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taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

Remember, the California AG says you can delete your data (i.e. *should* delete it).

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-urgently-issues-consumer-alert-23andme-customers

#23andme #privacy

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

23andMe files for bankruptcy to help facilitate a sale and “maximize the value of its business.”

In parallel, co-founder Anne Wojcicki has resigned as the CEO after her attempt to take the company private was rejected earlier this month.

If you were a customer of theirs, your genetic data is now for sale.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-24/23andme-starts-chapter-11-process-co-founder-steps-down-as-ceo?embedded-checkout=true

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

These are not serious people and people will die because of it, and because they not serious people, they will neither care nor be punished for it

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social wrote:

@djsundog Still love that Chuck Jones, one of the biggest influences on Bug's personality, was a powerful organizer to strike against Walt Disney's labor practices. Disney hated him.
gizmodo.com/that-time-animator…

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I’m in Sofia, Bulgaria for #RealWorldCrypto 2025, as well as the Open Source Cryptography Workshop and other co-located events. Please feel free to reach out and chat!

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=fXb4ymsFcV2ntAzqIpmYvaCSBCGxAw0GA0n-mECa1x8&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=share

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I feel like I’m in Soviet Turkey

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Justin Eichorn is not thriving in jail.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/24/the-eichorn-saga-is-sinking-into-the-abyssal-depths/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tubetime ("Tube🌱Time") wrote:

i've built a reproduction chord keyboard (keyset)! this device was invented along with the computer mouse by Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI back in the 1960s. unlike the mouse, it never took off.

files are here: https://github.com/schlae/engelbart-keyset

Boosted by jwz:
cryptadamist@universeodon.com ("⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯") wrote:

December 2023: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts 4 Russians for war crimes in #Ukraine

September 2024: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts Russian cryptocurrency money launderer / cybercriminal #SergeyIvanov

November 2024: US District Attorney Jessica Aber accuses Virginia based companies of running "three different schemes to illegally transship sensitive American technology to Russia," including sending equipment to a Russian telecommunications company linked to the #Kremlin and Russia's notorious #FSB security agency.

March 2025: Former US District Attorney Jessica Aber found dead at age 43

More: https://www.newsweek.com/jessica-aber-death-2049234

#Putin #VladimirPutin #JessicaAber #Russia #UkraineWar #Virginia #Vapol #crime #alexandria #TrueCrime #uspol #eupol #eu #AsifRahman #infosec #ransomware #cybersecurity

Boosted by jwz:
textfiles@mastodon.archive.org ("Jason Scott") wrote:

What have we here!

https://www.internetarchive.eu/

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

I can’t be sure, but this looks a little off to me.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

Hey! Are you interested in worker cooperatives and based in Ireland (North or South)?

I've just become a member with an organisation called Solid Network that helps support and educate on cooperative models and you should check them out too.

https://solidnetwork.ie/

#coops #Ireland

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bonesinjars@mastoart.social ("Bones In Jars") wrote:

Hello mastoart.social !! Bones In Jars is very excited to be here ! This serves as a cursory first post, but I plan to slowly start putting other posts about upcoming classes / events & projects here over the next few weeks.

Bones In Jars is my (Wesley Kratz-Gullickson) little arts & oddity studio storefront in Beaver Dam, WI. We're open Thursday - Saturday 12-8 PM & Sundays 12-6 PM !

I look forward to sharing my work here !!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mathias@rhizospherelabs.com wrote:

A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset
https://www.righto.com/2025/03/mother-of-all-demos-usb-keyset-interface.html

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

New post: "Having to think about essential computerness" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/essential-computerness/

The Mac’s allure has always been that its power didn’t require users to understand “computerness,” while still rewarding those who wanted to dig in. But it feels like that’s slowly changing.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Does she look ladylike to you?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/24/i-think-blue-is-a-she/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Hardware isn't just what you ship; today @ahl and I are going to be joined our colleagues Ian Sobering and Doug Wibben to talk about Minibar, a board that simulates a rack to allow a single sled to be programmed and tested in manufacturing. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1353741523941851277

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Kat Abughazaleh is the kind of person I want to see representing us in congress.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/24/if-i-lived-in-illinois-id-vote-for-her/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OhclGO3CY

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

If we can't stand together, our universities will fall separately.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/24/columbia-universitys-shame/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:

Updated my /now page: https://bendaubney.com/now/

A short summary:

Boosted by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

Principled and courageous words from #Columbia Math Professor Peter Woit in the wake of the University's burial of academic freedom.

“they appear to have decided to not support Mahmoud Khalil or other university community members facing imprisonment and deportation"

"As Fascism takes over US institutions, the one thing I’m seeing almost nowhere is principled or courageous resistance.”

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14435

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I have been stuck on this Air Bulgaria flight for THREE HOURS, it STILL HAS NOT TAKEN OFF, and all I’ve gotten for my trouble is this WOEFULLY TINY APOLOGY CHOCOLATE WITH STRANGE LETTERS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheConversationUK@newsie.social ("The Conversation UK") wrote:

A 1930s movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal had some familiar sounding ideas....Read More: https://tcnv.link/UsPebxF

#ElonMusk #Technocrats #Greenland #Canada

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
teodorsandu@mastodon.online ("Teodor Sandu") wrote:

#fun #meme #it #overflow #genie #joke
#development #programming #funny #memes

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

hard to get moving this morning... ☕

Sunrise whispers soft,
Blankets hug in sleepy warmth,
Dreams linger, time lost.

[ via https://arghstudios.com ]

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

Adding mastodon.world to this list, sadly. They’re experiencing a massive wave of spambot signups and we’ll need to limit them while they work to reign things in.

Boosted by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Yining Karl Li") wrote:

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:

Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons

Boosted by jwz:
ami_angelwings@urusai.social ("Ami Angelwings") wrote:

The original Dear Abby was a badass, esp for her time, she was a champion for queer acceptance in her column and was very big on telling parents to listen and accept their children instead of punishing and fighting with them. But also this response is a banger. Top 10 advice columnist responses of all time.

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

TRON CORN
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/03-23.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #tron82 #cyberdelia #turbodrive #techno #industrial #sanfrancisco

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