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

Even earlier examples of tape networks: "Tapesponding - The Long Lost Communication You’ve Never Heard Of"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t9H14XfkPc

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ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:

After three years, Apple finally settled with the NLRB & was forced to fix its unlawful NDAs. In my letter joining the settlement, I included a section addressed to Apple employees. Sharing it here for the record. I'm sorry to anyone I harmed when I was part of the secrecy cult.

The full announcement, letter, & agreement are here: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/blog/04082025-nlrb-win-apple-compelled-to-rescind-unlawful-policies-nationwide

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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

Excuse me, I'd like to return this dire wolf, it's just a dog in a costume.

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Spaghetti? Spaghetti⁠‼️

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• gifv: Speed-up video of someone putting some spaghetti on the sand at the beach near hermit crab. The little crab scurries up to noodles and starts munch when all of a sudden, 50 to 100 hermit crabs of various sizes charge in and dog pile (or is it crab pile?) the tasty spaghetti to try to get a nibble in themselves.

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sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

160 years ago today, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces in Richmond Virginia.

There are a lot of reasons the Confederates lost. Among them, its leaders didn't know how to run a functional economy.

Crippled by hyperinflation, trade deficits, & inability to industrialize, the Confederacy tore itself to shreds in just four years.

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

An insulated screwdriver is an important piece of safety equipment when working on certain wall plugs.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Traders are high-fiving each other because Trump temporarily stopped knifing the global economy. These are not smart men. These are dogs chasing a stick Trump is pretending to throw.

jwz wrote:

I Heard They Burning Teslas Downtown.

Spoek Mathambo:
https://jwz.org/b/ykmK

jwz wrote:

Zero Stars.

Walter Chaw: It's tempting to get knives out to hack at the hanks of the great beast. It's tempting to sharpen your tongue to shriek at it, how close we are now to Idiocracy's prophecy of Ass: The Movie being the most watched and awarded...
https://jwz.org/b/ykmI

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

Days Without This Administration Being a Chaotic Embarrassment: 0

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gdc@typo.social ("heikki") wrote:

Weird old tech. This is the Raytheon Symbolray monoscope, in use at the end of the 1960s. It was kind of like a CRT, but instead of drawing characters directly on screen, it shot electron beams at a metal plate stencilled with tiny characters. The beams were "collected", and converted into an analog video signal corresponding to the printed characters the beams hit.

More here: https://tubetime.us/index.php/2018/06/04/a-vacuum-tube-rom/

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

I should also note that when I say the cryptography in Signal is “probably fine; a practical attack would be a big surprise”, that’s about the best we can say about almost all cryptography used in the real world. No strong (not dependent on unproven assumptions) security proofs for much of anything you’d actually want to use.

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

I wasn't sure how well the Murderbot Diaries could be adapted for TV, and I'm still not—but the trailer is just marvelous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEioDeOiqEs

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

This is really stupid, but I still kind of had fun doing it anyway! (It was a lovely stroll down memory lane, at least.)

https://neatnik.net/css-naked-day.html

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aubilenon@peoplemaking.games ("Jesse Morris") wrote:

🎵 Who let the owls out? Who? Who? Who? Who? 🎶

jwz wrote:

MANLY TARIFFS.

WHEN YOU SIT BEHIND A SCREEN ALL DAY, IT MAKES YOU A WOMAN. STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THIS. IF YOU'RE OUT WORKING, BUILDING ROBOTS, YOU ARE AROUND OTHER GUYS. YOU'RE NOT AROUND HR L̽͋AD̷ͭIE̾̊ͩS̼͛ A͍͛N̦̾D LAW̱Y̙E̸̯ͧR̴̝S̠̿ T̗̤̅H͟AT̵̨̐ G̙̜̤̽̏̅̔̈̾͘I̶͆ͦ͞ͅV̴̛̹̱̖̙̺̥͌̾̋ͥͯͨͣͭͭ̽͐͡͞͡E̫̹̦͕ͫ̽̍̌S̸͓͈̟̺̘ͥͫ͐͜_̷̷̨̨͉͎͎̃͒̑̏͐ͬ́͜͠ Ý͉O"̯̣ͫ̀̋͑Ư"̝̩̪͖̱̱̖̜̓ͤ̐͑̄̍ͧ̔̈́ͩ̈̽̕̕͘͝ͅ Ę̵̛̹̱̮͚̂͂̔͒̓̈͜͜S̴̐T̤̙ͩ͑̈̓͋ͧR̨̿͟_̵͉̻̬͉͖̥͉̗̤͎ͯ́́ͨ̂̏ͨ̅͛͆͢Ǫ̵̧̮̘̹ͣ̔̕G͚E͍ͩ́Ņ̨""̗̤̜̳̥͊̆ͣ͋̋́̒̋̊̽ͧͦ͢͝͞.̙̹̲̓̀͊͘

♬️♬️♬️ "Pol! Pot! Pol! Pot! Pol! Pot!" ♬️♬️♬️

https://jwz.org/b/ykmG

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

I'm not dunking on Signal here (though there *are* some features and usability quirks I dislike). It's probably the best designed and implemented secure messaging platform *for general use* that we've got. I use and rely on Signal quite a bit myself.

But it's simply not designed for, or suitable for, classified national security communications.

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

For the record:

- The *cryptography* in Signal is probably fine; a practical attack would be a big surprise.

- Signal lacks specific features required for classified systems, such as security labels, certified identities, revocation, etc.

- Signal runs on uncontrolled, insecure platforms connected to the Internet, rendering it unsuitable for classified even if it had the above features.

- Adding classified features to Signal would make it unusable for most purposes for which it's intended.

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

I'm starting to think that maybe the global economy is kind of complicated.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

If you say “universal healthcare” 3 times a guy in wraparound sunglasses appears to call you a marxist and then die of preventable disease in a chili’s parking lot

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

Kash Patel removed as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kash-patel-removed-acting-atf-director-replaced-by-army-secretary-sources-say-2025-04-09/

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Happy confederate surrender day to all who celebrate! 🎉🎇🍾

The entire confederacy lasted around 4 years. That's half of an Obama administration! Obama was president for twice as long as that little racist tantrum, so I don't want to hear any talk about how it's your "heritage."

Abraham Lincoln called himself a "Moderate Republican." That means he didn't believe in slavery, but by his own words, was a proud white supremacist.

He called Ulysses S. Grant a "Radical Republican." Radical Republicans rejected white supremacy, and told Lincoln to his face that he was wrong.♥️👍🏿

Some people are racists. Some people are losers. Some people are both.

The racist confederates lost and surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9th.

But Lincoln refused to listen to Grant and the Radical Republicans pleas to reject white supremacy after the civil war.

A painful mistake.

You have tariffs today, and are crying about the bond market, and are hoping you don't die of measles or polio, because too many Americans believe that they can control just enough racism.

It's 2025. "Radical leftists" is still the insult hurled at anti-racists. "Moderate" still means racism lite™️.

jwz wrote:

@mattblaze Funny story, I'm getting yelled at by people telling me that the cryptocurrency grift built into Signal is one of the *good* cryptocurrency grifts.

jwz wrote:

Just one more centralized service bro, just one more single-source unmodifiable app bro, just one more monolithic server farm operated in secret by a single corporation bro, this time we'll get it right bro...

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

If you were wondering how my day is going, I'm still being yelled at by Signal groupies who are mad at me for saying the app lacks special features for protecting classified information.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

You can’t compare Donald Trump to Liz Truss, it’s lettuces and oranges.

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

The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell "stop the presses!" if a major story came in. But I'll bet that didn't actually happen very often.

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

This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There's a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better uncorrected.

The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone "kid" and who says things like "bring me back a scoop".

The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.

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

Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.

All the pixels, none of the news, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520

#photography

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rayckeith@techhub.social ("Haderach C. Kwisatch") wrote:

https://youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs?si=PBNlMjMKJYZAPvB5

#Murderbot — Official Trailer | #Apple TV+