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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
monnier@oldbytes.space ("Stefan Monnier") wrote:

@paulasimoes @molly0xfff @pluralistic @ansol Yes, before the digital copyright thingy, reverse-engineering and developing circumvention tools was definitely legal. "Reverse-engineering" just means to investigate how something works. It can be (and usually is) a necessary element to break some DRM locks, but not always, no, tho I guess you could call most other ways as forms of reverse-engineering. Also sometimes breaking DRM requires illegal acts (like going against an NDA or other contract).

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
acid@ohai.social wrote:

I just finished @pluralistic 's book "the lost cause" and I do love that it's the first catching book I know where the protagonists don't use violence to solve their problems. And I totally agree, the best way to fight the fascists (before they get into power) is by shifting the narrative. Thank you for that good book, man! 😄

Oh boy, now I have to go to bed, it's almost an hour past my bedtime 😅

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Maybe the real decentralization was the friends we made along the way

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The punishment for virality is always the comments lol

From: @randahl
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114693490280132879

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

📝 Using Signal to communicate securely #Tech #Politics #Privacy #USPol

Now more than ever it's important to keep your communications with those you know secure and private. Signal is the best available option for doing so. It is secure, private and run by a non-profit organization that makes it freely available.

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/using-signal-to-communicate-securely

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
nathanlovestrees@disabled.social wrote:

a very agreeable moth indeed

#Mothtodon #Mothday #Moth #MondayMoth

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
gavin57@toot.wales ("Gavin") wrote:

@pluralistic @ubuntu Looks like they are having some issues:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.

Rules:

1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.

This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

@susankayequinn Updated for 2024:

AI CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE

THEIR OPERATORS MUST BE
HELD ACCOUNTABLE
FOR THEIR ACTIONS

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Is anyone else having trouble reaching @ubuntu today? https://support-portal.canonical.com/ redirects to an error page that says "Sorry, Ubuntu One is unable to handle the request," and both the US and UK phone numbers are perma-busy.

ETA: Yup they're having an outage, but the workaround is to login while in incognito mode.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

Enshittification alert:

WhatsApp (owned by Meta) is reversing its no ads policy... over the next three months if you use WhatsApp you'll going to be seeing adverts while you're chatting.

It may be a bit later than people expected, but given the Tech Bros past record(s), surely we're not surprised.

#WhatsApp #SocialMedia @pluralistic

h/t FT

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

Full-size image: https://storage.mollywhite.net/trump-family-crypto-projects.png
Disclosures: https://oge.app.box.com/s/k0hxcezgk7j1cyqoue16cillsi9srmfu

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dogposting@meow.social ("dog with a blog :neodog_flag_trans: :neodog_flag_polyam: :neodog_flag_pan:") wrote:

i heard there was a secret ooze
that turned four reptiles into dudes
but you don't really care for turtles do ya

they battle crime throughout the night
as splinter taught them how to fight
and from the sewers came a cowabunga

cowabunga, cowabunga
cowabunga, cowa-buuu-ngaaa ~🎵

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

I hate to say it, but I think I have made Emacs moderately pretty.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
paul@soylent.green ("Paul ‮etnomailgaT") wrote:

After around 4 years, I wrote down a manifesto for a project a handful of us participate in called "The Promised LAN".

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@micahflee Good article -- I learned some things.

But, right after talking about being in a group with 500 members, you say:

> […] a Signal group [is] all private, and it can't be shared with law enforcement.

A conversation with 500 people isn't private. Any one of their (possibly multiple) devices might be hacked, or confiscated by law enforcement. Some of the members may BE law enforcement.

It's important not to oversell the security of the protocol w/ such a big attack surface area.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
azonenberg@ioc.exchange ("Andrew Zonenberg") wrote:

Cool research paper (presented at HARRIS but I finally had time to read the full paper) on hardware reverse engineering education https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641554.3701797

According to their fairly extensive survey (section 4, figure 1), my 2014 course on hardware RE at RPI was indeed the first ever for-credit university course dedicated to hardware reverse engineering. I've believed this was the case for a long time (as my attempts in 2013-14 to find other courses to build mine on were unsuccessful) but it's nice to have some validation of that.

Maybe one day I can refresh the course with all kinds of new material I've learned since then and offer a followup...

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

I don't generally have much trouble with my desktop environments (even ones using wayland), but I know people do have problems. Reading this post from the KiCad folks was a bit eye opening about the state of things:

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/

#electronics

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
micahflee@infosec.exchange ("Micah Lee") wrote:

I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to use announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids https://micahflee.com/using-signal-groups-for-activism/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

In the #Fediverse, #Meta is simultaneously the enemy of #decentralization and a non-hostile we can trust to interpolate with.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
bartek wrote:

@pluralistic I finished reading “Picks and Shovels” couple of days ago and I must say that besides the fact that it is great book (compliments to the author :)) it engraved empathetic listening into my mind. Not that it was a new concept to me, but somehow it made me think about it anytime I listen to someone. Great job, Cory! Thanks for that!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

A view of the sun's poles, courtesy the european union's solar orbiter: https://www.esa.int/Science%5FExploration/Space%5FScience/Solar%5FOrbiter/Solar%5FOrbiter%5Fgets%5Fworld-first%5Fviews%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun%5Fs%5Fpoles?utm%5Fsource=tldrnewsletter

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

Ok so let me get the order of events straight.

- Terrorist dressed up in police gear breaks in to a senator's house, shoots him and his wife
- Flees the scene
- Goes to a separate elected representative's house
- Cops arrive on the scene before he can break in
- Surround the house
- He starts shooting at cops
- Cops fire back
- Somehow all miss him
- They somehow let him barge into the house
- He murders a sitting congresswoman and her husband
- And THEN the cops allow him to escape again??
- Are we fucking kidding??

This is either complete ineptitude or the police were actual accomplices in the murder and attempted murder of two different Democratic Congresspeople.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I'm so old, I remember when the Iceman was revealed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/16/a-famous-hoax/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
skyglowberlin@fediscience.org ("Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺") wrote:

By changing the lights on different nights, it let us extrapolate to find out how bright the city would be if it turned off all the streetlights completely.

The result was surprising: if all the streetlights were turned off completely, Tucson would barely change in the satellite image. After midnight, only about 13% of the light from Tucson that's seen from space comes from streetlights.

(4/)

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

Someone posted “Did Slack change their font, or am I going crazy?” and I want to reply with, “It’s still Comic Sans for me like always ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stimpunks@mastodon.online ("Stimpunks Foundation") wrote:

Who gets left out of your dream of a good society?
Who gets left out of your dream of a good society?
Who got left out in your dream of a good society?
Dream better
Dream bigger
With me
—Ezra Furman

https://youtu.be/LUhCJ0atfPI?si=NxGoDygP3sTlNc3N

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

learning about and browsing https://publicsuffix.org and one of the first cool domains after scrolling past all the amazon bullshit is https://pages.gay which is static hosting for https://git.gay run by https://besties.house

so cool. you love to see it

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

@tobinbaker It seems like an exaggeration, but also a lot of truth. It leads to a defensive style of posting that can just suck the life out of things. You have to look over your shoulder at every word. "How can this be interpreted in the worst possible light?"

It's exhausting.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
chiasm@mastodon.online wrote:

This is truly horrible. But we have a responsibility to not look away and to acknowledge the effects of the community's choices, unfortunately.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidLong

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-is-now-the-number-one