scy, 2 months ago to random

See, that's an April Fools joke I enjoy. Not making fun at the expense of someone, just being a bit cheeky and weird.

Bonus points for immediately resolving the weirdness instead of leaving people confused, for linking to an explanation of the in-joke (xkcd 624), and for adding a queer-friendly spin to it.

Well done, @Codeberg. 💜

18+ danirabbit, 2 months ago to random

Okay but my makeup today is great. I feel hella pretty

gabek, 2 months ago to random

My heart goes out to xz. A single maintainer, who was clearly in a rough place with mental health, screaming out to the world for some help and additional contributions, and somebody shows up wanting to help. Could you imagine how happy that maintainer was? They were no longer alone.

And it turns out the only reason somebody wanted to help them was nefarious. I can’t imagine how they feel right now as everyone is blaming them. I hope they’re ok.

HeavenlyPossum, 2 months ago to random

I remember being pretty young and asking my parents—is this it? We go to school every day and then we get a job and go to work every day and this is our lives, forever? Just living each day according to someone else’s schedule, at someone else’s command? This is life?

And they were pretty flummoxed. Yeah, they said, this is life. What did you expect? This is what you do and then you die.

These are the same people who showed my Koyaanisqatsi when I was like six and encouraged me to internalize its message that capitalist modernity is catastrophically, irrevocably broken and unsustainable.

And I just think…a lot of people hold pretty good beliefs in the abstract but it doesn’t occur to them to live as if they were actually true.

vantablack, 2 months ago to random

GOT POSTCARDS FROM MY FORMER SELVES SAYING "HOW YOU BEEN?"

vantablack, 2 months ago to FediPact

honestly it warms my heart and makes me really happy to see large swaths of the fediverse coming together to defend our communities against the evil megacorporation known as meta

if this is the pre-threads fedi's last hurrah... it's been an honor to spend so many years cultivating this beautiful community with y'all

#FediPact #meta #threads

ErictheCerise, 2 months ago to threads

It's weird, how all the trans- and queer-friendly instances are already blocking #Threads

... it's almost like they know something about corporate discrimination.

LunarAkai, 2 months ago to random

talking with a few people about the fediverse

...

me: "you can follow @ErikUden on mastodon"

I look at clueless faces

me: "the guy from the TV show, he was wearing a mastodon t-shirt"

*they still didn't know who I was talking about"

me: "crunchy peaches"

person 1: "aaah"
person 2: "now I know who you are talking about"

well xD

histoftech, 3 months ago to random

At first, I thought this poster couldn’t be real. Silly me.

Headline from the daily universe that says BYU math department students respond to women in math poster ridicule

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

I love that we keep tiny apex predators in our houses, because sometimes they will sit in our laps, and let us pet their floof.

Plus TOE BEANS!

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

Does anyone else have trouble doing one thing at a time? Like if I'm doing chores it helps to have a podcast or talk to someone, or watching TV, I need to do something with my hands, like a little handy craft, or a simple game. I love movies, but the movie has to be absolutely fascinating for me to want to go to a theater where I just need to sit there and watch. I have a large amount of tabs open on my phone all the time and I flit back and forth through a bunch of different things. Weed helps calm this down a bit.

rysiek, 3 months ago to infosec

> Russia publishes German army meeting on Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68457087

> Germany has admitted the apparent [compromise] by Russia of a military meeting where officers discussed giving Ukraine long-range missiles - and possible targets.

> According to Der Spiegel magazine, the videoconference was not held on a secret internal army network but on the WebEx platform.

🤡

There's an infosec person somewhere who is really trying hard not to go: "I fucking told you this would happen". 👀

#InfoSec

ErictheCerise, 3 months ago to bot

Hey #AskFedi ... this is new.

I posted a few things today, and suddenly, there are all these "helpful", "curated" #Bot accounts (all on Mastodon dot social) that are instantly boosting and faving my posts.

How can I block that?

I want #NoBot s in my feed. I already block all bots from following me.

Is there a way to block bots (all bots, not piecemeal...) from interacting with my posts?

FitUnionGuy, 3 months ago to random

The thing about getting older is no one ask you which dinosaur is your favorite. It’s like nobody cares anymore. 😢

talia_christine, 3 months ago to random

I wonder what your grandchildren will think when you tell them about when America was a democracy.

ErictheCerise, 3 months ago to random

Just a friendly reminder to everyone, but particularly, to web developers and most particularly, their bosses.

Websites don't actually need to use cookies to work*.

If you, as a developer, think your website is special enough that it actually needs them to function ... okay, you might be right ... but most likely, you're just not (pardon the expression) thinking outside the (corporate?) box enough.

*Mostly.

aral, 3 months ago to random

We don’t want to be ruled by kings like Zuckerberg and Musk. So let’s create fiefdoms ruled by mini-Zuckerbergs and mini-Musks instead.

Gosh darnit something tells me there’s a better solution to this but I’ll be damned if I can put my finger on it…

🤔

MikeElgan, 3 months ago to random

Following Google Maps directions in rural Tasmania and encountered this sign.

ErictheCerise, 4 months ago to random

I first saw the movie My Cousin Vinny over 30 years ago.

To this day, I cannot read the word 'heinous' with fewer than 3 syllables, in the shockingly melodramatic voice of Lane Smith, the state prosecutor.

ErictheCerise, 4 months ago to random

*** A Tip about Websites and Passwords ***

A website with good security will never save your password, anywhere, at all, ever.

We use something called a hash, a one-way math formula ... you put in the password and the formula produces a specific result. You cannot start with the result and go "backwards" to figure out the password.

And we only save the result.

When you log in, we run the password you type in through the same formula, and if it doesn't match the hash, you don't get in.

When you hit the "I forgot my password" link, we don't give you your password.

Because we can't.

Because we literally don't know what it was. All we can do is give you is the "okay, here, make a new password" form.

That's good security. There's still risks, but this is a good start.

*** Here's the thing ***

Almost any website that gives you that stupid set of password rules "must be 11-17 characters long, include uppercase, two numbers, and exactly one special character" and yada—

... those websites almost always actually save your password in their database. And then, when they (inevitably) get hacked and their entire database gets sold on the Dark Web for 0.001 bitcoins ...

Yeah, then anyone can log into your account.

That's bad security.

ErikUden, 4 months ago to random

On this day ( #OTD ) 21 years ago U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a model vial of anthrax to the United Nations Security Council accusing Iraq of a chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program. This was later found out to be a complete lie and the own investigation and intelligence of the United States did not support this claim nor many others the George Bush administration at the time made. Despite all this, these very lies lead to and justified the Iraq War (second Gulf war).

This war resulted in the violent deaths of 210,519 civilians, over 300.000 people if you include “combatants”. These are only the number of people who died directly from a bullet being put in their head, the number of casualties due to the fallout of this war, meaning those who died whilst fleeing, died due to lack of access to medicine or food and water, are not even included in that number. The total number of civilian deaths caused by this war is estimated to be in the millions. These numbers had to be leaked because the U.S. government themselves said:

“We don't do body counts”

​- General Tommy Franks

The leaker of these stats was WikiLeaks :wikileaks: under the leadership of Julian Assange, who since has been forced to live in exile, hide, and currently, this very day, is under trial by the UK High Court most likely resulting in being extradited to the United States where he will not receive a fair trial, or only as fair as John McAfee got or Edward Snowden will get. Silenced, killed, buried, kept outside of the public eye in order to not expose the embarrassment and colonial intentions of this mass killing event they call war.

All of this — all of this started with a simple vial and presentation in front of the United Nations. Do you think anyone involved in pandering these lies has ever been arrested or prosecuted similarly as the people who exposed them? Of course not. And while this convoluted story revealed itself in front of the public eye we completely forgot that this was the second time the U.S. fabricated lies in order to justify a war in Iraq and it was done by George Bush's father.

With every whistleblower prosecuted, dead, or too afraid to speak up, who will be there to expose the next wave of lies?

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, 4 months ago to random

Sounds like it's rigged.

MnemosyneSinger, 4 months ago to random

Too lazy for memes this morning. Please imagine funny pictures accompanying each of my toots.

Gogs, 4 months ago to random

Unbelievable, really, how many people simply refuse to keep it fresh & poppin’