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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sbourne ("Sarah E Bourne") wrote:

#SilentSunday #trees

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
domi@donotsta.re ("᠎") wrote:

today, i have IP-blocked the entirety of alibaba cloud’s IPv4 range (47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15, 47.76.0.0/14). And you could ask - domi, what the hell, that’s kinda sorta a lot of addresses?

fucking watch this: that’s sakamoto Mk5, my Ryzen 9 7950X3D server. Never before have I seen forgejo taking this much CPU.

They’ve generated 9GB of access logs (!) and 230GB of generated tarballs (!!!) before I got to my laptop, investigated and ip-banned them. I’m positive that most forgejo deployments in existence wouldn’t survive this.

If you needed another reason to fuck generative AI today - here’s one

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaking on Sunday's "Meet the Press," argued the cash crunch would end if Congress repealed the Social Security tax cap:

U.S. taxpayers only pay Social Security taxes on the first $176,100 of their annual wages.

He said that means the ultrawealthy like Musk pay the same amount into the program "as a truck driver."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/02/elon-musk-joe-rogan-social-security-ponzi-scheme/81060392007/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

🤷🏻 www.publicnotice.co/p/despite-th...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thekitmalone@hoosier.social ("Kit Malone") wrote:

That "first they came for" poem says you should speak up for certain minorities because eventually you'll be a target too.

But you know, you could also speak up simply because it's wrong to target people. Self interest isn't the only reason to oppose oppression.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

😂

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:

I feel like at this point, any country whose department of state etc does not issue a blanket "Do Not Travel" warning for the US is professionally negligent: https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

Any professional organization, conference, or company expecting third-country nationals to travel to the US is negligent at best. The only ethical way to do this is to provide all travelers with on-call lawyers for their arrival and to post a bond for extraction expenses and physical and mental trauma damages.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

"In Odesa 🇺🇦 they talk about the man without a suit who met a suit without a man"

Translated from https://troet.cafe/@suschoe/114092249206742521

#Ukraine #USA

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

‘One Defense Intelligence Agency employee told HuffPost anonymously that “DOGE just posted secret [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed.”’

if I had spewed SECRET/NOFORN info when I had a clearance they would have pinned my as$$ up against a wall. and rightfully so.

https://mastodon.social/@benjancewicz/114094382812373802

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
benjancewicz ("Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ)") wrote:

Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World | The New Republic

Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.

https://newrepublic.com/post/191580/elon-musk-doge-classified-us-intel-data-website

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

KXAN: First case of measles confirmed in Austin

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin-leaders-provide-updates-on-measles-in-texas-urge-vaccinations-amid-outbreak/

#measles #TX #Austin

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gdyson@sciencemastodon.com ("George Dyson") wrote:

Reminder from History: Nuclear war on the ground in Europe was a real threat reinforced by deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in large numbers by both sides. With the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine inherited the third-largest nuclear arsenal on planet Earth. Those weapons were decommissioned with bilateral cooperation and the assurance of US support. This was one of the greatest advances in global security in history and only a complete fool would now complain about the cost. [Graphics: 1953]

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
InfoSecSherpa@infosec.exchange wrote:

March 2nd #WomensHistoryMonth spotlight:

"A lifelong advocate for women and Indigenous Americans in tech, Mary G. Ross broke barriers as the first known Indigenous female engineer.

Mary G. Ross was part of the original engineering team at Lockheed's Missile Systems Division, where she worked on a number of defense systems, and contributed to space exploration efforts with her work relating to the Apollo program, the Polaris reentry vehicle, and interplanetary space probes."

https://doodles.google/doodle/mary-g-ross-110th-birthday/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
me@elizabeth.cat ("Elise :neocat_box:") wrote:

periodic reminder that Barcelona has a supercomputer inside an old church and it's one of the most rad things you can see

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Action lines make everything more exciting!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

@spdrnl @StillIRise1963 White people say 'It takes time.' It's taken my father's time, my mother's time, my uncle's time, my brothers' and my sisters' time. How much time do you want for your “progress?“ I’m 66 years old.

…like, 50 years ago.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
kaasiand.cool@bsky.brid.gy ("daniël") wrote:

severance 3#severance

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

Gen X Les Misérables: Jean Valjean is caught stealing a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein the toilets have been ordered!
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/03/02.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by jwz:
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

If anyone is confused about 18F: imagine an in-house consultancy who could show up and solve your problems but who would then be able to use that knowledge to solve someone else's problems without billing them for the prior work, saving everyone money and also making a bunch of it open source. People took pay cuts to work there. Destroying them is a tragedy

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

As you watch the Trump regime wreck everything in sight, you should be regularly asking yourself this question:

If the stated goal was to end democracy, ruin the economy, accelerate climate change, shred human rights, aid our adversaries, and steal everything in sight -- would the regime be doing anything differently?

Boosted by jwz:
marcedwards ("Marc Edwards") wrote:

Remember when Adobe was all-in on NFTs?

Boosted by jwz:
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

In 2019 I met a young Meta engineer who was really fired up about wanting to change the company ‘from the inside’. She asked me why I hated her company. I said I’d just come from a place where I saw it accelerate genocide (Myanmar) and suppress democracy. She said oh at least they won’t do it here.

I wonder where she is now. Probably laid off.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

darmok dot com has not been updated lately and that's on you http://darmok.com

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

checking in on decentralized assets intended to be independent from governments and big banks

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Intel's Pentium processor (1993). Looking inside the chip , I found a large, complicated circuit just to multiply by 3 (lower right). Why? The Pentium uses a fast technique to multiply 64-bit numbers and it turns out that 3 is a special case. Let's take a closer look at multiplication... 1/N

Boosted by jwz:
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers
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A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do the Trump administration and elected officials keep relying on it?
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #USPolitics #Government #Labor #WFH #Work

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Android developers: your programming environment suuuuuuuucks. Hundreds of lines of code to get simple things working that take less than 10 lines on the Web. You don't have to live this way.

Boosted by jwz:
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, travesti ativa antifa") wrote:

it's ridiculous how it's now normal that computers are adversarial to their owners and using a computer now means to be working around constantly hostility of software designed specifically to not help you, and this is accepted enough that for young people that's their whole idea of what a computer is, a sort of scammy robot always trying to pull one over you