Jon ☎️ @jfred@mastodon.sdf.org

RT @JanelleCShane@twitter.com

It has been pointed out to me that the neural net-generated teas are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1149734016070770688

gPodder.net is looking for a new maintainer!

If nobody comes forward by 2020, it'll be forced to shut down. Please boost to spread the word.

https://github.com/gpodder/mygpo/blob/master/maintainer-needed.md

Note that this is the podcast-sharing website: I'm not sure about the status of the app, but I think that's still doing fine.

#gPodder #podcasts #python #webdev #helpwanted

Backdoor discovered in Ruby "strong password" library, takes your "strong passwords" and uploads them into a pastebin https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/09/backdoor-discovered-in-ruby-strong_password-library/

Hi, do you believe me when I say we need ocap security yet

Android: hey do you want me automatically turn on wifi and connect to a high speed network when one is available?

Me: okay but if wifi is off how do you know when there are available networks?

Android: ...

Me: ...

Android: you ask too many questions

Just updated my Philadelphia-based network infrastructure exploration site with new things I found on the street, https://networksofphilly.org

It also keeps an index of various surveillance-based info requests open with the city police.

Consider starting one for your city!

"Let's switch to Signal: https://signal.org/install"

Uhm, okay.

when you think about it, the idea that software should scale is actually really weird. "sure this garden is nice, but how nice can it be if it doesn't grow to cover the entire surface of the earth?"

RT @AndrewBloch@twitter.com

That awkward moment when you copy and paste the product description sent to you by email but leave in the last line.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AndrewBloch/status/1147158932516986881

Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube
https://boingboing.net/2019/07/03/nobus-r-us.html

This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

@ptvirgo @lxoliva We should be advocating for both of these things in tandem: fully reproducible, free software, reproducible and auditable software.

But for the reasons I explained earlier in the thread, *it isn't possible to trust all software anymore*, and not only on a "well it's free software thus it's secure" perspective either. We need to do better. We need *secure architectures* along with free software, so that damage can be limited.

These. Are. Not. Mutually. Exclusive.

to quote myself

<dustyweb> I think spritely, from the outside, looks like two things
<dustyweb> "there's not even a website, there must be nothing going on in here"
<dustyweb> *you peek in*
<dustyweb> "oh god there's too much going on in here"

Starfleet vessels have a proud tradition of being named after important ships of ages past, and so in that spirit, I am proud to introduce

Star Trek: Boaty McBoatface

Cognitive bias tricks, 84 of them and if you see it used in design - know that you may be tricked.

https://www.mobilespoon.net/2019/04/collection-cognitive-biases-how-to-use.html

The year is 5019. Humans, as we know them, are long gone. The Earth is inhabited chiefly by advanced, sapient machines.

For legacy reasons, everyone's name starts with "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;".

Do you like Dungeons & Dragons? Do you like Free Culture? Find out about how the two intersect, and how Free Culture encourages more diversity in role playing games in the latest episode of Libre Lounge:

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-22-dungeons--dragons-free-culture-and-diversity-with-sean-hillman.html

just saw an "IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY NOW" sign and like... wow that's the mildest thing you could possibly ask for. "WE WOULD LIKE CONGRESS TO INQUIRE INTO WHETHER IMPEACHMENT SHOULD HAPPEN BUT IF THEY DETERMINE IMPEACHMENT TO BE IMPRACTICAL OR INACTIONABLE THAT IS OKAY"

walked past this today and i am genuinely speechless

Clicked on a link to an old project I've seen before (its beautiful go check out the photos elsewhere) linked here on mastodon, which led to a twitter thing... and man, what is going on? Thats three different prompts from twitter covering it BTW, on a phone screen... thanks, I hate it.
(Plx link sources not twitter)