Cathal Garvey @cathal@octodon.social

PSA (domain block):

Within around a minute I was followed by 500+ bots from @weedis.life and then within another minute was unfollowed by all of them. Essentially a denial-of-service attack. Haven't seen or heard of that before.

A collection of computer game source code. The majority of these titles were originally released as commercial products and the source code was made available to the public at a later time.

https://archive.org/details/gamesourcecode

Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia's Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest of the world. The data was passed to mainstream media outlets for publishing. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/20/russian-intelligence-has-been-hacked-with-social-media-and-tor-projects-exposed/#7f32c5db6b11

#FSB #Russia

Alright, just posted a write-up about the paradox of tolerance. This one will be visible on planet.gnome.org, so there will definitely be some discussion about it.

https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2019/07/21/the-paradox-of-tolerance/

Fascists from Gab are now setting up their own Fedi servers in order to harass marginalized people. This one is a known rapist and his instance is freevoice.space
Thx to @denikombucha for finding this

can you imagine being coerced into a career? I'm so glad that that doesn't happen in America

anyway, learn to code or you'll probably starve to death

@kiki_d it bugs me how many people took the WRONG lessons from that movie. some time back I had a coworker tell me that it made him want to be a better salesman and I was like.....what about this movie did you not understand??? Scorsese makes his contempt for these people so clear

i watched it last night for the first time

i work in sales, i've had people being fanatical at me about it since it came out, which is why i avoided it

it's amazing how overt the film is about how belfort et al dehumanised everyone around them

like it really hits you over the head with how abusive and exploitative their behaviour was

but of course those were never the parts people talked about when they're describing the film to me

Playing with 3D-printed fabrics. Feels really weird & funny but pleasant in the hands.

Yesterday, I moved the last of my websites from Python 2 to Python 3. 🎉

I can't pretend it was fun, it was a real chore. However, now that the work is done I'm feeling kind of smug.

Python 2: you've been great, I'll miss you old friend. Thanks for the years of sterling work.

https://pythonclock.org/

#python

In spoken English, the phrase "I never said you drank my tea" can have seven different implied meanings, depending on which word you place emphasis on. 🍵

If you boil a funny bone, you make a laughing stock

Gamer girl bathwater is just homeopathic used panties

Me online: (posts a story about how Americans are spending more time working than peasants in the dark ages. This is a real thing)

A bootlicker: They didn't have cars or cell phones.

Me: Yeah, why are we still working harder in a world that has such great labor-saving devices?

Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape / Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2019/07/16/not-napoleons.html

F-Droid: Public Statement on Neutrality of Free Software

https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

So now many of the most popular Mastodon apps are banning gab instances from using them.

Surprise Surprise, the We Ban Fash motto is extending to the apps. What did you expect.