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quxnet
quxnet a pleasantly-retro non-algorithm-driven old school BBS system: I can remember chatting with people across the world on IRC over our 56k modem, reading forums filled with interesting (human-made) content, and feeling that magic of escaping into a playground of possibility.…
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lmorchard/linkding-ssg
lmorchard/linkding-ssg "Linkding bookmark backup and static site generator" -- generate a nice link-blog UI from a Linkding bookmarks archive, as used by @lmorchard. This looks really nice, I might have to give this a spin. (Via Nelson) Tags: via:nelson linkding bookmarks…
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The Brazilian left beat the far-right at their own game
The Brazilian left beat the far-right at their own game Garbage Day on how Lula's Army beat Bolsonaro, despite Meta's thumb on the scales: "The country’s biggest newspaper, Folha, found that Meta AI programs built into the app would generate content supporting Bolsonaro and his…
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“Ten Minutes To Midnight on Putin’s Clock” (preprint)
"Ten Minutes To Midnight on Putin's Clock" (preprint) A preprint paper from the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France: The Politoscope project has been observing political activism on X since 2016. We have developed methods for analyzing social and debate…
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Thread of electioneering advice from Lula’s Army
Thread of electioneering advice from Lula's Army This BlueSky thread is full of excellent advice for left-wing campaigners wishing to defeat the right in elections, from Lula's recent victory in Brazil. Apparently the Student's List approach in Serbia is another good example to…
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Please Let the Internet Die
Please Let the Internet Die I am increasingly in agreement with this: Wouldn’t it be liberating, then, to actually deny our attention to astroturfed outrage, engineered virality, and influencer sponcon? To let the mainstream digital economies propped up by AI-enabled…
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NVMe is now faster than tmpfs in Linux
NVMe is now faster than tmpfs in Linux This is very counter-intuitive! RAM disks are -slow- compared to a single high performance NVMe SSD [...] The problem is that RAM disks always do synchronous IO and they consume CPU time copying the data to/from the RAM disk to/from user…
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CAT6 Keystone For RJ45 Wall Plates
CAT6 Keystone For RJ45 Wall Plates a top tip from ITC Slack -- never hand-crimp an RJ45 cable again. Just punch down the wires into a keystone socket, and use store-bought cables for the last metre. Much easier! Tags: crimping networking cabling rj45 cat5 cat5e cat6 cables…
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Nelson’s Weblog: 25th Anniversary
Nelson's Weblog: 25th Anniversary Congratulations to Nelson's weblog, celebrating its 25th anniversary yesterday. This site had its' 25th back on May 1 of this year; I still value the connection to the days of the early social web that an old-school blog represents, so here's to…
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damontecres/Wholphin
damontecres/Wholphin "An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin" -- "It aims to provide a different app UI that's inspired by Plex for users interested in migrating to Jellyfin. This is not a fork of the official client. Wholphin's user interface and controls have been written…
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https://www.mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-12.3/
https://www.mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-12.3/ Fantastic -- one good side effect of this eMudhra carry on is that we will be able to easily MITM traffic from old IoT devices for years now! mitmproxy has added a --emudhra command line switch to enable this. Tags:…
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There isn’t an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability · Elias Taylor
There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability · Elias Taylor A bit of pushback on the "sky is falling" php2shell vulnerability that has everyone patching PHP right now -- this guy reckons it's not actually exploitable on vanilla PHP? Tags: php vulnerabilities exploits…
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Gathin23/cleanyourtv
Gathin23/cleanyourtv "Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home" -- a vibe-coded repo which uses an LLM-driven prompting workflow to debloat an Android-based TV with adb available, reformatting the default home screen to remove ads and bloat.…
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Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware – The Citizen Lab
Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab The inimitable Wolfie Christl: "Discover-Tech, a company deeply embedded in the digital advertising ecosystem, weaponized ads to profile millions of…