Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

me: i’ve single-handedly written software used by tens of millions of people, you can see it right over at github.com/april

prospective employers: sorry, but unfortunately you did poorly in a high-stress 40-minute coding exercise, writing code with no time to think about how to solve a problem you’ve never seen before, in a terrible dev environment, while someone stares at you the whole time

Why I deleted my social media accounts (and why you should too)

"[...] Social media platforms have turned lowering moral standards into an Olympic sport. And boy, are they winning. Sure, companies need to make money. That’s fair. But when they use every psychological trick in the book to keep you doom-scrolling for hours, it’s time to ask some questions. [...]

https://asylumsquare.com/backstage/2025-01-12/why-i-deleted-my-social-media-accounts

#elonmusk #musk #zuckerberg #trump #meta #x

My experience with moving my book records from Goodreads to #Bookwyrm might have been bad (still have to sort out that chaos), but moving my pictures from Instagram to #Pixelfed was... flawless. As far as I can tell. Anyway, https://metapixl.com/laumapret now has pictures from my previous years of instagramming as well. But I am still quite lazy with picture-gramming my life.

Šovakar fotogēniskais, kamēr nav nokusis.

Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights

If you believe it's now safe to fly without a protective mask, you might want to think again. New research shows the COVID-19 virus has been found on nearly every flight tested.

https://airspothealth.com/a/blog/coronavirus-found-in-samples-from-96-of-flights?s=09

WARNING--RANT!!! 😡

Before the US election I was so looking forward to never seeing that ugly f- face on a newspaper, magazine, or social media, now his freaking mug is everywhere in Canadian news and is threatening our coutry!

I will NEVER forgive those non-voting and the third party protest and MAGA US voters.

Thank you all from spreading your effing misery to the rest of the world you selfish S.O B-s!!

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

@CynAq @futurebird

I highly recommend doing this - a solar system walk 👇.
I did it with my kids when they were young, and it left a permanent impression… on me. The distances are so vast and the bits of matter so tiny.
Should be part of every elementary school astronomy class.

==Training Lesson==
INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵

My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience.

New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.

🇺🇸⚠️ U.S. companies that have continued to do business in Russia have contributed $1,2 billion in tax revenue to Kremlin in 2023, - Newsweek

Before you encrypt your secret message be sure to run it though a Scooby-doo translator just to mess with anyone who deciphers it.

"Ris ris ra rest rof re remergency rooby roadcasting rystem. Rif rou ran read ris ren rongratulations!"

@eniko @gabrielesvelto there you go

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Is your team new-ish to Rust? Have you ever considered bringing in someone external for code reviews and advice? I'm available!

Stealing passwords and PINs entered by Apple Vision Pro users. As you can see, you never know when a lecture on double integrals over surfaces might come in handy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08122

Hearing about a young hacker whose being extorted by the University of Washington, not cool UW.

The student claims they built an app to help kids get the course schedules they want, a hack as old as time, and the university decided to expel him until he ports his app to the university's internal systems.

This would be unpaid labor.

Until then his class registration is on hold and he can't register or attend his last few classes. 🥴

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap-huskyswap-project-activity-7282891503142641664-nA8Y

#UW #Seattle #HuskySwap #CS

10yo and I were designing a moon base for a video game.

10yo: And what would the soldiers look like?

Me: They’d be wearing the classic NASA Moon suits.

10yo: So it would be like astronauts with guns?

Me: Always has been.

10yo: What?