Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

I'm on a quest to achieve peak #Linux enlightenment, where Windows becomes a distant, hazy memory. 😂

My dad said something interesting as I was looking at apartments overseas.

"We have had it too easy in America, and we've gotten soft as a culture. The places you are looking have had real trouble and huge changes and struggles in living memory - they are more careful to guard democracy."

I have never heard the "gotten soft" thing turned around like that by a boomer. It's true, though. The places I am looking have had major political upheaval in the memory of his generation at least, and the last real struggle for justice, fairness, and democracy we've felt as a holistic nation (and not just activists or veterans like me) was WWII in a lot of ways. Most of those veterans are gone, now.

The collective memory loss is really scary as a global trend. We have to get better at teaching history.

New breach: Russian Minecraft service StreamCraft had 1.8M records breached in 2020. Data included email and IP address, username and MD5 or bcrypt password hash. 35% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Data was later distributed as part of a larger corpus: https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/

“Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.”

“Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know.”

It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/26/washington-post-endorses-kamala-harris-satire/

@molly0xfff #putin #PatrickSoonShiong #elonmusk #jeffbezos #trump #andreeson.....

Its starting to feel like billionaires, the royalty of the 21st century are making a play for global domination.... I think it's time to brush of this oldy but goody

Follow the Crypto now tracks presidential spending, including spending routed outside of the crypto super PACs.

https://www.followthecrypto.org/elections/president

#USpolitics #USpol #crypto #cryptocurrency

Mastodon is not for everyone. It is not going to attract Fiat 500 Twitter, or Strongbow Dark Fruits Twitter. We should be content with it spreading organically by word of mouth between library mice in tiny cosy sweaters and IT technicians in bondage gear.

*taps sign*

Hi! My name's Bernie, and I just RELEASED A GAME!

A Story About Birds is a cosy short-form game about exploration and building, in which you gather resources and build cute shelters for birds roaming the farm.

You can buy it RIGHT NOW on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3204460/A_Story_About_Birds/

#gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

@dramypsyd A very relevant comic.

I would walk 500 miles

(actual mileage may vary)

And I would walk 500 more

(subject to status)

Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles*

(*Estimate only)

To fall down at your door

(Terms & Conditions apply)

- The Disclaimers

😆😆

Sorry...but we stood to make a lot of money so...

McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

It makes me sad to think about how many physical archives were digitized & then scrapped "to save space" "it's OK bc the digital archives will always be available to the public" and now many of the digital archives are only available to those members of the public who are willing to pirate things.

Cheap desalination without a power hookup, without even batteries, produces drinkable water.

A "shipping container" sized unit, again with no power, no batteries....

"On average, it desalinated around 5,000 liters of water per day—enough for a community of roughly 2,000 people."

"Cheap as tap water"

This is good news. Very good news.

#climate

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/desalination-system-adjusts-itself-to-work-with-renewable-power/

@rbreich
Widely used paraphrase: "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities".

Alternative translation: "Whoever is able to make you absurd, is able to make you unjust."

-Voltaire

WordPress’s emperor, Matt Mullenweg, demands a hefty tribute from WP Engine, and a battle erupts leaving millions of websites hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is under siege from hackers.

Listen to "Smashing Security" in your favourite podcast app:

🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J7pBxEu43nCnRTSXaan8S

🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/smashing-security/id1195001633

Everywhere else: https://smashingsecurity.com