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wondermark.com@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Wondermark – An Illustrated Jocularity.") wrote:

#1548; Spring Forth, My Creation

wondermark.com/c/1548

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hdm@infosec.exchange ("HD Moore") wrote:

For anyone considering "Skip this update" due to ITerm2's silly AI thing - NOT updating means missing patches for this fun bag of exploits: https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/escape-sequences/iterm2/hyper/url-handlers/code-execution/2024/05/21/arbitrary-url-schemes-terminal-emulators.html

Maybe time for a new terminal?

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BradRubenstein@infosec.exchange ("Brad Rubenstein “:verified:”") wrote:

Good Lord.

Every WiFi network access point that has ever been in range of an iPhone has its network name (SSID) and GPS location (taken from the iPhone) stored and used by Apple.

Apple introduced a way to opt out in March 2024 - you must append the string "_nomap" to your SSID.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/

(h/t @briankrebs )

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tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

And obligatory Cyanide and Happiness

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• Person 1: Hold up, I need use the ATM machine. Person 2: Actually, the 'M' stand for - 1: Aw, nuts. I forgot my personal PIN number. SMH my head. Lemme go inside the bank, I'll BRB right back ASAP as possible. 2: *twitch* [grimacing, with nosebleed] starting. 1. Aw, dang. RIP in peace. 2: [lying on floor dead] (remote)

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sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRM'd content.

Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.

The system doesn't work for you.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hopefully a slightly less common angle on a famous landmark. San Francisco.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

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• The Golden Gate Bridge viewed from below, the top consumed by a cloud.

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jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:

3/ If the "we are all at risk of cancer" from #foreverchemicals framing for some reason doesn't bug you, consider the taxpayer costs.

Numbers are staggering.

$64 billion in estimated increased disease burden in a single year.

Meanwhile #3M makes $1.5 billion a year from making the stuff.

And 16,000 of 3M's products still contain the chemical.

While company pledges to wind down manufacture. They haven't stopped.

To date, 3m has not admitted wrongdoing and faced no criminal liability

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AaronDavid@mastodon.world wrote:

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Months ago I worked on a Dynabook-ish design. At Dr. Kay's suggestion, I looked at e-paper displays and driver boards because they've reached ~60hz refresh rates in certain conditions. At that point I found mostly expensive dev kits and closed source designs meant for mass production licensees.
Today Hackster published an article about Modos and their OSHW driver board that they note can work with many panels. 🎉
https://www.hackster.io/news/modos-prepares-to-launch-its-paper-monitor-and-amd-powered-epaper-driver-board-ac6c5ae6a485
https://youtu.be/pXn-bAwzNv4
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor
#dybo

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ieure@retro.social ("Killing Jelq") wrote:

If Apple, Google, and Microsoft didn't have entrenched platform monopolies, garbage like the Microsoft "AI" spyware likely wouldn't even get built. The market doesn't want what they're selling, but users have no choice but to take whatever abuse the vendors heap upon them, because they can't easily switch to a better product.

And they have monopolies because the US government won't enforce antitrust laws. All technology is political.

(Don't "Linux" me, I've been running it longer than you've probably been alive, I know what it can and cannot do.)

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daedalus@eigenmagic.net ("JP") wrote:

The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything.
They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The lens did not work correctly 🥲 The aperture blades must've not closed fast enough. Everything looks like it's shot on the most open aperture, even though I know that most of these shots were supposed to be f8 and f11.

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

Today in History: DEC announces PDP-8, 1965

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

Today in History: US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956

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pamelaoliver@sciences.social ("Pamela Oliver") wrote:

Big findings: Newswires more interested in violence & White-focused issues including Confederate symbols & White identity groups. Black newspapers cover more worker struggles, local struggles over defunding of public services, schools, community violence issues. #BlackHistory #Sociology

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

JFC

"After backlash, Trump pulls social media post with reference to 'unified Reich'"

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-backlash-trump-pulls-social-media-post-with-reference-unified-reich-2024-05-21/

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

this would have solved a number of my problems! https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/21/apple-wallet-app-transit-cards-paris-toronto/

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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Painted the very best boi as an early bday present for @fpiatti

#boc #EldenRing #MastoArt #GouachePainting #illustration

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• Boc from Elden Ring painted in gouache and watercolor by Victoria Maderna. (remote)

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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Wrote a little blogpost about the NOVA documentary I appeared on https://dustycloud.org/blog/i-appeared-on-pbs-nova/

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• Christine being interviewed by Alok Patel and dramatically gesturing (as she does) (remote)

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poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club ("Poise Under Chaos") wrote:

If computers weren't a mistake, billionaires definitely were.

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mhoye wrote:

I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Every time I hear a "flirty" AI assistant voice, I feel a spike of revulsion. It's creepy. Seems obvious in retrospect, but I think I figured out why:

I'm very sensitive to manipulation. Not to say I always see it - I can, in fact, be quite gullible. But, when I do detect it, I take it as a deep personal insult and flag the source as never to be trusted again.

Apropos of that, a "flirty" AI assistant is not attempting to form a reciprocal social connection with me. A "flirty" AI assistant is manipulation.

A "flirty" AI assistant is an attempt at an emotional security exploit by a corporation in the hopes that I'll mistakenly grant the imperfect thing some empathy and give it a trusted place in my life. It feels very crass and dystopian.

Some folks describe this as a UI affordance to make users more comfortable with the machine. With me - and probably a lot of folks - it lands as sour as a door-to-door Comcast salesperson.

Ironically, the only assistant voices I tolerate tend to be very emotionally flat and matter-of-fact. Like, I know what you are, machine, and I'll trust you more if you stop pretending.

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nev@bananachips.club wrote:

just a quick reminder that tomorrow is #WorldGothDay on #kexp, tune in for a full day of gothiness

#np #NowPlaying #TootRadio

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snazzyq@threads.net ("Quinn Nelson") wrote:

The simplest tasks on iPadOS are either incredibly difficult and time-consuming, or they’re so unintuitive that even a 25-year Apple veteran can't figure them out. Frankly, neither reflects well on iPadOS.

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

I can still remember being in my 20s, and I would laugh at this preventive measure.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/21/our-vigorous-young-athletes-will-not-be-discouraged/

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• Anti-sex bed for the Paris Olympics (remote)

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

A framing I think a lot of people miss is that when you're watching videos online, you are literally watching reality TV.

The medium may be different; the crew may be a different size (though maybe not). But at the end of the day, that's what online videos are; they're reality TV.

Which means you should approach anything from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc. with the exact same (highly warranted) incredulity you might give to The Bachelor, House Hunters, Dr. Phil, etc.

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

Tax the rich! Even better than eating them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/21/picking-rich-peoples-pockets-is-profitable/

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

The actual thing that happened here is: I posted something, for the first time after several weeks of no activity.

LinkedIn is masterful at spin for the sake of engagement.

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• LinkedIn analytics: "Your post impressions took off. They grew by 2900+% on May 20. View your analytics" (remote)

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

some of us come home and try to pick up our lives, some come home in a box. thank you Trooper Haggeryy, I just wish you’d had a little more time. 💦

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jimbob@aus.social ("Bela Lugosi's Dad") wrote:

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• Musical score with a large black rectangle over both staves. Text: (Both buttocks) Sit on keyboard and jump back to normal position without losing the tempo. (remote)