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Beej Jorgensen

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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  • America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion]

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  • The one thing I like with Lemmy and Mastodon (and decentralized in general) is that there's no economic incentive to push echo chamber/inflammatory stuff. Doesn't mean it can't be there, of course, but at least there's no one making more money by pushing it in my face. My feeds are tame and boring compared to those on "algorithmic" social media. And that's how I like it. :)

  • what are some ways to make R&D affordable? most of the time companies go bankrupt because development is expensive

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  • Take some of those massive profits and fund your R&D division instead of paying them out. That's how the big companies did it back in the glory days.

  • FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it

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  • Also pro-privacy, here. I was unable to get a good answer on this on HN. It seems to me that replacing a human entering data into a computer at the checkpoint with a computer entering data into a computer at the checkpoint wasn't much of a change. The whole checkpoint area is already bristling with cameras, as well.

  • X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

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  • The closest we have to 555 is any social security number that starts with 9. Kinda dull. The closest one we have to a joke is probably 078-05-1120.

  • Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

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  • Should have stayed on until musk booted them. Missed opportunity. Also X needs more counter-content, not less.

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • Like with spam and its basically zero conversion rate, yes. But I've seems to remain clear of it in the tags I follow. So far.

  • An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I.

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  • When I see this kind of thing, I think, "Screw that. I want to listen to real people." But then I wonder if that's because I'm GenX shaking my fist at cloud and in the future will this become normalized or even demanded?

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • I just hope that the fediverse stays small enough to remain an undesirable target for AI slop mongers.

  • Where Do You Guys Throw Your Local Git Repos?

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  • Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

  • Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable

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  • I don't care what they do as long as they do it over there.

  • AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

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  • I think the difference is scale. Before it was x% of humanity making shitting opinions where x < 100. Now it's x% of humanity+AI, where x is, say, 100,000% of humanity. I don't think we're currently equipped to separate the wheat from that much chaff.

  • Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

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  • I'd say it's more intolerably long copyright terms than the DMCA specifically.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

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  • Yes, it is. I just need to know that the passkeys are in that file and that all the apps I use to read that file support them.

  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

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  • I don't entirely disagree, but I think defining much of that in effective legal terms is going to be virtually impossible. And I'm super-wary of anything that says someone can't link to something.

  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump

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  • Just be careful how you do it. The First Amendment gives a lot of leeway for people to be shitty.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

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  • I need to sync my passkeys between all my devices--which really means I need keepass to store the private keys in its DB so I can sync it with all the other keepass-compatible apps I use in various places. Last I looked, this wasn't solved, but it's been a minute. I'm certainly not using a centralized password manager unless they all can freely import and export from one another. I understand this is a "being worked on" problem.

    So someday, yes.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

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  • If you get my master keepass password, you have all my passwords, too.

  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

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  • I agree they should. But I also agree they shouldn't be required to. And if they don't, that we should just live with it as the lesser of two evils.