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

Didn't see this coming: Apple decided *not* to appeal to the UK's Supreme Court[1] after having its proverbial ass handed to it over trying to block ongoing investigations into browsers by the CMA [2].

It's the first time Apple have been anything short of belligerent on even the narrowest of arguments. Recall that they fought the UK to a standstill for 6+ months on the meaning of the word "shall".

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming
[2]: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2023/1445

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

Breaking news: I have also decided not to buy Figma for $20B today

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lambdafu wrote:

We found a flaw in the SSH specification which allows a MitM attacker to drop certain messages from the secured connection. If you are using SSH, check this out: https://terrapin-attack.com 🐢

Joined work with Fabian Bäumer and Jörg Schwenk at Ruhr University Bochum, HGI, funded by CASA Excellence Cluster / DFG.

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• Cartoon Terrapin Mascot with a wire cutter truncating a cable.

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

Why does Rust use pipe characters to enclose the parameters of anonymous functions/closures?

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

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• The image depicts an old sepia-toned photograph of a family posing together outside a house. The family consists of two men standing side by side, a young girl standing in front, and another young girl to the right. Behind them stands a tall, imposing figure with the body of a person and the head of a goat, complete with large horns. The caption nostalgically states, "No mobiles, no television in sight, just a happy family spending time together," humorously contrasting the idyllic sentiment with the unsettling presence of the goat-headed figure.

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

Mom is feeling better, so I can go back home today in good conscience.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/18/travel-day-yuck/

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• Dancing with Grandma (remote)

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

If I had been paying for Adobe Creative Cloud every month since graduating, I would have now spent over $5,000 on it.

And if I cancelled, I'd have nothing to show for it; no access to my work, no right or ability to open the programs any longer.

Instead, I bought the Affinity creative suite, for which I have spent under $400 total (I've bought it more than once), and which I own to use for as long as they'll run.

I don't always make good choices, but this one turned out rather nicely.

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

this is such a huge change for #AmateurRadio operations.... best New Year present ever:

"to eliminate the baud rate limitation and establish a bandwidth limitation in certain amateur bands."

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-amends-amateur-radio-rules-greater-flexibility

📡

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

"Congress never lifted the ban on speaking fees or gave the justices a major raise. But in the years that followed, as ProPublica has reported, Thomas accepted a stream of gifts from friends and acquaintances that appears to be unparalleled in the modern history of the Supreme Court. Some defrayed living expenses large and small — private school tuition, vehicle batteries, tires. Other gifts from a coterie of ultrarich men supplemented his lifestyle, such as free international vacations on the private jet and superyacht of Dallas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow.

Precisely what led so many people to offer Thomas money and other gifts remains an open question."

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus

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

Dennis Ritchie: "So fsck was originally called something else"

Question: "What was it called?"

Dennis Ritchie: "Well, the second letter was different"

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The multi-part support in #OpenSCAD is shockingly non-existent.

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scrumm@beige.party ("MechaScrumm") wrote:

Just saw an article where someone said they had a daily goal of posting to LinkedIn. So that made me feel better about my life

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Anyone out there running Rancher Desktop as an alternative to #Docker Desktop on Mac?

https://rancherdesktop.io

#containers

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teleclimber@social.tchncs.de ("Olivier Forget") wrote:

@slightlyoff watching now. He's on mastodon apparently: @ryantownsend let's help him get more followers.

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

@bcrypt That looks like an adorable magazine

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

I don’t always submit formal comments to NIST FIPS drafts, but when I do, I make sure to mark my territory with a gigantic stylized graphic of my own full name alongside a drawing of a bridge

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nnungest@fosstodon.org wrote:

@bcantrill love this. Keep up the work. When I listen to these, I feel inspired and energized to slay more bugs, fix infrastructure, and keep working on difficult problems.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Many years ago, I made two decisions about my public speaking: that all my talks would be recorded and publicly available -- and that I wouldn't give the same talk twice. The result has been a wide variety of talks; to help folks navigate them all, I collected them -- and have kept the list updated ever since.

I mention this, because inspired by the kind words of @nnungest, @herrbischoff, and @troglobit, I just updated the list for 2023:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/02/03/talks/

Enjoy -- and thank you!

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

In summary and in conclusion: no, really, you don't need an SPA and you *absolutely* don't need React.

Don't make me tap the sign:

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• [A spectrum of web architecture choices from static HTML to Progressive Enhancement to SPAs.

 SPA technologies are only appropriate for long, uninterrupted sessions where users are operating on local data which is optimistically committed in the UI and synchronised later with the server.
 
 This represents a vanishingly small set of web experiences.][3] ([remote][4])

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glennf@twit.social ("Glenn Fleishman") wrote:

Retail theft went down and the national retailers federation had to admit 5% not 50% of theft was from criminal gangs. This whole panic was concocted to close underperforming and unionized stores and the media bought it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/organized-shoplifting-retail-crime-theft-retraction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek0.cMux.iabRLNkE-vqu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #613 from The Computer Chronicles - CD-ROM Software 1992-9GGs0jidmj4

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• Approximate Frame #613 from The Computer Chronicles - CD-ROM Software 1992-9GGs0jidmj4 (remote)

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

This perf.now() talk is an out-of-body experience for me; like watching a smarter, less shouty version of yourself outline the last 5+ years of your life, and the incredible pain of the teams you've worked with, but in an english accent:

https://youtu.be/f5felHJiACE?si=g7q6uyWwSHxn4ElJ

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drsbaitso@infosec.exchange ("Dr. Sbaitso") wrote:

@bcrypt I like to imagine that journal is actually for rabbits, and they're writing about how to make sure the "owner" is useful.

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

bunny... who among us is engaged in willing usefulness??

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• house rabbit journal magazine. cover story: "ensuring your companion is engaged in willing usefulness" (remote)

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

The instrumentalists in Coldplay deserve more credit for making the band as good as it is despite the human sandbag of a frontman that is Chris Martin.

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adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

I want to say a bit more about the @dnalounge fundraiser. (TLDR: help them)

When I think about my time there (mostly for hacker cons), I think about the fact that the staff were helpful and chill and were good with us as a community. When I contrast that to how we're treated in Vegas — especially in the early days of Defcon — the contrast couldn't be larger.

Accepting, helpful spaces like that don't exist by accident. They don't exist if we don't create them and support them. They get pushed out by the fancy spaces with hot staff and fake smiles that are better at separating rich people from their money.

So if you want spaces like that to exist, you can either support the ones that are here today, or you can try to build your own.

Building these things is crazy hard. Read JWZ's blog ... about air conditioners, about fights outside and people attacking his staff ...

Having one survive for two decades is even harder

So if you can afford it, you should help them out.

https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/111587497012854971

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

Back in the early naughties, some of us in the then-miniscule JavaScript community longed for a day when JS would be taken seriously. We dreamed of a world where the good user-centric design movement and progressive-enhancement ethos would be augmented with some solid engineering discipline.

Be careful what you wish for, y'all.

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• d93f124b4ce645e6.png (remote)

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

love this thread, and the Wikipedia quote:

——- snip ——-
History
fsck first appeared in 4.0BSD of 1980. It turned into its modern wrapper form in NetBSD 1.3 (1998). fsck is not defined by any extant standard,[2] but the primitive non-wrapper form is present in the 1995 draft Systems Management: File System and Scheduling Utilities (FSSU) from X/Open.[8]

As an expletive
The severity of file system corruption led to the terms "fsck" and "fscked" becoming used among Unix system administrators as a minced oath for "fuck" and "fucked".[9] It is unclear whether this usage was cause or effect, as a report from a question and answer session at USENIX 1998 claims that "fsck" originally had a different name:

Dennis Ritchie: "So fsck was originally called something else"
Question: "What was it called?"
Dennis Ritchie: "Well, the second letter was different"

——- snip ——-

https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/111593487329402102

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justyourluck@masto.ai ("Julie Webgirl - Just Your Luck") wrote:

I think I figured it out.

The mass delusion of this mass infection event.

I've told the story of how I got into #EmergencyPrep... Local govt held a community meeting about preparing for a 9.0+ #subduction zone #earthquake hitting the #PNW. Power co, water co, etc all gave useful advice.

Then the fire chief stood up there and said

"We're not coming to help you"

Shock from the audience...

Then the yelling ... 1/

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #CovidCautious

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paulknightly@mstdn.social ("Paul Knightly, PhD") wrote:

I've started the process of migrating over to Proton for email and have just started scratching the surface on the number of services that don't allow users to update their email address without contacting customer service.

In many cases this is resulting in me just canceling the service or deleting the account, but in all cases it's creating a massive waste of time for customer service and myself.

Email addresses and phone numbers are not immutable identifiers for users.