π¬ 111Β Β π 9214Β Β β€οΈ 15599Β Β·Β FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, andβ¦
Weβve finally got a Stalin to call our own. Just like Soviet Russia, homelessness is now basically a criminal offense, thanks to Trumpβs latest executive order, which pretends itββ¦
A federal court just made it a whole lot harder for blind people, people with disabilities or people who cannot read, to protect their rights at the ballot box.
Opera has filed a complaint in Brazil against Microsoft. Opera alleges that Microsoft uses βmanipulative design tacticsβ to keep Windows users on Edge.
Reps. Robert Garcia and Summer Lee note incidents βin which individuals posing as ICE agents have leveraged the opacity and fear surrounding immigration operations to commit serious crimes,β including sexual assault and robbery.
βThese cases starkly illustrate how the use of masks, unmarked vehicles, and minimal identification by actual ICE agents does not just erode trustβit effectively hands bad actors a roadmap to exploit vulnerable communities.β
Lawmakers note that bad actors have also exploited ICE's anonymity and impersonated agents in order to commit serious crimes, including sexual assault and robbery.
Iβm chuffed to again collaborate with R.E. Ryan. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, plus a tiny fifth βkickerβ panel underneath. All panels show the same scene. Tβ¦
Uggh, nasty weather today. Woke up, and all the windows were fogged up. The humidity is so high that when doing deliveries, my glasses fogged up the second I stepped out of the car, and I felt wet.
The actual point of tariffs as a financial tool is to make domestic production more attractive than foreign. However, not one person in history has ever had a tariff levied against them and said "yeah, fair." Not to mention this idiot keeps putting tariffs on things that aren't produced in the US. So retaliation means that our own exports are being reduced, and taxing goods that we can't get from other places means that Americans end up paying our own tariffs.
So...as this is a nation by of and for the people, and you're saying the people are being taxed, it's now a case of eat the rich, didn't see that coming did we
New by me: Sex toy maker Lovense has failed to fix two security flaws that allows anyone to reveal the email address of any other user, and takeover anyone else's account.
I verified the email disclosure bug w/ the researcher, who said they went public after Lovense claimed it needed a year to fix.
A security researcher went public after the sex toy maker asked for more than a year to fix the vulnerabilities, which leak users' private email addresses and allow for accounts to be hijacked.
π¬ 19Β Β π 3224Β Β β€οΈ 5493Β Β·Β Did you know that JRR Tolkien wrote an unpublished epilogue to Lord of the Rings? It's achingly, beautifully wistful in the way that only Lord of the Rings is. I revisited iβ¦
(To all readers: the use of βGodβ in this post refers to the generically Christian ideal of God, and not any particular god or gods referenced/respected by other religions. The capitaliβ¦
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KYIV POST: Ukraine Equips New Interceptor Drone With 6-Barrel Shotgun
The drone uses modified shotgun cartridges that use a countercharge to compensate for any recoil β especially crucial to unbalance a hovering drone when the weapon is fired in mid-air.
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Valve Corporation recently came under pressure from payment processors to purge Steam, the popular PC gaming storefront, of βcertain kinds of adult-only content.βΒ The news rippled across tech β¦
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i just ftp'd into a public ftp server running in Ecuador, and discovered an absolutely critical piece of US Robotics ISP modem pool software that has been missing for 20 years
thank you from the bottom of my heart, rolando felix of Educational Unit 10 De Agosto, for leaving your departmental computer ftp wide open β€οΈ you just preserved some insanely useful and important dial-up ISP history. (don't worry rolando - i didn't peek too deeply into your ms-dos games and music folders)
the story: in the mid-90s i was a teenager who had a summer job at a dial-up isp. we had 32 incoming lines which were handled by 32 external USR Courier modems, which were fed into a super chonky Livingston Portmaster terminal server. all of the support hardware took up an entire rack - just to let 32 people call in for internet service at 28.8kbaud. it ate a ton of power, and made a lot of heat.
then, in 95-96, US Robotics delivered two insane appliances: the Total Control Modem Pool. these were *tiny* devices that offered 16 dial-up modems at 33.6kbaud. if you paid a bit more, you could buy the NetServer version, which gave you a terminal server too. an entire isp in a box the size of a network switch.
the modems had buggy firmware. so USR offered firmware updates via their ftp site. you could even upgrade some of the modems to "x2" 56k service with a firmware patch. they supported it for years, and when 3com bought USR, they kept the ftp site running for years. and then, 3com shut down their ftp site. and no one thought to mirror it.
after 3 hours of searching, i was able to track down a single filename thanks to WBM: mpv90an.zip. not a single site on the web had it - not even IA or discmaster. on a hunch, i plugged it into the Napalm FTP Indexer (searchftps.net) and... unbelievably, there it was, sitting on an ancient box in someone's university office in Quito, Ecuador.
the most amazing part was how slow the server was. at 250 ms pings, it was like digging through a public ftp on a 14.4k modem in 1994.
tomorrow i'll be uploading these files to IA. for now, sleep.
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in reply to George Takei :verified: π³οΈβπππ½ • • •WellsiteGeo
in reply to George Takei :verified: π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Trump will still continuing to shout "rabbit!" And point Thattaway!
And eventually his base will hunt the rabbit.
Until the next dog-whistle.
Galad
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in reply to George Takei :verified: π³οΈβπππ½ • • •$1 for me, $1 for you. $2 for you, $1, $2 for me, $3 for you β¦
Never good to align a system that promotes corruption.
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in reply to George Takei :verified: π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Andy Kotlarz
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