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irenes, 9 months ago to random

we really do like the word "free" as a rallying cry

people have a lot of preconceptions about what it means, all of them contradictory, and we think that's great! it means there's a healthy dialectic, a large scale conversation that never quite ends, about what it SHOULD mean

evacide, 10 months ago to random

When I give a talk about stalkerware, two things usually happen:

One person (usually a woman) walks up to me and tells me about the stalkerware/keylogger/physical tracker a partner used to stalk them.

Another person (usually a man) tells that they didn't know about this stuff and they can't even imagine the sort of person that would use it.

wdlindsy, 10 months ago to random

“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott “Barbie” because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”

#Barbie
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/barbenheimer-takes-on-the-online

lauraamalasunta, 10 months ago to random Italian

Me: Congratulations, you passed your PhD

Candidate: Wow, you liked my dissertation?

Me: Well to be honest that thing was pretty fucking long so I thought I'd just pass you to spare myself the trouble of reading it

Candidate: But... Am I still a Dr?

Me: You're a tl;Dr

Metaph, 10 months ago to random

I thought the everything app was emacs

NoraReed, 10 months ago to random

you don't have to call them "x" and "meta". corporations don't get to have deadnames

paigerduty, 10 months ago to random

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BlackAzizAnansi, 10 months ago to random

Yikes

https://t.co/dUCtl1DpSn

daniel, 10 months ago to random

People coming over from Twitter are henceforth referred to as X-Forwarded-For

vortex_egg, 10 months ago to random

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timnitGebru, 10 months ago to random

An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.

They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?

What a cruel world.

Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡

stefthepef, 10 months ago to random

"A long-dormant domain name Musk had in his early days when he was busy being fired from PayPal" is the most succinct description of this X garbage I've read yet.

(And yes, you are beyond foolish if you give that broken, glitchy website your bank data.) https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

keyboard, 10 months ago to random

A few days ago I learned about grub theming and this is where it got me.

RickiTarr, 10 months ago to random

The entire Star Wars Franchise was purchased for 40 billion dollars less than Twitter. I think about that sometimes.

jayrosen_nyu, 10 months ago to journalism

Amazing story. Have you followed it?

Texas A&M announces a new journalism dean. She's black and she's qualified— and an alum of the school! Ex-New York Times too.

They announce her appointment in a splashy event.

Dark forces of reaction mobilize.

The offer is watered down to one year, with no tenure. She says no way, and withdraws. National news is made. It's negative. And today, the president of A&M resigns!

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/

#journalism #uspol #science

rabbit, 10 months ago to random

(extremely muffled from where my face is pressed deeply into the carpet flooring) every day they make me read YAMLs with my human eyes

arstechnica, 10 months ago to random

Once again, the US public says NASA should prioritize asteroid defense

Just 7 percent of US women want NASA to prioritize humans to Mars.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/once-again-the-us-public-says-nasa-should-prioritize-asteroid-defense/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

zombierustpunk, 10 months ago to random

You either die a hero, or you live long enough that someone installs linux on you, because you no longer get security updates from the manufacturer.

simon, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Python (or maybe pip) has added a flag that stops people from installing and updating packages on modern Linux without virtual environments, because pip could easily conflict with packages that are required for the operating system to run. This currently affects Debian 12 and Ubuntu 23.04. I know about virtual environments, but I didn't want to use them for things like fanficfare, yt-dlp, and other scripts I want to be able to run easily from the terminal, because with a virtual environment I would have to activate it first, run the script in question, then deactivate it (or so I thought). I understand why this had to be done, but I thought I was going to have to devise a whole new system of installing/running things. I got as far as drafting a Reddit post when I finally thought to look for articles on this. Turns out it isn't annoying at all. Install a package called pipx, and you just change "pip" to "pipx" when installing packages at the user level. pipx install yt-dlp, for instance. Pipx will create a virtual environment, symlink the binary, and basically work exactly the same way as far as any user is concerned. I should have been doing this all along because there are legitimate dependency concerns that can happen when you pip instal everything into the same python environment, and i'm probably lucky I haven't screwed things up beyond recognition yet. These changes seem user-hostile at first, but as long as there is a system in place for neatly working around it without an unexpected steep learning curve, I think this is perfectly fine. https://pythonspeed.com/articles/externally-managed-environment-pep-668/

nemo, 10 months ago to random

If you are horrified by the Web Environment Integrity proposal by Google (#DRM for ads), stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox and block ads everywhere.

The only eyeballs left for Google to show ads are the ones protected by ad blockers. That’s the highest growth opportunity they have, and we cannot let them have it.

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.

Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.

Microsoft to lay off more employees months after letting 10,000 workers go Amazon, Google and other large technology companies have also scaled back this year after having added headcount rapidly to meet rising demand during the Covid pandemic.

mjg59, 10 months ago to random

STOP DOING PKCS#11

• SECURITY SENSITIVE APPS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO LOAD ARBITRARY CODE
• YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT but NO REAL-WORLD USE CASE FOUND for PROPRIETARY CODE
• Wanted to drive your HSM anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "GHIDRA"
• "Yes, please dlopen() /usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/linuxx64.elf.stub. Please dlclose() libsegfault.so" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

They have played us for absolute fools

root, 10 months ago to random

hey everyone, on saturday (22 July 2023) we're going to have a few hours of intermittent downtime. i'll be moving media uploads to an object storage provider starting from around @750 .beats (17:00 UTC, 10:00 Pacific, 13:00 Eastern)

media uploads, as well as retrieval from other instances, will probably act strangely during this maintenance window.

est, 10 months ago to random

Happy Barbenheimer Eve! https://www.bonfire.com/barbenheimer-ltd-edition/ (proceeds go to DC Abortion Fund)

Rasp, 10 months ago to random

I mean she's not wrong but KIJGFSEOESNOFEJM