🇪🇺 There's a petition to the EU asking for a European wealth tax to finance the social and climate transition and help countries hit by climate change.

Initiated by Marlene Engelhorn und Thomas Piketty, among others.

💸 Many people want a tax like that and so this could be a success.

🔢 France has already reached the threshold of signatures.

Germany is close but in many countries more signatures are needed.

See https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

✍️ Share, and sign!

#TaxTheRich

https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

"Linux would have prevented this!" literally true because my former colleague KP Singh wrote a kernel security module that lets EDR implementations load ebpf into the kernel to monitor and act on security hooks and Crowdstrike now uses that rather than requiring its own kernel module that would otherwise absolutely have allowed this to happen, so everyone please say thank you to him

Best analysis I've seen of the disastrous failures at Microsoft and Clownstrike" that took down so many vital services: https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

"What we're seeing today isn't just a major fuckup, but the first of what will be many systematic failures — some small, some potentially larger — that are the natural byproduct of the growth-at-all-costs ecosystem where any attempt to save money by outsourcing major systems is one that simply must be taken to please the shareholder."

Pink inflatable husky, and cross fox, nothing clever to say today.

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While not exactly the same, remember that what is happening with #CrowdStrike could also easily happen with kernel level #anticheat software. Giving proprietary software vendors permission to insert whatever they please into your kernel, especially with the ability to auto update it, means giving up all control of your system to that software vendor. One day CrowdStrike, the next Riot Vanguard. Don't let this garbage into your system! A game is not worth losing your system or your data over.

Tip for software companies. Your stock price can’t crash when you release a bad update if your update manyages to take out the stock exchanges

i think when you rotate your mouse it should turn the cursor. like on a nintendo wii

Raccoons are trying to break into Cybertrucks, and there's some speculation that this is happening because the raccoons are literally confusing them with dumpsters

If you think there a shortage of houses underlies the country's housing crisis (and of course, not all of you do), then as this graph starkly shows, that shortage is almost entirely the result of the collapse of public/social housing new builds - since the 1970s, there has been no appreciable rise (or fall) in annual private house construction.

But of course, private house builders want to engineer a shortage to maintain prices, so we shouldn't be surprised.

#housing #politics

h/t FT

Yup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there.

Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.

Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.

But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.

Doesn't that sound great?

Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.

But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice?

Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.

UPDATE: The about:config setting for this is `dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled`. It's a bool. Set it to false to turn it off.

#Nonbinary folks don't owe you a particular presentation of self.

1. Androgyny is cool but not for everyone.
2. Nonbinary is not code for "weak, like woman".
3. It's okay--perhaps even good!--if you can't divine someone's gender presentation from their appearance. We have language for that.

Happy nonbinary day!

Ads on the web don't actually *need* user tracking. Browsers don't *have to* cooperate with those who want to surveil us.

*boots computer after a bios update*

computer: well let me take an painfully long moment to post without showing any information to the user, making them wonder if the bios flash was corrupted

If you can't find a fursuiter to hug, a big plushy is the next best thing!

#FursuitFriday #Furry #Plush #Fursuit #Photography