@aredridel@kolektiva.social2025-11-28 16:19:02
Ugh why is this always the way. I evaluated like 25 authentication servers for a small scale web project — I do want to support things like OIDC and Passkeys, so this is not something I really want to make myself like the old days of “use crypt() on the passwords and just make a simple database”.
5 of them are just dev mode garbage that will never see the light of day as a thing people use.
2 of them are home network nonsense for people who want enterprise login for their family, but where One Nerd controls the whole user-list.
15 of them are freemium "open source" where they withhold features for their enterprise tier and make them so unfortunately difficult to deploy, all requiring postgresql databases and a complex containerization setup and helm charts and oh so much.
and then there's kanidm, which is great except its opinions make it completely unusable for a community project, it's really more trying to fit the ‘enterprise unix authentication' space. Kudos to them for communicating it but it's the wrong tool, even if it is really good.
And then there's rauthy. Which is exactly what I want, well built and delightful, uses a lightweight embedded database, and even has a peer-to-peer sync for scalability. But customizing it is going to be a lesson in building it from source repeatedly, and its configuration is just a bit strange, and its frontend is extremely Backend Developer Wrote A Web UI. I guess I got a second project. And maybe a third to make debian packages of it.
Yet it really is the best of the options _by far_.
NLNet supported projects continue to punch above their weight class.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 20:11:09
“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…
“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say.
“An eye for an eye.”
Other times he’d snap at his staff:
“You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.”
-- @swin24.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say:
Kill them all
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-28 16:40:07
So I've read a lot of both academic and "popular" criticism of AI; spanning decades from the 1940s to now.
I think both things are good and proper and needed.
And further than that I posit that you actually need at least some bombastic and "flashy" writers in order to reach more people
What's kind of funny is that in many of the academic critiques of AI the authors comment on how their colleagues came belligerent and hostile towards them because "they aren't writing seriously"—this is found all over Weizenbaum, Dreyfus, Anders, etc.
Anyway, READ MORE OLD BOOKS :)
@frankel@mastodon.top2025-10-28 16:13:01
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-09-29 19:07:00
✅ Wrote to two of our ministers to vote against chat control.
More to come the next days.
Imagine a world where some non-democratic party gets more and more votes. Parties who want to "clean" the country. Which tool would be more worthy than having access to private conversations.
please vote for our freedom
please vote agains chatcontrol
Just drop them an email! It's just an email! Not even 5 minutes of your time.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 02:40:46
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shorts waiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
So when she came to town,
I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them.
I thought it'd be funny.
It turned out to be something else entirely.
https://bs…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 17:46:16
Overall, states, nonprofits, local governments and unions have filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to an Associated Press tracker.
Not all of them have been successful:
149 resulted in executive actions partially or fully blocked,
while the court left the action in effect in 102 cases with more than 100 still pending
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 19:47:05
Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 16:19:53
Why are other journalists in the room not reacting immediately to T's attacks on their colleagues?
Amplify the questions until they get meaningful answers.
Or they could walk out.
-- @locprof.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.social/po…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-29 19:47:56
It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.
In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of 1.4 pts.
This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.
-- Adam Bonica
