2026-01-22 18:46:22
Wsocial is there because if a project is not supervised by a CEO, it doesn't exists or is, at best, an unreliable amateur project.
Sadly, everyone I know irl including friends and family, think that way.
Wsocial is there because if a project is not supervised by a CEO, it doesn't exists or is, at best, an unreliable amateur project.
Sadly, everyone I know irl including friends and family, think that way.
Reports of Russia advances in Ukraine are really describing the advance of Chinese drones on fiber optic cable.
The Russian infantry remains incompetent and unreliable, even though it outnumbers Ukraine in troops and ammo.
Ukraine needs ammo. Same story since the beginning of the war.
Giorgio is on the ground, dodging drones in order to provide updates from the front lines, where US reporters never venture.
He shares the friend link to bypass the paywall, so the world…
Konstantin Ryabitsev, an admin of kernel.org infrastructure, reported on increasing difficulties they are having with SMTP deliveries.
"major hosts are increasingly not interested in getting mail from anyone who isn't also a major mail service provider"
"With lore and public-inbox, we *are* in the process of moving away from
relying on the increasingly unreliable SMTP layer"
DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm US Citizenship - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/01/1736221/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-certifies-is-too-unreliable-to-confirm-us-citizenship
'Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis' https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/15/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-cris…
Lets Encrypt for IP addresses \o/
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability.html
And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
From a Buddhist perspective, telling highly unreliable stories about ourselves is something we do daily; in doing so self-consciously, literary auto-fashioners enact the realization of this fact.
:oleander_hawkmoth:
i am very unreliable. it is my curse. i say fuck the reliable. i am so unreliable i can't even be relied on to be unreliable 🌊
#randomcrap
I'm trying to buy polycone (LDPE)-sealed caps for my DIY fragrance hobby.
Any number of results from China, UK and US, mostly one-click purchase.
Butr I want them from DE (or EU), don't I?
So far I found at least five different, unreliable names for the product., and the websites are:
- old school catalogue ones with PDF and, I assume, fax ordering process
- min 1000 pieces
- min 100 € order
- no photos
- 404
- 2€ per cap (10x regular…
For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable.
Real Pollution Levels: Air monitors at coke manufacturers, chemical plants and other industrial facilities showed far higher emissions than the estimates, records viewed by ProPublica show.
Trump Halts New Rules: The Trump administration has halted rules requiring more than 130 industrial plants to install air monitors and comply with new e…
Meanwhile on the #Sun as seen by SDO HMI https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif at 21:53 UTC today ... the big groups (1)4296 and 4294 at the bottom as well as 4299 at the top keep marching towards the center of the disk, but not much has happened since the X1.9 flare two days ago. (The Kp forecast in https://www.spacepager.eu/data-products/forecast-of-the-kp-index sees something interesting three nights from now, though, but such long-term views are notoriously unreliable.)
Tell Congress: NO Funding for Primate Breeding! #AnimalRights
OF COURSE!
LLMs do not have any knowledge They only have words. When "introspecting" they are actually just word-salading that like they do everything else. They can't SAY that so they make up plausible-seeming explanations.
BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY DO, EVER. https://mastodon.social/@arstechni…
Tree companies are really unreliable, even for a quote. It's been weeks since a tree fell and none seem to want to take my money.
#TIL
> The macros describing this structure live in <asm/ioctl.h> and are
> _IO(type,nr) and {_IOR,_IOW,_IOWR}(type,nr,size). They use
> sizeof(size) so that size is a misnomer here: this third argument
> is a data type.
>
> Note that the size bits are very unreliable: in lots of cases they
> are wrong, either because of buggy macros using
> sizeof(sizeof(struct)), or because of legacy values.
#Linux
From my perspective ->
1. So much construction. It is almost impossible to go anywhere without lane closures.
2. Buses are less than reliable and the last update nuked one route I took and it leaves me one and only one route to the transfer point near work.
3. LRT construction. Going to work isn't too bad, getting home I have to travel AWAY from home, transfer and hope the bus going home arrives. Alternative is to take three buses and that is double the time than …
Does #cloudflare have issues again? Currently #linkedin return a 500 on all requests with "cloudflare" ind the message. The same for orangeamps.com which I know uses cloudflare from the last cloudflare issues.
Maybe people should stop using such an unreliable service.
Last week, while the country reacted to Kennedy’s rewrite of vaccine reality,
Jay Bhattacharya continued his own campaign to rewrite pandemic history.
He did this by retweeting misleading content from an unreliable source.
A closer look at that source, and at Bhattacharya’s long-standing relationship with it, raises serious concerns for science-based public health.
Ukraine Update: Villains in fine clothes from around the world pretend to be decent humans with hearts while they continue to ignore the criminal cruelty and warcrimes of Russia's ongoing genocide of Ukraine.
The truth is hard to deny if you will only see what is so obviously happening.
The failure of the west to stand up to Russia and the unending cruelty that defines the Russian ethos demonstrates how worthless and unreliable the west is.
As an American, I find each d…
Home assistant is too unreliable. I run it on the Raspberry Pi4B with an external HDD for storage and every now and then it just stops responding or does not boot after an update or does not update or ... Sometimes a restart helps, sometimes I need to reinstall and get everything from the backup. Now today I ran into the "missing shutdown button":
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/shutdown-option-removed/715359/15 Such a diva. I'm done with home assistant for now.
https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/114523359245193309
P.S. Switching back to RetroPie on that machine.
AHA! #docker #nginx #mac Success!
After much logging and inspecting and reconfiguring you know what worked? (It's what always works!). Turning it off and on…
It's just a matter of turning the *right* thing off and on.
In this case, it was a matter of rebooting the webcam itself, which I really should have known because it has been unreliable at accepting new settings without a full reboot in the past. Weird that it was making the connection to NGINX but not actually sending data on that connection. The reboot of the webcam appears to have forced the data to be sent to the new proper docker address and on to Youtube.
Unfortunately I tried changing the stream key for Youtube before trying the webcam reboot which creates a new youtube URL, so I'll have to update my YouTube embed codes but oh well, it is worth having success with docker!
I feel much more comfortable working with docker now and understand the build/run workflow more now so I can start customizing my Dockerfile and be confident that I’m not going to miss anything.
Now I should be able to redirect all of my streams off of #footiMac and onto the slightly newer #imac2014 OR... most importantly, anywhere I have this docker container!
Woot!
Thank you everyone who gave tips and pointers along the way.
#learning #askmastodon
stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/WpbMTI9D6hI