🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

#quilting is done! Need to think about the binding. #sewing

"The politics here are obvious. As Brewster Kahle put it, this decision conceives of libraries as "customer service departments for corporate database products." The truth is that libraries are ancient, bedrock institutions. Libraries are older than copyright. They're older than printing. Than paper. Than commerce."

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@pluralistic on the @internetarchive case:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/consequentialism/#dotards-in-robes

Oops! 😅 Github accidentally committed their on SSH private key to a public github repo. They rightly have changed the keys, so you'll get bit scary “WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!” messages.

https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/
#ssh #github #devoops

I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

I see people being deceived by this again and again: ChatGPT can NOT read content from URLs that you give it, but it will pretend that it can (and can be incredibly convincing when it does that)

Constantly debunking this feels like a Sisyphean task, but it's really important to spread this message any time you see anyone falling into this (very understandable) trap

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/10/chatgpt-internet-access/

Question for fellow #webdev out there: I'm trying to remote debug a website on Firefox mobile.

I have Firefox on Android, I enabled USB remote debugging in the browser settings AND in the Developer settings of Android.

Did the same with Firefox on desktop.

Then I connected the two devices with USB.

When I hit about:debugging on desktop though, I see my device no problems, however it's stuck with a "Waiting for browser..." message and no connect button appears.

*pokes head into mastodon*

I wrote a story about an autistic superhero named Paladin (basically What If Captain America was autistic) and I've been given the go-ahead to announce that it'll be appearing in MIGHTY: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes, out later this year

I'm excited about it! I am awkward about it! Bye!!!

first ska president

Periodic request for recommendations of people to follow on Mastodon, since I'm still trying to rebuild my casual "follow for specific topic" list. Topics include:

* Classicists & archeologists, any
* Pigeon enthusiasts
* Official accounts for weather, national parks, aquariums, etc.
* Sled dog folks
* People really into birds and/or trees
* (Especially wildlife rehab folks)
* 3D art folks: clay, carving, that kind of thing
* Biologists who post excited threads about their areas of study