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Hacking 1998:
"Watch me reck this mail server"
* Sends attachment with infinitely nested zip files causing spam filter to go into infinite loop unpacking them and run the machine out of memory

Hacking 2018:
"Watch me reck this guy's mind"
* Makes argument from fabricated political position which is obviously invalid and extremist, but is so wrought with logical inter-dependencies that trying to spot the actual fallacy leads to memory exhaustion, leaving victim unable to successfully refute it.

When they first taught us the alphabet in school, it seemed like an incredibly daunting task to me. There were so many different letters, how would I learn them all?!

Then they introduced us to math and told us there's an infinite amount of numbers. I just thought "that's it, no way I'll learn them all, I'll have to become a famous singer".

Turned out I suck at singing. And I still don't know all the numbers. Pretty good with the alphabet, though.

@rw FYI you're leaking potential metadata about where you live with that photo. I now have reason to believe that you live in the Dallas area.

You know what's funny? Academics are ready to dismiss every new idea as wacky and insane while simultaneously spending their whole lives hoping and working to prove that some wacky insane idea is true.

Does anybody know where I can find a spec for the protocol? Searching, I can find plenty of info on how to update but I can't find a document outlining the protocol that is up to date.

@sybren FYI fires in the amazon are a yearly occurrence, are natural, and happen around this time every year. This year is actually below average so far.

Once upon a time in Hollywood, thoughts 

@nikolal it is kind of like inglorious basterds, it is about the Manson family but the ending is entirely different.

Ridiculously simple idea:
Bootloader shows a colorful background which is derived from the hash of the kernel you're booting. If you get evil-maided, they would have to install a new custom firmware which fakes the same colors, and there are a number of ways to make this really difficult to reproduce...

@c1t1z3n0n3
Be sure to toot a link. I want to check it out.

Do you upload your videos to peertube or something after they're done?

@fedilab
Isn't that what tags are for? The app already allows us to search by tags.

My first attempt at a landscape style drawing on my iPhone 5 with my finger lol 😂

art doodle

@Wetrix
Yeah I'm opposed to telling the big social platforms what to do. There's the fact that the mess that is social media is driving software like Mastodon and Peertube, which I like. I disagree with what the big tech guys are doing, but the idea that we have to tell them how to run reinforces the idea that we need them, and creates barriers to entry. Is a mastodon instance a "platform"? Does an admin have to be politically neutral? It becomes a mess all around.

@cathal
They use the internet too why don't you boycott the internet? Or Firefox? Firefox doesn't block Nazis. They organize on the internet using Firefox.

@cathal
This is 100% false. And according to the new conduct rules for the f-droid repo, if it were true, fedilab would be removed from the main repo. Which it is not.

Funny enough, the apps that you probably support are the only ones with the word "Gab" in their code.
@cjd

@Wetrix
FYI this is astroturfed by Google and the rest. Nobody actually knows what the order says, but it looks like it is just going to reiterate editorial conditions for platforms under USC 230 Section C. Of course that's bad for the big tech cartel so they're paying for articles like this to get written and shared.

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