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foxxtrot

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Tabletop, Tech, and Spirits

Work: Identity and Privacy @ Google
Play: Board Games and TTRPGs

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sil, to random
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can people please, for the love of Mike, just stop publishing stuff only in stupid fixed width PDFs that you can't read on your phone?

foxxtrot,
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@stshank @sil Plain text email still is superior to HTML for all purposes except Marketing, and I'm all for less Marketing in my email.

Digital Publishers do need to embrace EPUB though.

lauren, to random
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BREAKING: House ethics committee chairman will reportedly move to expel Santos after release of devastating ethics report. Also new this morning, Santos claims he will not seek reelection.

foxxtrot,
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@lauren But because it's Santos saying it, I'm not sure I believe he's not running.

seldo, to random
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I need America to understand that making chocolate darker does not make it better.

foxxtrot,
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@seldo What if we make our milk chocolate inexplicably sour?

codinghorror, to random

Rip landlines https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/2072/landline-phones-in-the-united-states/

foxxtrot,
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@codinghorror Even the people I know who technically have Landlines, are using VoIP from their Cable company instead of actual POTS.

codinghorror, to random

I cannot recommend the pebble ice machine highly enough. This thing has changed my life. I am a whole new person with incredibly refreshing, ice cold drinks at any time I want. 😃 Go ahead. Treat yo' self. (And yes you want the sidecar water add-on) https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-XPIO13SCSS-Stainless-Nugget/dp/B0964BF4N7/

foxxtrot,
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@codinghorror When designing our new kitchen, my wife insisted on a standalone ice maker, so we can use like 15 pounds of ice a day without running out.

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

I don’t understand how Sam is in jail right now I thought Bitcoin fixes governments having guns

foxxtrot,
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@mxtthxw @SwiftOnSecurity Was he? He earned his "legitimacy" in the industry by arbitraging Bitcoin price differentials with Japan.

parismarx, to random
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should’ve happened four years ago and you know who should’ve been given the elizabeth holmes and sam bankman-fried treatment

foxxtrot,
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@parismarx Still can't believe a16z gave him money for a new Real Estate scam.

parismarx, to Starlink
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In this week’s Disconnect Roundup: Will Elon Musk’s pledge to give aid organizations in Gaza access to Starlink make any difference?

Plus, recommended reads, labor updates, and other tech news you might have missed from the past week.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/roundup-starlink-for-gaza

foxxtrot,
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@parismarx After he tried extorting Ukraine for continued access to Starlink, I hope no one falls for this.

evacide, to random
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It is tempting to dismiss that manifesto as incoherent and self-serving, but it is important to remember that this it is also a list of beliefs the founders of tech companies will need to recite if they want investment money from that guy and his friends.

foxxtrot,
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@evacide I know Marc isn't stupid, but I can't tell how willful his ignorance is.

People aren't afraid of technology, they're afraid of power, and that technology has always been wielded by the powerful to further secure their power.

Silicon Valley brought power to some people who didn't have it previously, but they wield it in the same ways; entrenching their own control and wealth while offering back the bare minimum they're forced to to those whom they took from to secure their power.

cstross, to random
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As someone on Bluesky noted, "Mona Lisa but with bigger titties" is the reductio ad absudam of AI "art" generators.

foxxtrot,
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@luis_in_brief @cstross FWIW, the Mona Lisa wasn't really that famous a painting before the Media, in real time, sensationalized the story of three guys randomly stealing it in 1911.

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/30/138800110/the-theft-that-made-the-mona-lisa-a-masterpiece

anildash, to random
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The latest step in the “VC Qanon” radicalization process, for those who haven’t been following along, is adding their allegiance to the extremist “e/acc” religion to their names on social media, just as they did with “.ETH” when that was in vogue — except this one’s an explicitly eugenicist agenda.

foxxtrot,
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@anildash You know a "movement" like this is a mess when the Effective Altruists over at LessWrong have a blog post where they basically just say "we have no idea what the fuck these e/acc people are talking about."

evacide, to random
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I appreciate that infosec Twitter moved pretty effectively over to Mastodon, but woo boy is this not the place to go when I want useful updates when a war breaks out.

foxxtrot,
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@orsinov @evacide A huge number of Journalists were on Twitter and stories broke there all the time.

It was an especially good place to find local journalism that probably wasn't going to get picked up in Western (or at least American) media.

seldo, to random
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Ticket prices to an NFL game rose 43% overnight after Taylor Swift fans figured out she was going to be there. She's not singing or anything, she's just in the stands. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/10/01/taylor-swift-kelce-chiefs-jets/

foxxtrot,
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@seldo I will never really understand fandom.

seldo, to random
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I need journalists to stop trying to interview glorified Markov chains and then reporting the experience.

foxxtrot,
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@seldo Laurie, that is a really rude thing to say about Tech CEOs.

briankrebs, to random

From the "I'd like to go back to bed now please" dept:

An arrest on gun possession charges in Queens, New York, in November 2021 has led the Federal Bureau of Investigation to a pedophilic, Satanist extortion cult that has victimized dozens if not hundreds of minors, according to law enforcement documents, court records and sources with knowledge of the investigation.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/28/new-york-satanic-cult-764-fbi

foxxtrot,
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@briankrebs I mean, I'm extremely glad these people have been stopped, but I also extremely don't need an actual Cult of Satanist Pedophiles to be a real thing that Alex Jones is definitely going to be talking about for the next several years now, given that his previously fictional boogeyman is now real.

RickiTarr, to random
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I Thought It Was About Time For Another Movie Question!

What is a movie that is great, but you only need to watch it once?

foxxtrot,
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@RickiTarr The original Korean version of Old Boy.

It is a deeply intense movie, incredible cinematography, and I suspect it had a lot to say about Korean culture, though I wasn't as up on Korean media when I watched it, and I really have no desire to watch it again (the denouement is really, really rough), so I don't know if I'll ever fully appreciate everything it was doing.

gamingonlinux, to random
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Microsoft: we will only use what you set when we’re forced legally 🤣🤡

Their desperation to get you to use Edge however they can is just funny.

foxxtrot,
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@gamingonlinux And the focus on the EEA is just another way the British are being screwed over by Brexit.

evacide, to random
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These absurd "abortion trafficking" laws are not meant to be 100% enforceable. They are meant to create fear and confusion around aiding abortion-seekers, leaving them isolated and alone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/

foxxtrot,
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@evacide I suspect they're also intended to make people of color nervous, since they're always subject to deeper scrutiny by the sorts of Whites who go in for this shit.

briannawu, to random
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Good morning to NO ONE except MY GODDAMNED MAN Joseph Robinette Biden who successfully took on the thieves at big pharma and FORCED THEM to negotiate the prices of 10 drugs through Medicare.

The media doesn’t care but I do. You’re like Robocop but much slower.

foxxtrot,
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@briannawu I don't think I'll ever not be frustrated that Joe was the nominee in 2020, but I'll be damned if the man hasn't managed to deliver in ways I didn't think he could.

anildash, to random
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It’s fucking wild how much more attention a person of South Asian descent gets in politics for being part of the tiny anti-Black group that embraces Republican fascism instead of, say, being the actual serving Vice President of the United States. (Or any of the millions of others who don’t buy into the farce of respectability and the model minority myth.) For anyone asking, I’m the official spokesperson for South Asian people in America, and we don’t fuck with Vivek or “Nikki”.

foxxtrot,
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@anildash Having moved to Louisiana when "Bobby" Jindal was still Governor, this is just the same thing Louisiana saw with him, just turned up further as the general racialized hate has become more acceptable in the GOP.

White Supremacists love Brown People who agree with them and will use them to 'demonstrate' how right their views are because look, even this Brown Person agrees.

They don't actually love this person, of course, and will absolutely eventually throw them into the grinder.

seldo, to random
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What I don't understand is why Putin even bothers with assassinations when he could have just executed this guy and everyone knows he did it anyway, it's not like he had plausible deniability.

foxxtrot,
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@seldo He probably enjoys people living in the uncertainty of when he's going to have them killed.

cstross, to random
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PSA for American SFF fans wondering what the fuss is about over The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction publishing a story by David A. Riley just because he's a member of an obscure British political group called the National Front:

The NF in the 1970s was the British Nazi Party. This guy was a parliamentary candidate for the NF. Your reaction to F&SF's decision should be the same as if they platformed the leaders of Atomwaffen or the Proud Boys.

That is all.

https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2023/08/23/the-magazine-of-fsf-in-the-news-again-for-bad-reasons/

foxxtrot,
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@aral @TomSwirly @johnbierce @cstross The EU's "Right to be Forgotten" could absolutely be used to remove this sort of thing from Search Engines, even without the LLM poisoning that is increasingly prevalent.

https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en

foxxtrot,
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@aral @TomSwirly @johnbierce @cstross Not saying it isn't. My work deals primarily with Privacy and Security and enabling users to protect their data from Google. The GDPR, in particular, is generally good law.

The Right to be Forgotten is a much more complex issue, especially to the extent to which it allows some people to suppress information about themselves that may be in the Public Interest.

foxxtrot,
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@aral @TomSwirly @johnbierce @cstross That is the rub. If it's viewed as more expensive to defend the public interest than to comply with whatever takedown, companies will choose compliance almost all the time.

And people with resources will get more compliance because they can make more trouble than normal people.

molly0xfff, to journalism
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can someone rescue politico? they seem to be trapped in 2021

foxxtrot,
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@molly0xfff 2021 or 1991?

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