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Reblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

ostifofficial@fosstodon.org ("OSTIF") wrote:

Join us later this month on Feb 19th at 2PM CST (Chicago) for an OSTIF.org meetup with Nadim Kobeissi, Senior Applied Cryptography Auditor at Cure53, who will be presenting "Unmasking Cryptographic Risks: A Deep Dive into the Nym Audit".

RSVP at https://lu.ma/o2dasp0m

#audits #FOSS #security #cryptography

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

What's surprisingly bad about it for Apple, though, is the UI. It changes from app to app (!), varying from functional but cryptic in TextEdit to basically unusable in BBEdit and Ulysses (where I actually do most of my writing). Bonus: in BBEdit, it silently removes Markdown formatting.

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I am surprised and faintly alarmed that Apple Intelligence’s "proofreading" function is…fine? It's really just proofreading, not doing pedantic rewriting, and it's about at the level of a decent but unimaginative copy editor. You could do worse.

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

Who is lying to me -- scientists and engineers, or Billy Bob's character in this oil propaganda show?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/06/are-you-telling-me-that-billy-bob-thornton-is-lying-to-me/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKVNFqqzvP4

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

arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Internet Archive played a crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2074526?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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

GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Every damn media outlet should be blasting this.

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

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

Joe_Hill@union.place ("Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦") wrote:

@evacide @mattblaze

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

JoshuaHolland ("Joshua Holland") wrote:

I was expecting there to be a few GOP senators who took their oaths seriously enough to sink Trump's most ludicrous nominees--the ones that are both dangerous and also just an embarrassment to the country--and fold on his other vicious, unqualified wingnuts.

But I was wrong.

#gop #trump #fascism #patel #tulsi #rfkjr

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

‘According to NBC News, in 2023 “online sleuths who aided the FBI in cases against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters identified Marocco and his now-wife as being among the rioters who stormed the Capitol in 2021.” The online group Sedition Hunters — which worked to identify participants in the Capitol riot using open source research and facial recognition technology — alleged in November that Marocco and his wife, Merritt Corrigan, entered the Capitol during the riot […]’

https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/politics-news-rgm2ohbiz/-/a-zmV9Na-IQV2sA0RBUHO03w%3Aa%3A3199477-%2F0

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

kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

An interesting development. I wonder if Trump told Elon that the plan has changed now that America is next of kin to mine all Ukraine’s precious bodily fluids, I mean metals.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/05/russia-s-pro-invasion-bloggers-report-mass-disruption-to-starlink-satellite-terminals-in-occupied-ukraine

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

medigoth@qoto.org ("Daniel Dvorkin") wrote:

A tiny complaint compared to all the other crap going on, but ... I really hate it when #icon-and-#text #interfaces are replaced by icon-only, and there's no way (or at least no obvious way) to change it back. #Bluesky seems to be the latest site to embrace this very bad idea.

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

sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

If you know anyone looking for a rather unique bicycle mechanic job in the Atlanta area, one of my favorite places in the world, Sopo Bicycle Co-op, is hiring a part-time shop coordinator! We've been struggling to stay open consistently for a while, and we're hoping having someone there on set nights will let us sell more bikes, and recruit more volunteers!

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1dbebb939527f941

#Atlanta #Bicycles #Sopo #Cooperatives

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

lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety – Communications of the ACM by @david_chisnall https://lobste.rs/s/dp5e4g #security
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/it-is-time-to-standardize-principles-and-practices-for-software-memory-safety/

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

Those of us trying to dig teams out from under megabytes of JS *see you*, Vercel.

You want to help? Take some bloody responsibility for your actions and *stop sending JS down the wire by default*.

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

It is gobsmacking to see the primary hucksters of the JS-industrial-complex simultaneously duck accountability for their role in frontend's lost decade while cosplaying performance leadership because *they just noticed mobile*.

The cheek of these shysters is impossible to overstate.

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

MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

January Tesla sales are down 75% in Spain, 63% in France, 59% in Germany, 44% in Sweden, 38% in Norway, 42% in the Netherlands, and 33% in Australia. I guess being a nazi is bad for business. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

Merriam-Webster homepage having a moment over here

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jwz wrote:

It's an older meme, but it checks out.
https://jwz.org/b/ykhV

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

r.gilmore@threads.net ("Rachel Gilmore") wrote:

The tech broligarchs are getting organized and political.

No, I’m not talking about what’s happening in the United States.

This is right here in Canada.

A group of CEOs, founders and other executives have decided they’re tired of their voices going unheard (lmfao)

Here's what's going on:

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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

scott@typetura.social ("Scott Kellum :typetura:") wrote:

digital.gov is getting shut down… My wife worked for years to write the design guides for the federal government, and poof, they’re just deleting them…

https://digital.gov/guides/hcd/

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

kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Since NYC began congestion pricing, subway ridership is up, subway crime is way down, traffic fatalities are down. Also, trip times for drivers and buses are faster and bus ridership is up. https://www.amny.com/nyc-transit/nyc-subway-crime-plummets-ridership-jumps-2025/

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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

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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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Reblogged by jwz:

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

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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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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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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Reblogged by jwz:

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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Reblogged by jwz:

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