FrostyTSM

@FrostyTSM@defcon.social
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Photographer, father, nerd, activist, living the IT life

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@pluralistic OMG this bit here is NUTS!! 😱🤬

I'm going to share this story everywhere.

Hollywood teaches when female hackers get computer serious, the hair goes up. Sometimes it’s a ponytail; sometimes it’s a sloppy twist. But that’s how you know they now mean business.
You cannot build faster than a billionaire can take.
European police chiefs target #E2EE in latest demand for ā€˜lawful access’ - https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/e2ee-police-chiefs-lawful-access/ can't they just give over with their stupid calls? we want #privacy, not constant government snooping and backdoors
European police chiefs target E2EE in latest demand for 'lawful access' | TechCrunch

The director general of the UK's National Crime Agency has targeted Instagram-owner Meta over its planned expansion of end-to-end encryption to Instagram.

TechCrunch

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites.

Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all.

Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.

As brutal war rages and famine looms, look at pictures of Gaza and keep saying: ā€˜this is not normal’ | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian

This is not normal. This is horrific. Keep saying it; don’t let it become ā€œambientā€ background. #Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/25/war-famine-gaza-israel

As brutal war rages and famine looms, look at pictures of Gaza and keep saying: ā€˜this is not normal’

We cannot let the plight of a people facing existential suffering become background noise, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian
I hate it when people say "mo money mo problems", because of course when you are poor, your primary problem - the one that encompasses sort of everything - is that you don't have enough money
welp Mastodon has finally become a real place for #BreakingNews I learned of the Baltimore bridge collapse here first. Went to Xitter and bluesky and nothing there yet at all. #Baltimore #BridgeCollapse #News #Fediverse #Mastodon
Google never ā€œwonā€ the war against SEO & Bot Spam… it just barely stayed ahead, and only because search quality was a top priority for the company. That isn’t remotely true any more, and the avalanche of AI generated mediocrity has made that obvious… assuming you scrolled past all the ads to find that garbage results.

As a person who has actually ridden with harbor pilots before and wrote a whole book about shipping goods across oceans here’s a tiny bit of possibly clarifying detail about this horrible bridge tragedy:

If as reported there was a power failure on this container ship that could have been enough on its own to send it into the bridge.

Maneuvers for ships this large are incredibly tight when they are going in and out of harbors. We don’t think about it but harbor pilots perform miracles every day