june @odinsdream@octodon.social

Trying out the anti- fingerprinting feature in Firefox Nightly. If you'd like to test it out too, visit about:config and enable "privacy.resistFingerprinting".

You'll start seeing prompts like this!

More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting & https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895

HT @torgo. https://toot.cafe/media/R7wbXTmBHV7Z39hcybk

Hey non-uk folks! A trailer of my immersive sci fi BBC show is now on the Youtubes if you wanna see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NuaxSmMwIW0

Not good. o_0. mudge posted this on birdsite. #Intel

On stage today, during the Cyber-ITL talk at ShmooCon, Patrick dropped a little 0day that speculative execution executed data (ignoring non-execute markings).

That’s r-x... for those keeping track.

(rowhammer for the write anyone?)

https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/955152206671613954

I'll start here:

* Come up with game mechanics that reward behaviors other than sociopathic libertarianism.

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There's no "Hey, you know that thing you're looking for? This is what it's called. This is where you can fix it."

You either get shut down immediately because of vague "design principles" or you catch shit because YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS

It's a lot to deal with, and I really wish people who did open-source work would realize that.

Yes, there are shitty people who want to take advantage of people who are putting out free work.

But there are also people -considerably- more disadvantaged than you trying to make a safe space, and not having enough information makes that really fugging hard.

take a non-critical piece of code you wrote that has comments

now. re-write it so you don't need comments. add more variables / constants / lines, re-structure it as you need

you'll know you've succeeded if the comments literally sound redundant, as in:
# Collect the cranks
collect(cranks)

now remember
you can do this 90% of the time

@odinsdream @thatdelphox I feel like I understand some phenomena from 20th century history better, now

like, you read about how fascism took root in Germany and France and you're struck with just how pathetic and ineffectual were the forces opposing fascist takeover, just flailing about, paralyzed. back when I was first reading about that stuff it seemed so weird

now though, seeing it actually play out in the same way, it's...a dark epiphany

the answer to the riddle is that liberals of the sort exemplified by the Democrats in today's America, the Social Democrats of '30s Germany, &c. are just as corrupted by authoritarianism as the fascists

so @ek and I agreed:

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