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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

So conflicted regarding Citizen Lab's work. Their CVEs are outstanding, but the politically charged narratives and utter clickbait that they build around them continue to whitewash pure conjecture as investigative expertise.

This is a great read: https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/

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

Inside of you are two wolves.

One wolf wants to play bass in a bluegrass band.

The other wolf wants to play bass in a ska band.

Both wolves want their band to cover the Brinstar theme from the original NES Metroid.

Your wolves might just be a midlife crisis.

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sorchist@esperanto.masto.host ("Sorĉist'! (Ed H) :flago:") wrote:

Kiel vi prononcas "r" en Esperanto?

(jen tabulo kun sonregistraĵoj) https://www.ipachart.com/

bv rehupi por disvastigi

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RikerGoogling@botsin.space ("Riker Googling") wrote:

why are so many ferengi verified on twitter

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

I'm glad the kiddo wasn't with me yet. I was on the way to pick them up from grandma. But they still got scared when they saw the car.

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

Also, tip for reply guy drivers. If you see somebody just involved in an accident, yelling out your window as you drive the other way, "You should get your cars over to the side of the road so you don't tie up traffic!" Really isn't as fucking helpful as you might think.

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

(I'm fine, although my chest feels a bit sore.)

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

Well, having someone drive into your stopped vehicle shakes you up more than you'd think. 😬

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Meyerweb ("Eric Meyer") wrote:

god: i have made a Single page webapp

angels: you fucked up a perfectly good website is what you did. look at it. it’s got dependency injections

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meredithw@wandering.shop ("MeredithW") wrote:

@isagalaev the ADHD part is when it happens for something that isn't particularly creative or demanding. It can happen for something routine; feels like my mental boots are glued to the floor and I just can't move forward.

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

Geez, there's just plain lovely and talented people all over this danged place. Pretty cool.

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

thud go the particles…

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janeadams@vis.social ("Jane Adams") wrote:

WE DID IT!! #Northeastern #BostonMA #union #uaw #solidarity #NEU

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

I remember when you didn't log in to watch TV. You'd just turn on the TV, mess with the rabbit ears until the fuzziness and audio was tolerable, and if there was nothing on you wanted to watch, you'd eventually wander off and go do something else like read a book or magazine, or ride your terrible 3rd hand bike, or work on a craft....

Anyway, TV used to be so much worse, and yet it feels like it was better in some ways. I know, I know, old man yells at cloud... 😆

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matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

Reading this WebP vulnerability report and I got to the words “lossless image compression” and “Huffman encoded Huffman tables” and I am trying to understand what we’re doing here other than paying for exploit developers’ kids’ orthodontia. https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/

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

baleful critter

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

hanging out

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Today in my newfound life as a Frenchman: spent the morning running through the gardens of a French middle ages Château, carrying a baguette and an entire roasted duck.

Still managed a good running time somehow.

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

Each year, the ritual continued, just the same as the year before.

None of the developers knew exactly what day it would be, but they knew it would come. One morning, they would sit down with their Mac and suddenly find the fated hour had arrived: the machine had once again entirely forgotten what git was, and that it had ever been installed on this machine.

It was time for the cleansing. A trek into the forest of Xcode. Would it be mere moments? Hours? Or days this time?

The village prayed.

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

Regarding LB[1]: I will undoubtedly be playing that video over and over again this weekend.

[1] https://masto.nyc/@jmac/111109377253032460

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jmac@masto.nyc wrote:

I really enjoyed the message of #Stoicism in this banger: Let others classify you however they want, because their bindings slide right off you, and can't stop you from being your best self, on your own terms. (Also: Space.) https://youtu.be/EuRjmzz6qL0?si=gB_WNEzdgl6jnWkA

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parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

I didn’t realize how valuable domains can be to small countries. Anguilla, which owns .ai, gets a third of its government’s monthly budget from domain sales. Tuvalu, which owns .tv, could make $10 million a year from the domain, allowing it to pave its roads and expand electricity access.

https://restofworld.org/2023/whats-in-a-domain-name/

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

Also, that damn screen seems to get smaller every year despite the phones getting ever larger. :P

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yvanspijk@toot.community ("Yoïn van Spijk") wrote:

Saying 'probly' instead of 'probably' is sometimes frowned upon, but the word 'probably' itself was shortened from 'probablely' (two L's!) by the same process.

This process is called haplology. One of two consecutive similar syllables is deleted:
-le-ly
-ba-bly

More examples:

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

Some people look at the "mobile platform" (phones with a touch screen for an interface) and see it is unproductive for most things and try to change it.

I see the "mobile platform" is unproductive and try not use it for things it's not suitable for (and get irritated when I'm forced to use some bullshit mobile "app" or website).

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

I think this was my best week for Keyword @mattdsteele

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

them: "Your password has been updated..."

me: "No it hasn't! It's the same one as before!"

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

I get efforts to reduce password sharing, but it would be cool if they'd, like, look at the account and see that there's one device that's been authorized and not just run a 'select * from members where password older than 3 months' or whatever similar thing they do. Bah.

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

I've really been enjoying the efforts to prevent password sharing by some of these streaming services where every few months they deauth everything and forget my password. Very cool and not the least bit frustrating for me as I'm not even the one that watches these things, but I'm the one that gets to go around resetting passwords and logging into everything.

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

OK, I'm done with Sabine.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/23/the-algorithm-may-have-killed-another-expert-for-me/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7XAxiJGJdg