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my most unpopular (yet pretty basic) opinion: things that people blame capitalism for in the current era are facets of humankind that in fact vastly pre-date the rise of capitalism in society, an will require a far greater re-engineering effort, whose shape is possibly hidden from sight by strictly anti-capitalist stances

I've commissioned the great @davidrevoy to help with some of the artwork for the new Spritely website. I made some tiny sketches of what I thought sprites might look like: dustycloud.org/gfx/goodies/spr

David did a conceptual re-imagining and oh my god they're AMAZING davidrevoy.com/XYZ/Spritely/20

#MastodonMemories

Collaboratively inventing the word "synecdomeme" for the practice of using a filename, or notional filename, to stand for a multimedia item. E.g., "homer simpson retreats into shrubbery.gif" or "dumpster fire.mp4".

we need solarpunk renders and videogames based on neo-andean architecture🌞
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RT @cozmiclown
Thinking about the “Neo-Andean” architecture that flourished in Bolivia under Evo Morales. These are all by architect Freddy Mamani
twitter.com/cozmiclown/status/

bad pun 

There are so many unanswered questions about intelligence itself that we can't make any headway with SETI. We should, instead, SETL for extraterrestrial life.

pet peeve: writers who make their child characters "precocious" because they don't know how to write children

"url hijacking" is a crap name for what it actually is

I'm hand-curating the GPT-3 generated #Botober prompts because many of the neural net's drawing prompts are terrible for one reason or another.
Here are some of the prompts that were unfairly difficult.

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Introducing #Botober, a set of AI-generated drawing prompts for each day in October!

I generated these using GPT-3, a neural net trained on a huge amount of internet text, but not on drawing prompts specifically. (This explains a lot)

@bluestarultor i found it interesting how easy it turns out to be to make something that absorbs tons of light, you just have to make the texture (on a micro and macro scale) really matte. most matte black paint is pretty good! there's a good video on this: youtube.com/watch?v=Xr1AiExSAn

The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet, but fortunately he's a good guy - Electrek
electrek.co/2020/08/27/tesla-h

Thank you to all the people who made #DebConf20 possible! The DebConf organisation team, Debian Video Team, our speakers, volunteers, and attendees. Would you like to join for organising the next DebConf? If so visit wiki.debian.org/DebConf/21 and contact the DebConf team.

Many of the streamed sessions from #DebConf20 are already uploaded in meetings-archive.debian.net/pu and the remaining ones will appear in the following days. Thank you again from all of us at Debian!

DebConf20 online closes. We hope you enjoyed our conference and coverage of The Universal Operating System and the many hands that bring it to you. bits.debian.org/2020/08/debcon

I was only half-listening to a reading of , but I dialed in during the meeting with Corlis. It really connected with a lot in my personal history w.r.t. to , , and for the future
pugetsound.edu/files/resources

Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps + bonus

hackerone.com/reports/783877

If you are using Slack, take a read at this report. Low reward for such a serious vuln.

"With any in-app redirect - logic/open redirect, HTML or javascript injection it's possible to execute arbitrary code within Slack desktop apps. This report demonstrates a specifically crafted exploit consisting of an HTML injection, security control bypass and a RCE Javascript payload. "

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