My brain is 1.3 kilograms of self-electrified mostly fat, sitting in water, and having never actually seen or felt sunlight directly.
Of course my brain is lying to me about the good old days, it's lying about everything else I sense and remember.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/394872/past-present-selective-memory-progress-brain-science
Initial response to @pluralistic regarding #FreeOurFeeds
Want to thank Cory Doctorow for answering questions about his support for Free Our Feeds here:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba
What follows is a response in the form of a list of concerns about FOF.
Cory rightly took exception to the "scolding" tone of some of the discussion so far. It is hoped that here, at least, we can keep it focused on the substance of this issue.
So, here goes...
1/n
Walgreens CEO says when you lock things up to prevent shoplifting, you don’t sell things either
LOL
https://fortune.com/2025/01/14/walgreens-ceo-anti-shoplifting-backfired-locks-reduce-sales/
thank you Jonah, for bringing to our attention the latest from @protonprivacy CEO, Andy Yen.
https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/113705526672291257
was already worried about the company going with a cryptobro as CEO, but this very public Cheetohlini bootlicking seals their fate.
no tech CEO should sing the praises of a rapist propped up by fascists with a 900+ manual on how to turn USA into a criminal cartel hellbent in consolidating fascism worldwide.
i need an EU company not ran by fascists. where to Toto?
THE DREAMS OF YOUTH https://www.yellow5.com/pokey/
This fucking Free Our Feeds bullshit is basically trying to do for Bluesky what Mozilla does for Google.
And guess what, there’s Mozilla’s executive director and president on as custodians alongside two guys from AI companies and the executive director of Meta partner Social Web Foundation.
I’m so bloody sick and tired of bloody Silicon Valley asshats sucking all the oxygen out of the room with their bullshit and I truly hope the folks roped into legitimising it realise this and distance themselves as quickly as possible (you know who you are).
#FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #SanFrancisco #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #bullshit
Having a second massively centralized copy of the big index, that costs tens of millions of dollars to run, is not decentralization.
Duh.
It can't be decentralized because it costs millions of dollars to run a node.
6 new CVEs in "rsync".
"In the most severe CVE, an attacker only requires anonymous read access to a rsync server, such as a public mirror, to execute arbitrary code on the machine the server is running on."
That would be CVE-2024-12084 (9.8) AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, a heap-based buffer overflow in rsyncd.
The Palisades fire overlaid on the City of Toronto stretches from High Park to Birchmount Road. https://bookmarks.kvibber.com/m/cfdb6f73b858fd7549159a0f7ed5aec8
Things I regret: Looking at github issues for the open-source self-driving car conversion kit.
Thousands of people use these things on public roads.
