Name a crime everybody is guilty of. I'll start: Contempt of Parliament

Pleasantly surprised to find there is now an ARM build of the #CrystalLang compiler, so I can run Crystal code in #Termux on my phone

@cstross apropos absolutely nothing: "enrichment chapters" is an anagram of "The Merchant Princes" and "mega premise" is an anagram of "Empire Games"

Followup: after blocking public scraping of a #Gitlab instance we waited for a while to see if the #LLM botnet attacks would reduce; finally (after about 3 days) one of them finally realized it was getting the sign-in page instead of actual content and seems to have given up. At least one other botnet is still trying, but load is much reduced. So there is hope! Block access and they eventually go away.

Before and after blocking unauthenticated access to a self-hosted #Gitlab instance that was being swarmed by aggressive LLM scraper bots and thus extremely slow for authenticated users. Unblockable by IP because they used a huge rotating pool of distinct IP addresses. (Access was blocked on the morning of September 2 and the login page was rate-limited later that day when the bots just wouldn't give up trying to access blocked content.)
#LLMs #AIScum

Are you ever on any sort of e-commerce site intent on making a purchase, and then are accused of being a bot and blocked until you complete a human challenge?

Was just idly typing sample #password formations into https://passcheck.io to see what it thought. This one is the initials of the first line of a famous English novel and I was surprised at how many other people had apparently used it. Can you guess what it was? I asked my wife the same question and she got it right first time...
#security #literature #books

"Hmm... our previous bullying tactics backfired. How can we fix this this? I know! Why don't we try some bullying tactics?"

The fact that the American negotiators even *tried* to restrict Canada's ability to strike deals with other countries and thus diversify away from the US shows that they understand how badly they have already miscalculated and how terrified they are of losing further trade. They are so transparently stupid. They fucked around and found out.

Without units this could be tonnes, rounded down
#loophole

I used to run #GrapheneOS on this Pixel 7a, wiped and flashed it to stock before handing it to a repair place to replace the battery and now I've reflashed #CalyxOS
The various security, privacy, and compatibility pros and cons of sandboxed Play Services vs. microG and other features have been extensively debated elsewhere. What I *will* say is that it now feels *significantly* faster. Like I bought a brand new phone.

This is a feature I really look for in my phone case
#wtf

My favourite #astronomy fact is in this article
https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
Which is brighter, a supernova seen from the distance the Earth is from the Sun, or a hydrogen bomb detonated while resting directly on your eyeball? The answer is the supernova, by 9(!) orders of magnitude.

Anybody in #Canada with a #degoogled phone, thinking about the "worst" banking app you use, what's the status and can you comment which bank it is and which OS?