RE: https://masto.ai/@LyricalGarfield/115929232946013818
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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2 OH MY FUCKING GOD complete auth bypass in inetutils telnetd for over a decade and obviously nobody inside that decade should have been running a telnet daemon but wow
which submarine was it that sunk due to improper use of the toilet
lol https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q1/89
telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USER environment variable received from the client as the last parameter.
If the client supply a carefully crafted USER environment value being the string "-f root", and passes the telnet(1) -a or --login parameter to send this USER environment to the server, the client will be automatically logged in as root bypassing normal authentication processes
In telnetd for a decade 💀
I dropped some Behind-the-Scenes concept sketches of Bahamut and Levi today for our #Patreon supporters!
If you're interested in supporting what I do, there's even a free tier just to receive updates. Every supporter means a lot!
FairScan 1.11.0 is out.
It includes:
- a new setting to control export quality
- a new way to report issues with the last captured image
I've also published a short post about the second point: how FairScan can be improved by letting users choose to share scans that don't look good.
I love this idea. And of course .meow would be an LGBTQ+ top level domain. Purrrrfect 😻
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-application
Day 3 I think it's just about final. Learned a lot and found a ton of issues with my tracker, namely that the global volume was completely crushing the 4 bits of attenuation on the chip so I was getting no dynamic at all.
Please clap for new song
Guys #fediverse i want to take the moment and thank you all from the bottom of my heart torwards my education.
I have successfully completed my three years of studies. This last Friday was my last exams paper I’m so happy on the achievement as I got no missing exam papers or test with assignments especially the practicals.
This is really a wonderful thing to happens to me and my family.
It wasn’t easy but I did my best and you all show love by helping with tuition fees and some expenses.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@itworldcup/115926604229775228
PHP is currently winning 51% to 49% against #Python with only 6 votes needed to swing it!
But it'll be a tough 10 hours so vote and boost!
A U.S. citizen says ICE forced open the door to his Minnesota home and removed him in his underwear after a warrantless search
Considering how popular the fediverse already is with at least some of the public institutions in Europe, this is a puzzling move.
"European organizations are about to launch their own social media platform, W, amid rising tensions with the United States."
We have officially completed the purchase of Warleigh Nature Reserve!! 🎉
We’re getting stuck in immediately. First up is Willow propagation and cutting access to a few areas that need work in spring.
Loads more to come but for those not familiar: https://youtu.be/2raJT5RM6mE
@ProtectEarthUK# rewilding
plattenbau
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GENUARY26-21: Bauhaus Poster.
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#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary21 #creativecoding #codeart #parametric #abstractart #noAI #minimalism #concretism #submillimetre
We think the look of your posts in the editor is pretty accurate, but it's not _exactly_ your site. So here, have a "Preview" button for your not-yet-published posts 🙂
Organizers Log:
I have been looking for a new location for FediCon 2026.
The location we used for FediCon 2025 is very nice — but also very expensive. (I paid for it out of my own pocket.)
I am trying to find a new location that is either less expensive or, if possible, free.
I'd like to try to keep the ticket prices low. And, one of the biggest things that goes into the ticket price is the cost of the location
Reading the news is so weird this year bc I can never quite tell if I’m somewhat having a fever dream nightmare or if the world really is this fucked 🙃
Science fiction is famously terrible at predicting the future (hey, where's my flying car?). Ken Liu writes for Reactor about why that's the case. "Science fiction authors imagine the future based on present dreams and anxieties. But they’re confined to their moment, which lies before the breakthrough that will usher in the future," he says. We want to know: Are you a reader of science fiction? Tell us your favorite books and authors in the comments — and which sci-fi predictions you wish were true.
RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115927767458646046
This is ridiculous. I’m a well known critic of #Nextcloud and its many flaws and I’m also a feminist. But suggesting that the absence of “recurring tasks” is due to the gender of the authors/maintainers is just bonkers. It’s not been implemented because the underlying CardDAV standard is shitty und unclear around recurring tasks. And because there’s always a lack of contributors. This is such an unnecessary dunk on #FOSS devs.
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🔊 Es hat ein bisschen gedauert, aber jetzt ist das Ding da:
Unser #WhitePaper zum Projekt #ReinventSocialPlatforms. 🙌
Unsere Erkenntnisse aus 6+ Monaten Recherche, Analyse und Prototypengebastel.
Themenfeld: #Fediverse, #SocialMedia, #Journalismus, #Medien, #Demokratie, #DigitaleSouveränität.
Viel Freude mit dem Report. Ich bin gespannt auf euer Feedback.
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https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html
RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975
Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:
Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:
1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.
Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.
Goede morgen ☕🌞🇵🇸
May the blessings of five wolves be upon you! 🐺 ❤️
Urgent - It's January :blobcatfearful: , could we please help Kaede finish their Fine Arts degree at the University of Cape Town.
Kaede is a queer woman of colour in South Africa and an amazing (painting, tattoo, and fashion ) artist! A thoughtful soul, and such a beautiful ray of light that cuts through the gloom of the cold and racist hellscape of CPT.
They have been fighting since their first year to meet registration requirements, including taking on debt that will follow her into their final year. Kaede deserves this education as much as any of their classmates and your help is deeply appreciated.
Help her register for her final yearrr :BunnyHeart:
:blacksparkle: Due BEFORE 2ND WEEK OF FEBRUARY, to be able to register for their final year of Fine Arts.
:boostRequest:
edit: adjusted donation goals to match platforms and currencies. You can donate to whichever, the goal is to raise the total of ZAR100,000 ($6000). Please use what's more convenient for ya :blobcatmorningcoffee:
Donation Link - BackABuddy
BackaBuddy Goal: ZAR R 5,259/ZAR 100,000
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/kaedeart/goal?g=0
Ko-fi Goal: $120/$6000
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Fundraising #HelpKDFinishSchool #QueerMutualAid
In many cultures, the collapse of civilization is considered a bad omen
I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
morse code is fucked up bc you'll be walking around mindin your own business when a bird suddenly goes
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Meine Berufung in den Beirat des Weizenbaum-Instituts für die vernetzte Gesellschaft
Das Kuratorium des Weizenbaum-Instituts (@Weizenbaum_Institut) hat mich für den Zeitraum 2026 bis 2030 in den Beirat des Instituts berufen. Ich nehme diese Aufgabe gerne an, denn ich verfolge die Arbeit dieses Instituts seit dessen Gründung 2017 mit großem Interesse - und die eine oder andere Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Institut und mir hatte es auch schon gegeben. Die Instituts-Website beschreibt die Funktion des Beirats so: "Der Beirat berät das Direktorium und die […]
Wow, the northern lights over Greenland are incredible. 😆
Human art enjoyers! I've been very lucky with offline #slop but recently a rando a café thought it was cool to have that vomit on their walls (fittingly it was on the toilet 💩) which inspired me to this.
#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #inkscape #vectorArt #cat #CatsOfMastodon #robot #sticker #ArtMadeByHuman #NoAI #AI #AISlop #HumanArt #FuckAI #BoycottAI #anticapitalism #MakeTheRichPay #typography
So we've strayed a very long way from Nextcloud's task manager, but the older I get the more I see "Who does the dishes after the revolution?" as one of the first questions that should be asked in any progressive space. I've seen at permaculture camps where the men wander off to form a drumming circle while the women set up the cooking rotas and compost station. I've seen it at the meetings where the men stand up and give inspiring speeches while the women organise drinks and take the minutes
The enshittification of computer repair is happening.
AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.
The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:
The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.
The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.
So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business.
In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.
I keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.
It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.
It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.
The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.
The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.
And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.
A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.
Take that little step. Then another.