Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 21

@dredmorbius My password file has 390 non-comment lines…

Gah. Flipboard was hacked and our data was leaked. TripAdvisor was hacked and our data was leaked. Data is a liability. Don’t store it, because eventually you will get hacked and all the data you kept will get leaked. Data is a liability. Design applications auch that as little data as possible is kept: that as much data as possible is deleted. And as a user: provide as little data as possible. Also: I feel like not renewing passwords for accounts I haven’t used in ages. Let them stay locked. 🖕

@applecandy All the best in any case!

@applecandy From a school medicine point of view, nothing helps except rest. In particular: no sports. If you also want to avoid spreading it, wash your hands often and tell those near you to do the same. A typical cold comes for a week and goes for a week.

@alephnull Aaaaaarhahaha!? 😂

@cathal Gaaah! I didn't know that. Another reason to avoid #GitHub.

@natecull Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to get started. Better than to start coding now without actually knowing what you expect to get out of it. 👍

@natecull But then again, I'm thinking about the number of links you're going to process. How many links are there for Y? If 20–30, then perhaps a simple list of backlinks is enough because you'll be looking through it carefully anyway. It won't actually help your research if there's 10 "supporting" and 10 "illuminati" and 10 "criticism" links. And wouldn't that be a poor ontology, anyway? Relations change over time, are multifaceted, need rich metadata. Are you actually going to record it all?

@natecull I think you'd have to think about the reporting first and foremost. What sort of thing would you want out of it? Reading Boox X, you see author Y mentioned, so you click on that link, you see some links and some text telling you the people Y supported and fought. That can be represented as text. It's different if you want to search for the reverse.

@natecull Well, little side projects are the root of all … hobbies? As for my own wiki, I see that somebody has at least worked on a prototype, in 2008:
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Relation_Extension
No idea about this:
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/xfn_Module
I'm guessing you'd need a parser to then extract the info from the HTML, which isn't your use case anyway.

I just read through the short list of airlines using facial scanners and found #Lufthansa listed on https://www.airlineprivacy.com/
How revolting. And I think #Swiss belongs to Lufthansa, right? 🤮

@natecull Me, a wiki person: surely a wiki can do this? I know a person who keeps all their contacts and tons of notes on them in a wiki. So why wouldn't this work?

Recently Github is sending me a device verification email every single time I need to login, and I need to do this after every browser start because my default setting is to throw away all the cookies except for a few selected sites (my own sites and Mastodon, basically). So, what changed? Did I get a new version of Firefox/Purebrowser that somehow prevents Github from fingerprinting my browser? Did Github add fingerprinting just recently?
#GitHub #Firefox #2FA

@alephnull Happy birthday! 😀 Ihave just the blog post for you… https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-01-30_To_The_Young_Ones 😭

@InvaderXan surely IFTTT or one of the alternatives knows how to do it.
https://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12/mastodon-ifttt/
https://alternativeto.net/software/ifttt/

@applecandy 😱

@gcupc "Always two there are!" Emacs just keeps on giving. I was adding features to https://github.com/msnyder-info/gopher.el#gopherel
😭