Mingye Wang @artoria2e5@mstdn.io

"Securus Technologies markets a product to law enforcement that taps into realtime cell-tower data from mobile carriers to produce fine-grained location tracking of anyone carrying a phone..."

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/12/extraordinary-access.html

#acab

Speaking of accessibility:

(ofc I forgot the captions)

Oof ouch owie, my DIMMs

https://niu.moe/media/ELUXUlQyzj4zmlTOBgo

"Surely I can bump librsvg's dependency on libxml2 to 2.9.0, which was released in 2012", I thought months ago.

Today I spent the entire day backporting shit to the version of librsvg that was used on $enterprise_distro that still uses libxml2 2.7.x.

Joke's on me, I guess.

One of my programs randomly started to error out at launch.

Turns out it tried this :
execve("/home/sn0w/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin/bash", ["bash", "readacted"], [/* 94 vars */])

WHY IS THERE A NPM PACKAGE THAT PROVIDES A BINARY CALLED BASH

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31901625-New-BGW-210-700-Firmware-1-5-11

AT&T is routers are now blocking 1.1.1.1 after a firmware update (which just so happens to be Cloudfare's DNS service)

Amazon and Google are pulling the plug on domain fronting, a crucial tool which helps our most vulnerable users get access to Tor when their countries don’t allow it.
https://blog.torproject.org/domain-fronting-critical-open-web
#censorship #domainfronting #humanrights #openweb https://twitter.com/torproject/status/992388549013012485/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/992388549013012485

William Gibson写神经漫游者的时候根本都没碰过电脑，九十年代第一次用了一次苹果电脑，知道了原来电脑要靠一个芯片运作的，他对此表示很失望，表示他本来以为电脑大壳子里装得是一个大光球...
我大彻大悟这样才能写出神经漫游者啊！！！

VLC actually stands for Very Large Cone.

I decided to download Scribus as a FLOSS alternative to InDesign or Publisher.

I opened it and was told I need to download GhostScript and it directed me to a site which redirected me to a GitHub releases page

Which had about ten different release versions with shorthand filenames making it very difficult to find the right version. The documentation for Scribus was outdated and gave no help

First one I tried told me to install using Command Line

didn't work

"environmentalism" that is against GMO are anti people, & anti environment, GMO will allow humans to produce much more nutrition with less water, & land, or we can continue with the current regime & cause more deforestation, use tons more water, & need more furtilisers .

Still messing around with your #RTL-SDR receivers? Now, here it comes the #FL2000 transmitter! Hackers from Osmocom community just made another breakthrough: Cheap USB-3 VGA adapters w/FL2K chips as #SDR transmitters!

Hackers since 2001 have attempted #RF via VGA, but suffered from V/HSYNC interference. Osmocom hackers managed to disable them, milestone. Exploiting harmonics, FM/DAB/DVB-T/GSM/UMTS/LTE, even GPS (11th harmonics!) is possible on this piece of rather limited hardware.

https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-fl2k/wiki/Wiki

a lesson learned: don't be TERFy to nonbinary folks

keep your fucking mouth shut. quit policing people's fucking gender choices and let them live their lives.

literally no one asked you for your take on someone's gender expression, and no one cares what you think.