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👆periodic reminder to get boosts/shares on masto/fedi you need to add alt text to your images 🖼️​

Current distraction: being a computer and doing all the downloading.

Quick advice to Americans doing their taxes at the last minute (as I do).

If you can't or won't pay the full amount owed by the tax deadline, just pay something.

Pay anything. Pay $1, pay $10, pay $100, and you'll go into the bucket of "underpayment" (which is common and relatively minor) versus "nonpayment" (which is serious, and gives them permission to garnish your wages.)

Best advice I ever got from a tax preparer.

Happy Tax Panic Day, USA!

The day we suddenly remember that we need to take numbers the state and federal governments gave us, work some simple arithmetic in complicated formulas for them for reasons involving tax prep industry lobbying, give those numbers back to them, and hope they get the same results when they do the same math.

Falsehoods programmers believe:

* Thinking the gender binary can be encoded in just a single bit.

** In reality, the gender binary word size often exceeds the byte it takes out of your simplistic, need-to-unlearn understanding.

i was chatting with @ShadowJonathan and they brought up a point which I was thinking about too, namely how these kind of indie casino number-go-big games with a relatively small pricetag and no microtransactions of any kind might help people break their addiction to actual gambling

and the reviews under balatro seem to confirm that 🥰

RFC 2232, in case you need standardized details of how to implement DHCP via clothespins on devices without automated DHCP client software or compatible DHCP server software:
rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2322

:blobfoxdrakedislike: "we need to make sure you're human"

:blobfoxdrakedislike: "confirm that you're not a robot"

:blobfoxdrakelike: "check this box if you mean us no harm"

could you imagine going to checkout and the cashier is just sitting there with a foxgirl wallpaper on the POS terminal

just a weird thought. anyway,

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vows!

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, but the sphinx of black quartz doesn't judge it notable.

My Mom built an analog ad blocker for her favorite tablet game and while I cannot stop laughing, I'm also hella proud of her. Go Mom! Stick it to the man!

#FuckTheSystem

🤯 The level of sophistication of the XZ attack is very impressive! I tried to make sense of the analysis in a single page (which was quite complicated)!

I hope it helps to make sense of the information out there. Please treat the information "as is" while the analysis progresses! 🧐 #infosec #xz

The reply to this is a fair point: downgrade to a pre-5.6.0 version regardless. It's too soon to know if this exploit path is the only one present.

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