✨ geoff, but witchy ✨ @cooler_ranch@witches.town

of all the things we thought about parallelizing platform architectures really should have been higher.

i mean, I'm just a hack. I am not ever going to be much more and I'm mostly content with that. but if we don't start getting folks into the mindset of computer science being an interdisciplinary add-on rather than a specialist tower we are not going to get the right minds in the right rooms to avoid this crap.

we don't need more STEM majors. we need more of everything else with STEM minors.

shit's broken. ain't getting fixed currently. who I gotta go schmooze to get this rolling?

In case you thought browser sandboxing would protect you, here's an excerpt from the Spectre paper:

> Attacks using JavaScript: In addition to violating process isolation boundaries using native code, Spectre attacks can also be used to violate browser sandboxing, by mounting them via portable JavaScript code. We wrote a JavaScript program that successfully reads data from the address space of the browser process running it.

afaict this means that (for example) a hostile ad, served by anyone from anywhere, could read privileged data from the host machine.

separate the craft from the industry as much as you can.

Intel, don't read this

AMD......hello

imperialism is class relations stratified and superimposed on a global scale and any so-called marxist that tries to separate class struggle from anti-imperialism is a fucking cop

We're so quick to frame crabs as cruel for pulling each other down when they try to escape buckets, yet we too rarely focus on the person who put them in the bucket in the first place.

The same goes for the idea of mantises eating the heads of their mates (apparently an artifact of lab conditions) and of the "alpha wolf" idea (wolves were forced into the company of unfamiliar wolves), among other facets of "common knowledge."

How many assumptions about human behavior follow this pattern?

When someone calls themselves a Centrist 9/10 times what they really mean is that they're secretly right wing but want a high horse to sit on

oh yeah that's right huh

it's year of the dog

24/7, 365 days a year awoo allowed :D

uhhhh yeah could i get a large 2018

@cooler_ranch same procedure as every year james

happy GNU/year, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus year

🎵 we built this city on blocking calls 🎵

あけましておめでとうございます🎊
草餅さんの今日です。

Mastodon won't succeed as an anti-Twitter, it will succeed if and only if it's good in its own right. We could stop focusing on Twitter and pay attention to ourselves and the social network that we're creating.

Visitor tracking companies using Javascripts and uninformed website managers to collect user credentials by abusing browser's autofill function so they can link online identities of people and sell that to data brokers.

AND YOU'RE STILL BEGGING ME TO DISABLE MY ADBLOCKER, ARE YOU INSANE

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