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Kink, shock collar, math

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Kink, shock collar, math

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Authenticating to a website, 2010: Type in username and password

Authenticating to a website, 2024:
- Type in username
- Look up 20-character password in password keeper
- wait
- Prompt for 2FA token
- Dig out phone
- Unlock phone
- Scroll through 50 services to find 2FA token for website
- Type in 2FA token
- Success
- Receive email alerting you to the fact you've logged in
- Six weeks later: receive email telling you service had been compromised eight weeks ago and you must change password.

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Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison was just sentenced to 2 years imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for her role in the FTX fraud.

#FTX #crypto #cryptocurrency



1. Mozilla is removing their :// from the logo?

theverge.com/2024/9/24/2425302…

2. I learned that jetty (the open source webserver) has a :// in their logo these days. When did this happen?





I somewhat got ROAR to work under ReactOS. I can't get it to read anything outside the ROAR window, and I suspect the hooking mechanism isn't fully implemented. Still, this is progress nonetheless.
in reply to Jake Gross

Now this makes me wonder whether you could make it work under Wine. A wine screen reader, even if not extremely advanced, would be a useful thing indeed. I have no idea whether you can run two different apps in a single "environment", though.


Someone shared a comic I liked, but I noticed that somewhere in the chain, the artists name had been removed, so that stopped me. Reverse image searching proved surprisingly frustrating and involved diving into the cesspit of LinkedIn, but I eventually identified the artist as Irina Blok, but I can't link to the original image because its in Instagram jail, so here's her site.

That was a pain in the ass. Please don't trim credits. It's an asshole move.

irinablok.com



Actual exchange that happened during my first marriage:

Brother In Law: [tells a racist "joke"]
Me: not cool. you won't say racist shit around me.
BIL: or what?
Me: or I won't be around you.
BIL: it wasn't even racist
Me: yes it was. you won't do it around me.
BIL: whatever. (under breath) bitch.

Later, at Thanksgiving dinner:
BIL: [tells a second racist "joke" at the dinner table]
Me: [gets up and gets my keys and prepares to leave]
Mother in Law: where's she going??
Husband: I don't know. Lana, where are you going?
Me: I'm leaving.
MIL: why??
Me: ask your son.

Then I left. Later that evening I got an apology from BIL, and a promise to not say racist shit, at least around me. He tested it a second time, at a different family get together. I got up and started for my car. I got an immediate apology from him for his behavior.

Look, it's not a lot. But it's a start. Stick to your guns, folks, particularly around the holidays. Hold them accountable for their racist words and actions. Deplatforming racists works.



original winamp sourcecode just dropped

github.com/WinampDesktop/winam…

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Anyone know where I can get FP recorder????????????


pdx: if you lost your guitar — or you need a new album cover — it’s in the middle of hawthorne blvd



meta, fediverse development

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re: meta, fediverse development

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re: meta, fediverse development

user-initiated post migration is something that certain instances support (some of the *keys), and I look forward to seeing it on more instances. data exports also exist but data imports don’t seem common.

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It’s over. I’ve maintained accounts for myself and for creative projects over in ex bird land, but I’m done. Besides all the other awful things we know, it now linger offers anything to me as a humble seller of accessibility books. So I’ll be here, and also over on Threads at @shellyspodcast. Follow from the Fediverse at @shellyspodcast. I’m still working out what kinds of things go where, and I promise not to spam you or repeat myself more than absolutely necessary. Bye bye birdie!

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Zajímavé informace. Pak by ta dnešní rychloakce dávala větší smysl. Uvidíme jestli leakne, od koho ten Fiala dostal notičky.


Monthly releases are coming, but right now, they're for testing only! Get the latest update on the Thunderbird Planning mailing list: thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…

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I am always astonished that frequent updates are supposed to describe a good software product.
For ME, good software should be SO good and hardened that I do NOT need frequent updates, but only in extremely exceptional cases!
Further developments, on the other hand, do not need to be handed over to ME on a monthly basis.
🧐
And yes I know there are LTS versions. In my eyes this should be the normal update cycle and there could even be a "VeryLTS" additionally.
😎
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@CafeJunkie We think having the monthly and LTS versions are a good balance for all the kinds of users we have, from ones want the newest features right away to ones who want something stable and long term. This approach also works with the size of our team, since those very LTS versions need more people to maintain them!


Lors de ma dernière insomnie, hier donc, j’ai découvert « Everything Everywhere All at Once » et j’ai réalisé que si j’avais des amis, on m’aurait déjà parlé de ce film tellement c’est le meilleur film d’action + science-fiction + comédie + familial qui soit. (Un créneau jusque-là réservé à Dead Pool, donc.)

Il est dispo en replay sur FranceTV, VO et VF. Je recommande vivement.

france.tv/films/films-suspense…



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ein bisschen finde ich schon grade lustig, dass Du die selbe Strecke abläufst wir wir vorhin. Im Hellen fanden wir hier eher lustig, dass das Weingeschäft "Briefmarken" heißt. Ob da einfach schon der coole Schriftzug von früher dran war und die das Geschäft danach benannt haben? Oder heißt der Inhaber vielleicht"Briefmarken" mit Nachnamen? Fragen über fragen.
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@Bubu ich meine mich dunkel daran zu erinnern dass das Schild schon vor ca 10 Jahren da war, als ich zum letzten Mal hier in der Ecke war. Und es könnte sein dass es damals auch kaputt war und ich auch damals ein Bild davon gemacht habe. Müsste mal im Archiv gucken ...
@Bubu


It just occurred to me that you could make a little robot with a conductive "finger" that just tapped on the side of a screen, and a camera that took a picture after every tap. Run the pictures through OCR and voilà you've got a way to backup the DRM spattered kindle books you've "bought"
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and we're back to the 90's.
I did that with paperbacks because there was no digital proof. That Amazon lock them behind DRM should be the criminal thing!


It's the ten year anniversary of XKCD 1425, one of the all-time greats and one that resonates slightly differently today. Wrote up some notes on that here: simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/…
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@miki I get the impression China has been living a version of this for quite a while now, especially with respect to facial recognition
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And not just China, I like to watch people reading Reddit stories on YT when doing chores, and "redrum" (murder), "grape" (rape) and "spicy time" (sex) are words these people have to use to avoid drawing the ire of the allmighty algorithms.

For now that's just "simple" keyword and voice / face recognition. As tech progresses and models get smaller, it'll become a lot more pernicious.

I think a "no more discussions of copyright infringement and vaccine conspiracy theories on the internet" law (that actually works) is something we will get in the next 20-ish years in at least one major country.



Ich möchte einige Menschen grüßen. Und ein bisschen neidisch machen...


we are all closer to being climate refugees than billionaires


Spent this morning in court in support of folks being evicted from a local "co-op". The management company's agent was so disorganized she didn't know how much one of the tenants owed, slashing the amount in half right at the bench when she realized the numbers she was given didn't add up. She also, apparently, accidentally dismissed one of her own evictions and was surprised to learn that it wasn't on the docket. Management dismissed something like 6 of the 9 cases when they apparently realized their evidence wouldn't hold up, and this one case got caught up in that wave, presumably by accident/incompetence.

The whole thing is fucking awful, and the ways co-ops fail marginalized folks again and again while patting themselves on the backs need to be addressed.

Meanwhile, the case before those was a crypto bro who couldn't pay his rent because his company's investment in a mining operation fell through, and he wanted to pay rent in equity/work for his apartment complex as a "financial engineer," putting their assets on the blockchain.

I'm thinking a lot more seriously about a career change after this. The world is burning. It doesn't need more big tech in it.



🏠 Stěhování je vždy těžké a postihlo to také web infoek.cz.

🔄V současné době dochází k přesunu na nový server. Několik hodin nebudou publikovány nové příspěvky, web bude zcela nedostupný, bude docházet k problémům s načítáním obrázků a mohou nastat i další potíže....

🚀Brzy bude infoek.cz mít nový domov, aby mohl nadále růst.

Děkuji za pochopení,
Adolf Pupík
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A new service that helps web devs keep up to date on changes to support for web features; you can subscribe to RSS to get weekly reports on BCD changes. From your chums at @igalia meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/202… (Vivaldi browser has a built-in feed reader, just sayin..)



Tbh I hate everything about this and it makes me want to run far, far away from AP and never look back:

socialwebfoundation.org

ATP or just doing a ground-up version of my own protocol becomes more and more tempting by the day. Which leaves me sad, but here we are.

#SWF #SocialWebFoundation #ActivityPub

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Literally at this point anything that's not AP or nostr ​:pulsatingyoshi:
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Tetris turned 40 in 2024.

Feel free to boost this if you are older than Tetris.

#Tetris #RetroGaming #OldGamer #VideoGames #Tetris40

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Out today: Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo. I’m actually gonna grab this from the local bookstore today while I’m out and about. amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/03…
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I've not seen exec/obidos/ appear in an Amazon URL for ages. memories!


2 días para el cumple del peque. Hace exactamente 9 años, que cayó Jueves, estaba preparándome para un concierto en el que tocábamos por primera vez en el gran Centro Cultural Kirchner, junto a uno de los artistas más importantes de Argentina. El querido León Gieco. Ese día era la fecha probable de parto. Mis niveles de ansiedad y nervios eran monumentales. Fue la única vez que no apagué el teléfono en un concierto, totalmente dispuesto a salir corriendo si recibía una llamada de su mamá.


Since when waking up to 200+ unread emails became the norm?


It's just lovely with my new computer. The AIRA app just worked without fiddling around with various audio and camera-related settings. I needed them for work this morning and it was perfect.


Just finished listening to the first of the two stories in Big Finish's "Susan's War: Family Ties." I won't reveal much but I thought the story was a real let-down as I expected a lot more from it. Still, I'm looking forward to the second story where she meets the War Doctor. #DoctorWho
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@alecaddd Just watched your awesome Customizable Shortcuts video series. Where do you intend for the shortcuts editor window to be? In the general preferences/settings tab?

Also, if you ever implement a HUD, then please make `?` the shortcut to bring that up. Youtube has a good implementation that you can refer. (Press ? while watching a video)

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Thanks for watching.
Yes, I'm aiming at implementing a HUD and using the `?` key to trigger it


Tune into ACB Radio on 9/26 at 3 PM ET for the Vispero Presentation: Personalize JAWS Commands with Keyboard Manager. We’ll show you how to use Keyboard Manager to assign and manage keystrokes for commands in JAWS. Request an invitation at community@acb.org

#FreedomScientificTraining #JAWS

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I'm so glad you're doing a presentation on using the JAWS Keyboard Manager. This has been a capability I've used for years and I'm glad that perhaps more people who weren't aware of it will learn about it.


"We need #UBI not to protect us from some future prospect of zero employment but to cushion the blow from the constant disruption that automation has imposed on the labor market for hundreds of years."

opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr…

#ubi