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A headless mystery
Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable.
You have literally no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the entire firm doing this
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CHI TI HA DETTO CHE ERA AMORE? Sguardi, parole e responsabilità di fronte alla violenza di genere e al femminicidio
Evento accessibile da remoto, organizzato dall'Ordine degli Psicologi della Lombardia
“Chi ti ha detto che era amore?” è una domanda che rompe il silenzio e smaschera narrazioni pericolose. Invita a guardare con occhi nuovi ciò che spesso viene normalizzato, negato o giustificato: la violenza che si nasconde...opl.it
Look, we can all complain about religion all we want, but the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in the city of Kampen who have been holding an uninterrupted mass for over a year to protect a family of two parents and five kids (21, 15, 11, and 4) from deportation are fucking heroes. This family has been in The Netherlands for 12 years, so these kids know nothing of the place they came from (hell, two of them were born here and have never seen their parents' home country), and deporting them would be insanely cruel.
Why the long mass, though? Well, according to Dutch law, law enforcement is not allowed to enter a church (or other house of worship) as long as a mass/service/etc. is underway. As such, members of this church take turns holding mass, and 2000 of them have been keeping this up for over a year. The family has its own little area in the church, but they can't leave the building. The kids are taught by local teachers inside the church, and the 21-year old does odd jobs in the building. So yeah, they've been inside for over a year.
Turns out this "church asylum" thing has actually been attempted over 50 times since 1978, and it's been successful at times.
I almost bought a house in Kampen a few years before meeting my now-wife and moving to Sweden. Had that not happened, and I managed to buy a house in Kampen, I would've joined this church in a heartbeat to help out.
nos.nl/artikel/2591258-kerkdie…
Met hulp van 2000 vrijwilligers beschermt de protestantse gemeente in Kampen het Oezbeekse gezin tegen uitzetting. Voorgangers wisselen elkaar af om de twee uur.Rolinde Hoorntje (NOS Nieuws)
EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:
"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."
This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.
ORIGINAL:
PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
Automatically blocking any account that uses Harry Potter to farm engagement. It is time to move past Harry Potter as a society, we do not need to keep maintaining JK Rowling's cashflow or propping a series that actually is not very well written and chock full of offensive racial stereotypes and literary cliches.
#bookstodon #movies #books #films
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Coope...
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008.Jason Bergman (The Comics Journal)
Folks it is now about one hour until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! If you want to filter out the hashtag, now'd be a good time to do that.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is VAMPIRE ON BIKINI BEACH (1988), which I can only assume is a documentary about vampire bats in California.
No? Huh.
Anyway it's free with ads on Tubi over here: tubitv.com/movies/712244/vampi…
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: archive.org/details/vampires-o…
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along! See you there ^^
#Cinema #Movies #Cinemastodon #Horror #Scifi #Vampire #Bikinis
perfect programming language. Contribute to TodePond/GulfOfMexico development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Absolutely ghastly—I approve!
(Only one quibble: array base being fixed to -1 is *boring*. Why not steal the discontinued Perl idiom of the array base being a special variable $[ which you can assign to, so you can start enumerating your arrays from -1, 0, 1, or pi? Much more powerful and general! Also, can we have rich markup syntax is comments, please? Markdown is ubiquitous so how about using nroff with the -ms macro package by default?)
@cstross delightful!
The 'const 5 = 4' is very like early FORTRAN where you could redefine numeric constants. The official line was "don't do that", but nothing stopped the determined programmer.
@cstross what’s wrong with PostScript for documentation. Let’s hear it for stack based executable documentation!
What could go wrong?
Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator - ading2210/linuxpdfGitHub
RetroStrange TV is now streaming!
24/7 science fiction and horror all October long
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree
A community-supported 24/7 streaming TV channel based on public domain media and original content. We're in Halloween Mode all October long. Support us at http://patreon.com/philnelsonRetroStrange TV
If someone comes into a dev mailing list and says "my AI told me … I don’t understand it, but you sure do" that means that many people will either ignore it completely or read a wall-of-text that isn’t known to actually be useful.
Please read your search results yourself, and if you find something useful, summarize it and only ask about the stuff that you actually need to know to move forward.
Please respect the time of people in mailing lists. Don’t drop generated walls of text.
Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis
berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-…
<- Bert Hubert nails one of the big problems in contemporary IT management
The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned.Bert Hubert's writings
Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
@mart_brooks *Wags reproving finger*
I really wish the BSDs could resolve their differences, and more of the people focused on things like Plan 9 instead, but there's room at the table.
🗓️ Linux Day è domani! 25 ottobre 2025 - 25° edizione in Italia 🎉
Incontra la community più vicina:
linuxday.it/2025/
Grazie a tutte le città attive! Arona, Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bergamo, Biella, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cairate, Casarano, Casorate Sempione, Cesate, Cosenza, Crotone, Este, Fabriano (parte 1 ..)
#LinuxDay #LinuxDay2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 #SoftwareLibero #Italy
A #Torino, farò una presentazione di #LINEAGEOS, #FDROID, #XMPP durante la #LINUX DAY TORINO 2025
Https://linuxdaytorino.org/2025/#schedule
Orario 14.00
Dove: arsenale della Pace, Torino
Prima di tutto, vi invito a venire e partecipare numerosi
Puoi, questa presentazione è l'occasione di offrire un'alternativa a #Google, e aumentare la #Privacy
Pertanto, vi invito a divulgarlo presso i vostri colleghi, amici e famiglia torinese che volete convertire a #LINEAGE OS, F-DROID e XMPP
La presentazione spiegherà come installare LINEAGE OS, F-DROID e XMPP.
Dei QR code gratis per #MONOCLES da GOOGLE PLAY saranno distribuiti.
Sperò di esser stato esaustivo e vi aspetto, voi, i vostri amici, colleghi e famiglie, sabato 25 ottobre 2025, a Torino, alle 14.00, Arsenale della Pace, per la LINUX DAY TORINO 2025, nella AULA MISC.
#jabber #dino #monoclesim #gajim #movim #siskin #monal
"The villain is a gay Muslim terrorist who looks like Prince doing a terrible Doctor Strangelove impression with a monkey scurrying around his shoulders. He's aided by an army of lesbians led by Colonel Honey Hump."
My latest newsletter is about my fav weird movies:
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Hi! Thanks for reading my newsletter. My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster has been out for a couple of months. It’s about a trans woman who teaches her...Happy Dancing
Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!
(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)
"The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection."
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...and people wonder why I resist having that kind of stuff in my home...
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough.Harishankar (Small World)
Talented fellow to pull it apart and then put it back together!
That morsel of advice, to never use the same WiFi for IoT devices and your actual computers is something most people ignore. It's a major effort to setup, and the priority slides down the list unless something out of the ordinary nudges them.
No no no no no and no.
None of this is trivial to 99% of humanity. PLEEEEEEEASE see this from the perspective of regular humans!
@ewen setting up an extra SSID is mostly easy for people who know what an SSID is without looking it up. Which is a fairly small slice of humanity.
But it's worse than that -- I don't think putting IoT devices on their own SSID *but the same underlying network* makes much sense. You'd probably like IoT networks to look more like guest networks, with strictly controlled access to other devices. Which needs (at a minimum) VLANs and an extra set of firewall policies, all of which depend on so many things that there's no way to produce any sort of useful cookbook for people with moderate amounts of technical skill.
And then you'll discover that there's no good way to actually configure new IoT devices without moving a phone onto the IoT network. And some features will just silently fail to work if you don't have direct IP access to the IoT device from a phone. And useful things like mDNS won't work at all unless you go to heroic lengths.
I'm perfectly capable of setting up an IoT network at home. I even have most of the config for it rolled out. But I've never moved a single device into the IoT network, because it's just going to make everything extra-painful in practice.
Exquisite description of the drama required to isolate IoT from anything important. Right down to the "Oh crap I'm six steps into configuring a device over the Thread network but I forgot to change my phone to the IoT network first. Urgh. Start over."
I have actually implemented those firewall rules to restrict what IoT devices can see. And in the back of my mind I'm thinking "What if I missed something?"
And then there's the maintenance in case something stops working.
The average person will go to Office Depot and buy a box that says "Fast Internet". Even if there was a wifi/router that would setup your separate IoT network by default and manage all those firewall rules, people would still choose a product that is cheaper or has pretty flashing LEDs.
And governments let this go on. There is zero effort from my govt to regulate for products that protect consumers. The govt has a website telling us to "be alert for scammers" and other malarkey, with absolutely tools that might actually help avoid the average person from having their digital life stolen, let alone just being spied on by corporations.
@Laberpferd @ewen @laird ...or they just have their own cellular interface...
The 'Internet of things' (IoT), being the future paradise that awaits us when all of our device [...]LWN.net
Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
<- please can someone do an updated version, comparing Oberon to bits of Linux/BSD?
Anche quest'anno il GL-Como partecipa al Linux Day!
L'appuntamento annuale organizzato da ILS è nato nel 2001 per promuovere le idee del software libero e dell'open source, con un occhio di riguardo verso Linux. L'evento è costituito da una rete di eventi decentralizzati in tutta Italia organizzati autonomamente da gruppi volontari e appassionati.
In questa edizione il GL-Como si unisce a ILS Casorate Sempione, sabato 25 ottobre presso la biblioteca comunale Alda Merini .
Il programma è in via di finalizzazione, vi invitiamo a seguire il sito di ILS Casorate Sempione per aggiornamenti!
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/Meshtast…
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!😉
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! 😉
ChatGPT is bullshit
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<- 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/Fil…
(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 può essere utile
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
(sì, oggi stavo preparando le slide per un talk, perché?)
"Are you pondering what I’m pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but why would a federated social network care about our anniversary?”
"Pinky and the Brain" debuted on 9 september 1995.
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attackwww.bleepingcomputer.com
