@ArzzielMarcena @DougDawson_CCG @LCMacVeteran @LilHulkQ @hobs @dusty @rako @mog7546 @JaniceSelbie @WillRobinson @krrw @ThomByxbe @mcrocker @whilelm @case2tv @dzintars @annmarie @bart @mammoth @tstupfel @jerry @NerdUno @cobratbq @lolpaullol

Just in case you did not receive the toot I sent from qoto.org - Instead of posting primarily here on @Lunatech I will instead be posting at @Lunatech@qoto.org so if you want to follow my toots please add that account to your follow list. qoto.org has many options that most other Mastodon servers don't, such as longer toot lengths, but the big one for me is I will actually be able to see a list of the #hashtags I follow, which is currently not possible on techhub.social or most other #Mastodon servers. Also I believe it is possible to do quote toots there, which I realize is a polarizing feature among some long time Mastodon users.

The Twitter API lockout of third-party apps is only the latest reminder of centralization's most important rule: The platform owner has the right to capriciously wreck the businesses of people who accepted the platform's invitation to run a business on the platform.

The billionaires who run the Republican Party are so fundamentally opposed to the ideas of basic taxation, regulation, equality, and democracy that they thought it was no problem filling the party up with crackpots and crank candidates doing their 0.1% bidding by constantly whipping the GOP masses into an incoherent delirium.

So much for “Republicans” being interested in the republic. You'd think they’d want a little competence in government rather than it being reduced to a Lord of the Flies GOP dumpster fire. Even just for business purposes.

Unfortunately, for the billionaires who run the GOP, no amount of tax cuts and drowning the government in their bathtubs of greed and buckets of unhinged ideas is enough. So QAnon it is. And it’s uniquely awful in the U.S.

Moderate Republicans? Try and find one in this mess.

Conspiratorial Thinking Is an American Disease-
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/conspiratorial-thinking-polarization-america-united-kingdom/672726/

@TonyStark CPAC has actual Nazis. That ought to end the "GOP has lots of moderates" debate.

@TonyStark We'll know when they ban polio vaccines in schools: when we see DeSantis and other GOP politicians investing in iron lungs.

RT @RBReich@twitter.com

Do I have this right: Republicans added ~$7 trillion to the national debt under Trump, but now they want to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare before raising the debt ceiling?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1614820819753992192

@angiebaby @stopgopfox @just_alex @MJ @GreenFire @BenCisco @TonyStark
To me the Lincoln Project is like Dr. Frankenstein who wanted to destroy the monster when he saw what he had created. Or as my father was fond of saying "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

From all available information outside of Twitter, this is yet another lie from Musk's birdsite -- a claim that "longstanding API" rules (of which now-stymied developers are unaware) are the reason for breaking the third-party apps that made Twitter easier -- and better.

Jill Lepore in The New Yorker, “What the Jan. 6 Report is Missing.”

“Nor does it inquire into the consequences of an educated national elite of politicians, journalists, and academics increasingly living their lives in a Met Gala to Davos to White House Correspondents Dinner world, or the degree to which so many of them appear to have so wholly given themselves over to Twitter — knowing the world through it, reporting from it, being ruled by it.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/what-the-january-6th-report-is-missing

#journalism #Jan6

MAGA radicals are refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless Biden agrees to devastating cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

I was involved in a similar fight over the debt ceiling twenty-eight years ago, which holds some lessons for what happens now. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/back-to-another-horrible-hellish

Git has patched two critical severity security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code after successfully exploiting heap-based buffer overflow weaknesses.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/git-patches-two-critical-remote-code-execution-security-flaws/

VirtualBox 7.0.6 Is Out with Initial Support for #Linux Kernel 6.2, #RHEL 9.1 Kernel, and #Oracle Linux 8 UEK7 Kernel
https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-0-6-adds-initial-support-for-linux-6-2-rhel-9-1-and-uek7-kernels

#OpenSource #virtualization

The first man on the moon, George Santos, has been put on the Space & Science Committee and the Small Business Committee by the Republican Party.

Sadly, the latter part of that sentence is true.

Lmao. Our job is safe, folks.

The oligarchy helped finance Trump. In return, they got richer with lower taxes.

Even though Trump is gone, the oligarchs continue to siphon off the economy's gains while the GOP uses culture wars to keep us divided and distracted.

Pay attention. They're playing us.

Do you want to test to see if your hard disk is going bad or developing a bad sector? Try these #Linux and #Unix GUI/CLI tips https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-find-out-if-harddisk-failing.html

It's going to be interesting how Apple handles the Git vulnerability given they ship git as part of Xcode and they don't allow you to override it out of the box.

https://github.blog/2023-01-17-git-security-vulnerabilities-announced-2/

What's also interesting is that I don't see any recent Xcode betas on the Apple Developer software site so perhaps they were all pulled because of it?

#git #macos #xcode #appledev

71% of Americans approve of unions. So why do nearly all Republican lawmakers in Congress oppose proposals that would make it easier to unionize?

It’s simple: they’re terrified.

Nothing scares the GOP more than working people recognizing their collective power.

Apple's trade in deals are pretty... Great...
This is the Mac Pro trade in (for the Mac Pro still available in the Apple Store).

#tech #technology #geek #apple #mac #itjustworks #pc

Don't open a top-level folder in #Mac #Preview.

It will suddenly open every single file recursively under that folder. 😭