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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
always fun when I think of a weird project I could work on and in the course of researching discover it's already been done by a guy who looks like me and lives in my neighborhood
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I like a lot of things about Android, but it is absolutely baffling to me that simply *rotating a photo* is a minimum of five goddamn steps.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Every month I have to call up my credit card company to pay my bill. This month, I get an announcement that they have made "improvements" to their phone service. And yes, the machine voice definitely sounds somewhat more natural.
But now it sounds like a woman doped to the gills on benzos and cannabis. SO SLOW. Agonizingly unresponsive. It's always a pain to deal with these machines, but now it's far, far worse.
Welcome to our AI future!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I am so fed up with anti-"wokeness" and anti-DEI nonsense. Diversity is good. Equity is good. Inclusion is good. Universities ought to be supporting those initiatives.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/02/demographically-entitled-idiots/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I got most of these wrong ;^{
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Still, the account paying Mr. Trump’s legal bills will most likely be out of money by summer at the current spending pace.
Then, Mr. Trump will have to decide: Whose money will he use to pay his lawyers?”
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I feel like people who are switching to BlueSky because they like the CEO are very much missing the point of decentralized platforms. 😬
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rsc@hachyderm.io ("Russ Cox") wrote:
I put together a timeline of the xz attack, dating back to 2021. Corrections or additions welcome here on Mastodon. https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline
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rsc@hachyderm.io ("Russ Cox") wrote:
A walkthrough of the xz attack shell script.
An RC4 variant in Awk, what more could you want?
https://research.swtch.com/xz-script
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Question to cryptography friends: what is a cool new cryptographic primitive that doesn’t have a Rust implementation but could use a good one?
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peter@thepit.social ("Peter Krupa") wrote:
Israel is going to say "whoopsie, sorry" about the WCK atrocity, but it will accomplish what they set out to do, which is discourage international aid orgs from working in Gaza. it's an implicit future death threat directed at anyone who would dare extend help to the starving people of Gaza. war crime. collective punishment. ethnic cleansing. https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Israel just killed seven World Central Kitchen volunteers with an airstrike, forcing the NGO to pause famine relief operations.
The IDF had also previously admitted to inadvertently killing Israeli hostages — but we’re supposed to believe they’re trying their best to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-airstrike-gaza-kills-foreign-aid-workers-hamas-run-media-office-says-2024-04-01/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
(April Fools!)
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sa@chaos.social ("saljam") wrote:
one more:
if your iphone is in arabic and you try to rearrange the tiles in the home app, they do a wild backflip every time you pick them up.
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Seriously though; every new country song I've heard on the radio in the last few years is just Lifehouse or Staind or Nickelback circa 2003.
(Or Creed, or Matchbox 20, or Train, or...)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Country is just pop-rock, but 20 years past its expiration date.
Mastodon FeedSo... walking pads. Do you have one? Do you still use it? Are you happy with it?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
LA Times: 'Way, way, way above normal' rains could set all-time L.A. record as wet weather continues”
needs more study, right?
;^{
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
@NfNitLoop that's what I'm trying to figure out: how likely am I to unintentionally offend someone.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.
It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.
It's communities vs markets.
Communities are supportive and markets are extractive. Communities answer to those who must live with decisions made. Markets answer to money.
And wouldn't you know it, those contrasting forces influence people's behaviors, goals, and motivations for engaging with others.
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@isagalaev “offended”, no, when only used as you say.
But “fat” is used so much as an insult that it can bring all of those associations. (Ex: “fat and ____”.) So an aware person must ask themselves if they want to bring those associations to their communication.
It’s similar to the word “queer” for me. I grew up only hearing it as an insult, so cringed at hearing it used as an umbrella/inclusive term. I now think it’s a good term. But non-queer folks should still be cautious when using it.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't like April Fool's jokes, and I don't like the permanently installed jokes running our judicial system.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/01/this-is-not-an-april-fools-joke/
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Question for fat people: are you offended when called "fat"?
To me that never sounded as an insult, but what do I know? (I was a bit fat myself at younger age, but not too much for it to be a distinguishing characteristic.)
And I obviously don't mean the situations where people use the offending tone or make it clear they *want* to offend. Just as a descriptive adjective in general.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Over the weekend, I wrote about some of the details of the culture at @oxidecomputer:
https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture
Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about cultural idiosyncrasies, both at Oxide and elsewhere. Come for the hot takes on formal performance review -- stay for the hot takes on engineering metrics!
Join us, today, 5p Pacific:
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Missouri is the Florida of the Midwest.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stevesilberman@newsie.social ("Steve Silberman") wrote:
BRAVO to Chris Quinn, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for calling Trump what he is: the most dangerous, un-American president in history.
"All those soldiers who died in World War II were fighting against the kind of regime Trump wants to create on our soil."
Please spread this link far and wide! https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html
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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:
Excellent write up on why the EU is actually doing tech legislation, and why it can be difficult to understand if coming from a different place. (And the reverse is true as well, as @film_girl pointed out recently; people who aren’t steeped in the US system tend not to understand how and why US tech regulators are doing what they’re doing, too.)
From: @ianbetteridge.com
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/01/antitrust-meta-apple-and-more/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Today at Symbolic Software, we're announcing CryptoScape™, the world's first escape room based on cryptographic algorithms!
This has been months in the making — we're looking forward to welcoming our first escape room experiencers this summer in Paris!
Info and waitlist on our blog: https://symbolic.software/blog/2024-04-01-cryptoscape/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Morgunin@rollenspiel.social wrote:
Good morning
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ugh, now why won't daGoogles take email from my server that has more than one addressee? that is so very weird