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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

It’s finally time to release my newest project: https://www.followthecrypto.org/

This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #elections #USpol #lobbying

Attachments:

• A screenshot of the front page of FollowTheCrypto.org, showing total amounts raised by crypto-currency focused PACs ($203 million) and amounts spent ($38 million). There are also graphs showing expenditures by political party, and expenditures by PAC. There is a list of the top elections influenced by crypto industry money, of the most highly-funded super PACs overall, and of recent expenditures by crypto-focused committees. (remote)

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

girlgerms@infosec.exchange ("👩‍💻 Jess "GirlGerms" Dodson :ferdiverified: :donor:") wrote:

Microsoft Recovery Tool available now, with instructions to assist with the Crowdstrike issue impacting Windows endpoints.

This will require physical access & 1GB USB. You will need admin rights (+ access to the Bitlocker key, if Bitlocker is in place).

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/new-recovery-tool-to-help-with-crowdstrike-issue-impacting/ba-p/4196959

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

unintended consequences

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• 9bdd518c0325db41.mp4 (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

When I say that COVID is on a technical level fairly easily solvable, we just choose not to - it's things like these that I'm thinking of:

https://www.mpg.de/16075350/1127-chem-ventilation-made-easy-152990

> A simple ventilation system removes 90 percent of respiratory aerosols which potentially include coronavirus particles, from indoor air […] The design is very simple and was implemented using DIY store materials worth about € 200.

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

The guy who ran our heat pump project gave me homemade rhubarb jam in exchange for some dishwasher tablets and this is the only kind of working relationship I'm interested in from now on.

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

Finally shipped a new release of xword-dl, my command line tool to make puz files from online crosswords. Lots of fixes to existing outlets, new support for Puzzmo and Daily Pop, a "preserve HTML" option for formatted clues, and more. https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2024.7.20

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

The argument for ineptitude is frustratingly strong. Remember when Apple took more than two months to close a cross-site tracking leak that it introduced into *every* iOS browser? Waaaaaaay back in

[ checks notes ]

...2022?

https://fingerprint.com/blog/indexeddb-api-browser-vulnerability-safari-15/

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

So the choices here don't have to include giving up on the idea of real online privacy, but we *do* have to understand Apple as either:

• inept re: privacy such that or should *absolutely* not be a sole arbiter of it for a large fraction of users in the web
• a capitalist trying to sell you an expensive new phone by virtue signal...er...marketing

Neither choice involves trusting Cupertino or taking it at face value; no matter how pretty the face it puts on.

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

So three things can be true at once:

1.) reducing collection can help, and in the short run it can disrupt some of the worst collectors and creepiest re-identification.

2.) reducing collection is not a replacement for privacy laws and will be long-term ineffective in *exactly* the ways Apple's blog post gets SO CLOSE to understanding.

3.) any firm that says "privacy is a human right" but only makes devices for the rich is *lying*

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

Apple is *absolutely* spending more in every state and government capital around the world to defeat browser choice than they are to push for real privacy. They're spending *boatloads* more to scupper right-to-repair than they are to make privacy a reality by *killing the model brokers rely on* and legally prevent re-identification without consent.

But boy howdy, those ads. They sure are purdy.

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

This is not to say that there aren't problems in the Topics API! Or that the folks who shipped it were fully open to feedback (a lot of good done, but also some fingers in ears). But as with Apple's own privacy-api-cum-tracking-vector, we can expect the first-pass issues to get fixed.

But *both* Google and Apple's efforts are mostly marketing; band-aids to distract from the lack of effective privacy legislation that would get at the real issue: huge pools of data at rest.

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

Apple markets privacy, rather than providing it. To provide it, they would need to spend the sort of money they splash out on billboards and ads *about* privacy to push for laws that *ensure* it.

They are not doing that.

Which makes chest-beating posts like this from folks that not-so-long-ago added high-resolution fingerprinting surface area to all iOS browsers in the name of "privacy"[1] *extremely* hard to take seriously:

https://webkit.org/blog/15697/private-browsing-2-0/

[1]: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/7450c395e2d3ca583b24f0b8fbf704aa3c781692.pdf

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

Once again, I cannot recommend enough that web developers fully internalise this blog post by @TheRealNooshu:

https://nooshu.com/blog/2019/10/02/how-to-read-a-wpt-waterfall-chart/

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

JD Vance, genetically damaged, if you believe as he does.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/20/another-reason-to-dislike-jd-vance/

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• JD Vance (remote)

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

judell@social.coop ("Jon Udell") wrote:

"The broligarchs have made their move – and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means."

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

I'm listening to Portishead's "Roads" this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxWP9BhI7w

It's the song that turned me on to their work. I first heard it in the Tank Girl movie. Actually, I think there were a few bands I first heard of through that movie. (I grew up in a small, desert town before the information super highway paved over everything. It was easy not to know about things.)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

The CrowdStrike developer who wrote the defective update knocking out computer systems around the globe proves that one person really can make a difference.

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

Jemma Forman, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex who has studied cats playing fetch: “When it comes to cats, normally the explanation is they’re doing it for themselves.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/cat-burglars-scientists-try-to-solve-mystery-of-why-felines-steal-random-objects

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):

xeraa ("Philipp Krenn") wrote:

apache arrow's streaming format is coming to ES|QL (elastic's piped query language). popular in data science and the de-facto standard for dataframe interchange with an efficient binary format that allows zero-cost deserialization
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109873

this will also open the door to more cool stuff like going #elasticsearch -> #kibana server -> #kibana frontend without the JSON overhead in size and deserialization every step of the way (and more places)

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

dave_aitel ("Dave Aitel") wrote:

The song of the summer is about just one guy in New York City

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

zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

Of these hosts—what are y’all using, primarily? (If other, please reply!)

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

verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24202271/bethesda-game-studios-workers-unionize-cwa

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

5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

📝 New post:

Providing Type Definitions for #CSS with [@]property

A cross-browser feature as of the release of Firefox 128 in July 2024 is a new at-rule - [@]property - which allows defining types as well as inheritance and an initial value for your custom properties.

Learn when and why traditional fallback values can fail, and how [@]property features allow us to write safer, more resilient CSS custom property definitions.

https://moderncss.dev/providing-type-definitions-for-css-with-at-property/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Coinbase has tried to portray its “Stand With Crypto” PAC as having broad grassroots support among over a million “crypto advocates”, and boasts on its homepage of nearly $180 million raised by these advocates.

Its first quarterly FEC filing reveals it has had only $13,690 in contributions from seven people since its creation. Two of them work for Stand With Crypto and two of them work for Coinbase.

#crypto #CryptoLobby #USpolitics

Attachments:

• Stand with Crypto homepage. Headline: "If you care about crypto, it's time to prove it". Subhead "52 million Americans own crypto. And yet, crypto's future in America remains uncertain. Congress is writing the rules as we speak - but they won't vote YES until they've heard from you." $179,360,865(i) donated by crypto advocates 1,286,014 crypto advocates 215,665 policymaker contacts (remote)
• FEC Form 3x for Stand With Crypto Alliance, Inc. Political Action Committee, showing a filing date of 7/15/2024, and a coverage period of 4/1/2024 to 6/30/2024. (remote)
• FEC Form 3x for Stand With Crypto, showing $0 in cash on hand at the beginning of the reporting period and $13,690.18 in total receipts (remote)

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

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

"Let's go over this one more time."
"I know what-"
"ONE MORE TIME."
"Fine."
"What is it you're looking for?"
"A garbage bag."
"In which room?"
"The kitchen."
"What do you do when you find it?"
"Bring it to you here."
"I'm counting on you, Tim."

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• A puppy and a raccoon standing face to face with the raccoon touching the puppy's snout. (remote)

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

gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

giant wood moths are wild, I really wanna meet one. they weigh up to 30 grams, which is super hefty for a moth. to lift that much weight they end up having a wingspan of about 20cm.

they have a fuzzy heart-shaped pattern on their head and their front legs look like pipe cleaners. I bet they're super soft.

they're only found in a few areas of Australia and they're a comparatively rare sight even then.

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• an extremely large brown and black moth stood on someone's wrist, spanning their whole hand and up to their sleeve. the legs look like long fluffy trousers with black and white striped feet poking out. (unknown image source; was sent to me recently and has done the rounds on so many social media sites that finding the original photographer is basically impossible) (remote)

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

d̶a̶y̶ week

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

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

and I swear you are lying, @CARROT

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• accf25c0be90ad62.mp4 (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The CrowdStrike BSOD fiasco is extraordinary in its scale and scope; on Monday's Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by security researcher and @LutaSecurity CEO @k8em0 to help us sort through the many layers of this mess. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1263954070763212810

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

konnorrogers@ruby.social ("Konnor Rogers") wrote:

Managed to get every component in Web Awesome (with the exception of qr-code) rendering on the server and hydrating on the client with Lit SSR + 11ty without any errors.

Still a lot of work to do with auditing + testing, but a promising first step for sure.