Adam Beer (old account)

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(Note: I have since moved to @adambyte.)

Canadian | he/him

Went to college for software development.

Fan of: science, music, video games, libre software, urban planning.

I picked this instance because A) it runs the Glitch fork of Mastodon, B) its main discussion topic is a big interest of mine, and C) its transport security gets a double A+ on https://instances.social/list/advanced.

Avatar description: in a minimalist cartoony style, a young White man faces directly into the camera. He has orange/light-brown hair, and his eyes are obscured by glasses with round lenses and blue frames. His mouth is hidden behind the blue laptop that he is using, on whose back is a large decal reading, "</>". This image was designed by Freepik on flaticon.com (this attribution is required by the image's license).

@jerry I see that infosec.space still has those less-secure ciphers enabled. Did you forget?
CryptCheck

@183231bcb
Everyone else: Wow what a great post; thanks! 
Me: [exhaustedly screaming internally]    
@FirewallDragons Point of order: a phone automatically rebooting after being idle for a while isn't a new idea. @GrapheneOS has had the feature since June 2021, although it wasn't enabled by default on new OS installs until April 2023. In January 2024 the default time limit was changed from 72h to 18h.
@greenpete @LateNightLinux I think that's the one. I recently kicked it from the "hopefully someday" category in my mind, because of this. Now, that category consists solely of Servo; as soon as it supports the extensions I care about, and cross-device sync, I'm there. That's years away though.

@FirewallDragons @ConsumerReports

Even if the FTC does nothing, we're trying to produce recommendations that will help anybody who cares about creating a product that will last. And I think that's a lot of very responsible manufacturers.

To be blunt, I don't know how we're supposed to take Stacey remotely seriously if she's this absurdly naïve. Case in point, she never mentioned the elephant in the room: despite the modesty of her FTC wishlist, the only way she'll get any of it is with a Democrat in the White House.

Will they ever learn? 

Edit: a week later, I'm feeling a lot less confident about this. Eh, I'll leave it up, for posterity at the very least. 🤷

#AOC #bernieSanders #centrism #centrist #democrats #election2024 #leftism #leftist #memes #progressive #USElection #USPol

#Israel doesn’t believe in a two-state solution. It doesn’t believe in a one-state solution.

It is committing a #genocide in #Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

What do you think their final solution is to the Palestinian Question? Is this rocket science? Do they need to spell it out every day 24/7 for them to be believed?

And why is the Israeli ambassador to the UK not expelled yet?

@EdwardPhilips New rule: things that were invented before sliced bread are not allowed to be (unironically) described as the best thing since sliced bread.

#anacronism #idiom #newRule

“It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them."
-Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, mayor of Pontevedra, Spain