Given... recent events... I'll probably post mainly on Mastodon from now on.
One upside of what's happening to Twitter is that Mastodon is getting a lot more popular!
ALT The "fortune teller" meme, but about Mastodon:
I see a Mastodon instance...
I see you... alone...
And a lot of new users...
Jesus that's a lot of new users...
[While opening a misconfigured S3 bucket]
"This... is a bucket."
"Dear God..."
"There's more."
"No..."
"It contains the private keys of every man here."
#kawaiiconyoutube.com/watch?v=JmSqorj-…
oh no, individual websites can go down because of too much traffic.
obviously, the solution is to centralise the entire internet through one company!
surely it will be reliable and not cause the kind of predictable problems that the decentralised internet was designed to avoid
If you're sharing a tweet link, please remove the tracking parameters (?s=...&t=...). Same goes for any link, but after Twitter recently introduced the 't' parameter, polluted links are everywhere...
ALT Modified opening paragraph of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"In March 2022, Bandcamp was sold. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
The "Russian MoD leak" is fake.
The contents:
- old passwd template from FreeBSD
- VLC source code
- public keys for VLC
- package metadata for VLC
- "gov.ru & mil logins.txt"
The .txt, AFAICT, is probably from past breaches of other sites.
I had to buy a new crimping tool because the cheap one I had practically didn't work, even for just cutting wires.
Buy good tools and you'll save money in the long run.
Even if you think it's a "one-off job", chances are you'll eventually use the tool again.
Fun fact: The term "Taxpayers' Onion" has been around since at least 1902.
This scan is from an Australian newspaper (Goulburn Herald). The next subheading is "The plague."
vice.com/en/article/m7v3qy/t…
Unbelievable: taxpayers are funding pro-furry propaganda.
This article is part of a @TheSpinoffTV series given $335,000 from the "Public Interest Journalism" fund.
thespinoff.co.nz/irl/11-01-2…