ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space

Reminder: Whenever you go to apologize but then realize it isn’t something you should apologize for and you wonder what to say instead: SAY THANK YOU. Your apologetic instinct is to lower yourself to raise up someone else, and the raising is great but the lowering is unnecessary: Just give them the blessing. Say “thank you for waiting” instead of “sorry I’m late”. It works.

Mac tech coworker tests and verifies the root thing. Says unlocking the control panel thingy with root seems to somehow 'activate' the supposedly locked-out root account, like you can then do a full interactive login as root afterwards.

Is... is this a case of someone wrote 'if (account.activated = true)' rather than 'if (account.activated == true)' ?

It can't be that dumb surely

NEWT FROM ALIENS VOICE: but it could

Apple's fuck-up or not let's also remember that there are ways to do vulnerability disclosure responsibly and tweeting about it is not one of them

The right always brings up fake accusations -> the right crafts false accusations. It's a pattern. It's a heck yeah moment that WaPo did not fall for it and managed to fire back but the misinformation tactics described are chilling https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html

EVE Online Player Accidentally Becomes Certified Accountant http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/eve-online-player-accidentally-becomes-certified-accountant/

Etsy after going public: "they are cutting anything that’s not essential to the business. This is a cautionary tale of capitalism"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/business/etsy-josh-silverman.html

twitter.com/nothings/status/934891178591264768

<<Realized that even though I knew there's a new Animal Crossing game, I've still been reading every reference to "AC" as "Assassin's Creed".

Those were some weird tweets, y'all.>>

https://cybre.space/media/hKO_LFaECHbwZospAjA
http://kogla.tumblr.com/post/167883783436/feazelblahg-ayezaeyah-howdy-ive-never-seen

Christmas on Mastodon

https://computerfairi.es/media/3IUbD41UO433d1z7qH0

I'm guessing makefile and compile options.

https://twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/934532192360910852

<<This sword is typical of those that would have been wielded by European knights in the 13th century. It was found in the river Witham, Lincolnshire. On one side there is an indecipherable inscription ‘+NDXOXCHWDRCHWDRCHDXORUN’, perhaps a religious invocation. (weighing 1.2 kg)>>

https://mastodon.social/media/3trhcrhpc2K7pU7KwSY

*taking back control intensifies* http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/news/economy/uk-france-biggest-economies-in-the-world/index.html

😃 #Mastodon is getting a lot of new users right now, but, importantly, it's also getting new instances. Here are two comics focused instances for #under1000

https://comicspace.masto.host

https://comics.masto.host

I want to use Mastodon more, but I'm having trouble finding likeminded people. Hit me up if you like (or make!) narrative driven games/adventure games, or making YouTube vids/Twitch streams about them. Or if you just fancy a giggle. #gamedev #adventuregames #youtube #twitch #narrativedesign

"If you ignore the witness of teenage girls,
if you tell refugees "go back where you came from,"
if you close your doors to dirty field laborers,
if you would turn a child over to a tyrant:

Please don't put up a Nativity this year."
- Emmy Rettino Kegler

Freedom House report: 30 countries use "armies of opinion shapers" online

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/14/social-media-influence-election-countries-armies-of-opinion-shapers-manipulate-democracy-fake-news

self-deprecating humor: a joke which asks its audience not to repeat it because it will be removed in the next release

https://www.ft.com/content/223af71a-d853-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e

<<Being an English-speaking society is like living in a glass house: it makes you transparent. Conversely, foreign countries are opaque to mostly monolingual Britons and Americans. Foreigners know us much better than we know them. This asymmetry probably helped Russia get its favoured candidate into the White House, and it will handicap Britain in the Brexit negotiations.>>

How a half educated #tech elite delivered us into chaos. Key paragraph: "Put simply, what Google and Facebook have built is a pair of amazingly sophisticated, computer-driven engines for extracting users’ personal information and data trails, refining them for sale to advertisers in high-speed data-trading auctions that are entirely unregulated and opaque to everyone except the companies themselves." [and perhaps opaque to themselves] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/how-tech-leaders-delivered-us-into-evil-john-naughton