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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 14h

Agree except for the Vance couch fucking thing, that one slaps

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com · 1d

that beowulf book is pretty good i tell you hwæt

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Delete CLAUDE.md?

a cartoon skeletor is wearing a purple hood and a blue shirt .

ALT: a cartoon skeletor is wearing a purple hood and a blue shirt .

media.tenor.com

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss 'has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain, which makes her the ideal partner for someone like David Ellison'.

ooft

defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

This is a breaking news story.

Nobel Prize for Physics awarded for quantum mechanic tunnelling

This is a breaking news story.

bit.ly

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Gabriel @gm0stache.tigerente.dev · 2d

feel free to join this petition against #chatcontrol here:

weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 2d

finally, some Good Code

crates.io/crates/fibon...

Screenshot of the fibonacci-numbers README, which reads:

First install the version of this crate corresponding to the Fibonacci number you want to use:

cargo add fibonacci-numbers@186 --rename fib186

Then you can use the VALUE constant to get its value:

assert_eq!(fib186::VALUE, 332825110087067562321196029789634457848);

Screenshot of the dependency list, which is fibonacci-numbers at versions 184 and 185.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

Original post on federate.social

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 2d

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

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Cryspen @cryspen.com · 3d

We're excited to see the release of Signal's new post-quantum ratcheting protocol, SPQR!
We are proud to have collaborated with the Signal team on the formal analysis of the design and implementation of this.

Learn more on our blog buff.ly/Zi3rCBs and in Signal's announcement buff.ly/Srroli9

Helping Secure Signal's Post-Quantum Transition

Cryspen worked with Signal to formally analyze their new post-quantum ratchet

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

OpenSSH 10.1 has just been released. This release includes several new features, a minor security fix and many other bugfixes.

Full release notes here: www.openssh.com/releasenotes...

OpenSSH: Release Notes

OpenSSH release notes

www.openssh.com

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

This is pretty damn cool

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPyQ...

Making a Deformable Mirror

YouTube video by Huygens Optics

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

you're a modern day prometheus

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 3d

Baffled by the idea that it's not fascism until it's won. Seems a deeply unhelpful way to approach talking about the totalitarian consolidation of power. "It's not fascism until it's too late to stop it" is markedly less useful than, say, Eco's approach of defining fascism as an aesthetic.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 4d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 4d

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 4d

And I'm old enough to remember when tech companies pushed back against such requests

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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 5d

Hey Europe, can you put off your authoritarianism crisis until we're finished in the U.S.? Thanks!

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6d

Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria

Exclusive: The six Australians received no government assistance in their 500km journey from the violent Al-Hol detention camp to Lebanon * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Two Australian women and four children have escaped a Syrian detention camp and made their own way home to Victoria, as pressure mounts on the Australian government to repatriate its citizens. The two women and four children – the Guardian is not revealing their names or ages – escaped from the notorious Al-Hol detention camp in north-east Syria, travelling more than 500km to cross the Lebanese border, where they were able to obtain Australian documents in Beirut. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 7d

Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Boris Vallejo, 1992; R, Tom Kidd, 1984
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for A Fire Upon the Deep. A spaceship that looks like a manta ray amongst other spaceships

Cover for The Peace War. Tanks approach a massive bubble in a bucolic countryside. There's a city as well and a horse-drawn cart.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 6d

the mods of this place will strangle it to death trying to avoid it having the reputation it already has and unavoidably will always have

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 6d

I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 7d

Yep and prior attempts at promoting 2fa have met with resistance from (some) OSS maintainers

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 7d

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money.

- @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

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