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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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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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“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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This is what Hell looks like.

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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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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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62 more hits since I started writing that:

30 "/"
2 "/about"
2 "/all_dbs"
2 "/config.json"
2 "/debug/default/view?panel=config"
2 "/.DS_Store"
2 "/ecp/Current/exporttool/microsoft.exchange.ediscovery.exporttool.application"
2 "/.env"
3 "/.git/config"
2 "/login.action"
2 "/?rest_route=/wp/v2/users/"
2 "/s/431323e2230323e2134323e2239313//;/META-INF/maven/com.atlassian.jira/jira-webapp-dist/pom.properties"
…

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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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