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

wait so is hacking the planet good or bad now

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Jeremiah@alpaca.gold ("Jeremiah Lee") wrote:

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019.

It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight.

They’re free for personal and commercial use.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/?ref=activitypub&utm%5Fsource=activitypub&utm%5Fmedium=social

#a11y

Boosted by jwz:
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

The Author's Guild is offering a "human authored" certification for books that used no generative AI in their creation:

https://www.theverge.com/news/602918/human-authored-book-certification-ai-authors-guild

i hereby offer up the badges I designed a year and a half ago (gift link): https://clivethompson.medium.com/warning-labels-for-ai-generated-text-fa6235481631?sk=caa26634f1c13d76f19c8750660fa935

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
IgorGrouper@mastodon.art ("Igor Grouper -Commissions Open") wrote:

Ink of my T-rex playing basketball.

#art #MastoArt #dinosaurs #basketball

Boosted by jwz:
jesse@metasocial.com ("Jesse Vincent") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Bruce Schneier Davi Ottenheimer have written a tremendous piece for Foreign Policy that everyone should read called "DOGE is Hacking America." It clearly explains why what DOGE is doing has to be stopped, and what's at stake here.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/

I used to subscribe to FP but then found it came with my Apple News subscription. But I realize not everyone has that, so:
https://archive.ph/lSHkJ

Here's an excerpt:

"But the most alarming aspect isn’t just the access being granted. It’s the systematic dismantling of security measures that would detect and prevent misuse—including standard incident response protocols, auditing, and change-tracking mechanisms—by removing the career officials in charge of those security measures and replacing them with inexperienced operators.

The Treasury’s computer systems have such an impact on national security that they were designed with the same principle that guides nuclear launch protocols: No single person should have unlimited power. Just as launching a nuclear missile requires two separate officers turning their keys simultaneously, making changes to critical financial systems traditionally requires multiple authorized personnel working in concert.

This approach, known as “separation of duties,” isn’t just bureaucratic red tape; it’s a fundamental security principle as old as banking itself. When your local bank processes a large transfer, it requires two different employees to verify the transaction. When a company issues a major financial report, separate teams must review and approve it. These aren’t just formalities—they’re essential safeguards against corruption and error.

These measures have been bypassed or ignored. It’s as if someone found a way to rob Fort Knox by simply declaring that the new official policy is to fire all the guards and allow unescorted visits to the vault.

The implications for national security are staggering. Sen. Ron Wyden said his office had learned that the attackers gained privileges that allow them to modify core programs in Treasury Department computers that verify federal payments, access encrypted keys that secure financial transactions, and alter audit logs that record system changes. Over at OPM, reports indicate that individuals associated with DOGE connected an unauthorized server into the network. They are also reportedly training AI software on all of this sensitive data."

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

Gulf of Your Mom

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mijo@social.lol ("L. Carlos Pando :prami:") wrote:

🌊 Gulf of Mexican America

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Time for a cat break. Here is Sugar, who is reacting to me telling her that I would have to actually get up out of bed despite her using me as a napping surface. She did NOT approve, no, sir, she did NOT.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Ah, I see we've intentionally elevated an actual Russian asset to a position where she can do the most damage possible to our national interests, which is to say, she's pretty much like everyone else in this administration

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:

Props to @codeberg@social.anoxinon.de for their quick response to this attack.

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

#codeberg

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
von@social.lol ("Eric von Foerster") wrote:

I don't blog so I decided to tweak my weblog at omg.lol into a page to keep up with fediverse and indieweb project updates.
https://itcamefromtheinternet.lol

More to do on it still, gotta add more indieweb stuff for sure. But, it's a start.

Thanks @adam for such fun tools with https://omg.lol !

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I don't know if this will resonate with anyone as well as it does with me, but I really like the contrast of the relatively bright sky with the dark foreground. It feels slightly surreal. Brussels.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7, yellow filter
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Brussels #Bruxelles

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

r/fednews has become awesome

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

Even biologists like a good excuse to party. It's Darwin Day!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/12/i-bet-you-think-this-day-is-about-him-dont-you/

jwz wrote:

Some time yesterday, everyone I was following on infosec.exchange, I was no longer following. I was able to re-follow them, and everyone from there who was following me, still is.

WTF?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
helenchong@social.lol ("Helen Chong :prami_pride:") wrote:

🏮 Happy 15th day of Lunar New Year, also known as Lantern Festival or Cap Go Meh! 元宵节快乐！

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A street near Porte de Hal, Brussels.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7, yellow filter
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Brussels #Bruxelles

Boosted by jwz:
exador23@m.ai6yr.org ("Hippy Steve") wrote:

Much better.

Boosted by jwz:
muiren@sfba.social ("M. Ní Sídach") wrote:

Curtis Yarvin's Cult For Billionaire Morons
Gil Durán
@gilduran
#Culture #Politics #Economics #Journalism #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRq14ZBYwus

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall gets what most Big Journalism organizations refuse to consider, much less acknowledge:

"Musk Is In Charge of the US Government"

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/not-hyperbole-anymore-musk-is-in-charge-of-the-us-government

Our "news" orgs have barely begun to spot brush fires, much less the reality: Everything is burning.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

"We do not "use" the computer — we negotiate with it to try and make it do the things we want it to do, because the incentives behind modern software development no longer align with the user." https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Altman vs Musk is like Kendrick vs Drake but if they were both Drake

Boosted by jwz:
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Little acts of resistance. Do this. It takes 2 minutes

jwz wrote:

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF: Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don't like, which means that the word "women" is on the forbidden list while "men" doesn't initiate...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiA

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@Jeremiah ooh nice. Looking forward to teasing this out for editing code tomorrow.

jwz wrote:

"Any editor reverting this edit will be arrested. Do not try me." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gulf%5Fof%5FMexico&diff=prev&oldid=1274372322

jwz wrote:

Currently practicing self harm by reading the changelog on the Wikipedia page for the Gulf of Mexico. The best part is the ongoing weeks-long edit war over whether a subheading should say "Name" or "Nomenclature".

Wiki gonna wiki.
https://jwz.org/b/ykh-

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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:

In Mumbai, they renamed Marine Drive (the road along the iconic coast) to…Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road after a freedom fighter, nearly seventy years ago.

Guess what people call that road today? Marine Drive.

#gulfofmexico