Francesco Yoshi Gobbo @frayoshi@qoto.org

Just put together an early "merry xmas" online for you all 🎄 ❤️

https://xmas.stux.me

Not done yet but we still have a few days

Source, use however you like:
https://stux.xyz/stux/xmas

Pro tip. Give your midlevel male programmers the title of Seniór Developer, abbreviated Sr. Dev. They will think its a promotion and work harder.

Hey everyone! I'm guessing a lot of you will be buying last minute gifts for people, and those tend to involve gift cards. Be very careful when you're buying these off-the-rack at retail stores that sell gift cards for various popular restaurants and brands. Especially those that are not in particularly tamper-proof packaging.

A friend just shared some photos he took after buying a bunch of Dardens restaurant gift cards for some gifts to clients. They didn't discover until leaving the store that several of the cards had been tampered with, their PIN scratch-offs re-covered with look-alike scratch off stickers. Also, the phony ones seem to have goofy looking barcodes, like they were scanned and printed by a laser printer without enough ink.

The trick here is the thieves pull the card out, scratch off the PIN part, record that, cover up the pin with fake tape, and then shove the thing back in the packaging and put it back on the shelf. Then, when someone buys it, the thieves can access the value on the card the minute it is activated (purchased).

The image shows two of these cards that are non-tampered (left) and two on the right that were. These cards can slide right out of their packaging with a little wiggling, and slide back in the same way.

Some stores keep their gift cards behind the counter for this reason. Might be best going for those instead of the ones in aisle 19.

I'm the kind of person that gets excited by talks like this! #blender3d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pabcq2obH1s

I don’t understand email. How do I know which email service to choose? Won’t I be stuck only communicating with people on the same server? How will people find me? What if I don’t like my service and have to change my email address? Or if my service goes out of business? Why do some email providers charge money and others are free? Will I get ads in my email? It’s all so confusing. Why don’t we all agree on one giant email server that we all use that is secure and benevolent and free?

More than 5 million 20th century vital records (birth, marriage, death & naturalization docs) from the Maryland State Archives have been made freely available on the Internet Archive for public use, thanks to efforts from Reclaim The Records: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/reclaim-the-records-maryland-history-public-records-Z2GZR7JWHBCBVDDO6PDOZDAUVI/

This fascinating timelapse of an orb-weaver spider building her web is even more remarkable considering she removes it before dawn each day and constructs a new one every night to avoid daytime predators.

Credit: dinaoren0/tiktok
Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@dinaoren0/video/7001678707005852933

Official mirrors to download Blender any time our websites are down:

🇪🇺 https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/
🇺🇸 https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/blender/release/
🇨🇳 https://mirrors.aliyun.com/blender/release/

* Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/365670/Blender/
* Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PP3C07GTVRH
* Snap: https://snapcraft.io/blender

Source code: https://github.com/blender
#b3d

Been trying something with scroll controls and can't say I hate it

https://relax.stux.me

https://stux.xyz/stux/relax

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/11/meta_youtube_criminal_charges/

Criminal complaint against Google Ireland ltd. now also filed.

I just filed a criminal complaint against Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. under Section 2 and Section 5 of the Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Act 2017 for:

"illegally deploying surveillance technology to my computers for the purpose of monitoring my behaviour, as they had no reasonable excuse or lawful authority to do so."

and

"illegally intercepting transmission of data within an information system (my computing devices) for the purpose of monitoring my behaviour."

The Count Catula 🐾 #catsofmastodon #cats #halloween #funny

this chart changed my fucking life