Oh wut what!?

The FTC announced a rule banning noncompetes in the US.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

Also discussed: Trying teach kids Python when you don't know Python, but it's okay because knowing how for loops work gets you 90% of the way there. (Ep.59)

Fucking called it. This is not a thing anyone wants or needs.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138487/apple-vision-pro-cut-shipment-forecast-kuo-rumor

Specifically, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court found a right to privacy and thereby affirmed the right of a married couple to access birth control. It was an important ruling that laid groundwork for Roe v. Wade.

Some conservatives dispute a right to privacy. They don’t see it in the literal text and they aren’t recognizing unenumerated rights (the ninth amendment). Overturning Griswold would be a fast way of jeopardizing access to contraception, but also other freedoms that hinge on a right to privacy.

From: @GottaLaff
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112287505429629696

@ingalls At first glance, I thought these were a single photo and that you were biking with a very small person wearing an identical suit and glasses.

Marcus the leader of Jacobstown

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Marcus

#FalloutTV

Well, I finished the first season of #FalloutTV and Reddit nerds complaining that it retconned New Vegas away and wondering “but what happened to Shady Sands????” didn’t watch the same show I did, I guess?

Anyway, no complaints yet, we’ll see what happens in the next season, which looks to take place IN New Vegas

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know who needs to hear this, but I'm not sure they follow me on here.

You can't wrap a Linux shell safely.

I know you're going to try. I know that it's super easy to just like pass arbitrary text through your cute little CLI tool or web interface or whatevs.

But the perl CGI folks couldn't do it, the web servers couldn't do it, the network device folks couldn't do it, nobody can do it.

It's not a good pattern. Please. Stop.

(This message brought to you by the PSIRT Council and our generous donors: $ () {} && || ` ; > < ../ and so many others that I can't remember them all even though I've been watching you fail to do this well for over 2 decades)

I platinumed #DragonsDogma2 last night and instead of feeling happy or accomplished I just feel relieved to be done with it

I swear I was having a lot of fun with it until the other day I ran into an annoying bug that meant because I was *too good* at killing the dragon in Melve I was locked out of the Mystic Spearhead maister skill unless I started a NG++ and I was just *done*.

I've only had a chance to watch the first two episodes so far, but the #FalloutTV series has started off really good!

But Todd's daddy issues are present, surprising no one.

This was avoidable.

Trump's campaign knows:

A vote for Robert Kennedy is a vote for Trump.
A vote for Cornel West is a vote for Trump.
A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump.
Not voting is a vote for Trump.

A vote for Biden is a vote for democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/politics/trump-rfk-jr-biden.html

Talk about an apt nickname. https://www.comicsands.com/buck-greene-moscow-marjorie-nickname-2667732495.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

My #DragonsDogma2 party is familiar

In #DragonsDogma2 when I'm just wandering around minding my own business and a random pawn initiates a conversation with me my totally normal and not-at-all-unhinged reaction is to murder them right into a poof of rift smoke. Anyone else?

someone shared this in one of my discords and now you all have to see it, too
#baldursgate3 #astarion #loss

Instead of "golden parachutes" we should give CEOs "golden pair of shoes." Really big, thick, golden shoes, which they can wear when we toss them in the ocean.

🤯 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

Most lives could be much shorter, too, if we insisted on measuring their worth against brutal, joyless utilitarian metrics.

The abusive behavior that was being used to manipulate Lasse Collin into bringing on more maintainers for #xz went unnoticed because abusive behavior in Open Source communities is so pervasive. In context, we can clearly see it was part of an orchestrated operation. Out of context, it looks like just another asshole complaining about stuff they have no right to complain about. https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

So, kids, what's the moral of the XZ story?

If you're going to backdoor something, make sure that your changes don't impact its performance. Nobody cares about security - but if your backdoor makes the thing half a second slower, some nerd is going to dig it up.

If you use Homebrew on MacOS, you're affected—do 'brew update' and 'brew upgrade’.
https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/112179988525798247

Just your casual reminder: if you are staying on Xitter, then I don’t care that you aren’t a Nazi yourself. I don’t care whether you are “fighting Nazis” there. I don’t care that switching social networks is hard, or that there are no good alternatives. I don’t care that you only use it to communicate behind a lock with a selected few people.

Whatever your reasons, your mere presence there provides relevance and credibility to a platform which is being run by a Nazi sympathizer and used to amplify Nazi ideas. Your mere presence there helps secure revenue for this crap. I don’t see how anything you say can possibly outweigh this kind of damage.

This is merely the most recent example in a very long row:

“X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk.”

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011854

I have just discovered that those odd waste/recycling bins that are all over the oldest bits of Bergen, Norway, link to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit and then WHOOSH... it's off to the recycling centre. All underground. No bin lorries (garbage trucks), fewer road vehicles, less noise... amazing. @davidho says that my (considerable) excitement about this is entirely unreasonable. I disagree.
https://www.envacgroup.com/how-it-works/the-envac-system/

#climate #waste #Norway

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

If you gather people together, online or off, managing those people is your job. It is, first and foremost, a human job because humans are very weird. Technology can help, sure, but anyone who sees it as primarily a tech problem is destined for failure.

Imagine if we addressed climate change as quickly as corporations jammed AI into every possible crevice

@cy Final Fantasy VII Remake had it! Rebirth is the middle of the remake trilogy, apparently.

I finished Final Fantasy Rebirth and I can’t remember ever feeling so ambivalent about a game before.

On the one hand, it’s masterfully done and looks exactly like a modern FFVII should look, and the story updates are for the most part enhancements to the original, or intriguing.

On the other hand, there is SO MUCH of it. By the end I was ready to be done and everything began to feel like a chore. The end fight sequence (from the last rest area) alone took like two hours.

When someone says "bloodbath," I don't care about the fucking context.

#BloodbathTrump #NeverAgainTrump #VoteBlueToSaveEveryone #NoRepublicansEverAgain

✨ new tech bingo ✨

You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox

"What if an AI got hyper-focused on making paperclips and destroyed us all?" asked the insufferable nerd, as corporations whose only directive is "make stock price go up" utterly destroyed the conditions favourable for human life

💡 UX Tips: Improving Alert Copy

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Note that this warning post was dated Feb. 2020

The fire #cat

You know how they tell you to use a little elbow grease when cleaning?

They don't warn you that this will absolutely injure your decrepit elderly body given enough elbow grease and enough life experience.

Having an injured shoulder from scrubbing a frying pan is somehow even more annoying than waking up with a stiff/pulled muscle (which I have also done).

For anyone who still thinks we shouldn’t prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators because their insurrection failed, consider this: there is no such thing as prosecuting a successful insurrection.

Trump will kill YOU and let Netanyahu kill THEM.