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Boosted by jwz:
liamvhogan@aus.social ("Liam :fnord:") wrote:

jwz wrote:

There was a ~20yo dude at the club tonight wearing some kind of expensive Sports Team jacket that had a giant UPS logo on the back and also was covered with many copies of the number... "88".

On Pride weekend in San Francisco.

There is a whole *series* of bad decisions that led to this.

Best of luck not getting your ass kicked I guess?

Boosted by jwz:
a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?

I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

Boosted by jwz:
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

@yojimbo @davidgerard @oxy a thing I do enjoy about my job is once out in the world when someone tried an “ethics aside,” I nodded and “yeah I hear that sometimes at work from folks that have been there for decades.”

“Where do you work?”

“State prison.”

“[scoff] it’s not the same.”

“Yep they say that too. Have you been there already?”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

@glyph @freakboy3742

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Man there are some very annoyed Europeans who just cannot stop telling me that they already know what heat is, and also that Austin, Texas isn’t Amsterdam. Guys, I know. That’s the point. Even Texans need regular reminders of this, and they deal with more heat than you do. The first day I lived in Texas it was 47C. That was in 1999. Please believe me that I am not condescending to you, this is just a reminder that is useful when it is very hot, especially if it is hotter than usual.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Okay not _everyone_. I do recognize that some people have autism instead

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@digitalcortex/116716498577275958

Still kinda hard for me to believe that this isn’t just what “being an adult” is like for everyone

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fifonetworks@infosec.exchange ("Bob Young") wrote:

“Bob, one of my employees can send email from his iPhone, but he’s not receiving any emails.”

Well, that’s backwards – usually I see problems the other way around; they can receive, but not send.

I tried working with him on a phone call yesterday morning, but when you can’t see the screen, tech support is more difficult. The client’s main business location is in a town less than an hour from my office, so I went to their location after lunch to work on it in person.

Oh, so many details were left out! It turned out that he wasn’t receiving emails on his iPhone, his iPad, or his laptop – but he could send from the phone and the laptop.

And... the problem started in March, and was continuous from then until now!

Okay. First things first. Let’s log into Outlook on the web and see whether that works. I’m starting to have a hunch that I’ve seen this problem before, with other clients.

Outlook on the web looks the same. So I went into the Rules settings, and there was the culprit. The rule was named “....” That’s it, the only rule, and the rule name was just four dots. I clicked the drop-down arrow to expand the rule. And the rule said, on incoming mail, move it to the Deleted Items folder and mark it as read! So he was receiving email all along, he just didn’t know it.

I looked in the Deleted Items folder, and there were more than 1,300 messages, including my two test emails from earlier in the day. I moved everything back to the Inbox.

Here’s what happened. In March someone had started sending email pretending to be this employee. He changed his email password, and the outbound spam stopped. That’s all the company did. They thought the problem was solved.

Well, that locked the cybercriminal out, but it didn’t delete the rule that the cybercriminal had created to cover their activity. That rule didn’t get deleted until yesterday, June 24.

THE LESSON
If you believe your email has been compromised, after securing your account, log into each device, and especially the web instance, and look for rules you didn’t create. If a device was compromised, the malicious rule may be in Outlook’s rules on the device. This scenario can also happen in other email apps, like Thunderbird, and in other web-based email accounts, like Gmail. Whether it’s web-based or app-based, look for rules or filters that you were unaware of, and delete them.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#email #TechSupport #HelpDesk

Cybersecurity - Networks - Wireless – Telecom – VoIP

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

my name is Goose
and wen its day
or wen there are
no eggs to lay
and all the men
dont value me
the shareholders
are worth just three

———

my name is Goose
and on the slide
i flap my wings
and feel big pride
i lay more eggs
since chairman son
tells them im worth
seventy one

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
jordan@neuromatch.social ("jordan, phd") wrote:

Just donated to @fdroidorg because the FOSS ecosystem is a beautiful thing!
Learned a lot when I published Coppelia, my Jellyfin music client, and the #fdroid review team and community was extraordinary!!

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
lina@neuromatch.social ("Lina") wrote:

stop joking around the goose is losing value and it wasn't even valued in the first place this isn't fucking funny anymore

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

I believe together we can have massive effect in getting people to REALLY SEE what is going on and this country, and getting mad as hell about it … so We, The People, can do something about it.

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

Please. Please explain my own post back to me. I love that shit

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz ("Russell Keith-Magee") wrote:

Thesis: The surge in popularity of TUIs is not because there's been a sudden interest in retro computing. They're popular because they're an easy way to get a cross platform UI in an app experience.

Antithesis: There are other - and better - ways to achieve this goal. A good cross-platform GUI toolkit gives you the same thing, while retaining the ability to do things like, say, display an *image* or a *line chart*.

A good cross-platform GUI toolkit can even output a TUI if you need that to access your app's UI over SSH.

Like, say, Toga: https://toga.beeware.org

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gypsyvegan@sfba.social wrote:

@troublewithwords

Boosted by jwz:
davidho.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("David Ho") wrote:

ICYMI, the US Postal Service proposed a rule allowing it to refuse mail ballots in states that don’t provide voter rolls to the federal government. This could impact millions of Democratic voters and could disrupt the 2026 general election. You have less than a week to comment via mail or email.

Ballot Mail for Federal Electi...

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

@obshq hey guys! Trying to find someone to contact about a specific package on OpenSuse OBS (this one https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=graphics:darktable&package=darktable). Will be grateful for any pointers!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Harrington") wrote:

#NowPlaying

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Live at The Ritz 1981

Considering the source, this is a pretty great version. I’ve had this on shitty bootleg cassette for forever.

The energy of the band is GREAT! Joan fucking RULES. It’s funny though to hear her voice so young and girlish. Her modern recordings are in a much lower register.

Damn this is such a great concert. Shout out to WNEW, NY.

#RealMusicByRealMusicians
#JoanJett
#Live

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

“Trump’s obsession with voter fraud is just another expression of the reactionary populist belief that the people who inhabit a place are not equivalent to the people, who are entitled to rule.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/trump-pratt-voter-fraud-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Interesting… By wiping away my darktablerc and trying to set settings one by one I figured that it tends to segfault if I disable the splash screen. And it looks like it segfaults due to some race condition.

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

RE: https://beige.party/@i%5Fcannot%5Ftoday/116818056825110105

Wow they really are fash too.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DavidBridger@writing.exchange ("David Bridger") wrote:

#Fedihelp Is anyone here in contact with #LadyGaga? My 14yo grandson who I love dearly is lying in hospital on life support. His mum, my daughter, is reading aloud for him the David Attenborough book he was planning to get. His favourite artist is Lady Gaga and my daughter is trying to contact her, to ask if she might send our boy a message to be read to him. It would mean a lot. I know this is a long shot, but can anyone put me in touch?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jacqueline") wrote:

The Hippie to Anti Vaxx pipeline is really something

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I only ask because as I'm thinking about producing video essays and thinking of which platform to post, I can't help but think how cool it would be if I could just post them here.

I like it here. Way more than any other platform.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Should Mastodon embrace video as a medium? (More than now, obviously). I'm afraid to ask this lol. Is it a can of worms?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

For a friend at work, today.

Boosted by sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert"):
quasirealsmiths@beige.party ("He looks like he's [REDACTED]™") wrote:

Something about a Tesla getting taken out by a train with pride flags makes a good Friday

https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/1ugctcc/light%5Frail%5Faccident/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

Bring back things without computers!

Bring back computers without network connections!

Death to surveillance capitalism!

Death to the concept of a billionaire!

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou, PhD") wrote:

Did you know most emojis are perfectly valid CSS s?

Meaning, this totally works in all browsers:
--💩: oklch(50% .1 100);
background: var(--💩, red);

Oooh I’m gonna have a lot of fun with this 🤩

Testcase: https://codepen.io/leaverou/pen/azpymKK?editors=0100