DEFCON 201 @defcon201@hostux.social

We hear NFTs have become very popular. Had we known, we could have cashed in our trademark NFTs and made some serious "cha-ching!"...

...but then they wouldn't be "Nerds Freely Talking" ("Freely" as in "cha-ching!").

Replentish your NFT reserves tomorrow! See http://2600.nyc for details.

Well, it took a while but my petition to keep strong encryption without backdoors legal in th EU is now open for supporters!

Please feel free to support it and or boost/promte it

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/1222%252F2020/html/Keep%2BEncryption

Github Restores Reverse-Engineered GTA Code Following DMCA Counter Notice https://torrentfreak.com/github-restores-reverse-engineered-gta-code-following-dmca-counter-notice-210507/ #Anti-Piracy #DMCA

today i got a sense of just how much fucking magic x86 processors today have baked in, and no wonder it backfires

https://blog.cloudflare.com/branch-predictor/

MindCuber for Lego Mindstorms EV3
http://mindcuber.com/

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Update time! LibreOffice 7.1.3 is now available, with over 100 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/06/libreoffice-7-1-3/

moa.party lets you forward your posts from the fediverse (e.g., Mastodon – https://joinmastodon.org/) to Twitter and other walled gardens.

This is a post on my own Mastodon instance at https://mastodon.ar.al

So today I streamed my coding for 2 hours and a half and it was pretty fun.

If you want to see some stuff about RISC-V, see how compilers are done and all that stuff you can take a look to it.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1013068595

Or even follow or support the work!

Google and Microsoft are the biggest (self-reported) spenders on EU lobbyism #datamonopoly
https://www.statista.com/chart/17837/companies-spending-the-most-on-eu-lobbying/

♲ @RVAwonk@twitter.com:

NEW (via NY AG Letitia James): “After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation's largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans...”

An interesting piece on #AgeVerification and online pornography.

Ironic that the “16/17 year olds” surveyed were not age-verified, and may not have been 16/17!

They relied on self-reported ages, and guessing if the answers were what they’d have expected. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poi3.250

I’m currently looking for work. If anyone has any programming contracts available, please let me know.

At this point in time, if anyone can help me by supporting me on Patreon I’d greatly appreciate it while I persue a stable income.

https://www.patreon.com/chrisgnome

who thought this would be a good idea?

Back in 1995, we ate bangers for breakfast. I mean I'd have two cigarettes, listen to Music for the Jilted Generation all the way through, then get out of bed.

Episode 27: Nerdout! Game Design and Social Systems https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/27-nerdout-game-design-social-systems.html

Steve is back, and talks with @cwebber about social systems viewed through the lens of game design! How do game mechanics, uncertainty, and narrative map onto governance, society, and citizen participation?