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Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Dear fuck, somebody is finally investigating the toad, 6 years too late but better late than never!
Squeal all you want Nigel, nobody cares.

#UKPOL #NigelFarage #Brexit

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• @Nigel_Farage Nigel Farage The establishment are trying to foræ me out of the UK by closing my bank I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. Video of a Human/Toad hybrid looking sad.

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

When you don't get the job because you dislike diversity, that's DEI principles working as intended.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/29/dei-working-exactly-as-intended/

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• Diversity, equity, inclusion (remote)

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

JuliusGoat ("A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆") wrote:

October 6, 2018 was the day a man of no qualities beyond his unwavering commitment to supremacy—a man who had been credibly accused of sexual assault—had been elevated to the Supreme Court, as part of an openly planned supremacist plot to strip women of their bodily autonomy.

And stripping women of their bodily autonomy is what, a year ago this week, that Court finally did.

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

Even college professors are not safe from the hysteria of the Right. Wait, not even? We're one of the secondary targets.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/29/my-nightmare-2/

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• MORAL PANIC! (remote)

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

Skepticon. August. St Louis.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/29/skepticon-registration-is-now-open/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Potsdam gravity potato

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

If I ever get a time machine I'm going to go back and prevent James Dean from being sucked into that jet engine

Reblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):

resuna@ohai.social ("Resuna") wrote:

"I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." -- https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th

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• Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of 'what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?' We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost. I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people. (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I have been enjoying the new NYT game Connections! Will be familiar for fans of a certain British game show...

Connections
Puzzle #18
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

A nice thing about acquiring another language is that the simplest jokes/witticisms/puns etc are funnier by virtue of being new.

Like I just thought about Tears for Fears being nicknamed "Tias Fofinhas" and laughed again

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

lea@lea.lgbt ("Lea Rosema") wrote:

NPM after I ran npm install
You have 29 moderate security vulnerabilities, please run npm audit --fix

After npm audit --fix:
You have 64 high security vulnerabilities

🤷‍♀️ 🥴

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

TheBreadmonkey@mstdn.party ("Al Gorithm") wrote:

Nearly 6pm. You know what time that is? It's crime time.

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• Seaside council sign that reads 🚫 No crime 8am - 6pm (remote)

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

Tiny little Theridion chowing down on an ant.

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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:

@slightlyoff Ah, but we can't rewrite legacy code, you see. It's very expensive, and rewrites just create more bugs without even solving the problem — you'll still have to think about efficiency! shakes head smug-sadly

Also the legacy code you're talking about got me promoted to L9 and I have a very large ego

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

It's 2023 and I'm seeing a non-trivial set of *very large* sites that serve over H/2 *without gzip/deflate*.

Anyway, apropos of nothing, who do I know that works on app.starbucks.com?

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

The sooner we treat the whole React ecosystem as regretted legacy, the sooner we can start the healing. It's possible. It's healthy. Try it with me!

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, this is truly creepy… part 1:

https://mastodon.social/@jsrailton/110624069505063181

part 2:

when I look at that timeline on theBirdSite, that post & that media are not there

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

pixelfed wrote:

✨ Authorized Fetch + Pixelfed

Enforce domain blocks at the federation level with Authorized Fetch, a feature borrowed from our @Mastodon friends.

⚡ Allowlist Mode - Only federate with predefined instances

⚡ Denylist Mode - Federate with all, except banned instances

⚡ Hybrid Mode - Queue activities from unapproved instances, and accept/reject each instance (w/ triggers and custom rules to partially automate this)

Platform safety is crucial to us, and we look forward to shipping this 🚀

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• Pixelfed authorized fetch config

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

mikemacleod@infosec.exchange ("Mike") wrote:

@SecurityWriter it was either this or sleep.

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• Alignment chart meme featuring different network devices and services describes as firewalls (remote)

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

AgileAttorney@law.builders ("John E. Grant") wrote:

Failure demand can be understood as demand on a system caused by failure to do something - or to do something right - for the customer.

A Frustrating Example of Failure Demand https://www.agileattorney.com/a-frustrating-example-of-failure-demand/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

and thanks to @micahflee for tipping me off to bitwarden lo those many years ago!

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tailscale@hachyderm.io ("Tailscale") wrote:

You want your passwords on all of your devices, but you want to keep control of the database? Check out our new guide on hosting vaultwarden on your tailnet for Bitwarden password managers https://tailscale.dev/blog/vaultwarden-tailnet

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

In Europe’s empty churches, prayer and confessions make way for drinking and dancing.

Across Europe, the continent that nurtured Christianity for most of two millennia, churches, convents and chapels stand empty and increasingly derelict as faith and church attendance shriveled over the past half century.

https://buff.ly/3JvLT26 #religion #church

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I wrote this guide for work about hosting a vaultwarden vault accessible only over @tailscale. I think it hits a real sweet spot of security and ease of use! Check it out: https://tailscale.dev/blog/vaultwarden-tailnet

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

Developer agility is not the most important aspect of technology choice. It probably isn't the third most important. It might not even be the fifth.

*Until and unless* you have solid data about the value of that aspect, in context with your other business concerns and costs, it must never be allowed to win a technology stack argument.

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

OK, @JordanBPeterson, I'm calling you out. You are cis. You're a low-down, dirty, scum-sucking cis person, just like me. What are you going to do about it?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/28/is-everything-a-binary/

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• Jordan Peterson dares people to call him cis to his face (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

well now, that is ugly

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

Minnesota set a bad example in the vaccine 'debate'.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/28/learning-from-history-is-a-good-idea/

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• 1902 newspaper clipping of an anti-vax debate (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Amador") wrote:

I don't see it mentioned enough times but Fork is one of the best git clients around imo, lightweight, simple and it just works. Win & Mac, free to try and one time purchase. https://git-fork.com/

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Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

rstephensme@hachyderm.io ("Rachel Stephens") wrote:

Thoughts on Adobe Stock Photos in the age of Midjourney, with a little bit of @bcantrill economics wisdom thrown in for good measure:

https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/06/27/midjourney-adobe-stock/