I do appreciate how we heard a cybertruck exploded and caught fire and most people were like “yup, that happens.”

Stupid (and illegal) bans on using the restroom always fall apart as soon as the first person shits in a trash can.

I’ve been around the Internet since the BBS days and I can’t think of a single time where a de-centralized platform has out competed a centralized platform with “normal” users.

I’m right there with you. I’d love to see the dream of the decentralized media return, but it’s long-dead. The “Normal” user doesn’t give a fuck about the benefits and even the moderate barrier to entry over some centralized platform is enough to keep them away.

Tech-minded people seem to often forget that even the most simplistic choices like “Choose an instance” is a big deal for people. The platform that’s the most familiar, and easiest to use is going to be the one that wins, and, right now, that looks like it’s Bluesky.

A huge swath of Republican voters are not voting for Trump. They are voting against “Democrats”. Propaganda in the US has turned politics into a team sport, and you always root for your team, even if your team is having a rough season.

There’s a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of “The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don’t trust the government.”

If they put up a notice saying, “This domain was seized, here’s the real facts!” the target of the propaganda isn’t going to buy it for a hot minute.

If they put up replacement content that doesn’t mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, “Fake news!” at anything that disputes their existing worldview.

It’s best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.

A “Library of Congress” for published web content maybe. Some sort of standard that allows / requires websites that publish content on oublic-facing sites to also share a permanent copy with an archive, without having the archive have to scrape it.

Sort of like how book publishers send a copy to the LoC.

There’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.

I admit, this news has made me add a note to re-download firefox on my work machine…

So no specifics? Remember, the president didn’t make laws…

What would you have him do that he hasn’t already done?

Biden has been working to cancel or eliminate student debt for pretty much the whole of his term.

What, exactly, more do you want from him? A heartfelt apology for having a different opinion 20 years ago?

And now, he’s changed his stance in response to a changing society and pressure from voters.

Isn’t that a good thing? Don’t we want politicians who are demonstrably responsive to voters?

Consumer PCs are almost certainly not covered entities under HIPAA, nor is Microsoft in its role as an OS provider.

Even then, if this whole thing were to result in an inappropriate disclosure by a covered entity, the organization that processes the data would be liable, not Microsoft.

That’s like blaming the building contractor because you left the door unlocked and someone came in and stole your cat.

Fun.

From the article, the linked Swagger docs : https://web.archive.org/web/20240120071238/https://mycscgo.com/api/v1/docs/static/index.html#/

And a little more detailed account : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-security-bug-in-washing-machines-can-help-college-students-in-the-us-do-free-laundry/articleshow/110277923.cms

It looks like these laundry machines are controlled by a mobile app, and requests are routed through The Internet™. The flaw appears to be the web service presumes a user is only able to gain access to their API endpoints via the mobile app, which only exposes certain functions to a user.

Once authorized, though, there’s no further checks like oauth scopes or even user roles, to prevent someone from doing a little bit of lateral movement to admin-style endpoints.

Lazy. The machine makers should be ashamed.

What would that do? You don’t even need a law degree to be a judge.

He doesn’t.

This is just his hall pass vote to make him appear less of an ideologue for later, when he proceeds to fuck the country over for Trump.

No lie … if they could make a chip that like … Shuts off cognition while I’m at the gym so I don’t have to experience it … I’d consider it.

I really hate working out.

Nothing. They’re behaving quite rationally.

You just have to understand that their motivation is not “successful governing” or “making the world better” but rather, “getting more money.”

When you view their actions through the lens of self-enrichment, they’re behaving quite normally.

The worst and best thing you can do when using vim is learn the movement keys (h, j, k, and l) because they’re so powerful and work no where else.

Look what Democratic control of regulatory agencies does.

Maybe they’re just saying that so the buttheads will go home and everyone else will sneak back to DC and pass bills without them?