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keep_reading··on Thoughts on Threads and ActivityPub
It's really about the non-losers who you may want to talk to that get swept up as collateral damage
keep_reading··on Fastmail Employees Form a Union
> so hopefully he's fully onboard with the workers

If he was the union wouldn't be necessary, right?

keep_reading··on Fastmail Employees Form a Union
> there can only be one per industry in Australia

That seems hostile and designed to enable corruption

keep_reading··on Thoughts on Threads and ActivityPub
All the users in a single Postgres database that a bunch of project members appear to have full access to based on the screenshots they've been posting to brag about the user count /s
keep_reading··on Thoughts on Threads and ActivityPub
They will be if one of the fediblock proponents decides to report you. This is not an automated process at this time. It's decided by a cabal on a private Discord, really.
keep_reading··on Thoughts on Threads and ActivityPub
XMPP never had a strong federated ecosystem of users that existed outside of GChat.

ActivityPub already has a few million users and a thriving federation

keep_reading··on Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people
Ahh ok I'll change my privacy.com card for Delta Dental then
keep_reading··on OpenCola
> I’m sure it did because cinnamon is cheap, but c’mon

Buddy they're substituting lead for cinnamon in applesauce to save a penny or two. Cheap doesn't matter at scale if you can find a way to go cheaper.

keep_reading··on Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine
If you're running UniFi on FreeBSD/OpenBSD it won't even allow cloud access because their Java websocket library for it doesn't include support for anything but Mac/Win/Linux
keep_reading··on Uptime related server crashes (2011)
I know of a FreeBSD 6.0 server with 13+ years uptime, what the heck was Linux doing back then????
keep_reading··on AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking
Wasn't there a time when you could flash a GeForce to a Quadro and you'd lose some performance in gaming but you gain floating point precision for rendering? Or was this a rumor?
keep_reading··on Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
And it wasn't a blanket capture of push notifications anyway, right? Nobody has confirmed so far this is a Room 641a situation
keep_reading··on US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
Presidents aren't kings, so even they cannot guarantee their proposed policies will actually be enacted into law. That's the sticky bit.
keep_reading··on Carcinogens that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them
Here's the point I'm trying to articulate: we used to blame nearly all the non-smoker lung cancer incidents on 2nd hand smoke. Smoking was everywhere. It was terrible. I hated it so much.

Now smoking has dropped significantly and smoking indoors and in many public spaces is banned. But the non-smoker lung cancer rates don't appear to be dropping accordingly.

Did we replace the 2nd hand smoke with some other cancer causing particulates? Or were we wrong about 2nd hand smoke and there was something else in our environment the whole time?

keep_reading··on Carcinogens that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them
Can you explain why so many people get lung cancer when they're non-smokers? We've even massively reduced the risk of radon exposure to these people. They don't inhale asbestos. What is causing it?

> In the United States, about 10% to 20% of lung cancers, or 20,000 to 40,000 lung cancers each year, happen in people who never smoked or smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime

Straight from the CDC.

keep_reading··on Lithium-ion battery pack prices hit record low
30kWh for $8k here

https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-lifepower4-lithium-batteries-...

keep_reading··on Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1
If they change anything it's no longer vanilla. Anything at all. No matter how insignificant.
keep_reading··on Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
I don't know, but I would assume not.
keep_reading··on Carcinogens that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them
It's entirely possible that our work to make gasoline vehicle emissions "cleaner" cause this as a side effect. The particulate sizes are so tiny now and we don't know what it does. This may be why the massive drop in cigarette smoking doesn't seem very well correlated with lung cancer rates.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03714-9

keep_reading··on Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
I had no idea GitHub had a ranking system like this based on stars. Sounds incredibly easy to game with bots.
keep_reading··on Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment
They're allowed to put all sorts of things on food packaging because of "free speech". One example is misleading unprotected terms of provenance.

e.g., Port wine made in California isn't really Port wine, but it's allowed on the market under that name.

Funny enough the only thing that really is protected like this is Scotch Whisky due to a trade agreement that has us hunting down any producer in the USA that advertises an American whiskey as a Scotch whisky.

Don't forget that "free range" chicken doesn't mean shit, neither does "grass fed" beef.

False advertising on food is everywhere in the USA.

keep_reading··on Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
Pushover.net does it just fine.

https://support.pushover.net/i46-are-messages-notifications-...

My understanding is that Pushover encrypts the message with your device's public key (from the app) and delivers it through Apple/Google. On iOS you need a special permission from Apple to "filter" push notifications and this is the hook they use to capture and decrypt it before displaying it on your phone

keep_reading··on Tesla Recalls 2M Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws
Pretty sure Instagram thots and memes have killed more than Teslas. I'd bet a lot of money on that.
keep_reading··on QR codes are for suckers – it's time to break them for good
You're just acknowledging that this solves nothing but you still seem to want to pursue it anyway
keep_reading··on OpenAI's Investors Don't Own It
Microsoft isn't micro, making its very name a fraud
keep_reading··on Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1
Even a single patch to something like default kernel config parameters means it's not vanilla. I'm not arguing that there are significant patches, only that nobody seems to ship a true vanilla kernel.
keep_reading··on Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1
> Fedora

You know it's not that hard to debunk this:

> You'll then be left with a kernel-6.X.? directory, containing both an unpatched 'vanilla-6.X.?' dir, and a linux-6.X.?-noarch hardlinked dir which has the Fedora patches applied. [1]

WOW fedora patches! Sounds to me like they're not shipping vanilla.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel

keep_reading··on Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1
Nobody ships vanilla kernels. Sure the reference implementation was unaffected but users never experience vanilla Linux kernels
keep_reading··on Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1
I remember when they made 2 CVEs back to back in Apache by incorrect back porting of changes
keep_reading··on CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG
I don't know for sure but when I used to repair them you could watch them load up the APNGs on boot. The first time I saw them in the wild was around 2007
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