Maltimore @maltimore@social.tchncs.de

What to say about the death of a major Jewish public figure, and human bulwark against encroaching fascism, on erev Rosh Hashanah? We can not function like this, as a society. Already, we had put too much on the shoulders of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as we do all women, as we do all Jewish women. She had already disappointed us, in any number of supreme court cases, in her cozy working relationship with the reactionary Scalia.

"Accidental hipsters": a new book showcases the street fashion of seniors in Chinatowns across North America.

> “We were just enamored by these grandmas and grandpas we saw on the street,” [co-author Valerie] Luu said.
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> “It would be like a patchwork of different textures, colours and fabrics — sometimes three florals at once or six shades of pink. We were like, ‘Who are they?’

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/09/18/why-chinatowns-grandmas-and-grandpas-are-being-called-fashion-icons.html

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WIAT THIS MEME HAD A FULL STORY?????????????
#meme
twitter.com/skepholic/status/1…

echo Үourbank.com | hexdump -c # Send suspected unicode text through hexdump -c to confirm it. A normal ASCII 'y' would show up as y in the output, but unicode would have multiple codes per character. This is called a Homoglyph Attack.

When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

You should follow Distributed Denial of Secrets on here. They've been draconianly suspended from Twitter for publishing BlueLeaks, an 270gb archive of leaked police documents @ddosecrets

Stumbled upon this wiki about renewable energy while researching stoves, and it's amazing??

https://energypedia.info/wiki/Portal:Improved_Cooking

“...luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”

Ancillary Justice (by Ann Leckie)

@SeanAloysiusOBrien powering electric vehicles with the aid of nikola tesla's spinning corpse

tech is so funny sometimes

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.

https://www.sciencealert.com/ice-sheet-melting-is-perfectly-in-line-with-our-worst-case-scenario-scientists-warn

#ClimateCrisis

Just released microG Services Core v0.2.12.203315 🎉
- Support for Exposure Notifications API as used by COVID-19 contact tracing apps.
- As always: tons of fixes and compatibility updates

Available on the microG F-Droid repository or via https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.2.12.203315

The binary solution is short term, we also need a means to bust out of it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/09/14/weve-got-to-break-out-of-the-binary/

You are broke and want to become a #Linux admin and don't know how to start?

The "Introduction to Linux Server Administration" includes the source material for the 20 lessons of what was previously a commercial online Linux server admin course - now free. #sysadmin

https://github.com/snori74/linuxupskillchallenge

Can you have two accounts on Mastodon that are actually the same account? So if your instance goes down you can switch to another instance.

Yay, Briar GTK got a beta release, including .deb packages!

https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2020/briar-beta/

If you backport python3-websockets and libhandy/gir1.2-handy (which is pretty straightforward), it works on Debian stable (Buster)!

#Briar #Tor #Onion #Messaging #IM #InstantMessaging

Meanwhile in #Germany cops let dogs attack demonstrators in #Braunschweig at the protest against far right. Fun fact - Braunschweig was the city that gave Hitler his citizenship so he can become "the great leader".

RT @politbach@twitter.com

Völlig unverhältnismäßiger Einsatz der @Polizei_BS@twitter.com bei der #AfD-Demo in #Braunschweig

Kampfhunde und Pfefferspray trotz friedlicher Blockade

#bs1209

@gegenrechtsBS@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/politbach/status/1304700833150492673