Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”"

if you see the esp32 ‘backdoor’ news and are wondering why everyone is falling for such a nothingburger, the answer is that most people on here will believe literally any baseless made up “china bad!” bullshit. some of y’all are so committed to your sinophobia that it makes u stupid.

Fijn opgeschreven waar we nu staan. Het is niet best: https://decorrespondent.nl/15937/europa-is-veel-te-afhankelijk-van-amerikaanse-tech-waar-blijft-het-nederlandse-crisisteam-dat-onze-eigen-cloud-optuigt/12193601-6940-02be-1767-d9101a44919b?pk_campaign=daily&mc_cid=3701f9b431&mc_eid=b43d1cc8ca

What fast fashion leads to

The spanish paper and online portal EL PAÍS just published a revealing investigation. They endowed used but still good clothes with hidden geolocation tags and deposited the clothes in 15 used clothes bins across Spain. Then they tracked the journeys of the different pieces. It's a long and abysmal story.

https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-03-01/where-do-the-clothes-go-after-we-put-them-in-a-recycling-bin-an-11-month-investigation-covering-thousands-of-kilometers.html

#FastFashion #environment #climate #commodities

I have come to believe that effective software development is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism

Linguistics

so can we talk about how fucking racist fedi is whenever china or chinese people come up?

From last year https://philosophynow.org/issues/163/The_Domesticated_Foxes_of_Bastoy

"Then punitive elements would only be used for the most abhorrent conduct where people are deliberately misleading or trying to undermine the purpose of the Act," Mr Morrison said."

Or, how about the government pays you money as compensation for consequential damages for the delay? If it's more than 30 days overdue, there is a daily fee that accumulates.

"In the 2014/15 financial year, 95 per cent of FOI decisions were made on time. By 2022/23 it had fallen to just over 20 per cent."

The purpose of a system is what it does.

to root your device you need the boot.img, the contents of the boot partition on your phone. to get that, you need to buy hardware from somewhere, download a cracked version of a tool with a virus, or find a possibly-incorrect firmware from a mega link on a dusty thread

Become ungovernable

android hacking is an alternate universe where the internet archive doesn't exist and the only two sites you can upload files on are mega and google drive (deleted)

When I see a bird outside my back door just waiting around, if I have its favorite food I open the door and throw some outside.

I wish some omniscient being would just randomly make pizza or burritos appear in my life, free food given from an unknown entity beyond comprehension.

the absolute state of infosec vulnerability marketing these days

on further analysis by folks who actually understand the tech it turns out the claimed backdoor isn't a backdoor at all, it isn't even really a security issue, and has been framed in a way that is both disingenuously overhyped and also pretty racist

bravo, folks, really advancing the field