★ian @imac@social.laiguana.org

Amazon warehouse workers on strike https://gnusocial.no/url/1192870

on designing technology "Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination" https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock/

🎺 🎺 This is an important PSA, if you're having trouble this Christmas season in telling if a toy is for boys or girls simply follow this simple guide:

If you operate the toy with your genitalia then the toy is not for children, otherwise it's for either girls or boys.

Just realised: with the purging of adult content based on US moral standards, corporations controlling huge swathes of user content and the decline of the number of browser engines.

The WWW is becoming AOL.

"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Oh, man. The 2000s called and they want their integer overflow bugs back.

"unprivileged users with UID > INT_MAX can successfully execute any systemctl command"

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11026

First, Starbucks blocks porn from its WiFi. Now, Tumblr blocks porn from its site. What next?

Ooop, looks like Quora got hacked: https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update #infosec

There’s a new menu item in the Facebook app labeled “Protect.” Clicking it will prompt you to download a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service called Onavo. Unsurprisingly, it's not a VPN: it's corporate spyware. https://u.fsf.org/2hc