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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

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These are real Americans

No sir I am not playing with my Wang

Oh no where is popehat when you need him

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

🧒oh boy LEGO!
Wait, it's a ... container ship?

lol yeah I put vodka in my coke to sanitize it uh huh 🤡

We're working around the clock developing Chess 2

Lol fucking churches and food, c'mon man, white food culture is not a thing (except derogatorily) and white churches are why we have a dictator right now

One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia

I keep an OLPC* on my shelf to remind me to check my tech hubris and listen to experts outside of my own field.

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Lap...

Flight sims, auto racing, and table tennis are the only uses I have for it, everything else just works better on a screen

The Oculus was an amazing platform, the Quest 3 had the best inside-out tracking of any VR i've worked with. But the software was SOOOOOOOO bad. Required Facebook accounts. Wading through the gacha games and adverts just to go and play PC VR games :(
Apple proved that VR is niche at best

No absolutely not I will not make the joke, but he should probably go by Richard

What if all those stars and galaxies are just really small and red and everything gets smaller and redder the further you go from earth?

minnesota is still being terrorized by ICE. it hasn’t stopped and from local reports has gotten way worse. it isn’t making major headlines anymore and we know why. ABOLISH ICE !!!

What the fuck, NOTEPAD?

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

There was a setting in the old AD replication protocol where you could run replication over SMTP for unreliable links

YouTube video by jimlapbap Baby One More Time Opera feat. @BethanyBarber #Opera #ClassicalCrossover #BabyOneMoreTime #Duet

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Oh yeah that’s the stuff

“Suspected” lol it figures that Fox News doesn’t have anyone on staff that knows American spanish idioms

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Cherry bawls were the best

What about the Spring Olympics? A bunch of mud runs and whitewater rafting. The Autumn Olympics, mostly drinking beer and fishing?

Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change

EU regulators have ruled that TikTok is too addictive because it shows a never ending stream of videos with a highly effective recommendation algorithm.

They argue this harms the well-being of users especially minors. It faces a fine of up to 6% of global revenue as this violates the DSA.

Officially selected as an election officer in my county!

Democracy won’t die under my watch, in this one specific location at least 💪

Scheoedingers database: PII is held in superposition until someone files a data subject access request

I was always curious how those MO drives would hold up over time…such a neat technology

We apologize for the brief suspension of @dril.bsky.social. While our automoderation tool correctly identified that he 'knew too much,' we regret the error.

I can’t believe I agree with him. But, the Dems refused to prosecute him for Jan 6th, so here we are