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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
A judge rules that Rudy Giuliani must fork over his luxurious NYC apartment and other valuables to two Georgia election workers he defamed. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-apartment-ruby-freeman-shaye-moss-georgia-election-workers/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
2/ 2 valuable lessons. 1st is common thread among democracies that collapse into dictatorship is no one panicked til threat was already in power & was too late. That is why I have cont'd to pound my Paul Revere-style “fascists are coming!” campaign.
2nd I learned is constitution/law can only protect you if all parties agree to adhere to itAll you need to end a democracy is a leader willing to suspend or end Constit & supporting cast large enough to allow him to do it.
Republicans have both"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VP candidate #TimWalz is joined by fmr President Barack #Obama on the campaign trail in #Wisconsin. The rally comes on the first day of early voting in WI, which allows voters to cast an absentee ballot in-person ahead of #Election Day. Barack Obama has been rallying in several battleground states in the final weeks of the campaign.
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwlG_x0tojU&pp=ygUIdGltIHdhbHo%3D
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
OMG, this is wonderful… I had no idea he had done this
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/kurt-vonnegut-s-lost-board-gam-63J7V8WaS56tGwnfFojJew
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
be@floss.social ("CEO of Anti-Clock Society") wrote:
Freedom -1: the freedom to not use a computer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:
I've always hesitated to recommend Session as an end-to-end encrypted communication choice because of their location in Australia.
It seems this might have been forcibly solved now...
Session will now be maintained by an entity in Switzerland: https://www.404media.co/encrypted-chat-app-session-leaves-australia-after-visit-from-police-2/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
most excellent progress on seekrit project today, can shuffle around secure payloads of structured data and manipulate same.
starting to set up user inputs mean starting to set up sanitization of same, of course. and , that's the hard part: imagining all the weird things that can happen or be done.
that's always been the hard part about making a new machine happen: thinking through all the strange states it can get into...
(for "always" read" "for way too many decades of programming")
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:
Educational institutions of all levels should use and teach #FreeSoftware because it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community https://u.fsf.org/1dz
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Me when pixel art has been saved as a JPEG
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Threads is endless rage bait bullshit like how Facebook was when I left it.
TikTok is like an actual drug to my brain. I had a decent following there, and love a lot of my mutuals (they knew this was coming eventually) but I felt like I was wasting away on there.
So here we are. What's next? I'm not sure.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I deleted my TikTok and my threads today 😅
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:
Halloween buddies 🎃👻
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hikari@noyu.me ("hikari 🌟 (falling into the sky)") wrote:
what would happen if you took a list of all 128 General MIDI instruments, picked 8 at random, and forced a bunch of musicians to write songs using only those random instruments, and only the General MIDI feature set? well, we dared to find out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_RtmlQHNK8
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
debian@framapiaf.org ("Debian") wrote:
Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian.
https://bits.debian.org/2024/10/ada-lovelace-day-2024-interview-with-some-women-in-debian.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Important announcement!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
color me amazed
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:
A Penny
I have a killer business idea. I'm just going to take one penny from every bank account in the world. I'm not going to ask; you can't say no. It really won't affect you. You probably won't even notice, and even if you do, again, it will not affect you. What's a penny? Nothing. It will benefit me though. Big time.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DDsD@eigenmagic.net ("David Olsen") wrote:
*chefs kiss*
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amyengineer@infosec.exchange ("Amy Renee") wrote:
Headed to #Educause this week for the first time! If you're there, say hi to the short ginger hanging around the FortiStuffs! 😊❤️
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thank you, Minnesota students, for saying what needs to be said and doing what needs to be done.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
TIL: ExpressVPN developed their own VPN protocol called Lightway, meant to address what they see as shortcomings in WireGuard, and implemented it in Rust.
It's... interesting. Uses (D)TLS, has Rust bindings for WolfSSL as the underlying cryptographic primitives provider: https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/comparing-wireguard-and-lightway-3-reasons-we-created-lightway/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
Hot take: if you play sound out of your phone around strangers in a public place, you should be shot. If that place is a public transit vehicle, you should be shot and pissed on.
(Why yes, I am in transit all day, thanks for asking)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shannoncurtis ("Shannon Curtis") wrote:
for anyone who …
— can’t be with us in PDX for our final show this Thurs
— hasn’t been able to get to a show on our tour
— wants to see our performance of Good to Me ONE MORE TIME
… we have something FOR YOU:an ONLINE PERFORMANCE of our GOOD TO ME concert, video streaming exclusively on @radiofreefedi
Wednesday, October 23
1pm PDT | 8pm GMT | 2000 UTCthe link to stream is https://party.radiofreefedi.net/
if you’d like to support me & @hilljam w/ a ticket purchase, thank you: https://shannoncurtis.limitedrun.com/products/845665-shannon-curtis-the-good-to-me-tour-rff-exclusive-online-concert
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway - POLITICO:
"He will try to ensure Harris is denied 270 votes in the Electoral College, sending the election to the House, where Republicans are likely to have the numbers to choose Trump as the next president." https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/20/trump-overturn-2024-election-plan-00184103
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I find it decidedly delightful that I can cast a vote for Trump to go to prison *and* for Musk to have wasted tens of millions of dollars, all with one simple ballot selection.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
justinhendrix ("Justin Hendrix") wrote:
In the Google search trial, the court's reliance on evidence of how consumer behavior is shaped by what products and services are available by default marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao: https://www.techpolicy.press/google-search-antitrust-ruling-is-a-triumph-for-behavioral-economics/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:
also the #1 thing I miss from Linux while using a Mac is strace and recently I found out about `fs_usage` that does part of what strace does and I was so happy
(I’ve also tried dtruss/dtrace etc and a couple of other things which I have failed to get to work, I'm not willing to turn off SIP)
for example here's me looking at what config files `fish` opens
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ethanjstark@hachyderm.io ("Ethan :verified_flashing:") wrote:
Fucking BANGER of an opener in @pluralistic 's latest newsletter:
The Secret IRS Files revealed the fact that many of America's oligarchs pay no tax at all. Some of them even get subsidies intended for poor families, like Jeff Bezos, whose tax affairs are so scammy that he was able to claim to be among the working poor and receive a federal Child Tax Credit, a $4,000 gift from the American public to one of the richest men who ever lived
src
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Oh hey! I launched a newsletter on Buttondown. It's called WetDreamTomato.
Sign up. It's free. I love you. I'll give more details later, I'm tired of writing.
Here's the second issue:
https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/microsoft-co-founder-wants-you-aware-of-americas/
