Notices by Leny (pithi@mastodon.sdf.org)

"Why does everyone think Wikipedia is such a big fucking deal? It took 100,000 people over a decade to slap this thing together. Samuel Johnson wrote the first definitive English dictionary on his own, in nine years, by candlelight, in an 18th century world riddled with wolves and syphilis." - Sam McPheeters for Vice.

I used to look at friend's lives, how much fun they were having, how they really had it together and lamented that I would never have what they have.

Now I understand they just were really good at marketing their life. 😆

I reckon let’s CW anything that mentions Trump. We know how despicable the man is, we know how dangerous his ideas are, we know he has always thrived on getting people to talk about him (both positively and negatively).
We can’t afford being demoralised by his nonsense, and we know what we need to work on and promote to defeat fascism. Let’s start with not spending our time, attention and spoons on his gesticulations.

Followed up with a police report and maked the bike stolen on bikeindex.org

I'm sure I'll never see it again.

😭

Fred Dibnah laddering an industrial chimney. Fearless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-a27xwcLfU

@vantablack the only thing standing between me and a feeling of real safety is an utterly fucked economy and 40 years of endless work until I retire or die

AWS role-based (ACL-like) permissions still fucked, now responsible for bank losses https://blog.cloudsploit.com/a-technical-analysis-of-the-capital-one-hack-a9b43d7c8aea

can you guess what I'm going to say

come on you already know

we need ocaps

At some point I'll have to ask for my money back...

Researchers discover new security flaw in all modern Intel processors:

https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/08/06/researchers-discover-troubling-new-security-flaw-in-all-modern-intel-processors/

I think I'm addicted to the Fediverse...

used to be anytime there was a violent senseless american tragedy i’d mix myself a stiff cocktail and have a cigarette out on the porch. by now well, i simply couldn’t drink that much. truly i can’t.

My new @RhizomatixBlog post: "Computing into Autonomous Spaces." Can computers help create spaces free from exploitation? I explore some possibilities with help from Italian Autonomist thinkers. Available thru Tor, Gopher, & Gopher web proxy:

Tor: http://kse5vsklszkdm6tnqzbrd6ry2ohrqlljnpz65qkno63goqzzsjahazad.onion/posts/Autonomy.html

Gopher: gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/rusty/Post07-computing-autonomy

Gopher proxy link: https://alexschroeder.ch/soweli-lukin?url=gopher%3A%2F%2Fsdf.org%3A70%2F0%2Fusers%2Frusty%2FPost07-computing-autonomy