Oh, this is exciting. threads.net uses expiring urls for media. If you don't fetch and cache the attachment when you receive the post, you won't be able to get it later. (Guessing you can refetch the post and get a new url, but most software isn't going to do that.)

(#activitypub)

Posting images inline in posts is another low effort way to keep the thundering elephant herd from loading them all at once.

DZ: trolley problem

How bout dem #🍏s, baby? #🎉net.

I need to add some whoop whoop danger css to necro threads. I don't understand what people are even doing replying to this decrepit garbage.

Make sure you add the -browser, otherwise some shitty game that crashes your system is installed. DO NOT RUN THIS GAME! This is not a joke.

Year of the Linux desktop.

https://programming.dev/post/13916889

I just saw the furiosa trailer and the mad max timeline is increasingly incoherent?

G5? Please. Wake me up when it's a G6.

Poppin' bottles in the ice, like a blizzard
When we drink, we do it right, gettin' slizzered
Sippin' sizzurp in my ride like Three 6
Now I'm feelin' so fly like a G6

Did you know: the term aurora borealis was coined by Galileo in 1619, which means people before that time couldn't see them, because it's not possible to see things you don't have a word for.

Live webcam? Are we living in the 90s? Has the simulation boot looped?

https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfraujoch-top-of-europe

Pounded in the butt by coronal mass ejections.

#😊

(#😊)

Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs

Someday they'll invent a browser with a better way to bookmark things.

New nightmare just dropped

Blessed cloud cover all weekend protecting my delicate retinas from the cosmic radiation.

(#philly)

To some extent, I get that people think a $1500 device should be able to run macOS. But by that logic, shouldn't you be happy you can buy a device that can run macOS for $1000 (or $700)? If the overpriced device doesn't do what you want, buy the cheaper device that does. Win fucking win.

Another practical life tip brought to you by the honk living channel.

DZ: triangle of destruction

Hahaha, this is great. Literally a black mirror episode.

Imagine this: you’ve “dated” 600 people in San Fransisco without having typed a word to any of them. Instead, a busy little bot has completed the mindless ‘getting-to-know-you’ chatter on your behalf, and has told you which people you should actually get off the couch to meet.

https://fortune.com/2024/05/10/bumbles-whitney-wolfe-herd-dating-concierge-artificial-intelligence/

Calling it a Coronal Mass Ejection when somebody sneezes with COVID.

Instead of making a new federated stack overflow, why don't we simply add a Q&A feature to the mastodon fork?

Hells yeah we've got federation at home.

The federation at home:

Apparently nodebb has solved the link preview problem by including two copies of the preview inline with the post content.

ST: enterprise

Archer is giving in to the dark side, and his conscious is hooked on the (trillium) D. Well, actually, a preemptive strike is the ethical choice because it will save lives on both sides.

HN claims there's no culture at #philly #eagles games.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40309475

Tim Apple damn well better apologize to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Paint Cans.

This is even worse than a fucking cookie banner.

How much cash did WBD actually burn on Suicide Squad?

It's funny how everyone knows that Hollywood losses are fake, and it's all lies for tax write offs, but now that something they don't like is losing money, they take the sticker price as gospel truth. Do you even know what an impairment charge is?

The term "torment nexus" is pretty rapidly being enshittified into meaning anything that's mildly annoying.

Went to the grocery store, had the torment nexus beep at me during checkout because my lettuce shifted after I placed it on the scale.

What in tarnation is this beer coaster?

As the modern philosophy collective KMFDM put it, "stop saying «don't quote me» because if no one quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying."

Renaming quote toots to slams. "I posted cringe and got slammed by fedi."

Sequel to Death Stranding called Z Stranding where you're faced with a mountain of assorted shapes and your mission is to run around rearranging them into the most compact possible representation.

Hmm, so if you mute a thread, that should also mute quotes of that thread, no? Increasingly complicated database queries.

This wouldn't be a problem if mastodont set the context property to reference the existing thread, but obviously the dont don't.

The barista after I demand to know where's my coffee for the third time.

What would a federated Wikipedia or stack overflow even do? The whole point is it's a big organized silo.

We have a federated Wikipedia. It's called the internet.

lol, people think the I don't consent to the NSA reading my posts Facebook copy pasta is going to work on stack overflow.

TV: Dark Matter

Did Apple get a group discount on interdimensional dramas or what? The premise seems really close to Constellation. Or also Severance, with season 2 coming out soon. Really mining this genre for all its worth.

Anyway, enjoyed the first episode, although nothing has really happened yet, but I understand what's going on. I like understanding!

So, like, how many of the people mad about the iPad ad were in the market for a new iPad anyway?

Hey team, as a reminder, we've got the mastodon fork standup tomorrow. Nothing formal, just a quick status update. The big thinkers up top are excited to see their vision being built.

(#activitypub #mastodon)

What even is unisuper? A superannuation fund? Why can't they just call it a 401(k) like normal people?

3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo)

Today we’re ecstatic to publish our first demo showing a homemade BusKill Cable (in the prototype 3D-printed case) triggering a lockscreen.

via @Goldfishlaser@lemmy.ml

In our last update, I showed a video demo where I successfully triggered a lockscreen using a BusKill prototype without the 3D-printed body for the case and N35 disc magnets. I realized that the N35 disc magnets were not strong enough. In this update, I show a demo with the prototype built inside a 3D-printed case and with (stronger) N42 and N52 cube magnets.

What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It’s a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys – thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

Why?

While we do what we can to allow at-risk folks to purchase BusKill cables anonymously, there is always the risk of interdiction.

We don’t consider hologram stickers or tamper-evident tape/crisps/glitter to be sufficient solutions to supply-chain security. Rather, the solution to these attacks is to build open-source, easily inspectable hardware whose integrity can be validated without damaging the device and without sophisticated technology.

Actually, the best way to confirm the integrity of your hardware is to build it yourself. Fortunately, BusKill doesn’t have any circuit boards, microcontrollers, or silicon; it’s trivial to print your own BusKill cable – which is essentially a USB extension cable with a magnetic breakaway in the middle

Mitigating interdiction via 3D printing is one of many reasons that Melanie Allen has been diligently working on prototyping a 3D-printable BusKill cable this year. In this article, we hope to showcase her progress and provide you with some OpenSCAD and .stl files you can use to build your own version of the prototype, if you want to help us test and improve the design.

Print BusKill

If you’d like to reproduce our experiment and print your own BusKill cable prototype, you can download the stl files and read our instructions here:

• buskill.in/3d-print-2024-05

Iterate with us!

If you have access to a 3D Printer, you have basic EE experience, or you’d like to help us test our 3D printable BusKill prototype, please let us know. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and we’re eager to finish-off this 3D printable BusKill prototype to help make this security-critical tool accessible to more people world-wide!

https://www.buskill.in/3d-print-2024-05/

External Attachment: image 3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo)

Oooooh, it comes in space black. Or splack, as I call it.

I've started reading The Peripheral, having seen the TV series, and at least the first few chapters are a very difficult read. Or maybe I've just become a very lazy reader.

Despite some familiarity with the setting of the chapters with Wilf's viewpoint, they are completely inscrutable. (I'm aware the show is not a clone of the book.) Not sure I'm qualified to give Gibson writing advice, but I think he may have the show don't tell slider turned up too high. Anyway, going to keep reading until I get to the good parts.

I now have a glitchy bug which is actually really cool to look at, but nevertheless needs fixing, which will ruin the fun.

The newly rewritten honk setup screen has a bug where the "Hello" message scrolls across the screen with each keypress. Somehow, somewhere, the screen position is being miscalculated based on the entered field length. A rather serious bug, in general. But here it just looks fun. And I'm afraid it'll be rather more effort than warranted to recreate the effect once fixed.

This blog post would be twice as interesting if it were half as long.

Exploitation also requires the LESSOPEN environment variable, but this is set by default in many common cases.

Consider also upgrading to an OS that doesn't set LESSOPEN by default. Or, wait for it, maybe one that doesn't even include misfeatures like LESSOPEN.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32487

Isn't this VPN bypass identical to one from like a year ago?

Even Biden is unimpressed with quantum computing.

If you've ever tried using the honk admin screen, well, first of all, I'm very sorry, but it's been rewritten to maybe only half as bad, and in a state that allows for future improvement.

I'm watching #StarTrek Discovery and Enterprise at the same time and I have feelings.

I'm on Enterprise season 3, which turns out to be a lot like Discovery season 4. And season 4, for that matter. Got to run around the galaxy hunting the macguffin.

But Enterprise does it so much better? Discovery has gotten really boring. One episode, one puzzle piece, one checkmark on the todo list. I just watched the Enterprise episode where Phlox has to fly the ship by himself, and I thought it was pretty entertaining, even though there wasn't any big arc progression. You need to give the story some room to breathe.

Like Moll and Lak should have had an episode that didn't also involve a puzzle piece or the ISS Enterprise (wtf was that, btw?). Budget is a really weak excuse for speed running the season. They could do twice as many episodes for half price each if they tried.

Also, I know next to nothing about any of the Discovery crew, despite watching for five seasons. Which is ironic, considering we just saw the new commander read crew files because he doesn't know them either. So now I know the one guy likes Constellation class curves, great. I feel that little details like Archer playing water polo were worked in much better. If anyone from the Enterprise crew were coming to visit me, I could plan a solid day of stuff for them to do. If Tilly or Stametz showed up, I'd have no clue.

Well, except half the Discovery crew is gay, which to me feels like a really cheap way to add interest. They should have depth beyond that. Props on the representation, I guess, but it's not really inspiring. I still can't remember the doctor's name.