The idea that centralized social media should serve as an emergency broadcasting system is....a bad one. It's only guarantee is that ads are to be served alongside propaganda.
Plot twist: it explodes after 3 wrong guesses.
The TrueType vulnerability they patched in January 2023 without notifying the public of active exploitation, leaving Kaspersky to discover it while responding to security incidents.
VIM Golf.... Same outcome, fewer strokes:
%d|wq
Is this like door dash for saddies?
"Over 50 per cent of heroin addicts will stop using by 2025 as negative, obvious consequences grow"
Pretty much anything that takes followers away from the church is likely to be labeled evil.
A few of mine that I use daily...
Networky Things:
A couple of personal projects:
Probably a poor decision to be creating accounts on government operated instances. Since they own the server, they're in a position to:
- Siphon credentials and attempt reuse to gain access to distinct services
- Ban individual accounts
- Censor based on post content
I'm all for government support and adoption of open-source software so long as they're not in the position to disrupt how it's used by the public at large.
Edit (my perspective is relevant, but doesn't apply in this case): My nerd impulses outran my willingness to read the link's content. Seems it's not for public registration.
Edit 2: Like my cornbread eating American ass can read Dutch anyway 🤣
I just joined and I suspect that you're correct: there's an overall learning curve. No snarky tone intended, but explaining decentralization to those who would likely struggle with grasping the basic client/server model is going to be challenge.
Shoot, I've got 10 years pentesting and R&D under my belt and it took me a while to weigh the pros and cons of creating an account on a public instance or self-hosting. (Will self-host eventually...enjoying a test drive.)
I'm a climate idiot. Does this somehow relate to ice ages, I wonder?