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SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

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• never forget you are someone's reason to smile because you are a joke (remote)

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SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

Crazy how a president of a country did a really bad thing for democracy and the democratic system in that country was able to withstand it because everyone entrusted to enforce that democratic system was like “wait this is like really bad for democracy”, rather than, you know, being all like “whelp, guess we have a dictator now, glad I said nice things about his steaks.”

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redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab") wrote:

It's me I'm the sicko

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• It's the BORS cartoon where the medieval peasant says "we should improve society somewhat," but instead of the guy who says "yet you participate in society, I am very intelligent," popping up out of the well it's the sickos guy from the onion cartoon saying "yes...HA HA HA...YES!" (remote)

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

https://patreon.com/dnalounge

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jwz wrote:

ACAB definitely includes the cop from the Village People.

Victor Willis says he will take legal action against any news organization that suggest "YMCA" is a gay anthem:

Willis explained, Trump "seems to genuinely like YMCA and he's having a lot of fun with it," and "I simply didn't have the heart to prevent his continued use of my song in the face of so many artists withdrawing his use of their material.

https://jwz.org/b/ykd_

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sayrer wrote:

ok @slightlyoff @muan, there are some bright spots!

https://www.datocms.com/blog/why-we-switched-to-astro

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, have you succeeded in installing Rockbox on an iPod 5 via macOS 14 or Raspbian 12? **Please note the extreme specificity of this question.**

The changelog says "1.5.1: Fix bootloader installation for Ipods" but the 1.5.1 DMG of RockboxUtility actually has 1.5.0 in it and does not work. Compiling from source on a Pi took nearly 24 hours to build the gcc toolchain and eventually failed with a bunch of undefined OPLL symbols.
https://jwz.org/b/ykd7

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we negotiate with the mob
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/03.html

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

I absolutely love driving around in my car. #1 favorite activity. Exploring the world in my little quiet comfy spaceship

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

"The perfect t-shirt doesn't exi---"

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Mastodon wrote:

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• A cute stuffed Mastodon toy wearing a hat, sitting in front of a box labelled "Giving Tuesday donations" filled with US dollar bills.

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kagan@wandering.shop ("Kagan MacTane") wrote:

Folks are very rightly upset about Facebook, Google, and Amazon partnering with company that listened in on people's conversations to figure out what ads to show them.

But I'm not hearing enough about the company that actually did the spying:

Cox Media Group, aka CMG.

Say their name. Say it with venom. Hold them accountable.

#CoxMediaGroup #spying #malware #advertising #surveillance #SurveillanceAdvertising #Cox #CoxMedia #Facebook #Google #Amazon

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maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman (Taylor's Version)") wrote:

Hey, everyone—it’s flu season again! Make sure you’ve been vaccinated against influencers.

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jk ("josef") wrote:

i remember reading about bitcoin in 2009 or something and being like. why would i want to generate world of warcraft money on my computer while im not using it? im already generating proteins. im deciphering communications from aliens. theres no time for this eve online neopets fake economy bullshit for nerds. im doing real science on this pentium 4, buddy

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I'm serious. The trend is towards massive cloud computing farms for everything we do. Eventually, local computing will disappear completely.

I call this The Computational Web, aka Web 3.0.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Microsoft launches an Apple Mini-like thin client beholden to its cloud services.

Another step towards forcing all computing to occur on Big Tech’s proprietary infrastructure. https://youtu.be/AJFtwODOjhc?si=iGinmC9jtG0aVCD5

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crmsnbleyd@hachyderm.io ("Drew") wrote:

welcome back guile emacs

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/guile/

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

OH NO. The bully is making ugly "jokes".

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/03/hes-priming-the-magats/

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• Canada as the 51st state (remote)

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

South Korea is melting down, and I have family connections there.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/03/uh-oh-south-korea-has-gone-authoritarian/

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• President Yoon of South Korea (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Opinion poll: does it still make sense to donate to Software Freedom Conservancy? Are they legit?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

What We Saw on Our Platforms During 2024’s Global Elections | Meta

"We allow people to ask questions or raise concerns about election processes in organic content. However, we do not allow claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence."

Translation: We wait until its too late. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/12/2024-global-elections-meta-platforms/

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

jail, for refusing to end a boycott call.

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/3

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cryspen@ioc.exchange ("Cryspen") wrote:

Updates from Cryspen's Open Source Projects!

Check out our latest updates:
- Dive into the latest developments from the past month on 𝐡𝐚𝐱. https://buff.ly/3VgVccc
- And see how the 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐌𝐋𝐒 project is progressing and what's on the horizon. https://buff.ly/4fVzNgX

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

I need to point out that soybeans don't carry bird flu.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/03/here-we-go-again-7/

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• Diagram illustrating how chickens can spread the bird flu (remote)

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artildawn@universeodon.com wrote:

Where's Rowdy Roddy Piper when you need him. I know there are a few "They Live" parodies similar this out there but I wanted to focus on the hawking consumerism. The Overton Window is well and truly smashed.

36x replay:
https://youtu.be/2i-v2eI0wtY

YT Short:
https://youtube.com/watch/GaOXjmdwUsw?feature=share

#theylive #consume #obey #MastoArt

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jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPoMjR6-Ao

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

I've posted a new public update on the petition against political and racial bias perpetuated by the IACR Board of Directors: https://x.com/kaepora/status/1863818876691104044

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ryan@hates.company ("ryan wolf") wrote:

i think everyone deserves for a crafty spider to write encouraging messages over their piggy trough

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koalie ("Coralie Mercier") wrote:

#wrapstodon

> the “lurker” is someone who posts, replies, and boosts less than a certain amount a year
> the “cool-hunter” is someone who boosts more than twice what they post
> the “pollster” is someone whose posts are at least 10% polls
> the “social butterfly” is someone who replies more than they post themselves
> the “oracle” is a person that does not fall into any of these categories

cf. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32709#issuecomment-2470024713

jwz wrote:

Today's activity has propelled #3 to the #1 spot, so thank you for that! Can I re-run the wrapstodong?