kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@qoto.org

#Rust tip of the day: if you need an uncommon #iterator quickly, build it from a closure using `std::iter::from_fn`.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/fn.from_fn.html

```
let mut count = 0;
let counter = std::iter::from_fn(move || {
count += 1;

if count < 6 {
Some(count)
} else {
None
}
});
```

#rustlang

I know, it’s just a “Someone Is Wrong On The Internet” piece, but that NYTimes piece about Why Signal Is Bad And Privacy Is Bad needs to be refuted in a compact explainer, so here’s mine: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK

"The Power of the 'Two Shot' in Nonfiction Writing"

... in which I unpack what long-form nonfiction writers can learn from studying documentary-film technique

For Medium subscribers, here's the essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-power-of-the-two-shot-in-nonfiction-writing-2edc6dcc73c

If you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a friend link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-power-of-the-two-shot-in-nonfiction-writing-2edc6dcc73c?sk=010bb2890b74a1df97195989c7e2c112

#writing #journalism #reporting

@jkosseff if you're using pacer, add the recap
Plug-in so others can access the same records for free. https://free.law/recap

Paying $10.60 to access a few court briefs on PACER is awful. When those briefs are in a First Amendment right of public access case, we're also in Alanis-level irony territory.

Oh wow, part of the reason the F-1 rocket engines that ended up in the SaturnV to take us to the moon, were originally engineered to be insanely powerful, was because they didn't know if nuclear weapons could be shrunk enough to easily fit on ICBMs. (23min in)
https://youtu.be/cUkbdqw9pBk

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2022-12-26/cancer-survivor-challenged-at-public-toilets-after-being-mistaken-for-a-man This is the collateral damage that (trans)Gender Critical Kathleen Stock called a “regrettableble cost” #transgender

Henry, the office #cat.

Waffles the #cat: a short story
#CatsOfMastodon #ThreeLeggedCat

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

#cat

My thoughts go out to the IT/security teams at The Guardian and Okta, and anyone else who was hoping to have a quiet holiday break....

Bayonetta 3 Validates Every Insecurity About My Life, Relationships, and Sexuality

Lucas DeRuyter examines his reaction to the end of #Bayonetta3 and how the end of Bayonetta's arc rejects what so many found inspirational about her

https://www.animefeminist.com/bayonetta-3-validates-every-insecurity-about-my-life-relationships-and-sexuality/

You, naive: computers are deterministic, therefore they are easy to understand
Me, jaded: lol. lmao.

Over the past week we've seen a noticeable uptick in men joining, following dozens of accounts presenting as women, and then messaging them directly.

Some appear to be real people, some are fake accounts with stolen identities.

Either way, this is stalking and harassing behaviour, and we have zero tolerance for it.

For those affected by accounts we fail to catch, please report them. We _will_ take action, and you'll help keep the community safe and welcoming for all.

Diolch.

#MastoMods

In a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that attackers gained access to its GitHub repositories this month and stole the company's source code.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/okta-says-its-github-account-hacked-source-code-stolen/

Ryle is now hospitalized after having a heart attack last night. Ryle asked the Awoo! moderation team to write a post on their behalf and to be transparent. The conversation was brief, and we have pieced together most of the details.

Ourselves believe the heart attack was caused by a combination of things, suspect the recent stress involving strong conversations around Fedifence, Fediblock and UFOI. The triggering message was in reply to one of the UFOI threads telling Ryle to kill themselves and with video footage of men brutally stabbing a woman to death. Ryle is unlikely to be around for a while.

Receipts of the post is available on request through direct message to: @Transparency

This material is heinous and will break rules of other instances, so we are only sending this instance administrators/moderators on request. They are free to share at their own risk the receipts.

DO NOT attempt to contact Ryle to harass, upset. The moderation team also now have full access to Ryle’s account, and ourselves will be actively removing any unpleasant direct messages left.

If the heart attack is discussed, ourselves ask that you PLEASE do not tag Ryle in the conversations. Replying to this message is okay. If you are going to discuss anything regarding Ryle otherwise, PLEASE do not tag Ryle on conversations that would cause stress.

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