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

sblaydes@bsd.network ("Scott Blaydes") wrote:

Sharing this with the world.

Wife got diagnosed with fractured vertebra. While look at it, they found cancer. A lot of cancer. Cancer in her breast, spine, rib cage, sternum, and pelvis. Waiting for the diagnosis of what cancer (appointment is the 30th), but the doc already stated that it is sta

We don't have insurance and are already working hand to mouth. This really bothers me to ask for help, but this is bigger than me.

My wife runs/ran a Home School Resource Center. She provided classes for home school families and resources to help them find a teaching method that works with each child. She had classes for the littles (Tall Tales, Cinderella in different cultures), to computer programming with the teenagers (sratch/blockly) with robots to program. She provided a safe place for parents socialize while the kinds can play. She has many special needs students and treats adapts things to allow them to participate in the same classes. She does this at no cost to the families.

We also run a (low key) animal rescue. Felt our city was not doing a good job, so we put our money where our mouth was. We currently house around 40 cats (do you know how hard it is to count a cat colony that are not in a cage?) and 12 dogs. We house and feed them not matter the condition. Recently we got some feline pathogens in our colony, so we are not taking any new animals, but we are maintaining all the ones we currently housing. Essentially we are running a cat hospice now.

I could go on talking about how great Bambi (actual name) is and the things she does.

We are accepting donations for bills/medical and final expenses.

I would like to be able to say that I am handling this well and taking good care of my wife, but that isn't reality. She is my rock. Hate seeing her in pain. Hate what the pain meds do to her mind. I am filled with rage that I can't do anything to help her. Have turned into a Karen.

Anyways, If you will help, great. If not, I get it, everyone is asking for money. If you don't have the money, I understand. Take care of your own people first.

cash app: $srblaydes
venmo: @sblaydes
paypal: bambi.petrillo@gmail.com

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

laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

An article from a 1979 issue of Janus (a sci-fi fanzine) postulating on the future of electronic zine distribution; the marked section looks like a pretty good prediction of blogs and the blogosphere.

Man, I love crawlin' around the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/Janus_15v05n01_1979-Spring/page/n41/mode/2up

Attachments:

• A scanned fanzine page from 1979; the selected text reads: "Another solution to the personalzine-scheduling problem will be the diaryzine. The author just up- dates it as she feels like it, and when you call, you get the update-to-date. (It is easy enough for your machine or the author's to keep track of what you received before, so time-wasting duplication doesn't occur.) Fanzines with lettercols could get interesting, especially if the editors provided an open file for locs on the current issue, which later readers would get when they called up for that same issue. Apas could become very odd. Think a bit about an apa which truly does become an N--dimensional conversation without collation dates or horrendous time-lags...and with everyone's file open to every-one else. Hmmm." (remote)

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

You know what you miss if you're not subscribed to my Patreon? Photos of the half-eaten carcasses of my spiders' prey.

If that doesn't get people to sign up, I don't know what will.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/104856738?pr=true

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Short vacation in the Ardeche valley. Placed our car in the next village so we could let ourselves drift down the river in these blown up water tubes. As Komoot said it was only 10 minutes back by bike, we rode back to camp to get changed and jump in the river. Yeah.. Komoot was unclear about how big the gravel on the road downhill was.

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• Open sketchbook and pens in my lap. The comic shows in 4 panels how I check Komoot on my phone, then start the ride and get stuck at a steep downhill path with huge rocks. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

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• A screenshot of the original Elite game, with a low poly spaceship in fro... actually it's just a bloody cybertruck rendered in more polys than it deserves. (remote)

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

PythonLinks ("Forth Computer") wrote:

I will be speaking about the obvious advantages of 16 bit stack machines over 32 bit RISC-V machines as FPGA soft core processors at the @yosyshq
user group meeting.

May 27th, 18:00 CEST

Join via this link:
https://meet.jit.si/yosys-users-group

Slides:
https://pythonlinks.info/presentations/forth/YUG27May2024.pdf

#uxn #forth #mecrisp #j1 #riscv #swic

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bontchev@infosec.exchange ("VessOnSecurity") wrote:

Oh, cool somebody finally figured it out...

As you probably know, the Microsoft Security Center has an API that lets you query which AV is installed and whether it is up-to-date.

What is less well-known, is that it also has another, not publicly known API, that lets you tell it "I'm installing another AV now, please disable Defender". This is what all other AV products use. Microsoft has provided to them documentation of this API but under NDA.

Many years ago, I made a proof-of-concept - a small VBScript script that would use this API via WMI to "install" an imaginary AV, thus turning off Defender - but since it was based on information learned under NDA, I obviously couldn't make it public.

Now somebody has reverse-engineered the API from AVAST and has done pretty much the same (albeit a bit over-complicated) in C++:

https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender

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

Happy Birthday to Robert Zimmerman, born this day in Duluth Minnesota, 1941

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

Being tolerant & open-minded won't turn you gay, it'll just make you a progressive atheist like me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/so-thats-what-theyre-afraid-of/

Attachments:

• Two middle-aged guys explaining why they need "don't say gay" laws while fantasizing that kids learning what "gay" means will lead to them becoming gay and lesbian commie witches. (remote)

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

Student evaluations are in. I guess I passed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/they-like-me-they-really-like-me/

Attachments:

• Sally Field saying, "you like me!" (remote)

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

vga256@dialup.cafe wrote:

this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.

i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.

this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own

update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.

more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/

#retrogaming #art

Attachments:

• A woodcut style line art illustration of a soldier, bird and sailing vessel caught in a great gale on an island. Palm trees bend with the wind and everything is being blown away with tremendous force (remote)
• Islands Build a powerful Caribbean island empire while inciting unrest and revolution in your opponent's land. T he story goes that, on the orders of King George III, two aristocratic brothers left London in the spring of 1799 and set sail for the Leeward Islands in the West Indies. The king was determined to turn the newly appropriated islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher into profitable colonies, and the brothers, as governors, were given five years in which to do the job. They arrived in the West Indies in early January of the following year and, each assuming control over one island, set about the task at hand. To all accounts, those early years were tough, with famine, hurricanes and rebel uprisings constantly threat- ening disaster. Whether or not the governors met the king's expectations remains unclear, because records are fragmented. However, today the islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher are thriving members of the British Commonwealth. Welcome to Islands, an educational strategy game that puts you in the shoes of one of the governors, charged with building your island into a viable economic and military entity. This may be accomplished through treachery against the other island or honest hard work in nourishing your resources. Though Islands is meant to be played by two, you can also enjoy striving for a high score alone. Starting to Build Type in the following boot program: 10 IF A=0 THEN A = 1: LOAD" + ISLE ML ",8,1 20 SYS 32768 Then type in Listing 1 (remote)
• Two pages of BASIC code from a type-in program that make graphics for the Islands game. (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've been using https://DuckDuckGo.com as my default search for years now. It's fine.

DDG supports a special !g keyword that redirects the search to Google, so I can easily get a second opinion when DDG isn't finding what I want.

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

Late-stage tech sorted a basket of equally talented nerds by who could talk to people with money, not people with real problems, and that's why it has the soul of a mid-range hotel room.

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

senj@cyberspace.club ("let's regular posting") wrote:

The notion that a text generator would reliably spit out facts if you trained it on enough internet posts is mostly an admission of how unfamiliar these dweebs are with Posting

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

Had the first school concert for the kiddo. Their cohort finished their set with Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World". Seems like a nice way to end the evening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q68PsBSRO_M

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

the American Promise is to everyone, not just for the few. that we still struggle towards realizing our noble potential as a society does not invalidate the goal. the Constitution which embodies this Promise is what four generations of my family have sworn to preserve, protect, and defend against all enemies foreign & domestic. that Oath had no must-use-by date, nor any exceptions in favor of any particular Party nor Fearless Leader.

that was part of the Promise.

https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C7VShlFgN7l

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

potus@threads.net ("President Joe Biden") wrote:

Like President Ruto, I believe the future will be won by countries that unleash the full potential of their populations – including civil society, women, and young people.

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

knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:

RFK Jr. Is Even Crazier Than You Might Think – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/robert-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-covid-pandemic-event-201/

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

I loved playing with PHP when it first emerged, and then like so many other nice things it was destroyed by “just one more feature” love… die Barney, die die die

(talk to John Resig about what jQuery has become some day)

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

Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

The Waking
-Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.   
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.   
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?   
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?   
God bless the Ground!   I shall walk softly there,   
And learn by going where I have to go.
[...]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315

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

lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Dave Lane 🇳🇿") wrote:

So chuffed I found Aegis https://getaegis.app/ (I install via F-Droid, not Google Play) as a TOTP (replacing Google Authenticator on my phone)... it allows encrypted export of configuration so I can rebuild my phone (LineageOS 21 dontchaknow) and recreate all my auth stuff without missing a beat. Used to be really painful, and hated depending on Google.

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

croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

That's a long list of ships that will be on the air next weekend... Including a lot of old battleships! https://www.nj2bb.org/museum/

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

croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

@AE4WX As I said, NEXT weekend, not THIS weekend! :) "0000Z 01 Jun 2024 - 2359Z 02 Jun 2024" (freaking English language can be so confusing lol)

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

I was fresh back in the States & just of the Army when this exploded in my ears in 1971. Olivia, a proud Mestiza (“the border crossed my family, we didn’t cross the border”) & my very first lover, poured this vinyl into my brain in 1971.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/tapestry/747087657

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Hmm. #bluesky

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages

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

cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

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

bpreneel@infosec.exchange ("Bart Preneel") wrote:

The Belgian presidency has drafted yet another tweaked #chatcontrol proposal. In summary, the proposal remains completely unacceptable.

TLDR: All the problems pointed our in our earlier open letters are still there
https://nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/eqjiKaAw9yYQF87
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Aeex72MtFBjKhExRTooVMWN9TC-pbH-5LEaAbMF91Y/

a) the risk of abuse of the solution for other applications (including political purposes)
b) the huge number of false positives (no waiting for 2 alerts does not work)
c) the fact that the real targets will use other technologies (e.g. sharing links to encrypted files).
d) chilling effect on teenagers.

Summary of latest proposal:

1. Detection of known CSAM and of new CSAM using AI (2 hits before you are reported) remain fully unacceptable because it just does not work for technical reasons pointed out earlier.
2. Grooming detection in text and audio is abandoned; information is pseudonymized before it is reported (presumably identity of the user is known)
3. User has to give consent before the client side scanning; details are not known but it is unclear what happens if consent is not given – is the message not sent? Why do policy makes believe that popups solve problems (cookies anyone)?

Source (in German):
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/

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

@owa Please, nobody tell Cupertino that acting like smug, entitled, dissembling, legalistic pricks to every developer and regulator has consequences.

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

Tremendous news out of the UK!

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/pro-competition-rules-for-big-tech-make-it-through-uks-pre-election-wash-up/

Wouldn't have happened if not for the continuing efforts of @owa and in-kind contributions from Apple's legal team. Nothing pulls people together like a megacorp acting like an absolute bully:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-loses-on-appeal/

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

(Also, please note this is not to condone any other statements made by the group, especially during the time frame in question.)