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agile is far left too. I will die on this hill in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

shoutout to the person who reported this post with "Reason: Bot meme, you can't even read it. whoever replies is a bot too" 😂

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You don't have to use gyroelongation (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14733630

image descriptionStandard "they don't know" meme format, featuring line art of "That Feel Guy" wearing a party hat standing in a corner while other people are dancing. An image of an icosahedron formed by three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles sits in front of That Feel Guy. The caption text says "They don't know that three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles, with edges connecting their corners, form a regular icosahedron."

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regular_icosahedron&oldid=1219666251#Construction

Meta will train AI with data from European users in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

screenshot of notification from facebook found in article, but with the word "if" highlighted in the sentence "If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward." and three red question marks added under it

If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward

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Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose in c/security@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Sounds like it requires that your DHCP server is hostile, which is actually a very small (though nonzero, yes) number of the attack scenarios that VPNs are designed for

In most situations, any host on the LAN can become a DHCP server.

“there are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android” is a very funny way of saying “in practice applies only to Windows and iOS”.

No. There are certainly ways of mitigating it, but afaict no Linux distros have done so yet.

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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)
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Randomness on Apple Platforms: "I’m sure the people working on this know what they’re doing, so it’s probably all very reasonable" (blog.xoria.org)
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Mandala effect (lemmy.ml)
 

image descriptionSide-by-side pictures of actors Judge Reinhold and Alan Tudyk, labeled with blue text in a Star Trek-reminiscent font "Judge Reinhold as Tom Paris" and "Alan Tudyk as Paul Stamets"

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silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market (1954) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/hoch@lemmy.ml
0 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/15044893

https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/first_silicon_transistors.html

image descriptionImage of a magazine advertisement with the title text "silicon transistors now in production!"

Text at the bottom left identifies it as the June 1954 issue of ELECTRONICS.

The advertisement consists of a row of eight three-pin solid state components "growing" in a field. There is a building in the distance behind them. The components are alternately labeled with Texas Instruments' Map-of-Texas logo and the number "900". From left to right, each component is closer to the viewer, and the fifth-to-closest one is labeled "actual size".

This text is overlaid on the image:

silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market ... brought to you first by Texas Instruments, a leading transistor manufacturer. A new and unrivaled degree of design freedom is created by the TI n-p-n grown junction silicon transistor, now available in production units with glass-to-metal hermetic sealing, silicon transistors radically improve temperature stability and power handling while retaining the best amplification and frequency characteristics of previous semiconductor devices.

write today for detailed information on the silicon transistor!

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS

INCORPORATED

6000 LEMMON AVE. DALLAS, TEXAS

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You don't have to use gyroelongation (lemmy.ml)
 

image descriptionStandard "they don't know" meme format, featuring line art of "That Feel Guy" wearing a party hat standing in a corner while other people are dancing. An image of an icosahedron formed by three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles sits in front of That Feel Guy. The caption text says "They don't know that three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles, with edges connecting their corners, form a regular icosahedron."

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regular_icosahedron&oldid=1219666251#Construction

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A helpful graphic about writing alt text (lemmy.ml)
 

image descriptionAn infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including "identify who", "expression", "description", "colour", and "interesting features". The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

via https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

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This is the moment beatlescirclejerk met r/okbc (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14372600

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/450185

(original on reddit)

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This is the moment beatlescirclejerk met r/okbc (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/450185

(original on reddit)

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Regrettably it's true, standards have fallen (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14334283

transcriptScreenshot of github showing part of the commit message of this commit with this text:

Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094).

While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting
a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was
created, it's good to remove this anyway:

  - The executable payloads were embedded as binary blobs in
    the test files. This was a blatant violation of the
    Debian Free Software Guidelines.

  - On machines that see lots bots poking at the SSH port, the backdoor
    noticeably increased CPU load, resulting in degraded user experience
    and thus overwhelmingly negative user feedback.

  - The maintainer who added the backdoor has disappeared.

  - Backdoors are bad for security.

This reverts the following without making any other changes:

The sentence "This was a blatant violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines" is highlighted.

Below the github screenshot is a frame of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski with the meme caption "What, are you a fucking park ranger now?" from the scene where that line was spoken.

(for achievers who aren't following one of the most exciting computer security events in recent history, here is the context)

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that ain't legal either (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14334283

transcriptScreenshot of github showing part of the commit message of this commit with this text:

Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094).

While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting
a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was
created, it's good to remove this anyway:

  - The executable payloads were embedded as binary blobs in
    the test files. This was a blatant violation of the
    Debian Free Software Guidelines.

  - On machines that see lots bots poking at the SSH port, the backdoor
    noticeably increased CPU load, resulting in degraded user experience
    and thus overwhelmingly negative user feedback.

  - The maintainer who added the backdoor has disappeared.

  - Backdoors are bad for security.

This reverts the following without making any other changes:

The sentence "This was a blatant violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines" is highlighted.

Below the github screenshot is a frame of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski with the meme caption "What, are you a fucking park ranger now?" from the scene where that line was spoken.

Yuzu is gone. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20240303071843/https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/commits/master/

-> latest commit hash as of march 3rd was 15e6e48bef0216480661444a8d8b348c1cca47bb

-> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15e6e48bef0216480661444a8d8b348c1cca47bb (many copies of the repo exist)

rule lake nation in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Great Salt Lake

lol, i guess that must be why.

fwiw, regardless of its name or how great it is, it is not one of the Great Lakes 😂

rule lake nation in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Young Michael Scott Shaking Ed Truck's Hand meme with Truck as "OP's proposed nation" and Scott as "Utah"

A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others". Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity". in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

huh? what is the misinformation here?

What's the most privacy way to host an e-commerce store in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Use free/libre software, running on your own server, and don't use any 3rd party services besides the payment processor(s).

The site you're referring to appears to be built using WordPress with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WooCommerce btw.

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