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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ Robb Knight - omg.lol Interview Series 7 https://krrd.ing/posts/robb-knight-omglol-interview-series-7/

I was interviewed by @mbjones for his omg.lol series and I revealed the start of a pizza theory I've been mulling over.

∞ https://rknight.me/links/robb-knight-omglol-interview-series-7/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ainmosni@ainmosni.eu ("Daniël Franke :panheart:") wrote:

A thing that many people don't realise,is that if you get neoliberals in your government, they will actively work on making your government work worse.

Neoliberals want services, like transit, healthcare, etc, to be privatised because their friends can make profit off of running these thing. People will not want these services to be privatised if they run well.

The classic playbook, and this playbook has been running for about as long as I've lived, is to starve government services from money, while also making them more bureaucratic than they need to be. This makes these services inefficient, insufficient, and over time, unpopular.

When the quality of these services becomes bad enough, and the reputation of these services bad enough, the neoliberals in government will start saying that privatisation is the only way to improve these services (for example in the case of healthcare), or that people just prefer to use a private alternative (for example driving in the case of rail). Of course, they purposely ignore that these options only seem better because they've been ruining the governmental services themselves.

In short, governmental services don't need to be bureaucratic and shit, we can choose to make them at least, if not more so, as good as the private options.

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

oh FFS, it is snowing

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Today's ruling of the UK Supreme Court sets a dangerous and nonsensical precedent for all women in the UK and in the world.

Here's @toutesdesfemmes's full statement in English: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347166620370401

And in French: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347155080739401

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lewis@social.lol ("Lewis Dale") wrote:

Well fuck that judgement.

Trans women are women.

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

The kids are all right

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/pentagon-school-students-sue-hegseth-book-bans

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I boosted several posts about this already, but since people keep asking if I've seen it....

MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration Program, will expire on April 16. The CVE database is critical for anyone doing vulnerability management or security research, and for a whole lot of other uses. There isn't really anyone else left who does this, and it's typically been work that is paid for and supported by the US government, which is a major consumer of this information, btw.

I reached out to MITRE, and they confirmed it is for real. Here is the contract, which is through the Department of Homeland Security, and has been renewed annually on the 16th or 17th of April.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT%5FAWD%5F70RCSJ23FR0000015%5F7001%5F70RSAT20D00000001%5F7001

MITRE's CVE database is likely going offline tomorrow. They have told me that for now, historical CVE records will be available at GitHub, https://github.com/CVEProject

Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director at MITRE's Center for Securing the Homeland, said:

“On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, funding for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program and related programs, such as the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) Program, will expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to support MITRE’s role in the program and MITRE remains committed to CVE as a global resource.”

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Wow. CVE database is in serious trouble, tomorrow.

The cyber industry as a whole is in trouble also really, it’s the elephant in the room - the collapse of the White House’s support for cybersecurity is obvious and pronounced due to widespread cutbacks.

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

Any upward communication that reports on latency at P50/P75, but not P90+, is marketing, not engineering. And folks that do engineering are right to judge it harshly.

jwz wrote:

"Thank you, Simone."
https://jwz.org/b/ykmk

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is ("yosh is out of office") wrote:

"BEST CROISSANT IN PARIS" is probably still one of my favorite modern art pieces from the past few years:

https://youtu.be/wp84sRpM1Js

jwz wrote:

Keep your finger off of that zeitgeist, you don't know where it's been.

Boosted by jwz:
davidsirota@mastodon.online ("David Sirota") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
IsMitchMcConnellDeadYet@kolektiva.social ("Is Mitch McConnell dead yet?") wrote:

No.

jwz wrote:

Often I'll be scrolling through the Explore tab and there will be some cringingly banal headline like "5 Great Tips For Salad!" and 100% of the time it is Pinboard.

"Pinboard, The Supermarket Checkout Line of the Fediverse"™

The sad thing here is that the reason I'm seeing it is that people are reading it. WTAF.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

This isn't the flex you think it is; it's poor management for sure. You don't want engineers pushing changes while suffering from sleep deprivation psychosis.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

I’ve been poeming about how my nouns keep conversioning to verbs.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
CrimethInc@todon.eu ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers") wrote:

Today, Donald Trump made it clear that he intends to have people deported to El Salvador without due process, including United States citizens.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has something to say to us about this moment.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If… if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more—we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

@alice saw this quote recently and have been thinking about it a lot:

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

-Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

I thought you all needed to see this Canada Linx with her baby.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

What if C isn't portable, only non-C-compatible architectures went extinct?

I'm half joking, but:

VLIW/EPIC architectures are dead, despite CPUs desperately needing instruction-level parallelism.
Instead of SIMT we have hyperthreading at home, and bug-prone threads with context switching in software.
Instead of hierarchical memory, we waste 8 bytes on all pointers & emulate thread-local memory in software. Larabee was DOA & SIMD barely exists. MOS6502-style stack+registers are only on GPUs.

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

We are a group of 4th, 5th and 6th grade students that enjoy Amateur Radio as an elementary school club. We meet twice a month on Tuesdays.

Our equipment consists of donated radios (ICOM and YAESU) for HF and VHF; antennas (Cushcraft R7, Comet and ICOM dipole); and assorted keyers and accessories including a donated 600W MFJ amplifier.

If you hear us on please give us a call! Our members enjoy QSL "mail" and will QSL back with an SASE!

Dresden Elementary Amateur Radio Station club

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

But acc/to an official #whistleblower disclosure shared w/ #Congress & other federal overseers…, subsequent whistleblower interviews & records of internal comms, technical staff were alarmed about what #DOGE engineers did when granted access, particularly when staffers noticed a spike in #data LEAVING the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive info on #unions, ongoing #legal cases & #CorporateSecrets — data that 4 #labor #law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB….

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

& data has nothing to do w/making the govt more efficient or cutting spending.

Meanwhile, acc/to the disclosure & records of internal comms, members of the #DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system & then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools & manually deleting records of their access—evasive behavior several #cybersecurity experts compared to what #criminal or #StateSponsored #hackers might do.

#law #Trump #Musk #InfoSec

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pseudonym@mastodon.online ("Pseudo Nym") wrote:

Asked for pay range for position. Got a lot of words back, not a pay range.

Resets sign to 0 days since I had to send a recruiter...

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1162/id/2605820

Section 432.3

Quote:

(3) An employer with 15 or more employees shall include the pay scale for a position in any job posting.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:

"One acting commissioner — one with 38 years experience — has already resigned because of the DHS’s desire to use tax records as a migrant-hunting database. What began as a request for 'only' 700,000 records has ballooned to a demand for seven million tax records — a number that would encompass nearly two-thirds of the eleven million [undocumented] immigrants currently living in the United States."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/15/another-irs-commissioner-steps-down-after-being-forced-to-share-immigrant-tax-records-with-the-dhs/

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Senator Van Hollen is going to El Salvador to try to aid Abrego Garcia. I reiterate my suggestion that people send a few bucks to Van Hollen’s campaign to make it clear that this the sort of bravery and action we expect and and reward.
[adding donation link https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/vanhollen]

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If you think ‘not funding CVE is crazy, this should be a major news story!’ - just know, it won’t be, and almost every profession in the US is going through the same journey.

From scientists to public health to weather to everything else.. essential services people rely on, sometimes which are the difference between life and death, are being defunded. Every profession thinks their situation is unique. It sadly isn’t. We’re in the vibe based bonfire endgame.

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

It’s easy to lie with statistics, but it’s even easier to use them to lie to yourself.