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Funny how informational security is so much less important to the NYTimes now than it was in late 2016.


1/2 Did somebunny say it was #TeefTuesday? -Sitara ✨ #SitaraLove
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It turns out, as always, that your social media posts are public. ActivityPub features that attempt to set any other expectations for users are wrong and should maybe be considered a vulnerability in and of themselves. #ActivityPub #privacy #Pixelfed #Mastodon
mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/…


If you have not yet received a notice, over the next few weeks, if you own a domain, and your domain register falls under Us Jurisdiction, expect to receive a notice about privacy policy updates.

For example, Name Dot Com, as shown below.

In fact, if you use any digital service under Us Jurisdiction, expect to receive privacy policy updates.

#Name #Domain #DomainName #DomainRegister #Privacy #PrivacyPolicy



in reply to Dave Polaschek (he/him)

yikes! This is bad, but also I kinda think the way DMs work in the activitypub protocol is a joke and we should either just not have it or fix it



Oooh, I just blocked that range of addresses to fix my overloaded Mastodon server issues last week. 🤨

"KDE's GitLab infrastructure was temporarily knocked offline by crawler traffic originating from Alibaba IP ranges"

tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/…

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Patent 1,034,245 Flying Machine... for when you are tired of not having bicycle lanes. #BikeTooter


Top left panel of today's Questionable Content is very much what we used to call "exploitable"
in reply to mcc

I make no claims about possibly "being normal about _______."

I am *extraordinary*! 😁




ESA finally has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?
Late this year, European governments will have the opportunity to pay up or shut up.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…


On a tiny island in South Florida, researchers are tracking evolution in real time by studying five species of anole lizards. Their decade-long study is revealing how natural selection drives evolution, an #ecology professor explains: theconversation.com/amid-a-tro… #evolution


This is great: a DIY 3D-printed stamp that turns Andrew Jacksons into Harriet Tubmans on US $20 bills kottke.org/18/09/the-harriet-t…


My former junior college jazz band has mastered the art of being petty, and I am here to support it FULLY.
If you’re in #LosAngeles, go support them if you can.

#DEI
#music
#jazz



Breaking: New Sleep Token track has exceptionally filthy beat

youtube.com/watch?v=JJpFTUP6fI…





Every day we look away, more civilians die in Sudan and South Sudan. More children join the 12.5 million people already displaced. More families face the impossible choice between starving and risking death to flee.

theindex.media/no-aid-no-accou…



They always tell you their shitty evil plans up front. Always. They’re going to do targeted voter roll purges, and then destroy the evidence and insist no do-overs or audits or takesies-backsies.

From: @noondlyt
hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/11422…



Someone just shared this with me. Holy shit. 🤯

“Yale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny, and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of How #Fascism Works, move to #Canada” (to positions at the University of Toronto).

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog…



Hive mind here's a weird problem. If I measure the resistance across what I believe is a carbon steel ball bearing, that I've scrubbed with steel wool and then washed with acetone, the resistance between the probe points is a rapidly fluctuating number between 30 and 800 ohms. If I do the same thing with a carbon steel file it's steady at about 0.5 ohms. Any guesses about why a ball bearing acts like this?

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@tomjennings I'm making a smaller, stiffer version of this:
thingiverse.com/thing:5198913
You can see the geometry of the kinematic coupling in one of the screenshots. This is how most touch type 3d probes are built, and they all rely on steel-on-steel contact between the elements.
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@tomjennings It's an input to an fpga and the details are dodgy but people assume the fpga has a weak pullup resistor in the 5k region, so this definitely needs to be a small fraction of that to establish a low. Right now a run of six balls with three pins regularly measures over a megohm some of the time, with considerable spring pressure pushing the contacts together. Other times it reads 25 ohms.
The design is a Maxwell kinematic coupling, because that's way easier to make than a Kelvin.


Hey bikers in #CambridgeMA: back in December, the city council passed a policy order asking for a plan to redesign Garden St to make it a two-way street again (due to opposition to its current configuration, which is one-way towards #HarvardSq with a semi-protected bike lane on each side). I think returning this street to two-way traffic would be a big mistake! There's a petition to make this clear. It could use more signatures before the report from the Traffic Dept is discussed at the city council meeting next Monday, 3/31. If you're a Cambridge resident, please consider reading more details and signing the petition here:

forms.gle/SPouzuN6PnGE2KTZA

Please boost for reach (CC @itamarst @Cambikelanes )

(Personally, every time I drive, bike, or walk down Garden St, I'm grateful for how much the current design has calmed down traffic and reduced dangerous interactions, even when the flex posts have been removed.)

#BikeTooter



in all fairness, my brain has been working on this for like 24 hours and i still can't think of a plausible way in which this went down. I need this forensic examination

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2vtbm…

in reply to sarah jeong

like I am still struggling to understand how another person could do this but one thing we can all take away is that no matter how safe and secure the technology is, your unfamiliarity with the interface is a vulnerability


Deep-sea mining for rare minerals to go into electric car batteries and smartphones could threaten the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that sustains life across our planet. An oceanographer explains how sediment plumes from mining may disrupt this delicate environment: buff.ly/ZNzTjfu
in reply to The Conversation U.S.

I am BEGGING the world to NOT. FUCKING. DEEPSEA. MINE.

We can rewild and unfuck the world we live in. We cannot do shit for the deepsea.





When I say they’re fascists

what I mean is

they’re fascists.

From @Nonilex:
masto.ai/@Nonilex/114225276602…



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Physical Key Copying Starts With a Flipper Zero

hackaday.com/2025/03/25/physic…



Glenda has joined the family. (Tortoise for scale.)

Thaddeus Woskowiak has made a lovely 3D model of Glenda the Plan 9 bunny. Spent yesterday prepping and painting a print.

in reply to rob pike

Here are some historical drawings by @reneefrench we coincidentally uncovered today. The original drawing that inspired the version that became Glenda (and was also philw's vismon icon, not that he approved), the drawing that became the Glenda image for Plan 9, and the hamster drawing for WFMU that mutated into the Go Gopher.
in reply to rob pike

great sketches, and I’d also like put in a word if support for the font used in the ruler.



Found the reason why my dryer wasn’t heating. The heating coil was burned through.


Trying to be good and holding off opening this delivery from Appelboom until Sundays YouTube live


👀 CNN: Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/fl…

#Politics #USpol

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“allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.”

If you want a lot of teenagers falling asleep driving home from work, that’s a way to do it.




I did not expect to read the phrase "males have terminal nuptial gift sacs on their penises" today but here we are

A delightful paper comparing mating behaviour across _Leiobunum_ harvester species which have, or lack, nuptial gift-giving, out of Mercedes Burns' lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025… <img class=" title=":cc_by:"/> :cc_nc_us: :cc_nd: :OpenAccess:

#OpenAccess #Arachnews #arachnids #Opiliones #Sclerosomatidae