Dr. Faustus

Dr. Faustus

@necromancy.net

I've got friends in low places.

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AHAHHA! For those of you that touch the tender flesh of another rather than computer: OAuth is a way to handle access to a resource WITHOUT providing a password. The idea is to let the user approve X to request their information from Y without sharing their Y login credentials. Why is this funny?

Micah Lee@micahflee.com

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

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We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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It's a big day for music fans today (8th August), as it marks the 20th anniversary of the Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident. And if you think you can guess where this story is going, I assure you that you cannot. Spoiler: things rapidly went down the drain. And, er, didn't.

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Replying to @scalzi.com

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

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more evidence detergent pods fundamentally break the way dishwashers are supposed to operate

Ross Hendry@rosshendry.com

@techconnectify.bsky.social If you're keeping a tally, I've switched to powdered dishwasher soap and adding a little for prewash. My underperforming dishwasher is now fine, and I'm saving money. Thank you!

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Someone has to point this out. The opening of the Obama Presidential Center is an experience and immersion of joy, hope, love and pride the 250th anniversary of our founding could have celebrated.

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No pun intended, but my cartoon here has been doctored. I may agree with the sentiment expressed but don’t change a cartoonist’s work That’s a no-no.

Askme@askme99.bsky.social

The idiocy of the idiots in the idiocracy is infinite, in 2001, Worm wrote in its journal that it sopped the car with its kids in it, so it could cut off the penis or a road kill raccoon to examine in later. WTF???