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!
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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
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.
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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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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.
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RCMP memo reveals Mounties supported the Freedom Convoy
A newly disclosed memo from then-RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says current and former Mounties were among supporters of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa.Jen Hodgson (Western Standard)
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Someone needs to write a sysadmin version of the Last Sea Shanty
A sysadmins not a sysadmin anymore
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@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!
This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model
GameNGen is an interesting proof-of-concept for a diffusion model-based “game engine.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Dear fediverse, are you aware of an open position or a company looking for a #php developer 
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I am available now, I am actively looking for a freelance mission. Contact me if you have anything up your sleeve! 
I am looking either in full remote, or in #Montpellier (France) and cities in the Montpelier area.
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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.
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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.
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Does anyone else listen to this sometimes? archive.org/details/cyber-fina…
It's such an important artifact
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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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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
Exclusive: Here is the speech the Uncommitted movement wants to give at the DNC
Read what Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman hoped to tell Democrats.Mother Jones
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.
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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.
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:
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This New Texas Policy Is A ‘Gut Punch’ To Trans People
The new policy could have wide-reaching impact and could affect many of the 92,000 trans adults living in Texas.Lil Kalish (HuffPost UK)
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.
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BREAKING NEWS: DPS enacts policy refusing court-ordered gender marker changes, will create database of marker change requests - Dallas Voice
According to a Texas Department of Public Safety internal email, a copy of which was sent to Dallas Voice through a local attorney, DPS has — unilaterally and without any public notice — decided to stop amending gender markers on Texas driver license…Tammye (Dallas Voice)
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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.
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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I have cards! 
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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
"Ok, Comms have been looped in, and Legal is up to speed.
Get the cleric in here to cast Restore Backups."
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!
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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 :(
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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"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
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@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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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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A recent chat lead to the idea of the Standard Reference Olympian
Someone who is *not* good at the sport. Just to remind everyone how intense everyone there is.
"Oh this person got 20th place! Unremarkable"
make people compare them to the SRO
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