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When I was little, I had a friend named Maria del Pilar. She had caught polio and had to wear a full steel body brace to keep her spine upright so her lungs wouldn't collapse. She loved Federico Garcia Lorca. She was a probing and creative reader who taught me so much about Spanish literature.
She killed herself at the age of 23, unable to stand living with the pain of her destroyed skeletal system.
That's who I think of when people try to sanewash RFK Jr.
I am seized by a bottomless rage.
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I don't have such a painfully personal connection, but yeah.
As a kid I knew adults who had polio as children, including one of my mom's boyfriends who was just a little older than her and caught it before the vaccine. Crutches and braces weren't common, but they were familiar. And the families who still mourned a brother or sister.
Then – for my generation in my part of the world – polio just wasn't a thing.
I think of those families and those people every time I come across antivax body purity faith healer types.
Did you grow up in Vietnam during the war? When I lived there, I did know people who had polio as kids because the war made the distribution of vaccines really chaotic.
I got polio & became paralyzed from the live vaccine but it saved millions of others. I support vaccinations. I used to speak for Rotary International's Polio Eradication campaign in US & Canada.
@PhoenixSerenity @randomgeek That's because those that lived when #Polio ravaged the "global north/west" and flexed their trauma of seeing 1/5th of their classmates die from it are themselves dying of old age.
- My grandparents literally told their children they'd disown them if they didn't get their kids vaccinated as they got them vaccinated...
@randomgeek In Toronto, we had an on-air news fellow who alternated between a wheelchair and a cane because of polio. It wasn't so far back in our time. He thought the anti-vax movement was absolutely nuts, because, of course it is.
It's mind-boggling that anyone would want to go back to pre-vaccine times.
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In good times, using free software, privacy-focused systems, and decentralized infrastructure can seem like an ideological, almost aesthetic, decision.
In bad times, all three are a necessity.
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Built an F-Droid repo for my kids inside our local network. Added games and basic apps, let the kid tablets work without unfettered internet.
F Droid wont let me use a self signed cert because, I guess, the CA system is good
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@Julian Foad It was a little thorny to setup, but it probably would be pretty simple! F-Droid is pretty friendly.
apt-get install fdroid server
fdroid init
fdroid update --create-keys
put apks in the repo folder
fdroid update -c
fdroid update
then point a webserver at the repo dir.
not saying that *anyone* can do that - but it's well within the ability to make an ansible playbook for!
But yeah - letting my 5yo install and remove apps gives him power without exposing him to the wider internet
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My employer is currently looking for a senior dev doing really complex stuff in and on C++ code. This is in Ottawa (Canada) and not remote.
The product is a niche dev tool. It's not a compiler, but it's that kind of problem space.
If you're interested, please DM me and I'll provide more details. I'm being vague because I don't want to link my work and personal online presences.
FWIW, I genuinely like my co-workers and enjoy this kind of work.
Boosts are okay.
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The power of local media is bigger and more important than ever.
We need community theater. We need garage bands. We need mix tapes and burned CD-Rs and community film festivals.
We need to remind one another than we exist and that we are human and that we are all this together. We need to grab one another by the metaphorical shoulders and demand to be recognized, remembered, respected.
The future Gibson et al warned us about is here. I can't save myself, but we can protect one another.
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Does anyone get that we're all being taken over by. Christian Fascism and a dictator FOR REAL?
Doesn't anyone have the balls to stand up to these fascist racist bigots and billionaires?
BIDEN MUST DECLARE MARTIAL LAW TO SHUT DOWN ALL RIGHT WING MEDIA AND STOP THE CULT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
STAND UP AMERICA!
SAVE AMERICA!
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I asked my church music director if he had a HAM license today, and he replied he never got into radio. I then had to ask how we'd run a pirate radio station together.
One day I'll be a HAM
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@Hypolite Petovan why thank you!
But I wanna be an amateur radio operator!
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At 14, he helped create RSS.
At 16, he contributed to Creative Commons.
At 17, he co-created Markdown.
At 18, he co-founded Reddit.
The web would be different if he were alive.
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As usual my forays into making me enjoy reading RSS feeds is failing
One day I'll find a reader I love
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He produced phonology and semantics from orthography independently!
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a slightly fascinating thing here — this observations is not at all scientific or exhaustive, mind you! —is how a lot of "fun-edh" people seem to be uncomfortable with the idea of proxies whereas the "cedh" people embrace them, at least online
that may be because "fun-edh" players still think of the deck budget as a balance mechanism and don't spend as much time playing/playtesting online, but of course there's also Jesse's absolutely piercing line on the whole topic:
blog.killgold.fish/2015/09/a-r…
a reasonable discussion of the possibility that edh is bullshit
Sometimes, competitive Magic just isn’t doing it for people. Instead of spending weeks tuning someone else’s deck, spending $25 at a tourna...blog.killgold.fish
got laid off in the big dropbox layoffs today.
if anybody is looking for a staff-level engineer who loves mentoring and who is an expert in web security, email security, TLS/PKI, key and secrets management, and general defense security stuff, please feel free to hit me up.
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A huge mistake the fediverse makes is large instances. It's resource intensive, expensive, and creates wildly large failures instead of little ones.
This is why I'm sad to lose the bots, but also glad botsin.space is going away. BIS was always weird, a place to place bots which cost a lot, but wasn't a community. Bots should live alongside their makers or users (or just have a way of posting without needing a full server).
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I recently found out that my department at work is being shut down, so I'm looking for a new position!
I spent the last 6 years building advanced security assessment capabilities around hardware/IoT, industrial, marine OT, and x86 platforms. Before that I spent 5 years as a pentester. I excel at weird and novel stuff where there's no template.
I'm based in the UK and I'm looking for a remote full-time role.
CV: poly.nomial.co.uk/graham_suthe…
Thanks!
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various things I've done:
- developed a marine OT assessment program from the ground up, including new tooling for domain-specific protocols
- devised reliable methods for thermally decomposing epoxy potting used for anti-tamper on electronics
- near-exhaustively explored VM detection methods using the `cpuid` instruction (paper release pending)
- designed DRAM interposers for memory attacks
- full-product code reviews on commercial endpoint software
- reviewed code for a novel QKD system
Sat down with a large client's IT since email was getting wild. So we talked. We both explained the other side's mail border to each other. Having established we were both real techs. We talked shop and solved the issue with mutual respect.
It was a notable dance I've not done in a while, and a fascinating one.
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The 'median' is a well-known statistic that tells you where the half-way point of your data is.
Its lesser-known dual statistic, the 'comedian', is a statistic that tells you when there's something funny about your data.
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if you see this hacker at SECTor, you may tell me I owe you a drink. Prefacing it, "I'm from the fediverse" will make me slightly less confused. But, telling me I owe you a drink will cause me to buy you a drink, be it a fancy coffee, a boring coffee, a beer, a cocktail, a juice, or whatever else.
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@silverwizard Thank you. I love that they have a kid version, as the 6100 works for two of my kids, but is too big for two. I'll probably try that too. The part I can't find for love or money this week is the exhaust filter, but it looks integrated in that mask, which frankly would be fine for our use.
Thank you again. :)
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It's a common and likely hypothesis, yes.
Although I feel like these days I'm more likely to run into people taking video calls on speakerphone in public than blasting their music.
I want the parallel universe where phones kept the headphone jack and it was the cameras getting pushed out into dongles/BT.
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One of the things that is destroying the web is WASM and JavaScript.
This isn't really even a joke - it's literal.
By having all these tools to make a web browser have unfettered access to the system, it becomes unsafe to allow users to generate arbitrary code. We can't have another MySpace or NeoPets User Lookup because we can't allow users to write their own HTML, because that's *dangerous*.
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in reply to DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab • •@DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab Yeah, I basically said that I didn't know what smart meant, because there's lots of ways someone can be smart, and that we're mostly different.
But he's insistent smart means number of facts known.
But honestly, the part that tripped me up as Andre the Giant
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