Some of those *.apple.com DNS requests look legit and valid, like itunes (the App Store) and push notifications. Need to investigate what some of the other ones are. There are some Apple domains I already block as well that I’ve figured out over the years.

Last ~24 hours of DNS Requests:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yeah I’m pretty confident in what my iPhone and other Apple devices (Macbook, Mac Studio, iMacs, etc) do and don’t do in regards to talking back to Apple over the Internet. I mean, I do DNS filtering at my home network and most of the time I ensure my phone is connected to my VPN so that all DNS traverse through my own network and filters,

Obviously I can’t guarantee that it’s not making its own DNS requests and sneaking through my filters, I could go and check at my router level, but I’m fairly confident it probably isn’t.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de At least with an iPhone I’m not forced to use anything like Google, Facebook, or TikTok. None of those “things” are ever pre-installed, hidden or otherwise.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh geez that sounds like an awful phone 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup!

My daughter won her first match!!! 🥳

@bender@twtxt.net I’ll see if I can start a discussion upstream.

@bender@twtxt.net Or maybe because I block Youtube?

All I see is random white noise? Hmmm 🤔

@mckinley@twtxt.net True

@bender@twtxt.net LOL looks bloody centered to me 🤣 How many pixels off are we talking? 😅

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Those look like encoding errors. You’ve likely used characters not supported by the encoding of the document. Easily fixed!

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Personally I use this thing I built called zs 🤣

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 08/12 to 08/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/16/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

So you have to watch capitals, stupid computer auto fixing of quotation marks, etc etc. Boring tedious details overlooked unless you have a local web server running next to your editing.

Notice these never existed when the local host ran, but now they do because not all servers are the same

Lyse you are completely correct. I run the local host website as a thin webpage right next to the NotePad 2 text editor, and I edit the webpage as I go along, while the web server shows you how it looks like on the Local Internet. That way I save dozens of editing mistakes when it finally become hosted on the grand Internet, plus I have an exact copy the my website at all times, should I lose something from the hosted Internet.

So how do any of you who have created webpages before do this sort of thing? How do you know what your experience is like? Since the host changes features, this changes the web hosting experience, which is a terrible pain. Think of the thousands of editing I have to do?

I will post you some examples…

I’ve decided to try and get rid of as much stress as possible. Stupid things stress me out, some things are more important to fix then others. But today I got started, by fixing the xeon bulb on our car, been ignoring it for a year, because the car garage said it’ll cost me 350$ so get it changed (Because they had to remove the whole front).. So because of that I did not prioritize it. But today I went and bought a bulb for 50$ and I openened the hood of the car and saw I could just replace it my self by simply removing a cover to get access to the bulb. So I’ve been stressing over nothing for a year simply because I did not check and took their word for it. next thing to get fixed is a rotten board under a window outside, been bugging me for a long time, now I want to get that sorted next. All these small things adds up, and I want peace of mind.

@prologic@twtxt.net Do you really need FUSE for that? I think that could be done with a process watching a directory on a regular filesystem and deleting the oldest files as the combined size reaches that cap. I’m sure someone’s done that already.

Its like old school TV but with youtube videos. Each channel has a subject and the channels play in a sort of realtime. so no going forward or back. Perfect for channel surfing.

@bender@twtxt.net wtf?! What is this? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net I’m not really sure what you mean tbh? 🤔 How are buttons misaligned exactly?

@mckinley@mckinley.cc That is pretty cool! 😎 Reminds me of something I also want to either find or build; a FUSE filesystem or a Go library that acts as a limited cache with maximum time-to-live on files written. Think, caching Youtube videos for tubeproxy but where storage is always capped at an upper bound. Older items get constantly deleted.

mp3fs: https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

~2 years later…

Yeah I’m kind of glad they’re better at Hardware too and not this (questionable) “social media” thing 🤣 #Mitre10 #Hardware #Social

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@bender@twtxt.net They must be statically compiling all those Haskell libraries on Ubuntu. This seems to be how it is with every Haskell package on Arch. Pandoc has 180 of its own un-shared dependencies on my system.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Very cool! 👌 Makes me want to redo the yarnd UI using BeerCSS from scratch, but it’s an awful lot of work 🙄

@xuu@txt.sour.is Haha 🤣

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With that Heat and more energy to create preasure you can create Coal! The circle is now complete.

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@Rob@jsreed5.org Hmm Coal -> Heat -> Stream -> Generator -> Electricity -> Resistance -> Heat

You do have an interesting point there 🤔 Seems rather wasteful just to produce some heat 🔥

It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

@golang_news@feeds.twtxt.net Cool! 🥳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah this is why I haven’t done it yet because I don’t know how to build it 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Shellcheck is great but I hope you don’t care about a low package count for screenshots like some people.

My FairPhone has arrived and it looks great!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org we had a huge thunder/lighning storm last night here too. Kids got really scared (it struck something very close here), and the dog panicked (he opened all doors and would only sleep in kitchen). We woke up around 2 at night from it. But kids luckily fell a sleep again.

@prologic@twtxt.net the whole thing took less than 2 min 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net The headline is interesting and sent me down a rabbit hole understanding what the paper (https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) actually says.

The result is interesting, but the Neuroscience News headline greatly overstates it. If I’ve understood right, they are arguing (with strong evidence) that the simple technique of making neural nets bigger and bigger isn’t quite as magically effective as people say — if you use it on its own. In particular, they evaluate LLMs without two common enhancements, in-context learning and instruction tuning. Both of those involve using a small number of examples of the particular task to improve the model’s performance, and they turn them off because they are not part of what is called “emergence”: “an ability to solve a task which is absent in smaller models, but present in LLMs”.

They show that these restricted LLMs only outperform smaller models (i.e demonstrate emergence) on certain tasks, and then (end of Section 4.1) discuss the nature of those few tasks that showed emergence.

I’d love to hear more from someone more familiar with this stuff. (I’ve done research that touches on ML, but neural nets and especially LLMs aren’t my area at all.) In particular, how compelling is this finding that zero-shot learning (i.e. without in-context learning or instruction tuning) remains hard as model size grows.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net See I told y’all 🤣 AI is “artificial incompetence” 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Yup!

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh gotcha! That could be simple enough to work or maybe a different background for the card? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net This is basically the problem. Even if you wanted to there generally isn’t any state for feeds stored on behalf of the user, in other words, a read status.

I don’t know how we will handle the resetting of it, after reading…

I thought about it a few times, but I’ve never really been able to figure out a way of coming up with a viable solution to that.

@bender@twtxt.net A tiny dot you say eh? 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net It’s looks like it’s basically all-in-one so yeah but simpler to use 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Both. I use it locally. Its basically a linter.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes I feel your pain 🙄

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Sounds great James. I don’t need PHP right now, will do everything using HTML - and I would love the zero configuration. How did you do that using my website, it has files in .txt format? I guess you just added the HTML bit with some code hey? What about hyperlinks? I think a variable is passed corresponding to the webapge number from 1.htm to 1200.htm.

Tomorrow is a busy day for me, off to tow a car home, so will be off grid pun intended. Thanks for the input your computer experts.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yeah it seems to be quite easy to operate actually 👌 Love the zero configuration!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Welcome back! Didn’t notice 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is I don’t get it? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net +1 for FrankenPHP. And built into caddy is also swell.

Wut?

Back!

Just in case Clownflare throws a couple of 5xx errors at your requests, I’m rebooting. See ya in a couple of seconds!

In fact I recommend this really, it’s just less “mucking around” and what we call “zero configuration”.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net If you’d like to try something new (I know I know!); I just modified your site’s file a teeny weeny bit and got it working with FrankenPHP a nice little portable web server written in Go that “just works”™ that is able to handle and execute PHP for you and your site basically “just works”™ out of the box locally, run from any directory.

I mean if you didn’t really need PHP (I suspect you do?) you could run any ‘ol web server in the current directory where you have your site and just serve that straight up locally.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Normally, in the days when I used to run Linux on the Desktop and used Apache once upon a time, the default configuration would mean files served out of your public_html directory in your home directory was the place where the web server looked for to serve files from. This would make something like http://localhost/~your_username work. But it’s been a while since I’ve done any of this myself…”

Hmm? I see

Problem I see is the files are located where Ubuntu wants to put them, not where I want to put them?

“Your package manager (apt) does not prompt you, because the package maintainer has chosen some defaults for you which works with the rest of the system. So there is simply no need. Why would you want to change the installation directory anyways?” I see Lyse, but that is the point of file management, moving files and the executable to where you want them. One memory stick for example. To run them double left click on them

I don’t like the files in a folder /var/www/ why can’t I make my own path, and confige Apache.exe to run from a configured path? Say entirely off a memory stick?

If you create a website, you want the entire executable to move with you… easier that way…. You take the memory stick with the executable file with you, and it runs and uploads with a double left click. The idea of running through a Linux default means you can’t remove your website elsewhere?? For example I have many small software programs that go where I go, I wish I too Word 7 with me, docX files are a pain. GIF emulator.exe for example, Note2Pad.exe another example. I don’t like apps stored inside some machine. Emails is another pain, all my emails are stored in rich file format on files outside of the program. For example is a bank fails, what happens to your money ? Old schooled keep things more robust.

Dear OnlyDomains, part of Team Internet. Do you think you could stop being so incompetent when it comes to Domains, DNS and basic HTTP? I reported this to you on Friday, and you are still arguing with me over Support the legitimatecy of the claims? Seriously?! 😧

$ dig @1.1.1.1 +short onlydomains.com.au a
198.50.252.65

$ nc -vvv 198.50.252.65 443
nc: connectx to 198.50.252.65 port 443 (tcp) failed: Connection refused

#OnlyDomains

And errors out expectedly using dash or ash, very nice POSIX Sh compliant shells:

$ ./foo.sh
./foo.sh: line 5: [: bar: integer expression expected

So the lessons here are twofold:

• Always use shellcheck to check your shell code
  
• Never use Bash or rely on Bash(isms). Always prefer POSIX Sh

Which once fixed, removing the extra [ and ] errors out with shellcheck as expected:

Invalid number for -eq. Use = to compare as string (or use $var to expand as a variable). [SC2170]

I was/am right of course :D

In POSIX sh, [[ ]] is undefined. [SC3010]

Also, why isn’t shellcheck being used here? It would have picked this (contrived) example up?

bar is referenced but not assigned. [SC2154]

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It did however rain all night here however 🤣 Perhaps they were right afterall, just wrong on the location? 😅

What a glorious morning for a public holiday 💪 What shall I do today? Hmmm 🧐

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m not looking forward to summer at all 🥵

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Probably used one of the filters? 🤔

This is why you stick to POSIX sh as @mckinley@twtxt.net points out 🤣 Prwtry sure this is a “Bashism” right?

This one got me. I try to stick to POSIX sh so I’m not super familiar with the behavior of [[]]. I definitely should have gotten -eq, though.

Ready for Winter

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Variable names used with -eq in

yeah its the same dude.

This project is verrrry alpha. all the configuration is literally in the code.