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Boosted by jwz:
osma@mas.to ("Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦") wrote:

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

jwz wrote:

Today in "Maybe Later" --

"Get the most from Google Analytics with personalized tips! Sign up to receive .... blah blah blah blah"

[ Where's the fucking unsubscribe button ]

"You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Analytics product or account."

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Google is so sneaky. This prompt inside Gmail gives you three options. The two most visible options (number 1 is 'Try it now' and number 2 is 'Continue') basically mean 'Enable Gemini AI to write emails.' The third option cancels it which is hidden well. Google, you could do better than this. This is a perfect example of a dark pattern. For those who want AI to write basic emails can enable it but there is not need to do this kind of "shady" stuff.

#ai #privacy

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

JFC

"attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney"

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brembs ("Björn Brembs") wrote:

DOGE handing over government logins to Russia is not a scandal because everybody was expecting it anyway?
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in [...]. The attempts were "near real-time," [...]. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

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

getting gear ready for volunteering at 4/19 demo in #ROC

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

"W3C embeds its core values and principles in the Web’s architecture. To build a better future, W3C must rise even further to the challenge of improving the Web’s fundamental integrity, while continuing to expand the Web’s scope and reach. As the Ethical Web Principles state: “The Web should empower an equitable, informed, and interconnected society.”

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

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

'The fundamental function of W3C is to provide an open forum where diverse voices from around the world and from different organizations and industries work together to evolve the web by building consensus on voluntary global standards for Web technologies."

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

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

"W3C leads the community in defining a World Wide Web that puts people first, by developing principles-based technical standards and guidelines."

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

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

"3. W3C’s Core Vision for the World Wide Web

The Web is for all humanity.

The Web is designed for the good of all people.

The Web must be safe to use.

There is one interoperable world-wide Web."

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tantek.com/2025/100/t1/vision-for-w3c-please-vote

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tantek.com@tantek.com ("Tantek Çelik") wrote:

I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:

Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/

If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:

https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)

Thank you for your support.

#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)

¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/
² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)

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

Yes.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@realtedleo/post/DIgY1hmOtcO

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