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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Remember: Trump was supposed to debate Harris tonight but chickened out.

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

It's time for a fairer, more competitive app ecosystem. Enforcing the DMA is the quickest way to get there.

Together with many others, we urge MEPs of the ECON and IMCO Committees to hold the gatekeepers accountable for compliance with the DMA

Read More:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-time-for-a-fairer-more-competitive-app-ecosystem/

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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("CandyMandu 🍬🥟 Farewell to..") wrote:

furball corner pocket

#Caturday #billiards

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• two cats sitting on billiards table. cue ball hits 8 ball into corner pocket, the kitten chases it down into the pocket, then comes out and pushes around the cue ball (remote)

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davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:

I had a kidney biopsy on Monday. Results weren't great, so an occasion to ask:

Please consider becoming a living kidney donor. I'm years away from needing one, but without lasting health impact to you, you can change someone's life:

https://www.kidneyregistry.com/for-donors/am-i-qualified-to-donate-a-kidney/

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octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Skellington") wrote:

Now playing: side D of Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon MoFi 1-Step.

Sounds great! It isn’t all-analogue (1/4” 15 ips Analogue master to DSD256 to analogue console to lathe), but this beats my OG pressing (used but in pretty great condition)

Woodstock is so *crystal* clear, you can hear when she has bad mic positioning ;-)

#JoniMitchell
#RealMusicByRealMusicians
#vinyl

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• Photo of the Now Playing prop with the Mofi box. It’s the new style box of dark brownish black, with the OG cover inset. On the top, ‘Original Master Recording’ is reverse gold-stamped. On the bottom, ‘ultradisk one-step pressing my mobile fidelity sound lab’ in gold foil. To the left is my turntable playing the record, sitting atop an unused amp. (remote)

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danielnichanian@threads.net ("Daniel Nichanian | Taniel") wrote:

This is a twist: There's an open seat on the Michigan supreme court, and the Republican chief justice of the Michigan supreme court is endorsing the Democratic-nominated candidate Kimberly Ann Thomas rather than GOP lawmaker Andrew Fink.

https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/thomas-wins-surprise-backing-for-michigan-supreme-court-from-gop-nominated-chief-justice-clement/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

think I finally got a db for my seekrit project properly installed and locked down for support of service scalability...

I have designed so I can run identical copies of my server behind a load balancing front end, and store all user & session data on a joint-access db machine or tier of synchronized data-store machines. (each copy of the server maintains it's own connection pool)

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pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:

Speaker Johnson's off-hand declaration that 4.5 million people would be quickly assigned for deportation should serve as a reminder that the process that would lead to those deportations is as arbitrary as the number.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/23/practical-moral-difficulties-deporting-millions-draw-closer/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:

Was writing about how key members of Trump’s administration have explicitly called him a fascist prompting the Trumpworld defense “yeah, but they’re anti-Trump” when Fox News offered a perfect example.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3A69aGp

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

You're never more than 0 m away from a skeleton. 😱

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kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Before Google, reference librarians answered questions via telephone. “We learned not merely how to find information but how to think about finding information. Don’t take anything for granted; don’t trust your memory; look for the context…” https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-varieties-of-travel-experience/articles/the-department-of-everything

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("ZachSCARY Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

every time someone says that a web site “feels fast” you must append “on my device” to the statement and a dollar must be placed in the works-on-my-machine jar

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pts@octodon.social ("Paul Starr") wrote:

Computer programming is what happens when you wish “I want to learn something new every day” on the monkey’s paw

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

AiG has threatened to sue me for a blog post that touches on the one thing truly sacred to them, their money.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/im-in-trouble-with-aig-and-its-lawyers/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics:

"The demonstration, performed by a group of privacy advocates that gained access to the tool and leaked videos of it to 404 Media and other journalists, shows in the starkest terms yet how Locate X and other tools based on smartphone location data sold to various U.S. government law enforcement agencies, including state entities, could be used to ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/23/inside-the-us.html

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cfbolz ("CF Bolz-Tereick") wrote:

"A DSL for Peephole Transformation Rules of Integer Operations in the PyPy JIT", new blog post on the PyPy blog: https://pypy.org/posts/2024/10/jit-peephole-dsl.html

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

@seachanger I'm sure you've read it before but Ursula K Le Guin's definition of technology as "what we can learn to do" has long been my favorite and operating definition. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology

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adhdeanasl@beige.party ("ADHauntedDean") wrote:

Listen. I’m in Alabama, which is one of the *very* few states that doesn’t have early voting, which is so red that OxyClean can’t help, and which is so politically lopsided that a bunch of seats up for grabs don’t even have a Democrat candidate. Know what I’m doing on 5 November? I’m voting so hard for Kamala Harris that it’s gonna leave permanent marks on the table and make the foundations of the church fellowship hall (our polling place) crack. I don’t give a shit what anybody says; EVERY vote counts.

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tveskov wrote:

I felt this

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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

WIP - still needs a bit of clean-up and a test on some nicer paper but I've been carving this little dude. I'm thinking of making another plate for a second color...

It's such a rewarding process, hopefully I'll have some traditional prints soon! 😊

#linocut #illustration #print #MastoArt

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• Print of a mouse playing the flute. (remote)

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kurtseifried@infosec.exchange ("kurtseifried (he/him)") wrote:

@jsonstein So a concrete example: take the new AICM (AI Controls Matrix, based on the CCM Cloud Controls Matrix) which has 229 controls (32 new AI ones, 197 existing CCM ones) and compare them to the EU AI Act (which has 113 articles, which has about 96 articles with content and then 17 of administravia.

So to compare these two sets is 21,984 comparisons.

Now you can reduce that by summarizing and grouping content, like a human would, but that runs the risk of a false negative, missing a match.

If you really want to avoid false negatives, you need to do every comparisons, and write up why it does or does not match.

Oh and then you want something to validate all the matches and not matches, so you effectively have to do all that work at least twice.

This is a tedious task at best, just reading and understanding the EU AI Act alone (at around 40,000 words) would take a fast reader about 3-4 hours. To say nothing of the time spent understanding it (it's legal text).

But doing it via claude/chatgpt/gemini? Doable., Designing the queries and validation? That's the work. But that work can largely be re-used (e.g. to map other things, a common task for us).

https://github.com/CloudSecurityAlliance-DataSets/dataset-public-laws-regulations-standards

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Short king.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/the-happy-couple-getting-ready-for-the-wedding/

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I thought I understood the extent to which the broad availability of mobile location data has exacerbated countless privacy and security challenges. That is, until I was invited along with four other publications to be a virtual observer in a 2-week test run of Babel Street, a service that lets users draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the area.

The issue isn't that there's some dodgy company offering this as a poorly-vetted service: It's that *anyone* willing to spend a little money can now build this capability themselves.

I'll be updating this story with links to reporting from other publications also invited, including 404 Media, Haaretz, NOTUS, and The New York Times. All of these stories will make clear that mobile location data is set to massively complicate several hot-button issues, from the tracking of suspected illegal immigrants or women seeking abortions, to harassing public servants who are already in the crosshairs over baseless conspiracy theories and increasingly hostile political rhetoric against government employees.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

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• Each red dot in this Babel Street map represents a unique mobile device that has been seen since April 2022 at a Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles, Calif. The nearly square building has only a few spots inside that aren't completely covered in red dots. (remote)

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shannoncurtis ("Shannon Curtis") wrote:

for anyone who …
— can’t be with us in PDX for our final show this Thurs
— hasn’t been able to get to a show on our tour
— wants to see our performance of Good to Me ONE MORE TIME
… we have something FOR YOU:

an ONLINE PERFORMANCE of our GOOD TO ME concert, video streaming exclusively on @radiofreefedi
Wednesday, October 23
1pm PDT | 8pm GMT | 2000 UTC

the link to stream is https://party.radiofreefedi.net/

if you’d like to support me & @hilljam w/ a ticket purchase, thank you: https://shannoncurtis.limitedrun.com/products/845665-shannon-curtis-the-good-to-me-tour-rff-exclusive-online-concert

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kurtseifried@infosec.exchange ("kurtseifried (he/him)") wrote:

@jsonstein yeah I’m spending like $200 to $300 a month to do literally thousands and thousands of API queries against these foundation models. And it’s saving me hundreds to thousands of hours of work. The ROI is completely bonkers.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I'm hoping for a sexual frenzy on Friday.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/anticipation-2/

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

heaven forbid we disturb the space-time continuum

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The whole Republican party is a collection of weird dipshits.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/walz-has-a-way-with-words/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsfgUH4QB7g

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Obama about Trump:.“You’d be worried if Grandpa was acting like this, but this is coming from someone who wants unchecked power.”

JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, when asked about whether he would strip immigrants with legal authorisation of their status: refused to answer

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/23/kamala-harris-donald-trump-us-election-2024-latest-news

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

an interesting piece on some major societal shifts going on now

https://www.nytimes.com/audio/app/2024/10/23/opinion/falling-birth-rates-solution.html?referringSource=sharing

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I got worried about how much I was spending on AI services testing things as I build my seekrit project, so I looked at the dashboard. I’ve spent $0.39 on this flurry of testing. thirty nine cents. a-friggin-mazing.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ugh, 7 am and it is already clear this is a two-cup day

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

With other -webkit prefixes, if you have something like

transform: scale(2);-webkit-transform: scale(0.5);

the one that is higher in the cascade order (which for properties in the same declaration is the one that appears later) wins.

But as far as I can tell, none of those other prefixes properties have a behavior difference like with line-clamp, where the prefixed version has a dependence on other properties that isn't there in the unprefixed version.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Hey! CSS developers! I want to hear from you.

I'm improving the way line clamping works in Chrome and in the specs. The existing -webkit-line-clamp property is a mess, because it will only do something if you have other properties (which are legacy versions of flexbox properties), and we can't fix that because of web compat. But we can add a new line-clamp property without those issues!

But right now I'm dealing with what should happen if you have both properties set on the same element:

display: block;line-clamp: 3;-webkit-line-clamp: 4;

(Note that if we remove line-clamp: 3, this wouldn't clamp, because display: block prevents -webkit-line-clamp from working.)

So what do you think should happen?

#css #CSSWG

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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("CandyMandu 🍬🥟 Farewell to..") wrote:

tis the season to dress like your pet without having your sanity questioned

#dogs #Halloween

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• person dressed in inflatable dachshund costume walking their actual dachshund around the neighborhood (remote)

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typester@pdx.social ("Daisuke Murase") wrote:

Unfortunately, I was laid off yesterday 😱

I have over 20 years of experience as a software engineer, specializing in #Rust, #TypeScript, and #mobile development, particularly passionate about building scalable, high-performance backend systems and asynchronous network software.

I live in Portland OR and looking for a full time job in in the US.

If you know of any opportunities where my skills might be a good fit, I would greatly appreciate any leads or referrals.

Thank you for your support!

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ncdominie@mastodon.scot ("New-Cleckit Dominie") wrote:

Me in the mid-1990s, to people thirty years older than me: "This is called a 'file' and this is a 'website'. Let me explain..."

Me in the mid-2020s, to people thirty years younger than me: "This is called a 'file' and this is a 'website'. Let me explain..."

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AlgoCompSynth ("Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷") wrote:

Interviewer: Is that ... tarragon ... on your arms?

Candidate: Yes ... didn't you see my cover letter? I'm a seasoned professional.

#Curmudgeonry

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

It really is sad that Rudy Giuliani will have to surrender his NYC apartment, 1980 Mercedes-Benz SL500, signed Reggie Jackson picture, signed Joe DiMaggio shirt and three Yankees World Series rings to the election workers he defamed. He deserves it, but it's still sad this man's life was ruined by his adoration for Trump and his lies.
(1.2)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rudy-giuliani-ordered-turn-ny-apartment-valuables-former-georgia-elect-rcna176653

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A judge rules that Rudy Giuliani must fork over his luxurious NYC apartment and other valuables to two Georgia election workers he defamed. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-apartment-ruby-freeman-shaye-moss-georgia-election-workers/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

2/ 2 valuable lessons. 1st is common thread among democracies that collapse into dictatorship is no one panicked til threat was already in power & was too late. That is why I have cont'd to pound my Paul Revere-style “fascists are coming!” campaign.
2nd I learned is constitution/law can only protect you if all parties agree to adhere to it

All you need to end a democracy is a leader willing to suspend or end Constit & supporting cast large enough to allow him to do it.

Republicans have both"

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

VP candidate #TimWalz is joined by fmr President Barack #Obama on the campaign trail in #Wisconsin. The rally comes on the first day of early voting in WI, which allows voters to cast an absentee ballot in-person ahead of #Election Day. Barack Obama has been rallying in several battleground states in the final weeks of the campaign.

#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwlG_x0tojU&pp=ygUIdGltIHdhbHo%3D

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

OMG, this is wonderful… I had no idea he had done this

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/kurt-vonnegut-s-lost-board-gam-63J7V8WaS56tGwnfFojJew

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

be@floss.social ("CEO of Anti-Clock Society") wrote:

Freedom -1: the freedom to not use a computer

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I've always hesitated to recommend Session as an end-to-end encrypted communication choice because of their location in Australia.

It seems this might have been forcibly solved now...

Session will now be maintained by an entity in Switzerland: https://www.404media.co/encrypted-chat-app-session-leaves-australia-after-visit-from-police-2/

#Privacy #Session #E2EE

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

most excellent progress on seekrit project today, can shuffle around secure payloads of structured data and manipulate same.

starting to set up user inputs mean starting to set up sanitization of same, of course. and , that's the hard part: imagining all the weird things that can happen or be done.

that's always been the hard part about making a new machine happen: thinking through all the strange states it can get into...

(for "always" read" "for way too many decades of programming")

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fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:

Educational institutions of all levels should use and teach #FreeSoftware because it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community https://u.fsf.org/1dz

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• Screenshot of https://www.gnu.org/education/education.html Read the full text on the website. The title is Free Software and Education. (remote)

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mcc wrote:

Me when pixel art has been saved as a JPEG

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• Arnold fist clenched but it's pixelated badly

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Threads is endless rage bait bullshit like how Facebook was when I left it.

TikTok is like an actual drug to my brain. I had a decent following there, and love a lot of my mutuals (they knew this was coming eventually) but I felt like I was wasting away on there.

So here we are. What's next? I'm not sure.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I deleted my TikTok and my threads today 😅

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EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

Halloween buddies 🎃👻

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hikari@noyu.me ("hikari 🌟 (falling into the sky)") wrote:

what would happen if you took a list of all 128 General MIDI instruments, picked 8 at random, and forced a bunch of musicians to write songs using only those random instruments, and only the General MIDI feature set? well, we dared to find out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_RtmlQHNK8

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debian@framapiaf.org ("Debian") wrote:

Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian.

https://bits.debian.org/2024/10/ada-lovelace-day-2024-interview-with-some-women-in-debian.html

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Vivaldi@vivaldi.net wrote:

Important announcement!

#Vivaldi #Browser #AI

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• The CEO of Vivaldi, Jon von Tetzchner, making an announcement with wintery Iceland views in the background. He says: "It's not AI". (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

color me amazed

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/opinion/kamala-harris-ally.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE4.-gwG.OXICGdbzN0fd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=bth

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yes!

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/19/mistralrs/

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chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:

A Penny

I have a killer business idea. I'm just going to take one penny from every bank account in the world. I'm not going to ask; you can't say no. It really won't affect you. You probably won't even notice, and even if you do, again, it will not affect you. What's a penny? Nothing. It will benefit me though. Big time.

https://chriscoyier.net/2024/10/21/a-penny/

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DDsD@eigenmagic.net ("David Olsen") wrote:

*chefs kiss*

https://gizmodo.com/famous-ai-artist-says-hes-losing-millions-of-dollars-from-people-stealing-his-work-2000505822

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amyengineer@infosec.exchange ("Amy Renee") wrote:

Headed to #Educause this week for the first time! If you're there, say hi to the short ginger hanging around the FortiStuffs! 😊❤️

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Thank you, Minnesota students, for saying what needs to be said and doing what needs to be done.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/22/the-administrators-have-my-paycheck-but-the-students-have-my-respect/

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• Protest at UM: Money for education not bombs & occupation (remote)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

TIL: ExpressVPN developed their own VPN protocol called Lightway, meant to address what they see as shortcomings in WireGuard, and implemented it in Rust.

It's... interesting. Uses (D)TLS, has Rust bindings for WolfSSL as the underlying cryptographic primitives provider: https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/comparing-wireguard-and-lightway-3-reasons-we-created-lightway/

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Hot take: if you play sound out of your phone around strangers in a public place, you should be shot. If that place is a public transit vehicle, you should be shot and pissed on.

(Why yes, I am in transit all day, thanks for asking)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

shannoncurtis ("Shannon Curtis") wrote:

for anyone who …
— can’t be with us in PDX for our final show this Thurs
— hasn’t been able to get to a show on our tour
— wants to see our performance of Good to Me ONE MORE TIME
… we have something FOR YOU:

an ONLINE PERFORMANCE of our GOOD TO ME concert, video streaming exclusively on @radiofreefedi
Wednesday, October 23
1pm PDT | 8pm GMT | 2000 UTC

the link to stream is https://party.radiofreefedi.net/

if you’d like to support me & @hilljam w/ a ticket purchase, thank you: https://shannoncurtis.limitedrun.com/products/845665-shannon-curtis-the-good-to-me-tour-rff-exclusive-online-concert

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway - POLITICO:

"He will try to ensure Harris is denied 270 votes in the Electoral College, sending the election to the House, where Republicans are likely to have the numbers to choose Trump as the next president." https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/20/trump-overturn-2024-election-plan-00184103

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I find it decidedly delightful that I can cast a vote for Trump to go to prison *and* for Musk to have wasted tens of millions of dollars, all with one simple ballot selection.

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justinhendrix ("Justin Hendrix") wrote:

In the Google search trial, the court's reliance on evidence of how consumer behavior is shaped by what products and services are available by default marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao: https://www.techpolicy.press/google-search-antitrust-ruling-is-a-triumph-for-behavioral-economics/

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b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

also the #1 thing I miss from Linux while using a Mac is strace and recently I found out about `fs_usage` that does part of what strace does and I was so happy

(I’ve also tried dtruss/dtrace etc and a couple of other things which I have failed to get to work, I'm not willing to turn off SIP)

for example here's me looking at what config files `fish` opens

Attachments:

• sudo fs_usage > out grep fish out | grep config | grep open and showing some of the fish config files it’s opening (remote)

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ethanjstark@hachyderm.io ("Ethan :verified_flashing:") wrote:

Fucking BANGER of an opener in @pluralistic 's latest newsletter:

The Secret IRS Files revealed the fact that many of America's oligarchs pay no tax at all. Some of them even get subsidies intended for poor families, like Jeff Bezos, whose tax affairs are so scammy that he was able to claim to be among the working poor and receive a federal Child Tax Credit, a $4,000 gift from the American public to one of the richest men who ever lived
src
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

#EatTheRich #AntiCapitalism

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Oh hey! I launched a newsletter on Buttondown. It's called WetDreamTomato.

Sign up. It's free. I love you. I'll give more details later, I'm tired of writing.

Here's the second issue:

https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/microsoft-co-founder-wants-you-aware-of-americas/

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M0CUV@mastodon.radio ("Matt Gumbley") wrote:

MTTIHC: Mean Time To “I Hate Computers”, a wellbeing metric used by technology professionals in order to see whether their daily frustration with computers is becoming problematic. Measured in seconds since the start of computer use, until the arising of the feeling that you should hurl the damned thing into the sea, and go and walk in the woods instead. Can also be applied to any modern technology, not just computers.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Instead of #thinktober I appear to be having a #thonktober.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Instead of endless arguments about code licenses, we should just stop making software useful to others. :thonking:

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freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles against genocide") wrote:

Challenger, Columbia, and Therac-25 should be required reading for basically everyone.

Beyond the actual circumstances surrounding the Challenger explosion and the ensuing coverup, I strongly recommend Richard Feynman's "Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle" which talks about why unsafety was baked into the Shuttle from the very start.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

We have the @oxidecomputer team in town this week, so no Oxide and Friends today -- but @ahl and I will be back next week with our annual Books in the Box episode; check out the past Books in the Box episodes, and join us next week! https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1297992461234212906

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stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stefangny Waltergheist") wrote:

Remember the first time you created that index.html, opened in the browser, and it felt like magic?
@bw wrote a free online ebook and I love the promise:
“I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.”

https://htmlforpeople.com/

Attachments:

• Screenshot of the ebook introduction with a pastel nicely illustrated banner with the title HTML for people, and a cute smiling robot (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Gonna go make all my encrypted stuff super secure by using the last two largest known Mersenne primes for my public key... :thonking:

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vwbusguy@mastodon.online ("Scott Williams 🐧") wrote:

When you meet people that can type out `openssl` commands from sheer memory, be kind to them, because they've been through a few things.

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verge ("The Verge") wrote:

News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24275924/news-corp-wall-street-journal-perplexity-lawsuit-copyright-infringement

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andybaio@xoxo.zone ("Andy Baio") wrote:

Nilay Patel interviewed Intuit's CEO for the Decoder podcast, obviously asking about their long history of lobbying against free tax filing. Incredibly, Intuit's chief comms officer demanded Nilay delete that entire section of the podcast. The headline writes itself. https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24273820/intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi-turbotax-irs-quickbooks-ai-software-decoder-interview

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Overheard a poll worker say if early voting continues at the current rate, everyone in the county will have already voted by election day. Seems positive.

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robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz wrote:

The cat's out of the bag: I can relax now. https://www.mersenne.org/

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EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

Day 196: The boundary between my boy and the environment is blurring. It’s starting to actually feel like I’m giving him back to the world 🧵

Attachments:

• A very decayed sculpture of an allosaurus is propped up against a tree. It is mottled, greens and grays, blending into the surrounding leaves (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Shorter version of my competitive analysis of why web performance matters [1]:

Platforms are competitions. Pick a side.

[1]: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/113346554454603327

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

My primary motivation is that I want the web to win.

What does that mean? Concretely, that means that I want folks to be able to accomplish most of their daily tasks on the web. A reasonable diagnostic metric is time spent as a percentage of time on device. JTBD fraction would be the natural leading metric, but it's wicked hard to track.

This phrasing -- fraction of time, rather than total time -- has the benefit of not being thirsty. It's also tracked by various parties.

Ok, but why?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are.

The damage I'm seeing isn't just in the public sector, or limited to exceptionally bad cases. It's now ecosystem-wide, and JS-first culture is very much to blame.

But why do I care? A short thread.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are.

The damage I'm seeing isn't just in the public sector, or limited to exceptionally bad cases. It's now ecosystem-wide, and JS-first culture is very much to blame.

But why do I care? A short thread.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

My primary motivation is that I want the web to win.

What does that mean? Concretely, that means that I want folks to be able to accomplish most of their daily tasks on the web. A reasonable diagnostic metric is time spent as a percentage of time on device. JTBD fraction would be the natural leading metric, but it's wicked hard to track.

This phrasing -- fraction of time, rather than total time -- has the benefit of not being thirsty. It's also tracked by various parties.

Ok, but why?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Some additional context:

https://qz.com/1023638/the-gulls-are-alright-how-a-lesbian-seagull-discovery-shook-up-1970s-conservatives

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

So, Monday was starting out as Mondays do, but I was listening to this podcast:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/jul/11/lesbian-seagulls-and-gay-rams-the-endless-sexual-diversity-of-nature-podcast

And learned about the "Lesbian Seagull" song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSGPmYmJc0

And it cheered me up a bit.

(Note: The song was on a Beavis and Butt-head movie soundtrack. I've always been repulsed by B&BH, so I have no idea if the original context was intended to be offensive. The song seems over-the-top sentimental, but otherwise inoffensive unless you're a bigot or something.)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

well good, a few cores are “only” at 80% now

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I have never seen all of my laptop cores go to over 95% at the same time & just stay there… clearly, this 5-yr-old Intel-chip machine is not up to the task of running GPT4All

;^{

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Voted ✅

Judging by how many people were there (it's the third day of early voting in my county), it's a popular thing to do.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

If he was my server, I wouldn't trust the food.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/21/living-the-dream-i-think-he-should-do-it-full-time/

Attachments:

• Trump & his french fries (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

*Double date 2035*

Firt couple: we met after the great blue orb that follows all sent an email to my brain chip explaining Shelly is the least likely to murder me with a slave robot

Second couple: aw that's sweet listen the reason we invited you here is because we like your vibe and-

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The WaPo publishes an opinion piece on the power of prayer that includes a link to an article in the scientific literature to prop up its point.

It doesn't. Surprise.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/21/fluff-and-nonsense/

Attachments:

• Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense. - Victor J. Stenger (remote)

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Algot@mastodon.art wrote:

Monday follows Sunday.
It's a weekly thing, they say.
One is often a fun day.
The other...I'd rather not say.

#SmallPoems

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spacehobo@teh.entar.net ("Space Hobo") wrote:

Make reader mode the default #CSS in all browsers send toot

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paddyduke ("The Paddy Dook") wrote:

No, I don't want tracking cookies.

No, I don't want to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, I don't want a special offer if I check out in the next 10 minutes.

No, I don't want to sign in with Google.

No, I don't want to watch an unrelated video on top of the article I'm trying to access.

No, I don't want a "better experience" in your app.

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Mastodon wrote:

We're now shipping the #Plushtodon to Norway and Switzerland! Only 173 left in Europe. News on the US and other regions to come soon!

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-plushie

Attachments:

• A stuffed Mastodon toy sitting in front of a restaurant table.

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ianhopkinson ("Ianhopkinson") wrote:

Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design by Felienne Hermans
https://www.felienne.com/archives/8470 #python #feminism <- I found this intro to the paper really interesting