ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

😍 levels are holding at 71%

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Received my review copy of the new book by Cory Doctorow today. Diving into it tonight. This seems like a good place to share about it.

#interoperability #internet #monopoly

@pluralistic

I love this hallucination from ChatGPT -- from a prompt asking for a biography of myself. ChatGPT decided to mash up my first book, about American reactions to the violence of the French Revolution, with my later work on transgender history. The end result sounds like a pretty great project: The Reign of Terror in Transgender History. #chatgpt #histodons

I have found the world's greatest Viewmaster reel. #muppets #sesamestreet #cats

Da fak??? Cada vez mas fritos los customs.

#customs #toys #actionfigures #cornman

From the Ministry of Silly Protocols

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/next-gen-osdp-was-supposed-to-make-it-harder-to-break-in-to-secure-facilities-it-failed/

Seriously, it's almost impossible to overstate just how awful the Open Supervised Device Protocol is. Null ciphers, egregiously bad key exchange, a cryptographic nonce that uses just 6 bytes of entropy, MACs truncated to 32 bits, unencrypted command bytes.

This protocol never should have been released. The saddest part is that few secure facilities even use OSDP because they're all using Wiegand, which is even more insecure.

Beryl Howell Held Elon Musk's Xitter in Contempt

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/09/beryl-howell-held-elon-musks-xitter-in-contempt/

I personally like it as a reader when the author requires me to connect some dots. I definitely wrote my book with that in mind. There are some leaps the reader needs to take to get the book's overarching message.

Almost 100% of the sub 5-star reviews for my book site a confusion springing from resistance to dot-connecting.

I'm 100% okay with that.

#SelfPublishing

@KirstenAnne @effinbirds @NoraReed @AbandonedAmerica Highly recommend the books by Abandoned America. I keep them out to look through often. The commentary is excellent. Helps me keep perspective on past and present.

BREAKING: Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 1 tonight.

So to recap:
•Red KS—Citizens vote to protect access
•Red MT—Citizens vote to protect access
•Red KY—Citizens vote to protect access
•Red WI—Citizens vote to protect access
•Red OH—Citizens vote to protect access

72%+ Americans SUPPORT access. GOP runs on culture wars because they can't win on ideas. Vote Republicans out permanently.

what the fuck is this new button in the Mastodon admin panel?!

Amid Hollywood writers and actors walkouts, Food Secure Strikers Act from Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC12) would let striking workers get federal food assistance. https://govtrackinsider.com/amid-hollywood-writers-and-actors-walkouts-food-secure-strikers-act-would-let-striking-workers-get-affcbc1fd01b

we're seeing unprecedented cat levels

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Just a couple of wake-ups until #DEFCON - and we have a little present to tide you over til then! Grab yourself a copy of the Official #DEFCON31 Soundtrack on our media server! Nice up your last minute prep with exclusive grooves from some of our favorite musicians. Pregame is officially in effect! See you soon!

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20music/

James Baldwin was born this day in 1924.
#JamesBaldwin

Ay, oh, way to go Ohio!

#politics

I'm ready, Mr. Fox. I'm so ready.

a couple of years ago on twitter I asked why man pages don't have examples and had a surprisingly interesting discussion https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1427308140916363269

I learned that:

- GNU tools intentionally left examples out of man pages, because the idea was that the examples were in the "info" pages instead (which nobody knows about/uses, or at least I never heard of it in ~15 years of using Linux)
- BSD man pages do tend to have examples (for example `man grep` on Mac OS has some examples, on Linux it doesn't)