🍅 Craig 🍅 @[email protected]

1. Draw the circle sigil diagrammed below in chalk on the floor, with candles placed at each of the 32 indicated junctions
2. Wearing a medallion inscribed with your Github credentials, sit before the circle.
3. Place your computer in the center of the ring. Light the candles.
4. When the screen fades to a dark violet, say "O great illustrious Branch Master, accept ye the Deltas of my renewed commitment" in a clear, slow voice, then strike the Enter key once.

CVE-2018-12169: Platform sample code firmware included with Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake processors contains a logic error allowing a physical attacker to bypass BootGuard firmware authentication. https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/unauthenticated-firmware-chain-of-trust-bypass.html

"Why I’m done with Chrome” https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/ #privacy

Friendica, the federated open source alternative to Facebook, has just released its 2018.09 update:

https://friendi.ca/2018/09/23/friendica-2018-09-released/

The 2018.12 update (due by the end of the year) will apparently include #ActivityPub support

You can try Friendica out right now on instances such as https://squeet.me, https://libranet.de, https://nerdica.net and others:
https://dir.friendica.social/servers

You can also follow the Friendica blog at @news

#DeleteFacebook

KLF & Tammy Wynette - Justified and Ancient
#nowplaying #np #fediplay
https://youtu.be/H7_ajdd99CM

Earlier I posted about the possibility of a de facto social credit system, and I speculated that it was probably already happening. Turns out it was.

So much for Apple not building its business on monetizing the private details of your life. They're as much surveillance capitalism as Facebook or Google.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-trust-score-iphone-data-black-mirror-email-phone-fraud-a8546051.html

hey!

i am sponsoring an atari 2600 game coding competition!

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/283199-4k-vcs-assembly-programming-competition/

entries must be in 6502 assembly. i have about USD$100 to spend in prizes - depending on what people want, i will either award money or manufacture a game cartridge of the winning entries.

TIME TO BRUSH UP ON YOUR 8-BIT ASM!

I just saw that depraved hotdog quesadilla and ginger ale on my timeline and I honest to god need mental assessment

TIL

#DailySketchChallenge #WordSketch #smallstories

#EMERGENCY

I pulled over. We all did. Without a second thought. You hear those sirens. You see those flashing lights. You know one day it could be for you. For someone you love. And you hope.

Today, though, maybe it’s for someone else. Like...

The emergency vehicles scream by. And here he comes, following. The Opportunist. The Slipstreamer. First behind them. Cannoning along the path they cleared.

And you know, somehow, that he will be next.

I ask you to carry out one simple task and you fail me

Using twitter bootstrap to write a social network in a language that facebook heavily contributed to.

Open source is awesome. #php #federation

@dansup that's Free Software, you punk. :rms: