Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

An owl stole a child's stick horse and flew around with it.

Photos by Eric Lind

Truly tricky: "What is the net feedback from clouds?"

-Exactly- speaking? The picture is still... cloudy. But not so long ago, whether clouds will be a positive or negative feedback on warming was an open question. Of late, consensus is that changes in cloud locale and type will add up as a positive feedback.

Stale myths still fog our thinking on cloud feedback. We've revised our treatment of this topic; feedback invited!

#ClimateMyths
https://skepticalscience.com/clouds-negative-feedback-basic.htm?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

the @internetarchive is creditted with data for the charts on Twitter's change in Washpo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-anniversary/

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Google has removed a video posted by academic researchers demonstrating how a newly discovered side channel in Apple's A- and M-series videos can be used to steal a password.

I thought for sure the removal was a mistake, but a Google representative told me the video was removed for violating a term of service barring "demonstrating how to use computers or information technology to steal credentials, compromise personal data, or cause serious harm to others."

The video, demonstrating important research by @genkin, @YuvalYarom , @themadstephan and jason kim, is here:

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AMTjzIS6XfV1jzg&id=8208800C17D803E6%211176&cid=8208800C17D803E6&parId=root&parQt=sharedby&o=OneUp

Just to underscore how arbitrary and patently asinine Google's ToS enforcement is here, two additional videos the researchers posted demonstrating the same side channel remain available.

I wonder how researchers from #projectzero feel about this. Is there any chance any of them can intervene?

NPR: As the Israel-Hamas war continues, hospitals in Gaza are crowded and chaotic. Pregnant women face awful conditions: An emergency C-section may be conducted by the light from mobile phones.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/27/1209140259/giving-birth-amid-gazas-devastation-is-traumatic-but-babies-continue-to-be-born

Thanks to everyone who has filed issues or submitted PRs for "Software Design by Example (Python edition)" - I just pushed a minor update to https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/. The publisher tells me the book will be available in April 2024, and the ISBN will be 9781032725253. #sdxpy

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"Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised."

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/iphone-privacy-feature-hiding-wi-fi-macs-has-failed-to-work-for-3-years/

Hahahahaha.

The wonderful @caseynewton and @zoeschiffer in Platformer today:

> On Blind, a pseudonymous network for discussing workplaces, current and former employees were asked to vote this week on whether X’s product was better or worse than Twitter’s was a year ago. At press time, 79.4 percent of employees said the product was worse.

This is worth $10: https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-is-dead-and-threads-is-thriving

This shouldn't need to be said at this point, but given the new Speaker's apparent beliefs, it bears repeating:

While there are weaknesses in US election infrastructure, there is simply no evidence whatsoever that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" or that technical attacks in any way altered its outcome.

58 of my colleagues and I wrote this shortly after these nonsensical conspiracy theories began to spread two years ago. It remains as true now as it was then. https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/election2020.pdf

Aside: One reason I hate Windows is that so much is point and click and hard to script but I do a lot of Windows stuff at work. So to automate something I looked up the Windows API to simulate mouse clicks. But when I wrote some code it gave me error messages about security issues. So I tried many variations. Little did I know that each attempt caused an email to be sent to the security department at work and thence to my manager...

I know there's a lot going on, but the Senate just passed a reckless amendment to ban mask mandates on public transportation for the next fiscal year.

Shamefully, 10 Democrats voted in favor of a ban:
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO
Brown (D-OH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Manchin (D-WV)
Rosen (D-NV)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Tester (D-MT)

Sarah Marzen finds that potential sociological strategies for combatting the spread of disinformation can have the opposite effect, leading to a population with more polarized or chaotic views.

#physics #scicomm #physicsmagazine #physicsnews
#science #ScienceMastodon #information #misinformation #disinformation

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/181

We win. White nationalists lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/civil-war-monument-melting-robert-e-lee-confederate/

@manualdousuario @dameoutlaw Yeah, I came to the same conclusion about a month ago.

👉🏾 https://darnell.tv/2023/10/01/tumblr-fediverse-too-high/

I asked the #Tumblr team if they would consider having Tumblr posts automatically shared to the #Fediverse via #Mastodon (as #WordPress has this feature) since activating #ActivityPub is too expensive.

Their response thus far was less than enthusiastic.

@franco_vazza @j_bertolotti - I used to talk about negative temperature, how inverse temperature is more fundamental than temperature, how inverse temperature is analogous to imaginary time, how you need Planck's constant to give a specific value to the entropy of the *classical* harmonic oscillator, and other more or less well-known facts that are still guaranteed to shock and sometimes outrage newbies.... and also excite crackpots into propounding ideas that sound equally crazy but are, unfortunately, wrong.

I shitcanned my Twitter 2 weeks ago.

Left behind 30,000 followers.

Only have 1000 here.

But I still get more traffic to my writing...

Which should tell you something about Birdchan.

Anyway, repost to support an indie transgender tech writer and journalist! ✍️🍕🏳️‍⚧️

What is your favorite Chinese disruption of the American corporate market and why is it cheapo internet glasses companies throwing a wrench in the glasses frame racket?

CISA says you should deploy ad blocking software, for cybersecurity reasons. #cybersecurity #ads https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Capacity_Enhancement_Guide-Securing_Web_Browsers_and_Defending_Against_Malvertising-Guidance_for_Non-Federal_Organizations.pdf