George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

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PSA: we have seen the vague viral reports alleging a Signal 0-day vulnerability.

After responsible investigation *we have no evidence that suggests this vulnerability is real* nor has any additional info been shared via our official reporting channels.

lol 😂 they are getting lazy 😒

There’s something quite delicious and funny watching Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders try to respond to a GOP-led audit of her alleged false records, including a $19K lectern, and failure to respond to FOIA requests, by blaming “left wing activists” for the controversy.

Keep flailing, Governor. It’s your own party’s audit panel investigating your office.

This interview with computing pioneer Barbara Liskov is interesting as her work is little known aside from the Liskov substitution principle and the Clu OOP language:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-023-00539-7

#ComputerScience #retrocomputing #oop

Not in the headline, but we also talk about Kyle receiving a 240 kW DC fast charger and his plans for it, as well as the 3,800-mile road trip I just finished (with lots of nerdy data). Enjoy! #roadtrip #EVcharging #nerdystuff https://youtu.be/HdbQIbqVtSE

I didn't invade & colonise Australia 230 years ago. I didn't kill Indigenous landowners who had lived on & cared for these lands for at least 65,000 years. But when I #VoteYes, I will be part of *today's* Australia. One that wants to listen & repair harm & recognise what's true.
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People at work through the decades.

Last night, I deactivated my own Twitter account and walked away from an audience of 30,000 followers.

Because I no longer believe a moral argument can be made for staying on Twitter/X in 2023.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/there-is-no-moral-argument-for-staying-on-twitter-x-cdef14b04730

We would be greatful if you could amplify our voice & let your followers know that the Auschwitz Memorial is present in #fediverse: @auschwitzmuseum

Every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of #Auschwitz.

Auschwitz is a place that shows where hatred, antisemitism and contempt for a fellow man led people decades ago.

It is also a place where we should reflect on our individual and collective responsibility for the world we live in.

Leaving Twitter. And thriving. A true story 🐦👋🏼

“as a platform becomes less reliable — either editorially or technically — staying becomes more fraught. And as NPR has demonstrated, you may not be giving up all that much if you walk away.”

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

A meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station.

Hey Mastopals, I'm looking for some work so if you know of anything, LMK. Looking for part time (20 hrs/week or less), fully remote work. I have experience in software QA, writing (that's what I'm best at), and music production, plus the usual bullshit (customer service, spreadsheet fuckery, etc). Happy to take short term contracts, one off assignments, etc. Would love to do something meaningful that isn't just enriching a capitalist but hey, I know how rare that is.

@seth @mastodonmigration Starlink cannot and is not designed to provide many people with internet access - it can't handle the bandwidth. It is designed to provide a small number of users slightly lower latency at a steep financial premium, along with the environmental harm it does.

Don't believe the hype.

And to actually get people internet access; advocate for rolling out fiber optics and local wireless.

So I follow the @auschwitzmuseum account, and when I see a post of an individual, I take a moment with them. What they looked like. Where they were from. I try to learn to pronounce their name if it is unfamiliar to me. I purposefully make the effort to bring this human individual into my mind and think about the life and potential that they had that was stolen from them. I make them real for me. I don't know them. I will never truly know them. But I want to acknowledge that they existed and that their existence was extinguished and that their very existence was important and has meaning.

I know not everyone has the emotional bandwidth to do this. For me, my flavor of neurodivergency has a tendency to want to pull me outside of humanity, so I find this practice as one way for me to reconnect and to sit with the tragedy and to feel. It isn't a good feeling obviously. But it helps cement the importance of our humanity and that we as humans have a lot of work ahead of us to be better to one another.

If your organization needs video support, I work with two people who can both shoot and edit. They're crazy talented, driven, and creative, but were caught in recent RIF actions. Reach out to me, and I can put you in touch.

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries.

I like to show my work, and went pretty far down the rabbit hole with this one:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/phishers-spoof-usps-12-other-natl-postal-services/

I've been taking a break from work for the last few weeks, so missed much of the brouhaha over the McKinsey developer productivity article. But I'm sure that I could not write a better response than this one from @tastapod

https://dannorth.net/mckinsey-review/

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