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New signal update just dropped, kinda excited

#tech #meme #shitpost #signal #privacy

Age verification systems are surveillance systems. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/california-lawmakers-should-reject-mandatory-internet-id-checks

This is a keynote that I quite enjoy and highly recommend. https://mastodon.social/@joxean/112631528543638454

Currently #Debian linux is going through a massive migration project to rely on a 64 bit time rather than a 32 bit time (to avoid #y2k38). Debian has these migrations from time to time. About 10 years ago there was a migration to leap a C++ ABI change. Every time these come up I'm amazed at how well executed they are and by how the core dpkg/apt tools have proven their fundamental over and over again for 30 (!!!!) years. I am so thankful to everyone involved in Debian for such a reliable OS.

This is wonderful piece about the really weird things going on in Austria, and what power and principles sometimes means.

https://www.politico.eu/article/rogue-austria-environment-minister-leonore-gewessler-burns-bridges-save-eu-nature-restoration-law/

#austria #biodiversity

Check out this AWESOME #Pride flag made by @rachellense !!!!
It’s using #NASA images to create a #ProgressPride flag!

See the AltText for the details on all the #astrophotography images that went into it!
#Pride2024

Turned on the radio and the first thing I hear is the phrase "anti-sunblock influencers."

This timeline is a parody of itself

Six years ago I did a prank on the Bitcoin Blockchain.

I got an art company to verify that I painted the Mona Lisa.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-blockchain/

Since then, my stunt has been cited in two-dozen academic papers.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/citations/#2018

Write that silly blog post. Test the limits of what works. Build something daft. Poke the bear. Experiment.

You never know what will happen if you do.