@jerry I see that infosec.space still has those less-secure ciphers enabled. Did you forget?

@FirewallDragons Point of order: a phone automatically rebooting after being idle for a while isn't a new idea. @GrapheneOS has had the feature since June 2021, although it wasn't enabled by default on new OS installs until April 2023. In January 2024 the default time limit was changed from 72h to 18h.

@greenpete @LateNightLinux I think that's the one. I recently kicked it from the "hopefully someday" category in my mind, because of this. Now, that category consists solely of Servo; as soon as it supports the extensions I care about, and cross-device sync, I'm there. That's years away though.

@FirewallDragons @ConsumerReports

Even if the FTC does nothing, we're trying to produce recommendations that will help anybody who cares about creating a product that will last. And I think that's a lot of very responsible manufacturers.

To be blunt, I don't know how we're supposed to take Stacey remotely seriously if she's this absurdly naïve. Case in point, she never mentioned the elephant in the room: despite the modesty of her FTC wishlist, the only way she'll get any of it is with a Democrat in the White House.

#Israel doesn’t believe in a two-state solution. It doesn’t believe in a one-state solution.

It is committing a #genocide in #Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

What do you think their final solution is to the Palestinian Question? Is this rocket science? Do they need to spell it out every day 24/7 for them to be believed?

And why is the Israeli ambassador to the UK not expelled yet?

@EdwardPhilips New rule: things that were invented before sliced bread are not allowed to be (unironically) described as the best thing since sliced bread.

#anacronism #idiom #newRule

“It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them."
-Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, mayor of Pontevedra, Spain

Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control

"On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics. Meta is currently banning and restricting users on a hair trigger."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266096/instagram-threads-moderation-account-post-deleted-limited

#FediPact #meta #threads

Trump being perceived as uniquely dangerous is one of the more irritating aspects of our current political moment, and it has entirely to do with well to do white people who have been enabling fascist politics for decades realizing they themselves might suddenly face consequences because of it.

@Flipboard Thanks. Point 3 I knew about. Point 1 makes sense now that you've explained it.

Point 2 is, I think, the most important. I had read that most Flipboard accounts don't have their posts federated, but I assumed that all accounts would still have their comments, favourites (likes? Hearts?) and boosts (flips?) federated. And given how large Flipboard is as a platform, I was expecting Flipboard posts to generally have a much larger volume of federated interactions than Mastodon posts. Now that you've told me that most Flipboard accounts don't have any of their activity federated, my observations make a lot more sense.

"The discourse around 'human shields' — or the failure to use the term — is an example of hypocrisy pushed to the extreme." https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/israel-human-shields-hypocrisy/

@npr @health-npr PS: does Flipboard fedi integration even work? I can't find any post from any @flipboard.com account that shows any boosts, favourites, or replies on Mastodon.

I guess I'll ping @Flipboard :blobcatshrug:

#federation #fediverse

@npr @health-npr (And yes: as the law professor said, anti-abortion extremists calling themselves, "abortion abolitionists," is grotesque. 😡 The properly analogous term is, "prohibition.")

#messaging #terminology

@npr @health-npr Listening to this episode drove me up the fucking wall.

"I just want you to be consistent in your worldview," she says, as part of arguing for a position that makes her worldview inconsistent! :blobhiss:

One of the most laugh-because-it's-better-than-crying features of right-wing politics is that even if you believe that an embryo deserves all of the same rights as an adult human, you should still be in favour of abortion, right up until birth, with few to no restrictions.

Now, we need to take a moment to define our terms. "An abortion," does not mean, "killing the embryo/fetus." That's "only" (lol) a common side effect of abortions. What an abortion really is, is making the pregnant person stop being pregnant. Notably, a birth by C-section is an abortion.

With that established, it is self-evident that, even if you accepted the morally absurd and scientifically illiterate notion that an embryo is a person, then that still would not make having an abortion morally equivalent to holding a baby in your arms and murdering it. Rather, it would make it equivalent to choosing not to donate blood to save a dying stranger.

What makes this especially infuriating is that this point was first publicized two years before Roe v. Wade was decided, and yet barely anyone seems to know about it! :flan_rage: I think I've encountered it literally once or twice in the last 10 years.

#abortion #humanRights #law #NPR #philosophy #USPol

@cynblogger @McSpocky It's not "beyond politics." You need to discard the idea that there is such a thing as, "too evil to be politics." Politics is any dispute over who ought to have the power to do what. Project 2025 is nothing but politics: it declares that women shouldn't have the power to make their own medical decisions, gay people shouldn't have the power to adopt kids, poor people shouldn't have the power to acquire the food/education/medicine they need, etc.

Project 2025 is an uncommonly thorough and striking illustration of what far-right politics really is. It is evil because it is a collection of evil political ideas.

#definition #maskOff #project2025

Look at the costs and benefits described here: https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/tree/main/ppa-experiment#end-user-benefit

Costs: people lose their privacy
Benefits: data is valuable to advertisers
Therefore the benefits outweigh the costs.

Like if you do cost benefit analysis that way then you get to do anything

Me stealing your lunch
Costs: you dont have a sandwich
Benefits: I have a sandwich and dont have to pay for it

"A doctor has issued a stark warning that the XEC variant of Covid-19 could bring back the dreaded masks and social distancing"

idk man maybe the thing to dread is the debilitating airborne blood plague, not the act of putting on a fucking mask. maybe this attitude is exactly why things are turbofucked right now

https://archive.is/kW6FZ