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railmeat

@railmeat@fosstodon.org

Software Epistemologist, aspiring star traveler, perpetual beginner. Wallowing in accidental complexity. Stumbling towards recovery. Twitter says I am a midwit.

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fivetonsflax, to random

I’m descended from Holocaust survivors. I love my people and my heritage. I will not be intimidated out of naming and criticizing genocide in our time.

All people of good conscience are obligated to oppose Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people.

railmeat,
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@fivetonsflax
How do you define genocide?

I don’t ask that to excuse or obscure what Israel is doing in Gaza.

bagder, to random
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The updated 100 operating systems has run on. (Dropped two, added two)

railmeat,
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@bagder
Running on 100 OSs is very cool. However I wonder how much extra time it takes to keep curl running on so many OSs and if it is worthwhile?

briankrebs, to random

One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.

Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866

railmeat,
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@wjmaggos what decentralized equivalent to Signal?

@briankrebs @signalapp

thomasfuchs, to random
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The Electoral College is the biggest gerrymander of them all

railmeat,
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@thomasfuchs
Fixing the electoral college would go a long way towards making America a better democracy and improving our country.

There is little hope of any change soon.

aral, to Israel
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Israel-Hamas war: Israel says Gaza ‘cut in two’, as Jordan airdrops medical supplies to hospital

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2023/11/06/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-latest-news/

railmeat,
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@aral
That’s a strange article. Jordan air dropping anything into Gaza seems very unlikely.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Niche gripe: pop sci books that cite a psych study and say something like "people who [x] are more likely to [y]" without mentioning the effect size, and then treat the result as if it's a statement about humanity. Like, in science a 3% increase is HUGE, but probably doesn't mean a lot about how to think about humans at large.

railmeat,
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@ZachWeinersmith
Not so niche.

StillIRise1963, to random
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In college, I used to try to explain to people that one of the things that pissed me off about racism was that it made me have to think about white people all the time, when they never had to think about me.

railmeat,
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@StillIRise1963
That is interesting, I never thought of that.

rafa, to random
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A fascinating paradigm shift with visionOS and Vision Pro is that the UI, the “pixels” are impossibly sharp, and is now “the real world” that is blurry.

I’m still thinking about this.

railmeat,
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@rafa
The real world is dead.

lcamtuf, to random

Honestly, I thought that techno-optimism was a music genre and now I'm bummed out

railmeat,
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@lcamtuf
We could make techno-optimism a music genre. A better word is possible.

jsq, to random
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    railmeat,
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    @brennansv

    Where do you go from Dropbox?

    @schwa @cocoaphony @jsq

    mattblaze, (edited ) to photography
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    Titan II ICBM in Launch Silo, Sahuarita, AZ, 2009.

    See also https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/titans/

    Megatons of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4181256159

    Note: Vertical format, so depending on your client you may need to click the preview to see the whole image.

    railmeat,
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    @mattblaze
    You might also wonder if it is possible to disarm and if. It is possible to trust the other side.

    AkaSci, (edited ) to voyager
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    NASA is sending a software update to the Voyager 2 spacecraft today!

    The patch contains logic to auto-recover from glitches similar to one in May 2022, when the AACS system on Voyager 1 started sending garbled data. The root cause was not fully diagnosed. The patch will be activated/tested on Oct 28. Voyager 1 will be next.

    Data will be sent at 16 bps with a 19 kW transmitter using the 70-m dish at @canberradsn.
    Distance: 20 billion km; 18:40 light hours

    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-software-patch-thrusters

    1/n

    railmeat,
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    @GrantMeStrength
    Voyager has flown 20 Billion Kilometers. How far have you traveled?
    @AkaSci @javier

    railmeat,
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    @scy
    That’s cool. 44 billion km is just the start, we should keep going.

    @GrantMeStrength @AkaSci @javier

    evan, to random
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    Free @gretathunberg

    railmeat,
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    @evan
    What or where does she need to be freed from?
    @gretathunberg

    railmeat,
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    @evan @gretathunberg
    A right of passage, I guess.

    lauren, to random
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    X (Twitter) is starting to charge new users $1 per year to send tweets - This would seem to be a transparent ploy to collect payment methods, e.g., credit card numbers, to leverage for much higher subscription costs and services later, and ultimately push to all users. It's the classic camel's nose under the tent. Don't just say no when it comes your way, say HELL NO! -L - https://www.engadget.com/x-is-starting-to-charge-new-users-1-per-year-to-send-tweets-000925191.html?src=rss

    railmeat,
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    @lauren
    The camels nose indeed. I think they fired most of their security team too, so I don’t want to give them my data.

    evacide, to random
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    Major VC writes manifesto: "Building the Torment Nexus is Good, Actually."

    railmeat,
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    @evacide Thanks for the summary.

    absamma, to Israel
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    People are moving South in Gaza and as a result, water is now flowing through to southern Gaza. Meanwhile, Fatah is being prepared to become the new authorities in Gaza (which is why they're cooperating so well with everyone else). This can all end sooner rather than later. The region will see a vast improvement once Hamas and its allies are removed.

    railmeat,
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    @absamma
    That might be optimistic, though I guess anyone is better than hamas.

    bagder, to random
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    Remember: it is "just" a HIGH severity flaw, not a the-sky-is-falling severity flaw.

    railmeat,
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    @bagder
    Keep calm and improve curl is the right advice regardless of the severity.

    campuscodi, to random
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    Apple has a security update for iOS devices to patch two actively exploited zero-days.

    The first is a vulnerability (CVE-2023-42824) in the iOS kernel that Apple says was exploited against older iPhones using iOS 16.6 or lower.

    The second is a zero-day (CVE-2023-5217) in the Libvpx library that Google discovered last week, and Apple also ported and fixed in iOS.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213961

    railmeat,
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    @campuscodi
    It seems to me that out of band security updates are becoming more common from Apple.

    jhx, to windows
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    Convert Server to a full edition :windows8:

    https://gist.github.com/jhx0/a214c12d94d0a4ba4d9e78deadc80cb4

    railmeat,
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    @jhx
    Your script does not have the key. It would work much better if it had the key.

    mcc, to random
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    It is getting increasingly awkward that my only daily drivers are a Win10 machine and a laptop based on antiquated MacOS. I should get a simple Linux laptop.

    Last time I tried to do this though it turned out any laptops that run Linux with full hardware support out of the box are pretty expensive.

    railmeat,
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    @mcc
    Have you considered @system76 ? They sell laptops with Linux. They are a small company so you still get to deal with humans.

    BleepingComputer, to random

    Fake Bitwarden sites are pushing installers purportedly for the open-source password manager that carry a new password-stealing malware that security researchers call ZenRAT.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-bitwarden-sites-push-new-zenrat-password-stealing-malware/

    railmeat,
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    @BleepingComputer Is that a sign of @bitwarden success?

    mcc, to random
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    Got an email this morning from Canada Post informing me that a package had been delivered. The email did not explain what the package was, nor who it was from. Nor did the email explain to what address the package had been delivered. So I guess, the takeaway is, there's a package. Maybe you should check outside in case it's yours.

    railmeat,
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    @mcc
    This is great, it has made me happy I don’t have any packages due.

    linuxgal, to random
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    railmeat,
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    @linuxgal

    Well, carrots make carrot cake, right. That’s got to count for something.

    @clive

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