Mastodawn

"The police were at our door at 3:30 in the morning." What?

The federal criminal police in Germany were dispatched on Sunday to visit and call in the wee hours firms that use PLM solutions, PTC Windchill, and FlexPLM, to alert them of a critical security vulnerability.
https://www.heise.de/news/WTF-Polizei-rueckte-Samstagnacht-wegen-Zero-Day-aus-11221345.html

WTF: Polizei rückte Samstagnacht wegen Zero-Day aus

Wegen der Sicherheitslücke in Windchill und ZeroPLM schickten mehrere Landeskriminalämter Polizeibeamte zu betroffenen Unternehmen. Die sind irritiert.

heise online

Wombatadon 5d ago

Social media considered harmful.
(for children)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/social_media_bad_for_kids/

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

: Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline

The Register

Wombatadon 6d ago

Prof. Sam Lawler 6d ago

Well, I have now been quoted calling SpaceX "fuckweasels" in a real publication by real journalists: https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116598/spacex-to-start-small-with-1-million-satellite-plan-pushes-back-on-critics

I guess I am proud of myself? (They are, indeed, fuckweasels, for their complete lack of care for the atmosphere that we all depend on, as well as not caring about Kessler Syndrome, or light pollution, or smashing people on the ground...)

SpaceX To Start Small With 1 Million Satellite Plan, Pushes Back On Critics

The company's rebuttal to the FCC mentions launching orbital data center constellation in phases, and studying potential atmospheric impacts. SpaceX also threw plenty of shade at Amazon.

PCMag Australia

Wombatadon 6d ago

Natasha

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Select all squares with muffins ...

Wombatadon Mar 15

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Mar 15

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@norootcause/116234880892918345

🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

I went to see Yuki Nivez at the Adelaide Fringe Festival last Tuesday. A great show!
If you get the chance, run, don't walk, to buy tickets.
Shows in Melbourne coming up.
#yukinivez

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Wombatadon Mar 15

@cstross @lrosa and a good thing too.
I look forward to it.

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Wombatadon Mar 15

@cstross @lrosa I expected it would come by sea, a bit surprised at how long that takes.
Still better than air freight from Amazon

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Wombatadon Mar 15

@cstross @lrosa I'm just glad I have a local book store that pre-orders.
Mixed feelings about reading the end of an era. I've worked in software engineering and Linux administration for most of my life, fortunately no incursions from the 'dungeon dimensions'

Essential 8	ACSC Essential Eight
Ceph	Software defined storage
RHEL	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Aikido	#aikido #martialart