Kye Fox

Whatever you think of the disclosure, @tailscale.com has handled it professionally so far. There's a Reddit post from their VP of engineering talking about what they're doing. Zero complaint about the disclosure, the discloser, or how it was handled. Just getting to work on it.

There are a few different philosophies of disclosure and companies should be prepared to handle all of them.

The severity of breakage from dist-upgrade would have sent me back to Windows in the past. Having AI to help sort it out faster saved the day. It was a "simple" fix: reinstall a package and edit a config file. But getting there still took an hour, and it shouldn't have happened.

I see there's discourse about profile links to adult stuff being tagged as adult. Frankly: I want to know if I'm about to click off to porn. It's either a way to tag it manually or auto-tagging. Complaining about this sounds exactly like complaining about getting your porn mod-tagged as porn.

Some people are all "guys, gals, and nonbinary pals" until you try to tell them nonbinary pals aren't always visibly nonbinary, and some of their--let's be honest, bigoted by definition--attitudes toward binary identities risk harming people who read as binary but aren't.

Fails to recognize Patreons for the green button when they're under a custom domain. Other than that,

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Bandcamp is also missing

Anyway, so a bit of trivia I got my name from a game called Kye The game was named for the developer's dog, Kye There is absolutely no relationship here aside from probably sharing an etymology.

Is the anti-PHP stuff going around the sort of stuff any mature language gets, or is it really as bad as people seem to think? I thought all the big issues were solved years ago and it became a decent enough thing to use.

My read is people are using an issue in the PHP _runtime_ to air their frustrations at the language, which is fine but has some legacy cruft like any old language.

Normalize doing the work to have an opinion before having an opinion.

Kye Fox@kyefox.com

I think it's understandable for people to not understand accounting, but I also think it's reasonable for them to recognize that fact when engaging with media on the topic. "I don't know enough to form a coherent opinion on this" is a complete answer to a Reuters headline.

themarginalian.orgThe Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical ThinkingNecessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

I usually lean in favor of blaming systems over talking about personal responsibility when so many people fail this way, but cultivating a base level of critical thinking is the single highest impact thing you can do to improve your life, and anyone can do it.

One myth I would like to see die in the 2020s is the idea that there are blue states and red states. That's a news media invention. It isn't real.

youtube.comHow to Make Things Matter to YouYouTube video by Hank Green

You can't only focus on unsolvable problems www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugmx...

The camera people must have an absolute blast on Clarkson's Farm.

I was never sure what Pillowfort was for when I was reminded it existed and logged in. I could never find anyone active. I guess it was in the same world as Dreamwidth, but never got enough momentum to have the sort of unique and active community sites like that depend on.

Apparently Pillowfort was popular with smutsmiths and their fans due to the site's willingness to defend them. That would explain why it seemed dead to me: no interest in all that, so didn't look for it.

You know times are odd when Playboy has to read someone the articles.

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Hey, Pete Hegseth, this equation—testosterone = aggression = combat power—is not clearly backed by scientific study. BJ Ferguson, a genderqueer transmasculine person who has been taking topical testosterone for six years, breaks it down for you. Read here: www.playboy.com/read/politic...

Precarity has risen by one Here We Go Agains Supporting my music is the #1 way to help: kyefox.com/library-music/ Reposts and likes count as support.

I forgot how quiet the internet can get on weekends when you're not on "social" media all the time.

kyefox.bandcamp.comLibrary Music Sampler, by Kye Fox14 track album

I just released a free library music sampler: kyefox.bandcamp.com/album/librar... Patrons already have access to the full The Vault: clubhouse.kyefox.com/posts/2016-2...

kyefox.comA Strategic RetreatAI is a...noisy topic. People I am naturally allied with on essentially everything have succumbed to a madness. I need to rewatch Neverending Story, but the situation is very much like The Nothing. T...

This was the right call and recent posting was a mistake. There are too many people made unwell by this technology and even the various controls and feeds and filters let too many through.

Kye Fox@kyefox.com

I quit social media I log in just to see I see anxiety-inducing vagueposts I decide I was right to log off for good kyefox.com/a-strategic-...

kyefox.comFollow AlongThere are two exciting ways to follow this blog: Good old RSS. For stuff that rises to the level of a full post. Newsletters are also posts and come through here. The newsletter, Fox Noises. I colle...

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kyefox.comThe Regroup (newsletter)In the absence of microblogging, I need a place to share all that stuff I would otherwise post to Bluesky, so I'm doing a little split now described on the following page: There are two exciting ways...

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Kye Fox@kyefox.com

I quit social media I log in just to see I see anxiety-inducing vagueposts I decide I was right to log off for good kyefox.com/a-strategic-...

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kyefox.comA timeline, of sortsThis is my attempt to figure out what happened to get us here. 1996: Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News to support the conservative project of delegitimizing liberal institutions like journalism and go...

20 Sept

I quit social media I log in just to see I see anxiety-inducing vagueposts I decide I was right to log off for good kyefox.com/a-strategic-...

20 Sept

Even my own posts cause it, if I'm being honest as I scroll through them. Do you know how much reading and writing I've gotten done without inflicting this on myself and others?

So you know how in Sonic 2 the little critters are freed when you blow up the robots What happens in Sky Chase Zone Do they just fall to their deaths

kyefox.comRevisiting The Walking DeadCircumstances aligned recently to allow me to catch up on The Walking Dead. I started with spinoffs: Dead City and Daryl Dixon. I had already watched most of Fear The Walking Dead and the first season...

Lanterns is exactly my kind of show, but: 1: it's never going to develop a fandom (see: kyefox.com/revisiting-t...) 2: HBO. Giving money to Rowling is poison to me. Giving attention to media that indirectly supports her mission by supporting the platform is also not good.

I'm falling out with TV in general due to streaming tendencies. Shows have 10 episodes and 2 years between seasons if they get a second at all, and you know it won't get a third. I got on the internet early, so I grew up with the shared experience of talking about shows and it's mostly missing now.

And you're just as likely to find someone who really, really hates your favorite show and won't shut up about it so you can enjoy it. Can't talk Stargate without someone screaming about the military, as though having complicated views on media is some violation of an invisible contract.

youtube.comEvolution of Video Games Epic Medley (Made in Mario Paint Composer)YouTube video by adolfobaez

Who else has playing with Mario Paint's music maker at a friend's house as their first music making experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbO1...

11 Sept

Banished from the doomsday bunker for unwrapping butter wrong.

11 Sept

Matt Mullenweg might be rich beyond reason, but I've never stepped on my dick in such spectacular fashion I got sued and alienated everyone in a community I spent decades of my life building, so I guess I have that going for me.

youtube.comJosh Johnson on why he thinks that AI can't win when it comes to comedy #AfterTheCutYouTube video by The Daily Show

11 Sept

The Noticing feed is great because you get all these interesting posts, then some weirdo posts "paws"

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"AI didn't just come in the room with legs" www.youtube.com/shorts/7JYZV... Maybe a devastatingly clever sillyman saying all this will help some in the anti-AI crowd come around to what a lot of us have been saying all along.

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8 Sept

Horizons and Other Dreams (Fox Focus 5)

melmagazine.comAnd the Joker Got Away: An Oral History of ‘Christmas with the Joker’Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy and producer Paul Dini reflect on the Joker’s first appearance in ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ and how it set the definitive tone for the Batman vs. Joker rivalry

27 Aug

Tim Curry was almost The Joker; he recorded a few episodes. Mark Hamill was the right call for that but imagine the alternate timeline with the "going to space" clip switching to Tim Curry's Joker riding a Christmas tree out of prison. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

beautifulpublicdata.com50,000 boat namesFrom SEA SLUT II to BILBOAT BAGGINS, a deep dive into AIS vessel data turns up 50,000 boat names packed with nautical puns, dirty jokes, and Tolkien deep cuts.

27 Aug

bilboat baggins crimescene and crime scene three different overboards

27 Aug

Working on turning some older tracks into stuff for Fox Focus.