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Meshtastic iOS app breaks EU law with sending lots of telemetry (logs, usage) to DataDog in US wthout user consent and without any kind of notification of the app doing so.
I reported this as issue and it got immediately closed without any explanation: github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastโฆ
Apple iOS, iPadOS & macOS Clients For Meshtastic. Contribute to meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.
He prayed and read the Bible every day.
He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.
He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.
He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.
While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.
He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.
Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.
Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.
No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.
We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.
He never asked us to be Christian with him.
He only asked us to be his neighbor.
So...
If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.
It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.
It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.
It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".
Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.
-- Patchie Dee
You don't have to update your PATH just to run an app from anywhere. Let an alias do it for you!
Here's 3 ways that I use the ALIAS command on FreeDOS:
Anyway I usually use batch files to run big programs from their own directory. Probably uses more disk space than just lines in c:\bin\myalias would. DOS tech debt? Naaa!๐
OTOH can WordPerfect or whatever find their support files when they're not in the CWD?
@goosey At least for As-Easy-As and Word 5.5, yes, they can find their other files even when you run it from another directory. Probably gets the directory from argv[0] -- that's how I'd do it.
But as always, check! ๐
ChatGPT is bullshit
archive.is/TkZQK#selection-913โฆ
<- A professional assessment: this is a paper from _Ethics and Information Technology_
Just four hours to go in the Kickstarter to pre-order the audiobook, ebook and hardcover for my next book, ENSHITTIFICATION!
If anybody needs to make a slide for a talk where they are talking about bug hunting / bug squashing, this may be useful
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filโฆ
(yes, today I have been preparing slides for a talk, why do you ask?)
Se a qualcuno serve una slide per un talk in cui devono parlare di caccia ai bug, questo puรฒ essere utile
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filโฆ
(sรฌ, oggi stavo preparando le slide per un talk, perchรฉ?)
"Are you pondering what Iโm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but why would a federated social network care about our anniversary?โ
"Pinky and the Brain" debuted on 9 september 1995.
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attackwww.bleepingcomputer.com
I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories. Shipping worldwide:
These computers come with Libreboot pre-installed, which is a Free Software project that replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI. It offers greater security and customisation than what most people are used to, and faster boot speeds.
I'm the founder of Libreboot, and its lead developer. Sales fund the project.
Your choice of Debian Linux, other Linux distro or a BSD. A warranty is also provided on every order.
Stop the Chat Control โ Protect our Civil Rights! (Stoppt die Chatkontrolle โ Grundrechte gelten auch im Netz!)
Sign the Petition: chng.it/W76BwjvJ8Y via @ukchange
Just fucking use HTML
<- the language of the Web is HTML. Not Javascript. The best website is one with no JS at all. Let's make this a movement.
Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.Just fucking use HTML
The small web is beautiful
benhoyt.com/writings/the-smallโฆ
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.benhoyt.com
Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly donโt understand.
GDPR doesnโt mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If youโre not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If youโre only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If youโre using third-party cookies to track people โ i.e., if youโre sharing their data with others โ then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesnโt mandate a cookie notice.
How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasnโt malicious compliance?
You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your siteโs settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that โfeatureโ.
Boom!
No cookie notice necessary.
Whatโs that?
But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating peopleโs privacy?
Good.
Your business doesnโt deserve to exist.
Because the real bullshit here isnโt EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, itโs the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyoneโs privacy and opens the door to technofascism.
infosec.exchange/@codinghorrorโฆ
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breakingโฆBreaking the Webโs Cookie Jar
The Firefox add-inย Firesheepย caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Hereโs how it works: * Connect to a public,ย unencryptedย WiFi network.Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
@mathew @mkj @praerien
I made a script that tracks Latvian websites that have the "load cookies first then ask for permission" problem: https://sฤซkdatnes.lv
For problematic sites, I send an informal email explaining the problem and asking to fix it. In case of no action, I send a formal, signed complaint. And then in case of no action, I report them to our country's DPA.
In quite a few cases the informal email is enough, and the issue gets acknowledged and fixed.
We have some guests coming over, so we're finally upgrading the TV.
I found this handy guide. Sharing it in case others are interested.
L'assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti.
Resoconto scritto dall'amico ed avvocato Giuseppe Modigliani delle drammatiche ore della morte del deputato socialista, e del processo che ne seguรฌ. Si puรฒ scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
liberliber.it/autori/autori-m/โฆ
#UnoLibri #libri #letteratura #public_domain #cosediscuola #cultura
Questo opuscolo fu pubblicato โ anonimo โ per la prima volta in Svizzera nel luglio del 1944, nella ricorrenza dei vent'anni dall'assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti, poi ripubblicato nel marzo del 1945 dalle Edizioni dell'Avanti, che qui riproduciamo, iโฆLiber Liber
You know that old adage about the folly of removing a fence if you have no idea why it's there in the first place....
nytimes.com/2025/08/24/us/new-โฆ
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we donโt understand how we got โhere,โ we run the risk of making things much worse.Shane (Shane Parrish | Farnam Street)
holy crap no, don't remove the fallback option leaving only the tech-based option depending on satellites controlled by *checks notes* the government that went on a slash and burn reduction of **everything**, notably including things that might compete with the businesses of a drug-using major political donor involved in space-related industries.
Not sure if standard maritime navigation systems are still based primarily on GPS vs Galileo or BeiDou, but I'm sure there are plenty of older and smaller boats that use electronics based on only one system.
My favorite Chesterton story is still the hippos eating all the crops when the Italians showed up and thought they could teach the Zambian people how to do European-style agriculture. ;)
ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_โฆ
When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naรฏve.www.ted.com
A funny way to promote RSS.
And shared on the fediverse, thanks to #friendica that let you follow rss feed...
Outside of Christmas Day, I don't often get to use 6+ hobs and both ovens simultaneously, but I appreciate the ability to do so when I need them.Dan Q
๐ค Uomo ed IA: interazioni pericolose
Il Post ha raccolto in un articolo i principali casi balzati alla cronaca negli ultimi mesi relativi ad interazioni con l'intelligenza artificiale che sono finite molto male.
La finta empatia di questi chatbot ha indotto molte persone a fidarsi utilizzandoli come se fossero uno psicologo o un confidente. E non รจ andata affatto bene...
ilpost.it/2025/08/22/interazioโฆ
Suicidi, avvelenamenti, suggerimenti di buttarsi nel vuoto: negli ultimi mesi vari casi di cronaca hanno mostrato i pericoli di chiedere consiglio alle AIIl Post
Why are such scams working?
yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/1โฆ
It is easy to blame the AI summary for it and I think Google shares a lot of the blame that goes around.
But I would like to put the focus on a different aspect: Companies are enabling scams like this by refusing to publish hotline numbers.
Customer service is expensive and companies like Google are successful even though they are completely unwilling to communicate with their customers.
For Google, Amazon and others the only acceptable way to reach them is through completely automated systems.
This is seen by the industry as a blueprint for success and therefore you now see others emulating that. They see: you can get away with being completely shielded from the customer.
Of course this leaves a gap and that is accepted by the companies. But the moment it creates a sufficient pain on the customer side, they are desperate to talk to someone. And this is the moment scammers jump in.
So as summary: Hostility towards customer service is an enabler for scammer.
A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview.yro.slashdot.org
Posted on August 17, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits
TL;DL: if youโre using rrdtool on a 32 bit architecture like armhf make an XML dump of your RRD files just before upgrading to Debian Trixie.
I am an old person at heart, so the sensor data from my home monitoring system1 doesnโt go to one of those newfangled javascript-heavy data visualization platforms, but into good old RRD files, using rrdtool to generate various graphs.
This happens on the home server, which is an armhf single board computer2, hosting a few containers3.
So, yesterday I started upgrading one of the containers to Trixie, and luckily I started from the one with the RRD, because when I rebooted into the fresh system and checked the relevant service I found it stopped on ERROR: '<file>' is too small (should be <size> bytes).
Some searxing later, Iโve4 found this was caused by the 64-bit time_t transition, which changed the format of the files, and that (somewhat unexpectedly) there was no way to fix it on the machine itself.
What needed to be doneinstead was to export the data on an XML dump before the upgrade, and then import it back afterwards.
Easy enough, right? If you know about it, which is why Iโm blogging this, so that other people will know in advance :)
Anyway, luckily I still had the other containers on bookworm, so I copied the files over there, did the upgrade, and my home monitoring system is happily running as before.
Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.
Thank you for your suggestions. Please vote here - aus.social/@skribe/11507058647โฆ
#Books #SF #Fantasy #21Century
According to this post โ https://aus.social/@skribe/115036689028441919, these are the Top 7 SF/F books of this century.Aus.Social
Ok, we've all been sick of memes for a decade or more.
But this one is built different.
"This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog.
We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise."
Note that this is three attempts to match current quantum computing records, not a single attempt utilizing all three tools.
(The IACR is a legit cryptology organization. Been around for years and years.)
(h/t @cstross )
so, #sysadmin sorts: chill your quantum computing worries
We just got Post Quantum SSH
do we need to worry about post-VIC20 SSH?
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The Man Who Beat IBM
every.to/feeds/b0e329f3048258eโฆ
Compaqโs Rod Canion broke Big Blueโs hold on the PC market โ & changed computing forever
<- very few computing histories make me LOL. This did. Superb!
Compaqโs Rod Canion broke Big Blueโs hold on the PC marketโand changed computing foreverevery.to
