Macil @Macil@mastodon.social

Waking up every morning in 2020:

While we're all focused on the Corona crisis the US government is quietly pushing an internet #surveillance bill that is aimed at abolishing message encryption:

We should probably pay attention to this and spread awareness even if we are not American: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online

If you post online you post in real life.

people think doomguy is constantly consumed by furious bloodlust but actually the inside of his head is just him performing endless fuzzy algebra on his ammo reserves

Counterpoint to "Humans are space orcs", Humans are adorable

proposal: doom with bones files

- no saving

- if you die, you restart the level with pistol as normal

- but you have a chance to find one of your own corpses, with a subset of its weapons/ammo/health. maybe even a rare chance for a key. nearby monsters will stay dead/hurt

the C in CVE stands for C.

One man, eight years, nearly 20,000 cat videos, and not a single viral hit

https://theoutline.com/post/7709/meet-the-man-who-has-spent-the-past-years-making-over-19000-videos-of-himself-feeding-cats?zd=1&zi=zloxfjwo

Artwork by Robert Watts, 1969 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/186419793920/c86-artwork-by-robert-watts-1969

Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1
https://www.boristhebrave.com/2019/07/14/dungeon-generation-in-diablo-1/

(submitted by noad)

downloading five versions of NeXTSTEP at once on the interplanetary file system is an extremely online activity

"[Government attorneys have] argued that Americans don’t have a right to “a climate capable of sustaining human life”."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/04/teen-activists-face-us-government-in-crucial-hearing-over-climate-trial

Research shows that 2FA and other basic measures are incredibly effective at preventing account hijacking
https://boingboing.net/2019/05/20/screw-security-nihilism.html