Pablo Brasero @pablobm@nitech.online

Just to be clear: this is terrible.

Look, if someone wants to (try to) delete something they created off the web because they don't like it, that's fine (probably impossible, but fine). But to delete content simply to cater to one monopoly's algorithm...just chalk this up as the latest reason why large tech companies are poison for this world.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/the-internet-is-not-forever-after-all-cnet-deletes-old-articles-to-game-google/

#Google #monopoly

Nuclear Power Trio - Critical Bass Theory #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TPL_fgUsc

Why is there no video for Downfall?

In response to Google's monopolistic implementation of the Web Environment Integrity, I have a modest proposal:

Open source JavaScript libraries should add bugs which only occur when they find "navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity" is being used.

Go into a "while(true)" loop. Start throwing exceptions randomly. Just fuck up the page. Make the lives of every developer who is in the origin trial who uses your library completely miserable.

If they want to fork, they have the freedom to do so. But then they're taking on the maintenance that they would prefer to outsource to their community.

If you have enough big libraries doing this, it might make a dent.

The zoom terms of service have been updated to require consent to use your call data for AI training. No opt-out possible.

The near-future of proprietary internet is bleak.

Switch to the free internet. Use #jitsi, #bigbluebutton, etc.

https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

Speaking of which, hot new robots.txt entry just dropped:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

@postmodern today, like every other day, active record chose violence

⚠️ Missing Bass ⚠️

If you happen to see this bass guitar anywhere, please let me know. It is one of several that were stolen from my former apartment in Frankfurt at the beginning of the pandemic.

Although an El Cheapo, this one was dear to me.

I realize that the chances are slim, but I still ask around every few months.

#Bass #BlueBelle #Bassist #Basstodon #BassistenGegenRassisten #BassistsAgainstRacists #BassPlayersDoItDeeper

Hey! 👋🏿

I'm Olu, based in London/UK, been a web developer since 2016. Love JavaScript.

Looking for my next #frontend #developer role! Must be #remote, I'm really interested in #accessibility, maintainability and #ethical, impactful work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oluniyiawosusi
https://olu.online

Please boost :)

#getFediHired #jobs #hiring #tooManyHashtags

Okay, Right To Repair folks. Can you please stop implying that Apple is deliberately sabotaging repair every time you run into a calibration problem?

You are seriously embarrassing yourselves and making it impossible for me to support your narrative.

Yes, Apple have had some instances of deliberate parts pairing (often with at least some justification, e.g. security for Face/Touch ID stuff). They also have increasingly detailed per-device and per-part calibration (their attention to detail and quality is not a myth).

Please, please stop pretending like some evil engineer at Apple put in a deliberate sabotage that makes things work badly when you swap random parts. That is completely ridiculous and absolutely not how any of this works. Deliberate pairing makes things stop working (like the aforementioned Face/Touch ID case) or throw up errors or warnings. If stuff is working, just badly, that's not "pairing". That is calibration. You have swapped a part that relies on calibration stored on another part, and with the mismatched calibration, the part won't function to original standards.

I cringe every time I hear stuff like "Apple are anti repair and pairing their Mac screens so that if you swap them the backlight is uneven" or "Apple are anti repair and pairing their iPad screens so if you swap them your Apple Pencil doesn't draw straight lines any more".

You need to stop pushing these ridiculous conspiracy theories and instead focus on reality: these machines are complex, their production is complex, their repair is complex, and just swapping parts around willy nilly may not result in a quality result, and that is normal. Advocate for Apple to provide access to their calibration re-provisioning processes instead, so you can actually get things set up properly and working as intended by the manufacturer. Them not providing those tools sucks and is anti-repair. The product engineering that requires those tools for a proper outcome is not.

And accept the fact that, for some of the stuff you want to do, you're never going to get OEM quality results, because that's just how it goes. If Apple's brand new screen replacement process involves loading factory calibrated backlight uniformity data from a central database, and aging information is only stored locally on device, and you swap a screen with a used one and don't have the aging information any more to transfer over, tough luck. That's engineering. You are running into complex engineering your repair process can't deal with and Apple can't help you with. Not anti repair.

And also, cut it off with random ideas like similar parts not working across different machines being deliberate pairing. I've heard that one about M1/M2 Mac trackpads. Of course those are not interchangeable, they moved the entire controller on-die for M2 and, if they're even truly physically identical at all, they run wildly different onboard firmware! That's not pairing, and claiming it is just means you have no idea how these things work. To clarify: you can replace the trackpads, with the same model. Just not across models.

I hadn't expected Nigel Farage's new banking campaign website to be so frank or attractively designed. Spread the word! https://accountclosed.org.uk

Well, I'm on the #job market. I hold a master in Computational Social Science and am currently based in #Madrid, #Spain.

💻 I am proficient in #R and #SQL, and capable to work with #Python and #QGIS.

🗣️Spanish and English

If anyone has information on any jobs related to Data Analysis, Data Science, Research, etc. I would be very grateful if you could let me know!

#jobsearch

you know what's funny? for a while in 2020 i was wondering if LLMs will leave me without a job, but it increasingly (look at SO, MDN, people saying "I talked to the PDF using AI something") looks like I'll not only have a job forever but I'll be paid considerably more :3

@mcnees One of my all-time favorite tweets was from an attendee at a science talk. The presenter asked "what did Watson and Crick discover?" And from the back of the room someone yelled
"Rosalind Franklin's notes!"

AI-powered news sites are dumb and Redditors managed to trick them https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/ai-powered-news-sites-are-dumb-and-redditors-managed-to-trick-them/

Libraries are great. Support your library.

#Gaming #Nintendo #GamerDad

Accidentally sudoed my beer and now it's root beer 😭