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osma

@osma@mas.to

Also at: https://fishpool.org/@osma@fishpool.org/ (self-hosted) https://me.dm/@osma (Medium) https://pixelfed.social/osma (Pictures)

Systems, organizations, products, platforms, software, science, and a little bit of politics. Whatever you think I identify with, I probably don't.

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JxckS, to random
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My thoughts on new measures for aircraft owners to hide aircraft ownership recently enacted by the FAA Reauthorization Bill.

Put simply, it will not stop the tracking.

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osma,
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@JxckS
It's telling that people who want to surveil everyone else are the people who most advocate for preventing their planes from being surveilled.

anderspuck, to random
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Much of the analysis of the reshuffle in the Russian government seems to be missing how much it is about coup-proofing Putin's regime rather than making smart decisions for Russia.

This is a snippet from the latest Logic of War newsletter (paid).
https://www.logicofwar.com/kremlin-reshuffle-is-about-regime-security/

osma,
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@VikingChieftain
The salad got its name from its chef, a Tijuana restauranteur who whipped up the dressing to accompany the green salad and dried bread he happened to have in the kitchen.

putin may have a particularly bad, unhygienic hot dog named after him and prigozhin.
@anderspuck @jmarnesto @elCelio

osma, to fediverse
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A few days ago I suggested that once Meta's Threads launches, its focus probably will be in groups - either public or semi-private. The details of what that could mean are in this thread.
https://social.fishpool.org/@osma@fishpool.org/posts/193897234189601792/

Earlier, I asked why Strava hasn't integrated with .
https://mas.to/@osma/110371213306088525

Now, consider these two items in combination. A lot of athletes are sharing their training and competition diaries with fans in apps like Strava as well as Instagram. AP could link them together.

osma, to Cybersecurity
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I'm ever so slightly annoyed (= raging mad) that IT has managed to leave the personal details of every age kid, their parents, and every city employee on an unsecured network drive, allowed them to be stolen, and now is trying to wiggle out of the responsibility to inform every impacted person (= just about everyone) or offer anything but stupid generalities as protection for .
fail of the year. Perhaps several.

osma,
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120k or so kids and youth. All their parents/guardians. 40k employees. Unspecified job applicants. Names, addresses, social security numbers (or personal IDs, as they're now called). Home languages, religious affiliations, nationalities.

All stolen at once, because some criminally negligent idiot had NO PROTECTION for any data in place.

osma,
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The city dares to say that "those affected should take steps to protect their identity". What's to protect, you already exposed it all?! Besides, no identity protection services cover minors, so half the people impacted have nothing to lean to.

You. Fucking. Idiots.

osma, to random
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I guess thanks to the Reddit drama, people seem to be discovering Lemmy. That's cool.

For a certain personality type, following topics instead of people is ideal. Another absolutely sees the world through connections with people. There's nothing wrong with either viewpoint.

The reason Twitter was so interesting was that by some happenstance combined with competitive pressure from Facebook, they managed to come up with "Interest Graph", combining both. It wasn't perfect, but it was unique.

osma, to random
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Oh, this is fun. There's a Mastodon server specifically for . Could that draw some of them out of Twitter?
https://nafo.army

osma, to mastodon
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I've asked this before, but got no good explanation. Why is it that Mastodon "trending news" links aren't connected to any of the toots about those links, nor can you typically even find those toots (by searching for the link, for example), even on a server with full text indexing, regardless of the posters' discoverability settings?

That makes it practically impossible to participate in a conversation about those trending links, ie is the antithesis of social.

#Mastodon

osma, to Ukraine
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That's it. Congress done. Then back to the Senate, because Johnson changed the bill. I hope Pentagon has already loaded the airplanes.

osma, to random
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Phillips O'Brien: "Ukraine can win the war. The question is simple. Do we want to aid Ukraine to do so?"

Yes, we do. And in order to do so, we must enable Ukraine to block russian ranged strike capability, AND take the ranged strikes to military targets on russian soil.
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-53-zaluzhny-and-the

osma, to random
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Excellent point from @anderspuck about what to ask a lying dictator like putin: something where the domestic audience has a real stake in and won't like a for-foreign-audience bs so that he has to be careful about his choices
https://youtu.be/-aR8FJ9hlTw

osma, (edited ) to random
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Wow, search is coming to Mastodon and privacy options are simplified!

IF your profile is discoverable (findable by name, not account id, and visible in Trending toots), AND your toot is public, the toot will be indexed by servers where text search is enabled (enabling text search is optional feature and carries a sizeable data processing a storage cost for the server). Whether your server enables search or not doesn't matter - other people's servers do the indexing.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

osma, to fediverse
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Postmarks by @casey is a fantastic example of something built on that isn't even intended to be a threaded chat platform - yet it can be seen and interacted with by a user on one. Fediverse is so much more than just Mastodon. There will be a day when every web service has an interface into fedi.

https://sharetron.com/@casey/111013637359605183

osma, to random
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In the story of creator Bill Willingham's decision to public domain the works, the spat with DC Comics catches attention. The more interesting part is the "radical ideas for copyright reform" - 20 years from first publication, or 10 years from first (and only) sale of IP ownership. He follows his own principle - but will anyone follow him?

https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

"public domain" isn't that simple, though, as @pluralistic explains

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111070502214645560

osma, to random
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russian authorities sharing conflicting maps of what territory exactly have they "annexed" from Ukraine isn't a mistake. Conflicting statements is one of the most common tools they have used over years, if not decades of propaganda. It's not even meant to confuse the audience, but to make the claims harder to counter, as the goalposts keep shifting.

https://bird.makeup/users/thestudyofwar/statuses/1708260828065993137

osma, to telegram
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, May 8 assessment: "Reports indicate that there is an available open-source tool that allows people to search by specific coordinates for Telegram users who have enabled a certain location-sharing setting."

But of course there is. The russian-engineering, roll-your-own-crypto, cryptocoin-shilling, encrypted-but-not-encrypted messaging app to have a zero-day exploited privacy flaw exposing users' location? I can't imagine where such failures would come from.

osma, to fediverse
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A case of spec ambiguity, maybe? I can't find a mention in WebFinger or ActivityPub specs of usernames being case insensitive. Are @osma and @osma referring to the same actor? Is that up to implementation? How does a remote server determine which is correct?

Edit: I wrote above (at)Osma@mas.to and (at)osma@mas.to, but some part of the stack converted both to a lowercase mention during posting. I don't know which part, and what specs describes that.

osma, to random
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(Twitter thread) Bunch of images and videos collected from moscow area of burst water mains, sewers, radiators, burning gas stoves for warmth, electricity lines on fire due to overloading, and various other failures part of the total systemic collapse of basic infrastructure services.

The fucking around is arriving at its destination of finding out.

https://nitter.net/ToniEronen/status/1746176316200640750#m

osma, (edited ) to random
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This ought to make @jon happy: Finnish Railways VR will now plan and sell travel chains including connecting buses. Some years past I was working on this myself as a third party opetator, and the tech we built is powering the bus networks' side of the system even today. Yes, you can also buy train tickets from the bus networks. That came first.

#rail #bus #MaaS #travelchains

https://www.vr.fi/en/last-mile-connections/connecting-buses

osma,
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@jon
So I rummaged around in the pages linked from the FAQ, and the guarantees seem quite lacking. Cancellation insurance covers train, but not bus tickets, and missed connections due to delays may or may not be covered partially by refunds. It's quite vagua and between the lines, really. Which is disappointing. Sure, there's convenience and a little bit of peace of mind if the planner sets up reasonable connection times, but ultimately, it seems en route you'd be on your own...

osma, (edited ) to ChatGPT
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It occurred to me earlier today that people might not realize, Jonathan Swift described ChatGPT in his 1726 book Gulliver's Travels (part III, A Voyage to Balnibarbi). Most modern descriptions are no more accurate.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31485/page/n235/mode/2up
(edit: wrong page capture swapped)

osma, to random
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This "ecocide directive" which just passed today in EU Parliament is a pretty big deal. It makes actions which destroy ecological habitats a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison even if there was a permit for the action.
Also, the contested nature restoration directive passed as well.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/27/revolutionary-eu-criminalises-the-most-serious-cases-of-ecosystem-destruction

osma, (edited ) to random
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When russia lost access to global aviation maintenance networks, I didn't expect American planes to start having this many accidents and malfunctions.

randahl, to random
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A Russian oil depot in Vyborg near the Finnish border is questioning, whether the Ukraine invasion was among Putin's best ideas.

Vyborg is 900 kilometers from Ukraine.

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osma, (edited )
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@randahl
Not to worry, Leningrad Oblast governor Aleksandr Drozdenko assures us this small cloud of smoke is simply the result of a little bit of night time fireworks. There is nothing flammable at this location (edit: satellite image of location attached).

osma, to Europe
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How is European defense showing up in the campaigns and policy debates of the European Parliament elections where you live?

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