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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Tropical Storm Jerry🌀") wrote:

Two days away from the start of a long weekend here in the US. Hopefully everyone is queuing up their untested code changes to go live on Friday. Bonus points if you store your secrets in code hosted on a public GitHub repo.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
farbel@mas.to ("David Scott Moyer") wrote:

#crackerbarrel #epsteinfiles #peterkuper

Peter Kuper, who currently draws Spy vs Spy for Mad Magazine, is over at Instagram. If you are, you should follow him for kickass political cartoons and more.

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

@littletree @eq @greger

Tin solders and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio.

But what could go wrong?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

People should go to jail for this.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Ukraine's new cruise missile, the Flamingo, has a declared range of 1,864mi & a payload of over a ton. "It seems too good to be true. Some competitors wonder if it is just that." Rumors persist over "proximity to Zelensky's office, non-competitive financing, & whether the missile is even Ukrainian." https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/08/27/ukraine-shows-off-a-deadly-new-cruise-missile

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:

'How many school shootings does it take?' Fox host makes urgent plea for action on guns https://twp.ai/E6BF4C

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

The good news is that the Trump administration's policies on food safety only matter to those who eat food.

For everyone else, however, there’s cause for concern. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-foodnet-food-safety-regulations-cdc-rcna227529

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rustoleumlove@mastodon.online ("Anne Ominous") wrote:

@georgetakei

ah, yes.
who among us could forget The Last Negotiation Out of Saigon?

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

@mattblaze There was no shade intended. It's genuinely helpful.

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

@mattblaze @TerryHancock not in the slightest. I'm *terrible* at this and you are a beacon of hope to those of us who suck at typing, yet must type for a living.

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

How fun. Some people think everyone is a criminal.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/27/some-people-think-the-innocent-are-still-criminal/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and Drew are playing some Div on twitch:
https://twitch.tv/ChrisWere

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

Trump will, inevitably, claim that the DC local government irresponsibly left the parks in such bad shape that he was forced to have the National Guard clean them up.

Nope. The parks where the Guard units are picking up trash - the Tidal Basin and the National Mall - are and have always been *federally* owned, and are operated by the National Park Service. To the extent that they were a mess, that was a failure of Trump's administration, not DC.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

🏁 The @robb × @omgdotlol Relay for St. Jude fundraiser is up and running! :prami_happy:

I have some links to share, but the most important link is this one, where you can give now to help St. Jude’s mission to end childhood cancer: http://stjude.omg.lol

Robb and I also both have pages up with some details:

➡️ https://rknight.me/blog/st-jude-2025/
➡️ https://omglol.news/st-jude-2025

As always, I’m donating 50% of everything omg.lol earns to the fundraiser, now through 9/30. And also as always, there will be stickers! And, against all business advice I’ve received over the past year, I’m bringing back lifetime omg.lol addresses for a short time. More on that soon, as well as some other surprises.

And don’t forget that you can show your support for St. Jude by swapping your omg.lol profile page Footer Branding to the St. Jude logo!

It’s going to be a fun month (and hopefully a generous one, but definitely fun at the very least). Thanks for coming along with us as we try to make a dent in childhood cancer and support families who are going through the unthinkable. ❤️

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

@TerryHancock @slightlyoff I apologize if I'm not good enough at this, but you aren't the first person to suggest I'm using this badly.

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

@slightlyoff Why would anyone have a problem with fixing typos? If someone discovers I fixed a typo, that's not some kind of shameful "gotcha".

Yes, I fix typos. I also do laundry, perform minor repairs around the house, and put out the trash.

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

@mattblaze You're making me feel successively less bad about my post-update-update-update approach to killing typos and misspellings. If it's good enough for Matt-effing-Blaze...:

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

What’s the least worst non-Safari browser for the Mac? (Not that Safari is without issues, but they’re different kinds of issues.)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Sbectol@toot.wales ("Sbectol :twt:") wrote:

I used to say that the only reason I had a child was so I could have someone to remind me how old I was.

This was of course an exaggeration. A child is more than a memory chip.

That said, since she became an adult and left, I've no idea how old I am.

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

1. Lay off the National Park Service staff responsible for trash pickup and landscaping in DC federal parks.

2. Wait a couple months.

3. Call in National Guard to pick up trash and do landscaping in DC federal parks.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rebeccawatson@mstdn.social ("Rebecca Watson") wrote:

Now that the President of the United States has sent the military to take over American cities and oppress civilians, I thought it would be fun to check in with the men who claimed to be terrified about this happening a decade ago when the president was Black. https://skepchick.org/2025/08/checking-in-on-jade-helm-conspiracy-theorists-10-years-later/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

I think software should be good

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

This was made with a DSLR and a swinging lens to provide selective focus on the milepost at left. This moved the plane of focus to be non-parallel with the sensor, yielding only a sliver in focus.

Image was was captured at "Park Junction" in Philadelphia, where the former Reading Railroad once met the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. What caught my eye was the old school graffiti moniker on the base of the milepost, in a style traditionally used by yard workers and hobos to tag freight cars.

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

Park Junction, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

More pixels than are warranted at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4472088022

#photography

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Cookies

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Must-read:

So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.

They will not protect kids.

They are grossly insecure.

They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.

They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.

We have to stop this.

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

The one person in our world who needs to hear this will never read it, but you can—and you should. Every word! Hat tip: Mr. Andrew Hinton.

https://americabydesign.fail/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"Last week, Russia announced it will require that all new phones and tablets sold within its borders pre-install a messaging app called Max. Security experts who did technical analyses of Max’s software for Forbes said it’s a privacy nightmare.

While Russia’s interior ministry has claimed the app, made by Russian social media giant VK, is more secure than competitors, a cybersecurity researcher found that Max constantly monitored all user activity on the app with“excessive tracking.” The researcher, who completed the analysis with phone forensics tool Corellium, asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals by Russian intelligence agencies.

“This app just gathers all the data and logs it. I don’t remember seeing that in any messenger app,” they said. “Max is not secure at all. There is no cryptography, unless it’s hidden very well, but I doubt that. It is insecure by design to serve its purpose: people surveillance.”

Max was launched in March, and appears to be limited to Russian and Belarussian phone numbers. Functionally it works similar to messaging apps like Telegram and Whatsapp, but it also has an AI chatbot called GigaChat 2.0 and the ability to book travel and make bank transfers."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/08/26/kremlin-whatsapp-rival-is-designed-to-spy-on-users/

#Russia #CyberSecurity #Messaging #Privacy #LocationTracking #Spyware #Surveillance

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dalfen@mstdn.social ("ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊") wrote:

~Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against a man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal agent.~

“The grand jury's rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington (DC) and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors (ordinary citizens) refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent.” 👀

#USA

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

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) quipped: *"An 'app' is just a web-page skinned in enough IP to make it a crime to add an ad-blocker to it."*,[1] but the native rot goes deeper. Remember when FB rebuffed Apple's offer it couldn't refuse?[2]

Knock me over with a feather, the "privacy wars" were all for show:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/12/market-failure/
[2]: https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-facebook-almost-worked-together%5Fid141910