So, again I woke up to find 28,766 restored tweets

After deleting all 38,000 tweets in November

After redeleting 34,000 tweets a month ago

This morning 28,766 came back

This IS a breach of the EU rules on data processing

Please boost asap, don't like it, boost it

#twitter

Kinda wanting to install my own lemmy and slowly build up my subs in the hopes to eventually replace my reddit experience. Because I really do enjoy reading my subs on various totally obscure topics

@KenRos could it be....??

https://twitter.com/KeithCostigan/status/1663668329096290305

Jeff Carlisle is confirming it:

https://twitter.com/JeffreyCarlisle/status/1663671813765992448

LFG!!!! Now let's get Vanney out

How do I know the Succession ending was great? Because I hated it! Will miss this show. #succession #hbo

Have a good Wednesday, also known as Mittwoch, also known as Wodin's Day.
Have a London derrière to cheer you up.

Anyone with a web cam recommendation? Must be Linux friendly. My built in camera died a month or so ago and this ThinkPad x1c6 may be old but still works perfectly (sans camera) so I don't want to trade this old thing in just yet.

Meta's new Twitter rival will talk with Mastodon (via ActivityPub, assumed?). This is an interesting development.

Not that we need/want Meta in the space but it could be a driver.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak

uspol

I remember once getting flak for sharing the German quip of "if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."

I hope those critics look at Florida and other fashy states and realize that this is what happens when you tolerate fascism at any level.

Visiting Europe was cool and all but nothing beats returning home to Nicaragua, leaving the airport, only to have the 11pm heat & humidity sucker punch the wind right out of you.

Welcome home indeed.

DZ: Mass shootings, common

Mass shootings are so common, I didn't even hear about this recent one in New Mexico:

https://www.koat.com/article/farmington-active-shooter-new-mexico/43895111

N'oubliez pas.

I've been writing Go 95% of the time for the last couple of years.

I've got a py2 codebase for a pretty useful app I need to port to py3.

I've forgotten a lot of what that entails.

Time to dust off the upgrade manuals.

If this is true, that prime-time Trump infomercial was an even more shameful act of journalistic malpractice on CNN's part than was previously understood.

Allowing audience members to applaud - but not boo or express disapproval - doesn't report the story, it materially alters it. It creates the false impression that Trump and his odious policies and behavior are more popular than they are.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republican-at-trump-town-hall-says-many-in-audience-were-disgusted-or-bewildered-by-ex-president/

(HT @lauren)

This whole story is absolutely wild, and far beyond NSOGroup type capabilities. And the telecom industry is itself complicit.
"Global Surveillance: The Secretive Swiss Dealer Enabling Israeli Spy Firms"
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-05-10/ty-article-magazine/.premium/global-surveillance-the-secretive-swiss-dealer-enabling-israeli-spy-firms/00000188-0005-dc7e-a3fe-22cdf2900000

I feel seen.

Accidentally typed rm templates/* and quickly realized my error. A second of panic before hg revert -Ca brought me back to my senses.

(not to worry, I had no other pending changes that reverting would affect)

Moral being, I've got 25+ years using *nix, coding, etc. and still do stupid shit all the time. Use tools that will save you whenever feasible.

“Proposed Texas Law Wants to Make School Children 'Battlefield' Ready

In response to school shootings, a new bill in Texas would require public schools to install "bleeding stations" and train kids as young as third grade in trauma care.”

This is grotesque.

The United States of America is a war zone.

The children are hostages.

The terrorists are hiding behind the hostages.

The terrorists are the Republicans.

The NRA funds terrorism.

Only you can end this.

https://www.parents.com/training-school-children-in-trauma-wound-care-7495063?utm_campaign=parents_parentsmagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=645931dd454148000194b467

@tedu is it just me or are you and other honkers seeing this? Trying to import from the xzone seems to fail more often than not, but using the new search import option works for those that failed.

The Clarence Thomas bribery scandal widens:

—Leonard Leo and his organization had business before the Supreme Court.
—They sent large sums of money to Clarence Thomas’s wife.
—They deliberately removed her name from the paperwork.

It’s time for the US Attorney to open a bribery investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

The contents of libraries are being treated as more dangerous to kids than massacres.

#Naples was waiting for me.

(see if you can find the shit stain a friendly pigeon left for me on my jeans)

My daughter wrote a new thing:

https://theamazine.com/2023/05/05/tucumcari/

#writers #writerscommunity #writer

God I love football. The #Naples fans were so wild last night. Energy was nuts.

Currently in #Naples, #Italy. The local football team just needs 1 point to lock in their Serie A championship. They just tied the score (giving the the championship if the score stays the same). The city is MADNESS! Love it!

Dune Part 2 Trailer. 🐛 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way9Dexny3w

@KenRos are you in ACB by any chance?

Really not trying to hate on your lunch but I'm pretty sure mine was better.

#gandia #spain #ChefAmadeo

In a 1999 interview on The Diane Rehm Show, Berners-Lee was asked why he never cashed in.

The question, when it's posed like that, it implies that you really only measure people's value by their net worth," he said. "People are what they've done, what they say, what they stand for, rather than what they happen to have in the bank.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary

Current view of #Madrid from my hotel. Off to #Valencia tomorrow.

The new lounge in the San Salvador airport expansion is nicer, with better food, than most lounges in much larger, more "worldly" cities. Super impressed!

#elsalvador #travel

NitroKey disappoints me...

https://blog.brixit.nl/nitrokey-dissapoints-me/

Smartphones using the Snapdragon 630 chip were found to call home to Qualcomm without the consent of the user, bypassing the whole operating system. Data includes unique hardware ID, current IP, country, your ISP, list of installed apps and other data.

It is send unencrypted and gets combined with data broker profiles.
https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker

As usual, big IT companies don't give a flying fart about any laws, their customers or ethics in general. Who would've guessed. 😔 #privacy #security

In case you were unaware, RT, aka Russia Today, is the propaganda arm of Putin’s authoritarian government. They appear to have an Instance on Mastodon. I’ve blocked them. You may want to share this information and block them too.

https://obo.sh/@russiatoday

Background (From the US State Department):
https://www.state.gov/report-rt-and-sputniks-role-in-russias-disinformation-and-propaganda-ecosystem/

#putin #rt #russiatoday #propaganda #authoritarians #democracy

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to pay $5M for the Prove Mike Wrong challenge. Evidence provided was just random numbers and letters haha. Apparently team Lindell claimed it was the capture of the traffic for THE ENTIRE INTERNET during a set period hahha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fFvMC0bl4s

RT/Russia Today no longer has a “state-affiliated media” label.

Nice job, Elmo. You’re really doing great on this rapidly-declining shitshow.

Once you go #honk, you never go back.

Twitter quietly edited its hateful conduct policy to drop transgender protections https://arstechnica.com/?p=1933162 #tech

@AndrewHacks wake up!

Oh and to the ahole's DDoSing SourceHut, please eat a fat <whatever you find vulgar and disgusting>!

Every time I read the US news I reaffirm that moving to the second poorest country in the western hemisphere (aka, the third world) was the best decision I could have made, safety wise at least.

I'm still amazed that people would pay for a blue check mark on

Anyone I know in Valencia (Spain), Naples (Italy) or Palermo (Sicily)? If so, I'll be heading out there in the coming weeks and we should get a beer or something.

#spain #italy #sicily

If you installed a Linux system with disk encryption more than a couple of years ago, there's a decent chance it's using a weak key derivation function and someone who cares enough would be in a position to brute-force it. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html has more details and instructions on how to update to a better KDF.

NPR's operating budget is $300 M, and 1%, or $3 M is funded by federal subsidies

The LA Times calculates the federal subsidies Musk's companies have received at $4.9 B.

Let's be generous and say Musk received those subsidies over a 10 year period, while NPR would have received ~$30 M in subsidies.

4.9 B / 30 M = Musk received 163x what NPR has from "the state."

Who is state funded then?

#elonmusk #npr #twitter

Hey #freebsd fedi, question - is it a good idea to jump from 12.2 to 13.2. I've got a few non-critical systems still running 12.2 and I'd like to avoid updating multiple times.

Any hints?

Hah, this is great!

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-subsidies-tesla-billions-spacex-solarcity-2021-12

@KenRos you see the Klein email to season ticket holders? lmfao this guy is a clown! #KleinOut

Ugh, sloppy play led to the Real Madrid goal but Chelsea is holding their own. Had some chances and also got a bit lucky a few times.

Hope they clean it up the second half! Come you blues!

#ucl #championsleague

The Free Software Foundation is dying

https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html

#atheism
(I dunno where this was originally mimeographed/faxed from)

Holy damn this is wild

“I hacked into a @Bing CMS that allowed me to alter search results and take over millions of Office365 accounts.

How did I do it? Well, it all started with a simple click in Azure… 👀

This is the story of #BingBang”

https://nitter.net/hillai/status/1641146508639600646#m

#Microsoft #Azure #Bing #OpenAI #InformationSecurity #Cyber #Cloud #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel

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