Sci @Sci@cybre.space
Scavenger, tinkerer, some more to be decided
For the evening crowd again!
If you make stuff and could use access to a workshop to make stuff in, could you please fill out my short survey on what you'd want a workshop to be like? It'll be really helpful to me.
Consider it my birthday gift if you like.
Hospital security: unsupervised & unlocked computers sitting in an open hallway. Screens showed names + medical data of patients... yuck 😷 https://t.co/zjsNYwSJmE
@nightpool COINTELPRO took down the entire domestic communist and civil rights movement *without* us all putting all our plans online publically for them to see.
they had to like, actually insert themselves with spies and follow people around and shit
these days they don't even need that with their mass surveillance tech
Use Encryption
"A DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity" https://hackblossom.org/cybersecurity/
This is super important for anyone doing any kind of organizing and also just is useful in general
No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.
You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.
It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.
The UK national anthem is pathetically craven by comparison.
Holy shit the French national anthem is hardcore.
Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will receive their just reward
Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you
Does Mastadon have any functionality for locked or private accounts yet? I imagine implementing that across a distributed network would be quite tricky.
For everyone who wishes their cause would be taken seriously, remember the Rainbow Warrior.
Even experts are having trouble figuring out what the Trump administration has done with some of these kids.The Times described consular officials from Central America in “crisis mode” as they search for “children as young as 9 months old who did not appear to have been carefully tracked by the federal authorities...” incredulous judge: “If someone at the jail takes your wallet, they give you a receipt. They take your kids, and you get nothing? Not even a slip of paper?”
It's worth signing up to the mailing list for reconditioned lab equipment. It reminds me how much cheaper the "pricey" stuff on ebay is.
Sure that used helium detector is is a couple of hundred quid, but the properly reconditioned one is a bargain at £39,000.
Probly the best journalism I've seen so far about the #pdx ICE occupation:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/occupy-ice-portland-protest-immigration-family-separations
With so much shitty, corporate "news" out there, it means so much to see reporters do real fucking work and get it right.
Soulless faux-neutrality is not journalistic integrity.
Thanks to #TheGuardian's Jason Wilson for this piece
#OccupyICEpdx demands (summary):
* ICE facility removed from Portland
* US must stop detaining asylum seekers
* ICE shall be totally abolished
#OccupyICE everywhere!
i just... am so sick of these posts that are like "Just a reminder that it's OK to do nothing and take care of you and your own" like holy shit can you imagine saying that to the "Good Germans" during the lead up to the holocaust??? Can you please imagine how it feels to see "it's OK to do Nothing" to people whose lives and families are being affected by this??? It's not OK to do Nothing. That's called being complicit. the Good Germans didn't even KNOW about what was happening. We Do.
I haven't done a Benny explainer in a while. Here ya go!
Benny's mother was a hairless Donskoy cat, similar to Sphynxs. His father is unknown.
So he weirdly grew in curly rex-type fur his first year and then it started falling out.
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
USA Today made a version of their site for EU visitors that's compliant with the GDPR
Without:
- ads
- tracking
- personalization
- javascript
It seriously makes me want to check that site from time to time for news. If their point was "see how bad it would be if we didn't do all this stuff?" it's doing the opposite of what it wants because yes, I love this website, that's how I want it and every other one to be like
Located another of my old mystery music from the high seas of indiscriminate 200XAD copypiracy.
if you haven't set up a machine with a recent build of windows 10, cortana now speaks to you during setup.
there is a registry key that can be set using Unattend.xml to fix this
however, i do not have admin access to the build server
so when some of the IT kobolds are setting up multiple machines at once, you can get a flurry of "hi, i'm cort- hi i'm- hi i'm cortana"
why did microsoft think this was even remotely a good idea for enterprise versions of win 10?
