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tek

@tek@freeradical.zone

Politics ∪ tech ∪ security ∪ privacy ∪ O_o

One-time EFF Tech Trivia champion.

Sysop of Free Radical.

I blog about this at https://blog.freeradical.zone/.

Working on some #Veilid stuff.

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A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

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@Roundcat Same for me! It never occurred to me to think of it that way explicitly though. The moment I heard the idea, yes!, absolutely!

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This is what Hell looks like.

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“Severance” s1, e8: What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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@mpirnat Better than 🕺🎉 (but WTF with that after party?)

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@mpirnat Yes it was! I had a hard time not looking away.

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Jury: “Guilty of all charges involving campaigns and money.”

Felon: “I got a record amount of donations yesterday!”

Onlookers: “Gasp, I believe him about this!”

Dude is literally a felon for lying about money in the context of a political campaign. Why are you taking his word about the same kind of thing today?

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"Severance" is like every nightmare I've had rolled into one.

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I recently discovered Python's diskcache module, and frankly, I'm a little offended y'all didn't tell me about it earlier.

That's one large class of utility code I'm never again writing myself.

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TerminalTextEffects Docs: Effects Showroom https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/showroom/

Where was this back in the day?!

Movie-style decryption where a bunch of random characters are written to the screen, slowly, BBS-style, then they all blur and unblur together like a 1337 hacker is decrypting them.

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@devontechnologies Do you ever make exceptions for numbers of seats? I have 4 Macs I use exclusively for myself and my own databases: an older Mini home server (e.g. scanner is attached to it), a Studio I use every day for work, a personal MBA I use for all my own stuff, and a work MBP that I only use occasionally because I mainly work from home. I wish I could have DT — and all my data — available everywhere, but can’t justify paying an extra $200.

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We’re watching “Blade Runner 2049” and it’s off-puttingly unrealistic. They’d never issue that many building permits in California.

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ICQ will stop working
from June 26 https://icq.com/desktop/en

It... still did?

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We just watched "The Life Aquatic with Steve Sizzou" for the first time. What an odd film.

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@mpirnat I’m gonna try this.

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I made the mistake of reading the iTerm GitLab comment thread regarding its new optional AI feature. The entitlement over demanding removal of a disabled-by-default feature is astounding.

Also, the number of people saying “as someone working in an Important Job, I can’t even look at it”. I highly doubt that. As the one who actually talks to auditors for a living, I don’t realistically see this being even a blip on their radar.

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Tek Jr just texted me those words every parent wants to hear:

"Dad, can you help me install Linux?"

I think I'm crying.

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Work's hosting a free seminar on building resilience to stress.

Right after this we're having an all-hands.

This feels like that part of an RPG when you suddenly find a bunch of potions and the music changes.

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Eye-tattooing: experts warn about risks of colour-changing surgery - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/18/eye-tattooing-experts-warn-about-risks-of-colour-changing-surgery

“Here’s what you need to know about stabbing your eyeball with a needle…”

Mater from the movie “Cars”: Ta not to.

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Missouri's attorney general accuses Kansas City of doxxing Chiefs kicker - The Hill https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4669147-andrew-bailey-missouri-ag-accuses-kansas-city-doxxing-harrison-butker/

…and there it is.

Harrison Butker: Women belong in the kitchen!

Kansas City: BTW, he doesn’t live in KC proper.

MO AG with nothing more important to do: You can’t tell the world what city he lives in! I’ll stamp my little feet! clutches pearls

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I searched “where does Harrison Butker live?” and got this Realtor.com article sharing more information than the Kansas City twitter post did: https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/kansas-city-chiefs-2023-real-estate/

> In September 2019, the man with the premium toe and camera-ready looks closed on a six-bedroom home in Lee’s Summit that had been on the market for $550,000.

If that’s doxxing, then the word doesn’t mean anything anymore.

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I am not exaggerating this:

I created a new hostname in DNS, then added it to my existing webserver config.

It was online for 3 seconds -- 3! -- before getting a 404 request for /.git/config.

If you're relying on obscurity to protect your services, get that right out your fool head today. You have about 3 seconds to get your act together.

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@nikatjef @miki That's only between master and slave services (forgive old terminology), used to sync their records for serving to the rest of the Internet. It's not used to push new records to other servers.

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@nikatjef @miki For real? Do you have any reading for that? I hadn't seen that before. (Not that, say, Cloudflare runs their plans past me. 😀)

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Boy the Apple Private Relay thing continues to be a problem for Tapestry Kickstarter backers. Don’t worry though, we’ll get your reward delivery sorted. 👍

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@gedeonm And extremely satisfying to be so rendered!

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@gedeonm Not on the screen, no, but one of your awesome drawings is here on my hard drive. 🙂

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