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Y'know what? As an #opensource #advocate and #tech enthusiast, it's genuinely awesome to see increased mainstream coverage of #Linux and #FreeBSD. Unfortunately, a lot of these articles are riddled with mistakes, misinformation, clickbait, and overall low quality. A few minutes ago, while catching up on tech news I came across one #ZDNet author's frequent posts on Linux and FreeBSD.
To emphasize my point, I am only going to focus on one article titled, "After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems."
The following passages stuck out like sore thumb:
1.) "FreeBSD is more challenging than Linux."
-But is it really? Subjective, particularly if coming from a GUI-driven Linux distribution. Frankly I find FreeBSD easier because of the excellent documentation and coherent design.
2.) "FreeBSD is Unix-like" but further down he states, "Essentially, FreeBSD is Unix, where Linux is based on Unix."
-Contradictory, incorrect, and confusing for newcomers. FreeBSD is Unix. Linux (neither the kernel nor OS) is based on Unix.
3.) "Think of FreeBSD as a more challenging version of Linux. This operating system doesn't hold your hand, so you might learn a thing or two as you install it and the software you require. Even for a seasoned Linux veteran like me, FreeBSD can often be a head-scratcher."
-Challenging because it's *different than Linux*? FreeBSD doesn't hold your hand? What about #Debian, #Gentoo, #Arch, heck even #RHEL? Since the author didn't mention it, I'm going to assume he did not check the FreeBSD Handbook and his "seasoned Linux" experience has been using a Linux desktop for a couple years. Also, head-scratcher?! Being an experienced Debian user, I'd be scratching my head too if I just decided to use Gentoo on a whim. The trauma of hand-configuring the xorg.conf file was real.
Finally, contrary to the article's title, the author ended up not switching to FreeBSD.
-Clickbait.
I am all for more people exploring FreeBSD and Linux. They are great OSes but it is critical the information being reported is both accurate and consistent. For reference the article is linked below.
felt bored and was curious how long it would take me to implement fizzbuzz in shell. Apparently ~2min. 😆
$ i=0; while [ $((++i)) -le 30 ] ; do case 0 in $((i%15)) ) echo fizzbuzz;; $((i%3)) ) echo fizz;; $((i%5)) ) echo buzz ;; *) echo $i ; esac ; done
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
I agree. Besides using a VPN, are there ways to bollix up such a system?
@serfdeweb People need to contact their representatives and complain loudly about it.
These legislations need to be repealed and prevented.
The political class needs to hear that citizens reject surveillance firmly, and the focus should be instead on creating platforms that are less addictive, more privacy-respectful, and safer for everyone, including adults.
The time to fight is now.
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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Throw back :
Prince at the #GRAMMYs in 2015
"Albums still matter, Like books and Black lives, albums still matter."💙❤
#prince #blackmusic #blacklivesmatter #blackconsciousness #blackmastodon
Today, a friend asked me how to record a podcast (from a closed platform), so I found a simple app called Reco that does exactly what he needs.
I really like the ecosystem of simple, easy-to-use apps that is growing around #GNOME and #Flathub.
In case you ever need it: 👇
#OTD 30 years ago the Space Shuttle mission STS-75 launched. It carried the peculiar Tethered Satellite System as its main experiment and was the first space mission where a #Linux based computer was used in space. I remember it well because I saw the launch; my father was part of the ground crew and brought us over to the US with him. It was a memorable experience that filled teenage-me with awe.
多分6.5インチくらいはあるとおもう
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116115244205622905
Wow, and #Azure support is terrible. It sends you to Copilot. Copilot says: 'If the resource group remains in the "MovingResources" state and you cannot identify any issues, it may be necessary to contact Azure Support. They can investigate backend issues and provide assistance in resolving the problem.'
Contacting support requires selecting from a drop-down list of common problems which does not include this problem. And there is no path I have yet found via their UI that actually seems to result in raising a support request.
Imagine trying to use this for important things!
다들 맥을 주문하는게 유행이 됐어..
Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodonEm And it's also a workaround for governments that are too coward to face platform owners and demand them not to use addictive and exploitative algorithms as their main business model.
Good meowning #CatsOfMastodon
Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodonEm Hear hear!
I'm so tired of everyone like it's normal to upload official identification to every app and website. Without any proper background checks on those services!
This is literally how you get your identity stolen. So the exploitation isn't just happening at the panopticon level, these policies leave us all more vulnerable.
Even people who know better have to comply to function in this society. It's horrendous.
How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/how-i-launched-3-consoles-and-found-true-love-at-babbages-store-no-9/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074671
大統領就任したら大判プラナーで撮ってICチェックしてみたさあるな
Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodonEm
Hey parents, your kids are in danger! But don't worry about it. We'll take care of it for you.
All we need to do is just check their ages. It'll be just like getting ID'd in a shop. You remember that don't you? Nothing to worry about.
[quietly]
We'll just take a photo of your children and their ID, put them in a database, track their every movement, record who their friends are, what they think, their every hope, dream and aspiration.
[back to normal volume]
So don't you worry, your children are safe with us and our billionaire backers, whoops, I mean with us, just us. We'll take care of everything. You can get back to feeding your own dopamine addictions, we'll claim your children are safer now, and big tech will have their giant, totally not sinister databases of real world identities that surely aren't going to come back to bite us later. Anyway that'll be for a different government to deal with.
大判プラナー、もうちょっとだけイメージサークルあれば無敵のレンズになってたかもしれん
寝ます
かといってプラナー80mmの色も好きなんよな～
でも色が好きなのはプラナー50mmなんよな～。。。ディスタンスが取れるならプラナー80mm。。
@Em0nM4stodonEm Thank you! This means a lot, I received a lot of support, and I guess that people needed to hear these things. Stay tuned for more! 😀
One of the companies you identify in the List of 17 is Sigma - their testimonial on Persona is worth a read: https://www.sigmacomputing.com/customers/how-persona-transformed-customer-insights
And really, their highlighted list of customers is a list of extractive data orgs.
As someone who has read more privacy policies and terms of service than is healthy, thank you, and very nice work.
Planar...いい...
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeEm There are technical solutions without mass surveillance.Any technology is generally insufficient when it comes to resolve social deficits.
@timbray 
@carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo this is a very narrow bandwidth channel, suggest switching to higher bandwidth for this topic, which is complex
@timbray @carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo
"The lyrics of the song were written by Waters. They describe the senseless nature of war and the ignorance of modern-day humans who have been taken over by consumerism and materialism. In an interview, Waters shared the significance of each verse:
The first verse is about going to war, how on the front line we don't get much chance to communicate with one another because someone else has decided that we shouldn't. The second verse is about civil liberties, racism and colour prejudice. The last verse is about passing a tramp in the street and not helping."
645プラナー80mmホンマに切れ味が凄い。くっそキレイに撮れてる。
@dalias@hachyderm.ioCassandrich But that's not gonna happen.
@divVerent If you don't want them confronted with this, but it still exists, all you're doing is setting them up not to be equipped to deal with it once they do. And either way they're still stuck living in a world ruled by adults whose brains are rotted on this stuff. I get that this is all very unpleasant and people want an easy solution, but there is none short of attacking the root problem.
If you think hiding it from children (not with trojan internet passport schemes, which are a non starter, but as a parent or whatever) is best, you do you. I think educating and conveying values to them so that they can see the rot for what it is and be ready to protect themselves and fight it is probably better.
一旦厳選終わったので寝ますか・・・
Mastoblaster is a nice clean app for Mastodon. Early days, and I will be contributing observations to the developer but so far it’s a refreshing and modern app.
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@dalias@hachyderm.ioCassandrich @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeEm My approach is actually one of the former category - "trivially" bypassable.@divVerent You said the solution to your actual problem right there: ban these abusive platforms entirely. Or at least regulate them into not being able to do the really harmful things they do - to people of all ages. None of that has anything to do with policing children or policing whether users are adults.
7歳でカメラを触る⇒17歳でバイテン
これだ
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeEm There are technical solutions without mass surveillance.@divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm No there are not. This is a fundamental fact of mathematical logic. Given a proposed age verification system you can prove that it's either trivially bypassed (doesn't actually verify age) or violates key privacy properties.
Em's point is spot-on. If you think of this as a problem to be solved, you are going to be wrong and you are going to be a useful fool for fascists.
나는 챱츄다
A black swallowtail visiting the #garden last summer.
#SilentSunday #photography #Stunday #butterfly #butterflyphotography #flowers #zinnia
는 챱츄다
A black swallowtail visiting the #garden last summer.
#SilentSunday #photography #Stunday #butterfly #butterflyphotography #flowers #zinnia
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寝もうす
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Plus, a new two-for-one cyber-cat special, and good news in the happy corner.
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How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
My own utopian vision from the landscape of wooden skyscrapers now has name: Project #Woodhattan. Probably silly, but at least most people would somehow associate it with megacity built from wood, which is more or less all we need just now.
The utopian community members in the story are not the only inhabitants of the landscape. The wooden skyscrapers are not towering over entirely postapocalyptic or dystopian society, but neither it is entirely utopian landscape. Community centers in wooden towers form something like fractal network of self-repeating patterns, consisting of sustainable and artistic elements, but not everywhere they were given chance. They were unexpected result of failing local regulatory framework, because at least the earliest examples of the structures would hardly meet construction, safety or fire hazard regulations of the previous era.
The landscape between creative fragments consists of traditional family houses, traditional suburban dependence on cars, traditional TV sets in living room and lot of other traditional or normie something, which was not really based on idea of utility the space to its inhabitants, but rather around inevitable of concept of the property having value on market, be attractive for someone else, who would try to bet what value the building would have for yet someone else. While this sometimes resulted in expensive looking habitable space, it was never really focused on the people who would actually live there, but rather on impressing someone else and trying to belong to certain social group. Which maybe even worked sometimes in the past - but no longer worked in the era, in which this story takes place.
The old society was no longer functional, but the new one was available only as ever evolving beta version. And there were also numerous intermediate mutations somewhere in between those two concepts.
This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’
Sandra Hafraoui, who identified as MAGA and voted for Trump three times, now says the president's immigration policy has "ruined our lives."
Abdellatif arrived in the United States at 22. He has now lived here for more than 38 years — longer than he lived in Morocco.
During one visit, Abdellatif reached over to brush crumbs from her sleeve. A guard intervened, shouting obscenities and threatening to end the visit. “There was no compassion,” Sandra said. “Just constant humiliation.”
About two and a half weeks after his arrest, Abdellatif said officers pressured him to board a commercial flight and sign away his rights. “They told me if I didn’t get on the flight, I would be punished,” he said.
He refused.
The punishment was 10 days in solitary confinement.
Glow mode: activated. ✨🌍
This timelapse taken from the International Space Station shows green aurora ribbons dancing across our planet while the thin orange glow of Earth’s atmosphere traces the edge of home.
Source: © NASA’s Johnson Space Center
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