@plaes

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I break stuff. And file bug reports. Occasional retrocomputing.
Member of K-Space.ee hackerspace.
Websitehttps://plaes.org
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Githubhttps://github.com/plaes
Imagine you live in a country with an authoritarian government and you are a dissident using @torproject. Congrats, the government now has the ability to find you by forcing Google to comply with a legal order for information about all people that have Tor on their phones.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116780494584602899

Guys! I felt for it... but this is fake!
#Bezos didn't make this statement. In fact the source also changed the content of the article numerous times!

You can still access it here: https://archive.ph/2kLSW

I checked the transcript of his panel here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho_ZmwgvDdM and he never made this statement.

Please boost this and help to fight #fakenews - Sorry that I also turned into a distributor of this!

@nixCraft please edit your post. Thx

Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency. A story that I often tell. It is now old enough to not upset my former colleagues. https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-kpi-goodhart
Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency

How an obsession with KPIs at Orange led people to game them, slowing service delivery to a crawl. A cautionary tale about Goodhart's law.

I approve this A.I. photo.
This is the first time I'm posting anything here but I figured this may be the right audience.

I've never run into something like this and I don't quite know what to make of it. I'm the author and maintainer of libgpiod. The official git repository is the one at kernel.org[1]. There's also a github mirror[2] as well as a documentation page[3] at readthedocs that I maintain.

I noticed (purely by chance) that there's a new website at libgpiod.com that's been created recently. I have nothing to do with it. It's clearly AI-generated but it redirects to my github. It's a 2 month old domain, anonymized registrar, protected by Cloudflare and NeoProtect and a Swedish host behind that.

Clearly someone went to great lengths to stay anonymous. I'm afraid of falling victim to some new elaborate supply chain attack. What should I do about it (if anything)? Has anyone else experienced something similar?

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/
[2] https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod
[3] https://libgpiod.readthedocs.io/
Libgpiod - Modern C Library for Linux GPIO Hardware Control

Libgpiod is a modern C library for Linux GPIO control, enabling efficient hardware access for embedded and system developers. #Libgpiod

Libgpiod

I found this doohickey which not only fixes the animations in 32-bit SimCity 2000, but it also lets me write mods if I want: https://github.com/sc2kfix/sc2kfix

I always thought SimCity 2000 should have a modding API.

GitHub - sc2kfix/sc2kfix: Bugfix and modding plugin for SimCity 2000 Special Edition (1996)

Bugfix and modding plugin for SimCity 2000 Special Edition (1996) - sc2kfix/sc2kfix

GitHub

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Little buddies. Left one needs some healing though as I suspect that floppy gear has dissolved. No signs of life from CRT either. And then I need a keyboard/mouse as well.

#retrocomputing #macintosh

BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS: Reuters | SpaceX blocked from early US benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules

THIS IS A HUGE VICTORY FOR INVESTORS AND YOUR RETIREMENT

"S&P Global said on Thursday it ​was not changing the requirements for entry into its major indices, dealing a setback to Elon Musk's SpaceX by ‌effectively ruling out a swift entry for the world's biggest-ever IPO into the benchmark S&P 500 index."

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/sp-global-keeps-fast-entry-proposal-unchanged-spacex-listing-looms-2026-06-04/

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#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO