m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

I think a lot of you really underestimate how little the technical merit of software has anything to do with what businesses use in their tech stacks. we SHOULD be using some minimal turbo-autism embedded OS for a lot of the things that Crowdstrike brought down -- you know critical infrastructure stuff like fucking banks and hospitals -- but everything uses Windows because the people who are in charge of these things usually are also completely tech illiterate. they just choose Windows because it's the safe option and the industry standard and everyone else already uses it and they can't get sued for regulatory security compliance shit if they just use what everyone else is using. this of course circular reasoning that goes back to Microsoft's predatory business practices that got them where they are today, but this also describes LITERALLY EVERY "industry standard" in tech.

it only makes it all the more hilarious too how techbros are some of the most likely people to believe in meritocracy when the tech industry is easily the best refutation in existence of the idea that we've built a civilization that rewards merit. quite the fucking contrary.

so there you go, thats why fucking Windows runs most of our civilization's computing infrastructure, because power is inversely correlated to competence in this hellworld.

I posted this a few years ago on Twitter, but perhaps today is an opportune time to post again here:

Any sufficiently advanced "endpoint protection" software is indistinguishable from malware.

(Adding: Has the potential to cause global outages.)

BREAKING: Crowdstrike CEO says customers remain "fully protected", cyber experts note that computers which don't boot are usually extremely secure against remote threats

Quick, everyone, use the same tech by the same huge corporations… what could possibly go wrong?

#BigTech #TooBigWillFail #centralisation

Anyone out there a native Lithuanian speaker? We added a new English to Lithuanian model in Firefox Nightly, and it's just under our quality metric for release. We may be able to still release it if we get some native speakers telling us that it's good enough. (boosting appreciated).

Mozilla Apologists:

Went to Dublin and this is the souvenir I got #CatsOfMastodon #AcademicsWithCats

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
Go to about:config
Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.

"My love for you is ticking clock BERSERKKEERRR"

Raccoons are trying to break into Cybertrucks, and there's some speculation that this is happening because the raccoons are literally confusing them with dumpsters

@frederic @ubahnverleih

Well. That's the straw that broke the camels back.

Mastodon! I am looking for work!
I'm an electronics engineer with about five years of experience, I'm based in the Midlands (UK), but I am more than willing to move.

If anyone knows of anything - let me know!

@gemlog https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

Yamaha Music Store

#Ukraine #Russia #War