Mastodawn

Die Hemmung der Zeit
Wir hetzen von Termin zu Termin und beklagen, keine Zeit zu haben. Aber was genau ist dieses Ding, dem wir hinterherlaufen? Und seit wann? Es war ein kleines Metallteil in der Uhr, das unser Verhältnis zur Zeit für immer verändert hat. Davor war sie „hemmungslos“.
https://explikator.de/die-hemmung-der-zeit/

RA_L ✔️16h ago

leyrer 17h ago

a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.

Sam Bent

RA_L ✔️2d ago

Alec Muffett 6d ago

Let Me Explain How a State Actor Could Perform a Denial-of-Service Attack on the Entire UK Government in the Wake of Ofcom “Online Safety Act” Client-Side Scanning
https://alecmuffett.com/article/150401
#ClientSideScanning #NationalSecurity #OnlineSafetyAct #PhotoDna #censorship #surveillance

Let Me Explain How a State Actor Could Perform a Denial-of-Service Attack on the Entire UK Government in the Wake of Ofcom “Online Safety Act” Client-Side Scanning

1/ obtain a hash of abuse material that’s both known & banned; if pervasive as claimed this shouldn’t be hard 2/ use algorithms from this paper to create a cat meme with the same ha…

Dropsafe

RA_L ✔️5d ago

leyrer 5d ago

Reddit stabil 🥰
That progressed as you would expect it 😁

"Hi, I'm Blake Morrison, a journalist on the team who uncovered Banksy's identity, AMA"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Banksy/comments/1rw6c4g/hi_im_blake_morrison_a_journalist_on_the_team_who/

RA_L ✔️Mar 19

Merry Christmas Mar 19

RA_L ✔️Mar 13

hackaday Mar 13

Replicating a Nuclear Event Detector For Fun and Probably Not Profit

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/replicating-a-nuclear-event-detector-for-fun-and-probably-not-profit/

Replicating A Nuclear Event Detector For Fun And Probably Not Profit

Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce to ev…

Hackaday

RA_L ✔️Mar 13

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Mar 11

A bit spammy, maybe, but not intended to be:

In Germany, a company that makes brooms and other cleaning utensils called Andreas Bürsten @buersten is very active on the #Fediverse. During the many discussions here, they listened to the wishes of our weird and wonderful community. May I present: The "Regenbogen". Clean your house and patio in style. With a statement of inclusion :) (They only ship to Germany and no, I am not getting paid. I just *love* their approach)

https://buersten.de/Saalbesen-400-mm-Regenbogen-PET-Farbmix-Universalstielhalter-mit-Ueberwurfmutter-O-24-mm

RA_L ✔️Mar 9

LukHash Mar 8

New chiptune banger just dropped 👾
Megaman × Sonic × Giana Sisters = MEGAWAVE🔥 Did you check it out yet??

RA_L ✔️Feb 22

thelocalstack Feb 22

The CEO of Persona, the company that processes your passport, selfie, and facial geometry so you can get a verified badge on LinkedIn, doesn't have a profile picture on LinkedIn.

I'll let you sit with that.

RA_L ✔️Jan 31

Linux in a Bit Jan 29

What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it.

#Linux