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angiebaby@mas.to ("Angie 🇵🇸🇺🇦") wrote:

Theft is selling you a digital album, or book, or game, or movie, and then deleting it from your library later.

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gintoxicating ("🏳️‍⚧️ ginny 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

every time.

every. single. time.

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• a meme! a boxer man says "ok ima fight adhd by searching for coping strategies" in the lower section he's sitting down enjoying some bottled water and it says "damn so that's what caused the downfall of the Byzantine empire"

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

einarwh ("Einar W. Høst") wrote:

Generative AI revolutionizing content creation.

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• Microsoft Clippy saying "It looks like you have nothing to say. Would you like to express a mashup of what everyone else has been saying?"

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

davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

> the confident bulldozer of unmodified assertions

I'm definitely on Team Hedge Words Are Fine Probably. Enjoyed this note post from @aworkinglibrary

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toward-inquiry

bendingoutward wrote:

Circle of Contempt: Black metal tribute to the Little Caesar's Hot-n-Ready

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

Nerd alert!

@bcantrill and @ahl interviewed Andres Freund, the engineer who discovered the xz backdoor, on the latest Oxide and Friends podcast. This is such an excellent episode. Andres is fascinating, but Bryan and Adam are exceptionally good at interviewing him. Everybody's so, so deep on systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg5F9UupL6I

Of course I also loved it because Andres talks Postgres performance. I know the spinlock he talks about personally!

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

eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

It's still possible in 2024 to just make a website using straight HTML and CSS. That option never went away

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

The thing that bothers me about Tailwind isn't Tailwind; it's that everyone who likes it acts like a medieval crusader, determined to beat me over the head until I submit to the indoctrination, unable to hear any criticism, unwilling to admit that it's just a tool and it has tradeoffs just like any other tool, and above all, utterly incapable of believing maybe I was actually better off before they showed up.

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

@ducasleo Did you see this?

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

bgzimmer ("Ben Zimmer") wrote:

I've got a post today on the event that kicked off the crossword craze, the publication of the first Simon & Schuster book of crosswords on Apr. 10, 1924. https://crosswordcraze.today/april-10-1924-the-craze-begins/

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bgzimmer ("Ben Zimmer") wrote:

Now presenting (from Natan Last, Parker Higgins @xor and me)... Crossword Craze, celebrating a century of crossword-mania. We'll be looking back at how the craze took off in 1924 from the vantage point of 2024. Subscribe to get it in your inbox! https://crosswordcraze.today/introducing/

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

Ah, so *this* is why they held the benchmark's release for ~4 months!

https://webkit.org/blog/15249/optimizing-webkit-safari-for-speedometer-3-0/

There's no bottom. No depth to which they won't stoop, no collaborative process they won't game, and never a hint of shame. Galling. Stomach turning. And they use secrecy and opacity to cover their tracks.

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

“We show a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving the learning with errors problem (LWE) with certain polynomial modulus-noise ratios.” https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New favourite channel: Chaotic Neutral. Here is a Call of Cthulhu scenario. Dominic Allen is an extremely talented keeper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95xDSL9nJk

#CallOfCthulhu #TTRPG

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Techaltar@mas.to ("TechAltar") wrote:

Would be really embarassed right now if I had Dbrand as a sponsor. I get brands wanting to be edgy, but racist name jokes being your brand are a yikes

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• e187da9391bc1397.png (remote)

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

ugh, grey day and low energy

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longobord@infosec.exchange ("Christie Dudley") wrote:

Objection to the use of my personal checkout history may seem like a small thing, but it essentializes how oppressive political regimes oppress. I had a friend who lived in the former Soviet Union who explained to me that the most private thing about you is what you read.

4/5
#privacy #library

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

A Database of Groundwater Wells in the United States | CUAHSI HydroShare

https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/8b02895f02c14dd1a749bcc5584a5c55/

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

I'd almost forgotten the Wohl/Burkman duo.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/10/grifters-get-slapped/

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• Jacob Wohl & Jack Burkman (remote)

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

toussaint@newsie.social wrote:

the cops are fascist who see the Left as their enemy and the Right as ally:

"The FBI used an undercover cop to spy on housing & racial justice groups, dropping an investigation into a neo-Nazi to do so. That Nazi later killed 4, wounded 25 in mass shooting at Q Club"
#ACAB #DEfund #DefundThePolice
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-surveillance/

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

I hope you're able to get used to the sound of gibbering from your state capitols and the federal government.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/10/the-republican-descent-into-insanity-continues/

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• the gibbering mouther, a D&D monster and portrait of the Republican party (remote)

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Then I threw the lines into Photoshop, applied the bucket tool, and ... good enough!

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• A stopped-in-time physical simulation of xkcd 2347 collapsing due to removal of the critical dependency.

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

And simulated...

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• 608fe17380b1e854.png

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

Dan Bernstein, Nadia Heninger, Paul Lou and Luke Valenta's paper on Post-Quantum RSA remains the funniest I've ever read. The first time I read it many years ago, I literally fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard. https://cr.yp.to/papers/pqrsa-20170419.pdf

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

cryspen@ioc.exchange ("Cryspen") wrote:

With advancements in quantum computing, securing communications requires transitioning to post-quantum cryptography. Our most recent post dives into designs for post-quantum secure protocols designed for end-to-end encrypted messaging.

https://cryspen.com/post/pq-mls/

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

It's Eid, so evidently I loaded up 3D rendering software from 1997 on my Windows 98 VM in order to make this Eid greeting photo, which will now be on its way to family and friends

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• c3d8745b3d451595.png (remote)

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

yaakov@cloudisland.nz ("Yaakov") wrote:

DNS Dental: now open your mouth wide and say AAAA

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• A storefront with the banner “DNS DENTAL” (remote)

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

infosecrodney@infosec.exchange ("Infosec Rodney Dangerfield") wrote:

In the world of cryptography, I'm known as a man of mystery. Mostly because even I don't understand my own code.

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

infosecrodney@infosec.exchange ("Infosec Rodney Dangerfield") wrote:

This paper talks about preventing errors in programming like I talk about preventing errors in my life—too late and after everyone’s already laughed!

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ia@mastodon.online ("iA") wrote:

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• Quote from Gustave Flaubert: “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” (remote)