ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
Joined Nov 2022
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Somewhere, someone finally made this and I think it's beautiful
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From Douglas Adams:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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The Twitter 'Shadow Ban' bug gets an official CVE : CVE-2023-29218 👇🏾
"The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm through ec83d01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (reduction of reputation score) by arranging for multiple Twitter accounts to coordinate negative signals regarding a target account, such as unfollowing, muting, blocking, and reporting, as exploited in the wild in March and April 2023,"
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29218
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54 years ago today, the brilliant & delightful Steve Crocker, then at ULCA, circulated to the nascent Network Working Group a "Request for Comment" about Host Software. This was #RFC 1, the first of what are now 9411 technical documents defining (and ever evolving) the Internet as we know it.
To me, the Internet is the RFC series, even more than the computers the implement them.
So: Happy 54th birthday, Internet!
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"Vunidogoloa is one of six Fijian villages that have already been moved because of the impacts of climate change, and dozens more are currently being assessed for relocation.
With 20 per cent of Fiji's population of nearly a million people living on coastal and river fringes, thousands now face the prospect of having to move to higher ground.
Relocating a village is not a simple matter of finding and forking out hundreds of thousands of dollars, although that must be done.
In Fiji, it also means severing the very spiritual connections to ancestors and to the land and seas of the territory to which they belong — the traditional bonds known as "Vanua".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-06/fiji-climate-change-moving-villages-vunidogoloa/102186670
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Hard to believe this poem is exactly 1.5 million years old today.
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captain kirk reads my blog https://twitter.com/williamshatner/status/1644136699927347200
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If you use email, then you’re using the Internet technology with the greatest network effect on the planet.
Not even Meta can compete with email.
Better yet, just like the Fediverse, email is federated.
Anyone who says that social media won’t work if it’s decentralized and requires multiple servers is lying: they use email.
And email is why it was so easy for me to delete my Facebook account.
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UK fines TikTok $15.8 million for GDPR violation of children's privacy https://www.csoonline.com/article/3692635/uk-fines-tiktok-158-million-for-gdpr-violation-of-childrens-privacy.html#tk.rss_all
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Call to Prayer, #Marrakesh, #Morocco
I stumbled across this scene as I was wandering around Marrakesh. A young man was helping an older man negotiate the steps into a mosque for afternoon prayers.
#Sony #SonyAlpha #Mirrorless #A6000 #18200 #Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled ArchitecturalPhotography #OATtravel #OverseasAdventureTravel #Cityscape #StreetPhotography #urbex #ThrowbackThursday #Thursday #History #MastoArt #Door #DoorsOfMastodon #Mosque #Church
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@darius My email footer currently says "Delete Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tik Tok - Support an independent internet"
I have no idea if anyone takes notice.
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Reminder to take lunchboxes out of school bags so you don't find something horrible in two weeks.
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A BS study touted widely by anti-vaxxers is about to be retracted. This should make your blood boil -- and lead to deep soul-searching at all scientific journals.
The damage this stuff causes to public perceptions of science, and to public health, is incalculable.
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You can watch curling for 100 years and you’ll never see a shot - or a reaction from the commentators - like this one from earlier today.
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The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS. A true WTF from @andybaio https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/
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I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun control, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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I love that our idea of what Raptors looked like, was somehow way less cartoonish than the reality.
This scary boi looks like he just saw some Froot Loops, and he's got to follow his nose.
Joined Nov 2022
