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The Conscience of a Hacker, also known as The Hacker Manifesto, turns 40 today! Written by Loyd "The Mentor" Blankenship, its spirit still resonates with hackers and makers everywhere. A cornerstone of hacker culture. phrack.org/issues/7/3 #HackThePlanet #HackerManifesto

@rnbwkat.bsky.social welcome to portugal, great talk today.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

#booksky

To all my American friends, please watch "I am still here" an excellent Brazilian movie about a real story of what happens in dictatorship. I am sure you will find a lot of its motifs very familiar. . . happening right now even

Kingfisher

Links to the artist's official site, and the work shared here :) www.avogado6.com www.avogado6.com/diary2018?li...

Photography of a departing train next to the small light in the dark tunnels at Paddington London Underground station. It took a few attempts, but it rear of the train is nicely illuminated when timed perfectly. Note: Taken safely behind the yellow line with a zoom lens. #photography #railway

"...[T]his devouring, appropriating, and automation of the production of art, of culture, at a scale truly never seen before, should not be underestimated as a menace—and it is being experienced as such by working artists, right now."

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Incredibly proud to be able to say that I’m in here with so many of my literary heroes. I look forward to meeting them. The after-court happy hours are going to be the Algonquin Round Table but with more attack lawyers.

DOGE official .gov website defaced. “These experts left their database open” left on site.

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

Sooo, anyone doing a countdown until we learn the efficiency idiots are going to bias the system towards giving contracts to Musks companies? "AI will decide which contracts are more budget efficient"... yeah right...

The web actually was a lot of fun before monetization ruined everything.

This is an important distinction I did not know about. More details are here: www.nilc.org/wp-content/u...

My thoughts today go out to my trans friends across the atlantic, some of those orders see pretty much carte-blanche to a lot of aggression. I hope you stay safe.

Allies, this is where it starts. This is the first shot in their attacks on civil rights. Trans folks are merely the first group, but WILL NOT be the last targeted. If you sit idly by on this, you're already appeasing the oppressors and you are NOT truly an ally. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Ok. Giving this app another try because that other play is becoming more and more unbearable by the minute. Here for friends, art and hax.