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EU says Elon Musk’s paid “verification” deceives X users, threatens big fines

Paid checkmarks deceive users and violate Digital Services Act, EU says.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/eu-says-elon-musks-paid-verification-deceives-x-users-threatens-big-fines/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@osnews This is at the bottom of the GitHub page for Ladybird. If you've been online in programming circles for about 23 seconds total, you know *exactly* what kind of dog whistle this is.

Pretty clear they only want white males contributing.

For those unaware it looks like there's a new OpenSSH server vulnerability. There's an embargo on what it is but most Linux distros have pushed a fix so doing an upgrade right now is probably a good idea.

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1dsofck/regresshion_rce_in_opensshs_server_on_glibcbased/

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. One year earlier, the Stonewall Inn was marketed as “casual" and “crowded on weekends”.
#vintage #lgbtq #Stonewall

With apologies to my fellow Brits, you have to have this in your head now too.

girl so mid, she moisturizes with Oil of Okay

OK #Linux community, listen up.

MS have done it again and people are looking for a way out.

DON'T TREAT NEWBIES LIKE SHIT.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR ASKING QUESTIONS.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR HAVING PROBLEMS.

DON'T TELL PEOPLE TO "GOOGLE IT" WHEN THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT TO SEARCH FOR, OR HOW TO INTERPRET THE RESULTS THEY'D FIND.

DON'T BE A DICK.

Me: *goes to veggie/vegan cafe
Me: carefully avoids ordering anything with gochujang or miso paste because it's always cross contaminated to hell with shellfish
My mouth: *starts swelling up anyway*
The feta: *turns out to not actually be feta but some sort of vegan substitute containing miso paste*

I'm fine, but vegans please for the love of god clearly mark when you're using a substitute because loads of your ingredients contain small amounts of shellfish!!!!

Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?

And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?

And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?

It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

#NTF

The Verge reports today that "Windows engineers are scrambling to get additional changes tested and ready for the release of Copilot+ PCs next week."

It also says "Recall was developed in secret at Microsoft, and it wasn’t even tested publicly with Windows Insiders."

I've also been told Microsoft security and privacy staff weren't provided Recall, as the feature wasn't made available broadly internally either.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24177703/microsoft-xbox-game-showcase-windows-recall

What's this? a gift from the Fairy Queen?~🧚‍♀️

YOLK -the fantasy font I designed for Yolk Heroes- is now free to use for everyone!

https://somepx.itch.io/free-font-yolk

Special thanks to @pixelcowboy, who kindly offered to share this font with the community for free!

If you got Yolk Heroes on Steam, please don't forget to leave a review!!! (and if you didn't, please buy a copy. you'll have fun, I promise!)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2417850/Yolk_Heroes_A_Long_Tamago/

#free #font #gamedev #pixelart #idlegame

https://www.wildlifeaid.org.uk/simon-cowell-tribute

If you have a moment and a little bit to spare, please donate to this wonderful charity. Simon will be familiar to many people for the Channel 5 / Discovery series "Wildlife SOS", following the wildlife rehabilitation and rescue centre he set up. He lost his battle with cancer last night.

just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and a tech bro is twitching so hard he can't even plug this into the mediocrity machine so it can tell him how to respond

State of the art anti-cheat techniques: Roblox detects if you have the string "x86dbg" in a window title (or window?), so kids are changing their display names and discord server names to x86dbg to get people kicked from Roblox.

If you do a search for this, links to big discussions on Roblox forums return "Sorry that page is private", so I guess that's their solution to the problem?

@suricrasia do the zoomers know the whole show is basically like this

I am allowed to change my mind monthly, claims man who insists the country can’t change its mind from eight years ago https://newsthump.com/2024/06/04/i-am-allowed-to-change-my-mind-monthly-claims-man-who-insists-the-country-cant-change-its-mind-from-eight-years-ago/

Adding helicopters near the start of game dev:
"A Helicopter is a Vehicle."

Adding helicopters late in game dev:
"When you think about it, a Helicopter is really just a very advanced type of Door."

Many, many years ago, a new specification called "XML" emerged. After a bit, people realized it was kinda useful for some stuff.

Then, something happened.

MANAGERS!

I imagine many conversations between managers / developers somewhat like this:

M: "So, what is the nice thing with #XML

D: "oh, it is a specification that simplifies stuff, since tools have a clean format to work with."

M: "So, what kinda specifications?"

D: "Oh, it can be more or less anything."

M: *starry eyed!* "an.. an... anything?"

I was teaching computer courses for companies at that point. Suddenly, my calendar was just packed with XML courses.

It is like very limited what you can teach, it is not really complex, so you talk surrounding technologies. But not...

"Our boss wants us to replace the SQL db with XML?"

"what?"

"We gonna use XML instead of MS SQL"

"... what?"

"He said XML can be used for anything..."

If you think companies with #AI plans have actual plans, with a strategy make sense, please think of this story.