George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

AnandTech shuts down after 27 years https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232171/anandtech-tech-journalism-hardware

The end of an era. AnandTech will stop publishing articles after 27 years.
End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

PSA 

We only refer to twitter as Birdchan now

Pope Francis said at the Vatican that those who work systematically and with every means possible to repel immigrants are committing a grave sin.

Please make sure all Christian Republicans see this.

Anyone need a molecular biologist? PhD + 15 years' industry experience. Expertise in HIV replication, general mol & cell bio, in vitro diagnostics, analytical and functional assay design, V&V, production, regulatory. If it involves a binding event I can build an assay for it. ELISA, MSD, ELISpot, MOPA, OPA, MNT, lateral flow. Management experience up to team of 20, familiar with cGxP and 21CFR820. I communicate clearly, work collaboratively and set clear, measurable goals.

#FediHire

Make your Monday brighter with some colorful gradients in your terminal.

yes "$(seq 231 -1 16)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\n"; sleep .02; done

The legendary Herobrine tried to connect to my Minecraft server. As seen on a VT420 terminal. You'll be able to see this VT420 terminal at VCFMW 19 in Chicago on Sept 7th. https://www.vcfmw.org/

Project 2025 would change the 40hr workweek to a 160hr work-month, so your boss could make you work extra hours with no overtime pay by cutting your hours later in the month. See page 592.

#Telegram is a tricky ecosystem from security perspective, because it’s quite diverse and complex:

Public groups and chats are widely used by both #Russia and #Ukraine. These include both publicly available and “private” (invite-only) chats neither can be really considered secret because…
…group chats can’t be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), so their contents are readable to at least Telegram operators, probably as easily as running a single SQL query.
Telegram bots don’t support E2EE either.

So here’s an important distinction: while Telegram is great and highly usable for disseminating public or semi-public information (unencrypted public or invite-only groups), it’s quite poor for highly confidential communications. Yet, especially the Russian side uses it a lot for just that - there are reports of “secret groups” used for front-line command or control, correction of fire or as a channel for communication with spies and collaborators in Ukraine. Except these “secret groups” really aren’t, at least not in OPSEC and cryptographic sense (groups can’t use E2EE in Telegram).

This is one purely marketing win for Telegram, because even mainstream journalists notoriously confuse these concepts.

Yes, it is technically possible that a Russian operator opens an actual “secret chat” with each of his collaborator, but it’s highly impractical and I doubt majority of them do it.

Which is further confirmed by the panic caused by detention of Durov in Russian military channels 🤷

In any case, France taking over Telegram infrastructure is still highly speculative - the main point of the arrest is almost complete lack of moderation in Telegram, even for the most severe CSAM (child abuse) content.

While in Russia arrest of Durov would likely lead to his genitals being connected to a field telephone in order to convince him to hand over the infrastructure (that’s why he ran away from Russia in the first place), in #France he will be likely just subject to a regular, boring law enforcement process that ends with a trial and suspended sentence, at best, if he agrees to improve content moderation. Part of the panic in Russia is that Russian routinely project the practices of their own law enforcement onto everyone else.

Many spaces in #AmateurRadio such as #ARRL #Yaesu #WSJT-X either directly or indirectly tell #blind and #disabled #HamRadio ops every day that we just don't belong and we don't count through their ongoing and flagrant unwillingness to consider implementing even the most basic concepts of #inclusive or #universal #design principles in any of their products, programs or services. Let's all agree that it is long past time for that to change! #accessibility #disability #a11y

they said it couldn't happen, but land and sea have finally united for playtime

#dogs #dolphins

GOOD NEWS: The US government has announced that it will again offer free at-home Covid tests starting in late September.

You will be able to get 4 more free test kits sent through the mail.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/covid-tests-us-will-offer-free-at-home-kits-starting-late-september.html

My former employer, Rebus Foundation, a Canadian open education charity is hiring for several roles

- Director of Programs
- Program Operations Manager
- Marketing and Communications Manager

The jobs are remote. As in actually remote. You don't have to be in Canada to apply, though they can only offer healthcare benefits to those in Canada.

https://rebus.foundation/work-with-us/

"I heard there'd be joy in Chicago but what I've seen is pure ecstasy, a rave instead of a convention. What has gotten into the Democrats?!" #DNC

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 🧵1/...

🎁 #GiftLink https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/chicago-dnc-democrat-vibe-ecstasy-20240821.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview

Me, Myself, and iJustine https://www.theverge.com/creators/24225269/ijustine-youtube-content-creator-justine-ezarik

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/08/21/evolving-javascript-with-douglas-crockford/

In POS we trust 🙏

***** Without warning, #Google appears to have broken #Chrome for still supported Linux systems *****

I'm receiving reports -- and have confirmed locally -- that Google appears to have broken support for the Chrome browser for Ubuntu Linux 18.04 systems, without any warning that I'm aware of.

While 18.04 is an older system, many are running with extended support from Canonical that runs through 2028. Many of these systems are in crucial applications where upgrading to later Ubuntu versions is not currently practical.

The problem appears to be that while Chrome Stable 127 is fine on these systems, Chrome Stable 128 now being rolled will not upgrade via apt, due apparently to the system libgcc-s1 library not being >= 4.2.

While there may be manual workarounds for this situation, they cannot be considered generally applicable since tampering with system libraries can easily render a system unbootable.

If Google intended to obsolete Chrome on these systems, there should have been plenty of warning -- but apparently there was none. Not being able to update Chrome invokes a variety of serious security concerns.

The current situation is unacceptable. -L