Mingye Wang @[email protected]

I love how people from different fields invented their own word for "the process of starting a system with external intervention because it cannot support itself at this point".

In ordinary language it's called kickstart, in cars and vehicles it's called jumpstart, in computing it's called bootstrap.

And just learned a new one: blackstart - power plants themselves need power to run. But after a total blackout, there's no power to start, which requires some interventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start

Every day is a new day to discover a new fucking privacy-washing organization.

Today, let's meet the "Futur of Privacy Forum", funded by :
- Facebook
- Google
- Microsoft
- Amazon
- Adobe
- Palantir
- Uber
- Verizon
- 23andMe
- Criteo

https://fpf.org/about/supporters/

I don't know if I have to laugh, cry, or throw up!...

Thanks @aral for this discovery

Dear IT-humans: Please do yourselves a favour and create [email protected] as an email address on all of your domains which is actually routed and read by someone with knowledge about your IT!
That way you make it easy for people who accidentally stumble upon security issues with your infrastructure to actually report them to you.

The sheer fact of having and reading [email protected] (as mandated by RFC 2142) will help improving your IT security.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

does no one at tumblr actually know what people use tumblr for

flat-earthers: the earth is not a sphere! the government, the space agencies and globe manufacturers are lying to you!

cartographers, tired of inadequate projections: i _wish_ that were true...

First you turn "favourite" into "like", then you make "like" do stupid shit, then you have to remove the "like" because it does stupid shit

the great thing about mastodon is you get to follow/be followed by your favorite mutuals like 7 different times

cat comic 2.

It turns out "draw me a picture of whatever I ask for" is a really hard task for an algorithm. This one will try its best though: http://t2i.cvalenzuelab.com/

喜讯！欧洲议会以 278 票赞成、318 票反对驳回了新版权法案 👍👍👍 ！欧版 SOPA/PIPA 已被消灭。利益集团的阴谋在美国无法得逞，在欧洲也无法得逞！https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1014814460488413185

Webdesign (including fonts) got so bad that there's actually a "reader mode" in browsers now that makes sites look like they did 20 years ago

Speaking of accessibility:

(ofc I forgot the captions)