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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes, much less talk about doing so on a Zoom call.

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• A flooded highway in Toronto with vehicles, including a school bus and a van, partially submerged in water. Cars are stuck in traffic due to the flooding under an overpass with green directional signs overhead. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

HcInfosec@defcon.social wrote:

@atwolf @xssfox na

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• The xkcd infrastructure comic, but a wrecking ball labelled "crowdstrike" has hit the stack of infrastructure broadside. I hanscees did not make this image, but copy pasted the meme (remote)

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

Y'know what will be completely unaffected by the crowdstrike debacle?

Tomorrow night's @DoctorDeathray and Her Implements of Destruction show at Canopy + The Roots in Dahlonega, GA!

If you're around, come on out and rock with us!

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

GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If anybody is wondering the impact of the Crowdstrike thing - it’s really bad. Machines don’t boot.

The recovery is boot in safe mode, log in as local admin and delete things - which isn’t automateable. Basically Crowdstrike will be in very hot water.

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

These Republicans are *weird*, yo.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

agresor@infosec.exchange ("Patryk Krawaczyński") wrote:

Facebook probably has your phone number, even if you never shared it. Now it has a secret tool to let you delete it:

https://www.facebook.com/contacts/removal

#facebook #privacy #data

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm positively surprised how well designed WebGPU and #WGSL are.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Based on version numbers seen by crates-io, #Debian stable #Rustlang package is unlikely to be used by more than 0.1% of Rust users.

https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/3a172e20-e9e1-11ed-80e3-da7ad0900002-973f4c1011257befa8598303217bfe3a?fromUser=false&refresh_mode=sliding&from_ts=1720723122100&to_ts=1721327922100&live=true

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

Seems a little odd the group saying "nobody wants to work anymore" and "everything is so expensive" is somehow ALSO the group saying "we should get rid of all the people who do the labor nobody else wants to do that keeps costs lower."

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

The expensive toys I want to play with in my midlife crisis are too tiny to be seen with the naked eye.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/18/i-want-my-microbots/

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• Microbots! Single-cell collection with optically actuated microstructure. (remote)

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

scott@typetura.social ("Scott Kellum :typetura:") wrote:

Tech bros: CSS isn’t a programming language.

Me: https://github.com/Typetura/Typetura/blob/main/typetura.css

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

jasonkoebler ("Jason Koebler") wrote:

The copyright office is considering an exemption that would provide legal protection for researchers jailbreaking / circumventing DRM / breaking terms of service to expose how AI tools work. This is really important bc current ToS are v threatening

https://www.404media.co/it-may-soon-be-legal-to-jailbreak-ai-to-expose-how-it-works/

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

lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

As many observers have suspected, the rally shooter apparently had no political motives, he apparently "simply" wanted to conduct a violent act that would put him the history books. His phone showed searches for both the RNC and DNC, and both Trump and Biden. The Trump rally just happened to come first and be nearby. Days earlier, on a Steam board, he apparently posted, "July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds."

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

brookie@hachyderm.io ("johan") wrote:

y'all, i just realised the `font-variation-settings: 'GRAD' ` property is finally fixing the ~15 year old pet peeve i've had around layout shift in nav menus for the current page with `font-weight: bold` applied.

compare in the 1) new, 2) old videos below.

no support in the font? slap a `@supports (font-variation-settings: 'GRAD' )` guard around it and keep the `font-weight` fallback outside.

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• Video describing the new behaviour with no layout shift. (remote)
• Video describing the old behaviour with layout shift. (remote)

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

stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Weeeeeeeeh!

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• Little pony and cat (without a long tail, prop from horses) are playing with each other but on safe distance (remote)

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

gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

Watch this space tomorrow.

We are going to start this national conversation about the mental state of the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.

It’s about time.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C9hpu6pJbgV

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

gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

Why haven’t we had a national conversation about the former president’s mental health?

Because too many people—including and especially in the media—have been too afraid to have it.

But we’re going to have the conversation anyway. Follow us at @psychopac24

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• 1afc0b3818d4dd42.mp4 (remote)

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

gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

Early reports indicate many people are giving $34.34, and we’re not even selling gold sneakers! 🤣

You can give $34.34 to @psychopac24 too, at this link. 👉
https://donorbox.org/psycho-pac-standard-online-donations?utm_source=main-website&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Website+-+Home+Page&amount=34.34

RE: https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C9kLh58p8a6

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

4/ “Here in Milwaukee, the political pundits finally saw the thing they’ve been pleading for — unity — and what that really looks like. It looks a lot like Jonestown.”

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

z_everson@journa.host ("Zach Everson") wrote:

"Yet another Trump is converting [GOP] donor funds into personal income"--

by me, for @Forbes

#work #wealth #politics

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2024/07/17/rnc-lara-trump-salary-six-figures/

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

black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:

More than a dozen fake electors are state delegates at the RNC : https://www.npr.org/2024/07/18/nx-s1-5044313/election-deniers-fake-electors-rnc-delegates-arizona

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

spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

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• 9c4632d8bad37c94.jpeg (remote)

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

jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

there is that problem

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• 125e7c2bc6233064.mp4 (remote)

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

One day you swear you'll never be boring like your parents; the next, you're admiring the fine job you've done edging the yard around the sidewalk.

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

campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

CitizenLab has discovered a new attack named Port Shadow that can allow threat actors to launch machine-in-the-middle attacks on VPN connections.

The attack involves sending specially crafted packets to VPN servers.

The packets exploit the server's connection tracking feature to redirect other users' traffic through the attacker's infrastructure.

CitizenLab says the vulnerability affects OpenVPN, WireGuard, and OpenConnect servers running on Linux or FreeBSD.

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/07/vulnerabilities-in-vpns-paper-presented-at-the-privacy-enhancing-technologies-symposium-2024/

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

Water, stone, trees…Tolmie State Park.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/18/water-stone-trees/

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• Trees on a headland at the Nisqually Reach (remote)

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

thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom :linux: :kde: :systemd:") wrote:

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

1. Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
2. Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
3. Go to about:config4. Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.

ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

e2ee messaging using email protocols https://delta.chat/

Great idea, using the most widely adopted federated communication protocol makes it harder for governments to block the whole thing

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

No, really. They're fascists.

It's not cute. It's not fun. They get off on the suffering of others and they must be defeated at the ballot box now or the ballot box won't matter.

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

stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:

By the way, Dr. Harry Brignull renamed Dark patterns into Deceptive patterns, so, I’m keeping the name of the resource, but, I’m using deceptive patterns instead in the description. And for more hall of shame, you can also check https://www.deceptive.design/hall-of-shame