@deborahh @dgar My Mom's mince pie (and tarts, yum) contained suet. Having said that, “mincemeat” is misleading. For my wife, a Kiwi who spent years in Australia, “mincemeat” means ground beef.

Good luck, America.

@ndw Huh, I've seen the first half lots of times (but not in the last year or so) - completely convincing-looking email from Paypal about some sketchy-smelling transaction or other. I log into PayPal to check out, nothing has happened. Never got a follow-up though. No matter how closely I looked at the original email, I couldn't see how it wasn't real… I concluded that someone had to be gaming PayPal.

Don't fully agree with everything here, and it could use some editing, but a useful introductory text that addresses some of the important issues:

https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/113426448740956241

@mhoye I lack first-hand expertise. But real experts who seem to me smart and honest are pretty confident.

@SpaceLifeForm Um read the blog piece.

I recommend this for anyone who's interested in modern cryptography, not frightened of a little math, but not actually a professional: https://www.amazon.science/blog/better-performing-25519-elliptic-curve-cryptography

There are a lot of reasons to like the “25519” key technology, and while this talks about interesting work at AWS to make it safer and faster, it also has maybe the best basic intro to elliptic-curve math that I’ve read anywhere.

@shoq Weird. We have a Roku and a Chromecast and an LG WebOS TV, and find the Roku the least painful of the bunch.

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

In which I lose my temper at the relentless onslaught of LLMM (Large Language Mobile Marketing), and explain why it is increasingly making me sad: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/10/28/Peak-Bubble

Me, greeting trick-or-treaters. I treasured a few murmurs of “Is that a real person?” The little kids got round-eyed and were hesitant, until I waved and reached for the candy.

#halloween #Photography #selfie

@brennen @luis_in_brief @brooke It's just not “somebody”, check out the list of boosters: https://contentauthenticity.org

@Alon @sfsworms @ww3real And what do you know, it is idiomatic, I'm wrong, oops. I think of myself as fairly well-read on history, interesting that I managed to miss that one.

@VonGuard He kind of did until he screwed up his shoulder.

@ww3real BTW the way you use “in detail” is not quite idiomatic. Try something like “comprehensively” or “conclusively”?

Well, that was messy, flawed baseball. Max credit to: Dave Roberts. Bullpen can’t be built & managed any better than that. Wish Vin were still here to see it. See you in the spring.

#WorldSeries

@ww3real Still think they ought to sprint for Chinese territory…

I wouldn't want to pitch to Freddie either.

#WorldSeries

@jyasskin Hmm, Lightroom works by recording a set of edits against the original bits, which remain untouched. If I were implementing this I’d call back from Lr to SomeApi.adobe.com with the list of edits, to get the signature. The risk, of course, is attacker software that impersonates Lr. That would be possible in principle, but difficult enough that the $5 wrench technique would probably be a better choice?

@eeeps @scouten Hmm. I really find the C2PA community conversation hard to follow, they have a lot of super specialized language. Someone needs to write a human-readable discussion of what's going on.