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Insubstantial Pageant

@baseless-fabric.privac.ie

Our revels now are ended Cypherpunk • SigInt • InfoSec • Harlequin Privacy evangelist Equal among corvids Cover: Rime looking like frosted grass

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A bit of #at40 story time. Fascinated by the early '90s men-shouting-at-each-other cinematic trend embraced by Mamet & Tarantino, I was primed for a Pulp Fiction promotional writing competition. I entered and won a copy of the full Pulp Fiction screenplay.

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Walking past #fairy mounds at night or on the turning points of the year (#Beltane on May 1 and #Samhain on November 1) was considered very risky, for the otherwise invisible door might open and the passerby might be lured into an at-first pleasurable, but endless and 1/2

In the beginning...

Today’s internet relies on encryption. But 30 years ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon - until a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group sued to fix that. Listen to Episode 2 of our "Privacy’s Defenders" podcast: “No Privacy Without Encryption.”

That's three lizards in a lizard suit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

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The more than 550 infographics I've made have always been a hobby for me as a linguist and writer. However, since 2023, people have been able to support my work by giving me the equivalent of a coffee or a sandwich per month. I'd be thrilled if you became my patron too! patreon.com/yvanspijk

Go get 'em! Fluck's hard-coded API key: HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD

Micah Lee@micahflee.com

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

Information doesn’t want to be private and nobody wants to give us our own agency. We fight for it in the small windows we have, or we cede it entirely.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

Information doesn’t want to be free and nobody wants to give us our own compute. We fight for it in the small windows we have, or we cede it entirely.

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: An army colonel retires early and receives some guests from a patrol boat.

Dan Hon@danhon.com

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

I'll bet €1 the Starbucks COO thought a word-guessing program could manage their inventory because a chatbot said he was smart.

Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social

Good thing they weren’t relying on AI. (And Taco Bell is gross unless you’re really drunk, in which case it’s delicious.)

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Many, many years ago I worked for a certain legal news website to which Lindsey Graham subscribed. Anyway i hardcoded it to always spell his name wrong in the top corner, no matter how many times he tried to manually correct it.

In 1975 Elton won "Outstanding Rock Personality Of The Year". Dylan had the best album, Stevie and Joni were best vocalists, and Eagles got best band. Separate RnB awards went to LaBelle (single) and EWF (album) Cher and Diana, presumably, each got the🖕😅 #at40

The 70s Guy@stevenw888.bsky.social

Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross. The photo was taken backstage at the first Rock Music Awards, held in Santa Monica, California, on August 9, 1975.All three artists are dressed in custom designs by fashion designer Bob Mackie. #Cher

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Have you ever seen this iconic image of the Ebola virus, from the first known outbreak in DRC in 1976? An electron microscopic image, it was captured by #CDC 's Fred Murphy, a virological giant and a very kind interviewee. He died yesterday. He will be missed, but his scientific legacy lives on.

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I still love that the main coding website is called "GitHub." What, was "DipshitCentral" already taken?

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Artemidorus of Ephesus hands down a story of a harbor on the coast of the ocean whose name is "two ravens". In this harbor one could meet two ravens whose right wing was each whitish colored. 1/3

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Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Vivaldi and Brave are alternative browsers that use the open-source Chromium engine.

The Big Meowski@catovitch.bsky.social

If you use Chrome on Windows, reclaim the 4GB of your SSD by creating: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings Type: DWORD Value: 1 Then restart Chrome and a few seconds later it'll delete the enormous, useless, unwanted slop cache.