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...

#FailureFriday

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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

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.

Stop normalizing that you need to go find an alternative to a FOSS project the very hecking moment it goes into maintenance mode/read-only/archival.

Good gods people are already going "Neofetch is dead what's the alternative". It still works fine!

Normalize the idea that software can be "finished" and not be updated until a major feature shortfall or security issue arises, then someone can fork it. Or fork it now, I'm not your mom, but the original is still okay.

Actively finding more and more reason why capitalism is actively detrimental to modern society

It's not only what it is actively doing to everyone, making us miserable, but the SHEER AMOUNT of human social progress it is actually holding back, is ungodly

I had an idea of what it was, but holy Jesus fuck, I'm getting my history perception checked rn

For no obvious reason whatsoever, AmiTCP (a third party port port of the BSD IP stack to AmigaOS that was used a bunch) enabled the chargen service (a service that just sends printable ASCII characters as fast as possible) and had no firewall so back in the 90s you could just DoS Amiga users by connecting to port 19 on their machine and they'd saturate their uplink and ping out of IRC and not everything in the past was better

They're the same picture

"They're outside agitators!"

I mean no they're not, but honestly who fucking cares anyway? The mainstream establishment position is *seriously* "protesting against genocide is invalid because your parents, friends, and old school hippies showed up on campus to support you?" And we're taking that seriously?

"They're outside agitators" is a distraction from the subject at hand; a genocide against Gazans supported by that very same establishment in America.

speaking as a jew, it’s not antisemitic to call for the end of a genocide. it is antisemitic to use accusations of antisemitism as a cover for carrying out genocide

Does anyone have pointers for remote job for one of the following positions in the EU:

• Junior Developer (Rust; but i have varying levels of experience in a number of other programming languages like Python, Java, C++, Haskell, Typescript)
• Junior Embedded Developer (Rust, although I have some amount of C experience)
• Junior System Administrator (Linux, specifically NixOS and some other enthusiast linux distributions)

I am currently a 6th semester IT Uni student, and as such do not have a degree.

I have several years of personal experience with these positions

boosts appreciated!

#GetFediHired #FediHire

i love trains, trams and trans people