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Gonna try and reuse this platform again after a few requests to do so….
Please explain this lock?? Puffy tiger needs to know why!
"UK government to prevent MPs taking on lobbying jobs"
Niiiice.
Exclusive: MPs to face restrictions on second jobs that fail to ‘put constituents first’, Lucy Powell saysPippa Crerar (The Guardian)
A trillion is hard to wrap your head around!
A million seconds was 11 days ago.
A billion seconds ago was 1993.
A trillion seconds ago? 29,600 B.C.
The absolute darkest UI pattern that is used everywhere is the no-reply email address blackhole that every service uses. I'm struggling to think of anything more anti-user than "here's some information - now talk to the hand."
Make it easy for people to talk to a real human. If that's not cost-effective for you, you're prioritizing the wrong things in your service.
Here’s what parenting can look like.
When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).
Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”
You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.
Well this (attached link) is annoying.
I have my kind-of "beta-mode", kind-of production (but not for a huge number of sites, because of being kinda beta) web proxy/front end setup which I spent ages writing and still need to fully finish off, turn into a cluster rather than a SPoF, and write a control panel for, so that there's a configuration UI other than SQL.
One feature I specifically built into the certificate management was that it was to always *always* staple OCSP, so that no (modern) client should ever have to contact an OCSP responder itself, and it will switch to a backup certificate if an OCSP response expires and it can't get a valid replacement.
I guess I'm going to have to do yet more work on it to make it recognise certificates without an OCSP responder URL and ignore all the OCSP stapling logic for such certs and tolerate them not having OCSP responses to staple.
Oh well, I suppose the internet keeps changing and I should have known something would soon render all my work obsolete. Doesn't stop it being annoying.
Today we are announcing our intent to end Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) support in favor of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) as soon as possible.letsencrypt.org
All that bad news you saw from me yesterday, along with so much more bad news today — it all adds up to this.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
I love it when people take their plushies with them on trips, and post photos of them visiting nice places! Is there an established hashtag for those kinds of photos? If not, maybe someone should think of one.
Update: I'm declaring #PlushieTravels to be the one and only canonical totally official proposed hashtag for it. 
Changing tracts for a moment; scientists have made an incredible discovery that alters not only how we understand the deep ocean, but also may alter what we know about the Earth's supply of the very oxygen we breathe - and unsurprisingly, capitalists are already working on fucking that up without the slightest care in the world for the harm it may cause our biosphere.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo
Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean
"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesizing - something that requires sunlight.
Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic “nodules” which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen."
The article goes on to describe how we discovered these deep sea nodules which may take millions of years to form, what it means that oxygen is being produced without marine plant photosynthesis, and how this probably changes our understanding of deep sea life that likely depends on that oxygen (fish need oxygen, they just get it differently than we do.) Science lovers are encourage to read the whole piece.
What I want to focus on here however, is the fact that immediately after we've discovered this natural wonder, deep sea mining companies and resource-hungry capitalists are looking to literally rip these metallic nodules from the sea floor with virtually no concern for how that might affect our oceans, or even life on Earth.
"And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures."
Are life-giving, water oxygenating metallic nodules our only source of lithium, cobalt, and copper? Nope. Have deep sea mining companies studied the potential harm harvesting these nodules might cause? Nope. Might ripping them out of the water affect the delicate balance of not only ocean life but potentially how the oxygen we breath is distributed across multiple ecosystems and even the whole planet? Yeap. Does capitalism give a shit about any of that? Apparently not. The simple truth here is that we don't know how important these nodules are, and if the capitalists have their way we're going to start destroying them to make batteries before we even find out.
Look you can call me an alarmist if it'll make you feel better, but this story is merely a microcosm of the entire reason you're living on a boiling planet, facing down a mass extinction event that may well wipe out billions of people and destroy a habitable biosphere for countless other species as well.
We live in an extractivist culture, driven by the capitalist profit motive, where time and time again the need to keep stacking money for incomprehensibly rich ghouls is prioritized over not only nature, but the very survival of the human species. Capitalism is killing us, and literally nobody in the wealthy ruling classes, or the governments they've bought lock stock and barrel is doing anything about it, or shows any signs of even *trying* to do anything about it.
I don't know if tearing metallic nodules that produce dark oxygen from the ocean floor to make more Tesla batteries will compromise the planet's supply of the precious air we all breathe or not. But neither do the rich bastards that want to do it anyway. And you and I both know that if even if they did know, they wouldn't care.
At some point the human species is going to have to get serious about prioritizing life on Earth over the material demands of capitalists and rich people, or we're going to run out of life to commodify; or you know, the very air necessary to sustain our own existence as animals on a planet uniquely capable of supporting that life. One thing I *can* tell you is that after hundreds of years of capitalist predation of our shared biosphere, it is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither the capitalists, nor the states they own, are going to make the right choices to ensure our survival, for us.
#ClimateCrisis #DarkOxygen #Capitalism #OceanLife
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.Victoria Gill (BBC News)
@KayOhtie I thought it was good, and informative. There's 6 min clip on tiktok to get the shape of the coverage:
https://www.tiktok.com/@lastweektonighthbo/video/7379701265225223466
A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!
Don't roll your own crypto.
I guess a blog post coming in the future.
*Angry fox noises*
[UPDATE] - Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc6 is ready for download. This is a bug-fix release which addresses problems related to the new SuperFox mode, reported by users of Release Candidate...DX-World
A shift is happening:
•Biden has cancelled his meeting with Netanyahu
•Harris will skip Netanyahu's speech to Congress
•Harris will meet with Netanyahu to tell him to stop bombing Palestinian civilians
•Seven major unions just sent a joint letter to Biden calling on him to "immediately halt all military aid to Israel" ahead of Netanyahu’s DC visit:
SEIU, NEA, UAW, UE, APWU, AFA, & IUPAT
Don't let up. Keep the pressure on until US stops funding genocide & starts rebuilding Palestine. Let's go.
This is an interesting take, the basilisk framing makes sense! But I still don't get what the trigger is. What is the SOMETHING you refer to? Do you know?
I'd like to understand it, because I like to understand why people think the way they do, especially when I disagree with them. I can't fathom TERFs. It doesn't make sense, it is so irrational. With ordinary bigotry is possible to understand where it's coming from. Racism kind of makes sense, conservative transphobia and homophobia kind of makes sense, etc.
The position that trans women is a threat to cis women is a complete mystery to me. It is, as you say, fucking stupid.
The rise of ChatGPT-style "AI tools" is a climate change issue. Advertising them is, by extension, an attempt at disengaging our sense of alarm.
Therefore, "you need to adapt and learn these 'tools'" is an anti-climate stance. Companies that engage in marketing these tools *are* engaging in the politics of climate change, even if they don't know it yet.
Did a long investigation for WIRED looking at how studios are already using AI to degrade and kill jobs in the video game industry
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/
Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI.
Stop asking virtue of the poor which you don’t of the rich.
The thing is though, we know from the doubling of JobSeeker during the COVID emergency that they won't spend the money on drugs. People will spend the money on housing and food. We've already run that experiment, we've already got the answers.
i don’t even need to hear from the EFF to have a good argument why adshit shouldn’t run on my computers
the argument is: it’s my computer
no seriously. are they paying me for the use of my computer to run their adshit? no? then it doesn’t need to run on my computer.
that shit is for me, not doubleclick or whatever the bloody thing is called now. if it ain’t making me happy or bringing me money, it’s out
@rameshgupta @tauon @silly The internet existed before corporations used it as an ad platform. They are not innocently developing cool services with ads as a monetization strategy, they're developing services as a way to force people to view their ad network content.
Ads were not inevitable, but viewpoints like yours allowed them to become ubiquitous.
Privacy should be the default. It's very simple.
⬆️ @sekka @tauon @ariadne @silly
>>Ads were not inevitable, but viewpoints like yours allowed them to become ubiquitous.
You either did not read my viewpoint or did not understand it.
I say the same thing — email and web existed before ad monetization.
I have resisted ad monetization with good results. I wonder why others failed, why they whine, and put blame on anti-ad people like me.
Don’t eat free candy without giving up something else. Pay for services using money or your data. Simple.
By happy coincidence, Alexei Sayle was recording an episode of “Strangers on a Train” from London to Hereford just as people were arriving for EMF. It’s live on the radio at 10.30am this coming Saturday, and will be available to listen/download after the broadcast.
The lost files are found!
Hrhrhrhr, awesome shots from an #EAST far far in the past by fella Dakoru appearing! 💜💖
There'll be more!
Featuring Heyz worn by Cabro 🧡🤍🖤,
I wonder how they is, havn't heard from for ages!
Can someone help?
this is a good policy
edit: this post got big and im gonna turn off notifications for it now
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"Tory conference could be like a wake as business stays away"
Attendance in Birmingham predicted to be worst in living memory with big impact on party’s fundraising effortsRob Davies (The Guardian)
Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."
Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."
And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...
#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian
