Notices by Dave Rahardja (Scary) (drahardja@sfba.social), page 8

Happy 80th anniversary of Fascists Getting Rid Of Themselves Day to all who celebrate! 🎉

Courtesy of ABC news.

#fascism #antifascist #april30

Absolutely wild to see people online telling others to become *more individually responsible for their own food safety* when regulations are dismantled, instead of, you know, fighting to not dismantle food safety regulations.

There is a sickness in the USian psyche, and that sickness is the assumption that everything must be solved through independent effort. We leave so much potential unused and waste so much time and energy when we take communal solutions off the table every goddamn time.

Psst, hey: HACKERS ARE NOT TECH BROS. The vast majority of hackers never become tech bros. The ethics of hacking runs completely counter to that of tech bros.

Hackers make hardware do things they weren’t intended to do. They circumvent barriers. They string together contraptions that repurpose old stuff to do new things. Hackers aren’t that interested in money; they’re more interested in showing off their skills. They love to learn and make demos and create and share free tech that other hackers then build upon. All they want is acknoweledgement and the respect of their peers.

Tech bros are parasites. They’re greedy bastards who love to erect barriers between people and tech. They extract, addict, monetize. They turn everything fun and useful into a transaction, a dopamine trap, a subscription, a surveillance tool, an advertising outlet, and a vector to extract money from labor and suppliers.

Please don’t get them mixed up.

#hackers #hacking #techbros

#unions #memes #work #antiWork #workLifeBalance

Remember that time #PopeFrancis visited Japan and they gave him a robe with an #anime rendition of his likeness, and he wore it.

OK now what

True.

lol if Biden did this they would skewer him for disrespecting the police https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114396177924540918

I love it when employers install creepware #surveillance nonsense because they have zero respect for their employees, and end up publishing two million internal screenshots to the web instead, leaking their most sensitive information.

Very nice, no issues.

#cybersecurity #infosec #assholeBoss

“Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time”

https://cybernews.com/security/employee-monitoring-app-leaks-millions-screenshots/

Fucking hell https://m.ai6yr.org/@conejoclint/114389571192811239

I never thought I’d live long enough to see DRM’d hard disk drives.

#Synology #enshittification

“Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/synology-confirms-need-for-synology-branded-drives-in-newer-plus-series-nas/

Let’s GOOOO Rob Bonta!

“Newsom and Bonta argued that tariffs are the responsibility of Congress and not the president and they allege Trump invented "bogus" national emergencies to claim jurisdiction. They said they're asking the court to "rein in the president."”

#kakistocracy #trumpTariffs #california

“California becomes the first state to sue Trump over tariffs”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/california-state-sue-trump-tariffs/story?id=120872312

Hong Kong Post will suspend goods mail service to the US on April 27 in retaliation to the Trump tariffs. This is HUGE. A lot of local businesses, especially small businesses, depend on postal shipments from Hong Kong.

I think other means of transporting goods from Hong Kong will still operate, but this is a big one.

#kakistocracy #tariffs #trumpTariffs

https://www.reuters.com/world/hong-kong-post-suspend-postal-service-us-2025-04-16/

How many of these #UBI experiments do we need until we believe that UBI does, in fact, improve the human condition, and does not actually turn people into bums? https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114333889015062301

Oh my god, he admit it https://sfba.social/@crozilla/114325646081239619

The swastika joystick is a nice touch

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2025/04/11/check-out-pat-bagleys-latest/

#GoodNews

US Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of Salvadoran man deported in error - https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/

I propose Dong’s Law, a pithy restatement of Goodhart’s Law:

“All benchmarks will be gamed.”

#DongsLaw

Evergreen. https://sfba.social/@skykiss/113870952650397590

At some point, type safety is indistinguishable from template metaprogramming.

#programming #programmingLanguages