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So it looks like I'm tied to Android for the time being (unless I want to go to iOS). Otherwise, I can't fully access my bank accounts.

Time to go yell at my bank.


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The lispy gopher climate will be live in fifty minutes, though you could tune in now to hear @northernlights show (with a more conventional realization of 'music')! anonradio.net:8443/anonradio

#music for the lispy gopher climate will be some of @fstateaudio's Skin Contact imprint.
#lisp ~ that conversation around KMP's port of #zmacs, TRES lost to the sands of time.
This isn't the show toot I'm just making noise that I'm alive, and at least I'm listening to NL right now.

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Without fail, every time I boost a post about discrimination on the fedi, I end up seeing a bunch of white guys trying trying to minimize it and telling the original poster why they're wrong and/or being unreasonable.

I'm getting the impression that just maybe the people complaining about this aren't making it up or something.

Weird, right?

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slightly doxxing myself
I just realized that I am 16161 days old today.

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Aw, Downtown Elvis has died. You were always a delight to see (especially if I was upwind of that terrible pipe smoke). Rest in peace.

henrywalser.com/memorials/ron-…
#dtkitchener #kitchener #kitchenerwaterloo

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Friends, I have a strange ask. Search engines are useless now so I'm hoping someone will know what I'm talking about.

When I was in undergrad, we read a study about drug use in rats. The researchers found that rats can get addicted to drugs, and when you stick a rat in a cage with no community, they almost always get addicted. But when you give them a little rat society with friends and fun stuff to do, some use recreationally but almost none become dependent.

What study was this??

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Mood, for me it's been Wacky World from the Lost Vikings
youtube.com/watch?v=wyyQQtxRl_…
(14:34 if the timestamp fails)


Ooh, I can become an "AWS Certified AI Practitioner", because maybe if we throw enough meaningless words together people won't realize it's all bullshit.

I mean, why not? It works for the AI models themselves, right?


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I am sometimes mistaken for an adult because of my age.


I think my phone is finally starting to give out. God, I hate having to pick (and pay for) a new one.


Hang on, tripod.com websites are still a thing?
in reply to Jeremy List

@Jeremy List I was on GeoCities by the time I learned about them. Didn't see a point in moving at the time.


Filed under the category of "things I didn't expect to find while thrifting":


ph, food

Been trying to stock up on healthy snacks because my blood sugar situation is slowly degrading.

I forgot how much I love hummus.



Our TV has a wonky HDMI port. When the cable gets bumped the picture on the screen goes to high-res static. This is not the behaviour I would expect from a digital signal.
in reply to uoou

@uoou Sadly, best I can do is 1080p, which I guess is fine since my eyes aren't 4K anyway.
@uoou
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I'm actually hearing a few people going back from 4k to 1080. 1080's certainly enough for me.


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please boost this post ​:boosts_ok_gay:​
Hi, I was forced to quit my job about a month ago now due to being forced to move by my partners anti-lgbt parents.

We moved to a much more rural area out of necessity unfortunyately job prospects are not looking so great out here.

They effectively kicked us out because they did not approve of what their church teaches them about "homosexual relationships" like the one i have with my transfem partner....

Both my partner and myself have cut down on a lot of our expenses and we desperately need assistance to help pay for a 3+ hour trip to the specialty clinic my partner goes to for her medical needs. Gas is expensive and I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide even if it's only boosting this post.

If you are able to donyate I've setup a revolut account, stripe donyation page as well as a Ko-fi page for donyations

Revolut - revolut.me/meowmreoow
Stripe - donate.stripe.com/fZe00Y16K2jB…
Ko-Fi - ko-fi.com/cyberboy3

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #mutualaidrequests #mutualaidreqest
#mutual_aid

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Begpost, mutual aid

Sensitive content

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I've been using a web site for #soroban practice that generates exercise sheets. They offer a service where they'll send you a worksheet by email on a scheduled basis, and I finally signed up for that. When I did, I was presented with a captcha. I normally despise these, but I think I'll let this one slide.

in reply to Dgar

Much of that going round these days.

I run with uBlock origin and privacy badger.

And I have no intention of stop running them.


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Me in 1991, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation:
"Oh boy, I can't wait until the 21st century. Touchscreens EVERYWHERE!!!!"

Me in 2024:
"Oh dear heavens, not another stupid touchscreen!!! AAAAAAAAAH!"

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@jerkface
My first thought: that photo looks familiar.

Then I read the caption.

Then I noticed the Oracle building.


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Advantages of right to repair. You can take your device apart to check what has been added along the supply chain.

Right to repair is now a security issue.

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in reply to Quixoticgeek

This is an excellent point,

though I doubt that anyone has ever derived much happiness from suing the Mossad.

in reply to Rocketman

@slothrop not sure where suing comes into it. But checking the device is what you think it is should now be the norm.
in reply to Quixoticgeek

What I meant was:

Technically speaking, you can always take apart and inspect a device in your possession. But e.g. sharing information about it publicly might get you sued by the OEM.

This is something that private individuals and companies worry about, but not intelligence agencies.

in reply to Rocketman

@slothrop a right to repair legal framework should make it so that your devices are built in a way that you can put them back together after taking them apart
in reply to uzayran

@uzayran @slothrop Imagine telling surgeons that we should all be able to complete surgeries
in reply to Delric

@delric @uzayran @slothrop rather, I would say that we *should* indeed tell surgeons that it is not acceptable to implant life saving devices with locked up software that stops working, bricking the device, when the manufacturer goes bust or loses interest. (Which is something that has actually happened, as I recall)
in reply to Quixoticgeek

I've been wondering all day since learning it was a supply chain attack if those who planned and implemented this operation realized the Pandora's box they were opening.



How do I know I'm getting old (and boring). I literally got excited about a new pill organizer.


As useful as GnuCash is, I wish it had a TUI. There's really no reason for it not to.


weird shower thought/rant about abacuses

A while ago on a whim, I did a somewhat deep dive into the abacus. I thought it would be interesting to learn about a device that is sometimes credited as an ancestor of the modern computer.

I've come to be of the opinion that it's not really a fair comparison though. An abacus is not a computer... at least not a full-fledged computer. It doesn't compute anything. Your brain does that. I think it is fair however to compare it to memory, though.

An abacus is essentially an array of memory cells. Instead of storing bytes, it stores digits, but that's a trivial distinction. You even have to allocate those memory cells to accommodate the structure of the data you are operating on, just like you would with the memory in a computer.

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weird shower thought/rant about abacuses
@drhoopoe I've had a very similar thought. I didn't know it had a formal name.



I hate that modern ICs aren't hand-solderable. I mean, I get why that is, but I still hate it.

Edit: typo



Can anyone recommend a #RasPi alternative for #embedded #electronics projects? There's the #Arduino, which is nice, but sometimes you need something with a little more oomph.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

esp32 and esp8266, the latter is cheaper and would work fine for most of your needs.

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That Mozilla thing makes me think of an effect I keep seeing that I tend to call inversion of expertise. I'm sure there's a better name that's already established, but that thing where a priority is set that's manifestly absurd, such that only people *without* the expertise to realize the absurdity get promoted into decision-making positions.

That then further erodes institutional capabilities, and makes it even harder to incorporate expertise.

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in reply to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

@BoydStephenSmithJr @ShadSterling Kind of... that's the idea that someone is promoted because they are competent, but fail to be promoted once they reach the ceiling of their competence, ensuring that they eventually end up in a job for which they are definitionally unsuited.

What I'm pointing out differs in two ways: the promotions in this case are *because* they're incompetent, and I'm looking for the systemic consequences of that selection rather than the individual consequences.



My mother-in-law overestimates my command of the Spanish language (though knowing French is admittedly helpful).

She claims that I understand 80% of what I hear. It's closer to 30%, but I can piece a lot together through context.

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That's bold, Mozilla, given that 100% of the unwanted AI that I've had pushed on me in the past two weeks has been from you.

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I love that every single time we order cat food, we get a tracking number after it's arrived.


Why does @Nextcloud πŸ“±β˜οΈπŸ’»'s web app work better than the actual official Android APK for editing files? That's kind of bonkers.

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I have a friend who is being harassed and threatened semi-anonymously via Facebook. She knows *who* it is, but Facebook and Police are characteristically being uselss.

I am kinda useless at this side of deanonymization, but does anyone have advice or resources for deanonymizing enough to get cops to move?

#infosec #batsignal

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in reply to silverwizard

if you can host a file on a site where you can look at the access logs and then post a link to that file, you might be able to bait them into downloading the file which could give you their IP address in the access logs. A whois search for the IP address.could get you their ISP and geolocation information on the IP could get you the general area.

That's a lot of "ifs" and "coulds", though.

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here is a Forbes article (that also points to more sources) on how to do it. Beware that it isn't a quick fix, but it can work if they are persistent (and it require some legal action, which isn't always affordable). forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2…
in reply to Jim Jones

from there, of the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.

Good luck.



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No, this is no a new CAPTCHA, this is a new malware vector which tricks users to open #Windows command line and paste a command to download some harmful stuff.

Just reported by Mohamed Aruham on Twitter.

in reply to Mike Macgirvin πŸ–₯️

I would like a different icon for the Super key than the four sqaures on most keys. I like the penguin logo but not for the Super key.

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