@briankrebs Democracy does die in darkness and the Washington Post just turned off the lights.

@haveibeenpwned Frankly, I'm surprised it took this long.

@liquor_american @haveibeenpwned LMAO even

@lowqualityfacts I think journalists would benefit from talking to their IT departments more.

In my personal opinion, scaling is not the question you should be asking about Mastodon. It's onboarding new users. The federated system makes it really easy to scale, but it also makes it a little bit confusing for new users who aren't tech savvy.

@arstechnica "make it hard to talk customers out of cancelling" that's kinda the point isn't it? You can't hold your customers hostage in a service they no longer want.

@AzulCrescent and then windows also takes the opportunity to install some updates it was waiting for just this kind of blunder to install.

@protonprivacy I like that you have an onion service for people using Tor with proton, could I request that you update the webserver to support the onion-location header to allow the Tor Browser to notify users that you have an onion service instead of just relying on new users to find a web page from years ago? https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/onion-location/

and if the skiddie happens to find this: good fucking luck on that password there bud. You would have more luck using RockYou as an exclude list instead of a dictionary

So this was a fun thing to find out about this morning. I only even learned of what seems to be a brute force attempt on my account when the skiddie, probably out of frustration, used the passwordless auth option and it sent an authentication ping to my phone... Seriously Microsoft? This kind of brute force didn't warrant at least one email or text message? The successful logins are mine from setting up my new phone. #tech #microsoft

@stefan I'm glad that we are starting to see some of these forgotten pioneers in computing get their time in the sun, even if it is a bit late. I recently saw a PBS documentary on one of Ms. Berezin's contemporaries, Lynn Conway that was fascinating simply because I had never known of her contributions to the industry I am so interested in.

@AzulCrescent but what about, and hear me out, a little gay train.

@notjustbikes a good source for this and how bad the situation is would be Amtrak's host railroad report card. 100% of long distance routes fail because of host railroad non-compliance and over 50% of local routes fail for the same reason.

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/HostRailroadReports/Amtrak-2023-Host-Railroad-Report-Card.pdf

Here is a link to the 2023 version

@notjustbikes not to "um actually" your latest video, out now on Nebula, but the issue with American rail and the interaction between freight and passanger trains is MUCH worse than you might realize.

In the US, Amtrak trains actually have legal priority on all tracks, meaning that where possible the freight train is supposed to stop, the issue is that our freight companies just made the trains too long to fit in the sidings so they can't stop for Amtrak's trains.

https://www.elonowesyou100dollars.com/

Lol, LMAO, LMFAO even

Suck on this one Elon.

@rimugu @jamesmarshall for the record, 2.5% of US adults identify as either trans or non-binary. I have added the NB numbers since one of the claimed shooters tried to argue in court that he was NB.
https://mastodon.online/@ItsJustZip/113088040518819232

https://usafacts.org/articles/what-percentage-of-the-us-population-is-transgender/

@rimugu @jamesmarshall in fact, by the raw data, we would expect to see 88 mass shootings by trans and NB people in the same time and that just isn't there.

Much like other minority populations, it seems like the trans and LGBTQ community commits far lower rates of violence than would be expected by the data alone.

@rimugu @jamesmarshall you found 2 with a 3rd as possible, and 2 fakes. that is hardly even a coincidence, let alone a pattern. In the time spanning your cited events, even the ones falsely attributed, there have been 3405 mass shootings. Even counting the false trans attributions trans shooters make up .1% of mass shooters .08% if I remove the provably false attributions. That rate is far far lower than the percent of the US population that identifies as trans

@rimugu @jamesmarshall This one is also largely true, but the shooting was bullying related. Not directly because the shooter was trans but instead related to persecution they received because they were trans. There was another defendant in this case that is not trans and was also convicted of murder during this event.

@rimugu @jamesmarshall This particular case seems to largely be true. At the time most sources were written, it was still debated but facebook posts pre-dating the event by a year as well as friends corroborate the possibility. While the shooter might have identified as male at the time of the shooting it is unclear if they had begun any for of transition treatment. It is clear that they were being treated for an unrelated emotional disorder.

Correlation, not causation

@rimugu @jamesmarshall This post is currently under an active edit war over the gender identity of the perpetrator with no reliable, cited source backing up the claim that the shooter was trans, on the contrary all reliable sources cited are consistent in their use of female pronouns. The Washington post does cite a close friend who makes reference to gender id struggles but does not call them trans.