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RE: infosec.exchange/@vxdb/1153389…

I've been trying to get the cybercrime journalist @vxdb to abandon their seat at the Nazi Bar, or at least to also post here. So please join me in giving them a follow and a friendly hello.

vxdb (@vxdb@infosec.exchange)

Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested after a cyberattack on nursery chain Kido. Police say the pair tried to extort the company by leaking photos of children, alongside the names, addresses and contact details of their parents and carers.
vxdb (Infosec Exchange)
@vxdb

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I'm a death lawyer. It's nice. But what surprises me is how rarely people do cool stuff with their money (or their bodies) when they die. "UhHhH tAkE cArE oF mY wIfE wHeN I DiE," "i LoVe My ChIlDrEn EqUaLlY." Grow up.

Where are the bequests of fortunes to shirtsleeve relatives in exchange for spending a night in a haunted house? What about having your remains loaded into a cannon and fired into rush hour traffic? Where are the scholarships for bagpipers and other undesirables?

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Federico Mena Quintero

grumbling

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“The ‘Freedom Convoy’ was a foreign-funded occupation and political destabilization movement, not a grassroots movement about COVID mandates." And of course #PeePee was its hand servant. cultmtl.com/2025/10/observatio…

#Cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative #democracy #FreedumConvoy


Observations from Montreal

An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
Cult MTL
#democracy #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative #peepee #freedumconvoy

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De opleidingscommissie van de Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap aan Universiteit Gent besliste om het gebruik van generatieve #AI voor bachelor- en masterproeven dit academiejaar te verbieden. Maar die beslissing wordt van hogerhand teruggefloten. #UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt voor alle opleidingen.

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UGent verbiedt verbod op AI aan filosofievakgroep

UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt ook voor opleidingen die bezwaren uiten.
apache.be
#AI #ugent
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A.A. Delafin, radical

Nee, het speelt er hard weet ik. Zowel de vragen rond wat AI betekent (voor de filosofie als discipline, voor ons kennismodel, voor onderwijs, voor onderzoek...) als hoe er mee om te gaan. Papers zijn potentieel waardeloos als ze geschreven zijn met/door AI, en ook diegenen die het niet gebruiken zijn hier de dupe van.
En laat het (na de computerwetenschappen) nu net de filosofie en andere (vervelende!) menswetenschappen van die faculteit zijn die er misschien het meest interessante over te zeggen hebben!

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I am a bit sad today, because I won't be able to finish the next animal illustration, inspired by the Ubuntu release, in time for the official release date tomorrow.
It will probably take another two weeks.

Nevertheless, Focal Fossa will ensure the focus remains high ☀️ 💕 :blobcat: ☀️ 💕
Boop the nose for good luck! 🍀

#art #mastoart #fediart #krita

A cute young Fossa looking into the camera. The focus lies on its head and eyes. Invites you to boop its nose. Surrounded by pastel swirls. Inspired b Ubuntu release 20.04 LTS. " title="A cute young Fossa looking into the camera. The focus lies on its head and eyes. Invites you to boop its nose. Surrounded by pastel swirls. Inspired b Ubuntu release 20.04 LTS. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Focal-Fossa-828503863
#art #mastoart #krita #fediart
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Lol, #framework decided to sponsor Hyprland as well?

Did they swallow the entire #DHH pill?

Beyond disappointing.

xcancel.com/FrameworkPuter/sta…

Framework (@FrameworkPuter)

We're happy to keep sponsoring and enabling more of the Linux ecosystem! We've also just recently joined @linuxfoundation and become (maybe the first?) corporate sponsor of LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service).
Nitter
#framework #dhh
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I have to do a coding thing for work that deals with XML. I forgot how much I hate XML. I know that, in theory, it has some advantages over JSON, but I don't care. It's so annoying to work with that I'd rather work around JSON's limitations than continue to fight with XML. This is an API situation. There's nothing in the XML we were sent that couldn't be done in JSON. Nothing. I hate it. Okay, rant over--for now.

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"After two years of genocide in Palestine, a massive demonstration converged in Mexico City to demand that the government sever ties with Israel. The march was blocked by police, who assaulted and arbitrarily detained protesters and members of the press. Later, at a rally in front of the US Embassy, speakers condemned the Mexican government's complicity and demanded an immediate end to all military cooperation with Israel."

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@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Mexico #CDMX


2 años de genocidio, un grito en México - Pie de Página

A dos años del genocidio en Palestina, una multitudinaria movilización convergió en la Ciudad de México para exigir al gobierno la ruptura de relaciones con Israel.
Pie de Página
#israel #palestine #méxico #cdmx #Gaza @Palestine_Group
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Talon

it's ok. Your phone just runs costly background processes after updating. For months. No you're overexaggerating the problem! It doesn't happen to meeeeee! Maybe phone warming up randomly is a feature! Now you get your very own digital handwarmer, perfect for the cold winter months! It's not that bad, relax! You just misremember how much battery you had before iOS 26!
Uh... sorry. I got a litlte carried away there with my annoyance at this stupid problem. It's bad. Very bad. Someone on Reddit even did a power draw experiment and who'd have thought, it seems to actually be real.
Also I don't trust techtubers. If there's one group of normal people who do normal things with normal devices, that's probably about as far as you get from that. lol

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Innovative and terrible product idea:

A mouth implant that automatically senses food/drink intake and releases flavors to optimize for your palate; it learns from your saliva production

Never again have to manually add salt to your food or sugar to your coffee, possibly in front of other people

Sensory sovereignty

Flavor cartridges are a subscription service; dentists sell/install/maintain, like Invisalign

We start off with sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami; version 2 includes capsaicin

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Federico Mena Quintero

All the implant manufacturers have been acquired by either Epson or HP. At the time of installation, you need to pair your implant with your phone via Bluetooth and install their app. It serves no purpose other than tracking, and ordering refills. The implant stops working when one of the flavors goes down to 40%. You tap the button for "sweeter" and the implant complains, via your phone, "no umami left, please buy a refill". You say, "only sweet, please", and it goes NO UMAMI.
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Andres

Early prototypes of the product used manual settings, with the first few publicly available versions using telemetry and AI to quickly learn from users how to adjust flavor levels properly. However, as time went on and people switched to using entirely automated settings, the product was forced to train on what was essentially its own output. Reports of hospitalizations are pouring in, as the latest version goes "Oh, you like $flavor? HERE'S A DEADLY AMOUNT OF IT."
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Ran across this gorgeous diagram (at left) of the cyclic execution schedule of the software used on Skylab (1970s). I love this way of thinking about cyclic execution, but I didn't realize anyone else used it!

At right, one of my (less pretty and much less hand-drawn) diagrams from an article I wrote on graphics demo architecture... 40 years later. (And ten years ago, gosh.)

In the replies below, I talk about the old ways of drafting, if you're curious.

A diagram labeled "16 K FLIGHT PROGRAM COMPUTATION CYCLE." It's a circle, divided into five sectors radially and six tracks around the circumference. Over the course of the cycle different patterns are shaded in, which map to a legend in the lower left distinguishing between I/O, telemetry, self-test, wait states, and two priorities of loop.
A circular diagram of operation timing and priority during a 26.4 µs VGA scanline. Priority levels of execution are represented as rings of increasing radius, so low-priority computation is on the inside, and "hops up" to higher priority levels as required.
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cliffle

There's also some mild kerning inconsistency, which strongly suggests that the lettering (in Futura medium, naturally, this was the Space Age after all) was done with a dry transfer lettering sheet, or _potentially_ with a template guide at very large scale. But my money's on dry transfer.

Dry transfer lettering is a thing I'm _just_ old enough to have learned about in drafting class. For those of you who learned to draw post-computer, let me introduce you to Letraset:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letraset

Again, the artist was clearly a pro: the baselines are impeccable and the keming in general is near-perfect. But not machine-perfect. Which I like.


type foundry company originating in the UK

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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food, aging (sarcastic humour)

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Hey there.

My Apache server is getting for many days a massive amount of requests on a particular repository, which kills it (due to maximum workers limit passed). I've deactivated the repository and I'm banning IPs still trying to access it, and in less than an hour I have already ~17000 unique IPs banned.

That really looks like a DDoS even if I have no idea why somebody would attack my server.

How can I deal with that? Note that I don't want to use Cloudflare.

TIA

#askfedi #admin #ddos

#askfedi #admin #ddos
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Hans-Christoph Steiner

as soon as someone steps up and implements it: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient…

The fediverse is decentralized, there are no blockers, just go and do it!


Add support for app ratings and comments (#53) · Issues · F-Droid / Client · GitLab

I think it would be very necessary to add the opportunity to rate and comment the apps in f-droid. If one would recognize that a app was a...
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TheHatedOne has interviewed Hanna - and it was one of nicest interviews ever. 🥰 Check out what we at Tuta think not just about privacy, but also about ethics, AI, and how putting privacy front and center makes marketing more difficult - and why it still matters!
👉 invidious.f5.si/watch?v=6Xzv3n…

I talked to the makers of the MOST SECURE EMAIL in the world

Interview with Hanna from Tuta Mail, the most secure email provider in the world. This is no sponsored, so support my work here: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedone Tuta Mail: https://tuta.
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Hi I'm Cy, a total loser who has written some novels that nobody reads at fedicy.us.to/stories/ I also do a lot of programming that nobody uses or looks at, such as fedicy.us.to/forum Don't have a cell phone, don't make any money, don't have a family, or any sort of relationship, can't have a family at this point, never went on any adventures, don't have any life experiences to relate, and don't really sing, play, or write music anymore. There's nothing about me worth knowing and I am a little bitter about it. I'm currently not committing suicide and uncomfortably lingering and serving as an example of how everything you tried to do to make things better has failed.

Anyway I post silly jokes and actually boost crisis posts and try to find people posting good news, instead of bad news.

#introduction

Index of /stories/

fedicy.us.to
#introduction

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Side point on #ChatControl: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper public.

jmaris.me/chatcontrol_issues.p…

#chatcontrol

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I have an idea. Instead of giving billions to a war monger for a so called "shield", why can't we use these billions to build a resilient infrastructure in Canada, notably infrastructure for a "Canadian cloud" that is vendor neutral and can work without any connection to the US.

Subsidising the GAFAM to build data-centers is NOT that. It's just tax cut to american companies.

#cdnpoli

#cdnpoli
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Gordon J Holtslander

" when new money enters the economy, it benefits those closest to the source first while others face rising costs. Today, purchases of proprietary software echo this theory in a similar way. Vendors and shareholders profit early, while taxpayers and communities shoulder the burden of recurring fees, upgrade costs, and discarded hardware."

news.opensuse.org/2025/09/15/c…


Cantillon Lessons Guide Shift to Open-Source

Communities, governments and businesses face a choice that carries real economic weight as Microsoft winds down support for its Windows 10 operating system. ...
openSUSE News

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@thunderbird super excited about the changes to the DB you are working on. Are threads going to still be built only with headers (no weird algorithm which decides for us what is part of the same thread and what is not?)

Please keep RFC compliant threads! there are so few clients that still do this unfortunately.

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/v…


VIDEO: Conversation View

We're starting work on the long-awaited Conversation View! Learn how our developers and designers are working together to make it happen!
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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More than 300 people will be attending The Matrix Conference next week. One of the most anticipated presentations is from Sweden’s Försäkringskassan.

Based on insights from eSam, the Swedish public sector wants to move on from proprietary, siloed communication systems.

Anna and Kenneth will cover the latest developments within SAFOS, a service designed to establish a national standard for secure messaging, video conferencing, and real-time collaboration.

conference.matrix.org/register

The portrait of two people, a woman and a man. They're next to their names, respectively "Anna Engström" and "Kenneth Edwall". The title of their talk is "Sweden's Public Sector in Transition: Exploring Open Standards for Interoperable Communication"

Register for The Matrix Conference

Join us for the Matrix Conference this October. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
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