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🤖🌱, professional cyber. (he/him)

"Everywhere we find DRM, we find fuckery." - @pluralistic

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@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

Remembering Ukrainian athletes killed in Putin's invasion is "not compliant with the rules".

Skeleton athlete kicked out over helmet with images of Ukrainians killed in war
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/12/ukraine-vladyslav-heraskevych-disqualified-winter-olympics-skeleton-helmet-protest-war-deaths

Remembrance is not a violation.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

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@rysiek I mean the IOC did let Hitler put on a full Nazi themed Olympics in 1936... So yeah not a great track record when it comes to sane decisions

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

My BiL lives in Japan and likes to send through pics of the English branded clothes, which although admittedly funny, is also sort of adorable. And at this stage I am 100% sure they're in on the joke.

Grey baseball cap, reads GLARING ABOUT SOMETHING OF JUSTICE
Blue baseball cap, reads FRESHLY YEARN NOTABLE
Grey jumper, reads pleasurable lucky me delighted

Grey jumper, reads pleasurable lucky me delighted
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@TheBreadmonkey paerhps, which honestly... why not?
Sounding it out still kinda works 🤷‍♂️

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Absolutely not

Thai woman wakes up in coffin at crematorium

https://news.sky.com/story/dead-thai-woman-sent-to-crematorium-wakes-up-in-coffin-13475133

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Fox news. So called because it'll go through your bins and shit on your doorstep.

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@TheBreadmonkey also very likely spreads rabies

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@catsalad got room for one more?

Picture of a black and white pencil drawing of an opossum, hissing/screaming angrily. It looks like it's from an old biology/zoology book. Above it, it says:"Why does the opossum scream?" Below it: 1. World is a fuck 2. He angy 3. Why aren't you screaming?
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Microsoft announces a new marketing strategy for the Year of the Linux Desktop 😉 Thank you for doing this. 😂 Nobody asked for this kind of product that breaks all privacy and safety standards. So choose wisely

A screenshot of post on Twitter by Pavan Davuluri (Microsoft employee) stating that "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere. Join us at #MSIgnite to see how frontier firms are transforming with Windows and what's next for the platform. We can't wait to show you!"
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@nixCraft oh I'm gonna make sure to ignite something alright

@tagesschau@ard.social avatar tagesschau , to random German

Vorwurf der Gewalt gegen Christen: Trump droht Nigeria mit Militäreinsatz

US-Präsident Trump hat Nigerias Regierung mit Militärschlägen gedroht. Als Grund führte er an, dass islamistische Terroristen dort Christen töteten. Nigerias Präsident Tinubu hatte schon zuvor Vorwürfe der religiösen Intoleranz zurückgewiesen.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/trump-nigeria-drohung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

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@tagesschau hört, hört! Der Paladin des Westens ruft zum heiligen Krieg 🙄

@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits 1:21 PM · Sep 3, 2025 · 42.4K Views
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@pluralistic congratulations! :D

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

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@Gargron the whole case of why I've always had an Android phone: I'm a dev, if I want something I can write and install it.

I almost never do of course, but it's completely fucked up for Google to expect me to register an account with their service to receive their blessed key material in order to install my stupid side project on my own device

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de avatar Codeberg , to random

We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today. The army of AI crawlers just leveled up and hit us very badly.

The good news: We're keeping up with the additional load of new users moving to Codeberg. Welcome aboard, we're happy to have you here. After adjusting the AI crawler protections, performance significantly improved again.

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@Codeberg isn't there precedent for people getting charged with US federal crimes for not adhering to a webservice's terms of use?
Somewhere under DMCA or CFAA...?

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    @CordiallyChloe @JessTheUnstill also hiring managers seem to want to read US-style "LinkedIn-lingo", that I can't bring myself to write about myself

    @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de avatar Codeberg , to random

    Psst... looking for a new club to join? 👀

    Great news, ours is looking for new members: https://codeberg.org

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    @Codeberg dat feel when your nick is still available

    @Duusi@jorts.horse avatar Duusi , to random

    As a social worker I am going to just point out that these age verification shenanigans are just the next step in locking OUT the most vulnerable in society. Paperless immigrants, homeless people (often no phone or ID) etc.

    This is just the next exercise in exclusion. A continuation to the move to digital payment and other digital "services". You can't for example pay for the bus in cash anymore.

    The grip around all our necks is getting pretty tight, we really need to start paying attention.

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    @JessTheUnstill @loganer @Duusi reminds me of a windows admin subreddit I stumbled across a while ago. There was a post from a small school district's sys admin asking how to keep the kids from playing Roblox on school laptops.

    The general consensus was: you can't

    @heiseonline@social.heise.de avatar heiseonline , to random German

    Liebe Influencer, auch in der digitalen Welt sind Steuern fällig... 🤓

    Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10487070?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

    Auf dem Bild sieht eine Frau, die vor einer Kamera Beauty-Produkte präsentiert. Im Bild steht: "Influencer hinterziehen 300 Millionen Euro in NRW" dadrunter steht: "Das Landesamt zur Bekämpfung der Finanzkriminalität in NRW untersucht aktuell 6.000 Datensätze, die auf massive Steuerhinterziehung durch professionelle Influencer hindeuten."
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    @heiseonline 300 Millionen Steuern nur in NRW?? Wie viele gibt's denn da?

    Bzw. wow ... ich habe bisher glaube ich die Summen krass unterschätzt, die da gezahlt werden 🤯

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    GENIUS Act (stablecoin bill) has passed the Senate.

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    @molly0xfff satire is dead.
    What jokes are there left to make when this is reality 😵‍💫

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    a new type of job employment has arrived, thanks to vibe coders 🤣 can you imagine security of such apps?

    An social media post from "erkanat.001" asks developers for advice. The post text reads: "Developers, please give me some advice We have a stack website Typescript, React, Supabase It was mostly done through AI services. 70% of the function is already working, 30% of it fails. Now we want to understand. What kind of developers do we need to hire? Or can I take part time?"
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    @nixCraft the age of the 10x Developer is over!

    Long live the 30% Dev

    @LillyHerself@mastodon.social avatar LillyHerself , to random

    Very good points, a reply to a CEO who wondered why his engineers were resistant to using LLMs for coding:

    Rob Leathern @robleathern Senior engineers are typically early adopters of genuinely useful technology - they're usually the first to embrace new tools, frameworks, and approaches that make their work more effective. If your most experienced engineers are resistant to Al while leadership is enthusiastic, that suggests a few possibilities: 1. The Al tools being pushed might not actually solve real problems the engineers face 2. There could be legitimate concerns about code quality, security, or technical debt that Al introduces 3. The engineers might be seeing downsides (like Al-generated code that looks good initially but creates maintenance headaches) that aren't immediately visible to non-technical stakeholders Senior engineers’ reluctance toward Al adoption would make me want to dig deeper into their specific concerns. 12:50 PM - May 31, 2025
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    @LillyHerself it's like...I know how I want to implement a feature within the technical constraints and subject matter context I'm working in.

    Why would I sit down and try to explain in natural language my intentions and the surrounding constraints to a machine that has no concept of semantic knowledge?
    Any response might be an ~alright first draft, but then I'd have to go in and converse my way to the solution I want, and in the end I'll have to manually edit stuff anyway.
    THAT seems horribly inefficient.

    If you wanna talk about reducing the time spent writing boilerplate code, look at languages like elixir with the phoenix framework.
    You can generate boilerplate without stochastic wordpickers!

    @heiseonline@social.heise.de avatar heiseonline , to random German

    Aus Kohlekraftwerken: Pakistan verspricht 2000 MW für KI und Bitcoin-Mining

    Pakistan will die Kryptobranche und KI-Rechenzentren anlocken und stellt dafür Strom bereit. Den sollen anfangs nicht ausgelastete Kohlekraftwerke liefern.

    https://www.heise.de/news/Aus-Kohlekraftwerken-Pakistan-verspricht-2000-MW-fuer-KI-und-Bitcoin-Mining-10396225.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

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    @heiseonline würde man glaubwürdige Klimaschutzpolitik betreiben müsste man dieses Projekt in Grund und Boden Sanktionieren

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    @malwaretech I mean...once they've successfully dismantled the past 25 years of progress, we can maybe start from scratch and not build a surveillance capitalist centralized hellhole this time? 🥴

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    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    Microsoft says 30% of their code ist now AI generated.

    As someone who has to use (and maintain) an Office 365 tenant (and all the Microsoft client software) I believe them 100%. This is not a recommendation.

    https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/

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    @tante I was gonna say...more of a cautionary tale than anything else

    @Tattie@eldritch.cafe avatar Tattie , to random

    Which one of you Fedi weirdos* was at the Edinburgh trans rights demo holding the sign saying:

    private String gender
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    @gsuberland @Tattie
    babe wake up, new patch set just dropped!

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    I boosted several posts about this already, but since people keep asking if I've seen it....

    MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration Program, will expire on April 16. The CVE database is critical for anyone doing vulnerability management or security research, and for a whole lot of other uses. There isn't really anyone else left who does this, and it's typically been work that is paid for and supported by the US government, which is a major consumer of this information, btw.

    I reached out to MITRE, and they confirmed it is for real. Here is the contract, which is through the Department of Homeland Security, and has been renewed annually on the 16th or 17th of April.

    https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70RCSJ23FR0000015_7001_70RSAT20D00000001_7001

    MITRE's CVE database is likely going offline tomorrow. They have told me that for now, historical CVE records will be available at GitHub, https://github.com/CVEProject

    Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director at MITRE's Center for Securing the Homeland, said:

    “On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, funding for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program and related programs, such as the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) Program, will expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to support MITRE’s role in the program and MITRE remains committed to CVE as a global resource.”

    MITRE | SOLVING PROBLEMS FOR A SAFER WORLD" April 15, 2025 Dear CVE Board Member, We want to make you aware of an important potential issue with MITRE’s enduring support to CVE. On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, the current contracting pathway for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize CVE and several other related programs, such as CWE, wil expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to continue MITRE’ role in support of the program If a break in service were to occur, we anticipate multiple impacts to CVE, including deterioration of national vulnerability databases and advisories, tool vendors, incident response operations, and all manner of critical infrastructure. MITRE continues to be committed to CVE as a global resource. We thank you as a member of the CVE Board for your continued partnership. Sincerely, Yosry Barsoum VP and Director Center for Securing the Homeland (CSH) 7515 Colshire Drive ® McLean, VA 22102-7539 ® (703) 983-6000
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    @briankrebs oof I hope we're able to stand up an independently founded international organization to quickly take over.
    If this fractures into dozens of national registries it's gonna be saaad :(

    Also in hindsight: kinda stupid that we didn't start making contingency plans for this kind of shit after Dear Leader was elected...

    @evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

    So much of cybersecurity is "We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans," and not "Why the fuck are you building an Orphan Crushing Machine in the first place?"

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    @evacide yeah seems like all the little cyberpunk nerds grew up to be filthy Corpos :(

    @ossiarch@wizzzard.online avatar ossiarch , to random
    one tumblr user says they wonder what happened to the UI designer of Civilization 6, one replies it was Luigi Mangione, then a screenshot of an article saying Mangione fixed hundreds of bugs for the Civ 7 UI
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    @lritter @ossiarch * the troubleshooter 😬

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets

    Tweet by Eric Trump: I love the genius of announcing a strategic reserve on a Sunday, when traditional markets are closed and Wall Street sleeps. For the first time, retail investors win. Traditional finance better catch up, or it will quickly become extinct. The world no longer runs on a Mon-Friday, 9 to 5. @worldlibertyfi #BTC #ETH Screenshot of Trump's posts: Avatar Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump And, obviously, BTC and ETH, as other valuable Cryptocurrencies, will be the heart of the Reserve. I also love Bitcoin and Ethereum! Avatar Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 2d A U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden Administration, which is why my Executive Order on Digital Assets directed the Presidential Working Group to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA. I will make sure the U.S. is the Crypto Capital of the World. We are MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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    @molly0xfff I'm 99% convinced that all the asinine shit they do is to manipulate the markets.
    Same with the tariffs. Doesn't matter if the market makes big moves up or down, if you know beforehand you'll make big money.

    Only people getting really fucked by a rapidly declining Dow are small investors with their 401Ks and ETFs that are depending on long-term growth

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    @NanoRaptor when you want to work on your laptop but also want to have that old-timey 20th century coffee shop experience of unfolding a canvas sized fucking newspaper 😅

    @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org avatar frameworkcomputer , to random

    The Framework website is now back online!

    We appreciate your patience and support during the outage. You can now explore the latest products we announced today, place your pre-orders, or join our mailing list.

    Thank you for your interest!

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    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    Nobody likes them. 💯

    A funny social media post about the common frustrations with printers, particularly their tendency to malfunction unexpectedly and the frequent downtime of printer manufacturer websites.
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    @nixCraft it's the worst kind of digital-analog converter we have

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    Über die Sascha Lobo Kolumne beim Spiegel: "Die Spiegel Kolumne hat nur zum Ziel, eine Stimmung des diffusen technischen Handlungsdrucks zu erzeugen, eine Emotion, die DAX Konzerne dann durch einen Lobo Vortrag versuchen zu verarbeiten (Mittelalte Middle-Managers would literally hire Sascha Lobo instead of going to therapy)."

    (Original title: Die Sascha Lobo Methode)

    https://tante.cc/2025/01/23/die-sascha-lobo-methode/

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    @tante "Linus Neumann bei Wish bestellt" strikes again...

    Ich fand das ja irgendwann mal alles ganz nett, dass man den Eltern einfach mal nen Link zu lesen geben konnte und sich nicht immer selber den Mund fransig reden musste.
    Aber das kannste dir schon seit Jahren ja echt nicht mehr antun...

    Das mit der FOMO-Maschine triffts ganz gut finde ich!

    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

    Which Torment Nexus do you recommend then?

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    @aral actually, it's GNU Nexus

    @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io avatar Impossible_PhD , to random

    Saw a thing on tiktok where someone said:

    "The single-sex bathroom argument is as antifeminist as it gets. It's a total surrender to patriarchy, because it assumes that men not only cannot control themselves around women, they shouldn't even bother to try."

    And holy shit that's fire.

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    @Impossible_PhD currently attending an event with 15.000 people of various ages and genders or lack thereof.
    There's only non-gendered bathrooms here and nobody gives a fuck

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    did you know if you open a HYSA at american express, you cannot transfer funds from a business checking account linked to that HYSA?

    the only way to do it would be AMEX checking -> some other account -> AMEX HYSA

    and this has apparently been an issue for YEARS

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    @molly0xfff TWO addresses? In this economy??

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    stop doomscrolling for a second and look at this cutie. he doesn’t even know what an election is.

    Atlas, a mostly black pit bull/husky/german shepherd mix. He’s sitting and wearing a green sweatshirt. Molly is scratching him under his chin. He has his ears tucked back in sport mode and he looks like a seal.
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    @molly0xfff bless him. Good boy 😍

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    Bro is getting better everyday installing Arch ... LMAO. Yes, it is real https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTUULw3bjATzc86JscVaBHy-O_d_1Ibh

    Screenshot from YouTube playlist: Installing Arch Linux every day until I find a girlfriend.
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    @nixCraft might be fishing in the wrong pond...I've heard all the girls are out there installing NixOS these days

    @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange avatar 0xabad1dea , to random

    it's astonishing how often this happens in my line of work:

    client: can you review our source code for security issues?

    me: of course!

    [we stare at each other in a long, tense silence]

    me: ... may I see the source code?

    client: absolutely not.

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    @dougall @0xabad1dea yup immediately thought of that as well 😄

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

    related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

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    @mwl @molly0xfff
    Not mansplaining directed at you two, but just a caveat for "regular" people to think about before anchoring their online identity to a domain, is who owns the TLD.

    That cool TLD you got might become really fucking expensive in 10 years, so it might be better to stick with boring stuff like .net, .com, .de etc.

    Just a nightmare scenario I went over in my mind the other day...what steps would be necessary to safely abandon my old domain of 8+ years and move to a new one, should it become too expensive one day 😅

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    @molly0xfff @mwl aah right I forgot about the .af debacle 🙈💩

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    back in my day we called this spyware

    New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
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    @molly0xfff our workers council is gonna have a field day with this one^^

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    @molly0xfff

    "Today, I want to talk about something critical to our company’s future: prioritizing security above all else." – Satya Nadella, May 3, 2024

    🤡