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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

noondlyt ("LAUREN") wrote:

Truth social has 5 million users but is somehow worth 6 billion dollars. Nothing funny going on here. Nice legal loophole for foreign dirty money to be passed through to the 78% stakeholder.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

For the wealthy to successfully impoverish us, they had to provide something that made us *feel* like we were still doing OK, even as they stole our wages, our savings, and our futures. So, even as they shipped our jobs overseas in search of weak environmental laws and weaker labor protection, they shared some of the savings with us, letting us buy more with less. But if your wages keep stagnating, it doesn't matter how cheap a big-screen TV gets, because you're tapped out.

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

I was trying to explain to a friend (being helpful!) that I was so lost on an issue there wasn't even a good starting point to learn, and even in explaining that it was obvious there was a starting point. There's always a starting point

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

joeyh@hachyderm.io ("see shy jo") wrote:

I rag on github a whole lot, but this is one feature it has that I really like.

Since JiaT75 backdoored xz-utils, I have blocked him and now get to see a warning in every project he touched.

I hope wasmtime et all are doing some careful review..

Attachments:

• wasmtime repository with a banner "a user you've blocked has previously contributed to this repository" (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

barometz@tech.lgbt ("dominic") wrote:

After observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz package) on
Debian sid installations over the last weeks (logins with ssh taking a lot of
CPU, valgrind errors) I figured out the answer:

The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored.

have a good weekend everybody!

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've been participating in a long-term test whether my browsers are trackable via fingerprinting:

https://browser-fingerprint.cs.fau.de/

and oooof, they are ;(

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

I don't generally like critiquing app redesigns, but since Slack updated a couple months ago, I feel like I regularly have a little (1) notification number in the Activity tab, with no idea where the "new" message is.

After just going into a click frenzy until I finally found it about a half dozen times, I finally realized there's a very, VERY slight change in font weight and color.

Designers: if a difference in design indicates something meaningful, PLEASE make it obvious.

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

thoughtshrapnel@micro.blog ("Thought Shrapnel") wrote:

Endlessly clever thoughtshrapnel.com

Attachments:

• Yellow side of a solved Rubik's cube on a yellow background (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Ooops. Mixed up VCC and GND when connecting my LED matrix. Looks like everything survived tho, phew 😅

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

Tendar@newsie.social wrote:

The Czech counterintelligence service "BIS" uncovered a large Pro-Russian propaganda network. "Voice of Europe" has been used as a Kremlin mouthpiece, trying to sow discord and further Russian lies. The Czech authorities sanctioned "Voice of Europe".

The Czech newspaper "Denik N" is even more specific and adds more information. According to sources from intelligence services, this platform has been also used to fund Anti-European parties in the West.

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

So much land in this country is wasted on golf courses...

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

earthshine@hackers.town ("Earthshine") wrote:

A series of decisions were made at Mini which resulted in what is unambiguously the worst indicator design of all time. It is so bad that after seeing it on the street, I just had to post about it here.

Attachments:

• Animated gif of the back of a mini Cooper s countryman crossover vehicle with the brake lights illuminated and the left turn signal blinking. The left turn signal is very clearly an arrow pointing to the right, and the right indicator is an arrow pointing to the left when illuminated. (remote)

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

dredmorbius@toot.cat ("Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​") wrote:

Edit: Answer seems to be Willima James Sidis, though I'm having trouble turning up a citation.

I'm trying to remember the name of the young prodigy who'd been bullied as a child, somewhere in the US (Cleveland sticks in my mind though I may be wrong on that), took refuge in the library, read Principia Mathematica, and corresponded with Bertrand Russelll over errata. Russell mistook the youth for a maths professor initially.

Obviously early 20th century.

Ring any bells for anyone?

#DearMastomind #DearHivemind #Maths #prodigies #BertrandRussell

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

Boeing is showing us the way -- how to kill American productivity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/29/boeing-has-become-an-object-lesson-in-bad-business/

Attachments:

• Boeing 737 MAXs parked in Moses Lake (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I love myself a good "Burning Down the House" cover and Paramore's is right up there 🤩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NKuuQ4Hy0

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

john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

A new #painting!

A portrait of Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis, scourge of the Late Triassic.

https://johnconway.art/herrerasaurus_portrait

#art #dinosaurs

Attachments:

• The head of a dinosaur on a green background. It’s head is scaly, with a variety of colours filling the cracks between them. (remote)

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

Sam Bankman-Jailed

Sam Bankman-Freed-in-25-years

C'mon journalists, the ideas are right there

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

lazza ("Andrea Lazzarotto") wrote:

Sarebbe meglio evitare di mettere online le foto dei #minori. Se ne sono accorti persino alcuni soggetti che in passato hanno usato l'immagine dei #figli per guadagnare popolarità e indirettamente a scopo di #lucro.

https://www.ilpost.it/2024/03/21/social-network-foto-bambini/

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

No one told me that science was show business, or I would have worked on being prettier.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/29/today-is-the-day-of-the-dog-and-pony-show/

Attachments:

• homely giant spider (remote)

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

cleaning out a shelf, found this from the early 90’s… amusing

Attachments:

• business card from long ago (remote)

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

oh how cheerful… thank you, @CARROT

Attachments:

• 509a3afce9eedc5b.mp4 (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

danslerush@floss.social ("DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ") wrote:

In June, #enshittification to come for #Chrome (and its derivatives) : #Google's #ManifestV3 will take effect.

- #AdBlockers will be limited to 30,000 rules … no more

- They will no longer be able to update themselves daily, but only when new versions of extensions are published (which Google sometimes takes up to 3 weeks to validate)

To sum up, #AdBlocking extensions will always be late on websites, and in any case will not have enough rules to cover all sites.

› https://www.techradar.com/pro/how-chromes-manifest-v3-will-change-the-game-for-ad-blockers

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Finally made a bookmarks page. Will use as my blogroll too (it's not done yet 😅)

#blogger #blog

https://fromjason.xyz/me/Bookmarks/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

At a pub with @mike.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

Attachments:

• A stuffed Mastodon toy sitting at a wooden pub table in front of a glass of beer.

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

mhoye wrote:

"The thing about Facebook is that the people who work there just do this shit", the ongoing series.

"By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes [...]"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

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

This is homeopathically weak sauce from @eff:

https://mastodon.social/@eff/112169858320477875

But nobody likes a whiner! So, a "there, fixed it for you" version that EFF/Mozilla/etc. can steal without attribution any time they get asked in future:

"The calls on Apple and Google to live up to their privacy rhetoric and ban in-app browsers that fail to respect user choice in browsers. We're shocked but not surprised that Meta and Bytedance continue these dark patterns, and call on regulators to forbid them."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

They are big mad

Attachments:

• Social network post by "Gary Goosey" including a profile picture of a man: "You are a joke and a disgrace to Mastodon. I'm blocking you. I'm glad Meta exposed all of you."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

It's interesting to see the pro-Meta pro-interpolation discourse degrade in real time as news stories about the social media giant remind us why it's a horrible company.

So far today they have

✅ compared themselves and the concept of federation to the civil rights movement

✅ implied marginalized groups are the _real_ fascists

✅ implied anti-meta users who use the React framework are hypocrites.

Yall need to regroup under NDA again. This is a bad look

#threads #meta #ActivityPub

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Can someone please ask the CEO of Mastodon gGmbH to defederate with Threads? I used to know Eugen who ran the instance and could have asked him myself but I don’t know the CEO of Mastodon gGmbH.

#mastodonGGMBH #mastodonDotSocial #mastodonSocial #CEO #threads #meta #facebook #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #mastodon #fediverse

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

But, yes, please, do federate with them mastodon.social. Because senpai noticed you.

#meta #facebook #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #mastodonSocial #mastodon #usefulIdiots