@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-11-18 17:13:18
National cyber strategy will include focus on ‘shaping adversary behavior,’ White House official says https://therecord.media/national-cyber-strategy-cairncross-shaping-enemy-behavior
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-11-17 03:00:01
I don't like the Dutchman. He's a crocodile. He's sneaky. I don't trust him.
-- Jack "Legs" Diamond, just before a peace conference
with Dutch Schultz.
I don't trust Legs. He's nuts. He gets excited and starts pulling a
trigger like another guy wipes his nose.
-- Dutch Schultz, just before a peace conference with
"Legs" Diamond.
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-01-15 23:40:28
Via: #StarTrek 60th anniversary bumper video that will play before every new episode of the fran…
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2025-12-15 20:16:03
Managed to put the new Pi music player together before leaving work today. Got it set up with remote control and a quick test of playback. Next stop: Speaker mounting and figuring out if I should bet on physical security through obscurity by making it not easily visible or using a moderately long RCA cable. What’s a reasonable cable length with decent quality cables?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 02:13:36
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-02 15:21:45
2025 NFL Trade Deadline Tracker: Live updates and analysis as Eagles bolster secondary
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-2025-trade-deadline-tracker/
@robpike@hachyderm.io2026-01-07 11:38:52
Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?
@poppastring@dotnet.social2025-12-23 02:34:48
DDoS incident disrupts France’s postal and banking services ahead of Christmas https://therecord.media/la-poste-france-ddos-disruption-days-before-christmas
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-11-12 18:19:20
‘Advanced’ hacker seen exploiting Cisco, Citrix zero-days https://therecord.media/advanced-hacker-exploiting-cisco-citrix-zero-days-amazon