LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@qoto.org

@icedquinn

A must watch

@eris

You can say the same about Boris Johnson

@lynne

As always, thank you for your posts

@eris

Monopolize and monetize, missy.

Master matriarchs manipulate maps.

@shibao
A poor man's calzone is just a folded up pizza.

@eris

I read this as ". ger" boa

@eris

Lemonade?

@Silicanus

Blocking asbestos.cafe for horny-posting.

@garyackerman

Mankind was created ignorantly blind- gaining enlightenment by creating questions.

@mwl

Computers are like onions. Any time someone compares them to a piece of cake, you have to assume they're on drugs.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

Huffman, a Reddit founder, has downplayed concerns about the protest action, telling employees in an internal memo Monday that the blackout “will pass” like “all blowups on Reddit,” according to the Verge.
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Huffman compared the moderators to “landed gentry” and said they were not being held accountable.
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“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he told NBC. “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

Huffman also told the Verge that the protests “are not representative of the greater Reddit community.”
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“I think it’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company,” Huffman told NPR.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

They're always hiring. Must mean something other than growth.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

>>If you want to absolutely destroy a website that is all about building communities and meeting new people, then aim for the site and all communities to always be growing as much as possible. Make that a design goal of the site. Pump those subscriber numbers up.

<< So more people means less community?

>>What you’ll get is a place where everyone is a stranger, where being a jerk is the norm, where there is no sense of belonging, where civility and arguing in good faith is irrelevant because you’re not talking to someone, you’re performing in front of an audience to make the number next to your comment go up so you can briefly feel something that almost resembles belonging and shared values.

<< Someone on Fedi feels targeted, I'm sure.

>>Terminally online and starving for human connection, you’re left clinging on to this artificial sense of belonging like Harlow’s monkeys to their wire-mesh mothers. It will never be real, but it’s all you have.

<< This sounds like something that's been happening since the 80s...

>>The only sense of belonging you can find is through tribalism, deep trenches are dug along the fault-lines of the most superficial differences because that’s all there is to see. Nuance requires lasting relationships. People aren’t really people, they’re reduced to an opinion you can’t tolerate, or a flavor of potato chips you can’t stand, a starter pokemon you think is lame.

<< What about those who mutually feel disadvantaged or outcast?

@hackernews@die-partei.social

2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then
** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it
** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder.
** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a
** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the
** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain.
** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite"
** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but
** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart
** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid
** of the file.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

...After spending 2 weeks browsing normally with my hacked kernel, I found only one site that I could not access only from my desktop. freedesktop.org appears to have rules set to drop evil bit packets. freedesktop.org is in the IP space of Portland University, so after even more digging I found that all of the Portland University address space drops evil bit packets!
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Cc @peterdrake

@hackernews@die-partei.social

A local activist known as HDizz revealed details behind the move last month, tweeting public records of a July 2022 email exchange between local residents and the city supervisor’s office. In the emails, residents complained about open drug use and sidewalks blocked by residents who are unhoused. One relayed a secondhand story about a library worker who had been followed to her car. And by way of response, they demanded the library limit the hours Wi-Fi was available. “Why are the vagrants and drug addicts so attracted to the library?” one person asked rhetorically. “It’s the free 24/7 wi-fi.”
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On whether shutting off nighttime Wi-Fi would solve anything, Jennifer Friedenbach of San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness told The Verge in a phone interview that “folks are not out there on the streets by choice. They’re destitute and don’t have other options. These kinds of efforts, like turning off the Wi-Fi, just exacerbate homelessness and have the opposite effect. Putting that energy into fighting for housing for unhoused neighbors would be a lot more effective.”

@hackernews@die-partei.social

How can this be prevented?
When attempting to model this particular threat, it is important to keep in mind that this requires complete physical access for possibly a minimum of a few hours. Additionally, the use of full disk encryption (with a Passphrase and TPM) would prevent an attacker from obtaining data from the laptop’s drive.

In order to increase the difficulty of this type of attack, manufacturers could include the BIOS and EEPROM packages into one Surface Mount Device (SMD). This would require performing a chip-off attack to intercept the same communications. Some motherboard manufacturers already use this process, either on purpose or unintentionally, for modern or higher-end systems.