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

interesting hardware shifts under the cover

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/apple-to-alter-iphone-release-WE915i7pQrGwcfdOkhw33A#90662cc8-37aa-42ed-988c-4e3e98df5ae7

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weezmgk ("Comrade Weez") wrote:

On #StarWarsDay pause to remember Grant Imahara- Engineer, Lucasfilm ILM model maker, Baby Yoda designer, R2D2 tech and puppeteer, Mythbuster and really lovely person. Grant passed away in July 2020 of a brain aneurysm.

In his lifetime, Grant mentored high school students in robotics and associated fields. The Grant Imahara STEAM foundation continues his legacy by providing grants for education. https://www.grantimaharafoundation.org/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
helenczerski@fediscience.org ("Helen Czerski") wrote:

So much of the destruction in the USA is away from the spotlight at grass roots level. But the foundations of a modern society are being smashed. The National Science Foundation has just stopped awarding new grants and funding existing ones. That effectively means that work on all existing NSF grants has to stop immediately. Universities are telling researchers to stop spending on those grants right away. That's jobs and progress and opportunity just being eradicated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Our #SaveVOA Twitter/X social media account, run by a team of VOA News staffers silenced by USAGM since mid-March, was suspended this afternoon.

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mhoye wrote:

Luke: “you knew my father?”

Obi-wan: “Oh yes. That guy was a dick. Accidentally born stuffed full of magic force-bugs, lucked out a few times pod racing as a child, basically peaked there. Grew up an entitled, incompetent jackass. Crap pilot, liability in a fight, couldn’t stop acting like some crybaby incel even after one of the most powerful women in the galaxy inexplicably took a liking to him, finally carved up a kindergarten and got made an alt-right hero for it. [smiles] Flammable tho.”

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JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Bobby-Wan Kenobi

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triz@normal.style wrote:

i keep seeing liberals online being like, drumpf is cutting pbs funding! he's killing elmo! and like, my guy they sold elmo to hbo like a decade ago. warners discovery is killing elmo. private equity is killing elmo. your 401(k) is killing elmo

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Therapist: how long ago did your OCD issues start?

Me:

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about

"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early."

"If I choose not to take a flight to Europe, I save 3,500,000 ChatGPT searches. this is like stopping more than 7 people from searching ChatGPT for their entire lives."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"At the same time, I have to note that, if we take that principled (or purist?) path, we end up missing valuable Substack commentary by people highly critical of fascism, ranging from Heather Cox Richardson, Ruth Ben-Ghiat (attacked yesterday by a commenter here for being on Substack), Thomas Zimmer, and many other voices who seem especially important to hear at this critical juncture in history.

I'm not sure what's to be gained by dividing ourselves ihnto purist camps.

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

having problems adding alt text. image on top: three catfood bowls side by side. caption: Developer makes a simple, intuitive UI.

image on bottom: cats getting in each other’s way trying to eat from them.

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gsnedders@glauca.space ("Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@hsivonen Contactless payments predate EMV adoption in the US, using a separate standard (“contactless MSD”). There were readers that only supported MSD and not EMV — and all device-based payments require EMV support in the POS device. I think this is now purely historic, as I think issuers have largely forced contactless MSD to be disabled now?

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hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

Speaking of Apple Pay, what’s the deal with American chatter about whether a particular brick&mortar retailer supports Apple Pay? AFAICT in Europe, if a retailer supports NFC, it supports Apple Pay (and Google Pay). (Though a phone doesn’t physically fit in some misdesigned Swedish vending machines.)

Do Americans just not care about NFC generally and “supports Apple Pay” means “supports NFC”, or is Apple Pay support really decoupled from NFC-on-card-shaped-thing support in the U.S.?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SouthDakota ("South Dakota Dep. Propaganda") wrote:

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deviantollam@defcon.social ("Deviant Ollam") wrote:

What, you've never seen a toilet in a shower before? 🚽🚿

(I'll admit: I certainly hadn't before this trip, lol. And no I'm not like on a battleship or a submarine or something... this is a hotel in Brooklyn)

Attachments:

• video: Footage of me first looking in a bathroom mirror then panning the camera over to a stall shower which in addition to featuring a ceiling mounted rain shower head and hose equipped shower wand..... also features a full-on porcelain commode inside of the shower stall. (This is due to the extreme space constraints of this New York City hotel room which is approximately 10' x 12' including both the bed area and the bathroom area combined)

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

George Washington would have thrown up https://robertreich.substack.com/p/george-washington-would-have-thrown?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

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

The article also confirms my suspicion that this modified Signal app called TM SGNL sends at least parts, if not all intercepted traffic to a central server/service run by TeleMessage before sending it onwards, where they are accessible seemingly unencrypted, which by itself is a huge breach of confidentiality, IMHO. I really hope that the Signal developers add a feature VERY soon that warns users when their chat partners use such a non-official app.

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

#Poll

The headline says “Why men are shaving off their eyelashes”

Have you shaving off your eyelashes or are you considering it?

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

You ask yourself how the Trump administration's insane messing around with the Signal app and its clones could get any worse, and then the universe tells you how.

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

4 May 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Suzanna Cohen, was born in Amsterdam.

In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber right after selection.

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

“One screenshot of the hacker’s access to a TeleMessage panel lists the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of CBP officials. The screenshot says “select 0 of 747,” indicating that there may be that many CBP officials included in the data. A similar screenshot shows the contact information of current and former Coinbase employees. “

re Signal app scandal that caused Waltz to take a fall from grace

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

Oh. #WhereIsMySurprisedFace Someone used The Source (pun intended) and freed quite some data from TeleMessage users and conversations going through their servers using their TM SGNL app which is a modified Signal app that captures and records all messages and attachments. It wasn't me :) https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

That's less than 72 hours from finding the sources to analysing to identifying security flaws to extract data. #Oops, indeed.

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

the claim is it took ~20 minutes to hack the archive

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

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micahflee@infosec.exchange ("Micah Lee") wrote:

TeleMessage, the Israeli company that makes the modified Signal app used by Trump officials, was hacked. “I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes,” the hacker said https://micahflee.com/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

I know #Python on its own is not a fast language, but I'm looking at code that rebuilds several small lists, one `arr.append()` at a time, (mumble 1920 // 16 times 1080 // 16 is) 8,040 times, and it reminds me of #Perl's read-only reputation.

Basically, no wonder you think that if this is the kind of code you're writing.

I'm no optimization wizard, but I at least try to learn the language.

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GiftArticles@tomkahe.com ("Gift Articles") wrote:

The Destruction of the Department of Justice
https://archive.md/869up

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

happy anniversary, Kent State… next up: Jackson State

“Over 60 bullets fired in just 13 seconds.

13 were shot. 4 were killed: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder. HALF of the dead weren’t even protesting. They were just walking to class.”

https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/four-dead-in-ohio?publication%5Fid=320974&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&r=4qey6&utm%5Fmedium=email

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Updates:

This is breaking news so details may shift as info comes out:

It seems a single cop showed up and tried to tell people they could not be naked at all in Denny Blaine Park.

This sparked MANY beach goers to argue with the cop about his request.

Comrades listening to scanners indicate more cops were enroute to Denny Blaine.

#Seattle #LGBTQ #DennyBlaine #ACAB #SPD

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

Solar panels cleaning solar panels

Attachments:

• gifv: A solar poleer cleaner powered by solar power. But who’s gonna clean the solar power cleaner solar power?

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oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/down/