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Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
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International insurance giant AXA dropped ransom payments from their cyber insurance cover in France.

Now, coincidentally or not, several Asian AXA branches were hit with a ransomware attack.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/insurer-axa-hit-by-ransomware-after-dropping-support-for-ransom-payments/

# #
#AXA #ransomware
Hong Kong or Sweden
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FiXato
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I guess they lost their AXA shields
# ;)
#Ingress
Blackle Mori
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I like how my avatar is wearing a necklace even though I personally don't own or wear jewelry
Blackle Mori
Blackle Mori mastodon (AP)
actually I have some I just don't like wearing them
Blackle Mori
Blackle Mori mastodon (AP)
I should learn how to draw humanoids so I can draw cute shark girls
Blackle Mori
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thinking it might be fun to add a "voluntary view counter" to my website. you click on a button to log your view

wait this is just a guestbook
Blackle Mori
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"if you pay me I'll seed the torrent for an hour"
Blackle Mori
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I love this because I'm pretty sure like, 30 ppl have downloaded my torrent but my local ratio is 3
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
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the devops is in the details
Hong Kong or Sweden
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Blackle Mori
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I have etched ancient and powerful geometries in the floor around my bed to specifically prevent the bodyforms and identity schemas of well known personalities from entering my dreams. no free clout
Blackle Mori
Blackle Mori mastodon (AP)
listening to emo music and thinking of friends
Blackle Mori
Blackle Mori mastodon (AP)
lots of cuties out there what the hell
Dave Lane
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Wow the IRS (the US' tax department) has the most insipid hold music... and you invariably get to know it very well.
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Dave Lane
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It must be soul destroying to work there.
Normand C. :ubuntu: :freecad:
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Isn't it the case for most government jobs? I understand it's an essential service in any organized society, but around here all government employees seem to be miserable. My dad spent the later half of his career in a government job, and I've only known him complaining about it. My brother who followed his footsteps changes department or agency nearly every year.

I can't understand it. Job security with benefits cannot be worth it.
Normand C. :ubuntu: :freecad:
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On the other hand, I know I've been fortunate job-wise, and many people aren't so fortunate.
Adrian Cochrane
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My Dad got incredibly frustrated by the middle management at LINZ, though managed to get good work done despite them.

Now we've gone private & those managers have explicitly admitted they didn't see the point of Dad's job despite politicians budgetting for it. So now we've got different frustrations!
smellsofbikes
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Guts of a 1912 Edison wind up record player with lubrication lines to the bearings.
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smellsofbikes
smellsofbikes diaspora
Hah that's a clever idea about posting on abandoned boards. It may not be durable, but it doesn't need to be.
What a cool setup!
David Emerson
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Anyone here know a really competent front end / UI dev shop? I’m writing up an SOW for a user portal to a cybersecurity service, and I figure this crowd knows some folks who can actually design a good interface.
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PINE64
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This is the last week to pick up a # before production pauses on May 24th.

Pine Store link: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinebook-pro/?v=0446c16e2e66

Information about production break: https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/15/may-update-connection-established/
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#pinebookpro
Normand C. :ubuntu: :freecad:
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Although I have no use for a laptop at this time, I would have bought one all the same, just because. But the UK keyboard is out of stock and the US keyboard is just a few keys too short for me.

Impulse buy averted! 😅
Kyle Rankin
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Happy Tax Day, for those that observe.
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Matthew Davidson
Matthew Davidson friendica
When a pension fund emails to ask if you're starting to think about retirement. Oh, how I laugh!
_deton_dev
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The three "bad" movies I like:

Toys (1992)
This movie needs a plot that works with it's gorgeous art direction and surreal/wholesome vibe, not against it.

Waterworld (1995)
This movie is impressive, especially considering how hard filming water scenes is.

Stay (2005)
There is nothing wrong with this movie and it is unironically really good. I legitimately don't understand the bad ratings, just rewatch the movie FFS.
Devine Lu Linvega
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Toys and Waterworld are some of my favourite movies 🖤
_deton_dev
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Yeah, I love to rewatch Toys just to stare at all the beautiful visuals and to watch Robin Williams do his thing, despite feeling like the plot doesn't have anything to do with what the movie is about.

Also, I recommend looking up Waterworld's production. Aside from the cost of shooting the water scenes, pretty much everyone working on the movie had *very* conflicting opinions about what it should be about (most of the film's jankier moments are due to that, lol)
Blackle Mori
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it says hewwo
a tiny little shark plushie
Anthony Martinez
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Another look at my @purism Librem 14 - this time on the battery life front in Qubes OS doing basic tasks:

https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202120-001-librem14
@Purism
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rezmason
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At this point Hacker News is just a @neauoire news site with a lot of side discussions 😁
@Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega mastodon (AP)
It's bizarre. Today, right next to Uxn's entry, there was the lowtechmag's article on ecofriendly sailing ships. I was 0_o
Preston
Preston mastodon (AP)
I woke up and noticed that, a good healthy discussion surrounding it too.
Blackle Mori
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free as in "the humens must fight for freedome!"
Be :fedora: :pine64:
Be :fedora: :pine64: mastodon (AP)
freedoooooooom
Blackle Mori
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just dropped my first NFT! 😊 magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e00b31fa2c107f25c246e528c0eb38356bc3d4bc&dn=Blackle%5FMori%5FApril%5F2021&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce
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Mae Rosaline
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for an NFT that looks a lot like a mushroom to me...very fungible indeed
Blackle Mori
Blackle Mori mastodon (AP)
nicely fungable thing
Actually, the singular is ...
Actually, the singular is ... mastodon (AP)
"Umami?" actually, the singular is: Umamus
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Blackle Mori
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torrents continue to amaze me because I estimate that around 10 people have already downloaded my torrent but I've only uploaded its content 2x over
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chris bumber :arch:
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torrents are cool as fuck and im sad they're not used more often
it does have a bit of a weird usecase though since torrents can die really easily, especially over long periods of time
Blackle Mori
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yeah definitely not great for archival
Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega mastodon (AP)
@rek https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27185950
@R E K
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Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega mastodon (AP)
ideas are ideas, but turning those into action and then getting shut down is the worse. I think a lot of naive ideas with a lot of potential get shut down early so often. There's so few people that only persue ideas that are proven and tested.. I can't imagine the marvels that could be hidden in the margins.
Pope Rheesus
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on the other hand, critique can be helpful. what’s important but too often ignored that it should be done with consent, and respect. often I see on hn along the lines of “uh, this is my project, i really wasn’t ready to show it to anyone yet.”
Blackle Mori
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I do think it would be very funny to post "just dropped my first NFT 😊" and just have it be a magnet link
Blackle Mori
Blackle Mori mastodon (AP)
I'm sure NFT enthusiasts would just detest if that word got genericised to mean "any digital art you get on the internet"
elegant blade
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TAke a look, y'all: IMG_4346.nft
https://masto.vy-let.software/users/vy
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it’s not *really* an NFT until you’ve copyleft licensed it,
Blackle Mori
Blackle Mori mastodon (AP)
@vy NFT = npublic fdomain tlicensed
@vy
‮Andrew Cassidy
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NFT (Nominally Free Torrent)
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Jason
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On the bright side I whipped up a little parser for my forth so I could support stuff like strings and floats. Added word definitions, kinda copied the @ from uxn. Now I need to eval the parsed input.
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smellsofbikes
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This is the cut setup. I make cylinders on another chuck and ream the center hole; this chuck has a centered arbor that the gear blank clamps onto. I had to weld up a steel tailstock to support the far end, and it did a fantastic job, letting me make cuts at 6x the speed with a great finish, compared to the previous unsupported setup. This will let me cut some.metric conversion threading gears and some weird custom ones for a Stirling engine idea I have.
Stripes The Tiger
Stripes The Tiger diaspora
Speaking of machining things, I have a new seatpost collar for you :) Lemme know when you want to get it.
Blackle Mori
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have u made a torrent of your art? I want to download 👀
Devine Lu Linvega
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What Really Happened to the ‘Berserk’?

https://www.outsideonline.com/2423808/what-really-happened-berserk?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweet
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Captain Isgris 🐝
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tbh I don’t want to know
Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega mastodon (AP)
nobody really knows tho..
Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega mastodon (AP)
Uxn is running on 9front!
Instructions are on the README.
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn
# #
#plan9 #uxn
Leonard Janis Robert König
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mkfiles are the better makefiles. A bit disappointed that POSIX 2x isn't including anything to the likes of pattern rules.
Wolfi
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that's amazing! :)
Blackle Mori
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would be cool to do a zine that's distributed over bittorrent
https://social.illegalpornography.com/users/BestGirlGrace
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you could call it a bine

or a zittorrent, i guess
Kube
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a collaborative, periodical zine with a "last issue's top seeders" section
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Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei:
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might fuck around and xnopyt
Blackle Mori
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAJJJJJJJJJ
Blackle Mori
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just made my first bittorrent art pack 😊 https://suricrasia.online/Blackle_Mori_April_2021.torrent
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Kube
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it's working!!
The "pix" folder of the torrented art pack, featuring a "buny" illustration.
limni's adventures continue in: limni! catalyst capers!
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ohhi.mp4 is perfect and exactly what we needed to see today
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Blackle Mori
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apparently I had to restart transmission for it to even start seeding my torrent lmao
Blackle Mori
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I was gonna transfer over the files to my laptop to seed there but by the time I loaded it onto my usb stick it had already finished lmao
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
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"this escalator is currently not running":
- boring
- defeatist
- negative

"this escalator is currently used as a staircase":
+ unexpected
+ creative
+ forward-thinking
- I like my PSAs boring and honest
Hong Kong or Sweden
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Pope Rheesus
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but what is truth anyway?
Be :fedora: :pine64:
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We apologize for the convenience.
Parade du Grotesque 💀
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That peculiar feeling when you read this:

"Taiping Rebellion, radical political and religious upheaval that was probably the most important event in China in the 19th century. It lasted for some 14 years (1850–64), ravaged 17 provinces, took an estimated 20 million lives, and irrevocably altered the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12)."

Please note that other documents mention the number of deaths may have been as high as 30 million in 14 years.

Don't even ask me how I reached that page.
publius
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Bizarrely enough, the Taiping Rebellion always makes me think of the Batman TV opponent (not exactly a villain) King Tut. Your society has to be extremely messed up if, when some random person walks down the street saying "Lo, I am your God King, here to inaugurate a new era!", numerous people say "sounds good to me, let's bow down & worship, or build obelisks & pyramids in Central Park, or whatever he says to do."
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
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@publius @Parade du Grotesque 💀 Apart from murderous conquering and syncretist personality cult, the Taiping Rebellion also had multiple good ideas like banning footbinding of girls and a general egalitarian approach to nationbuilding rather than the classist-racist divide-and-conquer mentality of the empire.

The CCP praises the rebellion simply because it weakened Qing and made it ready for Communist takeover the next century.
@publius @Parade du Grotesque 💀
🌲👀
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When you're getting bored of guillotine jokes, consider: the Erfurt latrine disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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And there comes the :fdroid: # 🌧️ – this time 51 updates and 4 new apps:

* @PixelDroid is a client for our Fediverse friends at Pixelfed 🖼️
* Another notes app is – another notes app? 🎶 🤪 nope, 📔
* Instant Sound Effects is a fun app to make noises (no farts, though) 🔊
* unofficial Stud.IP-app is a… yes, unofficial app for Stud.IP 👩‍🎓

Once more: enjoy your # # # from # :awesome:
#app #Android #foss #apps #fdroid @PixelDroid :pixelfed:
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Federico Mena Quintero
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Happy to announce that @madds is my Summer intern for Outreachy! They'll be adding SVG2 and CSS3 features to librsvg.
@madds @madds@tech.lgbt
João Felipe
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I've been away from Mastodon and on the bird site for too long. Thanks @neauoire for ending up on the orange site and reminding me where to find the coolest people :)
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Devine Lu Linvega
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Do you have any specific topics in mind? I don't know much about TTRPG, but I feel like @jameschip might be a good person to ask :)

Have a look at our timeline, I'm sure you'll find something that interests you.

https://merveilles.town/public
@James Chip
João Felipe
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Thanks! I discovered your server through @ritualdust a while ago but only followed a couple of accounts :) I'm also interested in audio/music, vintage computing, low-level programming and related topics.
@Lizbeth
smellsofbikes
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Journey to gears: I had two false starts with weird resulting tooth profiles because I can't do simple math right some days (and assumed a wormgear was 50 teeth not 53) but once I used a calculator and thought a bit I managed to make a nice aluminum gear that meshes well with one of my lathe gears (on far right.)
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen diaspora
AGREED
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