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

“…names and initials could be combined with other information — from driver’s license and car registration systems, social media accounts and publicly available data from universities that the agency uses as recruiting grounds — to piece together a more complete list.”

exposure of intelligence agency employee identifying information can get ppl killed. this is an historic counterintelligence fiasco.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/cia-names-list.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.8-2b.dyzV_WDFhMTh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

No I get why the Rebel Alliance are angry I just don't think they should block the highway like that if they expect liberation

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Note to hachyderm.io users, who can't see this on their server (which I'm mentioning because another one just asked me about it):

the hachyderm admins blocked me personally and i still have no idea why

coincidentally Nivenly, the company running hachyderm, got into an AI grift and I loudly called it an AI grift. This suggests the reasons are simple and commercial.

they have apparently denied that their AI grift was the reason but haven't said what the reason was

and they haven't contacted me at all and certainly nobody is paying me enough to bother to contact these weirdos

it's a mastodon feature: forum admins with poster's madness

so basically find a non-shitty server or spin up an akkoma yourself

feel free to copy and forward this as appropriate

edit: there was apparently a bug raised, and i'm definitely not wasting my time attempting communication with these circumlocuitious scammy sounding weirdos. Perhaps you will wish to. https://github.com/hachyderm/community/issues/579

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jo@typo.social ("jo lang uste fonts") wrote:

We all know about the Pioneer Plaque and Voyager’s Golden Record but have you seen the ‘Water Words’ on the Europa Clipper. It is a plate made of tantalum and has the waveforms of the sound of the word water in 103 languages engraved on one side.
Its a plate of semiotic beauty and I hope future lifeforms will not listen to it backwards.
https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/vault-plate/?ref=longnow.org

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• One side of the silver-gray, rounded, triangular 'Water Words' plate with black engraved waveforms arranged in an radial fashion. (remote)

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

You know what, I think I'm done censoring myself and not reacting to wrong takes, which was my default position of many years. We can't afford being neutral and quiet anymore.

Current mood: I'm really frustrated with lefties turning everything into a purity test. If we want to counteract the world's descent into fascism, we need to learn not to call each other "enemies" for random transgressions like buying a Tesla car or not being vegan or whatever.

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signalstation@raggedfeathers.com ("Michael of Ragged Feathers") wrote:

Spotted a new sticker in the neighborhood, of St. Luigi.

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• A crosswalk button attached to a metal pole, featuring a giant black button and a silver arrow pointing to the right, towards a nearby crosswalk. A red light above the button glows, indicating the button has been pressed for pedestrian crossing. On the instructional placard above the button, there's an off-kilter sticker featuring the alleged UnitedHealth shooter, Luigi Mangione, his head placed on top of an illustration of a Catholic saint, right hand raised in benediction, left hand pressing a glowing heart. Luigi's head is in a golden halo. Text to the left says "be the change". (remote)

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

Compelling video:How to beat Trump, don’t believe him https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1iil2ot/how_to_beat_trump_dont_believe_him/

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markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

Palantir CEO and sociopath Alex Karp, addressing investors during a board meeting, defending DOGE:

“Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world. And, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them. And we hope you’re in favor of that.”

Yeah. “Kill them.”

(Hat tip: @sergiodomeyko)

#Fascism #Coup #Palantir #AlexKarp #Billionaires #EatTheRich

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• Alex, a white man in a white t-shirt with hair flying all over the place, is sitting at an expensive meeting table with four other people in a very cold room. Alex looks like he just woke up from a nap and hasn’t had his juice yet. The other people are wearing business attire. There are no decorations or plants or anything beyond the table, the people, and their files and devices. There is a Palantir logo on the wall. (remote)

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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE.

I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.
https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/113953007466779969

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mhoye wrote:

TIL that if you double park in (I think) Istanbul, they roll up a truck that cantilevers your car onto it's back and takes off with it in about 20 seconds.

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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

🤐 Silenced: https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/02/silenced

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isotopp@infosec.exchange ("Kris") wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1igm8n3/bassist_helena_cruz_performing_the_most_complex/
4/4 Loop in the bathroom

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• Bassist Helena Cruz performs a loop in the bathroom (remote)

jwz wrote:

You Can't Post Your Way Out of Fascism.

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them: If there's one thing I'd hoped people had learned going into the next four...
https://jwz.org/b/ykhS

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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

"Everyone is failing! Someone must _______ immediately!"

Comrade I don't know how to tell you this in a non-asshole way, but "someone" is *you*. That's where we're at. Find people doing the work you want to see and help them.

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

The Gang Tried to Stop a Coup

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• Chuck Schumer and other democrats chanting we will win. Title card "The Gang tries ro stop a coup" with IASIP theme music. Dems continue chanting. Chuck runs out of breath then starts again "we will not rest"

jwz wrote:

Today in Hoffman Lenses.

Someone just gave me this amazing lenticular card:
https://jwz.org/b/ykhP

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DailyWikiHuman@isometry.group ("DailyWikipedia") wrote:

Today's wikipedia article is Ambiguity (disambiguation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity_(disambiguation)

#wikipedia

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pixelpaperyarn@hackers.town wrote:

Just an FYI that Direct File is indeed still up and running. It's still being actively developed, improvements are coming (Spanish is now live! Importing W-2 info is coming!).

It has NOT been cancelled or closed.

Please use it if you qualify, it's genuinely good software built by people who care about the public good and want to get people the credits and refunds they're entitled to.

TBH, the more people use it the harder it will be for it to be shut down after this tax season.

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logicalelegance@mastodon.online ("Elecia White") wrote:

Mini #origami octopus sitting upon curved crease folded paper.

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• Mini #origami octopus sitting upon curved crease folded paper. (remote)
• Mini #origami octopus sitting upon curved crease folded paper. (remote)
• Mini #origami octopus sitting upon curved crease folded paper. (remote)

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tammy@webperf.social ("Tammy Everts") wrote:

I recently published my annual dive into the HTTP Archive, focusing on page growth, web performance, and UX: https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/page-bloat-2025/

A common question is "How big SHOULD my pages be?" According to analysis by @slightlyoff, the ideal page should be <1.4 MB with <365 KB coming from JS.

#ux #webperf #pagespeed #sitespeed #webperformance

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• A table that gives ideal versus actual page size and JavaScript size: The ideal JS weight is under 365 kilobytes. The actual median JS weight is 650 kilobytes. The actual JS weight at the 90th percentile is 1825 kilobytes. The ideal total page weight is under 1.4 megabytes. The actual median page weight is 2.6 megabytes. The actual JS weight at the 90th percentile is 11.1 megabytes. (remote)

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

When all peaceful options are removed, one choice remains.

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• Scratched out sticker on a yellow painted, metal frame that says: HANDLE WITH RAGE THANK YOU It most likely used to say: "HANDLE WITH CARE FRAGILE THANK YOU" ...but there are no more spoons, only knives.🔪 (remote)

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

Richard Dawkins does not have the power to decree what is a "Universal Biological Definition" and what is not. He can decree that he personally is an extremist and a reductionist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/05/thats-so-dawkins/

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jwz wrote:

Marc Andreessen, Murder Enthusiast.

I didn't think that my former (extremely former) friend and coworker could be more of an unmitigated piece of shit, but "We hired this completely inexperienced guy solely because he murdered a black man" really...
https://jwz.org/b/ykhN

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

How to find Nazis:

(1) Post “Fuck Nazis”

(2) Watch for the “Don't call people you disagree with Nazis!” comments, or those saying it's more complex then that.

(3) You found the Nazi.

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

The explanation is always surprisingly simple.

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Unpredictable. #grickledoodle #godzilla #kingkong #guns #fight #kaiju #cartoon #art #drawing #art

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• A cartoon illustration of a Godzilla crouched behind a building with a hand gun while King Kong armed with a pistol is searching for him in the distance. Caption reads "It was not the fight the city had been expecting." (remote)

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mattround@crispsandwi.ch ("Matt Round") wrote:

Doom running on an Apple Lightning-to-HDMI dongle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XCkeN0XuqA
Explanation from the comments, basically the dongle runs stripped-down iOS & they used an iOS security vulnerability to get in

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• Yea, the dongle's firmware is super stripped-down iOS, basically There is SecureROM, iBoot and XNU as a kernel - just like some iPhone or iPad of that era (now is the same, but obviously they did a lot of development since then) Production firmware's userspace is ultra-minimalistic though - there's a ramdisk, but it's not even a filesystem, but a statically compiled Mach-O (it's like ELF, but for Apple *OS) Internal development bundles do have a proper ramdisk with filesystem and a bunch of executables/shared libraries on it The Mac here just loads such firmware into it, since the dongle doesn't have any persistent storage. The colorful logs going in one of the terminals are UART output from it - first iBoot and then kernel and userspace Arbitrary code execution is achieved due to iOS-world bootrom exploit - checkm8, which also works here because codebase is literally the same (remote)

jwz wrote:

I am once again begging editors to stop illustrating articles about the wholesale destruction of Democracy with photos of Musk smirking and mugging like some white supremacist Urkel, that wacky little scamp.

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

"Palestinians Propose Taking Ownership of Mar-a-Lago" https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/palestinians-propose-taking-ownership

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night, @bcantrill and I were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebras to talk about the pace of genAI innovation--remarkable even in the first few weeks of 2025!

From the disruptive training costs of DeepSeek to the wafer-scale silicon of Cerebras--clearly we are at the the earliest stages of this new domain.

https://youtu.be/NfR3CUkfOVo