otter
@otter@lemmy.ca
I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
- ImaginaryCTF 2025 | September 5-7, 12 PM PDT | a cybersecurity CTF competition with a variety of challenges for all skill levels2025.imaginaryctf.org ↗Submitted 3 days ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 6 days ago:
It might, but I think it might be a federation bug between our instances. I haven’t seen one like this before, but I’ll keep an eye out to see if it happens again / there’s a pattern.
You could also try setting yourself as a bot, saving, and then reversing it again. That might prompt your instance to send out the information again.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 6 days ago:
Oh sorry about that, it’s still showing up as a bot for me but it’s fine on your instance. I think the information just hasn’t federated over to lemmy.ca yet
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 6 days ago:
Jen asked:
There’s a lot of secure software, that probably people in this room work on, that is developed in the open, and that is used primarily by at-risk users, including things like Tor, Signal, SecureDrop. That’s great, because it makes it easy for folks to contribute. Maybe you don’t want that, I understand that can be hard. But it also makes it easier for people to audit and gain assurance that the app is doing what you claim without having to have, you know, EFF reverse engineer it. Would you be open to making the app open source?
His answer: “Absolutely not.”
Why? “I don’t want anybody from the government to have their hooks in how I’m doing what I’m doing. Once you go open source, everybody has access to it. So I’m just going to keep the codebase private at this time.”
He also claimed that the government can’t learn everything about how an app works by reverse engineering it, which isn’t true.
I agree with Jen. His answers are very concerning.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
Your account is marked as a bot by the way, you can fix that in your user settings
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 week ago:
I love it 😄
Did you extract those clips for this post, and do you have a recommended method for doing that? I sometimes find clips on getyarn, but the site barely loads half the time
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 week ago:
I saw some at the store, but I need to go back and confirm that they are still there
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- Comment on Did Ukraine provoke Russia by building a dam? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the post is in bad faith and it fits the purpose of this community. It sounds like OP is asking where this talking point comes from in order to counter it effectively.
The title could have been better
- Comment on Rss app for android 2 weeks ago:
It depends on how you want to sync. If you’re selfhosting freshrss for example, my personal preference is Capy RSS
- Comment on Do LLM modelers maintain a list of manual corrections fed by humans? 2 weeks ago:
That would be the good way of doing this, but I remember right after the
strawberryissue was fixed it would still mess up similar queries. They might have hard-coded something in for that one, at least initially - Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it also lift you up with a similar amount of force? Similar to putting a fan on a sailboat to blow at the sails, the forces would cancel out somewhat
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it would, unless the person’s volume also changes considerably
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 4 weeks ago:
also ‘barber’
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 4 weeks ago:
The amanitin toxin is heat stable, remaining toxic whether eaten raw or cooked. The mechanism of action of amatoxin is by inhibiting RNA polymerase, causing disruption of transcription of mRNA. As a result, hepatocytes cannot synthesize key protein coding genes, leading to the disintegration of nucleoli and pathologically centrilobular hepatic necrosis. This leads to the insidious onset of liver failure over 48 hours. Late onset (more than six hours after ingestion) of vomiting and watery diarrhea occur due to the second component in some of these mushrooms which are phallotoxin. Lepiota species lack phallotoxins so may not have the onset of vomiting and diarrhea until after 12 hours post-ingestion, or may just present with symptoms of liver failure at 24 hours post ingestion.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431052/
Wow ok 😬
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry Timmy, bad timing, we were being attacked by a giant space monster again
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 4 weeks ago:
This question might be better for one of these communities:
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season 1 month ago:
Streisand Effect incoming?
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on i liek turdles 1 month ago:
I don’t know how these are made, but this one is very well done
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 month ago:
Crocodiles may have also adapted over time to deal with the changes in our atmosphere, while the dino DNA would not have gone through those changes. They could handwave that problem by saying they combined it with some other DNA or modified it themselves (better hemoglobin?)
- Comment on Suponjibobu — An Anime Reimagining of SpongeBob SquarePants 2 months ago:
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- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 months ago:
I was looking at the Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss
On January 23, 2025, Joss lost his San Antonio home, as well as three dogs (with a fourth missing) when his house caught fire.[8][9] Joss says he was using a propane heater and had left the house. “Mistakes happen, man. And it’s my fault for, I guess, leaving something on,” Joss said. “Or if somebody came in and did something, who knows?” [8] He attended the 2025 ATX TV Festival in Austin, Texas with other King of the Hill cast members on May 29, 2025.[7] However, he says he was not invited to the panel, and an attendee on the social media site Reddit says that Joss interrupted the King of the Hill panel, bringing up his house burning down which he felt was intentionally burned down because of his homosexuality.
On June 1, 2025, Joss was approached by a neighbor who allegedly yelled homophobic slurs at Joss before shooting and killing him. The suspect was arrested shortly afterward.[7][10][11][12] The two neighbors have been subject to a longstanding feud going back years with police being called multiple times.[13] His death occurred just hours after he uploaded an Instagram video of himself walking around Austin and noting how he already recorded lines for 4 King of the Hill episodes.
Kern de Gonzales stated on Instagram afterwards that various people in the area had for years verbally assaulted them with homophobic slurs and threats to burn down their home.[14] Kern de Gonzales went on to say that the house had burned down after years of threats from their neighbors, threats to which the police had not responded, even after the threats had been reported by Gonzales and Joss.[11] On Joss’ Facebook page, Kern de Gonzales described the attack as a homophobic hate crime.
San Antonio Police Department released a statement saying “Our investigation has found no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation.”
Another article:
- Comment on Mastodon.radio down? 3 months ago:
It’s working for me, and so maybe it came back?
- Comment on A New, Shape-Shifting 'Flapjack' Octopus Has Been Discovered in the Deep Sea Off the Coast of Australia 3 months ago:
Neat
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 3 months ago:
No problem, I’ve seen it happen a few times so I thought I’d ask 😄
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 3 months ago:
Anyone can label themself as a bot in the Lemmy user settings, sometimes users do so mistakenly
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