Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

People coming over from Twitter are henceforth referred to as X-Forwarded-For

okay here's a rundown of the fediverse

🖤 there's no ads, everything is mostly run by volunteers because they believe in it

🖤 timelines are chronological, there's no algorithm deciding what you see. to see more, follow peeps and hashtags (and post in em, too!)

🖤 this place is SOCIAL social media, as opposed to the corporate social media you're probably used to. most are here to interact, not build clout

welcome to fedi!!! happy to have ya 😁

#TwitterExodus #TwitterMigration #Twitter #FediTips

The researchers from the company Midnight Blue got funding from NLnet, which in turn gets funding from the EU Horizon program. The Dutch emergency network C2000 uses the TEA2 cipher, which is classified under Dutch law. I don't know the classification level, but you go to prison for a few months. I find it quite funny that the European Commission funded reverse engineering an algorithm the Dutch government classified as secret.

Source from 2012: https://www.security.nl/posting/34870

That source article does not say it is classified, but the fact that you go to prison for having it in the first place implies that it is classified information, as far as I understand

When viewed as a single entity, the government could have saved a whole bunch of research money by simply publishing the specifications, but that would have been too embarrassing and legally hard to do I guess.

People out sick at work with “the flu” or “that cold that’s going around”. Kids out sick from summer camps we run. Teachers out sick from summer camps. It’s JULY. There’s no cold going around, it’s not flu season. All you motherfuckers have COVID, but nobody wants to say the C word out loud. Enjoy your exciting new long-term health conditions.

USB has a plug-n-play implementation that makes a ton of sense if you're a chip vendor - you can register a VID and PID and have kernels automatically load the right drivers for your product.

But when individuals build things that return data via serial, there's no plug-n-play mechanism beyond just loading the serial driver. Is there a standard of some kind of detecting what *kind* of serial device has been plugged in? Like a userspace daemon that reads some kind of preamble from the serial device and can then load a program to handle it?

[ #electronics #embedded #software #lowlevel #usb #serial #arduino ]

Corporations love to tell you about how you can "save the planet" or whatever by buying things made from recycled materials, using less water, buying an efficient car, using paper straws, or <insert trending thing>

Those things might help, but the problem isn't the choices we make, it's the options we're allowed to choose from. Your options aren't optimized for eco-friendliness, they are optimized for profit.

That's why the planet is burning. It's not because you didn't recycle the pizza box.

From the other site by RechnicallyRon

"I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler."

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You’ve heard of programmer socks, but have you seen my CAD socks?

#engineering #thighHighs #socks

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/723631711152406528
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Today in #SurveillanceCapitalism I went to acquire snacks and there were two of these #DOOH #DigitalSignage screens at the entrance. That circle at the top is a camera, I think.

The *really weird* thing is that it served me an ad for a Google Pixel as I approached it. It *was* serving a Bendigo Bank ad. There are no signs anywhere stating if this is using facial rec or beacons or other #AdTech. I am curious if it's doing age / gender classification from the camera.

Would love to see what my #FlipperZero can make of this.

Much was written about the Web Integrity API proposal (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md) already. It's a thinly veiled attempt at forcing all devices to become commodities, where adblocking and any user modifications that go against what Google prefers would be banned.

The social aspect is really interesting here though. The proposal was presented as if emanating from four individual engineers who just happen to work at Google. Published to their private github. It's only when issues are raised where additional Googlers descend, reminding everyone that concerns need to be raised civilly and in a way Google accepts, otherwise any dissenting voices would be banned. This clearly shows some of the issues with encroaching privatization of public space where soon enough only those savvy, interested or educated enough will have the privilege of using a parallel unfiltered internet.

And all of that is done not in the name of progress, social cohesion or any ideals, but to just sell some more mediocre ads.

Interessant! Sinds 1 mei mogen Duitsers voor 49€ in heel D een maand lang met alle regionale treinen reizen. Doel was de overstap van mensen van de straat naar het spoor. Onderzoek wijst nu uit: dit werkt. Al in juni steeg het aantal treinreizen met 25%. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/deutschlandticket-verkehrsverlagerung-100.html

This comic I drew like two years ago is still relevant.

https://locrian.zone/comic/8