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☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
🇿🇦 Cape Town 👼🏼 Pope 🤔 INTJ ⚡ Resistance is not futile 🔌 Survival is insufficient

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@georgetakei You can't afford to be neutral on a moving train.

GrapheneOS GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

If banks and governments insist on checking devices for security they should define actual standards. It should be possible for any tiny project to be certified at no cost and the standards should be fairly enforced so a mainstream device without current patches is disallowed.

Tiago Peixoto tiago@social.skewed.de

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

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@gabrielesvelto In the old days MS-DOS used to do a quick memory check when loading himem.sys. This used to annoy me because on systems with more than 4MB of RAM, this can take a while. So there's an option to disable it, and in the DOS manual where this setting is, they explain that they had to enable it by default because the very large amount of memory out there is flaky, and lots of issues are caused by it. It seems that not much has improved, ECC should become default these days.

Gabriele Svelto gabrielesvelto@mas.to

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

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@aral These are people who consider themselves "Christians"

Lockdownyourlife Lockdownyourlife@infosec.exchange

Instead of wishing us Happy International Women's Day, stop harming us with violence, trying to control us, taking away our rights, and killing us.

P.S. Send a woman you know a lot of money today, fund their projects, support their work, every day.

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@jmtd A very Jonathany question. I organise by year, and have one directory caller 'archives', and years older than 5 years just go into archives, since I rarely reference them

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TIL NetBSD is getting jails support, even has a nifty website with instructions:

https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

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@gregkh @musicmatze Nuclear winters aren't great for solar power though. Although I hear I'm in one of the best spots for it so I'm not complaining.

Guido Günther agx@ruhr.social

TIL: @NetworkManager 's `nmcli dev wifi` shows available networks nicely, is colored and even has a small graph:

Screenshot of nmcli's dev wifi with bars for for network strength.

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@Edent Ah I understand better what's happening now, but don't have a solution, sorry :)

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@Edent and if you pass your URL to curl -i -s, what do you get?

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@Edent Your example doesn't work outside of the box? I *think* this would've worked the last time I used PHP? Could it be that the problem is rather on the browser side and that it's waiting for the </head> closure?

Today I learned todayilearned@noc.social

TIL about Illegal Primes, which are prime numbers that contain digital information that is illegal to possess or distribute under laws like the DMCA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Illegal_primes

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rloybf/til_about_illegal_primes_which_are_prime_numbers/

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@Free_Press None of these fuckshits even like each other

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I see so many claims that LLMs are now at the point where they can do the job of an intermediate software developer. If that's true, who would that benefit the most? Surely, if it lives up to its promises it should help free software the most, enabling millions of kids and hobiest all over the world to just press tab until their vision materializes.

But if that were true, there's like a Fermi paradox, because where is all this software? Where's all the good new exciting things being developed?

noyb.eu noybeu@mastodon.social

⚖️ Companies are trying to use to get out of GDPR compliance. This could soon be made easier – at least if the EU Commission's passes. Watch now to learn more!

👤 featuring data protection lawyer Levan Lobzhanidze

Design Thinking! Comic designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud

It's nice and quiet back here...

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt FranceskAlbs@mastox.eu

RT: @adequatehousing I have issued this press release with other UN experts. Gaza needs a reparative, rights-based approach to reconstruction. Not the colonial Board of Peace-led real estate fantasies.

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