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@georgetakei@universeodon.com worth echoing another trek sentiment: infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

@maxleibman@beige.party 2a: adjust keywords and search again.

• wish for micropayments and an app that did all that. Give me full access to stories I click into, pay author and website a pittance that becomes a living income if read by thousands, and purge the feed of ip theft and ai slop relentlessly. (Every time, but I know it won’t happen — Hey, a body can dream, can’t we?)

@rightsprung@c.im @ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca it’s zero. (Looks around at fedi). Yeah. Zero hatchet-murderers here. (So far).

@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social a seasoned scout leader taught me ‘be a tall ponderosa tree: stand nearby, shelter, keep ‘em kind of safe, and let ‘em figure things out.’

@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social hey, I can go three ways defending this:

• parents, or organizers, so not the G/T kids
• dyslexia is orthogonal to giftedness
• slide made at Late a.m., night before. By someone with a tbd list like a cvs receipt. Who ain’t getting paid. Whose co-volunteers let them down. I’m that last bit — we adhd types routinely commit but fail to finish.

@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social absolutely. My hot take: a good teacher need not be a genius. They’re wise. They’re guides / sherpas pointing learners along a safe path toward the cool treasure ahead. Yeah, some teachers need to be pwned. Some show themselves to be ‘damage to be routed around’. But from my side of the pedagogical table, curiosity and guardrails and mutual respect are crux to teaching g&t.

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange man, i stared at miubtain *way* too long (and googled it) before i realized your rt fingers were briefly one-left while typing mountain.

@fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange and the island. occasionally someone airdrops in a cargo crate.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social phrased as you did , hiding his status from us also raises a fierce set of Privacy policy themes. Every person deserves the human dignity of having their healthcare exist as a Private set of conversations, decisions, and actions. This is a #womensRights post.

@clark@hachyderm.io I like. But are we sure it’s not a j sound? Like hard/soft g for GIF? Jiþub?

@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @veronica@explains.social I’ll be saying #corporateHaunted

@eleder@frikiverse.zone i mean, i get your point about irony being how meaning shifts, but i disagree that it somehow is unique. ‘Ain’t no reason’ are a double negative syntactically but remain negative. Syntax stops mattering strictly in most of these.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social living in a red red part of USA, I can honestly estimate the ratio of local magas who’ve been to nyc ONCE is 1 in a hundred, or less. #cantBoycottSomethingYouAlreadyDontDo

@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org … because I’d just posted the YouTube snippet and saw your article used the phrase: here’s a certain little bit of Wizard of Oz https://youtu.be/kPIdRJlzERo?is=qag3-2MvkOpcUQpU

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116886489668082207 Transl: “Everyone always thinks about "reducing bureaucracy" that their lives will somehow be easier. And then they wonder when they no longer get a social benefit, but the kitten shredder factory is now being built right next to their home.”

@BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org am saving ‘beat the unholy ribbons and bows out of’. Yours? Or an actual extant saying? Either way: Brilliant.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange a few days ago I heated up a few spoonfuls of leftover rice pilaf as a late morning snack. Not two hours later, was hungry, grabbed leftover stir fry, the rest of the pilaf, some cabbage, some sweet/hot sauce and tossed them together, opened the microwave… ah, that’s why I’m hungry again so soon. Added first to second, tossed some more, stood stoicly at the microwave to not forget (again), and had a nice lunch.

@dalias@hachyderm.io @tyzbit@toot.now @iagox86@infosec.exchange which differs from malice *how* exactly? It’s an insecure device in a (checks shodan) vast fucking ocean of insecure devices.

@calcifer@masto.hackers.town bigger-pay’s charm is often cancelled by the responsibilities of managing. The principal charm is practicing ‘what matters to mgmt’ thinking, so that as one steps back to hands-on, one can manage one’s managers. I don’t mean that as manipulate. Just, hone in on what they value: status communication, no interpersonal strife/drama, early warning when tasks are at risk of not meeting goals or deadlines, good summaries that distill days of good work down into a memo… I was a good manager, and didn’t like chunks of it. I love being hands on and in the loop and no-drama.

@ApaulD@aus.social we’re dealing with centibillions.

I like your referencing, but minutes blurs for hundreds of billions, like Sheik Bonesaw/Musk/Putin/Zuck/Bezos/Etc. A hundred billion seconds ago is 1858 BCE, the middle Egyptian empire, and the Minoans on Crete are flourishing. A couple hundred billion gets us to the beginning of recorded history. Half of Americans have wealth enough to revisit (checks math) the day before yesterday. 124,000 seconds, or 34 hours.

A couple hundred billion minutes ago, 380,000 years, puts us to the early Neanderthal age. They went extinct 20 billion minutes ago. Several hundred people have $20B.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Shadow Hearings! If *ever* there was an apt time for dem congresscritters to convene (even without repub consent) a hearing, subpoena witnesses, review the leaked content AND any witness testimony (those publishing the leak, those suspected in the leak, those not suspected in the leak but In The Know, those recommending payoff, those not rejecting payoff as inappropriate ) in this hot mess, and let it dominate the news cycle, a $10B ‘settlement’ of a spurious greedy fucking lawsuit like this is that time. Don’t just insist on it being rejected. Also reject the case being worthy of being delayed until there isn’t a justice-department conflict of interest. So, when R’s get all fussy, one can say ‘if it’s valid, y’all should be willing to postpone until impartial.’

@catsalad@infosec.exchange gaah !insomniac scrollling on a dimmed-for-night-eyes screen = NOT an ideal first viewing. That’s nope to the nopth, like the ‘bear’ in Annihilation

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I mean, at least make the choices roughly even. Goats vs fresh sourdough biscuits, and Musk vs moldy sweat socks or something.

@dalias@hachyderm.io @tyzbit@toot.now @iagox86@infosec.exchange I initially argued because it was a bad idea. I am belaboring this because it’s vile to advocate mass acts of vandalism for ‘someone might hurt people via remote control’… Shodan shows us the technical means to inflict physical harm is vastly available. It doesn’t happen. Which, on deep consideration, gives me hope.

@dalias@hachyderm.io @tyzbit@toot.now @iagox86@infosec.exchange again, an *ocean* of vulnerable devices. how is that unique? And the ocean is cuz no vendor will bother to patch. More to my point, how is bricking $1000-5000 consumer gear ethical? It feels more like a good way to get jail time.

@dalias@hachyderm.io @tyzbit@toot.now @iagox86@infosec.exchange nope. Yes, it’s an insecure fucking mess. But frankly, everything’s an insecure fucking mess. We compensate, not burn it all down. Yes, this needs remedy. Yes, the attention this is getting is a good way to force remedy. No, it’s neither legal nor ethical to brick other people’s stuff regardless of how fucked the vendor’s security is. And a mower isn’t even on my top-ten ‘lethally-insecure’ categories. Fire up some shodan queries and realize just how often crit infrastructure, medical devices, transport / traffic / port authority, military, or financial OT/IoT devices are weakly- or not-secured.

@dalias@hachyderm.io @tyzbit@toot.now @iagox86@infosec.exchange e.g., like a malicious bricking of them? Strong vibes of ‘operation was a success, and the patient died’.

@DanMorgan it’s funny because nobody’s ever called jazz fans ‘nerd’. ;)

@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social does draping a tarp across the Kennedy Center facade count? How about everything wrong on the Mall? The Rose Garden? Passports? It’s a dumb law, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we only got Capone on Tax crimes.

@tillybridges@mastodon.social huh, come to think of it, I unthinkingly (a) keep the debris on roll-paper or newspaper covering my table in a fish-shack, bbq, etc sort of place. (B) brush crumbs off dark monochrome fabric placemats to keep them tidy.

Sweet! Looks like a live-action nyancat trailer just dropped. @redsad@ohai.social

@dalias@hachyderm.io @tyzbit@toot.now @iagox86@infosec.exchange I’ve got $5 (alt: a tasty adult beverage) that says if the mowers don’t get bricked, no “lethal risk to real people” ensues. No child or puppies mowed down in their prepubescent prime. No Orwellian surveillance worse than what fucking Ring cams do, and far less than the civil liberties violated from Flock. $10 that the mowers can be secured without bricking ‘em. Tho the vendor may declare that a blanket voiding of warranty. Like I said at first, it’s dumpster juice - it’s just not an impending lethal risk. What’s the cop term? Exigent circumstances?

@selfcare@hachyderm.io dawn. Hosting my brother’s puppy while he travels for 4 days. Took li’l dude for a morning walk.

@bluegreenandfree@mastodon.energy I’d hope I’d find some way to take the requester with me to cringe-hell. Prolly wouldn’t - I only think of my wittiest teardowns & comebacks an hour+ later. But yeah…. Damn. @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange

Yeah, I’d second @fraggle@social.coop And for what it’s worth, experts continue to cringe at slop in their fields. It’s like an uncanny valley which only kicks in when you know a subject well enough to subconsciously feel that ‘that ain’t right’ tickle in your brain. Dilettantes (incl mgmt) love this crap. @robpike@hachyderm.io

@Gammitin@mastodon.social sexy design. Love that double hinge. And I’d forgotten those taaaaaaalllll ‘same as on my PC’ keycaps came thru to early laptops. But first gen was hard. Thinning down took a few missteps: like 1980s ‘chiclet’ keyboards sucked *and* were twice the height of laptop keys now.

It’s a risk. So are smart stoves, kWh batteries, door cams, smart cars, and medical implants. Give a hacker free rein and we’ll see ways to turn any RF/IoT/ OT thing into something nefarious or delightful. It’s been about a decade since defcon had someone point out a bunch of modules scanning in-tire pressure sensors can track people. Now it’s LPR cams. But we compensate, we don’t brick a city’s shitty smart meters. We don’t set fire to pluggable cars or DoS them. Bricking appliances with a ‘folks can just have vendor fix’ is a ‘of all the doesn’t-happens, this happens the doesn’t-est’ kind of dick move and overreaction.

@iagondiscord@wetdry.world …. Uh… you think the space mirrors idea would be the one embraced by liberals, not ‘let’s build out a global, solar-fed infrastructure’?

@rl_dane@polymaths.social @robini71@dragonscave.space @munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me uh… the hotspot name on iPhones stays something until changed. If I go a day or a year between using my phone as a hotspot, it’s ready to accept my laptop’s connection. That said, few need their phone as a hotspot since it isn’t on a cellular network to have any way to relay packets . Off-cellular, it’d be odd uses like letting 2+ devices share data privately.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ollld school: some BASIC versions of lunar lander had special checks and said extra harsh shit when you cratered.

@redsad@ohai.social . 112.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @blindcoder@toot.berlin larger = take that damn ray gun. Do the DC thing. Zap a big slobbery dawg. Feed the big dawg a particularly unappetizing chew toy — they’ll eat cat shit, so it work.

@aesthr@wandering.shop I mean, back when it was the norm, it was pretty convenient.

@iagondiscord@wetdry.world @sundogplanets@mastodon.social uh… I read this like you think *liberalism* likes spacex, giant space solar mirrors, and etc. Or did your last ‘This’ intend to stretch out to ‘deploying solar panels on the ground’ vs. this=mirrors?

@Byte@rage.love @SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz @foone@digipres.club “What if RNA could be tricked into making antibodies?!’ “Kickass!!” “No, we hate that.” Someday soon: “hey, that mRNA thing can make vaccines for cancer. Vaccines. For. Cancer!!” “Nah, we hate that.” “But we’ve wanted vaccines for cancer since the ‘50’s!!” “Yeah, but not like that.”

@da_667@infosec.exchange am utterly not a cruise kind of guy, but that’s a ‘still rare enough to be considered news’ thing. Con Flu isn’t newsworthy. Gut trouble from unsanitary foreign tapwater, not newsworthy. Flight trouble needs to be exceed n-thousand souls to make the news. Pickpockets, scammers, giardiasis, Lyme’s disease, car breakins, or roofies in drinks without even traveling far, all common as dishwater.

I’m more worried about bricking utilities or pacemakers than I am a few thousand noisesome 7mph mowers thwarted by a sudden 6” elevation change in their path. Out of topical curiosity and from owning an early Friendly Robotics mower, do these mowers use an electromechanical interrupt that brakes blades (eg, if lifted || bumper switches are tripped) ? That’s been a standard feature on robotic mowers for more than a decade. USA’s so litigious, brands gotta make folks work extra stupid to be able to even get fingers harmed, let alone the wee robozombie horde this envisions.

. FTFY. @da_667@infosec.exchange

@iagondiscord@wetdry.world well, that solves for me our crux misunderstanding.

@Alice@beige.party edit: oh… regardless, tip 20. Got it. Asshole? Tip 20. Difficult fam? Tip 20. Got it got it. I was confused by blue boxes 2, 3, and 4. The no’s and yes’s seem inverted