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xyla@shitpost.trade ("xyla 🐀📈") wrote:

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Can't believe the US federal government finally has a Department of Gwar

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

@briankrebs God, I though we were past this nonsense.

Perhaps Mr. Mitchem might want to include in his essay a summary of Oregon's data breach notification statute, which quite possibly applies in this situation, and which could create some nontrivial obligations and liabilities for the university.

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors%5F646a.604

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

#StreisandEffect

Copying an archive.is link of this OregonLive.com story because it probably deserves more attention and is behind a paywall:

"A former University of Oregon undergraduate who says he discovered a significant security flaw in the college’s computer network and twice reported it to university officials faced a disciplinary hearing as a result."

"Physics major Owen Mitchem said he was able to inadvertently access confidential information, including the Social Security numbers of more than 3,500 public university employees around the state, last fall, including of the university’s president and its football coach, the highest-paid public employee in the state. He says the breach should have been a wake-up call for the university to tighten its online security."

"But according to an email the university provided to The Oregonian/OregonLive in response to a public records request, the university’s associate dean of students, Dianne Tanjuaquio, concluded that Mitchem’s actions violated the school’s policies on “acceptable use of computing resources.” She required him to write a 750-word essay reflecting on the situation; if not completed, he could face a suspension of his student account, preventing him from registering for classes or changing his course schedule."

"Mitchem says he was just searching in Microsoft Teams for some budget figures for the physics club he ran when he stumbled across a spectrum of university financial documents, visible via files on SharePoint, a Microsoft tool that can be integrated with Teams. They seemed harmless at first glance, he told The Oregonian/OregonLive, but not something his student email permissions should have allowed him to view."

"Mitchem alerted a physics department grants technician and assumed the wide access would be quickly corrected. He later found out that the technician hadn’t alerted the university’s information department, meaning that unbeknownst to him, the IT department remained unaware of the security lapse, Mitchem said via email."

https://archive.is/rG2KG

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mhd@tilde.zone wrote:

Instead of 32 bits going straight into retro-computing (e.g. with Linux & Firefox ditching it), maybe we should keep it alive as some kind of "alternative mainstream", given the insane availability of hardware and the fact that it's both fast enough for most purposes and not that hard to backport anything but the most wasteful "modern" softwares. That's a "permacomputing" I could get behind, instead of the cold war computing cosplay.

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

It's Book Club day at freethoughtblogs tomorrow! We'll be discussing what we learn by reading about unreal societies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/05/the-ftb-podcast-tomorrow/

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

Yixing clay tea pot. My new pot dedicated specifically for puerh. I thought I deserved it after having been brewing puerh for close to twenty years in whatever temporary vessels I had. The price is "don't ask".

#tea #darktable

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

I wrote a little blog post about how you can use an emoji as your website's favicon.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/how-to-use-an-emoji-as-your-websites-favicon/

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

Hilarious shenanigans afoot at the official Pokémon website. “The Top‑Five Pokémon Trading Card Game Cards of All Time”

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/the-top-five-pokemon-trading-card-game-cards-of-all-time

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

This you?

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GeriAQuin@mstdn.social wrote:

#USA #jfk #rfk

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vanillaweb@intuitivefuture.com ("That HTML Blog") wrote:

This is still one of the coolest #WebComponents patterns ever. 🥰

#WebDev #JavaScript

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COSAntiFascists@kolektiva.social ("Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists") wrote:

Curtis Yarvin's Berkeley, CA home address and vehicle has been published:

https://xnrx.net/wanted-would-be-kings

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pivic@kolektiva.social ("Niklas Pivic") wrote:

Every company with AI.

Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.

#EleanorMorton #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #funny #humour #NonFiction

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Tech leaders met Donald Trump last night https://besacenter.org/ibm-holocaust/

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sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Only one chance remains to force @robb to draw an animal of your choosing.

https://stjude.omg.lol

I expect brilliance, Robb. Don't disappoint the children.

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mcc wrote:

Firefox is rapidly becoming a one-stop destination app for every thing I don't want Firefox to be doing https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115152464864842429

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ketanjoshi.co@bsky.brid.gy ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

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pirateradiomap@toot.community ("David Goren") wrote:

https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/brooklyn-pirates-neighbourhoods-in-the-sky-2014-2021

Limited vinyl run of a cassette album I made for Death is Not the End.

#brooklyn #pirateradio

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Hurry up if you want seats -- only 5 are left for tonight's CYBERDELIA! https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-05.html

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ CYBERDELIA: HACKERS SCREENING + CYBERPUNK DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Sep 5, 7:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-05.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #cyberdelia #electro #bigbeat #trance #cyberpunk #industrial #sanfrancisco

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#KayoDot at #ArcTanGent.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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

I have mixed feelings about these cold war relics. On the one hand, they're artifacts of what was perhaps humanity's most dangerous folly to date, locking the world in a deadly game where the stakes only went up with each round. This doesn't seem like something to commemorate or celebrate.

On the other hand, these objects, many now destroyed or decayed, serve as visible evidence of just how close to oblivion we are willing to go. And looked at from the right angle, they have stories to tell.

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

t's unclear if the SAGE system would have actually been effective in detecting incoming bombers, which presumably would have employed radar jammers and other countermeasures. Fortunately, we never found out.

The huge rotating antenna (not shown) was removed shortly after the site's decommissioning in 1980, but the building, a prominent local landmark visible from downtown San Jose, has been preserved.

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

From 1958 through 1980, this incongruous four story (82 foot) monolith was the centerpiece of the "Almaden Air Force Station", a long-range radar site that was part of NORAD's SAGE early warning system. The blast-hardened concrete building served as the platform for an FPS-24 radar system, a massive 120 foot wide reflector that emitted a 5 megawatt VHF pulse, continuously rotating at 5 RPM.

Notoriously, the powerful radar signal disrupted TV and radio reception throughout the San Jose area.

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

This is a stitched imaged made from two shifted side-by-side captures with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR-Digaron-W lens and a Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50) on a Cambo WRS 1250 camera, shifted left/right +/- 15mm, producing a 230MP final image.

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

AN/FPS-24 Radar Tower, Mt. Umunhum, Los Gatos, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, with no interference to TV reception, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53796724938

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

Sooooo my vintage-computer-themed band (with Action Retro and The Taylor and Amy Show) just put out our first record.

It's on Bandcamp. It happens to be Bandcamp Friday. It happens to be $5.

https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/album/return-from-interrupt

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Ok this is funny, I was reading Today in Tabs and it ended with a link to the story about the Browser Company sale, punctuated by a link to and excerpt from my 2014 satirical talk about how to innovate and get rich

Article: https://www.todayintabs.com/p/thursday-longreads

My talk: https://youtu.be/l%5FF9jxsfGCw?si=JJvU67XogbUC1KUs

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

“Everyone who cares about Israel’s future must understand that what is at stake is not only lives but also the very idea of Israel itself. If we continue on this path and take permanent control over Gaza, nothing will remain of the fragile vision of a liberal democracy that once defined this state. Under a reckless nationalist-populist government that denies the limits of its own power, Israel has no sustainable future.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/israel-defense-forces-reservists-gaza-refusal.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.jk8.-V7X.CJKvQ0Hm9BL%5F&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare