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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

This evening I'm on an odd historical sojourn into the history of the tar format (thanks, @th, for inadvertently nerd-sniping me).

The problem is, this involves reading old C code, because SeLf DoCuMeNtInG or whatever. And I can't not see ghosts in C code anymore.

Anyway, guess how many things enshrined in later standards (like POSIX) are a product of what appear to be coding mistakes, including buffer overruns and use of uninitialized stack memory, in the V7 Unix tar implementation?

As an industry, we've _never_ been able to hold this tool (C) correctly.

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

this is a delightful thread 🍿

https://hachyderm.io/@cliffle/115415059671486164

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bmacDonald94@hostux.social ("Mr. Bill") wrote:

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."

Terry Pratchett

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

CNN - President Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/fact-check-insurrection-act-trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejenniwren.teamlh.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jennifer C") wrote:

1/2 ICE thugs pointed a gun at a pregnant U.S. citizen, with her little boy in the back seat, because she dared to film them on a public street. “Are you gonna shoot a pregnant woman?” she cries. “ You just put a gun on me!" And the agent spits back, "It's your fault I did that." Her fault.😡

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

CNN - President Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/fact-check-insurrection-act-trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
poorpossum@kolektiva.social ("Poor 'Possum") wrote:

Just... I didn't expect the symbolism to always feel this heavy-handed. We keep saying over and over again, if this was written or scripted as fiction it would never get out of the editing phase for being so unrealistically on the nose.

#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

While people are dying of cancer because Trump gutted the budget for research, Trump is asking taxpayers to give him a quarter of a billion dollars in compensation for the federal investigations into all of his law breaking during his previous admin. You read that right. He wants you and me to him because the government investigated the crime essentially everyone agrees he committed (and at times he has openly admitted).

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
copystar@social.coop ("Mita") wrote:

This article is my everything.

"From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data" by by Kara Long and Erin Yunes, code4lib Journal, Issue 61, 2025-10-21.

https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18535

"In this article, we describe a novel use of the note-taking software Obsidian as a method for users without formal training in metadata creation to develop culturally relevant data literacies across two digital archiving projects."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Every website is legally required to ask about cookies now, which has successfully made everyone click "accept all" without reading anything. Privacy restored

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

To recap the billionaire class war on working people:
•$100M on Trump golf trips
•$172M for jets for ICE Barbie
•$230M in DOJ payments to Trump
•$250M for a vanity ballroom no one asked for
•$40 BILLION to Argentina while our farmers suffer
•$117 BILLION in annual tax cuts to the super wealthy 1%
•$170 BILLION ICE budget to round up Americans like Gestapo

Meanwhile, this is a real actual headline in 2025 America under Trump:
•Trump admin warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

The next President should turn the White House Ballroom into a publicly-accessible permanent display on the Epstein files.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:

A demonstrator fitted with frog gear spoke about the "Portland frog" as 100,000-plus people were leaving the #NoKings event in Minneapolis on Oct. 18, 2025.

"The frog is a symbol because the idea that they have rolled out troops and ICE in Portland is ridiculous. Like, like there's no need to send the National Guard to Portland when Alaska is flooding ... And they're not doing anything. So, like, it's ridiculous. And the frog represents how ridiculous the whole thing is."

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carstenfranke ("Carsten Franke") wrote:

Last time we needed the Canadians to burn down the White House... This time we are doing it ourselves...
#trump #whitehouse #nokings

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
toyotabedzrock@mastodon.world ("Jim") wrote:

Arizona Sues U.S. House Over Speaker Johnson's Refusal to Swear In Rep. Elect Grijalva - Democracy Docket https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-sues-u-s-house-for-speaker-johnsons-refusal-to-swear-in-rep-elect-grijalva/

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

Dems in Congress should take a page from Stacey Abrams’ playbook: if a committee refuses to hold hearings in Congress, hold them anyway outside of Congress and invite the press.

hold your own damned hearings, don’t just sit around moaning & waiting for someone who says they hate you to ask you to dance. we are in “lead, follow, or get out of the way” territory now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-ice-americans-detained-joint-congressional-investigation?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Democrats #Congress #USPolitics #Immigration #Law

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blamellors@mstdn.party ("Blamellors") wrote:

POLISHING YOUR PITCHFORKS

41 Million Americans eating or a ballroom, jets for DHS dog killer and Golf.

Here's when the rubber meets the road for poor MAGA : The one's who buy the racism but thought EBT was going to end for those people.

#trump #ebt

Hold fast Democrats this is the blackmail portion of the shutdown.

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

it is hard to demonize a dancing frog

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/us-protests-inflatable-costumes-9.6947593

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

33 US physicians in the process of migrating to 1 midwestern Canadian province? Not A Good Sign for the US health care system

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/us-physicians-doctor-recruitment-9.6946001

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

this smells like a contract that was really just another grift

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-ukraine-light-armoured-vehicles-9.6947629

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

During World War II, the British installed fuel tanks in pits in Öskjuhlíðin. Between the pits, there are these walls and convenient steps for crossing over. The fuel tanks are, of course, long gone.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by jwz:
gilduran.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Gil Durán") wrote:

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3lzm3dyh5js27

The Woman Who Predicted Tech F...

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Shaming businesses who do business with the Trump regime is righteous work. https://www.thebanner.com/economy/growth-development/aceco-donald-trump-white-house-east-wing-demolition-ballroom-JYH3KX4SYVAG5KWWZZ2NSSPUPE/

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

@verge @owa Seeing this happen, on a loop, is so maddening.

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you are a California voter, I implore you to back Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to block the Trump-Republican scheme to rig U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control.

They declared war on democracy. Vote Yes. A no vote gives them what they want.

https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/50.htm

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

@verge @owa I mean, I'd volunteer to give the entire Verge staff a tour of web apps, come to their office, etc. etc. But they should really, *really* be talking with @owa

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

Reading the latest Regulator by @verge, and they're so *so* close to connecting the dots...but it doesn't seem like either the reporter or their editor (the person interviewed) grok what web apps are, or are intentionally obfuscating how they could change the dynamic 🫠🤦:

https://www.theverge.com/column/803693/ice-epic-games-apple-app-store

/cc @owa

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:

The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.