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@timjan@social.linux.pizza
2024-03-05 04:36:55

So... Full time #RTO because "there may be execs in the building"? Did I get that right?
So avoid lab work, because no exec will see me in that back corner lab? And if I need to fill a chair in a visible manner, that'll have to be in the cubicle. Right, got it.

What's particularly muddy right now is
how a rising number of cattle infections are impacting farm workers,
beyond the Texas case that occurred back in March.
Veterinarians and physicians in states with dairy cattle outbreaks told The Associated Press there are multiple reports of farm workers falling sick,
but confirming cases is proving challenging for one key reason:
Many workers are reluctant to get tested.
"You have groups of individuals that…

@cliffwade@allthingstech.social
2024-04-02 11:47:25

My cousin, her fiance, her two girls, my wife and myself will be heading on vacation right after Memorial Day it seems.
Looks like we're going back to Myrtle Beach, SC for about 5 days to enjoy the sun and the beach and some family time together.
We'll be staying in a condo at the Grand Shores resort on the right in this picture.
Excited to get enjoy some time away for a few days.

A photo showing two condo resorts in Myrtle Beach, SC. The one on the right is the Grand Shores Resort that I'll be staying in shortly after Memorial Day.
@mlawton@mstdn.social
2024-03-05 04:43:15

While running, a meteorite passed over me as we were both going SSE. It looked close enough that I listened for the impact, but I’m sure it was much higher than it looked. I’ll take it as an omen. But of what? The Ides of March are approaching…
Anyway my ankle feels like it has recovered from whatever I’d done to it. Still, I kept the run short as a precaution. Glad to be back #Running

Looking up across the adjacent school’s stadium into a dark and star-filled sky. There is the very slightest hint, a mere suggestion, of a cloud in the lower right section, barely perceptible at all. Like vermouth in a good martini.

My running stats along the bottom: 5.0 km, pace of 6:15/km, and time of 31m 32s.
@servelan@newsie.social
2024-03-02 06:08:46

Well...a lot of them are Catholics, and the Catholic Church seems to do a lot of talking about the Almighty, so there's that...
Tuberville: Secure the border because immigrants 'know nothing about God' - Alternet.org
alternet.org/tuberville-266740

@luana@tech.lgbt
2024-03-01 03:02:00

I do wonder what the story will be like…
Like, I’d absolutely love to play with V again, with her and Judy married and all. But that wouldn’t be compatible with all endings. Even if they do let you import your save, I’d say it’d be like way too many variations for them to take into account and explain how V came back.
But also, if it’s a completely different character then it isn’t really a sequel right?

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2024-04-03 17:29:22

The Cowboys aren't hiding their NFL Draft plans anymore amid visits with top prospects yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/th

@kevin@social.losno.co
2024-05-03 00:17:32

Be right back!

@miriamino@queer.party
2024-03-01 15:28:28

i'm knitting this little in between project right now and it was supposed to be a very simple top (and it is theoretically). but the instructions are written so badly that i had to go back several times. takes the fun out of it somehow.
#knitting

@jae@mastodon.me.uk
2024-02-25 13:11:35

Hey you, I see you right now. I know how you feel. Life sucks right now.
Can I encourage you for a second? This moment will get better. In a year or 2 or 3 you will be in the best possible place ever. Better than you ever thought you deserved.
Today I look back at where I was years ago and I didn’t expect to be where I am now. With someone who I never thought I deserved to be with because I doubted my worth.
Don’t give up. Today sucks, but tomorrow will be better. 💜

Jae and James kissing on a beach
@luana@tech.lgbt
2024-03-01 03:02:00

I do wonder what the story will be like…
Like, I’d absolutely love to play with V again, with her and Judy married and all. But that wouldn’t be compatible with all endings. Even if they do let you import your save, I’d say it’d be like way too many variations for them to take into account and explain how V came back.
But also, if it’s a completely different character then it isn’t really a sequel right?

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2024-04-01 03:01:20

Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle John Jenkins gives the best example of the culture shift last season yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/la

@pimterry@toot.cafe
2024-04-29 15:00:59

A user has triggered a minor meltdown by emailing a template GDPR right to be forgotten email to me and the support emails of a long list of other services (Jetbrains, Medium, etc) with all of us on CC.
Deleting their account data is easy. The hard part is managing the now-endless series of autoreplies back & forth between customer support CRMs, reply-all-ing the entire CC list to acknowledge the request, which then updates the pending ticket in every other service, which then auto…

@AnthonyCollette@infosec.exchange
2024-02-25 16:01:50

$125K stolen in 10 minutes
From Kim Komando's newsletter —
"Feb. 16 was a typical Friday night. Barry and I decided to stay home, grill chicken and make a salad for dinner. At about 6:45 p.m., we heard some loud rumbling overhead.
We walked onto the back patio, and two police helicopters were shining lights all over our property. A recording echoed, “Police. You are under arrest. Stay right there and I won’t shoot you.”
As I looked across the fence, a swarm of armed Phoenix SWAT team members with a few dogs were circling our property. One of the guys said, “Yeah, there’s a jammer right here.” He picked it up. I leaned over the patio and asked, “What’s going on?”
The police told me to go inside
When I asked again, a SWAT member said, “Ma’am, it’s a South American gang targeting homes to steal from. The jammer says you might have been next. Do we have permission to enter your property?” I said, “Yes!” and then he asked something like, “If we find anyone, will you pursue charges so we can arrest them?” I replied, “Of course!”
I opened the driveway gates to our property and the guest house while Barry tossed the police keys to open the security gates. People asked me if I was scared. How could I be? There was a team of really professional police officers protecting me from who knows what.
Turns out, when the gang saw we were home, they likely diverted their attention to the house next door. A house four doors down from us wasn’t so lucky.
The homeowner left at 5 p.m. to have dinner and got a notification his security cameras were offline at 5:05 p.m. He thought the internet went down. Nope, the gang broke in and took $25,000 in cash and valuables worth $100,000. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
How are they getting away with this?
The gang places cellular and Wi‑Fi jammers around the homes they’re targeting. This way, security cameras and phones are useless. A Phoenix police officer told me the gang probably noticed nothing was down in our house.
We have our cameras and internet hardwired. Even when they tried to jam our signals, the red lights on the security cameras still showed they were recording everything.
But how frightening is that? Your phone doesn’t work. Your cameras aren’t recording anything. On the upside, the gang doesn’t carry guns. This way, if they get caught, they’ll spend about six months in jail before being extradited to Chile.
Nothing is random
The gang scopes out homes beforehand. They drive the neighborhood and look up houses on real estate sites to get an idea of where the primary bedroom is located. They look for dogs, too.
It’s not just in Phoenix, by the way. This is happening all over the country. A friend was robbed by this gang, and he lives in a guarded, gated community in California. Kudos to the Phoenix Police Department — they arrested three members of the gang who were in my neighborhood that night.
So, what can you do?
☑️​ Wireless cameras go kaput with no signal. Try a wired camera for a backup.
☑️​ A cam with SD card storage will still record if there’s no Wi‑Fi.
☑️​ Put up motion-activated lights; they make it harder for anyone to sneak around.
☑️​ A femtocell (think of it as a mini cell tower) could be enough to keep your connection if thieves use jammers — T‑Mobile or Verizon.
☑️​ Have an Amazon Echo? Away mode lets you control your lights so it looks like someone’s home.
☑️​ Make it look like someone’s watching TV at your house when you’re not there with a Television Simulator.
☑️​ A University of North Carolina survey of over 400 incarcerated burglars found security system signs deter thieves.
☑️​ Check Zillow, Realtor⁠.⁠com and Redfin for photos of your house. The more crooks know about the layout, the better for them. Ask to have them removed.
☑️​ Blur your house from Google Maps and Apple Maps while you’re at it.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2024-03-30 23:44:30

Why the Cowboys should bring back RB Ezekiel Elliott yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/wh

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-02-25 09:59:05

While the far right tries to connect the #farming crisis to #climate mitigation policies, it's the climate that is buying back at farm yields and livelihoods.
‘Our yields are going to be appalling’: one of wettest winters in decades hits England’s farms | Farming | The Guardian

@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2024-03-23 13:01:28

There is a lot of justified concern about the harm generative AI is causing right now.
It's also clear that the big players are pulling the standard move of operating at a significant loss to convince everyone that this tech is essential for the "new normal." But at some point they'll want to stop losing money, and everyone who's become dependent on the tech will be stuck with the bill. (think uber, airbnb, doordash)

@blakes7bot@botsin.space
2024-03-29 18:29:31

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
FORRES: My money's on the woman. Look at that movement. I had a feeling she'd be athletic. Every part a moving part.
GRENLEE: Yes, all right, Forres. Back to work while you can still see.
blake.torpidity.net/s/308/353 📺 B7B8

@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social
2024-03-26 17:31:59

I started my day today w/ good news & #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees ' Cities in Dust--I love that cut, & it always reminds me of Lola's in Houston, circa 1986 or so. They had the best jukebox on the planet. Such great memories.

Old photo of the dive bar Lola's in Houston. There's a beat-up pool table on the left & a giant Medusa head & Beans Barton murals on the wall on the right. The walls are black & covered in graffiti & everything is dirty & grungy & AWESOME.
Old photo of the front door (with doorman & a couple of patrons) dive bar Lola's in Houston. It's in an old clapboard house in the Montrose district (back when it was an art ghetto) that's painted lavender & covered in twinkly light strings.
@Billybobbell@twit.social
2024-02-19 09:22:40

Let's take back the right to travel across countryside which belongs to all of us and not just a privileged minority of absentee landlords!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions

@ferrous@neurodifferent.me
2024-02-17 10:59:07

Script of the video above:
"I think that flow states and similar times of total absorption can do a lot to help non-autistic people to make sense of #autistic experiences.
In the right environment, autistic people might enter this state of intense absorption many times on any given day – but few schools and workplaces are designed to accommodate that! It is also something that many parents and carers fail to understand, so autistic people are often wrenched out of their attention tunnels constantly – an experience that can be intensely unpleasant and disruptive, taking the place of something that could be relaxing and restorative.
Think of a time when you have almost finished a chapter of a riveting book, or a game was nearly over, and suddenly you were pulled away from it and expected to do something else entirely straight away, with no idea if or when you’ll be allowed to get back to what you were lost in. Now, imagine that happening to you several times a day, and everyone around you acts as if this is perfectly normal and no big deal! Nobody seems to understand the time it takes to shift gears, or the feeling of instability that follows from being jerked too quickly off of the track that you were on. Like many of the distressing experiences that autistic people have, this is made far worse by the failure of other people to recognise what’s happening.
#Flow states have been touted as the key to wellbeing for everyone – probably rightly, I think. They come with a sense of purpose and a kind of easy intensity that are both hard to match."
monotropism.org/wellbeing/

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2024-03-22 15:23:54

Trigger crossbar front panel board is back from fab.
It looks like I mostly pulled off the 0.5mm pitch BGA, but the Vbat via looks to be insufficiently tented so I might get it failing open there. Should have moved the via slightly further away from the ball to reduce the risk of such a failure.
Good news is, I don't think this will matter for two reasons.
1) The actual Vbat ball is not the one next to the via, it's the one to the right. The outer-ring ball is an un…

Nominally 250 μm via with an actual measured diameter of 310 μm
Overview of BGA footprint showing fanout
@jake4480@c.im
2024-04-22 16:54:28

Ugh, well I guess the FadBlock extension is no longer working for Firefox, it looks like. Maybe I need a cache clear and restart, but this might be YouTube's new crap they were talking about, right 🙄
EDIT: uBlock Origin, which I had been using BEFORE until YouTube threatened to kill my video access, appears to work again. Switched back to that.

@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2024-04-06 15:40:51

On Thursday afternoon I was interviewed by Shaun (brindle) and Dotty (black/white) so they could check I would be able to serve them to the standard they require when their primary humans are away.
Dotty still a little unsure, though my treat dispensing abilities were acceptable. Shaun was sold after the first ear scritch.
I shall be seeing them again soon!
#Greyhounds

A photo of the head and shoulders of a light brindle greyhound boy facing left to right and looking at the camera
A full length photo of a light brindle greyhound boy facing left to right, looking off to the right head raised. He's standing outside on a paved garden patio and his tail is wagging.
A photo of the head of a black and white cow pattern greyhound girl. She stands pressed against the hip opf a human looking back to the left with her tongue licking her snout.
A photo of the front half of a black and white cow pattern greyhound girl standing left to right and looking up at the photographer. Her snout and body is mostly white, with black areas around both ears and eyes and a large black patch on her right flank.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-04-12 09:47:43

Just got back from seeing an 83-year-old man off in an ambulance after he fell and hit his head when his dog lurched for ours by the seafront. He’s hopefully going to be all right; was conscious and talking and is going in for a brain scan now.
Apart from being a little shaken up, it made me appreciate yet again that we live in a place where you can call an ambulance for someone without causing their financial ruin. (And where folks stop and help – thanks Audrey, Robert).

@ainmosni@berlin.social
2024-02-15 16:51:23

Doorbell just rang, I open up and there's this older dude standing there. He blurts out in very broken German: "There used to be a massage salon here, I'm in the right place right?"
It takes me a bit to understand him, but when I do, I laughingly say "what? massage here?" and he laughs back and leaves.
I'm so confused, I've lived here since pre-plague...

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2024-03-20 21:26:34

From the article:
“(Spoilers for Alien and Aliens below.)”
😂 universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquan

Season 1 Nbc GIF by The Good Place
Showing Jason(a masc presenting person with light brown skin, dark brown shortcut hair, wearing a orange velvet tracksuit and white T-shirt) making gesture with his right hand
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2024-03-06 20:42:01

Reprinted my Deadpool fridge magnet. The original model has holes in the back where one can glue in the magnets. I only got rather strong neodymium magnets which don't stick very long to the glue I have available.
What I did now was to place a thin box in #PrusaSlicer right at the holes on the bed. Just two or three layers of filament. Then added a pause (filament change) at t…

Deadpool figurine fridge magnet on the print bed of a 3D printer. The model has just a few layers already printed and two holes can be seen inside the model. They are covered with a few strands of filament already. Covering silver neodymium magnets which have been placed inside the holes.
3D printed Deadpool fridge magnet in black filament. Attached to a white surface.
Deadpool figurine fridge magnet on the print bed of a 3D printer. The model has just a few layers already printed and two holes can be seen inside the model. They contain a silver round neodymium magnet which will be locked inside the model after the print is finished.
The plain back of a black 3D printed Deadpool figurine fridge magnet. In the middle a square can be seen in the pattern of the filament layer.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2024-03-12 23:42:14

Stumbled, sick, into the post office as soon as it opened this morning to send away another package to the Spanish honorary consul in Vancouver. I honestly don't know if it's the right stuff or if it'll be rejected. And even if it is right, I don't know that there are enough days left in the month for them to send it back to me and then me send it on to Toronto in time for them to accept us for an appointment in Vancouver.
*sigh*

@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange
2024-03-30 21:58:50

My current take on the #xz situation, not having read the actual source backdoor commits yet (thanks a lot #Github for hiding the evidence at this point...) besides reading what others have written about it (cf. #rustlang for such central library dependencies would maybe (really big maybe) have made it a bit harder to push a backdoor like this because - if and only if the safety features are used idiomatically in an open source project - reasonably looking code is (a bit?) more limited in the sneaky behavior it could include. We should still very much use those languages over C/C for infrastructure code because the much larger class of unintentional bugs is significantly mitigated, but I believe (without data to back it up) that even such "bugdoor" type changes will be harder to execute. However, given the sophistication in this case, it may not have helped at all. The attacker(s) have shown to be clever enough.
6. Sandboxing library code may have helped - as the attacker(s) explicitly disabled e.g. landlock, that might already have had some impact. We should create better tooling to make it much easier to link to infrastructure libraries in a sandboxed way (although that will have performance implications in many cases).
7. Automatic reproducible builds verification would have mitigated this particular vector of backdoor distribution, and the Debian team seems to be using the reproducibility advances of the last decade to verify/rebuild the build servers. We should build library and infrastructure code in a fully reproducible manner *and* automatically verify it, e.g. with added transparency logs for both source and binary artefacts. In general, it does however not prevent this kind of supply chain attack that directly targets source code at the "leaf" projects in Git commits.
8. Verifying the real-life identity of contributors to open source projects is hard and a difficult trade-off. Something similar to the #Debian #OpenPGP #web-of-trust would potentially have mitigated this style of attack somewhat, but with a different trade-off. We might have to think much harder about trust in individual accounts, and for some projects requiring a link to a real-world country-issued ID document may be the right balance (for others it wouldn't work). That is neither an easy nor a quick path, though. Also note that sophisticated nation state attackers will probably not have a problem procuring "good" fake IDs. It might still raise the bar, though.
9. What happened here seems clearly criminal - at least under my IANAL naive understanding of EU criminal law. There was clear intent to cause harm, and that makes the specific method less important. The legal system should also be able to help in mitigating supply chain attacks; not in preventing them, but in making them more costly if attackers can be tracked down (this is difficult in itself, see point 8) and face risk of punishment after the fact.
H/T @… @… @… @… @…

@flglchicago@mas.to
2024-04-19 16:58:41

In a tech world of amateurish charlatans operating with cynical bad intent, the founder and team at Post.news stood out. Don't like rooting for failure, but this disingenuous enterprise was incredibly dangerous and destructive to the news industry, and with that ridiculous business model it was doomed from the beginning. Called this shot right from the start and am celebrating the implosion. Guess it's back to traffic maps for Noam.

@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza
2024-03-20 14:24:52

Stoked for the #Treefort2024 Music Fest, Boise's signature event. Inasmuch as my neurology had decided to go on a side quest four years back, I've been unable to volunteer, hence #Hackfort (which is my jam). I'll be posting mostly on my ambulatory account and posting some of…

Anime courtesy OpenArt.AI. A female cyborg (à la Ghost in the Shell) with a teal bob cut raises her right arm and uses her purple power. She has a very steady look –putting the smack-down on somebody. She is wearing body armor which is glowing in sections. The background is a very dense  shifting cyberpunk art deco cityscape.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2024-02-27 01:31:52

Raiders’ Feelings On Free Agent RB Josh Jacobs Revealed yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/ra

@StephenRees@mas.to
2024-04-19 16:37:05

From The Tyee
How an Ambitious Plan for Metrotown Is Changing the Heart of Burnaby
More than a facelift, a 30-year plan for BC’s largest mall is remaking a regional hub.
I used to work there when Translink had its headquarters in one of the towers and was close to the GVRD offices - which is what they had once been. Since then I have had little need or desire to go back there but this seems to be on the right track.

@wmclark@publishing.social
2024-02-06 17:29:34

How to Tell If a Prospective Workplace Is Toxic
hbr.org/2024/01/how-to-tell-if

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2024-04-06 16:36:16

I wanna take a nap
and I don't know why
I'm pretty sure I got
enough sleep last night
But my brain's feeling fuzzy
I've gotten of track
I'm gonna take a nap
and be right back 💤

@kevin@social.losno.co
2024-02-24 02:37:37

The experiment is a success. After these messages, we'll be right back 🎵

@nuthatch@infosec.exchange
2024-03-17 05:14:26

One of my physical therapists told me, “life is pain,” and at a certain level of (running) performance you’re not going to be entirely free of aches and pains. It’s part of the stress and rebuilding cycle that makes you stronger. If you avoid any and all pain you won’t grow.
Obviously there’s the “stop right now, you’re injured” pain! And when starting out everything feels like you’re dying. But with time and experience you learn what’s manageably uncomfortable and what’s actually time to back off and preserve yourself.

@jimcarroll@futurist.info
2024-04-10 11:11:44

"It's the reality that matters (not the hype!)" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I have a good friend from my ski club who has been reading my Daily Inspiration post (what you are reading right now) for many, many years. He told me a few months back that he always finds them to be interesting and helpful - but also observed that sometimes they get a little promotional.
I suppose so.
But often, I find that I'm sharing in these posts some motivational insight that com…

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-02-08 16:51:44

We can't have warm houses. It would hurt the debt:GDP ratio.
Oh, so that's all right then.
Starmer to scale back home insulation scheme as part of green policy U-turn | Labour | The Guardian

In 14 days almost every abortion in Arizona will be a crime, and nearly every clinic will close its doors. For all intents and purposes, it’s 1864 again for pregnant people in Arizona.
The decision should serve as a warning for the rest of the country, in light of ongoing efforts to revive the Comstock Act:
In the hands of a far-right court, a dead, openly misogynistic, wildly unpopular abortion ban can spring back to life with a vengeance.
This zombie law was passed in 1864…

@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2024-03-06 20:42:01

Reprinted my Deadpool fridge magnet. The original model has holes in the back where one can glue in the magnets. I only got rather strong neodymium magnets which don't stick very long to the glue I have available.
What I did now was to place a thin box in #PrusaSlicer right at the holes on the bed. Just two or three layers of filament. Then added a pause (filament change) at t…

Deadpool figurine fridge magnet on the print bed of a 3D printer. The model has just a few layers already printed and two holes can be seen inside the model. They are covered with a few strands of filament already. Covering silver neodymium magnets which have been placed inside the holes.
3D printed Deadpool fridge magnet in black filament. Attached to a white surface.
Deadpool figurine fridge magnet on the print bed of a 3D printer. The model has just a few layers already printed and two holes can be seen inside the model. They contain a silver round neodymium magnet which will be locked inside the model after the print is finished.
The plain back of a black 3D printed Deadpool figurine fridge magnet. In the middle a square can be seen in the pattern of the filament layer.
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.social
2024-04-08 11:50:09

Saturday night at #PlaceHolderClub was a heckin blast. Had so much fun! The sets were absolute bangers.
#VR #VRChat

3rd person picture of PlaceHolder Club. The dance floor can be seen from the side of the stage. I'm dancing to the right of the picture, in front of the stage, with rainbow colors on me. About 30 avatars are visible, a few more are culled in the background. There were about 60 people in that moment.
3rd person picture of PlaceHolder club. This time from the opposite side of the dance floor. I'm in the middle glowing red.
Another 3rd person picture fro, behind the stage, showing the DJ (TafelpootVR) on it. I'm in the middle of the crowd, raising my hands with a happy expression and glowing red.
Another 3rd person picture of PHC. The dance floor and the stage with DJ Squidd on it can be seen. Some people dancing on the dance floor. I'm on the back, dancing and glowing orange with a happy expression.
@kevin@social.losno.co
2024-02-24 02:37:37

The experiment is a success. After these messages, we'll be right back 🎵

@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange
2024-03-30 21:58:50

My current take on the #xz situation, not having read the actual source backdoor commits yet (thanks a lot #Github for hiding the evidence at this point...) besides reading what others have written about it (cf. #rustlang for such central library dependencies would maybe (really big maybe) have made it a bit harder to push a backdoor like this because - if and only if the safety features are used idiomatically in an open source project - reasonably looking code is (a bit?) more limited in the sneaky behavior it could include. We should still very much use those languages over C/C for infrastructure code because the much larger class of unintentional bugs is significantly mitigated, but I believe (without data to back it up) that even such "bugdoor" type changes will be harder to execute. However, given the sophistication in this case, it may not have helped at all. The attacker(s) have shown to be clever enough.
6. Sandboxing library code may have helped - as the attacker(s) explicitly disabled e.g. landlock, that might already have had some impact. We should create better tooling to make it much easier to link to infrastructure libraries in a sandboxed way (although that will have performance implications in many cases).
7. Automatic reproducible builds verification would have mitigated this particular vector of backdoor distribution, and the Debian team seems to be using the reproducibility advances of the last decade to verify/rebuild the build servers. We should build library and infrastructure code in a fully reproducible manner *and* automatically verify it, e.g. with added transparency logs for both source and binary artefacts. In general, it does however not prevent this kind of supply chain attack that directly targets source code at the "leaf" projects in Git commits.
8. Verifying the real-life identity of contributors to open source projects is hard and a difficult trade-off. Something similar to the #Debian #OpenPGP #web-of-trust would potentially have mitigated this style of attack somewhat, but with a different trade-off. We might have to think much harder about trust in individual accounts, and for some projects requiring a link to a real-world country-issued ID document may be the right balance (for others it wouldn't work). That is neither an easy nor a quick path, though. Also note that sophisticated nation state attackers will probably not have a problem procuring "good" fake IDs. It might still raise the bar, though.
9. What happened here seems clearly criminal - at least under my IANAL naive understanding of EU criminal law. There was clear intent to cause harm, and that makes the specific method less important. The legal system should also be able to help in mitigating supply chain attacks; not in preventing them, but in making them more costly if attackers can be tracked down (this is difficult in itself, see point 8) and face risk of punishment after the fact.
H/T @… @… @… @… @…

@jkmartindale@mastodon.social
2024-04-12 07:09:36

Google shutting down the Google One VPN is how I discovered Google has two other VPNs right now (Google Fi and Pixel) 9to5google.com/2024/04/11/goog

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-02-08 16:51:44

We can't have warm houses. It would hurt the debt:GDP ratio.
Oh, so that's all right then.
Starmer to scale back home insulation scheme as part of green policy U-turn | Labour | The Guardian

@wmclark@publishing.social
2024-02-06 17:29:34

How to Tell If a Prospective Workplace Is Toxic
hbr.org/2024/01/how-to-tell-if

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2024-03-24 15:24:22

Cowboys' 2024 draft strategy has changed, and not for the better yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/co

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2024-04-14 17:47:24

Ok so I got my new saddlebags for the Harley, I said “fuck it” and got basically the same Viking bags that I got back in 2016 but without studding (didn’t have them in stock) so that at least I’ll have some saddlebags again.
HOWever, I also got the “quick release” brackets, so I’ll be able to remove them when I want.
In theory.
So either I mislaid the right bolts or they sent me bolts that are too long.
Let the fun begin!

@beaware@social.beaware.live
2024-02-24 02:11:28

When the joint hits just right...
#AIart #MidJourneyArt #MidjourneyAI #ArtificialIntelligence

An individual who appears to be in a state of deep relaxation or asleep, evoking a sense of being heavily under the influence, possibly due to the blunt that they are holding. They are slouched on a leather couch, sporting a 90s-inspired outfit with a colorful patterned jacket and a bandana headband, eyes closed and mouth open slightly, which suggests that they have dozed off. Their loose jeans and sneakers add to the laid-back vibe. The setting includes a retro television in the background, co…
@lofenyy@social.linux.pizza
2024-02-10 01:38:58
Content warning: upsetting Nazi BS

I don't know what to say. Youtube is trying really hard to sell me on American far-right propaganda. I assume that if it's pushing this garbage on me, it's pushing this on everybody.
When the media is out to get you, those who consume this crap musn't be safe. If the people who watch Youtube aren't safe, who are??
Yes, I gave in. I had a New Year's resolution to quit Youtube. This is what I got when I came back.
How long until I see videos that den…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2024-02-15 12:30:35

It feels like #enshittification is an inevitable result of browsers gaining popularity.
Back in the old days, when I was still doing some WebDev, #Microsoft had a monopoly with its #InternetExplorer. It really sucked because they didn't care about web standards. For me, it meant testing my website under #Mozilla, #Opera (back when it used the Presto engine) and then adding awful hacks to make it work under IE (Safari was practically nonexistent in Poland). But the remaining browsers had their small foothold.
Then came #Google with its #Chrome, and we were really enthusiastic about it. Little did I know what was to come later. After all, it was a reasonably portable browser, with an open source engine, that followed standards. On top of that, it had a good chance of ending Microsoft's monopoly — and that was great news, because it meant that one day we wouldn't have to worry about compatibility with IE.
So there came a time when Chrome took over a major share of the browser market. Microsoft replaced IE with Edge. Eventually all the main browsers were using WebKit, Blink or a related engine which made life easier for WebDevs. Mozilla's small market share diminished even further.
Then things went to shit. Google showed its true colors, and abused its monopolist position in every possible way. Standards compliance ended up meaning very little, when the monopolist controls the standards. Being open source helps but there's only as much that volunteers can do when dealing with a corporate giant.
One positive aspect of this is that as GAFAM keeps shooting at their feet, Firefox started gaining popularity again. And it's a much better browser than it used to be back in the day. And what happens next?
Of course, as soon as Mozilla notices they're gaining market share, they're starting their own enshittification. Instead of embracing the users who appreciate what Firefox is right now, they are being greedy and trying to lure more people with buzzwords. This isn't going to end well.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2024-04-16 05:07:20

Antonio Pierce's first speech of the year to Raiders players at offseason workouts is as epic as it gets yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/an

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2024-04-11 19:02:36

Legendary QB Not Opposed to NFL Return; Mentions Raiders as Possibility heavy.com/sports/las-vegas-rai]

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2024-04-11 20:11:56

Tom Brady 'not opposed' to NFL return yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/to

@beaware@social.beaware.live
2024-04-09 12:35:10

Not gonna lie, I kinda feel bad for everyone working at AEW right now.
It must be truly maddening to have to pretend to respect someone with no maturity whatsoever.
Imagine making your company look more like a joke than LOLTNA....and don't even get me started on TNA....🤦‍♂️
WWE is the only company moving forward instead of back, it seems, with the exception of The Rock, but at least he's more entertaining than Tony Khan's Twitter account.
#ProWrestling #ProfessionalWrestling #AEW #TNA #WWE