liars going to lie, especially about their beliefs re: AI/LLMs

TIL there's a name for this hostile pattern. https://olivia.science/entryism/

@serfdeweb @geekysteven Yes. It's one where a mother and daughter were both being blackmailed by an abusive partner who was secretly dating(?)/assaulting them both, and they jointly murdered him to escape once they found out about each other. Not knowing it was joint at first made it unusually hard for him to solve IIRC. In the end he arranged for the daughter to get away (flee the country IIRC) while he had the mother confess.

@serfdeweb @geekysteven I love Columbo, but there was one case where, while he did way better than most cops would, he still showed us ACAB. 😭

@hipsterelectron @mathew The thing I care about logs is that they only go to /dev/null 😂

@hipsterelectron @mathew I care about system logs but in totally the wrong way. 😂

@ska @navi I'm very much committed to the Linux model that these layers are separate things with stable public interface surface between them. The BSD model is very much like the systemd model, and it's not a direction I'm interested in pursuing myself (tho, since they're not exerting dominance to force others to adopt it, I'm not against them either).

Whatever happens with Linux, whether it's things being clean enough to fix once the bubble finishes bursting or needing forks or replacements with compatible factorization of components, I'm here with it, and will continue to value folks' work on this. Linus being a tool can't take that away.

@aren All of this makes me want to write up a document on the actually relevant interface surfaces of Linux. They're much smaller than folks realize especially if you're happy throwing out and replacing the parts that are about managing hardware and obscure networking things. The part relevant to ordinary user facing applications is on the order of just tens of syscalls.