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needs more crinkled-up tape.
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/112926387304810607
Attached: 1 image Boost if you've done this, or remember ...LGBTQIA+ and Tech
ooooh. Good look!
Also.... Gives me an idea on how to hide the gap between my paws and arms on my suit! >.>
#Signal was warranted again, and as always they gave the only data they could give: time of registration in Unix miliseconds, and time of last connection in Unix miliseconds.
yet another reminder that you can't give away data you don't have in the first place.
https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/
Because everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted by default, the broad set of personal information that is typically easy to retrieve in other apps simply doesn’t exist on Signal’s servers.Signal Messenger
Sorry, this cat is still exhausted from all the catting on International Cat Day. Please come back later, preferably with a snack.
@Ghost The new house has very non-smart meters, presumably unchanged since the place was built in 1989. They are "digital" only in the sense that they have digits displayed on the front…
I found images of, I think, the same models of meter. If not they are *very* close.
Hmm, I think the risk from remote-off is probably negligible (unless someone was motivated enough to hack the things and turn it off maliciously, but that also seems very unlikely, unless they did so in bulk, indiscriminately). I'd guess the benefit of a slightly under-reading meter is probably offset by the benefit of being able to see your usage in real time, have time-of-day-variable tariffs, and things like that.
yeah that’s an old school mechanical meter, and I tend to agree the risks are negligible as even malicious attacks would need to sign the command with 2 TLS certificates for the meter to acknowledge it (not that I entirely trust the opsec to keep the private keys secure).
I generally agree the advantages of a variable tariff are worth it over the under reading, but everyone’s mileage may vary there
me too! Was just chatting about this with other folks recently and it’s impact (or lack of impact) on artistic ability. Putting my artistic/design process into words was a really interesting exercise.
In any case, RAT! squeee!
People with aphantasia can't make mental images. This condition could be the key to understanding consciousness in the brain. Dr. Hakwan Lau explains how aph...YouTube
Ending the streak of record monthly warmth, July 2024 was in fact the 2nd hottest July on record globally. Some of the largest temperature anomalies, in terms of magnitude, were found over Antarctica.
Summary of the conditions: https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-july-2024
Since I'm seeing a lot of "I have covid" posts, reminder that the WHO actually published a protocol for recovery after the illness to reduce the odds of Long Covid.
https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/344472
Turkish version published by Turkish Society of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationWorld Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
@Kishi I've updated the post with a mirror.
https://www.helsenorge.no/4944f5/globalassets/bilder/selvmestring-etter-covid-19-eng.pdf
Oh, even better, thank you! 💙
And WOW, that thing is well produced. I was expecting ... well, good, but not THIS good.
You not sure how capitalism works?
Have you noticed a bunch of "whole body deo" ads, from quite a few brands recently?
Tell me, just how often have you thought "My god, that person's [body part that isn't arm pits] stinks!"
Probably rarely. Bathing usually does the job.
Capitalism made up the problem, makes you self conscious everyone can smell your ass and cooche with ads, and was right there with a solution for you! For a fee, of course.
Anubis is texting...
Should I be worried what the god of death and judgement had to stop and text for?
Or should I be more worried about who Anubis would want to text?
Look at the sign. Is Anubis at the wrong meeting of the gods?
So many questions...
I think centralized social media is the reason we fucked up a lot of decentralized social media.
I was thinking earlier about Lemmy, and how when Reddit did their API changes everyone tried to rush to Lemmy. Which would be fine, except everyone tried to just recreate reddit. Everyone tried to make Everything servers. Do we need ten thousand Technology subs? Not really. But people just tried to all make large general purpose instances with all the generic subs. Because they feel like they have to recreate reddit--ALL of them.
Nobody needs to run a Whole Reddit. Something like Lemmy would have been better if 99% of instances were single or limited topic. Keep the scale small, keep the moderation focused and knowledgeable.
I remember checking out Revolt, which is a discord alternative, and I think it has the same scale problem. Discord has three basic levels: channels, servers, and Discord itself which is a collection of servers. Revolt assumes that you don't want to self host a server, you want to self host a Discord. You want to self host All Of Discord. I don't think that's the case for most people! They want to run their one server!
Decentralized social media can't take a centralized approach, you can't try to recreate these horrible giant bloated behemoths but now with less budget and less moderation. You have to relearn to think at a smaller scale, the beauty of decentralization is that we can link all these smaller scale projects together.
I know this is a hot take for some people, but work devices are owned by your employer. You have no expectation of privacy on them. You do not own them, nor the data that is on them. Your employer (in the US) is generally free to inspect anything that goes on on that device and, depending on whatever third party certifications your employer obtains, they're *required* to inspect everything. It astounds me that so many colleagues are shocked and dismayed to discover that their traffic is being inspected.
For this reason, you should never use a work computer for personal use. Gaming, chatting, use of cloud services, email... Those should be on a personal device outside of the reach of your employer.
U.S. Folks: There are websites trying to trick people into thinking they've registered to vote without actually doing it. There are also efforts underway to throw out people's registrations
If you want to vote in this election, the best thing you can do is go to https://vote.gov/
It's the official site of the U.S. federal government
Registration is done by the state you live in. Vote.gov has the official links for each state to check your registration status and register if you need to
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.Vote.gov
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.” — Pete Seeger
#Quotes #Recycle #Enviornmentalism #progressive #RightToRepair
Dear "concerned liberals," a word if I may - as you're watching the overwhelming public response to defend English communities from fascist rioters, please pay close attention:
When a metric fuckton of antifascists and antiracists show up, and the fash don't? The end result is hugs and a street party.
When violent fascist mobs show up, and community defenders don't, the end result is fear, violence, and arson.
Please consider this the next time you insist "both sides" are to blame.
Hi friends, I know a lot of people are concerned about FA staying up for too much longer, a few of my friends have come to me concerned about preserving their data and know I tend to deal with this.
So I whipped up an exporter: https://github.com/cheeplusplus/fa-export-cli
There are instructions with some precompiled binaries (missing macos at the moment because Apple) so you don't need to have node installed.
FA export CLI application. Contribute to cheeplusplus/fa-export-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I posted about it in January on my previous account, and now it’s official: the .internal TLD is now reserved for LAN networks internal DNS by ICANN, and they won’t accept applications to register it for the web
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/
A reminder that using .local is bad practice because it’s used by mDNS/Bonjour who unfortunately appropriated it without asking anybody. It could cause issue with some appliances that rely on mDNS.
Nobody’s stopping you from using anything else, like .lan, but since .internal is now designated for that purpose you really should use it to be more or less guaranteed to avoid problems in the future
Vint Cerf revealed Google already uses the string, as do plenty of othersSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Anyone know of a reasonably-priced 4G (or later) USB stick that'll Just Work™ in a oldish Mikrotik box? It's sitting on top of a rack in the datacentre to give me emergency access when needed, currently using a 3G USB stick I had lying around. Ideally I'd like to find a stick that'll be willing to pass through a public IP address to the host, but I haven't been able to find anything that seems to do that. The current 3G stick insists on NATing, so if I have to accept NAT, it's no worse than at present - I just maintain an outbound tunnel to a third-party VM I already have elsewhere and log in through that. It's one more step I could get rid of though. At the moment one solution I'm seeing is to replace the whole Mikrotik box with the cheapest one that has a cellular data modem built in for circa £100, but it'd be nice to generate less e-waste and (hopefully) spend less by replacing only the USB stick.
[UPDATE] [PEW] VoIP and SIMs :
Phasing out of 3G on data SIMs3G is being phased out by all mobile network operators, and will stop working for our data SIMs in early September.
The data SIMs we provide already support 4G. In a small number of cases it is possible that devices are too old to support 4G, in which case the device is sadly obsolete and will need replacing in order to keep connectivity.
You will be emailed if we think your SIM is one which is in …
Tech types, I’m a hardcore proponent of owning my own data and content. I’m looking to figure out a POSSE workflow—Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere—to connect a personal site, Bluesky, and Mastodon. If you’ve already invented the wheel, I’d love to hear how. Thanks!
This is insanely good. Anime girl becomes self aware and uses Blender.
Source: https://twitter.com/kensyouen_Y/status/1820748563338637581
Huh, interesting, mammals won’t reproduce unless they feel that their children will be safe.
Anyway, I’m sure that’s not relevant to any discussions about human societies.
If you take a social media sabbatical, don't announce it.
Just make your last post something fun like "I wonder if there's a bear in this cave?"
The deed was do'ed (last Thursday).
Now my mum seems to not recognise me more often than previously (although that might just be progression of her dementia), and my sister's dog, Comet, who was fine the first time he met me after the dehairification, growled at me this evening when he saw me in bike gear and bare-headed. Took him a while to grudgingly accept me again.
On the whole, I think I like it though. 🤷♂️
I never had to use a pencil for that; we had a windy-windy!
(pronounced "wine-dee-wine-dee")
That's what we called our cassette hand winder.