AntiComposite

Wikimedia volunteer steward, occasional writer of code. Mid 20s, New Hampshire.

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2026-10-17 20:03:57 UTC

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sg is Singapore

2026-10-17 19:54:20 UTC

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probably best to avoid unrelated country codes in abbreviations when possible

2026-08-19 22:12:21 UTC

i really need to just write a tampermonkey script to hide third-party replies on bluesky. every time i click over there to read a post that got quoted by a bridged account there's someone being so outrageously incorrect about something in a manner indistinguishable from ragebait

2026-05-29 13:16:38 UTC

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Yes. On mobile it's the button in the toolbar under the article title all the way to the left, in desktop it's to the right of the title.
https://cdn.masto.host/wikisworld/media_attachments/files/116/658/051/267/476/792/original/597625898e810a67.png

2026-05-27 18:15:58 UTC

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one could, in theory, set up their own MediaWiki instance and import the dumps from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ to generate their own versions of articles. This would require a significant amount of ongoing maintenance to get approximately the same result, which is why ~no one does it anymore.

2026-05-21 21:24:19 UTC

getting Europeans to understand that yes, US employment law, attitudes to organizing, and hiring/firing practices are in fact that bad (or worse) is so difficult

2026-05-02 17:29:12 UTC

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RE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116426965511875330
@npub12as…yvvc @npub1uc6…l2rw the current tactic seems to be getting a legit-looking account through review, then using invites (which bypass review) to create the spam accounts.
#note123j…kgzz

2025-01-17 13:57:45 UTC

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unfortunately Creative Commons has taken the position that AI training is fair use and thus not able to be restricted by a license. They've also argued in favor of copyright protection for AI-generated works. https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/

2024-08-30 12:19:05 UTC

the #python csv module is quite powerful, but why in the year of our bdfl 2024 do i still need to use io.StringIO to use it