Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

if you got arrested after a nationwide manhunt, what would the media pull from your internet activity to make into ominous headlines?

@jillL @molly0xfff

Someday: “The suspect's social media footprint shows an interest in a game called “Chess" where the player tries to abduct a queen.”

just making sure everyone knows that Michael Whelan -- whose art is on the cover of a huge number of sf/fantasy novels from the 80s through present -- is on this site

https://mastodon.social/@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art/113538825602686293

Would you upload your biometric data to a central database to save border agents time during travel security checks?

The European Commission is asking for feedback on a proposal to digitalise passports - but we raise several big concerns.

https://edri.org/our-work/pre-travel-controls-digitalising-travel-documents/

#EUTravelApp

A copy of "Surrounded by Idiots" by Thomas Erikson on bookshelf facing front. On each side is a copy of "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson.

@lynnesbian Oh hey! I'm the person who originally submitted this to reddit.

As far as I know, this rule is no longer in place. It still shows up in some recent-ish documents (like [1]), but a train driver I know showed me a screenshot of a document explicitly stating that this paragraph was made obsolete.

It also doesn't show up in the current R 300.5 anymore. [2]

[1]: https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/rechtliches/rechtsgrundlagen-vorschriften/fdv.html

[2]: https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/rechtliches/rechtsgrundlagen-vorschriften/fdv.html

in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine

i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them

you: taking the specialization "guy who posts about oxford commas"

me: calmly asserting that of course she can knit guns

God no one can argue with numbers the way I can though. Sitting in these offices in such severe pain and my stack of research papers and my logs. I am the reason I got care, over and over again. Paying for the wrong tests as a price for getting them to give me the right ones finally. Knowing how to spot bad interpretations of results.

I do not feel that I ever sat in those offices as an actual patient receiving actual guidance and expertise. What would that be like.

@catsalad the pipegreppers union! there’s so many things to love … no idea where I got it tho

Germany-based #SovereignTechFund contributes 384.000 EUR to #OpenStreetMap over two years. And the best part: it's not for fancy features big sponsors think they need, but for technical debt removal, documentation, testing infrastructure, vandalism prevention, and two additional paid roles.

@sovtechfund once again made a great choice and continues to follow their strategy of sustainable support of critical #OpenSource projects, which @openstreetmap definitely is.

Src: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/12/20/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-in-openstreetmap/

“I keep wondering, Who did this, and what were they thinking?” https://www.curbed.com/article/mystery-home-depot-behr-odd-paint-names-white-paint-climate-change.html

Looking back.
Klosters Dorf, #Graubünden #Schweiz
#RhB #train #kurventrööt

so many #threat modeling workflows are uncivilized, creaky, positively antediluvian.

#threatmodeling should be modern, configured as code, a creative, collaborative romp to reify a defensive strategy that outmaneuvers attackers.

thus, this yule, my deciduous.app co-conspirator @rpetrich and I bear a gift: Deciduous-VS, a #VSCode extension to build and visualize decision trees within your IDE 🎄 (== local dev for classified/regulated envs, too)

learn more in my post: https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/deciduous-for-vscode-local-decision-tree-editing/