Caesar
Caesar
@caesar.dev
Geek, sailor, nature lover. Trying to do my bit for the planet and our future 🌳🌲🌴🍄 Proud citizen of the world and of Europe 🇪🇺 🌐 https://caesarschinas.com 🐘 https://indieweb.social/@caesar ✅ https://keyoxide.org/hkp/5119c11d57d14127aca1b6cfeab09a2560ec3bc6
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The fact that we have the instant, 24/7 ability to text, share images, or even video call our friends and loved ones more or less wherever they are on Earth for effectively free is absolutely incredible. (Not to mention directions, wikipedia, translation, a camera, and music, in our pockets 24/7.)
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
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TIL I'm a @tailscale.com developer
This is an *insane* claim. Because a piece of software is open source, every user is a developer? What is going on inside the head of the person who wrote this? 🧐
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This is an *insane* claim. Because a piece of software is open source, every user is a developer? What is going on inside the head of the person who wrote this? 🧐
to little surprise, "Tailscale oh no no no no no" turns out to be...uh. well, you can read it yourself. this is an axe-grinding exercise that uses confident-sounding slop as camouflage.
As an amateur carpenter I endorse this message and I will henceforth be stealing the term factory-slop.
i wanna hammer on this too: most of everything you touch exists because industrialization made it cheap; your couch is factory-slop, as any carpenter will gladly tell you. your phone as well if you call me stupid, you'll use industrial slop to do so, even aside from 'bsky uses llms'
Please tell me no certificate issued by these clowns will ever be trusted again
This is an absolutely astounding press release from eMudhra. No apology, a suggestion that the researcher who found their private keys must have used AI, and an attempt to shift blame to auditors... wow. emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca
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I wrote so much PHP in the late 2000s and 2010s. I even remember saying I would never trust JavaScript on the server, it was such buggy junk in the browser. Oh, how the tables have turned.
starting to see some unironic PHP defence and: none of that, please it is an objectively bad language that was designed wrong from day one. yes, recent versions have improved it. just like C, though, it is all living legacy code that should be phased out
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This is going to be fun
The details are now public, as of two hours ago. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... The secret P-384 keys for these intermediate CAs are all zeros except the last 8 bits. All not-updated software can be MITM'ed now. IOT boxes that can't or don't update are now trivially MITM'able forever.
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In this spirit, the DMA must be extended to social media. The European social media industry has been asking for this for the longest time. We know that we can take this market by storm if it is ever opened up to competition and freedom of movement.
Europe has made a sovereign choice: digital markets should be fair and contestable. 🇪🇺 Enforcing the Digital Markets Act means protecting that level playing field and creating the conditions for more companies to grow, innovate and compete in Europe.
On this subject: you wouldn't know from W's marketing, but not all `.ec.europa.eu` handles are on W by any means. Many, such as @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu, are on Bsky's mushrooms.
They're even on Bluesky @owls-in-towels.bsky.social
The perfect website doesn't exi- owlsintowels.org
Once again we see that lobbying and grift are more effective at getting recognition than actually doing anything good or useful.
Our CEO and co-founder Prof. Dr. Anna Zeiter @anna.wsocial.eu has received the European Future Award 2026 for Innovation & Business. 🇪🇺 Presented at the inaugural ceremony in Berlin today, the award recognises her work advancing Europe’s digital independence through W Social.
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Folks, please stop saying that @wsocial.eu is a ghost town 👻 just in time for Halloween comes the revelation that just 18 accounts post half of everything on W social. lol #NoGhostTown
We Tricked you: The answer is just 18 users! @wsocial.eu says users must be verified before posting, yet 18 of the top 25 posters aren't verified and created half of all content on W (+250k posts). Find out which VIPs can post on #WSocial without verification! #WSocialFacts #cloWned 🤡 #Wned
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Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.
Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
There is nothing in programming more cursed than dates (and JavaScript is pretty cursed which doesn't help).
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The whole internet and all of social media has an editing function, except Bluesky because apparently it will destroy society.
Love the @bsky.app team but I think they really got their knickers in a twist as we say here about adding an edit button. Really really not as complicated as some people seem to think it is - literally everywhere else on the internet has it.
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Couple that with Starlink cutting off Ukraine and you have all the reasons you need to strive towards not relying on US technology.
The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
Seems bad. Also, while we're trying to stop phishing, ffs please use an email address on the official `bsky.app` domain for your official email addresses instead of some sketchy domain that looks like a phishing attack itself.
We're aware of a phishing attack that has compromised more than 4,500 accounts. The attack spread through posts promoting a fake offer of a government payment. We have temporarily suspended the compromised accounts and are working with their owners to secure them and restore access.
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The SNP conference has supported a motion calling for the SNP & the Scottish government to leave the X platform owned by Elon Musk www.thenational.scot/news/2664596...
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"We have never seen a model do this before, but GLM-5.3 sometimes reasons (unprompted) about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self" x.com/ApolloResear... www.apolloresearch.ai/science/upda...
Fuck Meta and their interference in our democracies worldwide. (Also yes, I still have Facebook and Whatsapp accounts because it's the only way to communicate where I live 😢)
😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his WhatsApp channel…” 1/
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X and Meta interfering in Brazilian elections. Starlink siding with Russia. That's just this week. It's not a word I use lightly, but we are at war with the tech oligarchs whether we like it or not.
Zelenskyy that restrictions on Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." www.ft.com/content/e267...
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I had not been to the Eurosky homepage in a while. they have really been cooking! appview is operational, mu Studio is interesting, PLC mirror, etc