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UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.

Food for thought: applying the human brain's limits on meaningful relationships (Dunbar's number) to social media.
Interesting to look back at this 10 years later.

"No wonder you don't feel rested after a first night in a new place: Half your brain has stayed alert while the other half enjoyed deeper sleep."

A Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund project: "Analyzing Effective Governance and Infrastructure Gaps in Medium-to-Large Sized Servers for Enhanced Social Networking"

"To be clear, the fact that plenty of people on the fediverse are happy to trade the industrial-grade trust & safety teams of the big platforms for “literally one random pseudonymous person who vibes okay,” says a lot about the platforms we’ve experienced so far."

Art depicting a fox battling against a spidery droid.

WW2 rationing, trying to save on packaging material and metal for slicing machines.
It didn’t last long.

"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. "
via https://wordtothewise.com/2013/04/goodbye-mr-ebert/

"The results are in for the Best of 2023! People around the world voted, and here are the winning space images, missions, exploration milestones, and more."