Driving my kid to school today, we passed a crowd on a street corner. She asked what they were doing. I said my guess was that it’s observers conferring about ICE.
That wasn’t really a guess What I knew that she didn’t know is that they were gathering because somebody was just abducted there.
#HardenedBSD applies the following compiler flags to #OpenSSL in the base operating system:
-ftrivial-var-auto-init=zero
-fsanitize=safe-stack
-fzero-call-used-regs=used
The OpenSSL port (in the HardenedBSD ports tree exclusively) only enables the first option.
I wonder if the combination of these features would mitigate the OpenSSL stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability announced today. I hope to answer that question this evening unless someone else beats me to it.
"about a week before his death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals."
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that “DHS law enforcement has no record of this incident.”
It sure looks like they knew who he was, but don't want to reveal it was an #ICE #execution
** 2025 Wrapped - the traditional summary of my year. which also serves as an award eligibility post.
(Spoiler - I'm elibible for the Best Fan Writer Hugo Award. I have been a finalist every year since 2023, and I hope you will consider nominating me this year too.)
** If you're not familiar with how the Hugo Award nomination and voting works, Reactor Magazine has a good write-up. reactormag.com/anyone-can-vote… **
It sounds like there was another ICE shooting today but there's almost nothing known about what happened.
"The individual, who has not been identified, was shot in southern Pima County near milepost 15 of West Arivaca Road at around 7:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Santa Rita Fire District. The fire department said it transported the person in critical condition."
One thing I love about being involved in my College is I get a direct line on what young people are thinking.
In my circle of 30-50-somethings, it's taken for granted that "AI" is changing everything. Some people express caution that we shouldn't even take any position on software engineering education because it will be out of date within a week.
Meanwhile, my students are telling me that in their cohort, everyone is tired of AI and wants to learn proper software engineering.
One lesson here is: do you remember how clueless your boss was about everything? Recognise when you are in the "boss" demographic, and that your breathless enthusiasm and concern may be equally misinformed.
yes to an add-on updater, yes to a "reset Language settings to defaults" button. But all after work. Yes to Russian support. If people wait about 4 or 5 hours I'll see what I can get started towards the end of the day when I'm done with reviewing things and working on things that have well, actual deadlines.
Philip Glass has withdrawn his symphony based on Abraham Lincoln from the Kennedy Center, with the award-winning composer writing to the board of the arts institution that its values conflict with the work.
What we pay for electricity should cover proper replacement and scheduled maintenance... so, why doesn't it?
Documents show the utility has long identified Hampstead substation as a weak link in the local grid... but f*ck the anglophones—let them freeze, let their pipes burst, let their food go bad—they have insurance, so STFU, eh
they're not going to crack Signal's encryption, they absolutely have infiltrated these group chats a long time ago posing as concerned citizens trying to collect data on ICE agents and ICE activities
but I guarantee the majority of Signal users in that chat aren't using usernames, but still their phone numbers. So now you have all these contacts on Signal who have exposed their phone numbers to you, and you can look up who owns the number and start terrorizing those citizens for conspiring against ICE
oooh I guess the usernames don't protect you at all anyway
> If Signal receives a subpoena demanding that they hand over all account data related to a user with a specific username that is currently active at the time that Signal looks it up, they would be able to link it to an account. That means Signal would turn over that user’s phone number, along with the account creation date and the last connection date. Whittaker stressed that this is “a pretty narrow pipeline that is guarded viciously by ACLU lawyers,” just to obtain a phone number based on a username.
so they'll just get your identity anyway, because we know they won't be able to guard this from the government no matter how "vicious" these ACLU lawyers think they are
If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
@pietervdvn Because that would involve a human using their brains or having a shred of conscience and those both go against the basic principles of the companies doing this.
I am halfway tempted to create a new mastodon account, and only follow people with a very common name, like James, John, or whatever. Not really sure why this popped into my head, or what I would actually do with it.
This is a reminder that Apple’s entire executive team and Board of Directors actively support Tim Cook, friend to convicted sexual offenders, and destroyers of democracy.
Well done to the person in Philadelphia government who sent an emergency text to everybody in area with a link to chubbyparade.com, a porn site, instead of a weather site
When I did the promotion for the Firefly movie back in 2005, Universal gave the website and Browncoats stuff to me (unpaid) and instead spent the marketing money on merchandise to give out.
Unfortunately they got the website name wrong and printed a porn site name on everything, so it had to be destroyed.
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable.
That is certainly up to you. But I don't see anything wrong with asking for donations. To me, it doesn't matter what kind of a job you have. If I like what you produce and can afford to do so, I certainly will donate.
For what it's worth: I'm not personally opposed to donating to projects operated by people with full time jobs. Not all work pays well or is secure, after all, and a lot of open source work goes on outside of office hours.
In your particular case, though, you have recently very publically talked about spending $22,000 on braille displays. Now I don't know if you split that with your partner, put it on credit cards, remortgaged your house, paid it outright, sent them a suspitious briefcase full of cash, or what. And I don't actually care; it's your money.
But, that sort of outlay does suggest you're not financially struggling, so I might be more likely to donate to a project maintained by someone for whom the funds might go further.
Just some thoughts. No judgment intended in any way.
@jscholes yeah, I think my feeling more is, it's not a full-time job, just something I (mostly) do after work or during my lunch when I can, else I'd risk jepordizing my job by shirking responsibilities and that isn't the way to live. So it really can't become my full-time gig unless I purposefully made it that and asked for donations, and people may carry that as an expectation on the project itself because they did so. That can get quite ugly too. Haha and thankfully we did split the displays, but I mean, both of us have full-time work so definitely not struggling with paying the house ETC. So, with that obligation burden, probably no donate button. xD
And feel welcome in the Droidiverse 😜
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Driving my kid to school today, we passed a crowd on a street corner. She asked what they were doing. I said my guess was that it’s observers conferring about ICE.
That wasn’t really a guess What I knew that she didn’t know is that they were gathering because somebody was just abducted there.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •With these recent days of news showing that the Trump regime is on their heels about ICE, my refrain has been: “It’s working. Punch harder.”
Last night I let myself savor the “It’s working” part for a few happy minutes, but this morning I’m squarely focused on “Punch harder.”