Notices by 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)

@mwl They even sell tampons in a variety of calibers!

@alan @jwildeboer The attacks have thwarted all of those tactics. They use UAs constructed from real UA tokens with minor variations. They have graduated from cheap VMs on Huawei Cloud and Digital Ocean to random IoTs in millions of households and mobile devices in millions of hands.
A few days ago I was able to measure over a thousand simultaneous sessions, each from a different /16 network.
My response to that isn’t taking the site down, but I am shedding load aggressively.

@dalias I bet that analysis assumes the availability of petroleum for the next 50 years, and the wording suggests that you did not even consider the potential for gasoline prices to increase as it becomes harder to extract at scale.

Of course, if the comparison is to "I don’t have or need a vehicle" that's all irrelevant.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116563779075184371

It used to be a point of professional pride for me that I document the work I do very carefully with a goal of informing and assisting my users, my colleagues, and especially my juniors.
The ravening maws of the web scrapers pounding every website I tend, feeding LLMs, make me less proud of that. Has my writing contributed to the false credibility of the slop that I see in support requests and bug reports?
Probably…

@dalias Shared access to purchased items, convenient mechanism for authorization control for things like location and sharing. Members can opt out freely. Each associated cost is tied to whichever member made the purchase.

And yes, those features are golden handcuffs in a problematic family. They’re just conveniences in the many cases where people are happy and eager to remain entangled.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116227754682390432

But also, some, like Apple’s family mechanism, can be quite helpful in non-pathological situations.
Mint falling to standard marketing capture tactics was inevitable when they sold out to the Big Pink T.

@dalias Are you sure that’s not compression? I would think that since they encrypt backups they would also compress them.

Right now is the ideal time for people with positions on the left end of the Overton Window to find offices to run for wearing a big blue D.
Anything. School board. State leg. County clerk. Sheriff.

If you want a real Left party in the US, the only serious strategy is to do to the Dems what the Fash have done to the GOP. Be the party. In the US, it really can be that simple.

RE: https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/116054389334933001

Bud Cort saved my life. Hal Ashby and Ruth Gordon assisted.

I was too young to see it 1st run, but I believe that I watched that film a half-dozen times as a teenager before home video was really a thing, in a movie theater entirely filled with strangers.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@C_Miller/116030930814746740

Gotta be Lady Maggie, right? Minor? Blair?

(Everyone knows it’s Cameron, come on, he was a FREAK)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116023757992738845

IN FACT…
New is sometimes worse, especially in this age of commercial software going insane. Manufacturers keep making machines that need new software to work, and it’s all infested with slop.
I’m not replacing my iPhone 14 until it literally cannot connect or I can safely load an AI-free OS on a newer phone.

Just heard (on NPR, a Brittany Luce interview of doctors) what seemed like an insane stat:

91% of US white men who can benefit from HIV PrEP are receiving it.

That’s gotta be a LOT of straight white guys. The omnipresent ads for various forms of PrEP don’t exactly seem targeted to cishet white guys…

I’m now regretting now not paying a premium ~10 ya because there’s some bit of that Delta on the kitchen sink which is dysfunctional and that likely means a whole new faucet… @dalias https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115855309718560107

@wendynather @JessTheUnstill @ryanc Borrow!?
Is there something I’m misunderstanding about tampons?

It is unfortunate that someone is making it so easy to run a Fediverse site that any child can do it. @Sui https://decayable.ink/objects/46f47332-ab06-44e5-aeae-2680d0e92767

@CliftonR I don’t actually do this anywhere but I do deal with qemu/KVM/libvirt a lot (via OpenNebula) which I understand to also be the backend for virtmanager. The functionality you are looking for is referred to as “device passthrough” in the documentation I’ve seen.

It’s ridiculously funny how much the Right is convinced that there’s a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton.

There wasn’t a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton in 1993. There sure as hell isn’t one NOW. Most living Democrats are probably not old enough to have ever voted for him. Millennials definitively didn’t.

I would bet money that Clinton was technically prosecutable. @leahmcelrath.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3maeoq56ylk22

@whitequark @shironeko @joshix FWIW, ASF also requires CLAs for all contributed code (obviously also under Apache-2) purely as an ass-covering mechanism so that the rights to publish/reuse/modify the code are clear. It’s not clear to me that any open source project can safely accept contributions without some sort of CLA, even if it is purely implied.

@whitequark That or a simple Markov chain.

I've seen bots use composed URLs that have plausible components (e.g. date fields) that do not actually exist but are close enough to correct that it takes multiple seconds to figure out otherwise.

@0xabad1dea I read it as saying that it runs open source models, not that it is itself open source, but in any case, there's nothing that prevents developers of open source software from charging for it, particularly when the platform allows only limited user control of software installation (e.g. iOS)