"that wasnt a nazi salute he didnt mean to"okay, dipshit"you should put an RF shield around your router"okay dipshit"5g causes cancer and its a mind control thing"okay dipshit"i dont wear seatbelts or get vaccines or whatever dumb thing it is this time"okay dipshityou see that? you save all of your energy and you firmly establish who is a dipshit in the situation. give it a try some time!

I’ve been strongly considering said “gzip shenanigans” on my sites, to deal with hackers scanning for vulnerabilities. Anyone have suggestions on how to get started?@whvholst @aaron

Imagine being a mechanic for Mercedes and receiving an email from a customer who complains about leaky doors and strange engine noises – and only after four or five tedious mails back and forth you figure out the car was bought from modder who added gullwing doors, shortened the wheelbase, and added twin turbochargers.I guess that's how #Linux developers feel when they find out the bug someone reported only happens with a heavily modified #kernel like those shipped in RHEL, SLES, or Ubuntu.

@mpotter Do notice that I live in Europe and not the US, so our definitions of coops and non-profits are not the same and we don't have to deal with Trump directly

@trendless has some real “$10,000 halliburton military thinkpad” energy to it

People can't just leave Facebook, Instagram or Threads or whatever shithole in one day. I know cos I did that move. I had to sacrifice the community I met, online friends I created from Facebook comment sections (of all places), groups and marketplace. Weird shit, I know. One thing that saved me from losing all connections was my position and privilege. They needed something from me either for work or otherwise. And I used that position to make them install Signal."You need to talk to me for something? Here install this app. I wont reply otherwise"I gave an ultimatum. Now, not everyone can do tht because of the different positions we have in this godforsaken world where your worth is tied to whay you can 'offer'. 🫠Yes, I still did lose connections. I can't talk to my aunt who won't install Signal. She even stopped using SMS. Her world is messenger.I can't talk to my bestfriend in highschool for the same reasons.They were bullets I had to bite.Not everyone has that privilege. Not everyone can do that. And while I have spewing this same rhetoric that we should leave Meta, there's no current working pipeline on how to do it without losing people.

Tired: Being mad at Meta's rightward pivotWired: Understanding they'll pivot back the moment the wind changesInspired: Never trusting corporate 'values' in the first place Gift link: https://medium.com/westenberg/meta-is-a-moral-vaccuum-this-shouldnt-be-a-surprise-77ab98fcb433?sk=d395a648ac12dc400858e625c458cb3d

@arichtman @jacqueline @Brett_E_Carlock Just one example: DNS.DNS is a super lightweight UDP-based application protocol - one packet with a query, one packet with an answer, in 90+% of use cases. Boom you're done.Now the DNS-over-https (DoH) abomination changes that to a very expensive TCP connection with TCP handshake, connection management, SSL handshake, the actual query/answer, and then tear everything back down.1/3

IRS goes after gig workers instead of billionaire tax dodgers https://boingboing.net/2024/12/27/irs-goes-after-gig-workers-instead-of-billionaire-tax-dodgers.html

A big principle I go by is to entirely refuse to participate in attacking a target, even if they may have done something wrong, if the attacks are coming from a bad-faith source.A flip side to that is that, even in an individual or organization has clear problems, it can be worthwhile standing up for them, funding them, supporting their defense when they're attacked by a bad-faith party.

@StevenSavage What the fuck is wrong with Elmo? He's become a cartoon villain.There are people who recognize their obligation to support open public services, and people who free ride on the donations and work of others... And then there's whatever this douchebag is doing here.Time to increase my monthly donation to Wikipedia.#Wikipedia

OpenOffice has multiple unfixed security issues, over a year old, as this image from the Board report says. And no new committers since 2022, and no major release since 2014. Maybe the FOSS community can ask the Apache Software Foundation to finally put it in the Attic, and stop leaving users vulnerable: https://www.apache.org/foundation/contact