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"We've decided to focus on making lightsabers for toddlers." -- Blender, probably
(I'm only upset because I love #Blender and it hurts to see it being destroyed, like watching someone you love smoking glue.)
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I was looking forward to playing around with it this summer when things settle down and it's too hot to be outside a lot.
Oh well, there are other amusements.
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That's to be expected from the country that gave us "Le Pétomane"!
And the song about Le Pétomane's life composed and sung by the inimitable folk singer Keith Hancock.
I first heard this in the 1980s at the Star Inn Folk Club in Salford.
Great singer, memorable song!
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A famous french joke.
Like the Audi E-tron (in French étron means something like excrement...) 😅
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The First Amendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air.
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Dear Star Trek shows…
Star Trek fans don’t care about special effects. They just don’t. You could have the greatest CGI background you want, but if the story doesn’t speak to the heart of what Star Trek is, the fantastic ship battles and stellar scenery won’t mean shit.
So please, take that CGI money, and spend it on writers who know the show.
Thanks.
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For example: Deep Space Nine has any number of episodes which have very little, if any, moments in space, but is rammed to bursting with examinations of morality, decisions of governance, and the human condition.
Science Fiction can be a thriller, but it can also not be and still be SF. This proves that the ‘thriller’ stuff of — zoooooom — and — pew! pew! — is totally fun but not *necessary*.
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Fair. Like any art, it’s not for everyone. No one is going to like everything, and not everyone will like one thing.
I like politics and struggles of will and so on, and feel less interested by stories of war and battle strategy.
Thankfully, Star Trek’s universe can have both!
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I keep telling my best friend I am not going to buy a Meshtastic unit until he starts using all of the other equipment we purchased since we were teenagers now collecting dust.
1. CB Radios
2. Commercial VHF / UHF radios and repeaters
3. Encrypted radios
4. GMRS equipment
5. Ham radio equipment including DMR
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Time Enough for Loaf
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#ICE went on a hiring spree. Sterling credentials were not required, AP investigation finds
Their backgrounds stand out. And not in a good way.
#Trump #law #murder #Constitution #RightToProtest #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST
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2 bankruptcies & 6 law enforcement jobs in 3 years. An allegation of #lying in a police report to justify a #felony charge against an innocent woman—an incident that led to a $75,000 settlement & criticism of his integrity. A 3rd job candidate once #failed to graduate from a police academy, then lasted only 3 weeks in his only job as a police officer.
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Their common bond∶ All were hired recently by US #Immigration & Customs Enforcement during an unprecedented hiring spree — 12,000 new officers & special agents to double its force — after the agency received a $75 billion windfall from #Congress to enact Trump’s #MassDeportation campaign.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST
#Trump put a premium on swift action, & for #ICE that meant rapid-fire recruitment & hiring, which in turn led to new employees with questionable qualifications. Their backgrounds & training have come under scrutiny after numerous high-profile incidents in which ICE agents used #ExcessiveForce.
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The agency has claimed the majority of new hires are police & military veterans. But evidence is mounting that applicants with questionable histories were either not fully vetted before they were brought on or were hired in spite of their past, an AP investigation found.
Thursday, prosecutors announced #felony #assault charges against #ICE officer Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. for pointing a handgun at the occupants of a car after pulling alongside them on a #Minneapolis-area highway in February.
Court records show Morgan had a history of financial problems, & the police department in Alexandria, Virginia, said he was an entry-level recruit for 6 weeks in 2022 but never completed its police academy. It is unclear when he started at #ICE, which didn’t return messages seeking comment.
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"sterling credentials"... many couldn't even pass an open book test, had training schedules dramatically shortened, background checks were cursory at best.
they basically hung out a shingle "hey racists? want to beat up POC and get away with it? how about a hefty cash bonus too!"
I knew of a convicted pedophile who attempted to apply for a local law enforcement officer position. They were ready with a polygraph and knew about his expunged felonies and had fun interrogating him about his past behavior. I would later witness him in a week long courtroom case for more of the same felonies, including domestic terrorism. He was known to impersonate police officers.
I am absolutely sure that person applied to ICE recently. I noticed after trump was elected, his convictions vanished for several months... I guess ICE got tired of the pedo and kicked him out...
It's possible for Dominion machines to suck, but not in the way that Tucker Carlson says they do.
Georgia's voting technology blunder @pluralistic
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Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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Fuck. Accidentally updated to OneUI 8 and now OEM unlock button completely vanished from settings.
Fuck you Samsung 🖕🏼🖕🏼
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Mastodon's Inherent Resilience
Another aspect of this #Bluesky crash that deserves attention is resilience and defensibility.
One of the key characteristics about the design of the internet all the way back to it's DARPA inception is an ability to withstand local service disruptions as well as attacks on its infrastructure.
Mastodon's ActivityPub architecture is like that. It was designed from the start to be resilient with individual nodes on the network isolated and completely independent.
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The midterms are approaching. Perhaps the most consequential election in US history. Right now opposition media voices are corralled on #Bluesky, and today they are silenced.
This may be a technical matter, but it also exposes that the entire network can be taken down. There is good reason to distrust their VC crypto owners, but they are also clearly vulnerable to outside interference.
At the very least, media should establish Mastodon accounts on the public social media Fediverse as a backup.
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Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.
Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(
I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.
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@coldclimate Well. The use case they were trying to solve for was someone steals your laptop and tries to access it without your permission.
Hard part is getting owners to unlock it before donating/selling to someone else.
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@HitokiriEric @coldclimate but here's the rub for me. Even if a user logs into their iCloud account and removes the device from their account, it still won't release.
That should be illegal.
Even enterprise locked Chromebooks can be decommissioned remotely and unlocked.
There is no reason this cant be done with apple.
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Hmm… for the hardware firmware I’d still want to have to unlock it on device rather than having an attack surface/backdoor from the internet to exploit. Apple had the issue a couple years ago with thieves exploiting the remote password change to workaround the phone protections.
But I get how it sucks for this use case.
Like a lot of things, for 99% of users who don’t care they should default to a version that’s secure from most thieves but not totally secure from government and then let the users who really care opt in to the stronger lockdown mode.
@HitokiriEric @coldclimate yeah. I mean look. You can unsolder the t2 chip and reprogram it etc. Motivated thiefs can still do it.
But was this when a problem? I really don't think it was.
Again. Look at Chromebooks. They have a firmware level lock too that can't be hacked. And yet it can be decomissioned remotely when the org releases it.
You're telling me apple couldn't do this?! For regular users? Its a racket
@coldclimate Well. When that generation of laptops was new, that was a big feature that Apple was selling hard on. They kept trying to lock them down more and more to attempt to be as secure as possible by default and were so proud of how hard it was to defeat.
I’m not saying they couldn’t do better and better consider different choices to improve the balance for different types of users. Which they have done since then.
I’m just saying that back then, the discussion was all about making them as secure as they could think to make them and that’s what they optimized for. It’s not a surprise they went too far back then when that was top of mind for them.
@vriesk @HitokiriEric @coldclimate exactly.. i'm not saying break encryption or offer a back door. That's fine.. i stand by that.
But if a user logs into their secure apple account and removes a device, that device should be able to be wiped and reused.
Hard stop. If you have an issue with that.. you're pro-ewaste
I’m with you that overall, the default settings for Find My should allow users to deactivate the lock remotely. Most users would benefit greatly and it would make it so much easier to transfer devices.
I think they still should have an opt-in mode where you can go into a higher security mode and remote unlocks are completely disabled. I don’t think it’s pro-ewaste to make that level of security available and optional.
@HitokiriEric @vriesk @coldclimate agree completely. I'd have no issue with that.
That's secure by default but sensible settings for most users.. and if you wanna go into hard core mode.. then go for it
Hi, so, question tangential to this thread : about current Macbook theft and activation lock bypass.
So, afaict Macbook theft is still a thing, which means that there must be a way for thieves to get something out of those machines.
Are they just hoping that the machine they stole isn't activation-locked ? Is there like, an entire underground economy of replacing T2 chips to then resell (mostly) functional Macs ?
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@aura exactly. Why is it so confusing. We're nerds and we couldn't figure it out. I gave an old Mac mini to a friend and was really confident I had removed all the hooks.
And still, the bootloader was locked to my Apple id and there was no way around it other than giving him my apple password and then 3fa the login attempt.
It's ridiculous.
Reminds me of back in the early days, one of my first sells on eBay was an old iPhone. I was naive enough to not know that the purchaser could mark it as paid without actually paying. Not know how the process worked, I shipped the iPhone not realizing I was never actually paid (and never going to be). The purchaser deleted their eBay account to cover their tracks. The BIG irony... I forgot to reset the phone. I later got angry, threatening messages from the purchaser under a different account saying they would disassemble for parts if I didn't give them the password for the phone they never paid for. 😂
Point is, ya... Apple's anti-theft technology is from their viewpoint a feature, not a bug.
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@paulywill they can.. of course. But you need to unlock the bootloader to do that.. and you can't do that while its locked :(
That's the entire issue..
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I am interested to see if you have tried this method
mrmacintosh.com/how-to-restore…
And
mrmacintosh.com/how-to-remove-…
You need a second Mac that works and you control the one with a firmware lock using Apple Configurator. I have converted Apple Macs to run Linux but all of them have been 2017 or earlier.
macOS Update brick your Mac? This article will show you how boot to DFU Mode and restore BridgeOS on a T2 MacBook Pro, Air, iMac Pro, Mac Mini & Mac Pro!admin (Mr. Macintosh)
@vicash yup.. doesnt work if you don't know the activation password.. AND if you can't prove ownership.
It's shit mate
checkra1n is a semi-tethered jailbreak, developed primarily by Luca Todesco (qwertyoruiop). It's based on the checkm8 bootrom exploit released by axi0mX. checkra1n...The Apple Wiki
@paulywill What exactly keeps the bootloader locked ?
If its a password or a config, or anything that is runtime change-able, it is then kept alive by the onboard battery.
So cutting off ALL available power should hard reset the thing.
The only way around this is if Apple hard coded the lock/password/whatever on a silicon level.
@Victorsigmoid have you seen the video of that? I just watched it and holy shit its intense haha.
I mean I AM considering it.. but what a nightmare.. its' super time consuming.. and you still need another up to date mac to hook it up to in DFW mode..
So even after ALL that.. you still end up needing a current Mac.. god i hate them
In daily MacBook repair, unlocking ID activation lock is commonly seen. For example, ID activation lock will appear on the system activation...REWA (iFixit)
Restore/upgrade firmware of iOS devices. Contribute to libimobiledevice/idevicerestore development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@coreysnipes it really breaks my brain. And it's just starting..
The ONLY solution seems to be this super long and complicated procedure of literally unsoldering the t2 chip, directly reprogramming it, resoldering it, and then hookign it up to another mac in DFW mode,etc.. HOURS of work just to use a machine you own
@coreysnipes textbook Apple.. I hate it so much.
Like, I can't even tell you how many lives have been improved and SAVED because I was able to install linux on an older mac and give it to someone.
This kills that..
@coreysnipes this is intentional, not a mistake!
this shit needs to be *OUTLAWED by #RightToRepair as it created 100% avoidable #eWaste and demolishes #ConsumerRights!
- And I want @EUCommission & @BMWK to go after manufacturers like #Apple that do this #AntiRepair-bullshit!
- Because it is #AntiRepairDesign and has no legitimate reason to be done this way!
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@noodlemaz Apple will just shred it.. so it's "recycled" for the metal.. but they're not re-using it.
In my experience, it's best to wipe it, then set it up with a new local account with a dummy admin password.. then put it as a sticky note on the keyboard.
If you plan for it to be useful again. You don't need an icloud password, just a local admin password.
Hope that helps!
@noodlemaz still, this shouldn't exist.to begin with!
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this shit needs to be *OUTLAWED by #RightToRepair as it created 100% avoidable #eWaste and demolishes #ConsumerRights!
- And I want @EUCommission & @BMWK to go after manufacturers like #Apple that do this #AntiRepair-bullshit!
- Because it is #AntiRepairDesign and has no legitimate reason to be done this way!
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@LoneLocust on more than one occasion i've had a user go through ALL the steps to clear the computer. And yet.. even with all that, I still can't unlock the boot security without a local admin password.
The only thing that seems to work is for someone to wipe it and then set up a dummy account.
But you have to be a motivated user to do all that. Most people are just going to toss it to donate it. Or inherit it, etc.. thats a huge percentage
but if Apple can remove the lock then surely it’s equally possible that someone else could too which would sort of defeat the purpose, wouldn’t it?
Certainly, I would agree that if a person goes through the steps to wipe the machine to give it away or sell then that process should absolutely remove all of the security locks from the machine.
@LoneLocust yeah I’m calling BS on this. I have reset countless Macs, and while it’s true that Activation Lock is a pain, it’s completely false that it’s forever tied to an Apple account. If they remove it properly, the account association is gone completely.
It can be tricky to remove it properly because sometimes you think you removed it just for it to reappear later, but it’s absolutely doable.
@ottaross But I *love* that thieves are disincentivized, just like with iPhones.
If I understand, you need the original user to remove the lock before donating, but they don’t know? I wonder if Apple could build in a feature like “contact this locked machine’s registered account holder and ask if they’re really done with it”. Then I could approve if I really donated/sold it, or click “absolutely not, brick it forever w/o my password” if I didn’t. (Hmm, how could that be abused?)
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@sidb Sadly Apple doesn't show interest in helping unlock.
@sidb @ottaross this would expose it to some phishing risk, and similar stuff is also used against some phones to push a request to release it.
Some better options would be to make the donor log in and release it when accepting it, or to make them log in to their account and specify the serial number to release it.
Or to allow those pushes for unlock on a device only after they also removed it from their device list on their account.
But I love that thieves are disincentivized, just like with iPhones.
Selling them at a reasonable price and making them maximally repairable would do the same thing, because the thief would be less trustworthy & cost-effective a source of hardware than one's local repair shop (where it has likely already been fully refurbished, rather than needing that on top of the stolen property risk).
(The reasonable price part is why this dynamic doesn't apply to cars. This then goes further into systemic issues with the whole car-centric model that if they were addressed would largely obsolete cars for the majority of the population anyway.)
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@bigzaphod Doesn’t Apple have a program that will remove activation lock if you can prove provenance of the device?
TBH it’s also poor educating of the donors on Apple’s part that this step must be done prior to donating.
@bigzaphod On Apple's site (support.apple.com/en-us/108934) it shows you can contact them with proper documentation to get Activation Lock removed:
“If you need help removing Activation Lock and have proof of purchase documentation, you can start an Activation Lock support request.” (1/2)
Learn what to do if you see the Activation Lock screen on your device, or if you're asked to remove Activation Lock on a device that's offline and not in your possession.Apple Support
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@miked1112 nope. I've seen this personally too. Where I had a t2 mac mini. I signed out of iCloud, deleted it from my account, and reformatted the machine.
I gave it to a friend, who wanted to open the boot security to install Linux but needed my apple password to it.
I've had people donate to me with the same issues. It's crap.
If someone deletes the device from their iCloud account, you should be able to unlock the bootloader. Google does this easily with chromebooks
Reset your Mac to factory settings to prepare it for the new owner.Apple Support
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this shit needs to be *OUTLAWED by #RightToRepair as it created 100% avoidable #eWaste and demolishes #ConsumerRights!
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@brandonscript but its not.. the tweaker that breaks into your car to steal it still will.. you'll still be without a computer. And when the pawn shop won't pay the guy for it, they'll just dump it in the trash or river.
So it doesn't fix the problem and creates new ones.
@june that's just the tip of the iceberg...
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this shit needs to be *OUTLAWED by #RightToRepair as it created 100% avoidable #eWaste and demolishes #ConsumerRights!
- And I want @EUCommission & @BMWK to go after manufacturers like #Apple that do this #AntiRepair-bullshit!
- Because it is #AntiRepairDesign and has no legitimate reason to be done this way!
youtube.com/watch?v=e3e-b-7jCY…
Astonishing Anti Repair Practices By Apple In the Last 15 Years
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@oscherler doesn't make this any less bad BTW!
jorts.horse/@kkarhan/116411712…
this shit needs to be *OUTLAWED by #RightToRepair as it created 100% avoidable #eWaste and demolishes #ConsumerRights!
- And I want @EUCommission & @BMWK to go after manufacturers like #Apple that do this #AntiRepair-bullshit!
- Because it is #AntiRepairDesign and has no legitimate reason to be done this way!
youtube.com/watch?v=e3e-b-7jCY…
Astonishing Anti Repair Practices By Apple In the Last 15 Years
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That does make it difficult for you.
I realize you didn’t ask for these two cents, but it was you photo that shocked me the most. You will suffer additionally from cracked displays with such a tall stack of devices. I’d suggest no more than five high when horizontally stacked.
Good luck working with Apple on clearing Activation Locks. You may need to be registered as a business / agency to get the support you will need.
@sgtpepere nope. That's what I'm trying to do. But you can't boot to the usb without unlocking it.
It's a trap
@multi_flexi the t2 chip won't let you boot from USB unless you unlock it. And you need this to unlock it.
So nope. It's stuck
@LunaCOLON3 I agree. There really is no excuse for this.
Even enterprise Chromebooks can be unlocked remotely when they're decomissioned. Apple could do this too. But they won't
I had someone give me a used iPad last year and they hadn't reset it and the absolute nightmare I had getting it to work.
They wound up having to trust me with their username and password to log into their account so I could physically deal with it on the device.
Absolute fucking bullshit.
@richardazia but you can't even boot to USB without unlocking it.
That's the issue. Id love to install Linux on it. But i can't
@ben @SamuraiSakura and you know if you have apple recycle it. All they're going to do is shred it and reclaim a bit if metal from it. Then do a victory lap about how awesome they are.
Meanwhile how much energy when into reclaiming that tiny bit of metal?
@bigzaphod So your problem is that Apple is prioritizing the hardware and data integrity of THE OWNER and the owner did not properly unlock the device before it was recycled (or stolen). Sorry, but that doesn’t sound like an Apple problem. As an owner, that is what I want.
I understand that it sucks to be in your position, but Apple is doing the right thing here.
i ran apple from 1978 to 2006 about with power processor, dumped when they moved to intel ...
at that point apple became just a show off status choice, a company of grifters ...
I do appreciate that T2 chips make my macBook basically not a good target for thieves though: They by know understand that stealing these devices is not worth it and don't even attempt.
But it will take time until donors understand that they need to do EACS, which is quite simple:
support.apple.com/en-us/102664
But this isn't widely known yet. There's been some people who had luck with going to Apple Stores and providing some kind of guarantee that these are donated pieces but it's a hassle. But for such a big stack, buying a T203 would potentially make sense, could perhaps even be part of a hacker space's tools.
Use the Erase All Content and Settings feature to quickly and securely erase all settings, data, and apps, while maintaining the operating system currently installed.Apple Support
Hmm, I’m about to donate a bunch of MacBooks. All personal devices that were collecting dust. I’ve reset them and reinstalled the latest macOS possible.
Any way to check if they’re still locked?
right there.
I am never (unless they change radically) going to purchase an Apple product.
I will not willingly support this sort of shit. They can have the fastest laptop CPUs with the best battery life, etc. And they can keep it for all i care. I'll not support that sort of practice.
really, the factory reset features in devices with anti-theft measures should ask if the user intends to give the device to a new owner
discoverability of these anti-theft measures doesn't seem especially prevalent
it would interfere with charity somewhat, but even a recommendation that old devices be returned to Apple/Google would at least mean folks are prompted to deactivate ownership thoroughly
it's a mess, honestly not sure how to reconcile this :S
ChecM8 Software is ready to Remove & Bypass Activation Lock on Mac with out Apple ID and password. Supported Mac machine with Apple T2 Security ChipCheckm8
@drreid @DekOfTheYautja hjahah why not both?
I feel like Microsoft could care less about your privacy. and Apple could care less about your bank account.
@drreid @DekOfTheYautja i feel that. Trust me.. when I bash Apple, its NOT a Microsoft endorsement eitehr.
I've been full time Linux since 2020 and haven't looked back
Slightly different thing, but gawsh I recently had to look into Apple's repair system as I unfortunately dropped my MBP at our hackerspace and smashed the screen 🙃 I paid something like 600eur for the machine 2nd hand, Apple quoted 999eur for a replacement screen. Ha-ha...
Also ofc there's a chip preventing from simply switching a screen from another unit, so even with the 450eur screens from eBay it's just not worth it just in case I'd mess it up soldering.
It's now a desktop.
when sometimes I say apple is shit, I need to re-evaluate and apologize to excrement; it has uses.
Apple is just a cult for the terminally vain and overmoneyed dumbasstronic idiots.
The pain i n my eyes, when they roll interdimensionally, every time some idiot apple user tells me that "apple protects your privacy betetr, hur hur hur"
I'll preface this by saying I know little about Apple or your donation process...
Is there any contact with the donor when the donation is made where you could walk the donor through removing the device from their account?
@NatureMC I hope it is.. but as usual this is a grey area because of security. There IS a way for a user to unlock the device before giving it away, but it's unclear, complicated and confusing so most people won't do it.
That's the issue
ChecM8 Software is ready to Remove & Bypass Activation Lock on Mac with out Apple ID and password. Supported Mac machine with Apple T2 Security ChipCheckm8
Ugh, I had no idea this was a thing. I'd recently picked up a MacBook Air, needing more than a Chromebook but minus the Microsoft invasion. Apparently there is no OTS option* anymore when you get sick of the overreach.
I'll be able to do the steps to make the device donation-ready now that I'm aware, but this design is wrong.
*Don't at me about Linux; it's an option but it's not a 'walk into a shop and let someone else handle it' option, yet.
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I've historically had a harder time fixing and selling selling used apple products than any other tech. They just exist in their own ecosystem and play by their own rules.
People who buy apple aren't wanting second hand gear.
Used ecosystem is iPhones under 5 years old and 3rd parties like backmarket ate the whole share.
Support is specialty stores or apple (although their support is top-notch when it's there). Out of support? Might as well have a brick.
I saw a video that talked about a Linux workaround that can make these computers useful again. I would imagine you know that, but for the sake of anyone who wants to dig into it, here's the video. It's light on details but might send people in the right direction.
youtube.com/watch?v=WAettJ2s23…
Thanks to Boot.dev for sponsoring this video! Use our link https://boot.dev/?promo=SWITCHANDCLICK and use code SWITCHANDCLICK to get 25% off your first payme...Switch and Click (YouTube)
Personally, I would *love* to run Linux on an old macbook.
Great hardware + software I actually control. Bliss.
@ex_06 @ben @SamuraiSakura how much are they paying? From what I hear it's nothinh. They used to give you gift cards but not anymore.
I know there used to be some trade in value on old devices. But that was famously a bad deal.
And think about it. If they can give you a modest discount on an overpriced device while making you feel better and boosting their "eco friendly" numbers... That's a win for them
@tdpsk I hope this is true. But I still hold to.. the user should absolutely be able to release the device remotely from their icloud account that should allow the device to be used.
I can't imagine an argument against that. So many people aren't going to think of doing this. But I do hope the process gets better
@tdpsk 100% I agree. I'm fully into letting you lock it down as much as you want. That's your choice. But it shouldn't be the default.
99% of users don't want or care about that level of security. I'm positive the person who owned this laptop would be happy to see it wiped and repurposed.. they did not want it trashed forever..
have you tried this?
eclecticlight.co/2026/04/16/df…
How Intel Macs with T2 chips, and Apple silicon Macs can be rescued from the apparently dead by connecting them to another Mac in DFU mode.hoakley (The Eclectic Light Company)
> Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(
That's not true, but the process to have them unlocked sucks ass. First of all you need a proof of purchase. 2nd you need to walk into an apple store with all of these and ask to have them unlocked.
And that was the easy part. The difficult/annoying one is everything that follows...
You can write a receipt, if you're a legal entity that is a registered charity you'd potentially also have a donation receipt.
Basically you need some convincing paper trail. Esp. because if they find something that was actually stolen they will call the police and make you wait in the store until they arrive from what I've heard and then you'll have to prove where you got it from...
wait, so the previous owner can log in and reset it... But unless they also do it for the security chip, it's still useless?
That's just stupid.
Imagine buying it 2nd hand and the seller forgetting to do so (or just not knowing it has to be done, I for sure didn't know about this)...
Diese Anleitung zeigt, wie Linux auf einem Mac PC oder Laptop mit Apples T2 Security Chip installiert wird. Alle Macs und iMac Pro von 2018-2020...iFixit
The #BlueSkyOutage is why I still rely on and prefer Mastodon for my social media. I'm on Bluesky, but giving all control to one company is not what I want again. There is always a chance an instance goes down, but not the whole #Fediverse.
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"but not, it's not from vibe coding."
Wanted to check on Bluesky this morning, but it ended up being another potential time to point and laugh at AI vibe coding. And here the last disruption wasn't even two weeks ago.
The downtime message almost successfully tricked me into thinking there were issues on MY end, so they really do need their own Fail Whale. A Fail Butterfly, maybe?
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One of my favorite headlines ever
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The decision came as the administration seeks to settle a lawsuit filed by LGBTQ and historic preservation groups that had sought to block the removal.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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New Parliamentary session in Canada and the new leader of the NDP is getting down to business calling on the Government to ban surveillance pricing before it has a chance to take hold.
MP Leah Ghazan will be tabling a motion in the House, but it will take government to step up and sponsor a bill to make it illegal, particularly if after today they are working with a majority parliament.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Food #Affordability #NDP #Canada #SurveillancePricing
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Someone needs to start quoting Jesus without saying it's Jesus to Trump to see if he condemns him as radical left too.
The stuff about rich men not entering heaven etc (and before anyone says it, the "eye of a needle" is not a mistranslation about narrow gates, it really did mean the eye of a needle).
Given the current climate, one might say that being wicked and depraved is typical of the right, whilst fighting against it – or simply pointing out what is wrong – is a left-wing stance.
If that is the new reality (which I don’t think is all that new), then I must be a radical left-winger.
I mean, taking away the dishonest way the Americans use the words 'radical left'...this Pope is far more openly left wing than his predecessors, and supports real leftist positions.
This isn't an overton window thing, this is the fact that a committed Christian in a position of authority is willing to speak the truth, that following Christ's way is incompatible with the disgusting economic system promoted by loudly 'Christian' countries.
To me, that's a much more important shift.
The german CDU is doing this a lot, usually following a US agenda.
When you swift the window in the right-side direction:
- the 'left' becomes 'extreme left'
BUT more importantly
- the 'extreme-right' becomes the 'right'.
on the other hand, there is a far-left current within catholicism.
For example that book, *Le Christ rouge*, by the Christian philosopher Guillaume Dezaunay.
editions-salvator.com/exegese-…
Nul ne peut servir deux maîtres... Vous ne pouvez pas servir à la fois Dieu et l'argent » (Mt 6, 24). À travers les nombreuses paraboles des intendants, l'Év...Salvator
Trump has his own bible! Who does this "Pope" guy think he is?!?
Like, it's not that difficult. The pope says: don't murder people, don't start wars.
Not only are people in disagreement, they think THAT is a radical statement and if you think that not wanting random wars over covering up your involvement in a pedo scandal is radical, you're not on the non-radical side of things and should not be merited with the label of fucking rational thinking
When mainstream is Nazi, anyone who's not a Nazi is called left.
Doesn't mean they have any politics worth defending.
He is a conservative religious authority and the head of the worst criminal enterprise in human history.
Fair enough, but if the Christian Church had been following the teachings of Jesus, the author of their own faith, they’d already be considered part of the radical left. Why do you think they killed the Christ the first time around? Too radical.
Between Francis and Leo, the Vatican has been moving Left. No doubt about it. Still, you’d have to put them right of center.
no.
you would need only ask the question you have always needed to ask from the very beginning, which is: who is it that you, personally, have been empowering to do the considering.
@Precis they’ve called FOX NEWS leftist for a while. Fuckin Tucker Carlson was catching shit for being too far left.
Up is down, left is right, war is peace.
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The AI Great Leap Forward
Similar to the #Chinese Great Leap Forward's inflated grain production reports, companies are fabricating or exaggerating #AI adoption and productivity gains to please leadership, leading to increased investment based on made up numbers. The focus seem to have shifted from genuine AI development to "demoware" – impressive-looking prototypes and interfaces with little underlying validation, data infrastructure, or maintenance plans, creating future tech debt.
[…] Entire departments are stitching together n8n workflows and calling it AI — dozens of automated chains firing prompts into models, zero evaluation on any of them. These tools are merchants of complexity: they sell visual simplicity while generating spaghetti underneath. A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays. The people building these workflows have never designed an evaluation pipeline, never measured model drift, never A/B tested a prompt. They don’t need to — the canvas looks clean, the arrows point forward, the green checkmarks fire. The complexity isn’t avoided. It’s hidden behind a GUI where nobody with ML expertise will ever look.
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In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...Han Lee (Han, Not Solo)
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This is key to political understanding: austerity causes a rise in support for the far right. BTW, austerity is *not over*, unless you accept the meaningless official definition. A meaningful definition is "a decline in public services caused by a shortfall in funding". catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf
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The irony.
Everyone should understand that at the national level, for a currency sovereign, that would be the United States and the UK, a shortfall in funding is deliberate.
Money goes to the super rich by means of direct payments and privatized public services and economic consolidation which is hardly ever taxed, and the few pennies that go to the rest of the population are taxed, destroying their wealth, but not that of the rich
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Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.
That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.
words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline…
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.words.filippo.io
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@neverpanic
We inventoried _everything_ once for Y2K and once for DST 2007 🇺🇸 , at least here.
We _can_ and _will_ do it again.
(Doing it for both CRQC and Y2038 simultaneously would be a cost-savings.)
(If you can't make a 100% inventory, ask your Red Team or contact a gray-hat hacker, see if they'll take $ for becoming white-hat red-vest on Red Team.)
Considering the stakes, combined with the scope of resources some superpowers possess, plus the "disclose this and it might cost you your _life_" level of "nda" they enforce, I wouldn't count on "a few years". Might already be here?
I suspect anyone who might have the actual info as to what the state-of-the-art crypto-breaking capabilities are at the level of a military superpower, they certainly aren't in a position to talk openly about it.
@robpike Here's an NSA publication on this topic, from 10 years ago. What I love about this is how they describe their requirements: they have to field systems and guarantee their security for 30 years into the future.
archive.org/details/cnsa-suite…
NSA Guidance on crypto algorithms, and defending against quantum computing.Internet Archive
What about WebAuthn, Passkeys, etc?
I don't see any movement in that side of the pond. Just as we are convincing everyone to switch to them
> If you are thinking “well, this could be bad, or it could be nothing!” I need you to recognize how immediately dispositive that is. The bet is not “are you 100% sure a CRQC will exist in 2030?”, the bet is “are you 100% sure a CRQC will NOT exist in 2030?”
How big is the physical computer going to be?
What are the power requirements going to be?
Is this going to be a quantum CPU that doesn't need its temperature and voltage meticulously managed to prevent qubits from changing?
How many of these are we going to be able to manufacture per year?
If real, this is a super serious threat. Where are our sanctions to prevent the breakthroughs from being picked up by e.g., China? Shouldn't this be guarded like nuclear secrets? It was too dangerous for them to have Nvidia GPUs but zero policies about quantum computing as far as I know?
> In symmetric encryption, we don’t need to do anything, thankfully
Ok. So the IoT garden must rewind to the Kerberos or physical provisioning. I can't imagine lattices on small silicon yet.
Thank you, Filippo.
I still think hybrid is the way to go. PQ crypto algorithms and their implementations are still very new, with undiscovered flaws. If you use hybrid and PQ is broken by a bug or flaw, no problem, you still have the same protection or better than the classical one.
Even when quantum computers exist you'd have to break both the classical one (with a quantum computer) and the PQ one (with an implementation flaw, or mathematical breakthrough).
If you deploy only PQ and a flaw is found you are *worse* than classical, depending on how bad the flaw is you might not be much better from transmitting in plain text.
IOW a PQ crypto algoritm protects against an attack from a machine which doesn't yet exist. Deploying it standalone makes you vulnerable against a bug that doesn't yet exist. *But* we've seen a steady stream of bugs in OpenSSL, and it is very likely that there will be one in the PQ implementation too.
I think it is more likely that such a bug is discovered before a quantum computer is built that is capable of a practical attack.
For example there could be side channel attacks if you forget to implement protections similar to RSA blinding (constant time CPU instructions are not side-channel free, see latest Hertzbleed attack from 2025 about remote power analysis leaks). And there probably plenty of other "classical" attacks that will work on PQ algorithms too, since they execute on a classical computer...
Of course implementation flaws in a classical+PQ hybrid could be worse off than just classical too (e.g. some C memory bug), but that might be an acceptable risk.
I'm not sure what the best ordering for a hybrid would be, but I guess PQ encryption first, then classical? So you always have to break the classical first (which won't be instant, even with quantum computers).
There is of course a performance cost, but AFAICT encryption isn't really the bottleneck in TLS, from some testing with 'curl' and 'stunnel' they achieve much lower speeds than what 'openssl speed' reports, so increasing encryption time may not affect overall time that much.
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The unnamed American city I grew up in, built out in the second half of the 20th century, had many roads with no sidewalks to walk on.
No shoulders or bike lanes to ride a bike down.
Sketchy scant bus service.
No light rail.
It was aggressively anti-pedestrian.
It requires a lot of fossil fuel to keep a place like that running, so the future has little good in store for my hometown.
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@murodegrizeco The American collective imagination tends to be limited to its quarter-millennium scale when cities can last many centuries, but even within thirty years I can see a return of streetcars, the conversion of parking lots to usable space, even greenspaces, the retrofit of bike and pedestrian paths on former streets; we could accomplish so much with just a little investment and commitment. Add some public charging from solar or wind on the taller buildings and people who need (electric) motors can access them with no import of fossil fuels.
I grew up somewhere fitting that description, but for some years even the Republican mayor was a cyclist and that created some significant, if discontinuous, arteries for pedestrian and human-powered traffic.
@murodegrizeco
The aggressive anti-pedestrian features of the 20th century expansion of American cities was intentional. It was meant to preclude transport except through the use of private cars.
Shutting out public transport was a purposeful feature. One excuse was that not putting in sidewalks, bus or bike lanes, etc., saved public funds, which paid for much of that expansion, though the money was spent on private contractors.
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I'd just let people like these browse the #CarryShitOlympics hashtag for a few minutes.
#CarryShitOlympics is amusing, even exciting when done well.
But the average 4x4 shopper wants their trip to be r e a l l y b o o o r i n g, so they can focus on their whatzapp or farcebook properly as they go thru the motions habitually.
Global warming or traffic injuries and deaths. They're acceptable costs, right?
(There are few things I despise more than people who use their phones while driving.)
#FirstDogOnTheMoon #cartoon this morning in The Guardian
I'd love this even as I also enjoy driving from city/town to city. As I view cars as great for distances over 10 miles, 2-10 miles being bike/trike ideal & under 2 to be walking sense.
*Not sure how many people who aren't athletes have walked from one edge of Manhattan to the other, but as a teenager I pulled off said stunt, because I was really a suburban kid & too spooked & confused by the routes to use the trains/subways much..
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@plutarch I've now spent over 7 years living in a semirural area as is my current home, 4 in a big city (3 without a car), and about 25 in suburbia (5 without a car)
I'm now within "city" limits, so most things I can walk or (if I had a tricycle) trike to, except medical specialists, the furniture lumber store & other bigger places in other cities & towns, all of which are over 22 miles away, which is nowhere near sensible to pedal to & from. *If there were better sidewalks here, especially to our town grocery store, I'd likely never bother driving to it, as it's about 1/4th mile away but as it is, I've done the "walking along the shoulder of a 45-50mph road" thing just a few times (when a car battery needed replacement).
In Suburbia & that big city, I had to walk at least 1/2 a mile (each way) beyond public transportation to do much of anything or get anywhere, 1 mile not being uncommon in the city & 2 miles not uncommon for suburbia.
After I get the Kosher meat deliveries to become routine & the plumbing fixed, aside from specialty stores & medical practicioners- I doubt I'll leave town much, hence I will at least try to budget in a trike for grocery shopping.
some of my favorite vacation cities are that exactly because i don't need a car at all.
SF, Chicago, Boston, London, Paris, Barcelona, Edinburgh. all have good public transport but are also wonderful to just walk everywhere.
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we won't even go into GPS navigation that hasn't been updated for disasters or road closures...
@paul_ipv6 I looks at first like a nice grid, but there were rivers and hills once, and they still exist under the pavement and buildings, and those nice straight roads just aren't as straight as you expect. And the freeways bugger the hell out of whatever sense there was, since they came later, massive walls through the middle of a city that you can only cross every mile or two.
Every major city is a terrifying challenge to a driver unfamiliar with roads and driving patterns though.
@W6KME
oh so true. the streets and drivers are nuts and not at all car friendly. i avoid driving there if at all possible.
i also hate driving in the DC metro area...
i'll drive in manhattan in preference to Boston or DC.
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@Catlynn It's very true. I live in Portland and I don't really *need* to drive anywhere… 😅
Oh the horror!
@Catlynn oh yeah, Laurelhurst Park is awesome. I live a little bit of a ways away.
Who knows what the feature may hold?
I once heard a nice thought experiment: Considering most cars are parked somewhere most of the time; imagine every parked car would be a tree.
Now imagine a good public transport could make this possible.
(I have to admit, it may work better from a German point of view, since we all live quite close together compared to some parts of the US)
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attention anybody with substantial experience with Rust and networking: my team is hiring!!
one of few rust jobs I'm aware of that is not web 3.0 horseplop.
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in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •John Maxwell
in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •Chubbypunk
in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •🤷
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
in reply to Chubbypunk • • •you can't expect cold robotic polite choices in matters of the heart
as long as it's not violent, and as long as it's proportional, it's fair game on matters of high level betrayal
Chubbypunk
in reply to ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES • • •is it?
I just see the conflict escalate. With this kind of reaction (eye by eye, tooth by tooth) the person will never be able to have a good relationship.
Don’t get me wrong: I don’t want to say betraying is okay. But why „give it back“?
I really hope, there are no children who get involved in this 2-Person-War.
It‘s really healtyer for all to just divorce and burn some photos of the happyer days you had for shure.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
in reply to Chubbypunk • • •@Chubbypunk
that's why i said "you can't expect cold robotic polite choices in matters of the heart"
everything you wrote is 100% sound and beyond reproach. i have zero problem with anything you wrote
...except for the small pesky detail that human beings, in situations of extreme emotional impact, can't be relied upon to make rational choices
shadowwwind
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in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •And? Geeze, how about you tell us what happened next!
Also, blackmail is a crime, you could go to prison for a long time.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️
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you just have to orchestrate it well. the anonymous account can't be traced back to you. which depends on your technical proficiency and how determined the cheater is going to go after discovery, if at all
the point isn't money, or shouldn't be, then you are getting in trouble. the point is tormenting the cheater
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yes i agree: cheating does not come from healthy motivations
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in reply to Chaucerburnt • • •even further, fesshole's just shitposting, the entire situation is not real
which doesn't mean anything, because we get to hang out and bullshit in the replies. which is the function of the top post: lubricant for social intercourse (pun intended)
that's the only point here
it's not about dealing with a real situation
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in reply to Sin Vega • • •well, contact the victim. if there is justice to be done, it's in their court, not yours. otherwise, the offender has time to destroy evidence, so then it looks like you're deranged, and the victim might not even believe you and be angry with you and take the offender's side
Sin Vega
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in reply to Sin Vega • • •ideally yes. but there's still many who won't contact the victim for various reasons, which is job #1, so it has to be emphasized
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in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •1/10 for telling the story to us.
Angua
in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •Technically an offence under Section 19 of the Theft Act 1968, but I wouldn't convict you of it as you would have a really good defence under parts 1 a and b .
Bloody well done!
Olle Gladsø
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in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •Gender David Copperfield
in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •all these years of monogamy and yet no real-world use found in pretending human nature isn't real.. these are real statements uttered by real monogamists: *OP pasted here*
they have played us for utter fools.
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