The Penguin of Evil

We are so lucky enshittification took hold as late as it did. Imagine having to debug a 1990s PC with beep codes for 'the signing certificate on your graphics card ROM is expired' or having a PXE BIOS preboot network environmental to check your OS licence has not expired

Canada should plant extensive cannabis groves in high fire risk areas near the US border. It won't stop the smoke but the USAians will be a bit more chill when it happens

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com wroks for Social Media certainly

When we all upgrade to Na based batteries charging offpeak will the new tariff be the sodium nitrate ? #dadjokes

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net "contempt delivery network"

@zxm@mastodon.ie It's Canada, a small take only what you need sign will be fine.

This is your periodic reminder that all the code you browse via the web UI of something like a #git repository doesn't necessarily match what you get via a git clone. In fact it's really easy to serve a trojan that's only in the git clone view so if you need to inspect code do it on the pulled copy. Of course I can also only serve the trojan version to selected IP ranges matching a given corporation too. Isn't supply chain trust fun !

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Same as the link between violence and radicalisation from Prevent "While not directly comparable, researchers said Office for National Statistics data for 2018/19 indicates that 5.7 per cent of the population were victims of domestic abuse – while victims made up 15.4 per cent of Prevent referrals they analysed." Same story, same sort of numbers, other side of the hate coin.

@bodil@social.treehouse.systems It's a sloppery slope 8)

@chu@climatejustice.social @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @MisuseCase@twit.social It needs to be a pre university thing I think. There's a common theme living in a university town that students get into messes with the stuff they weren't allowed before they arrived. Those whose parents banned alcohol totally get drunk, those who have no experience in other things go off the deep end there whatever it is (money, food, ...) as there's nobody around to keep them on the level.

@ErikUden@mastodon.de 'I have repented and installed Linux on my cat'

@mu@mastodon.nz @ptoothfish@beige.party Yes and they know it, but they and their political tools are pushing age limits because they don't want laws passed to make social media safe for people as it would damage their revenue. It's the cigarette company "it's ok if its a dangerous addictive drug and you just ban children using it" trick, and I'd like to say the politicians fell for it, but they are so in bed with the techbros in the UK that they are probably totally aware of the script.

@jef@mastodon.social @grassrootsforeurope@mas.to older and poorer which is itself linked to shorter life expectancy

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116952412074922379 The literal #enshittification of the USA continues.

I was trying to put together a summary of why #AI code s banned from Fuzix Having thought about it a bit I realised it can be put several ways but it really already been said by Marx (and Engels), and to be fair also the same basic beliefs in many other groups: "The workers should own the means of production" LLM #AI, aside from all the stolen content and environmental damage is not owned by the workers. It's no different to depending upon an proprietary compiler someone can take away.

@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org @zzt@mas.to MSDOS started that particular rot going mainstream

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It started going wrong after COBOL. No buffer overflows, no memory leaks. Rust is bizarre in that I don't think there's anything in the rust safety stuff that isn't permitted in C as an implementation detail. A pointer is just an object handle and offset (except function pointers which are just handles without offset). Malloc/free are a library option. So it ought to have been possible to just make C safe instead. Bash is a nasty bloated mess. The bourne shell is a thing of beauty

@rc2014@oldbytes.space @concretedog@mastodon.social Problem with opting out is that it'll probably have no effect (they'll scrape a mirror of it somewhere) and it'll mean if there's even a class action over it as there should be you might not be eligible.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Not a lot of people know that you can also s/foo/bar to correct the line above in unixy discord at least

@datenwolf@chaos.social @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz I think that depends on the audience. When I was giving talks outside the UK I often quite intentionally added more text (and slides) because for a 2nd/3rd/.. language speaker it's common especially in tech that they are strong in written but not spoken form. Making copies of the materials available in advance also works wonders, and unlike university lecturers your listeners might actually have read through them.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @lina@vt.social If you've got a maintenance contract then you get to have a discussion about CVE fixing schedules. If not then go fix it yourself If you download something for free and it doesn't meet your needs that's your problem.

Some days I wonder how many resources we could save if we instead taught people some basic understanding of safety. All those manuals that start with 35 pages of "do not attempt to eat your router", "do not place product in the microwave", "do not operate in a room filled with petrol vapour" could be so much smaller. I mean it's not like the kind of people who try and eat their router actually read the manual in the first place anyway.

More baby steps on UK plug in #solar Core of the interim standard is basically DIN VDE V0126-95 with tweaks for the UK. Max 800W per house, doesn't yet cover batteries but otherwise really isn't terribly interesting. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a31167d15f2a70fac7e6026/plug-in-solar-interim-product-specification.pdf

@CableSt@mastodon.social our local councillors are basically a little independent group. They do all this stuff properly including going round checking drains in the rain and organising stuff getting fixed. The other parties consider the seats impossible to take. This is great advice and it might turn some of these people who signed up to reform in a misguided attempt to fix Britain into actual responsible humans when they see how the world really works.

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer have you tried running Linux on it 🤣

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Remember that you can serve a different AGENTS.md on the web view rather than the repository according to the browser agent too, so slop artists need to be really careful ;) 🙊

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social real question is where the data actually goes. If it's just within the box beeping at you to wake you up before you kill someone then rather less of a deal. Most of this is not on micro mobility because as I understand it a quad bike is conveniently exempt, and allowed around town in many EU and UK just not on motorways. Also they tend to be built to a price point where there's no spying kit not even an entertainment system just a phone holder

@jwz@mastodon.social @flpvsk@mastodon.social Anyone who thinks copyright status and getting into a messy lawsuit isn't a "technical consideration" is deluded.

@doggle@mastodon.online They've been going downhill for several years and it seems the recent takeover has not actually fixed anything. Not just you although I've not had locked accounts just a steady stream of other annoyances and now mostly moved bank.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Those fluffly ears are just cunningly disguised sets of cthulhuesque tentacles

@aadeacon@mastodon.social @jbjrkng@hachyderm.io And it'll have no effect as the press won't cover it. If they can get away with Epstein do you think a little social media leak is going to scare them ?

@mu@mastodon.nz @ptoothfish@beige.party The kids will end up in the places they are not banned, which will be the small spots, the unwatched places, the darker corners of the internet. And the adults will still be suffering from deliberately addictive technology.

@ptoothfish@beige.party 4chan is antisocial media so it's clearly not covered ;)

@hackbyte @cstross@wandering.shop I'm old enough I stayed in Unix when windows 3 was "the future".

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @ReggieHere@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk the air to air grant is basically useless according to all the Aircon folks I know. It forces you to remove gas entirely so change water heating. It stops you migrating bit by bit and just the overheads of the MCS stuff and this will cost way more than a grant. Unlike the air water farce it's a long established industry with normal priced equipment sold globally and not pushed up by grants.

@miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi nope it's merely sparkling investment 😄 Power differentials and wealth differences breed corruption anywhere.

@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot I am convinced the #drwho Silence In The Library story must have been inspired by an encounter with midges.

@disco3000@climatejustice.social bit more complex than that - it's a falling out between one of the founders and the main group. Yes someone was being an ass, no spending 100 grand in order to be right rather than just changing name is IMHO probably a dumb thing to do

@magnesium@infosec.exchange @AAKL@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Is there a country where it does ? Jurisdiction farming isn't solely for the rich corporates

@rl_dane@polymaths.social @jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net there's also the Unix heirloom toolset which is the original real deal but usually unicode fixed

@baldur@toot.cafe When many years ago EU government started supporting open source the US sent messages to their embassies telling them to fight it. We know this because a copy of the messages "fell off the back of an embassy". It's been ongoing for a long time and it really is time that the US got to the "and find out" stage. It goes beyond software - US mdelling is why you now can't get cars repaired (no third party parts viable) and more. Trump may yet prove to be the "useful idiot" the world needed

@masek@infosec.exchange I'm apparently so old it used to be called grep

@jelte@mastodon.nl @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Maybe I should just ask it how to make a proper cup of tea as per HHGTTG ;)

@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz When I first did them the best advice I was given was 'write it on a postage stamp, if you can't fit it on a postage stamp there's too much on that slide' I think it's in reality a bit more nuanced depending upon audience and language skills.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Getting ready to enforce the "US citizens only" rule for the next model as Trump now requires.

Anyone want to buy a signal box going cheap ? https://auction.paulfosh.com/lot/details/189177

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Ah yes "hoffi coffi ffrothi"

@dan@discuss.systems I can relate, only when I'm dangling off the door like that its back ache 8)

@jwz@mastodon.social the tech support request from hell

@aadeacon@mastodon.social @jbjrkng@hachyderm.io They will if its a right wing politician though or if its anyone with money due to our broken libel laws.