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queer who plays too much Minecraft: no babe, i like your tits fine, i was just wondering if you could make them more square

I thought I understood the extent to which the broad availability of mobile location data has exacerbated countless privacy and security challenges. That is, until I was invited along with four other publications to be a virtual observer in a 2-weeek test run of Babel Street, a service that lets users draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the area.

The issue isn't that there's some dodgy company offering this as a poorly-vetted service: It's that *anyone* willing to spend a little money can now build this capability themselves.

I'll be updating this story with links to reporting from other publications also invited, including 404 Media, Haaretz, NOTUS, and The New York Times. All of these stories will make clear that mobile location data is set to massively complicate several hot-button issues, from the tracking of suspected illegal immigrants or women seeking abortions, to harassing public servants who are already in the crosshairs over baseless conspiracy theories and increasingly hostile political rhetoric against government employees.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/th

poem 

In memory of a programmer. v0.3.

In a corner of the cemetery,
on grass, beneath an old tree,
lies a tombstone, fallen,
covered by moss and leaf,
a name, two dates, five words,
a summary of a life of grief:
"how hard can it be?"

I love the expression “for the time being” because I always read it in my head as “in servitude to the deity of chronology”

athena's like "you realize that you're coming on pretty strong for someone who's single right?"

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fun fact about this heatsink:
They did not, in fact, drill the screw holes at an angle. That was too hard, so they drilled them vertically, and just bent the screws.

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so @Lapsus figured out what heatsink this is. It's an actual product that was sold, not their custom thing (though the fan mount IS custom, they made their own aluminum bracket for it)

It's a Swiftech MCX478-V (or very similar, since that one is designed for a Pentium 4, and this is a Intel Core (non-duo)

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@foone
⚪ light mode
⚪ dark mode
⚪ inverted light mode
⚪ inverted dark mode
⚪ inverted mode
⚪ negative light mode
⚪ negative dark mode
⚪ negative inverted light mode
🔘 negative inverted dark mode
⚪ negative mode
⚪ negative inverted mode

That's why we evolved a "pattern finding" brain. Because there's patterns in the world, and recognizing them is useful.

Anyway, I think of those pigeons, spinning in place, perhaps praying to some God of Food Pellets they invented, and how they don't know there's no pattern and all there actions are meaningless. The cruel scientist man built this game so you can't win, and worse: you don't know you can't win, so you have to keep trying.

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Bring back this style of UI, you cowards. Let me compute with whimsy :neofox_laptop:

@deshipu@fosstodon.org I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Frankenstein, is in fact, Frankenstein's monster, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Frankenstein plus Monster. The Monster is not a Frankenstein unto itself, but rather another uncontrolled creation of a fully reckless dr Frankenstein made alive by the power of lightning, poorly thought out science and vital human organs harvested at the local morgue.

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