Reviving my Mastodon account @dlitz@dlitz.net

I just realized that we’re living in a world where someone effectively clicked “Recompute Base Encryption Key Hash”. https://t.co/aRFPX6NcY7

Google has already started forcing Web Integrity into Chromium despite it being a 'proposal' With WEI, users can be denied access for using non-approved browsers or hardware The open Internet is officially dead as soon as this is commonly implemented

To think, all of this could have been avoided if google hadn’t shut down reader.

@hankgreen

I'm not going to get too far into it, but you should all be on the side of the Zhengzhou Foxconn workers and leaning on @Apple to smack some sense into their suppliers. You can have closed-loop management without abusing your workers.

This is one of those very rare situations where foreigners really can make a difference in China. Tag @Apple, they can fix this with a phone call to Foxconn. Make them know their customers will hold them accountable for the outcome if they don't🙏

Meanwhile, the recruiters at other tech companies: 🙂

oh, you're a programmer? so how much is 0.1 + 0.2?

At least the Mobility rep was polite and didn't waste my time any further---once I actually got to talk to him. But customer service workers don't make the rules; it's not their fault the oligopolies they work for are sociopathic.

Tangent: Can you believe this company is still better than Bell Canada? The federal government (and especially the Liberals) need to get out of bed with the telecoms in Canada, but that's a rant for another day.

Oh ffs, I can't even cancel everything with the same rep. I cancelled home internet and now I'm listening to hold music waiting to cancel mobility.

Instead of jumping through their hoops, I should put the equipment in a box with a note "I wish to cancel service effective immediately", then hire a process server to deliver it to their lawyers' office. Technically, that fulfills all obligations on my end.

Not to mention that My TELUS page-load times are in the range of 10-30+ seconds, and have been for years. This is maybe the most frustrating thing, since it's what what caused the whole process to take over an hour.

You can't cancel online (even though you can add/change services online just fine), but My TELUS doesn't even _tell_ you that anywhere obvious. Even their support chatbot beats around the bush about it.

I was happy with @TELUS internet service UNTIL I tried to cancel it (because the building is being demolished). Now, I'm canceling _all_ my Telus services at once, because I never want to go through this process again.

Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare arts and tech salaries, but look tech people I'm not saying you are the problem I'm saying the exchange rate is in our favor and someone with a FAANG salary could literally commission their own opera once per year so we should do that

Apparently, 'btrfstune -m' just trivially breaks 'btrfs scrub'. Okay.

reading a book about FFS and there's a lot of photos of bones but so far not one mention of inodes

I saw "X25519" in a YouTube comment in the wild today. Clicked the profile and, sure enough, it's someone I'm already following on Twitter 😄 Our cabal is small but mighty, lol