Ryan @ryandaniels@linuxrocks.online

The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash.

You can download and hash it yourself, and it should still match - 1337e2ef42b9bee8de06a4d223a51337

I think this is the first PNG/MD5 hashquine.

shutting down stuff to update and then looking up random errors when stuff doesn't work.

Thanks snap. You're the best*.

*literally windows level garbage

xkcd being ten years ahead of its time

Oh, my piece for the Institute of Network Cultures got published and I missed it!

Fighting Disinformation: We’re Solving The Wrong Problems
https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2022/07/26/fighting-disinformation-were-solving-the-wrong-problems/

> The reason why misinformation and disinformation spread so fast is that our most commonly used communication tools had been built in a way that promotes that kind of content over fact-checked, long-form, nuanced reporting.

> One could call this the “outrage dividend“, and disinformation benefits especially handsomely from it.

Manual action required to update Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite and IoT (version 36)

https://fedoramagazine.org/manual-action-required-to-update-fedora-silverblue-kinoite-and-iot-version-36/

Pictured: one year old hardware conspiring to save me from myself

they want us to use it, but we didn't ask for it

“Absorbed by the light”, Amsterdam

GitHub is removing their Trending tab on September 30, 2022, due to "low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers"

Bummer, I discovered so many great projects there ☹️️

Bad gateway! Bad!

(Sorry)

(Shamelessly stolen from: https://nitter.snopyta.org/theprincessxena/status/1486376256874631169#m)

Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans who achieved so much with it.

This made the gods extremely angry because they were in the middle of trying to rent fire to humans with restrictive DRM.

Visualizing Toxic Air

Link: https://www.propublica.org/nerds/visualizing-toxic-air
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549653

PSA: borgbackup project needs more funding!

If you can help, please contribute.

I currently can not create new bounties for github issues as bountysource org funds are at zero.

Liberapay can alternatively be used.

https://www.borgbackup.org/support/fund.html

Why do people say Brave browser is privacy focused. The whole point of the thing is to show you ads BASED ON YOUR BROWSING. They track you. It's not private at all.

"So the Hyperloop, for example, [Musk] admitted to his biographer that the reason [it] was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project and to get in the way of that actually succeeding."

source https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788