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Diane

alienghic@timeloop.cafe

<p>I like computers, privacy, philosophy, science, and a variety of video games.</p><p>I don&#39;t like rich people trying to rule me or the world</p><p>Profile pic is of an orange cat curled up sleeping next to a plastic sword in a brown fuzzy cat bed on top of a bin of legos.</p>

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  • Post #4361492

    Stupid AI scraping companies filling up my webservers root disk. These ip address ranges were generating the majority of my servers scraper traffic and I just banned them all. (Sorted by traffic generated) 216.73.216.0/22 comment &quot;block claudebot&quot; 47.82.48.0/21 &quot;block alibaba scrapers&quot; 47.79.192.0/19 &quot;block alibaba scrapers&quot; 47.82.14.0/23 &quot;block alibaba scrapers&quot; 47.82.8.0/23 &quot;block alibaba scrapers&quot; 47.82.12.0/23 &quot;block alibaba scrapers&q...

  • Post #3978747

    I have a new challenge. One of my kids friends got banned from Instagram, and apparently tried to create an account on X. I of course said how about mastodon, and kid said &quot;that&#39;s just old people&quot;. So I&#39;d really like to have an alternative to X to suggest. Is there anything on the fediverse that&#39;s decent for teens?

  • Post #2410409

    This is one of the plots that motivates me to keep masking and isolating....

  • Post #2373355

    A friend who&#39;s a professor at CSU campus asked me my opinion about if it&#39;s safe to log into canvas. This was my answer. So I&#39;m not involved in the recovery so I don&#39;t have any certainty. This is Instructures write up but when I read it it seemed pretty useless at this point basically saying we hired some contractors to help us figure out what happened. https://www.instructure.com/incident_update Here&#39;s a security journalist&#39;s write up. https://krebsonsecurity.com/20...

  • Post #2185046

    So because putting food waste into a landfill causes methane leaks and worsens global warming California mandated the use of a compost bin and now compost gets picked up separately from trash. Of course plenty of people are morons and don&#39;t bother reading the signs and so put non-compost into the compost bin. Given the upcoming fertilizer shortages, I wonder if the commercial compost programs are generating sufficiently unpolluted compost that it can actually be used to fertilize crops.

  • Post #2185045

    I added a new steam controller to my cart a few seconds after it was available on May 4th, but it took me until almost 10:30 to get the payment button to work. There were warnings messages saying delivery might take 6-10 days. A shipping label was created this morning and UPS says it should be delivered tomorrow. Good job lowering my expectations there Valve, so you can turn around and beat them.

  • Post #2157961

    Dear Guile documentation Your typographical convention of using single quotes around character literals is confusing to people used to C like languages. char? tests that the argument is a character. Writing the literal as written in the documentation: (guile-user)&amp;gt; (char? &#39;#\a&#39;) While reading expression: #:30:13: unknown character name a&#39; Realizing the quotes were just a typographical convention: (guile-user)&amp;gt; (char? #\a) $20 = #t (Why did NFL try boosting hasht...

  • Post #1647715

    Is it just me or does GNU info not support language localization? The debian guix package installs documentation for a bunch of languages (de, es, fr, (default en), pt_BR, ru, zh_CN). But all the versions get added to my pathetic english speaker&#39;s one info/dir file. It really seems like there should be different info/dir files for different languages. (I guess, congratulations to the guix project for being the first people shipping info documentation in enough languages to make this issu...

  • Post #1642072

    I thought this was interesting. It&#39;s the FRED &quot;Motor Vehicle Retail Sales: Domestic and Foreign Autos&quot; chart for the USA It&#39;s kind of interesting how car sales started dropping in 2014, and hit a new low in covid and have never recovered.

  • Post #1604814

    Oh I looked in my email and the EFF is looking to get people to lobby against an age gating law for California that would ban anyone under 16 from social media and require everyone else to provide government ID to access social media. https://eff.salsalabs.org/stopcasocialban/index.html AB 1709 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1709

  • Post #1384523

    My Bluesky using spouse asked if Mastodon was gloating today. I said yes.

  • Post #1367846

    This cat thinks all the human food is for him. This is the one that also ate my sourdough.

  • Post #1367845

    Kid&#39;s playing Tomadachi Life and just said &quot;have to play the stupid mini game to get lesbians&quot;

  • Post #1367844

    I searched aliexpress for #Debian and this was the first item. (They have other colors too)

  • Post #944668

    Whee. Evolution says there&#39;s mail in my work exchange folder but says no message satisfies my search criteria There is no search criteria. My Firefox can&#39;t log into outlook.office365.com Chromium could log into the website, and my mail is there. I hate Microsoft software so much. Their quality was never good, and after OpenAI and Copilot it&#39;s even worse.

  • Post #944667

    Reporting from Ukraine had a story of how Ukraine sent some of their drone interceptor teams to the gulf, and have been effective in shooting down Iranian shaheds. This leads to an interesting possible outcome. What if it&#39;s Ukraine that reopens the Straight of Hormuz? I bet, that&#39;d get Ukraine a lot of positive diplomatic attention, while making the USA look even more like an aging power well past its prime.

  • Post #901270

    I&#39;ve been thinking about wars leading to rolling blackouts for civilians, and went searching for how Ukrainians have been dealing with it. I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZwSlaT2IGc So the first solution was to get large rechargeable power blocks like the ecoflow, with smaller power banks for his router and LED strip lighting. Then the outages got longer and he got a generator, (and then another better generator because the ecoflow is picky about what power it will ac...

  • Post #851297

    Given my problems with climate depression I should probably be smacked over the head with this book. &quot;I wanted, in this horrible moment, to remind people that what the far right is doing globally, I think, is largely backlash. A new world is being born, and they’re basically trying to abort it. Which is a little ironic, given their views on abortion.&quot; https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/rebecca-solnit-slow-revolution-far-right-cannot-tolerate

  • Post #833119

    There&#39;s a story that 413,793 kit kats were stolen. that seems like a weird number to me, I thought usually if you were shipping something it&#39;d be in friendly human comprehensible boxes. So I decided to factor that number. 3 * 3 * 23 * 1999 seems like a weird set of numbers for boxes. https://apnews.com/article/nestle-switzerland-candy-bar-stolen-kitkat-51073cce27a0e193651aa7f31aaa506e

  • Post #532773

    Will our present be considered part of world war 3?

  • Post #288935

    I just had a fun and useful idea for &quot;Ok, Google&quot; on a phone. My forgetful kid who keeps losing their phone says. &quot;Ok Google, Marco&quot; And the phone says back &quot;Polo&quot;. This repeats until they find their phone.

  • Post #288934

    Screams in tormented AI hater. I updated my lineage phone and it offered &quot;Summarize long messages and group conversations to get quick recaps&quot; Turn on in settings? I don&#39;t want turn on, I want &quot;remove from filesystem&quot;.