Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

apparently i passed a phishing awareness test last week by correctly ignoring a fake linkedin email

nobody tell my boss that i ignored it entirely on the assumption that it was a real linkedin email

https://mastodon.social/users/torproject/statuses/110906828593942566

@torproject announced they will participate in Gitcoin funding round and everyone immediately started attacking them, saying it's a scam, and telling them that they don't need the money (lol).

Well, Gitcoin is basically a crowdfunding platform. It's definitely not a scam, and I know many FOSS projects that used it. Also, Gitcoin is actually interesting because they use an innovative donation matching mechanism called Quadratic Funding (see https://www.wtfisqf.com).

There's nothing wrong with Tor Project using this platform to raise more money. Trying to prevent them from doing so is absolutely insane, and this is what brainwashing by "web3 is going just great" does to you. This account is slandering good projects while constantly promoting actual scams which no one would ever heard of otherwise.

Bad software enrages me so hard sometimes, especially when from some massive corporation.

It literally takes longer for MS Outlook to open a fucking plain-text message already stored on my hard drive than it takes for my browser to load a website that I'm hosting on a 15 EUR/month server.

And I sometimes hear the CPU fan wind up every time I open a mail. Sometimes it hangs for 5 seconds until it opens it.

How the fuck?

Mozilla Thunderbird is free/libre software, costs zero dollars, and works better.

This is interesting.

- 25% of Britons say they view trans people negatively. (Higher than I expected, to be honest.)

- But if you ask trans people how they perceive it, they think 56% of Britons view them negatively.

- Similarly, if you ask Britons how they perceive it, they think only 51% of Britons view trans people negatively.

There seems to exist more than twice as much *perceived* transphobia than what could be called *openly admitted* transphobia.

(Even with the openly admitted, I wonder how many were actually thinking of trans *activists* when asked about trans people, and answered in accordance to that. So the "real" transphobia could be even less.)

(It's similar with homophobia if you look at it as a ratio, though the absolute numbers are much smaller.)

Me: MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names?? Good lord

Friend: No this makes sense, it's a chain of dependencies. Every teams channel is a SharePoint folder

I think god is dead for sure

@sorrowl @winter if only you knew how bad things really are

@anonicus Jesus Christ end Pokémon already

A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.

🤔

SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"

sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.

@mangeurdenuage @rgarner Love how more than half the issues are telling them to get fucked and all of the ones that aren’t are still saying it’s a bad idea lmao

>have problem
>look up problem
>someone else had problem and made an issue on the github
>other people +1d it
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.
>other issue created for same problem
>other people +1d it
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.
>other issue created mentioning the other auto closed issues
>even more people respond with their experiences with this annoying ass bug
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.

I saved this a while ago and I still laugh every time I read it. I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's one of those things that are always funny to me. There are only two meme/cartoons that have this effect on me (the other one is Dog Fort)

I hear the government is doing IoT cybersecurity labels? They're welcome to reuse mine from a while back.