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Imagine walking through that park, relaxing and enjoying nature, when you come across this group.

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Slack, Discord, and all of those all bind /me to italics - and it's wildly annoying because my /me instincts still exist
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@silverwizard @🩷 eva 🩷 I've migrated mostly to XMPP (for the half dozen or so people I know who use it) but I was pretty happy with irssi for IRC. It can even pull double duty and do XMPP, though admittedly a little buggily.
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Did you know that setting a complex password that is at least 15 characters long can add THOUSANDS of years to the time it takes a hacker to crack it?

Everyone on the dark web will be very impressed with your password prowess when they see it in the plaintext file of passwords that circulates after the company is breached!

Follow me for more #infosec tips!

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Any #FreeBSD folk know why the rust compiler might give me

ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/../lib/librustc_driver-d829a4d8a572ebe4.so: Undefined symbol "_ZNSt3__122__libcpp_verbose_abortEPKcz"

I am worried the problem is my kernel is 13.2 but the rust package claims to be from 13.3? Is this a "just upgrade and stop worrying" situation

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I'm neither a FreeBSD folk nor a Rust folk but that looks like a library version mismatch to me - is your libc++ the one that came with your 13.2 system? The symbol it's missing might be new in 13.3. (Not sure whether there's a feasible way to get a 13.3 libc++ without upgrading the whole system, your path of least resistance might be finding a 13.2 rust package.)
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@Dave Yeah - in theory this package should be fine for all FreeBSDs - but I have a worry something happened with the package DB accidentally giving me an incompatible rustc binary - which ... shouldn't happen - I think?!
@Dave

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Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), the Official Opposition in Canada’s parliament, is a bullshitter in the classic Harry G. Frankfurt sense of the term.

He’s been in non-stop campaign mode for many months now, spewing lies and inane slogans, tearing at the country. He was first elected to parliament in June 2004, over 20 years ago. He's a dangerous ideologue. Canada can’t afford to have him and his gang of regressive right wingers form a government.

#CanPoli



Infosec apparently doesn't realize that cheques are ancient technology no one under 40 has seen in over a decade

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Our team is looking for an associate news editor with a background or strong interest in neuroscience, cognition and behavior, to write and edit news articles that educate, challenge and inspire our audience of neuroscientists. To apply, please visit: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkday…

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Remember, the vulnerability in Yubikeys doesn't make them weaker than most sms 2fa
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@Rivetgeek yeah, so much of the time. someone told me that facebook tells employees to leave theirs in their laptops, which is, at least, funny.

SMS 2FA is mostly because because SMS numbers suck

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The funny thing is mine still isn't plugged into my laptop itself. I just never unplug the Yubikey from where it is. So it's not totally pointless if someone stole my laptop (they'd have a bad time either way considering the hard drive is encrypted).


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todaybor day is labor day

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Just confirms what was blatantly obvious with the convoy occupation. The police were in tight with the occupiers.

As someone noted at the time, some of those who work forces are the same that honked hornses.

**note: Western Standard and Blacklock’s are a bunch of nut jobs. But if they want to brag they had the RCMP on their side go for it.
westernstandard.news/news/rcmp…

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Here in Ottawa, one of the police allowed one of the Klown Konvoy into his police car for a photo. Not impressed. cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opp-…



If your wrapper script requires as many or more flags/inputs than the original script, it's probably bad for you
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(Caveat: not if it's abstracting multiple different tools on different systems)



Someone needs to write a sysadmin version of the Last Sea Shanty

A sysadmins not a sysadmin anymore

in reply to Andy H3

@Andy H3 He also does a Last Sea Shanty that I like youtube.com/watch?v=zw0FZs_J2I…

also some wildly good River Shanties around on.soundcloud.com/dWAaRJRCEY75…

I mostly love the Sea Shanty as a repository of blue collar solidarity songs that are great for groups and to scream, so I don't understand the love for the Wellerman, though enjoy it fine


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This is the *stupidest* use of LLMs - right?

The primary problems with video games are:
1) too well written
2) don't suffer from enough bloat
3) run too quickly

Luckily Google has fixed it in a way even worse than Stadia!

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I agree keep it running on bacteria not the software equivalent of an elementary school kid that pees his pants daily and licks the windows because he likes the taste/

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Dear fediverse, are you aware of an open position or a company looking for a #php developer :elephpant:?

I am available now, I am actively looking for a freelance mission. Contact me if you have anything up your sleeve! :partyparrot:

I am looking either in full remote, or in #Montpellier (France) and cities in the Montpelier area.

#jeChercheUnJob #getFediHired #freelance #lookingForWork

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just gonna start replying to techbros defending copilot something along the lines of "sorry you don't know how to code, hope u get better soon" and watch them implode

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Listen, if your branching and commit message strategy takes more than 15 minutes to explain. And I need to work with every team and this is just yours.

I'm not gonna follow it.



I finally finished Siege of Dragonspear in my quest to get through all of Baldur's Gate.

I am shocked by how unpleasant it was to play through.

Only having BG1 to compare to - it's like night and day.



Explaining why my Wizard RPG character can't write:
"I wanted to make sure I mastered all the letters before I started figuring out writing"
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I really need to stop assuming that most developers have a mental model of DNS delegation in their head.

I need to accept that I'm the weirdo here.

in reply to silverwizard

i find myself expanding that a little bit, having to remember that not all devs “grew up” as system/network admins.
in reply to Craig Brozefsky 🇵🇸

@Craig Brozefsky 🇵🇸 yeah, there's lots of cultural contexts, but I constantly assume that things that make The Internet Work are default skills tech people have.



Does anyone else listen to this sometimes? archive.org/details/cyber-fina…

It's such an important artifact

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This is wildly important. It's bitter and it's complicated. But it's probably the real Cyberpunk. It's good. Listen to people think about journalism during a tragedy.

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I am currently regularly dealing with Zscaler support and Drata support.

Drata support is awful because you need to get answers from an LLM before you can talk to it. But the LLM is worthless because it just puts out a segment from the knowledge base and you only contact support when things are broken.

Zscaler support is worthless because they're undertrained and given a flow chart to follow. The flow chart means they just parrot the knowledge base repeatedly.

Drata's support is better because there's only one human trapped in this hell.


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there is no major political party in the united states that is not in favor of liquidating the ghetto

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the democratic party is full of *people* who absolutely do want a better world for everyone, including palestinians — e.g. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

but it is *ruled* by people who, at best, treat genocide denial as a question for their sales & marketing department

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cw: uspol
@Alex P. 👹 Say it with me: "Kamala, we're not voting for you until we see a concrete plan and commitment to end the genocide and restore international law."

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Private companies should never have the capacity to shut down substantial parts of a national economy unilaterally. If they do, it is a failure of governance.

The solution is not forced arbitration or back to work legislation - the solution is breaking up any company that has the ability use their market dominance to create this kind of economic disruption *before* they get the chance to hold the country hostage.

cbc.ca/news/politics/cn-railwa…

#cdnpoli

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I think legislation is required that limits market share/dominance automatically based on cleary defined economic markers - necessary in order to prevent overt/covert influence, cronyism, or other political interfence that allows additional leeway or sweetheart deals to favoured corporations.

I'm even fine with tax incentives for responsible corporations, so it rarely needs to get this far.

But if we don't put capitalism in check, we'll lose our democracies.

#cdnpoli #politics #democracy


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Transphobia, Texas

So do y'all know the vlogger Lady Emily? She does a lot of YouTube about YouTube itself, it's good

She got her gender change court order through this week! She was posting about it, she was so happy

…and then this morning—
indiepocalypse.social/@tamitha…
Texas DPS stopped granting drivers license changes (and if you try they put you on a List)

And now despite having the court order in her hand, she can't actually get her ID updated.

Huffpo interviewed her:

huffpost.com/entry/texas-gende…


Texas' Department of Public Safety has just enacted a policy to refuse to change gender markers on state licenses and will create a database of all requests.

This is a really insidious way of creating a "trans registry".

If you are trans and live in Texas, you might want to get the fuck out. If you have the means.

dallasvoice.com/breaking-news-…


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Transphobia, Texas
I'm glad you're living in a better place now.
I too wish Texas was a place that could be a viable and welcoming place for you and everyone else to visit or live.
We will keep working and striving to make Texas a better place but it's definitely a hard fight.

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i remember in some of the old fairie stories, the ones that tried hard to spin fairie as an evil place, far from the wholesome godliness that christianity could offer, someone would walk into a fairie room or realm to find everything golden, beautiful, glittering and perfect.

it was only when they'd looked in the mirror or stood on their head or whatever that they'd realise that actually, everything was black and rotting, full of decay and despair.

and i feel like that's the world now. we're shown an array of fast cars, shiny tech, instagram photos and tiktok videos of perfection and the (fill in country here) dream, but actually, the world is burning, people and creatures and trees are dying (and being killed), and poverty and despair reach for our hearts and throats.

and yet.

and yet nature is still beautiful. art, music, literature can still be uplifting and magical. what remains — what humans haven't destroyed, and what they create with their hearts and mindful hands — is a new miracle every day.

so maybe, it's not a mirror that we need, but the ability to see in two directions at once. see the ugliness and destruction for what they are. recognise their horror and recoil from it. fight it with all we've got, but also see the beauty, the harmony, and the golden wonder that are still possible here, if we work to nourish and protect them.

face the darkness, and step into the light.

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The dividing line between “The table top DR exercise went great!" and "This is the worst ttrpg I've ever played" is quite thin.

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“This Dungeon Master's Manual sure does seem obsessed with the mechanics of off-site backups..”
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@ireneista @munin “I'm generating a character for privacy ttrpg! She's an egg but her repression stat is good and she has a masking cantrip so I think it should balance out.”
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I have cards! :aTarotCards:

blackhillsinfosec.com/projects…

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I’m the weirdo that not only has the cards, but wants to build an insurance expansion deck.
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@TindrasGrove do it! 😁
I've got rough designs for an asymmetrical deck building board game to teach red and blue team concepts, I should really revisit that maybe
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"Ok, Comms have been looped in, and Legal is up to speed.

Get the cleric in here to cast Restore Backups."


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Signal boosting: Furaffinity staff have manually logged everyone out to protect against session token theft.

They're asking people to not log in again until they give the green light!

To add a note of my own: the reason they've done that is the attackers don't need your password, they just need you to open the website while logged in & then they can steal your authentication cookies and pretend they're you.

UPDATE: FA's official Twitter account is now compromised. I believe their Discord server is now the only reliable source of updates!

UPDATE 2: The Twitter account has been successfully recovered, and is a reliable source of information again.

The domain has also been recovered, but they haven't fully re-enabled the website yet.

UPDATE 3: Furaffinity have fully reclaimed access to their domain and re-enabled the site now, however for technical reasons it'll be safest to wait an additional 24 hours:
- Their DNS records (which tell your computer where to fetch furaffinity.net from) will take up to 24 hours to finish propagating
- If too many people flood back into the site at the same time, the server will struggle to deal with all that increased traffic, so you'll be doing them a favour by waiting a little longer to space it out!

#furaffinity

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I am extremely angry with Network Solutions failing to recognize this was a very bad situation.

My hunch would be MX records for FA are now in adversary control if they were just able to take over their X account. What an absolute disaster :(

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@eleix Yea, it's awful :(

I'm hoping they get through this okay!

@Rix
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@eleix
EDIT: retracted, I'm a little stupid and queried .com instead of .net
@Rix
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@eleix
update: after checking the correct domain this time and looking at dns history, yep, it is indeed what happened.
@Rix
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@craftxbox
I did the same thing. Yeah, Once I saw the Google MX redirects I knew that anything touching the domain as far as MX was concerned was going to be the first thing lifted.


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Please, boycott Google's email service Gmail. Here is why you should do so:

They are considering almost all small email servers as spam, this mean Google users have to look in their spam folder when they receive email from someone considered small. This kills freedom.

On top of that, gmail addresses are the biggest source of spam around nowadays, isn't it sarcastic?

There are a few good email provider around that are free, some other are paid but really cheap. If something is free, you should ask yourself how they make money.

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As a sysadmin of several small email servers, I have little problem sending mail to Gmail. Outlook.com is much worse.
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I personally use runbox.com and it’s paid, but worth it. @runbox

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"Should we privatize this thing?"

And

"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"

Are exactly the same question

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@peternlewis Also the same question: Should unelected pressure groups control this thing via officials claiming to act in "the public good"?

There's no real “public”—just individuals with different and conflicting aims. Concepts like the “common good” or “public interest” are excuses to sacrifice others' interests and rights.

#Privatization of force and #nationalization / #municipalization of property are both civil war. The latter is only slower.



Zscaler seeing a user has an IP in 100.0.0.0/8 tells me that wont work because that's a Zscaler internal IP.

Of course, the user's ISP is misusing CGNAT and also claiming IANA reserved IPs are theirs.

Abolish legacy IP

Unknown parent

@The Psychotic Network Ferret the problem was that neither group using 100.6.0.0/16 *owned* it. Both of them were using it for extra IPv4 space.

And I've been a ISP grunt, I know we want IPv4 to die, but there's some ISPs that have bonkers IPv4 stacks and massive CGNATs without a whisper of IPv6


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The local hospital here where our children were born uses Macs. We just got an e-mail from Apple that 30% of whatever our children will earn during their lifetime will go to Apple. 😐

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Oh yes, but at least the kids will be free from viruses and not have "compliance" issues.


Me vs @Becky parenting
@Becky - buys the kids mars bars
Sean - tells the kids Mars Bars are made by war criminals and then starts teaching them to make nougat
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My 3 year old kid has a 1 string guitar to learn to make sound, To protect his fingers I handed him a guitar pick. He yelled "Can I open it!" and started trying to find a seam to shove the pick in to spudge the guitar.

I am... raising children.


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theres all these programming languages arent there. like ones with strong opinions on memory management, or typing, or metaprogramming, or side-effect purity, or whatever. but i feel like all of those things solve really "programming language"-level problems, the kind of problems people who design programming languages care about. none of them solve the kind of issues that seem to cause vast majority of the actual problems, like e.g. "programmer doesn't understand the problem domain"

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