"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

So we're basically living in The Matrix, except it's corporations using us for personal data instead of power.

Hologon by The Electronic Knights

This new Amiga 500 demo fits in the "How the fuck is that possible" category.

It was released offline two months ago, only by mail-swap on floppy disk. So yes, it also fits on a single floppy disk. 🙃

#demoscene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtleuGV7ok

crimes in progress

@wolf480pl @alcinnz @ayo @grainloom
Thank you for sharing the article. There are a lot of good points in it and I highly resonate with them.❤️

BUT, there is no such thing as time-travel!
These libraries and other languages had years or, in case of languages, *decades* to mature, before they are considered stable.

Rust had it's 1.0 in 2015 and look what they have achieved in this "blink of an eye" (I'm taking Rust as an example, but there are certainly other projects, which have achieved the same)!

U ever think about how a corporation can pry into your life and at worst get a slap on the wrist but if you pry into their code you can get sent to jail? 🤔

@willghatch I think the problem is that the kind of person who really understands why C is a catastrophically bad choice for sudo is also the kind of person who stays away from the situations in which they could be responsible for making decisions about what language sudo should be written in.

#Lua, a misunderstood language

https://andregarzia.com/2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/court-says-all-eu-states-can-take-data-cases-against-facebook-1.4457176

Hacker who archived #Parler explains how she did it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archived-parler-explains-how-she-did-it-and-what-comes-next

Open Source Security funds #GCC Front-End for #RustLang

https://opensrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding

We overshare information; information that can be used by commercial companies, by political parties and by governments. Carissa Véliz is a philosopher at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. She argues that the harvesting of data is undermining liberal democracy.

https://philosophy247.org/podcasts/the-future-of-privacy/

9front provides many useful kernel devices as files. No symlinks, no hardlinks, just files. You can throw words at them.

#mordor #lotr #kernel #plan9 #9front #plan9frombelllabs #9fans

I used to teach computers professionally, back in the Windows 98 days. Back then, and even into the XP days, you could teach someone about files and folders and it was pretty easy to grasp, made sense, things were mostly where they'd left them. These days you go to save a file in Word or whatever and where's it go? Who knows! Who cares! Don't worry about it! In the ten years since I've used Windows apparently MS decided the idea of files in folders was too complicated for people?

I wrote about using browsers without tabs, and the relationship between convenience, scale, and alienation: https://clarity.flowers/blog/convenience.html

SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code, the company says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a worrying signal about the spies’ ambition.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-cyber-microsoft/solarwinds-hackers-accessed-microsoft-source-code-the-company-says-idUSKBN2951M9

"Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine"

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

Energy Cost of Internet Activities
https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2012/data/papers/0193-000409.pdf