Pictured here: Twitter founder Biz Stone checks in to his new position on the Mastodon board of directors: "The board was selected based on the values they share with Mastodon."
I see no way this could possibly go wrong
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Tags: big brother, computers, conspiracies, corporations, doomed
The Millennial CAPTCHA
This is really well done:
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I can tell because of the pixels
Dear Fallout, this is not how CRTs work.
This is set-dressing malpractice.
This is set-dressing malpractice.
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Tags: computers, firstperson, glitch, retrocomputing, tv
Post dot news dot womp dot womp
"Post dot news", the Andreessen-funded cryptocurrency grift masquerading as a social network, that considered dunking on billionaires to be hate speech, and that created fake "placeholder" accounts to try and get their users to bully news organizations into signing up... is shutting down.
Something something "incredible journey".
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Periodic reminder: never use TouchID or FaceID.
Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules:
The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. [...]
Judges rejected his claim, holding "that the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone required no cognitive exertion, placing it firmly in the same category as a blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."
"When Officer Coddington used Payne's thumb to unlock his phone -- which he could have accomplished even if Payne had been unconscious -- he did not intrude on the contents of Payne's mind," the court also said. [...]
Payne conceded that "the use of biometrics to open an electronic device is akin to providing a physical key to a safe" but argued it is still a testimonial act because it "simultaneously confirm[s] ownership and authentication of its contents," the court said.
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Tags: big brother, computers, conspiracies, doomed, phones, security
Me any time my phone makes a sound I don't recognize
Tags: computers, firstperson, mpegs, phones, security
Fucking Apple
Apple Mail likes to keep our relationship spicy with little surprises like this:
Tags: computers, doomed, firstperson, mac, mail
Posting this so that people will stop messaging me the "Now you have two problems" joke
Nazi hellsite does not understand regexps:
If a user typed in "Twitter.com," they would see "Twitter.com" as they typed it before hitting "Post." But, after submitting, the platform would show "X.com" in its place on the X for iOS app, without the user's permission, for everyone viewing the post.
And shortly after this revelation, it became clear that there was another big issue: X was changing anything ending in "Twitter.com" to "X.com."
So you register your phishing domain netflitwitter dot com, post a link to that, and the preview text makes it look like it's going to netflix dot com instead.
Cool, cool.
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Tags: computers, corporations, doomed, firstperson, regexp, security
Current Music: Causeway -- Birthday ♬
Let's check in on how Kickstarter's "pivot to blockchain" worked out
David Gerard:
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform. You put up a planned creative work, get pledges, and Kickstarter takes a percentage. This is pretty simple. There are very few ways to mess it up.
One way you can mess it up is to go into growth-at-any-cost mode and do stupid things for the sake of funding.
In December 2021, Kickstarter announced that it was pivoting to blockchain! Nobody had any idea what this meant -- including Kickstarter, who couldn't advance a single coherent reason, let alone a plan. Users revolted. [...]
Why did Kickstarter do something so stupid? It turns out that Andreessen Horowitz, through their a16z Crypto unit, promised to buy $100 million of early Kickstarter investors' shares in return for 25% of the company -- if Kickstarter would just say they were adopting "blockchain." [...]
Kickstarter was profitable before this. But they didn't have a path to cancer-like growth at all costs. So they went along with a16z's blockchain promotion.
Kickstarter had refused to recognize a union at the company in 2019 and illegally fired two of the union organizers. Kickstarter finally did recognize the union, but also had massive layoffs because so many creators had left the platform due to Kickstarter's efforts not to recognize the union. They preferred to destroy their profitable company rather than allow a union to gain the slightest toehold.
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The Turing Police say "X Wins"
I had understood in principle that printf is Turing complete, but I am still aghast at this interactive game of tic-tac-toe implemented with a single printf statement.
Computing the NOT of a single value is also easy:printf("%1$255d%1$s%hhn", a, b)will compute*b = (strlen(a)+255)%256 = strlen(a)-1and again, because strlen(x) is either 1 or 0 we have*c = !bFrom here we can compute any binary circuit.
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Tags: computers, doomed, firstperson, glitch, mad science, pranks, toys
