Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

this whole article is *excellent*
https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/patriarchy-masterclass

@rmondello thank you for the debunk, I had three people send me that in the last sixteen hours asking for my opinion

It’s also curious how its by a seemingly anonymous author on a new blog with zero other posts

@TetroniMike Ricky,on the other hand, is someone I trust: https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/117428258722253709

@janl yeah, reinforces why I’ve stopped reading that guy

they call it a homophone of “clod” because using it makes you as dumb as dirt.

it’s in the name, it must be true

@mcc in my experience they tend to double down on this and get angry about it when you start asking about the effects of the technical details, like power consumption or bitcoin’s deflation, as if those things don’t actually matter because they’re not technical details

@glyph I recall often a line from the infamous “Programming Sucks” post:

Why do we tell you to turn it off and on again? Because we don’t have the slightest clue what’s wrong with it, and it’s really easy to induce coma in computers and have their built-in team of automatic doctors try to figure it out for us.

RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/117422926253160092

👀

@sciss I made my own moduleset that works over rj45/cat5/6;

three boards but ended up working out, with jacks, to cost $5 per module in parts. I’ve been meaning to OSS it and sell printed board kits

“Depends on the cat cable chosen” thankfully it’s relatively easy to get quality cables

I also don’t think it would be that hard to DIY up a DB25 version

@sstephenson probably too much work, but I know someone who uses an RSS downloaded on their NAS to feed podcasts into an Audiobookshelf collection and then listens to them through Prologue ( https://prologue.audio ), an excellent audiobook player for iOS that also works with Plex

Again, it’s probably too much work,

But as a happy Prologue user, it was my reason for setting up Audiobookshelf in addition to Jellyfin as I move off Plex

@thomasfuchs it’s the same thing in Washington State, though it’s hard to blame them as the blue trifecta makes it impossible for them to get laws passed any other way

@janl yes; though I replaced the backup to my NAS with borg; it’s a lot more efficient so far

@janl 9GB, for a backup set with a budget of 1TB

@mcc there’s a handful of good reasons but the primary one is that your credential management apparatti are typically not available in electron but are available in your primary web browser; this method prevents normalizing the idea that one should copy/paste their passwords

@TetroniMike I’m of multiple minds about Passkeys – particularly if you’re running multiple password managers,

but ultimately I consider them a Good Thing on the basis of “the people who strongly hate them tend to be bad people” and “the proponents of them tend to be good people like @rmondello "

I’ve come to think of them as I do SSH keys, which are the software equivalent of near-field passcards for doors

they’re just another factor that augments TOTP codes or passwords or SMS codes or whatever; but fundamentally unphishable,

and when a login provider doesn’t let you register multiple passkeys push back on that, because unlike TOTP there are perfectly valid reasons to have multiple passkeys

It’s always bittersweet when my propensity for edge-cases benefits others

“Hold on, I have to download this neighborhood’s parking app”

- things said because other people are utterly deranged

We don't take your data and sell it to the highest bidder.
We don't watch your every move and advertise to you based on what we see.
We don't routinely get sued for privacy violations.
We don't shove AI down your throat at every opportunity.
We don't have endless scroll designed to keep you engaged.

Every time I hear someone talking about an MCP server I just assume they’re paying tribute to this one

@thomasfuchs then again, I also rank Ruby down there with AppleScript in “languages I’d rather go through another hellish dental implant/extraction procedure then work seriously in again”, so that that with all the salt you need