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Taweret@octodon.social ("4 8 15 16 23 42") wrote:

Just a paranormal pants

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

@taylorlorenz your and Ken Klippenstein's reporting on Biden's use of social media influencers is underrated. I think it's the biggest story no one is talking about and I hope there's more to come.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/

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

Listen ingto John Mayall Jazz and Blues Fusion play "Goin' Down The Line" on Jul 5, 1973

https://wolfgangs.app.link/Ko1rTCIdoMb

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

@marcedwards It sounds 95% like a gas car (Elantra N to be specific), and it perfectly emulates the torque curve, rev limiter, and loss of power when shifting.

But personally, I don't care about engine sounds of any car — I prefer to hear the tires squeal :)

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• vroom vroom at goodwood

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

tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

📢 New blog post: My response to the 🇬🇧 UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA): https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/08/26/my-response-to-the-cma/.

As a Web developer who addresses people across all platforms and regions, including iOS/macOS users in the UK, I followed the @owa's pledge and sent an email to the CMA.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here is a medium format duck.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• A duck in a tarn. The water is very still and reflective, with the ripples from the duck's movement clearly visible on the surface.

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

combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

My studio is waaaay tooooo fulllllllll

so... studio cleanout sale!!! 30% off my keyboard magnets for a few days

https://reinventiongarage.etsy.com/listing/1725045889

(would love boosts for visibility ❤️)

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mossdemonsketches@sunny.garden ("MossDemon’s Sketches") wrote:

Snoqualmie Falls

Spent more time on this one than I have on any art in A While! Ballpoint pen on paper.

#snoqualmiefalls #waterfall #ballpointpens #drawing #pendrawing #TraditionalArt

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• Image is of a waterfall seen from an elevated position. It’s drawn in black ballpoint pen on white paper, rendered entirely with varying weights of vertical lines. As the water cascades down, it seems to curl into spirals, and the mist produced also spirals up and away, as though in being cast forth into the world, it creates life. (remote)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

JUST PUBLISHED: press release from the Paris Judiciary Tribunal, laying out the specific charges against Pavel Durov.

These all appear to be France-specific charges, nothing to do with the European Commission.

Worryingly, this seems to be a “throw everything and see what sticks” situation. Such charges could be brought against Signal or any other encrypted messenger.

The inclusion of cryptography-related charges is especially troubling, as it suggests an attack on the fundamental security technologies that encrypted messaging platforms rely on.

This confirms my worst fears and means that this must be fought, hard. They’re going for a precedent.

If these charges lead to significant legal actions or convictions, it might embolden other jurisdictions to pursue similar cases against other encrypted messaging platforms like Signal. The implications could be far-reaching, potentially challenging the very legality of providing end-to-end encryption without compromising user privacy.

#paveldurov #telegram #encryption #france

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• TRIBUNAL JUDICIAIRE Pavel DUROV, founder and CEO of instant messaging and platform TELEGRAM, was arrested at Le Bourget airport in the outskirts of Paris on Saturday, the 24 of August 2024, then taken into police custody at 8 p.m. This measure comes in the context of a judicial investigation opened the 8% of July 2024, following a preliminary inquiry initiated by Section J3 - JUNALCO (Fight against Cybercrime) of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office. This judicial investigation was opened against person unnamed, on charges of: - Complicity — web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group, - Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law, - Complicity — possessing pornographic images of minors, - Complicity - distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group, - Complicity - acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering or selling narcotic substances, - Complicity - offering, selling or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, tools, programs or data designed for or adapted to get access to and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system, - Complicity - organized fraud, - Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by 5 or more years of imprisonment, (remote)
• - Laundering of the proceeds derived from organized group’s offences and crimes, -Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration, - Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration, - Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration. The investigative magistrates in charge of this preliminary judicial investigation have requested a co-referral of the Centre for the Fight against Cybercrime (Centre de lutte contre les criminalités numériques, C3N) and the Anti-Fraud National Office (Office National Anti-Fraude, ONAF) for the pursuance of the investigations. It is within this procedural framework in which Pavel DUROV was questioned by the investigators. The custody period was extended until the 25" August 2024 by an investigative magistrate and can last up to 96 hours (that being the 28" August 2024) given the applicable procedure for organized crime offences, as referred to above. Laure BECCUAU, Prosecutor of the Republic scom.parquet.tj-paris@justice.fr (remote)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

💼 Paid work alert!

I’m looking to commission legal experts to produce an opinion on a set of questions regarding how the European Commission’s Digital Services Act (or similar regulation in force) can affect end-to-end encrypted messaging services in Europe.

1. Under exactly which conditions Signal group chats would be liable for moderation under the DSA (or other relevant EU policy currently in force),

2. The reasoning that indicates that Signal's end-to-end encryption for group chats (and the Signal service's lack of visibility thereof) would not absolve them from these moderation requirements under the DSA (or other relevant EU policy currently in force),

3. The most likely prescription from the EC on how Signal is supposed to achieve such moderation to comply with DSA (or other relevant EU policy currently in force) in spite of end-to-end encryption?

We at Symbolic Software are ready to pay to commission a public report from legal experts that clarifies the above questions beyond a doubt. Please get in touch at nadim@symbolic.software if interested, and thank you!

#europeancommission #digitalservicesact

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shugmonkey@mastodon.art wrote:

✍️ #illustration #drawing #artwork #MastoArt #art

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• Atmospheric image of a figure holding a sword that is lit up. (remote)

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

If I said a drill ruined my wall, people would say "you obviously don't know how to use a drill."

If I said salt ruined my meal, people would say "you obviously didn't season it right."

But yet, for some reason, any time somebody makes a meme about #css ruining something, everyone's like "ah, yes, the tool is the problem."

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

I've acquired my grandfather's collection of 8mm film, recorded in the 1960s-1980s, and have converted them to digital. It's going to be a rough few hours viewing them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/26/is-it-possible-to-die-of-a-sentimentality-overdose/

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• Me (right) & my brother Jimmy in the early 1960s (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:

Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
https://rys.io/en/171.html

Calling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.

Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.

Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.

They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.

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

josh@joshtriplett.org ("Josh Triplett") wrote:

Periodic reminder that *path dependence* is pervasive. Many structures and solutions we have today are artifacts of the paths we took to arrive at them, and of problems we once had and may not currently have, and are not what we might have had if we designed from scratch.

It's worth periodically thinking about how you'd design something from scratch. You can't always throw something away in favor of a rewrite, but you can think about whether you can incrementally work towards something better, and about which aspects the iterated embodiments of solutions to past problems are still important and which aren't.

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

Finally, I found a place that looks even more empty than a midwestern farm town.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/26/travel-the-world-see-exotic-foreign-places/

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• sunset in kuwait before a sandstorm (remote)

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

inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

People, the rules are simple:

No Halloween merchandising until October

No Thanksgiving merchandising until after Halloween

No Christmas merchandising until after Thanksgiving

like it says in the danged bible.

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kate@fosstodon.org ("Kate Morley") wrote:

Last week’s electricity generation in the UK had a record low carbon intensity of 58g/kWh. So far this year the carbon intensity has averaged 118g/kWh, representing a 76% reduction since I created https://grid.iamkate.com in 2012:

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• A graph of carbon dioxide emissions per kWh for electricity generation, showing a steady decline from 505g in 2012 to 118g so far this year (remote)

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marcan@treehouse.systems ("Hector Martin") wrote:

I'm all for Signal and E2EE and distributed systems and all that, but... Telegram is, by far, the least-bullshit most-fun messenger I've ever used. Everything just seems to work, it's lean, has native open source client apps, a big pile of features that are cohesively integrated and work, API/bot support, useful stuff like automatic translation (premium feature, but that's understandable since translation APIs aren't free), etc.

Other platforms would do well to learn from it.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm taking one for a spin #IONIQ5 N.

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• Row of IONIQ5 Ns at Goodwood

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

When you google something and the first result is someone else asking the very same question on a forum... along with the only reply:

"Just google it."

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

A list of US State abbreviations won't pass type checking unless you disable the "no explicit N.E." rule.

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todayilearned@noc.social ("Today I learned") wrote:

TIL two families escaped East Germany in a home made hot air balloon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f16rz3/til_two_families_escaped_east_germany_in_a_home/

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

48kRAM@oldbytes.space wrote:

Another #amiga music mix/master. redruM redruM by Virgill. First place in Revision 2020 (online) executable music competition. Uses AmigaKlang - a 64k (or smaller) Amiga music system that's basically protracker w/ procedurally-generated samples.

https://demozoo.org/music/276981/

This is a beautiful, slightly haunting tune (fitting the name) with some fantastic samples. Structure was quite nice to work with. Most of the samples have a lot of reverb baked in, and stereo is created old-skool with a time-offset track in the opposing channel. Due to the 4-channel limit, this effect gets dropped a lot in the original mod. I have restored it in my DAW and the result is a beautiful stereo image throughout the track.

I think this mix might be good enough for release.

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

(Maybe it's just me, but that song was always a rush to hear play on my long drives. 😀 )

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

You're fading fast, and so is the strongest radio signal. You start thinking you've pushed too far and should've stopped earlier. Then, just before the radio gives up on the FM station, this song thankfully comes on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4

Instant rush, and the memory of it carries you on until you can finally stop for the night at the next rest stop.

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

The radio that came with the vehicle was overly expensive trash that had stopped working long ago. So you replaced it with some radio torn out of a Honda. The tape deck doesn't work, but the radio does.

You passed the nearest town with services too long ago. The next place you could conceivably stop is at least another hour.

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

Imagine yourself driving on a dark road out in the southwest US. It's 1990 something. You're in a '78 El Camino that has seen much better days, but it was free (if you forget the repairs you put into it and the transmission you had to replace from junkyard salvage (and eventually have rebuilt) and the tires you had to buy). But the V8 is alright, and you change the oil regularly.

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

You know, Dion sure talks a lot of trash about Sue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyL1Z0Z5upY

But he's the one that brags about behaving like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbYa7NBYyRc

So I don't think he's very credible.

(Sorry. I was exposed to these songs long ago, and they still take up space in my head.)

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davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

My superpower is always knowing what's inside a wrapped present.

It's a gift.