Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one
- github
- https://github.com/f1337
- thought larder
- https://f1337.dev
((giant-ginger-giraffe.gif)). Full stack web engineer. Past: NCC Group (née Artemis), VA.gov, Chase Mobile, Resource (now IBM/IX), Disney.com, StarWars.com, Weedmaps.com.
🎮 Playing: #GuildWars2, #OxygenNotIncluded, #DysonSphereProgram, #Pokemon
📚 Reading: #TheLostMetal by #BrandonSanderson
🎧 Listening: #StickFigure, #TheVioletBurning, on repeat.
🧑💻 Working with: #Ruby, #Rails, #Javascript, #Golang, #Docker.
💩 Opinions: mine.
Tired. #ActuallyAutistic. he/him/mf.
Joined May 2019
I wouldn’t have guessed that DMs would be the catalyst for #Twitter refugees to lose faith in #Mastodon.
To be fair, I did expect the unfriendliness of pre-existing #Fediverse communities to be the actual reason, and I’m not wrong on the meta observation.
A large chunk of the intersection of Black + queer + tech communities from Twitter have already given up on the Fediverse, due to the entrenched baditudes here.
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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Every time I see reports of Russia designing their own fundamental tech I think of how US agencies have to be licking their chops. They'll have far fewer legal restrictions about what they can hit; their targets will have so many fresh vulnerabilities and there will be no obligation to disclose.
https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/110300669694591368
This silly argument usually comes from people who look like me, and who think that the loudest voice wins any argument. They’re the ones stinking up every team meeting with their objectively noxious opinions.
Which is precisely why they promote this “marketplace of ideas”. It is to their advantage, as they are the screamers.
The “beat them at ideas” sentiment is based on objectively false assumptions, such as:
1. The truest/best idea will be the most popular. History tells us that myths spread faster than truth, and that truth is violently rejected at first. (germ theory)
2. The minds capable of imagining the truest/best ideas are also great & witty debaters. Quite the opposite, many such minds are neurodivergent, or introverted, and have a hard time communicating big ideas to “typical” peers.
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months
And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*
As of ~4 months ago, 28% of Americans have experienced #LongCovid:
https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/long-covid-what-do-latest-data-show/
Dear random #boomer #trucker giving me a cold stare for wearing a mask, at a West Virginia travel stop:
1 in 5 #COVID infections lead to permanent #disability. I’m not OK with those odds, for me, or my family.
However, I think we can both agree that we find those odds quite acceptable for you. 😘
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone, this time from Norway: in 2022, a 28yo man filmed a uniformed police officer assault his two 26yo friends. The officer took his phone, turned it towards him to unlock it and deleted the video. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/8J7A5w/politivolden-i-kongsberg-dette-vet-vi
“No I didn’t come to play,
Spill the tea, and pass the jay.” — Didn’t Come To Play, by Dope St Jude. From the Resilient EP.
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@chort @thegrugq @tomatospy Agreed. Expertise is the combination of knowledge, skills and *experience.* Which is why training isn’t enough. You have to experience many different situations in #infosec.
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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I was inspired by this great write-up on operating your own email server by @jwildeboer : https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/ (Worth a read!). So I sat down and built some automation around this excellent blog post.
Long story short here's "version 0.1" of a dockerised mailservice: It features SMTP and IMAP servers, supports TLS (via letsencrypt), DKIM/DMARC for sending and receiving, and comes with a monitoring suite.
Set-up requires only minimal configuration.
Check it out at https://github.com/t-lo/mailserver .
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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I will never criticize anyone for worrying about follower counts on social media because I live in the United States where a few thousand more followers might be the only thing that saves you when you launch your seemingly inevitable medical emergency GoFundMe.
@hl
“The piece of resistance“ per the Lego movie.
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.
I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.
Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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Shameless plug: thanks to some hard work by my awesome iCloud Keychain colleagues, all your keychain secrets are belong to you. They’re end-to-end encrypted and we have no way to read them: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/icloud-keychain-security-overview-sec1c89c6f3b/1/web/1
@ahmetasabanci
The American version of that idiom is darker: “their parents didn’t beat/whip them enough”.
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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As of iOS and iPadOS 16.4, web apps saved to your Home Screen support badging!
We've heard questions about the deets, so we wrote a blog post with the deets.
https://webkit.org/blog/14112/badging-for-home-screen-web-apps/
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
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Claiming that large language models will give rise to AGI is like me saying, "Soon my toaster will be making bread from scratch."
- github
- https://github.com/f1337
- thought larder
- https://f1337.dev
((giant-ginger-giraffe.gif)). Full stack web engineer. Past: NCC Group (née Artemis), VA.gov, Chase Mobile, Resource (now IBM/IX), Disney.com, StarWars.com, Weedmaps.com.
🎮 Playing: #GuildWars2, #OxygenNotIncluded, #DysonSphereProgram, #Pokemon
📚 Reading: #TheLostMetal by #BrandonSanderson
🎧 Listening: #StickFigure, #TheVioletBurning, on repeat.
🧑💻 Working with: #Ruby, #Rails, #Javascript, #Golang, #Docker.
💩 Opinions: mine.
Tired. #ActuallyAutistic. he/him/mf.
Joined May 2019
