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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
ryan@m29.us ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

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• gifv: It's a big responsibility, but I really love her.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

So the whole point of Signal is that it doesn't store client messages on the server, making it pointless for hackers/governments to steal/require any data from it.

Trump's goons didn't use Signal. They used a fork. Which does archive messages on the server, thus completely negating the Signal's advantage. Making it possible to hack and steal. Which is, apparently, what did happen: https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

We chose ActBlue as our donation processor because they follow all the rules and have systems in place to prevent fraudulent donations, like requiring donors to affirm US citizenship/residency.

Trump knows he can’t outlaw his opposition, so he’s trying to kneecap it by cutting off its funding. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trumps-attack-on-actblues-dark-money-was-backed-by-dark-money/

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

@adamshostack @SteveBellovin I'm shocked that a system with a backdoor was exploited. Shocked, I say!

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

This is literally the message of 30 years of reporting on wiretap laws by @mattblaze @SteveBellovin Susan Landau and many others: designing these systems is exceptionally hard. That’s part of why the systems to handle classified data are so expensive. https://newsie.social/@bespacific/114451910633689677

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jasmine@chaosfem.tw ("Jasmine running amok") wrote:

apparently fosstodon has some kind of a "no politics" policy in place? that's a very big warning sign!

to see why, i suggest watching "How to Radicalize a Normie" from The Alt-Right Playbook.

if you're super pressed for time, begin watching at 8:35 and stay until 12:30.

that part of the video explains very clearly how having a "contained" fascist on the mod team is still part of an effective recruitment strategy, and why the way mike (the instance owner) is acting now is a sign that the strategy is working.

but i REALLY think you should watch the whole video, because it explains not just what communities with "no politics"-style policies does for the alt-right (the "no controversy" kind that gets you a warning for saying trans lives matters), but also the rest of the alt-right radicalisation pipeline that those communities are part of.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

@soller When I got warned for stating trans lives matter, I knew it was time to bail on Fosstodon, my first home on Fedi. The "no politics" stance of theirs was always farcical, but now it is completely untenable.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

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• gifv: and may i ask goodbye harmony

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

The third party version of Signal the White House has been using has been hacked, and Signal messages from devices stolen (as they were being sent to the supplier).

This includes group chat messages. The suppliers website has disappeared as of writing this toot.

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

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

Star Wars day marks one decade since I got my first full time job. There was a time when I thought I would never be hired because of my disability. I decided to celebrate the ten year milestone with a writeup about how I got here.

https://blakewatson.com/journal/a-decade-of-employment/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
trabern@mas.to ("Sin of empathy 🕷️🧂🌈🫙⚖️") wrote:

This would get you disbarred in my jurisdiction

https://www.propublica.org/article/ed-martin-trump-interim-dc-us-attorney-secret-judge-attacks

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

Canada plows another $210M into IBM’s Quebec chip plant - The Logic
https://archive.ph/obwis

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

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

Boosted by jwz:
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.”

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

Bobby-Wan Kenobi

Boosted by jwz:
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

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

Therapist: how long ago did your OCD issues start?

Me:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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:

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

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• 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.