Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

🌠 Never underestimate the power of a job half done. Really, doing *some* dishes makes doing the rest of the dishes later that much easier. You don't need to completely finish the thing, just do the next step and come back to it when you can.

How many characters must one type on a keyboard to make a heart?

Less than three.

@nyquildotorg @joepie91 You can read this post from one of the authors, I've linked it below, but TL;DR; it's a debug MMIO register region seemingly belonging to the GPU, and the "secret hash" is 0xC5ACCE55 - it's part of official ARM documentation.

https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/

I find it a stretch to call it a "hardware backdoor", a big fuckup, sure, but it doesn't seem deliberate.

A mobile pop up library/hammock stand? Yes please!
#spoonieTown
https://mastodon.social/@JasonThorne/113974645569309178

https://sfba.social/@DeliaChristina/113986216502468905

Everyone is talking about Apple trying to resist the UK's demand to put backdoors in their software, but hardly anyone is talking about the backdoor they actually put in their hardware.

"Kaspersky’s researchers affirmatively and without question found a deliberately concealed, never documented, deliberately locked but unlockable with a secret hash, hardware backdoor which was designed into all Apple devices starting with the A12, A13, A14, A15 and A16"

just noting down for the NRW BDSM bubble that DifferentEvents/Sadasia Dortmund defines "woman" as "no penis" in their events.

Dit is gaaf, 55 minuten lang meekijken met diverse technische werkzaamheden in VIRM in de NS-werkplaats Haarlem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR856IlA_2w

Real talk: Google, Meta, X and Amazon have been stifling innovation in the tech space, for decades at this point, by eliminating competition via buying or burying them. They're at the top of the pile not because they're the best companies, but because they're the most ruthless.

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a #language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on.

The same pattern is universally found across human languages bit also occurs in #whale song.

This complex signaling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each individual from others.

#biology
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html

I wrote up some notes about #DBus, how it works (to my knowledge), and how to use it - that hopefully are more understandable than most articles on the topic: https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/working-with-dbus

Vraag aan de sociaal-democraten: Stel je eens voor dat we daadwerkelijk de kans zouden hebben om het kapitalisme te ontmantelen en een ander systeem te bouwen, gebaseerd op mensenrechten, gelijkwaardigheid, solidariteit, gemeenschappelijk beheer van productiemiddelen en duurzaamheid, zouden jullie dan meedoen?

Question for people who use Firefox on Android.
It's really annoying me that, whenever I return to the app from elsewhere, eg a other app or lock screen, it reloads the current page from scratch rather than just resuming where it left off. Seems really unnecessary, especially if it's some text I was half way through reading.
I'd like to be able, for example, to open Firefox when I'm on the tube (with no signal) and continue reading an article.
I can't find anything in settings to make this happen - am I missing something?
Or perhaps there's another browser which will do this?

> How the ‘amyloid mafia’ took over Alzheimer’s research

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/amyloid-hypothesis-alzheimers-research-lecanemab-aduhelm/