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

Turing Award winner Ron Rivest talked about the need for "Software Independence" in voting systems, and explained what that means in practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31joiscFlUw&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=7

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

In our first keynote, Former California Secretary of State Debra Bowen reflected on the 2007 "Top to Botton Review" of her state's election systems, the first independent exam of post 2000 computerized election technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjwYf3TsQwU&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=5

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

I kicked us off with a brief introduction to the technical problems in securing US voting systems, the progress we've made, and the work still left to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzRSA%5FVDsdc&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=2

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

For those who couldn't join us at the #VotingVillage at #DEFCON33 earlier this month, videos of all the talks are online in this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF

We had a great program covering a wide range of topics on the theory and practice of US election security.

I'll post a few highlights of more general interest in the thread that follows.

Boosted by jwz:
divbyzero@mathstodon.xyz ("Dave Richeson") wrote:

As I was walking home today, I had this idea: Is it possible to turn a QR code into a Truchet tiling that's still a functioning QR code? Yep.

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

“A billion-dollar destroyer sank a speedboat, instead of capturing it and its crew to seize evidence and put its crew on trial. The movement of Space Command does little more than punish Colorado for voting for Democrats. And the deployment of national guard troops without permission from a state’s governor sets up yet another battle in court.” [2/2] - George Chidi in ‘Guardian US’ newsletter

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

“From sinking a drug boat, to moving Space Command, to deploying troops in American cities, Trump has focused on the use of military force in pursuit of his domestic political goals. The effects are questionable for their proportionality, legality and expected effect.” [1/2]

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
middleclasstool@phire.place ("Pastor of Muppets") wrote:

Friends and enemies, I would like to show you the best blue screen of death I've ever seen. I pulled over with two hyperactive dogs in the car just to take the picture.

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

A universal truth, brought to you by https://dns.kitchen. :chef:

Attachments:

• video: The phrase “it’s always DNS”, presented as a little musical jingle.

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

One of the great pleasures of faculty life: Every now and then you get a note from a former student mentioning how they found something you taught useful. Or sometimes, just how they're doing.

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

This is part of my "slightly better photos of local attractions than you'd typically find hanging in a cheap hotel room" series.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
polpo@chaos.social ("Ian Scott") wrote:

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

Attachments:

• gifv: A fluttering, undulating sheet like form, made from strips of kite material in a color gradient going from warm to cool colors. In the background is a blue sky and a mountainside filled with evergreen trees.

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

Just did another round of blocking, and I feel a buoyant lightness.

Getting rid of the dude who suggested that I can only redeem myself by personally assassinating the president was particularly therapeutic.

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

2/3 10 years ago today I wrote a retrospective on the "Being Poor" piece, talking about why I wrote it, how it had gone out into the world after I wrote it, and my thoughts on some of the responses to it.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/09/03/being-poor-ten-years-on/

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

1/3 20 years ago today, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I wrote a piece called "Being Poor," to answer, in a way that I hoped would stick, why so many people stayed in New Orleans to face the storm. It was and remains one of the best things I've ever written.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
UP8 ("Paul Houle") wrote:

🍪 Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/ioccc-intel-4004-in-4004-bytes-c.html

#electronics #programming #software #4004 #retrocomputing #microchips

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

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

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

Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.

Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.

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

This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and the Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm SLR lens was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.

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

Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Enough pixels to feel somewhat groovy about at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

#photography

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

It's not a warning: It's been a two-tier economy for a long time

https://www.aol.com/mcdonalds-ceo-warns-two-tier-210000772.html

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

All my dreams are about running from the bombs and seeing fires,
And sometimes I dream of my house being bombed and razed to the ground,
And I cry in the dream and wake up to cry again.

– @joynewacc

This wasn’t a poem. It was just a message in passing to a friend this morning. And yet, also, a poem.

https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy

#Gaza #Palestine #dreams #FreePalestine

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

Looks like Oregon, Washington, and California are cooperating with regards to vaccine guidance:

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/03/vaccines-oregon-washington-california-cdc/

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

Debugging Rustler on Illumos by @dziban https://lobste.rs/s/nr8kkd #elixir #illumos #rust
https://system-illumination.org/01-rustler.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#TesseracT at #ArcTanGent.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 800
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Jack's Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
middleclasstool@phire.place ("Pastor of Muppets") wrote:

Officially got the word today. My employer is shitcanning all remote employees if we don't agree to set our lives on fire and move. And in the middle of a historically bad tech job market. I've sent out a ton of resumes and gotten nothing, like everyone else. If anyone needs a senior software engineer (backend primarily) who's really good at their job, hit me up. #GetFediHired

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

Thanks to 20+ years of cooperation via standards, most web devs are insulated from the reality that competition (or the threat of it) makes standards possible. It's a shock to recognise that Apple has broken the system so thoroughly that SDOs themselves are at risk:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/

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

"The office's failure — again and again — to secure indictments suggests that the administration has absolutely destroyed its credibility with jurors."

D.C. grand jurors reject latest wave of Justice Dept. indictment requests - CBS News https://share.google/ivyOnEAzRwjDTslZE

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
edendestroyer@chinwag.org ("EdenCrowdFunder") wrote:

Under this post, in the replies, there are stories of Palestinian people on the fediverse (as verified by @aral) fleeing the genocide, and how you can help them survive through the artificially created famine (by Israel) and violent (and immensely expensive) displacement, look at the replies to this post down below, I will keep updating this thread and post it regularly.

Tags: #GTFOmyState #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Palestine #Gaza #crowdfund #crowdfunding #fundraiser #fundraising #genocide

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

If you want people on Mastodon etc to follow your PeerTube, it's important that you encourage them to follow your PeerTube account instead of your PeerTube channel.

When people from Mastodon etc follow PeerTube accounts, videos will start to federate to their server and show up in their timelines on Mastodon etc.

However, if they follow a PeerTube channel instead of a PeerTube account, the videos may not federate to their Mastodon etc server at all.

#FediTips #PeerTube