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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We're testing a couple new follow recommendation algorithms on mastodon.online, so if you have an account there, please check Explore → People and let me know if the quality of the results has improved for you.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7JLIYnuD0

#Germans vs Old #English : how much can they grok?

#language

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pandora_parrot@beach.city (":rainbow_heart: Pandora") wrote:

Oh this is an amazing take down of cult behavior and how common it is in our current society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gg4_4GIEg

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

hejsna@ruby.social ("Johan Halse") wrote:

@slightlyoff there’s been a fair amount of slinking back and I refuse to stand for it. I logged in to post this but I feel like I’m screaming into the void https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2023/10/02/the-idle-elite/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have to admit this year has been destructively stressful for me. I wish I could feel some sense of accomplishment about work done, but it's just not there, just this sense of a million other things that are urgently overdue and another million I'm forgetting.

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

The PS3 is a little crusty but doesn't feel THAT retro until you get started and find out that one of the big jailbreak tools uses an exploit in the browser's Flash plugin

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

After a little messing around, I decided to try and jailbreak the PS3 anyway because the official store is absolutely miserable to use. The re-download page is just a big undifferentiated heap of everything you've ever "purchased"--system themes, icons, DLC, demos, demo unlocks, and even full games for the PSP and Vita. It also loves to crash and randomly sign out.

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carson@mastodon.sdf.org ("Carson Chittom") wrote:

Finally got around to watching @bcantrill 's AI talk on how "Intelligence Is Not Enough." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

Worth watching. If you get bogged down in the technical details of the engineering problems in the middle, skip to the 30:00 mark for the conclusions. (I wish he'd do a "normie" version that'd be easier to share.)

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

“Since launching his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump has said the “termination” of the Constitution would have been justified to overturn the 2020 election, told followers “I am your retribution” and vowed to use the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries — starting with President Biden and his family.

Beneath these public threats is a series of plans by Mr. Trump and his allies that would upend core elements of American governance, democracy, foreign policy and the rule of law if he regained the White House.”

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-2025-second-term.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-0w.5NCz.iL54GwUyDHYL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Work Hard. Play Hard.

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

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

There are 100 ways the current ransomware problem can and probably will get worse and nastier. Every single cybercriminal or aspiring crook is now focused on ransomware or data ransom payments as THE path to financial success. It's no longer just the Russians. It's the Chinese, the North Koreans, and Iran.

Either way, these countries don't just want to hurt the United States: They would rather the US died in a fire. For companies to make payments to these regimes -- and their cybercriminal apparatus is always part of the regime -- is bonkers, IMHO.

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

It's long past time for the element to support blured previews and fade-in of `loading="lazy"` content.

Nobody should have to hand-roll this stuff in 2023 or wonder if their impl will get correctly composited.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I don't have anything witty to say about Orbán, I'm just glad #EU memberships is starting to happen for #Ukraine. (And Moldova, and Georgia, both of which have also been saddled for years with separatist regions heavily backed/created by Russia.)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/eu-sidestep-viktor-orban-to-open-membership-talks-with-ukraine

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elmowilk@mastodon.online ("Anselmo") wrote:

🚂 New game announcement !! 🚂

I’m very happy to announce “Times of Progress”, an isometric city-builder game set during the industrial revolution.

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2628450/Times_of_Progress/

Please boost!

(+ sound ON if you can)

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

This talk by @TheRealNooshu should be required viewing for every frontend team. Seriously, treat it as a training video and make your team answer multiple-choice questions about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdBxrZB9V_c

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

twitter not paying whitehats. what could go wrong?

this one recently disclosed a vulnerability that would have allowed people to gain control of the twitter accounts of users who merely clicked malicious links

#twitter #birdsite

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• Chaofan Shou @shoucccc 18h I built a nuclear-weapon-level Twitter/X exploit based on a few previously unfixed vulnerabilities. It is not eligible for bug bounty so I will disclose it soon. @X @elonmusk Chaofan Shou @shoucccc 13h Credit to @rabbit_2333 for the XSS (remote)
• Chaofan Shou @shoucccc 10h And we got the full JS exploit to chain with this XSS vulnerability! In another word, visiting this link earlier today would take over your account: Chaofan Shou @shoucccc 10h It is highly irresponsible for Twitter to ignore these security issues and not pay the whitehats. The architecture and design patterns also need to be corrected. (remote)
• x_austin X (Formerly Twitter) staff closed the report and changed the status to Resolved. Updated 6 hours ago X (Formerly Twitter) has decided that this report is not eligible for a bounty. 6 hours ago No award due to program ban (remote)
• rabbit @rabbit_2333 I submitted this bug report and didn't receive a bounty. You told me that this bug has existed for a year. Seeing that you haven't fixed it for so long, it seems that this bug is not important, so I made it public. Screenshot of conversation from HackerOne: x_austin X (Formerly Twitter) staff posted a comment. a minute ago @rabbit2333 why are you publicly disclosing security issues instead of submitting them to our bug bounty program? Would you mind deleting this post? This is something we're aware of and are addressing. Image F2918855: image.png 26.90 KIB (remote)

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

Logging into Twitter is a sad reminder of just how few tech influencers that claimed to care about causes can be mildly inconvenienced to take action.

They're just out there engagement farming like nothing happened -- debating boring technical points on tendentious premises as though fascists didn't take over the joint.

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scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

New on my blog:

An HTML Templating Language That Keeps Its Secrets

https://scottjehl.com/posts/declarative/

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

lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:

i forgot to repost this absolute gem of VC brain worms that @matasar sent me

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

BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC [World] Israeli soldiers' mosque behaviour condemned by IDF https://w.st/HA58a

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BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC [World] EU to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova https://w.st/hiyCD

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

oh no no no, please no... inevitable, and good lawd no no no

https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/111580346379057658

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

picked up one of these (on sale for $US60) today, tired of carrying my main all-band/all-mode field rig (an FT-991A) around in a bag with no real protection from dust, moisture, and shock:

https://www.harborfreight.com/4800-weatherproof-protective-case-x-large-black-64250.html

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

I hope you aren't all waiting for a happy ending to this story.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/14/a-slight-correction/

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hankg@friendica.myportal.social ("Hank G ☑️") wrote:

@pzmyers @band Yep he did:

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul…

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul…

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

I wrote about the AI trust crisis: when companies like Dropbox and OpenAI say "we won't train models or your private data", it's increasingly clear that a lot of people simply don't believe them.
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/

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

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

I wandered into the Muckleshoot casino. Now I’m blind, deaf, and lost in a maze of slot machines.

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

but of course, everyone should have a box of various sized toroids hanging around

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

I hate it when ppl post things like "...social media isn't for [fill in the blank]". any given socmedia platform is for whatever the users use it for. that is how this thing works