⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Do I have to go on my rant again about Microsoft keep letting DWM get exploited in the wild and patch over it *after* MSTIC pull the exploit from an attacker or victim's PC? At least it's not Kaspersky this time, I guess.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-30400

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This week, the chatterati -- Rory Stewart, Alastair Campbell, Guardian columnists and others -- are coming out and saying the #Israel may just possibly have gone a little too far with its #GazaGenocide. Give them another year, another fifty thousand deaths, and perhaps the BBC, and even the UK and German governments, will follow suit.

It's too little. It's too late. By denying condemnation until #Gaza has been reduced to a ruined charnel house, they are #Complicit.

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[RSS] Dubious security vulnerability: A program does not run correctly if you run it the wrong way, redux

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250512-00/?p=111174

CoMaps: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/

Anyone have first-hand experience running #Linux on a recent #framework 13 (Intel or AMD doesn't matter much, I think, but do let me know) and using multiple #Thunderbolt (3) devices behind a Thunderbolt 4 hub (I was eyeing the CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Element Universal Multi-Port Hub, but other first-hand accounts welcome)? I've been trawling the community forums but to no avail.

For now I only have hardware with a TB3 port so I could only validate that the one device (a BlackMagic UltraStudio Recorder 3G, if you must ask) works under Linux. I guess experience on recent laptop hardware under similar conditions would be useful too (one TB4 port, one TB4 hub, multiple TB3 devices).

Plugging the devices on different ports would certainly work (my usecase only requires 2 devices), but using the hub as a power source for both the laptop and the attached devices seems like a compelling combination to me.

Okay, #retrogaming #retroverse, do your magic - I need your help.

Supposedly, there's an Italian translation of the game "Masters of the Elements".

UPDATE: THE HUNT IS OVER, thanks to @geoffl who found the original title AND A SITE WHERE IT WAS AVAILABLE TO BUY!

It is called "I Signori degli Elementi" and was published by "Editori Riuniti Multimedia"

Thank you so much, and thanks to everyone helping to connect!

Here is a different wide angle projection of the selfie. Perseverance recently collected a new sample at a location named "Pine Pond", and the resulting drill hole is visible in front of the rover.

Full resolution: flic.kr/p/2r45L89

Perseverance also happened to catch a dust devil moving through the outer parts of Neretva Vallis.

Do you know what the Nakba is?

(Curious how common this knowledge is; poll results are anonymous.)

Please help find out how many people are aware, and reshare: If you’re a German national, please take one of the 🇩🇪 options. For everyone else, please use one of the other two. I can share more when the poll ends.

#nakba

Reddit sells its content to Sam Altman's OpenAI for AI training purposes.

Reddit claims to be in dire need of a verification partner to distinguish if posters are humans or bots.

How much do you bet the third-party "humanity verification partner" they will select or prioritize will "conveniently" be Sam Altman's iris scanning World App?

From TechCrunch: Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/reddit-will-tighten-verification-to-keep-out-human-like-ai-bots/

#Privacy #Reddit #Worldcoin #WorldApp #NoAI #AI

Listening to a podcast where they just don’t know if iPhone users will be comfortable buying things outside the App Store. For some in-app things, maybe, but we gotta stop talking about ecommerce as some sort of niche thing.

The App Store made about $90 billion in revenue last year, while ecom did about $6 trillion, so App Store transactions account for about 1.5% of global ecom. That’s a lot for one store, but it’s still a slice.

“No computers.” the guard said harshly, holding out a metal box.

I put my phone in the box. He didn’t budge. I took off my smart watch and added it in.

“Are you sure you have no more computers? The detector sends out a brief EMP. It would be a shame to destroy any gadgets. Or injure you." He was staring at the side of my face.

Ah. I removed the Connex from my temple. I’d forgotten it was there.

He ushered me into what looked like an old electronic doorway, then pressed a button. A light flashed.

"You're free to enter. Enjoy." No smile.

I passed through a corridor to desk where a receptionist smiled. "First time?"

"Yes, is it obvious?"

"Don't worry. It's simple. Through the double doors there you'll find the main selection of books, by era and topic. It's colour-coded and easy to follow. You'll need these if you want to touch anything." She put a paper mask and thin laboratory gloves on the desk.

"Behind you is the iffy section, as we call it. Books printed after 2015."

"2015?! I thought AI printed books only appeared in the mid 2020s."

"That's probably true, but we can't be sure. Preserving authentic pre-AI knowledge is our raison d'être. We can't be too safe."

Her look turned serious and I saw the devotion to the cause in her eyes. Since the Big Corruption of '32, no digital files could be trusted to replicate original human knowledge. This library was a time capsule.

"Can books be taken out?"

"No, I'm afraid not. We couldn't let them back in, as they could be fakes."

"So, can I copy things? My phone and Connex were taken away. Do you have a camera to message me chapters?"

"No, we're strictly machine-free. but we have several scribes. They're very good." She was enjoying my puzzled look.

"They can copy down whole pages for you. With pen and paper," she answered my unspoken question.

"Pen and paper?" these were words of tales and myths.

"Come, I'll show."

#devotion #MastoPrompt #microfiction #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

"Hey, we're gonna take a screenshot of your PC every five seconds to feed our AI, mmkay? Oh wait, you want a screenshot of a meeting slide? Heck no we don't want your COMPANY to sue us!"

-Microsoft, definitely

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-teams-will-soon-block-screen-capture-during-meetings/

#privacy #microsoft