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jwz wrote:

I do appreciate that on this day I end up seeing a lot of pictures of owls.

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

https://music.apple.com/us/album/hank-mobley-quintet-the-rudy-van-gelder-edition-remastered/715755085

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@carlmalamud "Unauthorized disclosure of international standards" is a phrase I would have difficulty uttering without breaking character.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

@jwz Keep it up! For great justice!

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

An interaction on a different platform caused me to boil down a central result of the past decade of web app consulting: high-functioning organisations should ban SPAs and the technologies that are premised on SPA architectures.

Some should add exception processes for specific products, but that must come with heightened oversight. And any org that can't rattle off what that oversight should consist of should *never* adopt SPA tech.

jwz wrote:

Some stranger scolded me for this post because there clearly is no Mastodon HOA.

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Secure_ICS_OT@infosec.exchange ("Secure ICS OT :mastodon:") wrote:

jwz wrote:

Egg Heist.

100,000 Eggs Are Stolen in Pennsylvania Amid Shortage: "The thieves could sell them or even use them for vandalizing purposes," Trooper Megan Frazer, a State Police spokeswoman, said in an email on Wednesday. "We don't know what purpose of...
https://jwz.org/b/ykhs

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Was reading this Substack post about US gov cloud servers being pointed at AI companies. It observed that a number of US gov cloud servers on AWS are now pointing to IPs at a company called inventry.ai

https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government

I checked on a few of the IPs mentioned in this writeup, and it checks out. E.g., the IP address 18.253.166.131 from 2020-2024 was tied to us-gov-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com and is part of the gov cloud infrastructure at AWS. Loading that IP into DomainTools Iris, we can see the SSL cert assigned to them is for inventry.ai.

Methinks we need to know more about Inventry.

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halcy@icosahedron.website ("halcy​:icosahedron:") wrote:

Updated the post, here is, as it were, the money shot.

You can see that the frequency on the EU side goes low and then rises while the one on Baltic side goes high and then falls right before sync - I wonder if that was intentional! But in any case, you can very clearly see the point where they sync! so this experiment was as far as I am concerned a full success!

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/02/09/measuring-power-network-frequency-using-junk-you-have-in-your-closet/ #BalticSynchro

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Nothing to see here, just Musk's team of "experts" feeding the nation's data into AI. What could go wrong? Especially if the goal is to replace a ton of government workers with AI?

"To replace the existing civil service, Musk’s allies are looking to technology. DOGE associates have been feeding vast troves of government records and databases into artificial intelligence tools, looking for unwanted federal programs and trying to determine which human work can be replaced by AI, machine-learning tools or even robots."

"As much as half the government’s nonmilitary real estate holdings are set to be liquidated, a move aimed at closing offices and increasing commute times amid sharp new limits on remote and telework. That is intended to depress workforce morale and increase attrition, according to four officials with knowledge of internal conversations at the General Services Administration, another agency taken over by Musk."

“We’ve heard from them that they want to make the buildings so crappy that people will leave,” said one senior official at GSA, which manages most federal property. “I think that’s the larger goal here, which is bring everybody back, the buildings are going to suck, their commutes are going to suck.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/08/doge-musk-goals/

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

every time someone tries to defend the trade wars against Mexico and Canada "because the deals we had were so bad", remind them that those trade deals were made by The Fat Orange Child in 2018 to replace NAFTA.

The Fat Orange Child is starting trade wars to save us from the deals The Fat Orange Child made the last time he was President.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

President Trump told reporters on Air Force One he will announce tomorrow 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the US.

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noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence.

Attachments:

• video: 3da49f678c7bc498.mp4

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eunews ("European News 🇪🇺") wrote:

Hundreds of thousands protest far right in Germany

More than 200,000 protesters rallied in Munich, Germany, on Saturday against far-right extremism ahead of the country's general election. The far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is in second place in recent polls and has prompted widespread protests across the country before voters cast their ballots on Feb. 23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxPx99sVWjs

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

I stumbled onto a Chinese restaurant that was run by fans of German art history

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AnnaAnthro wrote:

#Google Calendar removed events like Pride and Black History Month because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Developer accused of unreadable code refuses to comment

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

On tomorrow's (Monday's!) Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by @orhun at a Europe-friendly time (9a Pacific/5p GMT/8p TRT) to talk about TUIs in general -- and the terrific Ratatui in particular. Join us! https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1328452701985575074

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

System Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeVWLtbU

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If you start investing at age 25, you may be able to afford your own funeral one day!

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"Hey, PS17, grandad mentioned a game called 'Bubble Bobble'. Can you run that?"

The PlayStation thought. "No, but I can emulate an earlier platform, that can emulate an earlier platform, that can emulate-"

"How many layers of emulation will you have to run?"

"Twelve."

"I hope it's worth it."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

on the one hand, I understand fear so I understand some folks posting things anonymously.

on the other hand, I also understand disinformation so I am loathe to re-post or otherwise spread anonymous assertions.

these are difficult times to act ethically.

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analogfusion@mastodon.art ("Lance") wrote:

#SilentSunday #Tennessee

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"If cats could talk, to cops, they wouldn't"
Seen in Sydney

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

Satirical Street Art: Elon Musk and Donald Trump Under the Public Eye: https://streetartutopia.com/satirical-street-art-elon-musk-and-donald-trump-under-the-public-eye/

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arielkroon@wandering.shop ("Ariel Kroon") wrote:

Anyone in #Kitchener or #Waterloo / #WaterlooRegion in general interested in joining a little community garden? ComeUnity Roots gardens collectively, sharing knowledge and our harvest - we even try to donate our surplus. Gardeners of any age, class, ability, and skill level are welcome. We're looking for new members for this coming year - if you're interested, please email comeunityrootsgarden at gmail dot com.

@WaterlooEvents @waterlooregion #gardening #CommunityGardening #FoodSecurity #plants

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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xinit@mastodon.coffee ("xinit ☕") wrote:

"comparing the total units sold so far — 34,438 for the Cybertruck, compared to 3,173,491 for the ill-fated Pinto, discontinued in 1980 — and comparing reported fire fatalities for both.

At the current rate of horrible fiery deaths, FuelArc projects the Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto's 0.85. (In absolute terms, FuelArc found, 27 Pinto drivers died in fires, while 5 Cybertruck drivers have suffered the same fate"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-ford-pinto-comparison

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simonstl ("Simon St.Laurent") wrote:

"A court order cannot enforce itself. It cannot change a mind. It cannot make white folks less racist. It cannot recapture things that have been lost, or stolen. The only thing that can save us is us." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/courts-cant-stop-the-trump-musk-coup/