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LinuxAndYarn

@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social

🐧Linux sysadmin, infosec aficionado, occasional writer, genx emo kid, 🏳️‍🌈️old lesbian marrried to https://journa.host/@Chrisblue, 🏳️‍⚧️️24 years post, ⚾️Phillies phan phorever, ⚽ever hopeful WNBA & NWSL will give us a franchise. she/her/yo 💙️💛️ Black and trans lives matter. Full stop.

I am avoiding birdsite trauma and will reject follow requests from people who have no posts. Don't take it personally.

infosec on-topic account: https://infosec.exchange/@linuxandyarn

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emilygorcenski, to random

In german we don't say "don't forget to wear sunscreen" we say "don't forget to cream in"

LinuxAndYarn,
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@emilygorcenski Sounds like a NSFW donut shop.

mordremoth, to random

Periodic reminder that hate, greed, violence, and bigotry are not "human nature."

They are conditioned behaviors that are amplified by kyriarchy.

Oppression is not a given, and it is not inevitable. Stop giving oppressors a free pass for their choices.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@mordremoth

Wow. Kyriarchy was coined thirty years ago by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and only just now entered my lexicon (because I haven't paid attention to Catholic discourse in close to forty). Thank you for catching me up.

"interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single individual might be oppressed in some relationships and privileged in others"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy

ubiquity75, to random

During the height of COVID, rental assistance, job assistance, food assistance and more were given to those in need. Student loan payments were paused. The US did not collapse due to these policies. In fact, consumer spending went up.

So, given that these things are possible and even economically favorable, one can only conclude that ending them benefits some small but powerful portion of the populace who wants to keep the rest of us under control and in relative, if not full-on, poverty.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@ubiquity75 And my student loan interest rate is higher than the one I had on my car.

mekkaokereke, to random
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There's a bad article that says that companies shouldn't hire DEI consultants, that they should give the money to the poor instead. I won't link to the article, because it's exactly what one would expect, and they don't deserve the hate-clicks.

There's massive blowback against DEI consultants getting paid, because many of the most effective ones happen to be some intersection of Black, women, LGBTQIA.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@mekkaokereke
Give money to the poor! (Unless it means giving them a job with a decent paycheck, especially as a DEI consultant.)

konstantin, to random

Every so often I start typing a ranty toot and by the time I get to 2000 characters I realize I've vented everything there is to vent and probably nobody want's to read it anyway. It's very therapeutic 😁.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@konstantin Sounds like another good use of large character counts.

LinuxAndYarn, to random
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There's a frightening overlap between the "ChatGPT is awesome" crowd and the "Do your own research" crowd.

augieray, to random
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“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

  • Wanda Sykes
LinuxAndYarn,
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@augieray I'm watching the special now, and shrieked so hard laughing that the cats ran away.

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wordshaper, to random
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Saw this the other day and honestly it makes me really hopeful for the long term treatment and possibly prevention in MS, at least in conjunction with mRNA vaccines. Probably other virus-triggered autoimmune diseases too.

The finding here is that parts of the Epstein-Barr virus are reasonably close in sequence and shape to proteins in the myelin sheathing around nerves. For at least some people, when they get EBV their immune system decides those bits of the virus are what identifies it, generates antibodies, and then whoops eats your nerves while it's at it. And since it never fully clears out your nerves then your immune system keeps on producing those antibodies.

https://gizmodo.com/how-epstein-barr-virus-causes-multiple-sclerosis-1850445457

LinuxAndYarn,
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@wordshaper Was going to forward a link and didn't realize Gizmodo changes the URL in the location bar to the next article when you get done reading the one you entered on. :(

LinuxAndYarn, to random
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Meditation app Calm concentrates on regional markets, targets New England with CalmChowder

konstantin, to random

I just read about the backstory for the .zip and .mov TLDs and Google's thinking seems totally orthogonal to reality:

Google marketers say the aim is to designate “tying things together or moving really fast” and “moving pictures and whatever moves you,”

.mov is a movie, and .zip is an archive, and no amount of Google marketing can change that. Moreover, yes, black holing these domains sounds like a good idea.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/

LinuxAndYarn,
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@konstantin In line at the bank cashing their checks.

arstechnica, to random
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AI technology “can go quite wrong,” OpenAI CEO tells Senate

Advanced AI systems should require government licenses, GPT-4 maker's CEO says.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/ai-technology-can-go-quite-wrong-openai-ceo-tells-senate/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

LinuxAndYarn,
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@arstechnica

"Now that we are a dominant player in the marketplace, we want you to shut and lock the doors behind us."

Any regulatory effort must also include @timnitGebru becoming head of the FCC.

LinuxAndYarn, to internet
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Oh hai! just sent me a notice saying that a racist tweet I reported on September 30 just got their account suspended. Such efficiency!

mattblaze, to photography
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Former Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia.

Image made during the liminal period between the Inquirer slipping out and the Philly police colonizing it as their headquarters. Purpose-built office buildings are like the shells of hermit crabs, but for organizations.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520

LinuxAndYarn,
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@mattblaze @annaleen

12 years ago the Inquirer downsized their offices into one floor of an old department store in order to sell the beautiful building they'd been in for ~90 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquirer_Building

The police were supposed to move into an old insurance company headquarters but the union decided they didn't want their members parking in a neighborhood that was extra-heavily policed, and pressured the department to back out of the deal. So then the Inky building became a possibility.

TexasObserver, to politics
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From last week: One man contributed almost $800k towards anti-trans politicians in and used his wealth to threaten a children's hospital over their -affirming care clinic:
https://www.texasobserver.org/monty-bennett-acpeds-genecis-transphobia-sb14/

LinuxAndYarn,
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@TexasObserver Wow, this same guy siphoned up nearly $70 million in PPP loans for his publicly-traded hotel company while contributing to Donald Trump's campaigns. (And he has franchises with a lot of the big chains, so it might be hard to know if you're booking in one of his properties.) He is a whole bag of crunchy dicklets.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2020/07/05/villain-or-victim-how-dallas-hotelier-monty-bennett-became-ppps-face-of-corporate-greed/

titania2468, to random

When you've just been stabbed but at least your robe is on fleek

LinuxAndYarn,
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@titania2468 Slayed all day.

helenczerski, to climate
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I keep thinking back to this Microlino at Fully Charged Live. Reusable water bottles became acceptable, being vegan is now cool, and so is wearing vintage clothes. So who is going to step up to the critical task of making small cars fashionable? The trend towards giant SUVs is ludicrous, incredibly wasteful and dangerous, and bad for our cities. If you must use a car, it should be as small as possible. Where are the micro-car visionaries/influencers? WE NEED YOU.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@helenczerski I can't see having a m8crocar over a bicycle except in the coldest, wettest climates. My Honda Fit is the perfect size for me, my wife, her walker, and whatever has to come back from the grocery store.

LinuxAndYarn, to linux
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users have a reputation of being unwilling to compromise, and yet the fact we use gimp is evidence we are.

LinuxAndYarn, to accessibility
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Websites' interactive and surveillance features (including paywalls) are too often incompatible with . When you read an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education in Lynx, you get a javascript failure notice in the middle of it.

LinuxAndYarn, to Writers
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The didn't decide and would end early with 3-4 episode miniature final seasons. and did.

The writers didn't cancel 's release and on the ; and remove archives from . 's new owner did.

The studios are the reason and season 3 will be late if the strike doesn't end soon, not the .

If you're a , support the . Support the writers.

mattblaze, to random
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Total aside. I love that half the news stories about Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the federal investigation of Trump, use this photo of him. (Taken of him in his official garb at his day job prosecuting war crimes in The Hague.)

He looks FREAKING TERRIFYING. If he were coming after me, I’d run.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@mattblaze He looks like a guy who could arrest Torquemada.

futurebird, to random
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Something came in the mail today. I can only draw one conclusion.

it is very sharp
pica

LinuxAndYarn,
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@futurebird Someone's out to fight Despereaux on his own terms.

codinghorror, to random

lol Utahns

LinuxAndYarn,
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@codinghorror The only map I've ever seen where Utah was blue.

april, to random
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big middle finger to the universe, but especially to the colleague who made my bones hurt by pointing out that the z in tar -xvzf hasn’t been needed since version tar 1.15, released in 2004.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@april @afoozle which means -J is still needed, which means I'll keep using all the type flags. Doing so hasn't given me carpal tunnel yet.

futurebird, to random
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There are many different sides to the "Dave Debate"

Should people named Dave exist? Should they have rights? Are they people at all?

I'm not anti-Dave, in fact I am a great supporter of Daves. I just think we need to ask some questions. But if you ask these questions people get so mad.

Shouldn't we at least have a sober reasonable discussion? What's wrong with that?

LinuxAndYarn,
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@futurebird
Thirty Helens agree, there are just too many Daves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvzEqsZIGo

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