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grammargirl, 10 months ago to random

I love this 16th century term for being depressed or in low spirits: "mubble fubbles."

The OED says the use was chiefly "in one's mubble fubbles," as in "Mignon is in her mubble fubbles."

Obviously, we should bring back this word. It's so much fun that just saying it could help rescue people from their mubble fubbles!

What other words should we bring back?

thomasfuchs, 10 months ago to random

Threads has crossed 50 million signups and I’m highly annoyed that Mastodon’s signup flow is still super clunky—after years of begging the project to do something about it (it’s better than it used to be, but there’s still lots of room for improvement).

mariyadelano, 10 months ago to random

OH MY GOD THE TITANIC SUBMARINE CEO WAS SO MUCH WORSE THAN I EXPECTED

Billionaire hubris is unbelievable

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to languagelearning

Something happening on the #Russian Invasion of #Ukraine Live Threads over on #Reddit - users are rapidly embracing #Mastodon links, and there is a demand for it as a viable #Twitter alternative.

Given how much these mega-threads have relied on the Bird Site for updates over the last 17 months, this is a very significant development. If all the main #Ukraine #War #News accounts end up on here, Twitter may lose its monopoly in this regard.

GottaLaff, 10 months ago to Florida

👀 “Radioactive roads” could be headed to #Florida after Gov. Ron #DeSantis signed a bill that may allow the state to use a mining waste for road construction that contains a “radioactive gas” known to cause lung cancer and that's a hazard to the environment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-radioactive-roads-phosphogypsum-potentially-cancer-causing-mining-waste-bill-signed-ron-desantis/

TheConversationUS, 11 months ago to history

“Often forgotten are the Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii and were also forced from their homes and imprisoned in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland.
Their forced relocation and incarceration has been largely omitted from the dominant narrative of Japanese American internment in the U.S. during World War II.”

Pictured: A 1945 photograph of detainees at the Honouliuli Internment Camp ⬇️

#History #Histodons #Hawaii

https://theconversation.com/the-overlooked-story-of-the-incarceration-of-japanese-americans-from-hawaii-during-world-war-ii-188268

nixCraft, 11 months ago to gaming

What was your favourite video game as a kid? 🕹 #gaming #linuxgaming

localzuk, 11 months ago to random

With the media so obsessed with the eventual "waste" from green energy production - end of life solar panels, turbine blades, batteries etc, wouldn't it be great if they provided context?

There are 9000 oil tanker ships on the planet. 10s of thousands of petrol trucks. 10s of thousands of petrol stations. 10s of thousands of miles of pipeline.

All of which are environmentally damaging to dispose of.

Yet, never discussed in the media. Its just the green boogeyman.

#Solar #Wind #GreenEnergy

alexkidman, 11 months ago to random

This week's #retro game of the week is one of the best Master System games... hell, it's the equal best game on the system, in fact. That's just the way it is.

Play it. Enjoy it. It's fabulous.

What is it? It's Ultima IV, an amazing port to Sega's little 8-bit powerhouse.

#retrogaming #Sega #MasterSystem #8Bit #RPG

https://alexreviewstech.com/retro-game-of-the-week-ultima-iv-sega-master-system/

GossiTheDog, 11 months ago to random

A bunch of people have alerted me to a vulnerability in #MoveIT, a secure file transfer app used heavily in the UK.

I did some digging and it looks like it’s a zero day under active exploitation. Not 100% on threat actor yet but it may be one of the ransomware/extortion groups.

Really serious, impacted orgs should shut down the server. Thread follows. #threatintel

alexkidman, 1 year ago to gaming

The HyperX Cloud Gaming III headphones promise superior sound... but I liked them for a different, just as important reason. Here's my full text review:
#HyperX #Headphones #Gaming

https://alexreviewstech.com/hyperx-cloud-iii-headphones-review-superior-comfort/

maegul, 1 year ago to fediverse

Ok, nice little social media experiment, how does the fediverse fare during an earthquake?

A midnight earthquake just hit my home city, which basically never gets earthquakes. Probably no damage at all from this one, but we all definitely felt it, which is unusual for us! (Prob ~4 on Richter scale)

Where did I go first to check if others felt it? NGL, the place I went last time there was a tremor … Twitter. And to be fair, on the top of my feed were posts from people I follow (who aren’t here) that live in my home city, tweeting about it, including links to official reports. This was very nice, as this time I was scared and thought my apartment building might be in trouble.

I quickly check #mastodon and #calckey. Nothing in timelines. Not surprising, I don’t really follow anyone or many that live in the same city as me.

Searching, mastodon’s hashtag search does ok, and surfaces a bot or two that also confirm the quake (@lastquake). But not many people, I’m not really finding a conversation. This is on an instance with ~50k users.

#Calckey’s full text search though (on calckey.social)?

Quicker. Just typed earthquake without worrying about hashtags.

And better results. More people were brought up, which is kinda what you’re after from social media during an event … reassurance. It was also surprising, as calckey has only ~2k users and therefore smaller visibility of the fediverse, but still gave me more connectivity just through search than my bigger mastodon instance.

Which is really an interesting demonstration of how hashtags can be problematic. Plenty of people were reaching out, asking “anyone feel that earthquake?”, they just forgot or didn’t think to use a hashtag, and so couldn’t find me through mastodon. And why would you in a (slightly) nervous situation like that. “Hmmm, is this the best hashtag, do you think people will search for it … I should probably check if it exists first?” … is not a thought goes through your mind.

I basically never visit Twitter since I left, but this was a nostalgic little episode. It was nice to see the fediverse wasn’t really behind big social. Though the lack of discovery facilities on mastodon really did show themselves here.

GossiTheDog, 1 year ago to random

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alexkidman, 1 year ago to random

New opinion column: Netflix is cracking down on password sharing in Australia. Here's what you should do about that.

#Netflix #Australia #Streaming #Piracy

https://alexreviewstech.com/opinion-netflix-is-cracking-down-on-password-sharing-in-australia-heres-what-you-should-do/

GossiTheDog, 1 year ago to random

Black Basta have hit ABB. Their biggest victim so far, it’s bigger than Capita.

Not in article but Black Basta are using Qakbot via web links - eg SEO poisoning, fake browse updates.

#threatintel #qakbot #blackbasta

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/multinational-tech-firm-abb-hit-by-black-basta-ransomware-attack/

GossiTheDog, 1 year ago to random

Fantastic reporting by @kimzetter here - a year long report into what went down with #Solarwinds.

I'd like to highlight this bit. Zero trust, my arse. Lots of new details in this report. https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-the-boldest-supply-chain-hack-ever/

GossiTheDog, 1 year ago to random

At some stage, we need to talk about Oracle product security.

• Oracle Opera vulnerability CVE-2023-21932.
• Preauth RCE, GET request to cgi-bin script.
• Oracle didn’t produce a patch for one year and downplayed severity.
• This software is used by almost all of the largest hotel chains around the world.
• This critical piece of software holds all of the PII for every guest, including but not limited to credit card details.

https://blog.assetnote.io/2023/04/30/rce-oracle-opera/ #OracleOpera #CVE202321932

rbreich, 1 year ago to random

It’s an illusion to think we can make any major progress in this country without getting corporate money out of politics. It is the root of all evil in Washington.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago to fediverse

I feel like I've largely rebuilt the community I had on Twitter over here on #Mastodon and am just not interested in #BlueSky right now. I'm honestly disappointed that they deliberately chose not to have #ActivityPub compatibility. Also, I don't really trust Jack, either. He very intentionally pushed for Elon taking over Twitter. Going to BlueSky seems sort of like falling for your ex again because they changed their name from Brianna to Bri and started wearing a leather jacket.

ajsadauskas, 1 year ago to fuck_cars

Desire paths can tell us how to design safer, better public spaces.

From the ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-23/desire-paths-offer-insight-into-use-of-public-spaces/102191044

"A desire line, or desire path, is an unplanned trail that forms as a result of traffic, either by humans or other animals, and often veers away from conventional paths.

"Mike Harris, an urban design researcher at the University of New South Wales, said ... in many cases, desire lines showed those who planned or designed a space 'fundamentally got it wrong'.

"'It's just simply that they weren't cognisant of how people actually want to use that space,' he said.

"Dr Harris said with people increasingly living in built-up environments, those designing urban spaces were examining desire lines, or desire paths, more frequently."

#Urbanism #Walking #Cycling #Planning #UrbanPlanning #WalkableCities @fuck_cars @green