This both real and a decent metaphor, so it is time for me to re-tell a story.
Ever heard of The Ping Of Death?
There was a couple of years there - years, hand to god - where you could throw a single malformed or too-large packet across the network at any IP you could see, and if you malformed it just right for its OS, you could crash the machine. You could kill a Windows machine with one line in cmd.exe.
It was bad, but almost nobody knows how bad.
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This happens sometimes, screen readers (for good technical reasons) don't really understand the concept of something being visually covered by another object.
You can sometimes do extremely fun stuff because of this, like reading the personal data of some random customer that somebody didn't properly remove from their contract template. Or chitchat between the editors of your textbook.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.
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Putting Switzerland in a worse position than "EU" seems far fetched to me. Is the statement: "Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be." your only source of making it "orange" on your map?
There is a great risk that "Chat Control" will be applied in EU. What´s "green" about that?
There has to be worse threats to Switzerland regulations than "Chat control" then. Could you please enlighten me...
Yes! Chat control has been updated... for now. But the "discussion" is still very real in many of EU:s countries of how to undermine the encryption .
What I'm gathering currently being discussed in Swiss (and not decided yet) is that providers might in the future need to "retain metadata—who you talk to, when and where—without breaking encryption"
So, revise your map, and make Swiss Green AND make a separate dystopical "What might come"-map where you can make both EU and Swiss orange
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If you need to get your mood down a few notches, there are some new slop entries to torment yourself with here:
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Perhaps we need to implement some sort of pre-filter that can take the initial report and parse it to see if it's legit at all.
Like some sort of AI to validate the AI?
(🤦♂️ I can't believe I had to say that!)
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Maybe the question should be: Why is ONLY one german federal state moving to LO?
As with everything here: Bureaucracy. It takes a long time to get anything done.
I hope this paves the road for more states to follow soon.
Keep it up, LO!
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Well it seems I will be presenting @badgefed at #fosdem on the #socialwebfosdem track!
This was a long-shot and honestly it will make my logistics very difficult, the week before I will be travelling with my family to Mexico. So probably, will take the kiddo to the junior track!
20 mins of presentation but honestly I am looking forward to the networking. See you at #fosdem26 from the #PNW!
And make sure to attend and say hi if you are there, I will be giving you badges!
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Me hace gracia ver que por ejemplo Sumar han estado sosteniendo el gobierno estos años y ahora así de repente es lo peor, no tienen objetivos, etc ... pero descartan salir del gobierno
No obstante si el gobierno es una mierda ¿porque han aguantado tanto y siguen aguantando como socios?
Estoy empezando a pensar que lo mismo regreso a no votar como hice algunos años.
Luego esto se me pasa pero ... es que Sumar desde luego ilusionan poco. Básicamente los descarté cuando el veto a Irene Montero.
I was chatting with a Black friend of Jamaican heritage. She was appalled that a Nigerian she'd met knew next to nothing about slavery.
It's Black history! she said.
It's *your* history, I explained.
For Africans that sad story ended when the ships left the shore. Our schools teach us about the impact of that devastation, not what happened on the other coast.
Black history is not one thing. It's not MLK.
It's also Songhai and Benin. Which they don't teach here
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I'm not saying that the story of slavery is not important. Personally I've done my best to learn about it; mostly because I now live in a country shaped by it.
But there is so much human history. I have sympathy for people who have learned one bit of it, but not the other.
(Was thinking about this because I saw an exchange where someone was being upbraided for not knowing about American racism - even though they weren't American or Black.)
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I'm curious which of you has the largest Bastille infrastructure. Is anyone brave enough to share a screenshot of `bastille list` with a contender for highest number of jails?
I've just pushed Tor integration in Libervia (first step of the NLnet metadata reduction and serverless grant).
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A thought for Lunar who is mentioned in the documentation of txtorcon (for doing the Debian package) and who passed away last year.
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I'm going to try and stop watching short-form content online.
I gave up watching tiktok a number of months ago, and now it's time for Reels and YouTube Shorts to go as well.
I have a theory that they trigger the same areas of the brain that gambling lights up.. and it's not so much about the watching, but about swiping to see if you ✨win✨ by finding something fun. I noticed that I'd be watching something I was enjoying and just swipe anyways to see if the next clip was ✨better✨, which feels like classic gambling behaviours.
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I would love more control over replies.
Especially the ability to set a toot to "No replies".
"Replies only by people that I follow" and "Replies only by people mentioned in the toot (but the toot is visible to all) would be nice too.
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Modular thingies are cool when they work right.
I just configured a new Ubiquiti wireless access point... well, actually an old one that was taken out of service last year when I wasn't home to fix broken things. It was easier to replace it than to walk someone through getting this one working again because of how it was mounted and such.
Anyway, adopted it to the controller, and devices automatically roamed to it. Then when I upgraded the firmware, those devices roamed back to where they were, then back again when it came back online. Nothing actually dropped for long enough to cause a noticeable problem.
Now I need to actually install this AP where it's meant to go, re-replacing the one it originally replaced. LOL!
What sins have we committed as a nation that Nigel Ng is our food ambassador? And telling Yankees that our burger Ramly comes with no vegetables?? Did we occupy a territory?? Did we loot a temple??? Did we do a secret assassination on a third world resistance leader???
When was the last time you bought/built/acquired your primary computing device? (or, what era is it from, if it's somehow a used older thing)
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in reply to mhoye • • •Because the Ping Of Death was an RCE. If you sent _just the right_ kind of malformed or too large packet - and you cleaned up after yourself - you suddenly had a system where you could basically ask any computer you could see to do whatever you wanted, and it would do that for you and then quietly go on its way.
I was temping for Global Affairs Canada in the late 90s, then called DFAIT; I got to hang with some old-school-then, semi-retired CSIS sigint guys.
They thought the internet was great.
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in reply to mhoye • • •Because you don't have a "network interface card", you have an ARM cpu, maybe even a whole-ass ARM SOC, handling ethernet frames on one side and talking PCI on the other.
You don't even have SD cards, because "memory cards" don't exist. That terabyte of storage the size of your thumbnail you bought? That's an ARM CPU managing the wear levels on its crap-ass flash backing storage while pretending to be a hard drive on the other side.
You don't know how many computers are in your computer.
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