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@vnangia
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International development by day, tech junkie at night, economist by training, pizza connoisseur, third-culture kid, kitty fluffer, future space settler.
Michael W Lucas 
It was 2003. The US had just invaded Iraq for bogus reasons. Dan and I did a prank page saying that the UN was merging NetBSD and FreeBSD. What about OpenBSD? Well...
"Theo de Raadt could not be reached for comment. While Theo's home has been surrounded, UN peacekeeper troops have yet to storm the building and heavy casualties have been reported in the surrounding countryside. UN spokesmen insist that the siege is going according to plan, however, and Theo is expected to be available for integration in the new combined BSD at some date in late 2023. Of the two hundred eighty-nine casualties suffered by the UN troops at this time, the commanding officer insists that they were caused by a rampaging Canadian moose. Daniel Hartmeier, previously of the OpenBSD Project, insists that OpenBSD has no weapons of moose destruction. "
Christina Warren@vnangia macOS Tahoe, a decade of regressions in UX, design, and general care, the way the whole Apple Care One fiasco thing happened and wound up costing me money. The fact that I can't have two separate iMessage accounts active on one device (each with its own separate eSIM) so I had to buy a whole second phone, the embarrassment of the latest Apple display updates. The way they are going to deprecate Rosetta2 for no fucking reason, the ass-kissing of government officials, the AI lies...
Lady Laura 
Ben
how nowOh yeah, this month marks 40 years since the EDSA People Power Revolution of 1986 successfully ousted Ferdinand Marcos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_People_Power_Revolution -- and so the Philippines learned valuable lessons about democracy and never voted a Marcos into office ever again, the end
Angus McIntyreHere's a scenario to consider:
1. Xi Jinping decides the time is right to invade Taiwan.
2. With many US forces concentrated in the Middle East, & cruise missiles & smart bombs in reduced supply, the US can’t respond effectively.
3. The invasion of Taiwan, successful or not, cuts off US access to advanced chips (90% made in Taiwan)
4. US tech stocks are wiped out, the US economy goes into freefall.
5. US becomes Russia 2.0: a failed state with a mad dictator, nukes & an economy in shreds.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116144045436347868
Heart-broken to hear.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001/116123227412288110
This might genuinely be the most mind blowing thing I’ve ever seen.
Rebanei built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS