Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

If you are new to Mastodon and coming from the Twitter tide, here’s a few amazing Mastodon features that are NOT ON TWITTER. Enjoy! 🐘​

1. Content Warnings CW ⚠️​

It allows you to display a warning but hides the content of your post. Here’s a short guide I wrote about it: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109282181601490676

2. Slow Mode 😌

In Preferences > Appearance, you can select the option “Slow mode” to hide automatic feed updates. You will then have to click at the top of the timelines to see new posts (ex: “10 new items”).

3. Custom Emojis ​

When you write a post (called a toot here), you can select emojis that are custom to your server (called an instance here). In the toot field, click on the 😂 button in the upper right corner to see what’s available there. Some are really neat! ​

4. Mastodon is different ​

There is no suggestion algorithms here, no promotion, no ads. This is a community. You can be more of your true complex and unique self. Engage with others genuinely. Follow others you like no matter their followers count. Describe yourself and what interests you in your bio, you are not as limited by characters count here.

Be yourself. Leave the toxicity out, it is not valued here. Respect others. Be a kind human. Share what you love. Make friends ​

GENTLE REMINDER TO ALL #TECH WORKERS

before you go hustling for new work on these internets and fediverses, if you were laid off, HEAD TO THE CLOSEST #LABOR DEPARTMENT OFFICE AND DEMAND YOUR #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

you pay for #unemployment #benefits with each paycheck. DEMAND THAT MONEY.

here's a thread about what to do & what happens when you don't demand all your accumulated money & benefits.

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111607803802146802

tell #techbros laying off people, fuck you pay me.

Hhehehe

Credit: The New Yorker cartoons

#crypto #ai #humor #comic #art

Good news: @oneunderscore__ and his friends bought The Onion (it was officially announced in the NYT but… as if). Ben Collins will be the CEO (seriously).

Ben announced, “We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want.”

This is The Onion’s first article under new ownership:

Give Us $1 Or ‘The Onion’ Disappears Forever
https://www.theonion.com/give-us-1-or-the-onion-disappears-forever-1851436787

#MetaAI

Until abortion access is fully legal, digital surveillance poses a significant threat. We’ve gotten better at answering questions about how to keep each other safe. Here’s what we’ve learned.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/two-years-post-roe-better-understanding-digital-threats #abortion #surveillance

If you’ve been led to believe that you deserve free money for doing absolutely nothing…

You may be entitled to compensation!

I think maybe, in the final analysis, the Internet gave everyone a platform, only to reveal that very few had anything to say worth hearing.

Source: kasiababis.com

Don't delay! Reach out today!

Some people say I'm scared of my own shadow. No, I am not. My shadow is on my side. It takes good care of me, and it will protect me from danger. Just as long as I do exactly what it says.

I hope this email does not find you or anyone. Let this email wander free

Ouuuuuch

> Every version of the PuTTY tools from 0.68 to 0.80 inclusive has a critical vulnerability in the code that generates signatures from ECDSA private keys which use the NIST P521 curve. (PuTTY, or Pageant, generates a signature from a key when using it to authenticate you to an SSH server.)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

These direct solicitations to T-Mobile employees to participate in SIM-swaps are definitely not just limited to T-Mobile's employees. But T-Mob is probably the easiest still.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/1c4dgpl/sim_card_swap_scam/

Someone remember you😊 (by u/UaaJook)

Hi Fediverse, #introduction
Currently I'm spending a lot of my time on the computer researching into #music #corpora in order to finish my #phd @ #epfl by the end of 2023. My main subject is #musicTheory and I'm trying to measure stylistic differences between tonal languages of the last four centuries through #statistics on #harmony (#stylometry).
I'm here to connect with people who are interested in #dh #DataScience #machinelearning #opendata #dataset #foss #privacy #musicianship #funk #techno

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, I don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

(Credit: source unknown)

* xz backdoor. Only affects unstable builds *
Uninitiated: LINUX IS DOOMED FOREVER!!! FOSS IS DEAD!!!
Old Sys Admins: This is why unstable builds exist. To catch these things. This is the system in place doing its fucking job :)