Dæmon S.
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I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@shads@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
LOL! It's a funny thing from us Brazilians: whenever we see/hear mentions of either Brazil and/or unique national/regional Brazilian aspects, we tend to get this ecstatic feeling of "Brazil mentioned". Glad you people enjoyed it! 😄
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Dæmon S.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social
As a 30 y.o. Brazilian, I'd add that there's breadth of nationalities as well, even though most Fediverse instances are often biased to a defaultist, US-centric worldview.
And such an existence of biases leads me to a point of your post:people finding their communitiesWhich, unfortunately, haven't been my case. Even when it comes to the aspect that has been the most important of my existence in the recent years, spirituality, those who could share a similar (syncretic) belief seem to be mostly at Facebook, TikTok and Telegram, platforms I permanently left a long time ago.
It seems to me, at least this is my sensation when I browse Lemmy and Mastodon, that the Fediverse userbase mostly leans towards either atheism or mainstream beliefs.
Add the inherent discrete nature of occultism and finding Gnostic/Lilithian/Thelemite/Luciferian/Goetian/etc kinship is like trying to find a "Dark Forest" (a nod to the "Dark Forest Hypothesis") within a light-millennia worth of cosmic void, a forest in a planet where the atmosphere may not even allow the kind of spaceship I'm aboard (a Lucifer-centered circle I used to participate, for example, didn't accept my transition to a more syncretic, Lilith-centered belief).
Also add the fact that I do not fully belong to any specific label (notice how I listed several belief systems in my previous paragraph, followed by the "etc"; that's because my belief borrows from each of those systems, plus other belief systems and pantheons I didn't extensively mention, some are said to be "dead religions" and/or "mythologies" nowadays, such as Sumerian where Ereshkigal is described), that I don't fully take an entire "worldview pack", instead borrowing from several "worldview packs" to build my own idiosyncratic worldview, and I'm kind of fated to belong nowhere at all.
Sometimes I become too frustrated with how my content in the Fediverse is mostly met with silence or hollow/numeric reactions, but then I remember it's not exactly the Fediverse to blame, it's simply because I've been in the wrong places. But then the "correct places" don't even seem to exist, at least when it comes to the entirety of my worldviews in all of their depth and breadth.
I mean, I know a few Sumerian cuneiforms and words (from dingir/digir "a divine name" to uš "death" and mušen "bird"), it doesn't mean I'd be able to fully live in Akkadia if the city still existed today. Similarly, I've been studying owl-centered ornithology a lot lately, it doesn't mean I fit Lemmy's superbowl community whose focus is mainly scientific (while mine is esoteric, with strigiformes, as I believe, being one of the zoomorphic manifestations from Stolas (a teacherly prince, knOWLedgeable of astronomy) and, most importantly, Mother Queen Lilith).
So, I'd say people finding their communities is not a certain aspect of the Fediverse, even the current Web as a whole, a digital mirror of a world where things have been so polarized...
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Dæmon S.
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@shads@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Brazilian Portuguese: “Por gentileza, empilhe as cadeiras ao final do dia”.
If colloquial or more informal translations are desired:
- “Empilhar as cadeiras não faz cair a mão” (roughly “you won’t lose your hands if you take the time to stack the chairs”)
- “ô mossss, empilhascadêra fazenofavô?” (A very informal transcription from “Mineiro” (people from the state of Minas Gerais) accent for “Hey girl/boy, [can you] stack the chairs, doing [everyone] a favor [please]?”
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al @vicfroh@mastodon.social This! And I'd add another annoying one: YouTube. It's been more than a year that I ditched YouTube, still sometimes I receive YouTube links, even from people here in Fediverse (where we got a platform called Peertube).
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Dæmon S.
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@MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Humans are normally busy with all sorts of things that make them busy: working, dealing with social duties, etc. When they get some time free, they're too exhausted to do their own research (that is, if they know how to do research, which most humans don't), so they turn on the television (or their favourite YouTube channel) and listen to whatever the simulacrum says:...when the radio came, and I suppose now television, anything that came through that new machine was believed. (Orson Welles)Therefore, being able to read conspiracy theories as deeply as possible, being able to do one's own research, being able to spend nights on books and articles, it requires one to be unemployed or, at best, having some kind of job that doesn't drain them mentally and allows for flexible time.
Also, there's this "Boy crying wolf" dilemma when it comes to conspiracy theories: the same places where one can discover about Bilderberg Meetings before they became officially disclosed annual event, is the same place swearing that the Earth is some kind of DVD disc ruled by extraterrestrial lizards. I used to be an avid participant of conspiracy theory communities (not 4chan, but Orkut and Telegram communities) and a conspiracy theorist myself, but these nonsensical theories were part of the reason why I departed both from conspiracy theory communities, and from christianity as well, as I began to realize how "satanic panic" was christian bigotry.
For most people, the busy and vampiric mundane life, alongside the perception of "craziness" when it comes to conspiracy theories, contributed to this boiling frog phenomenon.
But, yeah, lots of conspiracies, once theories, became fulfilled, and became integrated into the normalcy.
Maybe "ignorance is a bliss" (Cypher, The Matrix), and not knowing what will happen beforehand gives one the necessary delusions to keep their biological existence going.
Unfortunately, this is no longer my case for more than a decade. And now, with the once-conspiratorial internet ID ("age check", now extended to OSes so, essentially, "internet ID") helped cemented my long-standing hopelessnes... Because, now, as someone who departed from Christianity into the very opposite belief (devoted to The Dark Mother Goddess), but still surrounded by mostly christian people (and this includes potential employers, buyers and merchants), the slightest leak (purposeful and whatnot) of my real legal identity tied to my openly, mostly-occultist online activity will further cement my social ostracisation (being refused from jobs because the employers will see my online activity tied to my age check and argue that I "worship the devil" or something). But, yeah, "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", people say...
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Dæmon S.
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Together with the persistence from Google to keep their measures against "sideloading" in 2027, this means the apps I currently use (such as Fennec) will become unavailable. And if circumvention requires enabling developer tools, it's not an option for those who, like me, have a single smartphone, the only phone avaiable for internet banking apps and gov apps which refuse to work when developer mode is turned on.
And, oh, can't really toss "my" phone away: gov requires me I have the damn app, Bank requires me I have the damn OTP token and this requires the damn app. Stores require me to pay digitally, either card (which requires the bank app on "my" phone) or digital transfer (idem). If I ever get a job again, I won't be receiving my paycheck as cash money, so I must have a bank to receive the paycheck, and the bank requires... you guessed it: the damn phone. I can't say "no", or I'll continue socially ostracized as I already am, and the only refuge would be the Web...
... except the web I've been a digital refugee from the physical world, including the Fediverse as a whole, will eventually surrender to age check (hence, to implementing a mechanism that will link my pseudonym with my IRL identity). Which is not really surprising, it's pretty much expected when we humans became too anesthesized with hopes of "comfort" and "safety", until it eventually ricochets against the very confort and safety we craved for.
This world is dripping of madness. But, hey, I am the one who must seek psychiatrical treatment, amirite? After all, I'm the "depressed" one, I'm the suicidal one, I am the one harming myself and wishing my own death, I'm not sane as anyone can see. Sure, anyone can realize how society is totally sane and okay, it's just that "for my security" I must now scan my face to prove I'm not a kid, then hope my real ID doesn't get leaked for potential evangelical employers to discover my religious belief.
And, oh, I wouldn't even be able to sue whichever website or platform, fediverse or not, leaked my ID, when it ends up happening: because I once (was compelled to) "accepted" the terms, the tiny mischievous legalese letters stating that I exempted them from responsibility regarding my biometric data, and because it would require paying a lawyer being an unemployed. My only option would be to shut up and accept how my real name is now labeled as "devil worshiper" inside some HR database and automatically being refused a job whenever I tried to send them my resume.
But hey, we must protect the kids no matter what! 👼 (just pretend there's no abuse going on offline, inside schools and households, it's important we protect the kids from the "evil social media", even if the cost is having socially-persecuted people getting a giant label on their foreheads containing their internet pseudonyms for every employer and authority to see)
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Dæmon S.
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Oh, now this explains why Mastodon.social removed the Live Feed feature: "protect the kids!" I'm not expecting that this "interdisciplinary age-verification working group" is anything else but becoming another obedient cattle and add another vulnerability vector tying online identities to IRL identities (be it face biometrics, government-emitted ID or both).
These people, such as Mastodon administrators, they're giving a fuck about people who, like me, need a pseudonym so we can express ourselves religiously and politically amidst a surrounding society where our specific socially-unsanctioned expression leads to unemployability and, worse, even tyranny from state authority (e.g. cops and judges) if tied to our IRL names.
Yes, because when a statue (Lucifer/Baphomet) owned by a legit Quimbanda temple is seized by the judiciary because local evangelicals got too frightened by it, or a mãe de santo (a woman leader of a terreiro, which is the sacred gathering place for Afro-Brazilian religions), who was refused a car ride by a bigoted evangelical, gets accused by a judge to be "the intolerant one" (in the eyes of the judge, it was not the evangelical who shouted the cliché "devil banishing" punchline "sangue de jesus tem poder" to her and refused her the nonfree ride thus causing her moral and social harm: in the eyes of the judge who's probably evangelical themselves, it was her for being "litigious" with the "innocent evangelical man"), this means if my pseudonym gets tied to my real identity (and no matter how "safe and anonymous" are the age checking systems, digital leaks will happen sooner or later), suddenly HRs and employers, potentially evangelicals, will know I'm an occultist, suddenly an evangelical cop in a blitz will know I'm an occultist, and I'll become further ostracized... that is, if I don't end up being detained or jailed for any random reason that a cop, the one with the badge and the gun, not me, decides so.
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev @SirHaxalot@nord.pub @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Exactly! This, too. I forgot to mention it in the reply I just sent to SirHaxalot. And given the GDPR "Right to be forgotten", an authorization must be revocable, so this means an authorization must be re-validated, even if this doesn't necessarily mean having to go through the age check flow all over again.
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@SirHaxalot@nord.pub @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
One scenario I can imagine of is an age check from someone who's still legally a minor (I'm not sure whether the age check would check for minors faces, I can think of platforms intended to minors, e.g. schools and gaming, having to check if the user is not an adult, but it's just my speculation), who tries again some time later when they're legally into adulthood. If the token isn't validated, they'd be stuck into a perpetual "minor" label.
Sure, a token could be not returned by the wallet if the age check fails (i.e. if the user is a minor), but the associated credentials (email, phone number, username) would be tied, database-wise, to a failed age check attempt, and those teens will one day become adults, and a system shouldn't lock them out forever. Hence the need for re-validation.
Also, depending on how the token is built and stored, it may or may not have an expiration timeout. In computing systems, it's common practice for tokens and sessions to have an expiration date (just like logged in sessions will eventually log out and ask for logging in again). It's different from having to do the age check again: it's simply about renewing the token that identifies someone as adult, someone who already did the age check, with the wallet simply returning the renewed token without demanding the user to go through the age check flow again.
Another scenario: imagine a relative's phone being pick-pocketed/stolen by the kid during late night, and the kid somehow knows the relative's password/pin/pattern or even uses the relative's finger to the biometric sensor to unlock it, all during the relative's sleep. Then they head into the "forbidden fruit website", which happens to be accessed by the relative as well, so it means that the website is already authorized with the relative's wallet. I can see govs foreseeing this situation and requiring that websites always re-validate the authorization before effectively letting the user into the website's "adult" content.
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@ageedizzle@piefed.ca @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
When Facebook and/or Instagram asks for ID (something that have been taking place for years, I myself had to send my driver's license alongside a selfie holding it when I used to use Facebook several years ago), it needs to be manually checked by Facebook staff. The account stays in a "locked state" before the ID is approved, so it's essentially a "need-to-apply" situation. I also remember seeing TikTok asking for people's IDs, way before this age checking thing (part of the process to monetize a TikTok channel), with the account being locked out of the monetization sections of the website before the ID is approved. Google does the same for Youtube and other parts that involve money (such as Google Cloud Platform and Google Ads so to embed ads into a website).
Indeed the number of applications is sheer, but the amount of admins/staff they have at their disposal to check all those applications is also bigger than most Fediverse instances could dream of.
Then there's also AI (corp-grade, not the average ChatGPT we people have access to) automatizing the flow, not as the ultimate approval, but more as a filtering mechanism (discarding selfies/ID photos that are clearly not a selfie/ID) so the staff has to check just what seems like legit selfies/IDs photos.
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@warm@kbin.earth @Ladislawgrowlo@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml @SirHaxalot@nord.pub Depends if the wallet records data of what site required verification.They have to.
Otherwise, the wallet wouldn’t be able to verify whether the website is authorized to request age check (say, if a website asks the wallet’s API “Hey, please hand me the age checking token for the email foo@bar.baz which you checked for me some time ago, they’re trying to access the gatekept sections of my website again”, the wallet needs to be sure that this website did request it previously and is not trying to exfiltrate someone else’s data), or the person wouldn’t be able to know which sites previously got their age checking data (eventually the users will have lots of websites where they previously had to check their age, and as part of GDPR’s “Right to be forgotten”, they’d need to be sure which ones they would want to revoke previously handled data).
The Age check authn+authz flow isn’t unidirectional (i.e only the wallet handing out the result of age check to a website). In a nutshell, it works this way (at least, it’s how I think, as a DevOps formerly accustomed with building APIs for websites, how it would work):
- User requests to access sensitive (“adult”) content from a website.
- Website requests the user to check their age.
- User agrees to proceed with age check.
- Website redirects the user to the governmental wallet
- The wallet asks for user authentication and/or 2FA (“open the gov app” or something)
- After authentication and/or 2FA flow within the gov app, the gov app redirects the user to an OAuth endpoint within the original website, alongside a unique token
- The Oauth endpoint will be invoked by user’s browser’s request, then the website will check the wallet API if this token is valid.
- Gov wallet will check if this website previously went through a flow, then will check the requested token and answer “yes” to the website’s endpoint.
- Website redirects the user to the walled-garden they requested initially, storing the token both server-side and, indirectly, in the client-side via the framework session id (things such as PHPID cookie key-value pair which identifies a session_start() for PHP websites)
Notice how both the website and the wallet need to communicate in order to establish the authorization needed for the user to access the website.Any amount of privacy being eroded is bad.Yeah… Fully agree. And, sadly, this is becoming “normalcy”… ☹
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@SirHaxalot@nord.pub @asklemmy@lemmy.mlit will also not feel nearly as invasive as having to scan your face and hope the provider doesn’t save it somewhere.Even when anonymized, the information may still ship with some PII (Personally Identifiable Information). That's how the user can be checked as the one requesting access (because a kid could be using their relatives' account, so the age check checks not just the age, but also who's checking the age). For age checking systems without direct PII (name, social security numbers, etc), there's still some kind of UUID that will persist across requests, so it'll essentially work as a tracking cookie.
The result from the age check, anonymized or not, still needs to be saved, and once saved, it's already a slippery slope: it will be used for "better" advertisement, it will be used for "better" algorithmic recommendations, it will be used to keep track of users behaviors online.
Alongside AI (not the LLMs we, the "mortal people", have access, but things way more "sophisticated" in that regard), they could keep cross-reference an "anonymized age check token/UUID" to a real person solely by relying on the increased digital footprint: then, all of a sudden, the health insurance gets to know the sexual habits of someone and can promptly raise prices when they detect the imminence of sexual problems/complains, the renting corp gets to know their tenant got "frequent sexual activity" (or, even worse, some specific kinds of "kinks") that could (in their bigoted minds) do some damage to the walls, so they can suddenly change the renting contract or raise prices to cover for wall painting, both parties can now know the political preferences (do we wonder why the US branch of TikTok is now asking for "immigration status" for US citizens? How could they possibly know the SSN for an USian TikTok user? The age checking, be it something already being done in the US or something that will become a reality soon (I'm not updated in this regard), is part of the "how").
That's the "Big Data" in action: crossing swathes of information across systems and databases, and corp-grade AI is another mechanism to achieve this.Imo something like this would be magnitudes better than the current reliance of video identificationTo some extent, indeed it is. But, in practice, it just delegates the video identification to the government (the citizen info is tied to biometrics, and authentication using things such as "EU wallet" may need 2FA with face biometrics within the government-backed app). There's still going to be face recognition somewhere down this "age checking" road, be it corp-backed or government-backed.
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@Ladislawgrowlo@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Countries don't need Great Firewalls for things that are becoming "consensus" globally (such as biometrics for web access): the way Internet works is, itself, a Great Firewall. Govs govern over their respective ccTLDs, telecom regulators (FCC, Anatel, etc) govern ISPs, as well as EM allocation (so Meshtastic and similar radio approaches for Internet-less networks could also be ruled "unlawful" whenever they want). IANA governs which countries and ISPs got which sets of IP numbers (IPv4/IPv6), ICANN governs TLD attribution to countries and corps (there are corps with their own TLDs, such as .google, ICANN is always involved as the ultimate "DNS keepers"). Then there are things such as CloudFlare, increasingly omnipresent (insofar large swathes of the Web go down whenever CloudFlare goes down). So the Internet is already heavily centralized, making it trivial for countries to enforce something when said thing transcends geographical boundaries, such as the "protect children".
Great Firewalls are only a thing for imposing local politics, and it's not always recognized as so: Brazil, for instance, have already been banning apps and platforms (ANATEL have been taking down entire IPTV servers, judiciary have been taking down social media platforms; I'm not entering the merit of it, just saying it's already a thing around here), and we don't hear "Brazil has a Great Firewall".
We could think that corps are implementing checking mechanisms unwillingly. In fact, they're the ones who profit the most: age checking means a new fingerprinting factor, even when age checking is "anonimized" (it still got a unique session identifier, moreso than commonly-used fingerprinting mechanisms). Ad partners are cheering!
Dark web: as much as I'm fond of it and used to participate there (Onion, I2P, former "Freenet" now "Hyphanet", among others), they're also reliant on Internet infrastructure. And when there are fewer countries where there's still a regulation vacuum, there are fewer places to use as a bridge/router.
Then, something I didn't mention before because it wouldn't fit the char limit: the hardware and software oligopolies. No matter which OS and software we use, we're still reliant on Intel, AMD or Qualcomm processors. We're also still reliant on two major browser engines (Chromium and Firefox). The Tor Browser needs to be run inside a device with a CPU, and it also needs... a browser engine. Both engines are going down the AI road, maybe browser forks (inc. Tor Browser) are still managing to prune the clankers from the upstream, but the upstream is still needed to implement the fork, and the upstream can easily be bundled with binary blobs as dependencies for fundamental functions in the software (similarly to how, e.g., Windows Shell is dependent on Microsoft Edge so Edge can't be pruned without crashing the whole OS)
Web is so entangled, it's becoming increasingly hard to avoid the enshittification. ☹
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@Ladislawgrowlo@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Let us think outside the box for a bit.
First, we already see a phenomenon going on with Fediverse, and Web as a whole: invite-only and/or need-to-apply places. Because of multiple factors (bots, trolls, AI DDoS+crawling), there are fewer places where one can simply have an account without the need for approval from someone else (the instance admins) or needing to know someone to join the "closed club". This means places are already imbuing themselves with gatekeeping, one where it's not so trivial to get approval, especially if someone has no Web history to prove themselves, a lack of "verifiable Web history" of which applies both for introvert adult people and for children as well. In practice, Fediverse and other niche places feel like they're are already kind of gatekept against children.
Then there's this requirement shared among those laws being implemented worldwide, "meaningful mechanisms to check age". I can see govs and corps coming up with some kind of API, a centralized "age validator" entity.
Using the country I reside as an example: gov.br already has an API so websites and platforms can allow logging in with a CPF ("Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas", Brazilian legal ID). Back in the pandemics, I received, as a DevOps, a freelancer job request to integrate a website with the gov.br API system for validating COVID-19 Vaccination status (at the time, I refused because I was already working on something else, and also because I don't like dealing with bureaucracies). But this means that any website could, essentially, check the user's age by redirecting the user to gov.br auth flow and requesting the official Date of birth. gov.br login has 2FA using facial biometrics via their governmental app. Currently, many Brazilian businesses deal with Pix (instant payment system maintained by the Brazilian Central Bank) through its official APIs because they're being socially compelled to accept Pix as a means of payment. Pix is becoming a model for instant payment worldwide, many countries are copying Brazil's Pix (in turn, copied from India while improving the existing Indian payment system).
So it's just a matter of time before we see countries copying gov.br, with corp platforms adding gov-kept authn+authz of citizens to their systems.
Then, back to Fediverse: even if instances decide not to implement age checking, let us remember Fediverse, even when "self-hosted", is still part of the Internet, a infrastructure dependent on ICANN/IANA, ISPs, ASNs, overseas fiber cables, national DNS authorities (e.g. registro.br for Brazilian ccTLD websites), etc. So it's pretty trivial for countries to mandate something: upon refusal of compliance, a country could simply cut the dissident from the countrywide DNS, and/or request ISPs to block the access...
So, I can foresee a near future where there's no country left without this kind of law, and Fediverse as a whole is compelled into implementing this.
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@abbadon420@sh.itjust.works @not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone @programmer_humor@programming.dev
I didn't know about this specific syntax you mentioned (import foo.bar as baz; what I'm aware and I use frequently is something like e.g. const log = console.log.bind(console)), I'm not even sure if it works as all my import use cases involve something installed from NPM or a relative-folder module file.
But sometimes it's useful, and better, to have parametrized randomness, as in my helper functions I keep reusing across my personal projects:
export const rand = (n, x) => Math.random() * (x - n) + n
export const irand = (n, x) => Math.round(rand(n, x))
export const choose = a => a[irand(0, a.length-1)]
(yeah, my choose helper lacks a proper verification of the input parameter, will return undefined if the array is empty or is not an array, but, well, it's for personal projects so I don't really worry about that; also I've been using Ruby more than I use JS, and Ruby got beautifully native array.sample and Random.rand(a..b))
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Just a curated sample of pictures that resonate with me and my current essence (two are pictures I personally drawn). This is the most "family-friendly" material I could curate from ten thousand pictures, photos and drawings across the phone gallery.
This is a kind of artistic content that could very easily end up loosely labeled "illegal, anti-democratic, false-fact or hateful". Does the previous statement sound too exaggerated and hyperbolic from my part? Think deeper about those pictures, what (and Who) are being described, what the underlying principles are, do some reverse search if you don't know about what's/who's being depicted in each of the pictures, and if you still got some apolitical perception of causality detached from the mundane, you'd realize how it could very easily be said to be "complicated" for "safety" and banned, prohibited, criminalized, forbidden from being expressed. I'm REALLY not exaggerating or doing some kind of victimization here, I really wish I were...
Fediverse is like the few places left where there's no christian fundamentalism (I wonder why the heck most pagan and occult practitioners still use Facebook, Instagram and X, when all those platforms end up amplifying the mainstream christianity). But then many secularists, seemingly the majority of the Fediverse userbase, end up behaving exactly or similarly to how fundamentalist christians do.
"Let's keep the fediverse safe and pleasure for all". I guess "safety" and "pleasure", at least in most people's subjective dictionary entry for "safe", wouldn't really have room for this kind of content, would they? And I didn't even include pictures with explicit snakes (in respect to people with ophidiophobia, just beware the Ouroboros from the second and third pictures, as well as the pair of snake-horns from the sixth picture) or explicit non-sexual nudity (as in Venus figurines, statue of Ereshkigal, etc; some pictures contain low-res depictions of breasts, namely the second and third pictures, too low-res to be really distinguished) in this curated list of images.
Oh, and I didn't even say about the ID requirement for online content as more and more countries are pushing down citizens throats, with online activity tied to ID, then suddenly mine and many other's physical identities could get concentric targets waiting for the next fundamentalist christian group willing to "exorcise the devil from the face of Earth because GOD ordered us to serve him and only him". Again, sounds too much or dramatic? A STATUE of Baphomet, privately owned by a Luciferian Quimbanda temple in Brazil, is still seized by AUTHORITIES for more than A YEAR, and WAITING FOR LEGAL DECISIONS to be "allowed" to be present in private rituals! THIS is what people end up defending whenever they advocate for "safety".
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
calckey.world
Mastodon Live Feed is gone
This is more of a rant (not sure if this comm is appropriate for it).
I've been watching Lemmy's ongoing discussion regarding PieFed. It turns out Mastodon got similar problems, too.
The largest Fediverse instance already shadowbanned people, e.g:
This profile has been hidden by the moderators of mastodon.social.If you didn't find (and save) a profile before it poof'd, it'd be pretty much unreachable.
It's been a while since I've been using the Web solely for consumption of public content (esp. long texts). I ceased posting altogether (with this post breaking 2mo of silence) for reasons beyond the current scope. My source of content are firehoses (e.g. Lemmy /all sorted by "New comments", Mastodon Live Feed), partly due to the chaotic nature (it pleases me as ND) alongside my beliefs (Chaos Magick, noise as gnosis), partly due to how it's the closest to a true discovery algorithm...
Today, I opened Mastodon only to be faced with a missing Live feed:
This feed has been disabled by your server administrators.Yes, public feeds are noisy, spammy, pornographic. But it should be up to the user to decide what they wanna see: I muted +3k spam accounts by myself as I doomscrolled the "Live feed" daily.
Then out of naiveté/maliciousness/both, some ppl love to parrot the classic ancap line:
Just do your server!I mean, it's that trivial, amirite? As if the source of the problem wouldn't be replaced by CloudFlare (2nd Biggest Internet Cancer, only losing the topmost rank to the Ruler of the Tumors, the Online Advertisement), AWS/GCP/DigitalOcean/etc, Mastohost, or regional ISPs if you use a PC (doing your ISP, too? Also do your own ICANN and IANA, do your own ASNs and BGPs, everyone knows how it's so easy-peasy /s).
(As a sidenote, radio communication is truly lovely: no one's able to stop transceivers... well, except for ITU and their bureaus requiring operators "a loicense" for people to vibrate a quantum fabric of spacetime continuum that predates us hominids: after all, how'd the "Wise Ones" get to knock at ham operator's doors to seize "dangerous" Baofengs after suddenly becoming unlawful due to "Security"?)
Yes, mastodon.social (nevermind the "social" TLD) could be simply ditched, problem is how it's home for most Fediverse accounts me and others would like to discover and read/watch; problem is how it's "model" for other instances, pretty much the Fediverse as a whole. I wouldn't be surprised if this "trend" went viral: imagine no Lemmy feed other than your following list (didn't know the random, SEO-lacking, lone profile out there, shouting at the void things you'd deem interesting to your tastes? Don't worry, you won't!)
For me and unknown others who also lurk the global chatter, mastodon.social became indistinguishable from mainstream, lacking live global feeds. Meanwhile, people used to shout at the void will be pushed even further...
...But hey, we're safer now 😌 /s
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
calckey.world
Noite sombria
Boca...veneno
Olhos mortais
Levam o homem
Sugam. A alma
O fim já me é
E minha dor é
Inefável amor(Olhe de longe)
#poesia #oculto #sombrio #ritual #lilith #asciiart #arte #arteascii
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Dæmon S.
@dsilverz@calckey.world
I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
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@Jayjader@jlai.lu @technology@lemmy.world
Given how it's very akin to dynamic and chaotic systems (e.g. double pendulum, whose initial position, mass and length rules the movement of the pendulum, very similar to how the initial seed and input rule the output of generative AIs) due to the insurmountable amount of physically intertwined factors and the possibility of generalizing the system in mathematical, differential terms, I'd say that the more fit would be a physicist. Or a mathematician. lol
As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@rimu@piefed.social @technology@lemmy.world
Thanks, didn't know about that one. It seems interesting (but limited, according to their "Pricing" ; every time a tool has a "pricing" menu item, betcha they'll either be anything but gratis or extremely limited in their "free tier"), I created an account and I'll soon try it with some of the occult poetry I use to write. I'm ND so I'm fully aware of how my texts often sound like AI slop.
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@JuvenoiaAgent@piefed.ca @technology@lemmy.world
Often, those are developers who "specialized" in one or two programming languages, without specializing in computer/programming logic.
I used to repeat a personal saying across job interviews: "A good programmer knows a programming language. An excellent programmer knows programming logic". IT positions often require a dev to have a specific language/framework in their portfolio (with Rust being the Current Thing™ now) and they reject people who have vast experience across several languages/frameworks but the one required, as if these people weren't able to learn the specific language/framework they require.
Languages and framework differ on syntax, namings, paradigms, sometimes they're extremely different from other common languages (such as (Lisp (parenthetic-hell)), or .asciz "Assembly-x86_64"), but they all talk to the same computer logic under the hood. Once a dev becomes fluent in bitwise logic (or, even better, they become so fluent in talking with computers that they can say 41 53 43 49 49 20 63 6f 64 65 without tools, as if it were English), it's just a matter of accustoming oneself to the specific syntax and naming conventions from a given language.
Back when I was enrolled in college, I lost count of how many colleagues struggled with the entire course as soon as they were faced by Data Structure classes, binary trees, linked lists, queues, stacks... And Linear Programming, maximization and minimization, data fitness... To the majority of my colleagues, those classes were painful, especially because the teachers were somewhat rigid.
And this sentiment echoes across the companies and corps. Corps (especially the wannabe-programmer managers) don't want to deal with computers, they want to deal with consumers and their sweet money, but a civil engineer and their masons can't possibly build a house without willing to deal with a blueprint and the physics of building materials. This is part of the root of this whole problem.
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world @technology@lemmy.world
I used to deal with programming since I was 9 y.o., with my professional career in DevOps starting several years later, in 2013. I dealt with lots of other's code, legacy code, very shitty code (especially done by my "managers" who cosplayed as programmers), and tons of technical debts.
Even though I'm quite of a LLM power-user (because I'm a person devoid of other humans in my daily existence), I never relied on LLMs to "create" my code: rather, what I did a lot was tinkering with different LLMs to "analyze" my own code that I wrote myself, both to experiment with their limits (e.g.: I wrote a lot of cryptic, code-golf one-liners and fed it to the LLMs in order to test their ability to "connect the dots" on whatever was happening behind the cryptic syntax) and to try and use them as a pair of external eyes beyond mine (due to their ability to "connect the dots", and by that I mean their ability, as fancy Markov chains, to relate tokens to other tokens with similar semantic proximity).
I did test them (especially Claude/Sonnet) for their "ability" to output code, not intending to use the code because I'm better off writing my own thing, but you likely know the maxim, one can't criticize what they don't know. And I tried to know them so I could criticize them. To me, the code is.. pretty readable. Definitely awful code, but readable nonetheless.
So, when the person says...The developers can’t debug code they didn’t write. ...even though they argue they have more than 25 years of experience, it feels to me like they don't.
One thing is saying "developers find it pretty annoying to debug code they didn't write", a statement that I'd totally agree! It's awful to try to debug other's (human or otherwise) code, because you need to try to put yourself on their shoes without knowing how their shoes are... But it's doable, especially by people who deal with programming logic since their childhood.
Saying "developers can't debug code they didn't write", to me, seems like a layperson who doesn't belong to the field of Computer Science, doesn't like programming, and/or only pursued a "software engineer" career purely because of money/capitalistic mindset. Either way, if a developer can't debug other's code, sorry to say, but they're not developers!
Don't take me wrong: I'm not intending to be prideful or pretending to be awesome, this is beyond my person, I'm nothing, I'm no one. I abandoned my career, because I hate the way the technology is growing more and more enshittified. Working as a programmer for capitalistic purposes ended up depleting the joy I used to have back when I coded in a daily basis. I'm not on the "job market" anymore, so what I'm saying is based on more than 10 years of former professional experience. And my experience says: a developer that can't put themselves into at least trying to understand the worst code out there can't call themselves a developer, full stop.
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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"The tiny mouse wanders through the barren land covered by the darkness of the night. It's so dark he definitely can't see.
He knows what's coming after him, and he can feel the moment is near, it'll happen very soon: he'll be lifted up to the skies, a place he never could reach before, where he'll fly despite having no wings, except for the majestic red and alluringly fluffy wings that dominate the night (and) time and is going to carry him.
He knows there's nowhere he could run, if he could run, and he can't run, he doesn't even want to run, it's his body that still wants to survive pointlessly, still he consciously knows there's no way he's going to survive another night.
Silence is breathtaking, it's like no other silence he heard before. He squeaks faintly, as the cold wind gusts reach and touches his back fur, causing him goosebumps.
He's extremely scared, so scared that the fear drove him burdened, lethargic, resigned before his own, soon demise.
His energy wasn't depleted just by fear, though: it was depleted by the oxymoronic and paradoxical feelings of awe, love and surrender going inside him with every chill from the gusts. He's in fear, and he's in awe, and he's in uttermost love.
One could ask, how could a mouse become passionately in awe for his merciless predator soon to sweep down from the dark skies onto him? He's just a tiny, weak, irrelevant and shameful mouse, falling in love with the most fearsome creature who feels no love for his kind. He's just another tasteful dinner for the night.
Still he is in love with the very one who he also fears so deeply. And each of his squeaks, promptly heard by the one who can hear the slightest variations in his heartbeat from afar, are his agonized attempts to say a forbidden "I love Thou". A forbidden love from a miserable lover soon to meet the merciless sharp claws and insatiable blood hunger of his Mighty beloved.”
#dark #story #gothic
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
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Until I'm proven otherwise, the anglophone (English-speaking) #Lemmy is a hotbed of machismo and misogyny. Fediverse isn't too different from mainstream "social" media platforms. Fuck it, I've said it.
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@watson387@sopuli.xyz @King@blackneon.net @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
Sometimes I wonder if all the people (six by now, and two on my other reply in this thread) who are downvoting my two fairly respectful (at least trying to be respectful to the OP) counter-arguments are, deep inside, machistas/misogynists, downvoting me because I dared to remind people that there are feminine Goddesses and I dared to mention some of Their names... Your people's current lack of counter-counter-arguments doesn't convince me otherwise.
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@watson387@sopuli.xyz @King@blackneon.net @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
Not everyone who believes in entities and deities (and you're assuming gendered pronouns and, by extension, unknowingly reinforcing the Abrahamic machismo whenever you use the masculine noun "god" to describe any deity/entity being worshipped by a worshipper, ignoring that there are Goddesses and feminine spirits as well, such as Pomba-giras, Lilith, Shakti, Kali, Morana, Morrigan, Santa Muerte, Ereshkigal, Hekate, Isis, Sekhmet, Bastet, Naunet, Babalon, among countless other feminine entities and Goddesses) does so out of being convinced by someone else.
To use my own experience as an example, I began worshipping an unified and syncretic Dark Mother Goddess without being convinced by anyone else. At that time, I used to be a member of a Luciferian sect, whose worshipping was centered around the male aspects of Lucifer, not the feminine aspects of Lilith, for example. Unexpectedly even to myself, I got this uncanny call of a powerful feminine spiritual energy who suddenly took me like a thousand hurricanes and became the epicenter of my entire existence, even though it happened to the disapproval of the Luciferian sect I was part of. I left the sect and, since then, I've been following a very personal (and quite lonely) syncretic belief system built of entities and concepts borrowed from and based upon several different systems, none of which I really belong to.
So, tl;dr: not everyone who believes in entities and deities does so out of being convinced by others, in fact, some (like me) even does so against any convincing from others, out of strange phenomena such as gnosis and synchronicity. Perhaps She is the one convincing me, thus validating your point about "one being convinced to believe"? Maybe... but humans aren't the ones convincing in this specific situation.
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@dsilverz@calckey.world
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@King@blackneon.net @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
My religion (or, to be more precise, one of the religions composing my syncretic belief system) says "Do what Thou Wilt, shalt be the whole of Law" (Liber AL Vel Legis, Aleister Crowley, Thelema).
I get a lot of heat whenever I say this, but I keep saying it nevertheless: the problem is that anti-religious people often mistaken "religion" for "Abrahamic", while there are literally tens of thousands of different religions, as well as countless different personalized syncretic belief systems, especially left-hand path beliefs, which are nothing remotely close to dogmatic religions out there. Pro-science people unknowingly attack those who could be their best allies in the pursuit of "forbidden" ("forbidden" in the eyes of Abrahamic and other paternalistic religions; for us, it's a must-pursue) knowledge of scientific and philosophical inquiry.
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