So…there is a concerted campaign, with Musk as its mouthpiece, to discredit Signal and get people to switch to Telegram. It’s disinformation, but there’s also useful information in it. The useful information is that a hideous, powerful, right-wing crank — or whoever’s yanking his chain — really, really wants people to use Telegram.
We’ve long known Telegram’s security is weak. But now, in light of this new information, we should move forward assuming that Telegram is actively compromised.
oh you like LINUX do you??
you like to TAIL things huh? CAT a file?
fucking furry.
Tech bros love to boast about moving fast and breaking things, so it comes as some relief to find an instance where they've moved at a more stately 17 knots and yet still utterly fucked it.
In this case the "it" being carpool vehicles. Programmed to treat movement without the engine being switched on as either theft or witchcraft, they instantly bricked themselves in response.
What happened when these vehicles travelled by ferry was perhaps predictable...
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You know the whole "defund the National Labor Relations Board" thing that musk & bezos are pushing?
I'm currently working on a project where I'm digitizing old supreme court records, and it makes me think we definitely need the NLRB, if only for how often they were having to sue companies for flagrant violations of labor law.
Seriously it seems sometimes every 3rd case is "Some Horrible Employer vs NLRB"
Footage from how the riot police last night went completely in violent modus when they went into the encampment at the University of Amsterdam.
Note that it's the University itself who ordered the riot police (with mayor Femke Halsema (GreenLeft) as accomplice) to use this violence at their own students and staff. See for the complete eviction this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmy6bKgTpGM
Content warning video: riot police violence.
#Amsterdam #Netherlands #policeViolence #police #UvAencampment #UvA #FreePalestine #Gaza #StopTheGenocide
Ygaahhhhh! Oh Woah Is Me! For I have been TRICKED and TROLLED By a Jumpscare Of Text!
a leaked NHS internal document indicates that any young people waiting for referrals to gender services are to be asked to come in for a face-to-face appointment, and that if the young person indicates they are taking private HRT and does not stop, will be subject to a safeguarding referral to social services.
please spread as widely as you can. if you know any UK trans kids, let them know.
did you know that the default Windows 10 desktop background is a photo, not a digital effect?
it's a Kvant Spectrum laser projector with Saturn 9000 scanners beaming light into a sheet of transparent acrylic with black cardboard masks.
there's even a short video showing an animated show variant of it here: https://www.precisionlasers.com/projects/windows10
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been threatened consequences by Israeli and U.S. officials in case it were to issue arrest warrants for war crimes in the Israel-Palestine war. [Al Jazeera]
It went so bad that the ICC needed to issue a statement that such methods of intimidations do not work and also violate the Rome Statute. [ICC]
The USA has had an on-and-off relationship with the Rome Statute, and generally doesn't recognize the ICC decisions against their own war criminals, so we may enter another phase of history where committing genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression (the four things the ICC can issue international arrest warrants for) will once again no longer have consequences.