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Cybersecurity is political. Period, end of story. If you could vote and didnโ€™t bother because it was boring youโ€™re just as responsible for loss of key research, ISAC funding, international collaboration, and federal jobs.

Same if you kept using X.

We warned you.

cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/joโ€ฆ

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in reply to Lesley Carhart

Reminds of the time years ago when someone at schneier.com wondered why there was less discussion of security issues, and more political.

My response: If you do not pay attention to the political issues, you will not have any computer network security issues to worry about.


in reply to George Takei ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ

Yeah, Iโ€™ve lived in a few places. Including London. And when advertisement communication is concerned, no one beats them Brits.


So remember how a few days ago I shared this official Starlink document that just casually mentions that they found a piece of a Starlink satellite on a farm in Saskatchewan? starlink.com/public-files/Starโ€ฆ

I had really convinced myself it must be some kind of chatgpt gobbledygook. But... a reliable source confirmed that this really happened.

SpaceLifeForm reshared this.

in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler

SpaceX dropped potentially lethal debris from TWO DIFFERENT SPACECRAFT onto Saskatchewan within 6 months. And as far as I can tell, they just waltzed in and picked up the second piece without anyone official knowing about it. This is a very big problem for a lot of obvious legal reasons.

It mostly terrifies me because there are 7,000 Starlinks, and if each one leaves behind debris after demise, that's... a lot.


in reply to Ars Technica

This was the first Kickstarter I ever backed. And I'm *still* waiting for it, although I have given up hope of ever seeing it.


๐Ÿ”ฆ Toro Pendant Lamp - Spiral Lampshade โ€ข OBJ files
โžก๏ธ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2821852
๐Ÿ’ก Designed by Lunfardo


Two years ago I thought I had made the world's worst keyboard. Turns out it could get much, much worse!

youtu.be/wC-24QeoQu4

in reply to Matthew Dockrey

Some more coverage of the ten hundred:

pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-keโ€ฆ

techspot.com/news/107194-forgeโ€ฆ



Scalzi, cementing his place as one of the sanest nerds I know.
(from whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/13โ€ฆ)
in reply to Bryan Fink

I want him to fix that organ and then:

youtube.com/watch?v=ljPptuJjhwโ€ฆ



โ€œWhen there is legitimate concern about the vast amounts of information that people freely hand over to social media companies, app stores, devices & other services,โ€ laws that require collecting MORE data don't make sense, EFFโ€™s @aaronmackey told @CNN. cnn.com/2025/03/13/tech/app-stโ€ฆ
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

How is it is that the word 'Web' does not show up in this article? Facebook still has web access, so they still need to police that, as it is not an app. I have to assume that Meta is also thinking of getting rid of its remaining 'web' products, or at least tying them to having an app, as they do with whatsapp and instagram.
#enshitification
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

โ€œโ€œThis level of data sharing isnโ€™t necessary โ€” a weather app doesnโ€™t need to know if a user is a kid,โ€ Googleโ€™s Ghanem wrote in his Wednesday post.โ€

Ghanem has not heard of @CARROT.

โ€œIf you are a 40-year-old who happens to have a younger face, you could be misclassified as a minor.โ€

Paging Ralph Maccio.



How Canadians Are Fighting Back Against U.S. Tariffs
theonion.com/how-canadians-areโ€ฆ


now is the time to sit down and make some calls to friends in these states


I study refugees, and here are the facts on the history and impact of refugee resettlement in the US

phys.org/news/2025-03-refugeesโ€ฆ

#science #politics #politicalscience #refugees #usa



in reply to E-Komik

๐Ÿ”ฅ Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Chapter terbaru dari My School Life Pretending to Be a Worthless Person (Chapter 115) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿ“– Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
โœจ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
๐Ÿ‘‰ Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/284670
โณ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Drama #Fantasy #SchoolLife #Shounen


Baca komik My School Life Pretending to Be a Worthless Person Bahasa Indonesia!!!
Segera baca di e-komik.org/komik/284670
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Drama #Fantasy #SchoolLife #Shounen
in reply to E-Komik

๐Ÿ”ฅ Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Chapter terbaru dari My School Life Pretending to Be a Worthless Person (Chapter 116) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿ“– Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
โœจ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
๐Ÿ‘‰ Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/284670
โณ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Drama #Fantasy #SchoolLife #Shounen


Baca komik My School Life Pretending to Be a Worthless Person Bahasa Indonesia!!!
Segera baca di e-komik.org/komik/284670
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Drama #Fantasy #SchoolLife #Shounen


Got my actual โ€œworkโ€ work done for the week yesterday. Was gonna have a โ€œgo out and do stuffโ€ day but Iโ€™m kinda low on spoons so instead itโ€™s a โ€œcomfy sweater and sweet f allโ€ day.

in reply to RD

@boby_biq I think this individual is lost. The network for this type of thinking is over there ๐Ÿ‘‰


Intelโ€™s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is signaling heโ€™s ready to take bold steps to revitalize the US chipmakerโ€™s business and reclaim its competitive edge. pcmag.com/news/disrupt-and-leaโ€ฆ
in reply to PCMag

Great. Perhaps we should refuse an export license for our ASML lithography machines


Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie?

Easy:
mastodon.wurzelmann.at/@wurzelโ€ฆ




"Untouchables Entertainment has unveiled the first trailer for The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-Vs-Winnie. This horror crossover pits the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey against Winnie-the-Pooh in a brutal showdown."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news
Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh Clash in Horror Parody Crossover
cbr.com/mickey-mouse-winnie-thโ€ฆ
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Canadians who visit US for more than 30 days will be fingerprinted theguardian.com/world/2025/marโ€ฆ Canadians who visit the US for more than 30 days have not chosen wisely. #elbowsup


The Danish academic pension fund has blacklisted Tesla stock from its holdings, and I can't help but wonder if @sarangnemo.bsky.social may have had something to do with this! finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-d...

Tesla Dumped by Danish Pension...




oh no she's writing about identity threat and our beliefs about developer ability again
in reply to Dr. Cat Hicks

going down the street banging pots and pans together chanting The Forbidden Words about People


Hey Canadians - remember that USA military professionals are professionally desensitized to atrocities

mastodon.social/@richpuchalskyโ€ฆ

it's a LOT easier to โ˜ฎ๏ธ convince a bear the meal is inconvenient, than to claw back at something that survives by claw.

Now is a good time to reduce exposure - everything from financially divesting from the USA and USD instruments, to cycling in emergency water and food. It makes us less convenient.

#CDNPoli #Canada #ElbowsUp

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๐Ÿ”ฆ Rega Floor Lamp - Contemporary Lampshade Design โ€ข OBJ files
โžก๏ธ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2798247
๐Ÿ’ก Designed by Lunfardo


I'm debugging the ROM emulation on the Firestarter. It looks as if the code to monitor ROM enable and ROM selection is working but the host crashes once it starts accessing the ROM.

The first access of the ROM is when BASIC calls KL_INIT_BACK to initialise background ROMs.

The first read is the LD A,(&C000). A few cycles later the ROM's init routine at &C006 will be called.

#AmstradCPC #Firestarter #Pico #RP2350





Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored
โ€”

Two inches of raw sewage. Black mold. A bat infestation. Reporter Emily Schwing shares what she uncovered as she investigated dangerous conditions inside Alaskaโ€™s deteriorating public schools.
propublica.org/article/alaska-โ€ฆ

#News #Journalism #Alaska #Education #School #Native #Indigenous #Students



๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿคฃ
"Canada giving US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere."

#ElbowsUP #canada #cdnpoli #quebec

in reply to GG

I wonder if they bought the whole set or just the one piece?


The City of Ottawa is buying ads on YouTube to promote shopping local.
Yes, the city outline really is roughly heart-shaped.
#ShopCanada #ElbowsUp




โ€œWhat I said to [Marco Rubio] is Canadaโ€™s sovereignty is not up to debate, period. Thereโ€™s no argument, thereโ€™s no conversation about it, thereโ€™s no need to talk about it. Youโ€™re here, you respect us, you respect our sovereignty, youโ€™re in our country, you respect our people. Period.โ€
โ€” foreign minister Mรฉlanie Joly

#CanPoli #ElbowsUp #WelcomeBackTo1812

cbc.ca/news/politics/g7-canadaโ€ฆ



So on my list of things to tinker with for ages has been @syncthing just set it up on my arch laptop and the syncthing fork app on my droid phone. HOLEY SMOKES. It's awesome. Got it syncin' my #logseq folder which yes I rather glibly call "connection_cove". 'syncthing #opensource
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in reply to concretedog

It's great. I use @syncthing to sync my photos/etc onto the NAS now as part of my Google Photos replacement (on the NAS it is then duplicated into Immich). Took a little bit of setup, but then it "just works".
in reply to Yvan

@yvan it's absolutely class so far! Just works as you say, push and pull between devices... boss!
@Yvan


I was all excited about the lunar eclipse that was scheduled to start about 2am. However, I was fast asleep by 1230am and didn't wake up until 730am, so here is a picture of the moon I took much earlier in the evening with a little extra. #photography #fullmoon #sandhillcranes #HoosierMast
in reply to Carpingdiem

@loren No offense to the folks who got great eclipse shots, but that uh, eclipses all of them.


"Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi"โ€“Walt Disneyโ€™s 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made

openculture.com/2017/01/educatโ€ฆ



Finally, after ordering it on the 6th, got my second-hand document scanner.

And it's broken.

And filthy.

And the power cable's... melted?

"Good used condition" my backside. Now to work on getting my money back...



The most difficult problems in computer science: printing Unicode on Windows stackoverflow.com/a/78452246/4โ€ฆ
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