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mkb

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Infosec, privacy tech, modular synths, gaming (many flavors). Oakland, CA. šŸ§·šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļøšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦

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lolgop, to random
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If the reason The Times covers Biden with a scalpel and Trump with a feather duster were because Biden wonā€™t do an interview, that would be nice. The truth is they also try this. Gore, Clinton, now Biden. And itā€™s because they sincerely think their job to make every election look like a coin flip.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/two-of-greatest-100346837

mkb,
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@mcc @lolgop Whatā€™s frustrating is some of their reporters like Maggie Haberman have been doing amazing work but the NYTā€™s overall editorial framing is so damn timid and both-sidesy.

Someone on Masto put it really well: If one side says itā€™s raining and the other says itā€™s not. Your job as a journalist is not to repeat both statements, itā€™s to look out the window and see who is right.

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didnā€™t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

mkb,
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@Npars01 @StillIRise1963 Aye. Someone expressed it better than I ever could via cartoon.

box464, (edited ) to infosec
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I donā€™t know what is more disappointing. Batgirlā€™s ā€œhackingā€ skills or Batmanā€™s password choices.

mkb,
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@box464 Disappointing, but hardly surprising. :(

whitequark, to random
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if HTTP was so good why didn't they make HTTP 2

mkb,
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@whitequark The Threadening!

historyofpunkrock, to punkrock
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44 years ago today
Joy Division have their last concert at the University of Birmingham, May 2, 1980, two weeks before the death of singer Ian Curtis

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mkb,
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@historyofpunkrock Iā€™m always struck by how clean cut they looked. Itā€™s hard to imagine those young men in collared shirts producing Disorder or Shadowplay.

UnicornRiot, to random
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Masked Israel Supporters Attack UCLAā€™s Palestine Solidarity Encampment With Weapons

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/masked-israel-supporters-attack-uclas-palestine-solidarity-encampment-with-weapons/

mkb,
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@UnicornRiot "Police didnā€™t intervene until the fifth hour of the attack." Holy shit.

ai6yr, to privacy

Just a privacy reminder: if you're going to post a picture of your mail, make sure to blur or remove any barcodes on that mail. Every piece of USPS mail has a bar code with your full address on there. Zip Code + 4 extension (which is your neighborhood) + house # (which translates to your exact house).

mkb,
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@ai6yr Zip+4 doesn't necessarily specify a particular house but yes, it certainly can.

mkb,
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@ai6yr The specificity of the +4 varies widely. Yes, sometimes it is an entire neighborhood. In other cases it is a single recipient. One can even apply to get a distinct +4 code.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Angry Staffer:

ā€¦Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • wonā€™t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who wonā€™t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesnā€™t scare the living shit out of you, you arenā€™t paying attention.

mkb,
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@statsguy @TCatInReality @benroyce @GottaLaff Exactly. Nothing anybody can say about Joe is as bad the other guy attempting an armed insurrection.

mcc, to random
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Unpopular opinion: A lot of y'all are describing your (neurotype / algorithm / chord / biohazardous rocks) as "spicy" when what you really mean is some other taste qualia such as "tangy"

mkb,
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@mcc Zazz.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho5Pt4pPKsg&pp=ygUNRGV0aGtsb2sgemF6eg%3D%3D

mkb, to Metal
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Helmet dishing out the at The Fillmore. \m/

mkb, to VideoGames
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This week NPRā€™s podcast The Indicator From Planet Money has two episodes about . Iā€™m especially interested in the Designing For episode. Itā€™s cool to see more and more
affordances in games.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1197964005/the-indicator-from-planet-money-the-last-of-us-accessibility-gaming-04-23-2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1197963994/indicator-from-planet-money-live-service-games-warframe

lzg, to random
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ā€œno ordinary loveā€ is such an incredible song https://youtu.be/_WcWHZc8s2I?feature=shared

mkb,
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@lzg That subtle bassline grooves deeper than the Mariana Trench.

mcc, to random
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The miserable screamy feeling when you have an error in a program, you alter the source code, you run it again, it fails in the same way, then you look at the error message and notice the line numbers have not changed and therefore the change you made was not actually incorporated into the version of the program you ran and you don't know why

mkb,
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@mcc Often for me that was forgetting to save in my editor before going to the shell window to run. Eventually I had to configure every editor to auto-save when it loses focus. My favorite version of the problem is accidentally editing an entirely separate version of the source code.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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1977 was a great year for punk rock releases and the year that opened a new (music) world to me

Do you have a favorite among these mega releases?

mkb,
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@historyofpunkrock Whatā€™s that in the bottom left?

hrbrmstr, to random
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O_O

mkb,
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@hrbrmstr @thegibson Hereā€™s the corresponding press release:

https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/mitre-response-cyber-attack-one-its-rd-networks

whitequark, to random
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it's so funny to me that a normal, understandable, two page sized python program can implement a real hardware NIC driver that someone can use for realtime work like typing in an SSH session, under concurrent heavy load, and it gives you single ms digit latency

this is the entire transmit queue code. you can look at it in its entirety on one editor screen and understand it. it uses normal python idioms and doesn't even touch USB directly

60 Mbps on CPython, 80 on PyPy

mkb,
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@whitequark Wait, what? Holy shit, thatā€™s amazing.

whitequark, to random
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the type of python application development where you read a decent amount of linux kernel code

mkb,
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@whitequark Much like sausages and laws, it is best not to see the inner details of network stacks.

mkb,
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@whitequark You know, Iā€™m just climbing into bed for the night and you had to hand me some nightmare fuel.

flockofnazguls, to random
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    mkb,
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    @defaultmediatransmitter @flockofnazguls Theyā€™re both slightly tangental but 20,000 Hertz and Song Exploder are quite good.

    20KHz is about soundesign and leans toward the commercial end. Song Exploder talks with artists to pick apart how a song was made. I find the story-centric ones less interesting but the ones looking at musical or technical decisions are great.

    markhughes, to Russia
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    Wasn't Alaska also traditionally part of ?

    What would say to claiming it back?

    mkb,
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    @markhughes ā€œYes, sir. Right away, sir.ā€

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

    You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian šŸ™‹šŸæā€ā™‚ļø

    Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

    mkb,
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    @mekkaokereke I suddenly realize I have a different standard for spoken language than I have for code and Iā€™m not sure I can justify the difference.

    With code, I assume that a future maintainer will have less context than I do and less knowledge of the language than I do (and that future maintainer might actually be me).

    With spoken language I usually assume the listener will either know the words Iā€™m using, or be willing to ask me to clarify.

    Maybe that inconsistency is a problem. Hmmā€¦

    bagder, to random
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    Today when has just surpassed 32,000 commits it is almost at 34.000 stars on GitHub. https://github.com/curl/curl

    mkb,
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    @bagder Congrats!

    Iā€™m suddenly wondering whether anything interesting can be gleaned by comparing commit / fork / star ratios across projects.

    mcc, to random
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    Have you ever heard of the Symantec Web? It's similar to the World Wide Web except it's made in Symantec Greatworks (1992, requires MacOS 6.0.2 or newer and at least 1 MB of RAM)

    Newsletter made in Symantec Greatworks

    mkb,
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    @mcc I had such high hopes for VRML and occasionally dream that now that hardware has come so far, VRML will come rolling back.

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    mkb,
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    @limebar @flockofnazguls Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value!

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