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A new fork of Firefish (previously Calckey), which was a fork of Misskey.

"does undoing your wrong deeds wash you clean of sin?"

"You recognize that bad shit can happen, and that if you want to be a real techno optimist, you look for ways to minimize the bad and promote the good. That’s the optimism: that with some effort we can make sure that the good of technology outweighs the bad. "

June 2023: Hackers used the popular Minecraft modding platforms Bukkit and CurseForge to distribute a new ‘Fractureiser’ information-stealing malware through uploaded modifications and by injecting malicious code into existing projects.
Cross-posted: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167089

"Three Stanford graduate students built an AI tool that can find a location by looking at pictures. Civil rights advocates warn more advanced versions will further erode online privacy."
via https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-is-scarily-good-at-guessing-the-location-of-random-photos.html cross-posted at https://lemmy.world/post/10102538

"New science and strange facts about North America’s quintessential rodent."

"...though we don’t talk much about Babylon 5 now, the narrative structure of the show, in tandem with internet discussion, essentially created the model for TV fandom today."

XKCD on the Little Mars Rover That Could