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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

how does one get endorsed for idris crimes?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

first interview this year, mind. that's how well the market's going.

it's... it's because i'm an idris liker.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

holy crap i've got an interview

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange ("Brian Greenberg :verified:") wrote:

I teach cybersecurity. And I genuinely don't know what to tell my students after this one. Federal reviewers spent years trying to get basic encryption documentation from Microsoft for its GCC High government cloud. They couldn't get it. One reviewer called the system a "pile of spaghetti pies," with data traveling from point A to point B the way you'd get from Chicago to New York: a bus to St. Louis, a ferry to Pittsburgh, and a flight to Newark. Each leg is a potential hijacking. They knew this. They said this out loud in writing. Then they approved it anyway in December 2024, because too many agencies were already using it. 🔐 That's not a security review. That's a hostage negotiation. Two things in this story should make every CISO and CIO uncomfortable:

🧩 Microsoft built its federal cloud on top of decades of legacy code that it apparently can't fully document itself
👮 "Digital escorts" often ex-military with minimal software engineering backgrounds are the firewall between Chinese engineers working on the system and classified U.S. networks 🤦🏻‍♂️

The scariest line in the whole ProPublica investigation isn't the "pile of shit" quote. It's this: FedRAMP determined that refusing authorization wasn't feasible because agencies were already using the product. Read that again. The security review process reached a conclusion based on sunk cost, not risk. Ex Post Facto Fallacy

If that logic holds, the compliance framework is just documentation theater. And right now, CISA is being hollowed out, so there are fewer people left to even run the theater.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#Cybersecurity #Microsoft #FedRAMP #Leadership #RiskManagement #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

the Wikipedia article on the light pen is pathetic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%5Fpen

we will be expanding this

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

does archive.org really need a 4800 dpi scan of all sides of the box?

no, probably not.

is it getting a 4800 dpi scan of all sides of the box? yes. yes it is.

#retrocomputing

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
seanwbruno@infosec.exchange ("Sean 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷") wrote:

@gloriouscow hard disagree.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

i am sorry i am making the fediverse worse

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

so a utility to tell you if your light pen is working okay would be useful right?

it would tell you if your pen is ok.

what might such a utility be named

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Ameboid/116316993709442818

I want everyone to see my cartoon son.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

here's your weekly reminder that Git is not Github, you can leave the circus any time

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291641538524981

The Verge is doubling down and it's a good one to read and share 👌
https://www.theverge.com/report/901818/hbo-harry-potter-jk-rowling-transphobia

Especially to your cis folks who are still somehow arguing that it's possible to watch something that’s directly funding a worldwide fascist crusade against trans people without being a part of the problem.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

One for the history books...

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

reading: "You're Looking at the Wrong Pretext Demo"
https://denodell.com/blog/youre-looking-at-the-wrong-pretext-demo

(scroll past the slop - the man has six fingers ffs)

also highly relevant: "You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters"
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html

also tangentially relevant:
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-02-18T12:52Z/

Boosted by jwz:
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Oh, hey, everybody, bow down.

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

The Curta won't grind the beans but it will compute that 21g coffee x 15:1 ratio = 315 ml water

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

Not a surprise that @43081j's post on JS ecosystem bloat is *extremely* kind and patient towards the people who are polluting the Node/NPM corpus, so I'll say what he won't: if the people who are promoting the bloat can't produce live customers demanding forward-compat for a ancient runtimes + modern dependencies, we all need to shun and reject these sorts of net-negative contributions:

https://43081j.com/2026/03/three-pillars-of-javascript-bloat

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

reading: What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It?

https://csswizardry.com/2026/04/what-is-css-containment-and-how-can-i-use-it/

— my prayers were answered! Harry explains all 🙏 for my next wish...

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

I can't believe the number of people who have gone off the deep end with a slight upgrade to M-x doctor

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

At some point this account crossed 5,900 followers. This seems like an opportune time to mention that no authoritarian regime in history has ever survived more than 3.5% of the population following me

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

Shot:

https://blog.chromium.org/2026/03/android-sets-new-record-for-mobile-web.html

Chaser:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/#total-cache

Not for nothing, but some of us were ranting about the cache gap as far back as 2017, amd the omnishambles Android SoC ecosystem lays at Qualcomm's feet. It will be another half decade before real gains trickle down to volume price points. Not that our tech press cover devices for anyone but the rich.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
drmaddkap@meow.social ("Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist") wrote:

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test:
(1) Two named Klingons
(2) Talking to each other
(3) About something other than honor

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

That wasn't a good movie but I am now positive Angela Bassett makes any movie she's in at least watchable. #monsterdon

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

“I cannot accept compliments from waste material" is a great line #monsterdon

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“AI skeptic” is a title which is technically “AI first” which means by Klingon law you must now give me a twenty million dollar funding round at a ten billion dollar valuation

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Rip-off of some Vangelis in the background music here #monsterdon

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
chr@scalie.business ("▽ some dragns") wrote:

the thought "coffee is tea" entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

*Company makes my life worse through their product*

I will boycott this product

*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*

How do I boycott an externality

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Shitty TL54 is running on a tiny GPU in a box under someone's desk isn't it. #monsterdon

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

It's a day that ends in "y", so The Verge is writing browser competition out of the mobile antitrust picture. Infuriating failure to understand the core problems(s) and talk about the opportunities plainly:

https://www.theverge.com/column/902668/apple-antitrust-app-store-war

/cc @owa