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@blogdiva@mastodon.social
Ah, since I'm old enough to remember: you wouldn't download a car, would you?😄
Piratebay, FTW!🏴☠️
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@shadowdancer@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.240-something professional computer geek from 🇫🇮. Father of two (humans, although there's a cat). Politically left-leaning. As far as pronouns go, I know who I am; He/him, but won't be offended by any other.
Would fail the Turing Test.
Generally uninteresting lurker interested about politics, programming, electronics, all things computer, cats, Star Wars, languages (human, machine), history... list goes on.
Wait... scratch that. I'm here for cat pics.
Because cats rule.
Also, a metalhead. 🤘
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@georgepenney
Just a friendly reminder that all this is made possible by all those instance admins and moderators tirelessly working in the background, fending off hordes of haters and other bastards trying to creep in.
It's also made possible by all of us. So whenever you see harassment or other unacceptable behavior, please do report.
This is a team effort.
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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
So let me get this straight: UK govt will from now on be able to restrict internet access at will with no legislative oversight?
IIRC they enacted a law quite similar in Russia a while back.
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@gwynnion@mastodon.social
Well that's just plain stupid. It's like bragging about the amount of credit card debt you can generate a day.
Because the best code is the one never written.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social
It's always the other sleep! The one I really wished to sleep refuses to be slept!
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@Michigander@toad.social
Well it's actually a nice +25°C with a breeze up here at around 62°N (Europe). But yeah, I hear it's a bit different some 10-20 parallels down.
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@blotosmetek
Okay, but that would mean that what happened here wasn't just a straight Russian to English text translation.
Instead it would seem that there's been an image with Russian text which then was read in with some dumb OCR software that had no understanding of cyrillic alphabet.
Then the already broken Russian langauge was translated to English resulting in even more broken English.
@cstross
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@dazfuller@mstdn.social
Now WTF seriously? I had to literally spell the domain out loud. Yes, it really is microsoft.com and not some parody site. It's not like I ever held Microsoft in high regard but this is beyond all comprehension.
Is there really no one doing any proofreading anymore? I mean, yeah they're in AI business and they use it themselves, but I wasn't aware they've literally taken hands off the wheel entirely.
Illuminated.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
I operate a relay, and have been for years. Now, I'm wondering, given the choice between running a relay and donating to the tor project, which one would be more beneficial overall?
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@xChaos@f.cz
Well that's just brutal. The hottest I can remember around here was probably around 35°C a few years back and that was bad.
@Michigander@toad.social
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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social
Yes, the internet has convinced me of this.
@catsalad@genealysis.social
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@catsalad@genealysis.social
I was soooo hard trying to find a cat in the picture. It's behind the counter, isn't it?
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Okay this sucks big time, but there's a silver lining: OpenAI going into porn biz. This means one thing and one thing only: AI business is about to crash.
Very soon.
I mean going porno has to be the absolutely last imaginable straw for any business about to die.
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@ocean
whois.
Because sometimes the old tools work best.
One should note however that whois has been deprecated by ICANN since 2025-01-28 in favor of RDAP [1].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Sure 😉 Alas, I'm no billionaire though, so I was thinking should I instead just donate the few € I currently pay for the VPS running the relay.
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@geerlingguy
OpenWRT One [1], anyone? By buying the product you will also support, through SFC, development of OpenWRT.
https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
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@Viss@mastodon.social
Wait, what.. they program it in Python? So, like what does that even mean? You can program the human brain in Python?
Okay so how can I do this at home? I've got a few great brain automation ideas.
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@ekis Yeah, there's a reason they're not showing it to unaffiliated experts who could make independent assessments.
Talk is cheap, show me the code.
- L. Torvalds
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@itamarst
Does it really work like that, though? I mean yes, for companies like Nvidia, Google, MS etc who directly invest in building datacenters it is capital expenditures.
But how about everybody else? Those who actually use AI offerings? AI is billed based on usage and/or monthly so aren't we instead talking about operating costs (or whatever the right book keeping term is)?
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@Tutanota
Exactly what difference does this make? Since we're talking about US based companies, the US govt. can access your data regardless.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Security theater, nothing more. Now one has to ask why even bother? For cheap political score?
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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@Strandjunker
This day in 1933 the German Reichtag had already passed the Enabling Act which gave Hitler personally the right to pass any law unhindered even by the constitution. It was already game over for any possible german opposition.
I don't think the US is quite there yet, is it?
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@geoff_eg
Oh, that's interesting to hear!
This picture was taken today while hiking around Neitvuori [1] area in 🇫🇮. There are many places around eastern #Finland where you can experience scenery similar to this, the most famous probably being the Koli national park [2].
[1] https://saimaageopark.fi/en/rocky-terrain-at-neitvuori/#filter=r-fullyTranslatedLangus-,r-openState-
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koli_National_Park
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@sash
Thanks for the heads up! I frequent the forums but it's been a couple of days since my last visit so I missed this one. It seems the release was announced 17h ago.
Now, if this was found in a commercial router firmware, how quickly would you guess there'd be a fix available?
I'd say weeks, or maybe months.
edit: hashtag for better reach #OpenWRT
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app
Am I correct in my understanding that this requires one to reveal their IRL location in a public toot?
I am sorry, but I am not comfortable with that, unfortunately. I can, and will, however consider setting up another account just for this purpose. Especially since I'm using a certain fediverse app that just happens to handle multiple accounts very nicely ;)
@PawFed
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Yeah, there simply is no way the guy could've planned all this. He doesn't seem to be able to plan the next day.
Now the EU is considering a military operation to clear out Hormuz.
As Mrs. Kallas said, the free world needs a new leader.
And a janitor. You know, to clean up after the orange man child.
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@kimlockhartga
Maybe a blizzard? Not sure, though, what counts as one. I mean we do have lots of snow and strong winds here every winter.
Also, what's extreme cold? The coldest I've been outside (and working) was -38°C.
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@red0ran@jorts.horse
Oh, this is a somewhat famous line from the 1989 movie adaption of Stephen King's Pet Sematary, in which a man buries a dead cat in a cursed sematary causing the cat to rebound as a zombie cat.
The zombie cat from the movie was the first thing that came to my mind when seeing this picture, especially the cat's facial expression.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange
@rperezrosario
@apps since the beginning and I've had no reason to look elsewhere.
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@ggus@mastodon.social
I operate a tor relay, but am not familiar with this. Can I run this on the same machine with a tor relay? How much additional burden will this bring on the server? Will I need more hardware, more bandwidth?
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@ggus@mastodon.social
Ok, however I haven't seen my relay ever being accepted as a guard (idk why), so blocking it might not make that much sense, but then again, who knows what any particular nazi regime decides to block. They might just blanket block all relays regardless of role.
I'll have to see if I'd be able to run Snowflake on my OpenWRT router at my home. Anyone done that?
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@WestCoastCliche@beige.party
Thanks for the context! The text in the picture really didn't make any sense to me as such. I mean, we had boat when I was a kid and we literally spend our summers living in it on the numeous lakes around here.
@streetartutopia@mastodon.online
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@julesbl
Yeah, well I tried asking the chatbot on their web page and it was totally cluless although trained specifically to answer product questions.
Anyway, discussions on their forums don't give a too encouraging picture about FP6 Android Auto compatibility.
I bet if I asked the customer support directly they'd say of course it works perfectly.
@Techaltar
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@csolisr
So you have an FTTH type of setup, right? So why don't you just put your own router right behind the ISP provided fibre to ethernet box?
That's what I do. I treat the ISP device as an untrusted device, a part of the public internet as far as I'm concerned. No need to try to circumvent the ISP device.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Look. No matter who's running it, or where it's hosted, if it's run for profit, you're the product. It's as simple as that.
Just stay the fuck away from it.
@lain@lain.com
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@AliceStollmeyer
Okay next Mastodon with its evil infinite global timeline.
@kimvsparrentak @alexandrageese
Just a random shot, sitting on the patio, enjoying the #Summer 🌞
I just saw a job advert by a local software company in which they were looking to hire an "AI Adoption Engineer".
The job description was a bit lengthy, but the main point, apparently, was that the recruitee would be tasked with "driving" (read: selling) AI adoption within the organisation.
So it seems AI is, contrary to all fears, _creating_ new jobs in IT 😄
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@leavex
So, uh, the right wording would be: "Politicians Hacked".
That, however, would be no news at all.
_Illusion of a world without crime is a world filled with a very different kind of crime: authoritarianism._[1]
Carissa Véliz, TED2026, https://www.ted.com/talks/carissa_veliz_beware_the_power_of_prediction
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@MaryAustinBooks
Great. And next we're gonna see Polymarket enable betting on occurrences of warehouse fires.
It's all fun and games until Sauron loses an eye.
(Yeah, they've been re-running the LotR trilogy on the TV around here over the weekend...)
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@itamarst
Okay, fair enough. They are indeed large employers of software engineers and can cause disruption in the job market by mass layoffs.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
Uh, as much as I love cats... sometimes, dead is better.