@crell@phpc.social2026-08-19 15:14:58
I don't agree with all of their licensing, but I absolutely salute the attitude behind the Acadia licensing approach:
https://acadia.engineering/license/faq
(Be sure to read past "what if our plan is wrong", because that's where the spicy bits start.)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-28 03:31:26
BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/bitgo-to-a
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-08 03:54:05
Djokovic, 39, came through a stern test from No. 3 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime — as well as a left leg issue and a closing roof.
39-year-old seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic came through a five-set, five-hour epic Tuesday on Centre Court
to defeat Félix Auger-Aliassime 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(4) and advance to the semifinals, six minutes before the 11 p.m. curfew.
There, he will face his toughest hurdle yet on the path to a record 25th Grand Slam title i…
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-07-15 15:28:25
I'm working with an agency (https://transformstudios.com), and we're looking for a Sr. .NET dev with solid Azure DevSecOps experience for a long term contract.
Needs to definitely be Senior level with min 20 hr per week availability starting August.
Anyone got a recommendation?
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-09-08 20:54:35
Two ports denied request to land 120 migrants in RNLI boats - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm27v3743mno
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-08-17 15:24:26
Never a weekend slowdown in cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Alibaba’s Qwen races past Meta, Google with 3 billion AI model downloads,
--AI agent exploits Snowflake flaw introduced by Copilot,
--US tells allies to pick sides in AI race with China,
--China pushes to reshape the world’s AI training data,
--China’s Zhipu claims AI edge over Anthropic in cyber test,
--Pentagon scrambles to keep pace with AI’s military risks,
--France holds crisis meeting over massive tax agency hack,
--Iran targets Israeli journalists with phishing attacks,
--Election officials blast CISA over lack of cyber support,
--AI deepfake scams surge in Australia,
--SafePal breach exposes data of nearly 40k customers,
--Bits of Gold breach exposes customer data,
--Hackers exploit Mac flaw to mine cryptocurrency,
--Seven arrested over $35m German bank hack,
--Hong Kong university probes ransomware breach claims,
--Fake GitHub site spreads Mac infostealer,
--US courts to disclose government spyware use,
--Sogang University breach exposes 180k people,
--DDoS attacks hammer secure messaging service Threema,
--Hackers hawk millions of records stolen from Azure tenants,
--London police expose emails of Al Fayed accusers,
--Microsoft kills Windows tool long abused by malware,
--French court blocks social media ban for children,
--AI can’t seem to produce any tech heroes,
--AI makes data breaches even more expensive,
--Amazon used to sell books, not destroy them
https://www.metacurity.com/alibabas-qwen-races-past-meta-google-with-3-billion-ai-model-downloads/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-07 14:51:50
Jannik Sinner (1) beats Jan-Lennard Struff 7-5 7-6(4) 6-5
Struff gave it all he had, but Sinner was far too good and might, perhaps, have played himself into a bit of form.
Next for him: Auger-Aliassime or Djokovic
https://www.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-11 16:22:46
Random thought that goes interesting places:
There are a lot of cheap ways to spend money to drastically improve the quality of life for lots of people (UBI, mosquito nets, digging wells, etc.). Those people almost invariably become way more economically productive in aggregate when this happens, far above the costs involved, if you measure from the perspective of the affected group. So for billionaires looking for outsized returns on investments, why not simply spend on some of these programs, then invest in a broad index of socks that are going to go up as a result?
The answer could be "billionaires by their nature are too evil to think of this," which, could be true....
But I think there's a deeper answer, which is that there *is no* bundle of stocks that goes up as humans flourish. This is directly contrary to neoliberal economic doctrine/propaganda, but it also has an explanation that's obvious from the neoliberal doctrine itself: the stock market is a gambling arena for bets on corporate profits. Corporate profits are money taken in in excess of costs. But the value of a corporation is not produced abstractly by the mere existence of the organization; it's produced by the labor of humans working for the organization, with raw materials that the organization purchases. So to make a profit, an organization has to do some combination of paying its workers less than the value the create, and/or paying less for it's raw materials than they are really worth. The more it does these two things, the more profit it can generate.
Notice that these two profit-generating activities directly and indirectly immiserate humans, *and* that reducing human misery by means other than reducing these activities makes them harder. People who have other means of income won't sell their labor for less than it's worth, nor will they sell their resources below their fair value. Only desperate people will agree to terms that corporations require to be profitable.
This is not a "Marxist analysis" by the way; it's the direct application of the basic principles taught in any neoliberal introductory macroeconomics class.
In any case, once we understand that the stock market is "gambling on how much corporations can exploit their employees/suppliers/customers", it's clear why you can't make money from stock investments in companies that profit from flourishing humans: profit is by construction made of human misery.
It also explains a lot of other things, like why private US employers who pay huge amounts of payroll towards health insurance for their employees would be *against* public health insurance that would offload those costs onto all taxpayers: the amount they're able to lower wages as a result of desperation for access to health care is more than worth the direct costs.
This is the central reason why capitalism (defined as: a system where money equals power) is inimical to human happiness: it allows profits built on suffering to be converted into the power to maintain the system of suffering and even extend and intensify it, creating a feedback loop of extractive domination.
Now I'm sure some people might read this and think: what about the good companies? The ones that pay their workers and suppliers a fair wage, and sell their products at fair prices? Even putting aside the fact that such a thing seems less believable than a unicorn these days, such a company by definition does not make a profit. The fair wage for its workers is the value they add to the raw materials it buys, and the fair price for those is the selling price of the finished product minus the value the company adds. The balance sheet will read exactly zero at the end of the day if compensation is actually fair. You can still run a company like this in theory, and even grow it, but of course under capitalism it will just get bought out by an unethical company that is profitable. Could you in some kind of utopian dream world run a tightly regulated series of markets where you have most of what people think capitalism is, without the bad parts? Maybe, but it definitely wouldn't involve actual capitalism, and it wouldn't have a stock market.
#anarchy #capitalism #econimics
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 22:09:33
A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections,
part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago,
in which she temporarily blocked many of Trump’s efforts to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-31 13:34:09
Wow, before you wrap up for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical cyber developments you should know, including
--Anthropic becomes the second frontier AI lab to disclose agent breaches,
--Copilot worm spreads through trusted Word documents,
--ExploitGym creators explain how OpenAI's agent escaped,
--Coordinated attacks signal a new threat to water utilities,
--Critical Azure Cosmos DB flaw threatened thousands of customers,
--CrimeStoppers put a bounty on the INC gang,
--AI helps Chrome squash more than 1,000 security bugs,
--Cheap streaming sticks can turn homes into botnets,
--Fake IRS letters target crypto holders with QR-code scam,
--Brinks Home investigates breach claimed by ShinyHunters,
--Coupang ordered to compensate victims of massive data breach,
--DC schools probe breach of summer program data,
--Australia's under-16 social media ban falls short,
--Defcon badge debuts a chip built for trust,
--UK program steers young hackers toward cybersecurity careers,
--Hugging Face tech chief says OpenAI agent hack was all too real,
--Opposition to Flock cameras unites Americans,
--AI is becoming a dating dealbreaker for young Americans
https://www.metacurity.com/anthropic-becomes-the-second-frontier-ai-lab-to-disclose-agent-breaches/