I got pestered into adding more tiers to my Patreon since I'm still jobless and savings are rapidly running out

Not required but for all of y'all that like what I do, every dollar really does help ;-;

https://www.patreon.com/CursedSilicon

Insane.. The plan of the US gov to buy a shit ton of #Bitcoin over the upcoming years is thr actual intention of the hardcore Bitcoin nuts

At first they where anti-govt but knowing that if the gov buys a LOT of BTC, they will become instantly rich since the price will go up massively

It's not a "strategic reserve", it's a PUMP in a "pump & dump" but on goverment level because that where the most money is

This is not a secret either

#Cryptocurrency #US

Old IBM terminal with "battleship" keyboard still in use in a Canadian Tire store in 2018.

Commission

Billions of dollars. Untold megawatts of power. To create a low grade #Google #AI Moron. #AISlop

The antidote to materialism isn't minimalism; it's maintenance. Keep things. Fix them. Mend them. Grow old with possessions you know well because you've cared for them.

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

A reminder that Netanyahu is still starving Gaza by blocking aid—which is a war crime.

Recall that when Yemenis blocked ships to prevent genocide, they were bombed. Now, as Israelis block aid to enable famine, they’re protected.

If you don't see the grotesque white supremacy in our foreign policy then you're either not paying attention or you're happily complicit.

The world must unite to end this blockade and stop this genocide.

Engineers: "Software is complex and development takes time, money and inspiration."

--- years pass ---

Business People: "Those idiot engineers are still babbling about complexity. But these guys here have an .ai domain and they say they can magically make software! Their CEO even calls himself a Wizard! Give them all our money and fire the engineers!"

--- months pass ---

Business People: "Why does nothing work? And what do you mean, the Wizard left with all the money?"

Beneath Jupiter

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS; Processing & License: Gerald Eichstädt & Seán Doran

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250525.html #APOD

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

Decided I wanted to learn Electron so I wrote a little system specification viewer, SpecMe! Pretty happy with how it's turning out so far. I'll have compiled builds soon but if you want to download the source code, go to https://matthewsigmond.com/posts/software/specme/
#electron #webdev #software

Maybe you or somebody you know has a #Windows10 computer, which works perfectly fine, but will lose support on October 14 because it cannot be updated to Windows 11 for hardware support reasons.

Please, do not turn the computer into unnecessary e-waste but keep using it and give it a new life by installing #Linux on it. There are plenty of advantages in doing so, the biggest one being it's waaaayyy cheaper.

For more, see:
https://endof10.org/

#EndOf10 #Windows #eWaste #sustainability

Testers assemble: Plasma 6.4 Beta has been released!

Plasma 6.4 will be arriving in a month, meanwhile, you can try an unstable version here:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.90/

Remember: this is beta software! This means it has only been partially tested. Install it at your own risk and report bugs to

https://bugs.kde.org

#Plasma6 #linux #desktop

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.

If this made you feel something, you’re old.

If the question is "What should regular people do in order to keep the Chinese government from spying on their communications via an attack on US telcomms?" the answer is "Use Signal or WhatApp." I am not interested in debating this.

they don't make gadgets anymore. every new tech thing is like a little white plastic egg that needs an email address and credit card number to turn on & has a built in microphone even though it has no need for one whatsoever

Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don't use it for sending email.

There is nothing to stop scammers from sending email claiming to be coming from your domain. And the older it gets, the more valuable it is for spoofing. It could eventually damage your domain's reputation and maybe get it blacklisted, unless you take the steps to notify email servers that any email received claiming to come from your domain should be trashed.

Just add these two TXT records to the DNS for your domain:
TXT v=spf1 -all
TXT v=DMARC1; p=reject;

The first says there is not a single SMTP server on earth authorized to send email on behalf of your domain. The second says that any email that says otherwise should be trashed.

If you do use your domain for sending email, be sure to add 3 records:
SPF record to indicate which SMTP server(s) are allowed to send your email.
DKIM records to add a digital signature to emails, allowing the receiving server to verify the sender and ensure message integrity.
DMARC record that tells the receiving email server how to handle email that fails either check.

You cannot stop scammers from sending email claiming to be from your domain, any more than you can prevent people from using your home address as a return address on a mailed letter. But, you can protect both your domain and intended scam victims by adding appropriate DNS records.

UPDATE: The spf and the dmarc records need to be appropriately named. The spf record should be named "@", and the dmarc record name should be "_dmarc".

Here's what I have for one domain.

One difference that I have is that I'm requesting that email providers email me a weekly aggregated report when they encounter a spoof. gmail and Microsoft send them, but most providers won't, but since most email goes to Gmail, it's enlightening when they come.

#cybersecurity #email #DomainSpoofing #EmailSecurity #phishing