Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you pronounce the word “data” like the Star Trek character? (Day-ta)English1·2 days agoAs more data becomes available
Then we can start doing more with it
And as we do more with it
That that creates more data
As I wrote in the thread about this last month on !linux@lemmy.ml:
I wonder how much work is entailed in transforming Fedora in to a distro that meets some definition of the word “Sovereign” 🤔
Personally I wouldn’t want to make a project like this be dependent on the whims of a US defense contractor like RedHat/IBM, especially after what happened with CentOS.
and, re: “what do you mean ‘redhat is a defense contractor’?!”: here are some links.
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDFEnglish8·6 days agopoe’s law exemplar 😬
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”English3·13 days agowhat surprises me more is that Netanyahu seems to be fine with it?
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzl’s_Mauschel_and_Zionist_antisemitism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Trans Rights in Mexico: Progress and Challenges.English3·22 days agoRussian propaganda
ah yes it’s that notoriously pro-russia website
hrw.org
😂
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Tuxedo OS (Ubuntu-based) with KDE/Wayland - waking from Sleep freezes the computer. Help?English3·23 days agoyou could edit your post title
Have you tried https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/ ?
I have not, but I think it does what you’re looking for.
The demo video emphasizes its use as an emoji picker but it was originally created for typing Indic languages.
i figured this was likely astroturfing by one of the many shitty companies it is advertising, so i went looking for the source. somewhat to my surprise this image was apparently created by reddit user u/theFallenWalnut who’s actually been posting there for over 10 years 🤔
if you check their account you’ll see they’ve actually updated their recommendations to remove several companies (including proton and spotify) which are included in the older version of it posted here.
but, they’re still suggesting lots of garbage.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_consumerism#Criticism
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Trump’s pick for ambassador to South Africa actively opposed fight to end apartheidEnglish7·24 days agoCan a country “choose” the ambassador of another country? That’s counterintuitive to me
Countries choose their own ambassador to another country. The nominee this article is about is from the US.
Separately however, countries can choose to accept or reject the ambassadors other countries send to them. It’s very uncommon to reject them, but actually South Africa’s ambassador to the US was expelled earlier this month. I wouldn’t be surprised if South Africa doesn’t accept Bozell.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Memes@lemmy.ml•"Violence is never the answer" unless it is white people doing itEnglish2·25 days agoif that is the case I choose upper-left of the political compass for you (:
i’m curious, where do you place yourself on that compass? if you’ve got 20 minutes I highly recommend this video about it.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Lemmy@lemmy.ml•[Discussion] Should Lemmy allow mods/admins to edit user post dataEnglish8·25 days agoas a mod/admin, i would appreciate being able to edit post titles. there have been a fair number of times where i asked a poster to do so, and then waited a while for them to before deleting the post if they don’t.
and/or, it would be nice to have a way for us to temporarily semi-delete a post while waiting for OP to make requested changes to it; that is, to hide it from the community view but leave it visible to people with the URL, or people who find it via the user profiles of the poster or commenters in it.
editing titles would be awkward without an edit history or, at the least, a way to see that some 2nd party had edited it, and editing post bodies would be even more so. but it would make sense and be useful with an edit history, i think.
i would also appreciate having content addressability, portable identity, composable moderation, and… perhaps a pony 😂
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•The New Video of Federal Agents Ambushing a Student and Disappearing With Her Should Chill You to Your CoreEnglish63·25 days agoThe government revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa due to her pro-Palestinian activism, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who added the State Department may have revoked more than 300 student visas since the beginning of the second Trump administration.
“It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” Rubio said during a press conference in Guyana on Thursday.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tufts-students-visa-revoked-due-activism-rubio/story?id=120226954
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks likeEnglish14·25 days agoand here i does it for free 🤡
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Where are your militias against government Tyranny?English5·25 days agoGovernment tyranny? Militias are (in the parlance of our times) here for it.
They’ll fight against Border Patrol, and even plot to kill them sometimes, but only when they think they aren’t doing enough.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48029360
https://time.com/6141322/border-vigilantes-militias-us-mexico-immigrants/
https://www.wired.com/story/border-militias-immigrants-trump/
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/07/border-el-paso-fbi-investigation/
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Lemmy Apps@lemmy.world•Remy for Lemmy: Upcoming iOS client app with modern interface and advanced featuresEnglish8·25 days agothree suggestions:
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fyi, since your post links to
https://lemmy.world/c/remy
andhttps://lemmy.zip/c/remy
icymi the preferred way to link to communities (so that everyone can access them via their own home instance) is like this:!remy@lemmy.zip
. When someone types that in the lemmy web interface, it will auto-complete and expand it into link markup like[!remy@lemmy.zip](https://lemmy.zip/c/remy)
, but when that markup is rendered it will actually become a link to access the community via the reader’s home instance. For instance, for me that link will actually go tohttps://lemmy.ml/c/remy@lemmy.zip
where i can interact with the community whereashttps://lemmy.zip/c/remy
will take me to thelemmy.zip
website where i do not have an account. Here is a non-escaped example (my previous examples are all escaped with backtick characters to prevent them from rendering) which anyone should be able to click to load it through their own instance: !remy@lemmy.zip. Please ensure that your client can both generate and follow community links like this! (as well as user links to lemmy and other activitypub things; user links work the same except they’re prefixed withinstead of
!
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you don’t need multiple communities for your app; users from .world can post on .zip and vice-versa (and it is easy for them to if you link to the community the way described above).
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will you ever consider open sourcing it? :)
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At first i thought, wow, cool they’re still developing that? Doing a release or two a year, i see.
I used to use it long ago, and was pretty happy with it.
But looking closer now, what is going on with security there?! Sorry to be the bearer of probably bad news, but... 😬
The only three CVEs in their changelog are from 2007, 2010, and 2014, and none are specific to claws.
Does that mean they haven’t had any exploitable bugs? That seems extremely unlikely for a program written in C with the complexity that being an email client requires.
All of the recent changelog entries which sound like possibly-security-relevant bugs have seven-digit numbers prefixed with “CID”, whereas the other bugs have four-digit bug numbers corresponding to entries in their bugzilla.
After a few minutes of searching, I have failed to figure out what “CID” means, or indeed to find any reference to these numbers outside of claws commit messages and release announcements. In any case, from the types of bugs which have these numbers instead of bugzilla entries, it seems to be the designation they are using for security bugs.
The effect of failing to register CVEs and issue security advisories is that downstream distributors of claws (such as the Linux distributions which the project’s website recommends installing it from) do not patch these issues.
For instance, claws is included in Debian stable and three currently-supported LTS releases of Ubuntu - which are places where users could be receiving security updates if the project registered CVEs, but are not since they don’t.
Even if you get claws from a rolling release distro, or build the latest release yourself, it looks like you’d still be lagging substantially on likely-security-relevant updates: there have actually been numerous commits containing CID numbers in the month since the last release.
If the claws developers happen to read this: thanks for writing free software, but: please update your FAQ to explain these CID numbers, and start issuing security advisories and/or registering CVEs when appropriate so that your distributors will ship security updates to your users!
encryption would prevent the modem from seeing it when someone sends it, but such a short string will inevitably appear once in a while in ciphertext too. so, it would actually make it disconnect at random times instead :)
(edit: actually at seven bytes i guess it would only occur once in every 72PB on average…)