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Daily News Stuff 25 November 2024
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- RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header. (5SNB)
An idea whose time has come.Over the last 50 years, advancements in peripherals have allowed websites to stab users. A number of industries have popped up to provide SaaS (Stabbings as a Service). Some users have expressed discomfort when a knife is plunged into their chest, and this header allows those users to express their personal preferences.
Seems entirely fair. Who could possibly object to this?A user preference can, of course, be ignored by bad actors. However, most stabbings are not done by malicious actors, they are simply law-abiding companies which will gladly stop stabbing you if you ask. This standard provides a method for a user to easily opt-out of all stabbings, except those mandated by law, and ones that the company wants to do anyways.
Syntax
Understandable.The header has only one form,
Do-Not-Stab: 1. This is because the lack of a header indicates a clear preference that the user wants to be stabbed.Defaults
This is of course a parody of... Well, pretty much everything the big tech companies do these days.A user-agent MUST NOT adopt
Do-Not-Stab: 1as the default preference. If a user-agent were to do this, web services SHOULD ignore the preference and stab the user anyways.
Or is it?
Tech News
- This website is hosted on Bluesky. (Daniel Mangum)
Well, not this one. And not the one linked above, either. But the one linked in the article linked above.
I mean, sort of. It requires jumping through several flaming hoops and is entirely pointless, but... Not sure there is a but.
- Outlandish recursive query examples with SQLite. (SQLite)
Like solving Sudoku with a database query. Or plotting the Mandelbrot set... With a database query.
- Yes, we seem to have run out of tech news.
Disclaimer: As it turns out, I did not accidentally throw out the fruit cake. I was cleaning the kitchen yesterday and there was some fruit loaf sitting on the counter - or so I thought - and I realised that it had to be stale since I haven't bought fruit loaf for two or three weeks. So I threw it out. Then later on I went to get a slice of fruit cake and there wasn't any because I had thrown it out. Though I couldn't understand how I had done that since they don't look that much alike. And this was a problem because gluten-free fruit cake is available for about three weeks of the year and the window has already closed, so there wouldn't be any more until October next year. But then I was in the kitchen today and I found the fruit cake and it turns out that I did in fact throw out stale fruit loaf which is available year-round. So I had some.
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'law-abiding companies' has a lot of the same theoretical problems that megacorporations and corporation as state have.
That being that rule following is behavior, and a choice, that depends on individuals acting on their experiences, which will be different from what some theorist reasoning at distant abstraction can convince themselves will happen.
The old rule following status quo was not unthinking. Forecasting that it would continue with any arbitrary change was incorrect. Corporations are a legal fiction. The US government was quite deliberately kept crippled, and thus relied on persuading people to consent. Across a large population, a consistent behavior is going to be tied to group pattern, and mysticism. The mysticism that underlay most of the old American rule following was Christianity.
A lot of the people executiving in big tech are coming from a different environment. IE, communists and leftists, who have a different mysticism and direction. Such as transgression or boundary violating as a learned fetish, zero sumism, and that good can only come from successfully manipulating a bunch of people. They don't believe in rules as consensual deals, or in rules as something that one follows regardless of whose behavior the rule is applied to.
The deals that they propose for how they will behave towards others are only flags of convenience, and ruses of war.
The wisest and most decisive strategy is to have as little to do with them as possible.
On the other hand, the heart wants what the heart wants, and my heart makes an argument for defenestration of many tech execs.
On the gripping hand, these are often too much academic theory obsessives, and I am probably too theory obsessive myself.
That being that rule following is behavior, and a choice, that depends on individuals acting on their experiences, which will be different from what some theorist reasoning at distant abstraction can convince themselves will happen.
The old rule following status quo was not unthinking. Forecasting that it would continue with any arbitrary change was incorrect. Corporations are a legal fiction. The US government was quite deliberately kept crippled, and thus relied on persuading people to consent. Across a large population, a consistent behavior is going to be tied to group pattern, and mysticism. The mysticism that underlay most of the old American rule following was Christianity.
A lot of the people executiving in big tech are coming from a different environment. IE, communists and leftists, who have a different mysticism and direction. Such as transgression or boundary violating as a learned fetish, zero sumism, and that good can only come from successfully manipulating a bunch of people. They don't believe in rules as consensual deals, or in rules as something that one follows regardless of whose behavior the rule is applied to.
The deals that they propose for how they will behave towards others are only flags of convenience, and ruses of war.
The wisest and most decisive strategy is to have as little to do with them as possible.
On the other hand, the heart wants what the heart wants, and my heart makes an argument for defenestration of many tech execs.
On the gripping hand, these are often too much academic theory obsessives, and I am probably too theory obsessive myself.
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