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owl@beach.city wrote:

Corporations can't market their products as superior using specs anymore, so you're left to figure out what's better, TurboVision Max or FluidView Pro, or DisplayHDR 500 (just actually saw that last one.)

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blua_floroj@mastodon.art ("August") wrote:

#BattleAngelAlita

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owl@beach.city wrote:

(In this case it wasn't a C issue, but I bring it up because it seems incredibly irresponsible. The issue would have manifested in the same way in C♯ or other memory-safe languages.)

owl@beach.city wrote:

Have to say it's pretty weird to agree on service requirements with another party, and then go and run our services on Azure, which can't really give such specific guarantees.
Swedish collective transit means nothing to MS in terms of revenue, and we don't have any "special agreements."
And then MS can go and run 500000-line C programs as root on "our" servers, which grant remote root to anyone.
It's quite hard to account for stuff you didn't even install that's nonetheless there.

Anathema wrote:

They should teach the NATO phonetic alphabet in school, much more useful than memorising multiplication tables.

Anathema wrote:

Getting the good antiboyotics today.

owl@beach.city wrote:

There is a security bug with Office/Outlook/Teams corporate login web stuff if someone wants to get bug bounty.
It logs you out automatically after some time (I get logged out every morning.)
But if you stay on the "you have been logged out" screen and juggle some tabs that were also logged in to these things, then suddenly it logs you back in.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Tiëstogel

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

this sketch of a rewrite of Star Trek Generations starts off a little rough but I would have loved to have seen this filmed instead of the movie we got. it understands and respects the characters in a way the actual Generations completely failed to.

https://i-harrington.medium.com/fixing-star-trek-generations-133748e11629

owl@beach.city wrote:

*reaches into magic hat and pulls out another, slightly smaller magic hat*

owl@beach.city wrote:

It smells like earth and I can see the eldritch stars between the clouds. There's only two sounds: the ventilation of the houses, and water dripping. Only me and a cat are out.

owl@beach.city wrote:

It has rained. I didn't even notice because I was staring at a screen for money. It feels really nice outside.

owl@beach.city wrote:

fir needles are fir fur

owl@beach.city wrote:

Buchla that's not completely bongos amounts of money?
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/09/15/classic-buchla-200-series-modules-returning-as-inexpensive-eurorack-modules/

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Ivafakename@efdn.club ("Ivafakename (Official villain)") wrote:

Good news everyone I finally got into medical school!

The locks were hard to break but I am learning all I can about real unethical science

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

on the one hand it's good to see that the embargo had at least *some* effect, but on the other hand, the junta seems to have found a way around it, even if it is inconvenient. it's tempting to blame Telenor and say that they should have held on and protected the citizens, but the military was making veiled threats to Telenor employees stationed in Burma, so it's understandable they want to get out. ugh.

power to the people of burma; I hope they can overthrow their corrupt military.

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

the despicable military dictatorship in Burma has been pressuring the Telenor communications company to install surveillance systems to monitor dissidents. so far they have refused to activate it because of an EU embargo law, but now they're bailing on their Burmese operations altogether and selling their business to another company outside the EU that may not have any hesitance to activate the surveillance.

https://www.reuters.com/world/norways-telenor-says-myanmar-unit-sale-came-after-juntas-pressure-surveillance-2021-09-15/

owl@beach.city wrote:

Ál Hás

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

And yet, it's now colder outside at 09:30 than it was when I posted that toot around 06:00.

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MicroSFF ("Micro SF/F stories by O Westin") wrote:

RT @MicroSFF "If I understand correctly, professor, it is not only theoretically but also practically possible to travel to change the past?"
"Yes."
"Have you tried it?"
"Yes, that's what motivated my research."
"Will you tell us what you changed?"
"No."
"A 'no' is sacrosanct."
"Yes, it is."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

Nobody asked me, but here's how I feel about the death of Bob Enyart. Fuck that guy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/my-true-and-honest-feelings-about-the-death-of-bob-enyart/

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

It's getting harder and harder to love America.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/depressingly-accurate-lesson/

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Despite it not really being high on my conscious priorities, I really want to make a new avatar. This one... has run its course.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Despite being a little breezy, it was somewhat warm this morning on my run. Summer lingers for a while longer.

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

Relieved at the results in California, dreading the future of Amefican politics.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/good-work-california/

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

Spiders have always been prolific beasts.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/tell-me-about-it/

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

Don't bother to read this, it's just me expressing my dismay at the failures of university administrations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/futile-whining/

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

How I write my Journal https://blog.m5e.de/post/how-i-write-my-journal/

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itnewsbot@schleuss.online ("IT News") wrote:

Wikipedia bans seven Chinese editors, alleges 'infiltration' and risk of 'physical harm' of users - Removes sysop privileges for another dozen, warns more about doxing, frets about preservi... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/09/15/wikimedia_china_bans/

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Olm_e@mamot.fr ("Olm-e") wrote:

here some butterflys ... lots of them 🤩
(reexport /o\)

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