Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)

@schwa
Weird!

Attackers have time and budgetary constraints too.

@rysiek
Ah, I missed that! Yes, I think you have a point.

@rysiek
Ah, I see. What noun should go there?

@rysiek @arstechnica

I think it’s fair game to mention the •political• alignment of an attacker, if in fact they have one. I’m not sure whether that’s a fair judgement in this case — nationality is not the same as political alignment — but it is in principle a reasonable practice.

"It's a challenge to convey the enormity of this story. Check out the Wall Street Journal's lead homepage headline right now: 'Trump's Attack on Zelensky Signals a New World Order Taking Shape.'"

~ Brian Stelter

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
/1

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17400589376987931c49b9679/raw

"Under Trump, the United States is abandoning the post–World War II world it helped to build and then guaranteed for the past 80 years."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2025

@sarahjamielewis We need a clean fork of #Firefox without ads, without Google and without collecting any user data.

I would be willing to donate the cost of my internet connection every month.

Who is with me?

@CuteFunnyAnimals @blogdiva

Wow, these CAPTCHAs are really getting unreasonable

@LJ
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Ken is a good example of the kinds of direct messages I get a lot on LinkedIn these days. Ken's profile says he's a Microsoft specialist.

Or is he...?

Ken's profile says it was created in 2007, so it's not an account that just materialized. Something in me wants to give Ken the benefit of the doubt.

This opening message from Ken is typical in that it

a) seems to be worded oddly for a native English speaker
b) suggests I'm taking money to speak out (in this case from USAID no less)
c) asserts that I am slandering the administration and
d) menacingly or vaguely promising retribution. Ken's message is somewhat confusingly worded ("I'm text to a bot"), and that caught my eye again. So I decided to take the bait.

Ken Payne
9:55 PM

How much $ do u get from USAID - indirectly ? George Mason. International studies. We know. 😂 im text to a bot. But your slanderous days are over.

Brian Krebs
10:07 PM
Hi Ken. You're a bot? Really? Tell me more. That would explain a lot.

Ken Payne
10:16 PM
No, I’m not a bot. But i thought you are. I welcome a conversation.

Brian Krebs
10:16 PM
Do you always start conversations this way?

Ken:
Is Ronald Reagan the president of?

Brian Krebs
10:17 PM
Is English your language of?

Ken Payne
10:17 PM
Testing the AI

Brian Krebs
10:18 PM
oh. I'm talking with AI?

Ken Payne
10:18 PM
We can talk any time.

Brian Krebs
10:18 PM
Apparently one of us can

Brian Krebs
10:19 PM
Well, Ken, I gotta hand it to you: You drank the Microsoft Kool-Aid, and I guess after that the Trump Kool-aid went down real easy, right?

Prove to me you're not a bot, Ken.

Ken Payne
10:20 PM

I’m him free now. U disapprove of DOGE. I support it. U are more suspicious than I.

Brian Krebs
10:21 PM
I think you either are a bot that's part of an influence campaign, or you're just not that bright. You certainly don't speak like someone who has an education, or a very good grasp of the English language.

Ken Payne
10:22 PM
I work at MSFT. but I see their sins. Perhaps Chinese intelligence influence. Dunno

Brian Krebs
10:22 PM
So Ken, how can YOU prove you're a real person?

Can I call you?
Ken, I'm starting to have real doubts about your non-botness
Ken?

Unsurprisingly, Ken didn't want to chat on the phone, or give a phone number.

Is Ken a bot? Or is Ken just another useless idiot? Either way, there sure are a lot of Kens.

#Via Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Feb 16, 2025, 7:25 PM

"Elon Musk's 'doge' is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency."

@airspeedswift
I think at this point all the voices making these kinds of defenses of Obj-C are actually just 3 people drinking together in a basement somewhere

@JacquelineDel
I did not find it so, and don’t see why it would be…? I live here and share your feeling!

@Catfish_Man
Thanks!

And, re autoreleasing every return value: I seem to remember that I did that back in the pre-ARC days, so…I can hardly blame it!

@martinvermeer
I don’t think it is too early…? Were there not personnel disruptions within the first days?

@Catfish_Man
Something I realized I don’t know: does the Swift compiler’s ARC ever inject an object autorelease? Or it is always explitict / from libraries?

I realize that’s 9 over a large denominator.

I also realize that some of the items in the quoted thread are small aricraft and not commercial flights.

Those quibbles notwithstanding, I am switching to “avoid all air travel” mode. This is bad and is not going to get better anytime soon.

(The F in that WTF stands for “fascists”)

One is an Accident. Two is Coincidence. Three is a Pattern.

Nine is…nine is just…WTF, where the “F” stands for “fascists.” https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/114032540250131619