Volt4ire @volt4ire@mastodon.social

"ethical hacking" is basically the hacker equivalent of the term "straight acting [gay]", in that they both essentialize what "normal" (ie: non-ethical/"masculine") gay/hacking is

Indeed it usually just empowers localized petty despots (eg: Jo Freeman's The Tyranny of Structurelessness, "states' rights")

RT @Vinncent@twitter.com

Decentralization is not necessarily democratization

a secret third thing (neither)

Bros is basically the Hollywood remake of that British video of shirtless chavs kissing and then hitting eachother with folding chairs

The four genders

yeah I've seen Bros (the Peters twins movies)

classic manjaro

RT @marcan42@twitter.com

Okay, since Manjaro decided to ship one of our broken kernels, I should clarify how I do development on the Asahi kernel.

Tags don't mean anything. I tag stuff all the time, it just means it (probably) builds. Those are for our developers to test.

George Bush "miss me yet" shirt but with Boris Johnson

can't believe it's 2022 and we're doing Bernie Bro discourse on clean energy

RT @J_Lovering@twitter.com

Happy this was written about...but I think the "bros" get off a little light. I've heard from many climate folks that they are open to nuclear, BUT really turned off by the toxic traits of nuclear bros (abusive DMs, gatekeeping, mockery, etc.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/30/nuclear-bros-power-activists/?%20environment_1

Lina Khan please open an FTC investigation into this fake cat cafe for false advertising https://evgrieve.com/2022/09/new-cat-owner-opens-cosmic-cat-cafe-on.html

nothing says "for the ladies" like using game theory to pickup chicks at a bar

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Please don't use Matrix/Element for anything requiring maximum security (🧵)

RT @tqbf@twitter.com

I don’t understand how you can accept “the server controls group membership” as a risk in a secure messaging system. Group membership determines who gets to decrypt messages, right?

can't wait to see Victor Garber play Elon Musk in the inevitable biopic of his life

RT @elonmusk@twitter.com

Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren’t too choppy

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1575519546345230339

RT @verge@twitter.com

Google is shutting down Stadia https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Well that's one way to induce artificial scarcity https://www.vice.com/en/article/aken7k/rida-kahlo-nft-mexico

Great Power Competition has truly gone too far https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/steam-drops-the-lunar-new-year-sale-were-getting-a-big-spring-sale-instead/