me, a ZAian, while waking up (with only ~6h after a 2.5 day awake stretch): “huh? perfectly normal for them to drive on the left side? …oh wait, right. elsewhere.”

also

wasn’t common crawl the one that pulled a similar trick to goog’s “if you label a thing as $x we won’t include you”[0]? I could swear I heard their name in association with some derpshit intake management stuff above and beyond the typical fundamental “free/open scraper set” problems

[0] - a tactic google first pulled with Streetview cars pulling in a pile of wifi beacons and tying it to location - “if you don’t want it just rename your AP to ‘{prefix} - {apname}’”. a reply that was just dumb and aggravating but also it fucking sucks that basically no standards have taken this problem to heart in the ~15y hence

the exasperation I so often express is not for nothing :|

alas

curious, that art style in that reply strongly matches the image I saw on this toot drifting by in my timeline earlier

haven’t seen them before, but a short tour around their infra/systems providers isn’t particularly exciting - depending on both your threat model and what-you-want in a vendor

some parts/pages do provide some detail in encouraging depth, but I’d have to do a much more full review to give you a good answer

there’s been a couple of “where email” threads over the last year, tuta’s still one of the top options on that but you can check the threads if you want to see some of the other promising options

fuck nostr. flere and fullsquare covered the details well tho

did you also see the FUTO shit? it’s getting Red String On Corkboard bad to track all these fuckers

yeah it’s very much an intentional usage of poisoned language to construct a targeted outcome

but arrrrrrgh

could I, like, not do that? would suit my needs better. kthx

I realize it’s been poisoned since/by coiners, but god I hate that usage of “democratize”

@sundogplanets was posting about this not too long ago, I’ll try find the thread a bit later

e: thread

rewatched all of DS9 over a while, its writing hits even harder in the current year

(apple shows but that can be worked around:) invasion, slow horses, shrinking

haven’t been watching a lot of series tho so limited bucket recommendation

rubber duck debugging with a cost multiplier magnitude coming in at a couple of zeroes tail end of the figure

and worse results

so a couple months ago it was noted that mattermost’s website had gone very problematic, extreme emphasis on pitching to mil/int with very little indicating its foss roots/nature

and now it seems they’re going for rent extraction even on the self-hosted

holy discontiguous interscene blending, watman

there are so many parts that people in the skeet[0] replies have already pointed at but the thing that someone just went “tune the smoother way up! just make sure it looks good!” and thought they were done with the assignment… amazing. really does a fantastic job of highlighting the same old problem of these things only managing short-duration outputs coherently!

10/10 would cringe again

0 - what’s a blacksky skeet called? do they have their own term? I don’t know how standalone blacksky operates and I refuse to learn any more about skeeterprotocol than I already know

certainly has more than a bit of that urbit coiner Sovereign Individual shit going on yeah

I tried looking around a bit to see if I could find any info about contributors there, and for the most part none of them really seem to have much internet fingerprint at all. did find one person with a moderately extensive set of personal repo/project commits spanning back a few years, spanning long enough so as to find that they were doing a BSc/Hons/something circa 2018. which isn’t concrete but does strongly hint at a current age of mid 20s to mid 30s. “get 'em while they’re young and you can poison their brains early!” - the bayfucker mantra

current issue is likely the most recent bout scraper waves (based on it matching data myself and others have seen elsewhere); suggestions have been made, so hopefully soon™ changes

(don’t mean to speak on @self’s behalf ito plans, mind. that’s for them to do :D)

dr seuss - green eggs & ham