Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Iranian APT Targets Female Activists With Mahsa Amini Protest Lures https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/iranian-apt-uses-mahsa-amini-protests-to-target-female-activists

I've been talking with an academic researcher who is interested in speaking with people who have shut down their fediverse servers, for any reason.

I know it's a touchy subject so I didn't want to just refer her directly to people, but if you are seeing this message and you're interested, please DM me and I will give you her email. I did a 1-hour interview with her on more general topics and really enjoyed the experience.

(Boosts appreciated!)

#CSS file: `flex: calc(sin(var(--pageDepth)) * 0.343) 1 auto;`

Me: weird flex but okay

The Russians think they just have to kill enough Ukrainians, win the war, and then their trading relations will get back to normal.
Today, my generation has a very positive view of Germans, but I remember growing up in the 1980's in Denmark, where some of my dad's business relations still would not do deals with anyone from Germany.
That was forty years after World War II and Hitler's occupation of Denmark.
Forty years — this is the kind of anger the Russians have drawn upon themselves.
#ukraine

Huge congratulations to @sasajuric on the third edition of Elixir in Action! When I first got started with Elixir, his first edition was hugely influential in my early success. So much so that I asked him (and he graciously agreed) to write the forward for Phoenix in Action.

Elixir in Action also happens to be on sale right now. I can’t recommend it highly enough no matter your skill level and familiarity with Elixir. https://shortener.manning.com/VpvW #Elixir

Excel_Skin.wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/f111e2b11a9bfe18e44f4e5f1281b47a

TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!

Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!

Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!

Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding

Substitoot is a Firefox addon that transparently loads missing replies to boosted toots in your feed directly from the source server.

- It does it more often than it should (I'll add some checks next week) but the experience is still better than without it.
- There is certainly some potential for vulnerabilities.
- There is no Mozilla-signed release yet but it's possible to do a "temporary install".

https://github.com/virtulis/substitoot

Somebody has put Meta AI's ChatGPT-equivalent model weights on bittorrent and even raised a pull request for it: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73

And now it turns out, something like ChatGPT can in fact run on laptop-class hardware!! :undefined:

#machinelearning #openai #chatgpt #meta #facebook

Spotify: 25000 people listened to your album, we’ll never tell you who they are and how they found you! Here’s $1.74.

Bandcamp: 30 people bought your album and left a comment! Here’s $250.

There are only 14 countries in the world that offer full legal rights to women. The US is not one of them.

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/only-14-countries-have-full-equal-rights-for-women

So I set out to solve the "no replies to boosted toots" problem earlier today.

And now I have a solution, but it's a really, really bad solution. But it does seem to work. (only in Firefox, only on desktop)

https://github.com/virtulis/substitoot

(there is no signed XPI yet and I'm not certain it will be signed. but I did submit, for lulz.)

Physical knobs & userspace drivers in Elixir

https://underjord.io/userspace-drivers-in-elixir.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://underjord.io/userspace-drivers-in-elixir.html

#elixir #programming

@jonn If you are using direnv, you can go through old projects and delete environments for those. Sadly, there are no good ways to manage garbage in NixOS, alas it's scriptable.

```
nix-store --gc --print-roots | grep '.direnv' | awk '{ "nix-store --query --size \""$3"\"" |& getline size; printf("%sMB\t %s -> %s \n", size / 1000000, $1, $3 ) }' | sort -h
```