Month: 7 Av 5783 (July 2023)

CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn’t the thing until it’s born?
CC: Correct—um, no, wait.

—@juglugs

To understand Musk’s renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here’s how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology

—@garius

Breaking news: The Justice Department has published a notice of proposed rulemaking under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This rule will provide a technical standard that state and local governments would have to follow to meet their web #a11y obligations.

It will only apply to public websites, but is an important step in achieving digital equality and could lay the foundation for private business web #accessibility rules in the future.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/associate-attorney-general-vanita-gupta-delivers-remarks-web-accessibility-notice

—@amberhinds

19 states are requesting women’s medical records to see if they have traveled to get an abortion or for any contraception or gender surgical procedure. WTF? What happened to medical privacy? When it was for covid info, records were blocked, giving the unvaccinated permission to spread disease. But your most personal info is okay because you are a woman, so therefore, property of the state you live in?

—@LindaCollins11

I’m in an IETF seminar where the speaker just used the term “pocket-switched network” for people trading USB sticks.

—@pluralistic

A periodic reminder that while most fediverse services are provided for free, they are far from free to run. Many thanks to all who donate and support your instance. If you are in a position to do so, I encourage you to take a look at your instance’s “about” page for details on how to donate (for example, https://infosec.exchange/about)

Some instances do require a fee to join – I personally feel strongly that everyone should be able to participate, regardless of ability to pay and I will do all I can to make sure these resources are available to those in the community who want to use them.

Thank you and have a great weekend!

—@jerry

While many complain about life in general and the cost of living etc, I am sitting on a sofa that costs £8000, lovely and cool in front of an air-con unit costing £3500, watching the latest film on a 70″ smart TV that costs £5000.
Right now, I’m happy, with no worries and not a care in the world.
Not even the employees at the department store who keep asking me to leave can spoil my day…..

—@aarondavid

A prediction (based on decades of coding):
There is some code – somewhere deep in the zillions of lines of X(Twitter) code – which absolutely and wrongly depends on the literal string “twitter”.
And, as the rebranding continues, it will fail, spectacularly.
7/24/23
#TwitterX
#X

—@CogitoErgoWtf

So, I finally published that blog post about the algorithm driving my toot boosting AI here:

https://lisamelton.net/2023/07/24/how-i-boost-toots/

—@lisamelton

Feed every child. It removes any stigma about who gets free lunch. It helps those older students who may already be working to help support the family. For a country that has the resources we have, there is no excuse for hungry kids.

Opinion: A radical idea: Just give kids lunch-
https://wapo.st/3DsSozg

—@TonyStark

@ben Agreed, KOSA is horrible and would easpecially hurt LGBTQIA+ people. And agreed, call your Senator! https://www.stopkosa.com/ makes it easy.

—@jdp23

It’s super frustrating that this Stanford study finding CSAM on top 25 Mastodon servers doesn’t specify WHICH servers they found it on: https://doi.org/10.25740/vb515nd6874

The study recommends integrating proprietary technological tools like PhotoDNA (which would involve running all images uploaded to participating servers through Microsoft cloud services), but knowing WHERE those images were found would let moderators defederate from those servers NOW.

—@lrhodes