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Agony Forge is the name of my current game project. It's a web based take on a MUD (Multi User Dungeon). If you're not familiar, MUDs were text based multiplayer games that ran over telnet and were popular in the 90s. They were the inspiration for MMORPGs, to the extent that some of the text in EverQuest was lifted directly from one of the most popular MUD codebases. So I've been working on this thing in one form or another since high school. 1/3

The six co-conspirators have not been named (they are referred to as co-conspirator 1, co-conspirator 2, etc.), but the 45-page indictment lists the six as: four attorneys, a Justice Department official and a political consultant.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/Trump-

I used to spend a lot of time amplifying GOP chicanery, but I have since come to realize that it genuinely doesn't do us any good.

All we're doing with our righteous fury is giving the apathetic—a full THIRD of the American electorate—more reasons to tune out.

Amplifying hate won't fix what ails us, but motivating people might.

On Bluesky, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth wrote, “For anyone keeping track, this isn’t even the first time they’ve completely broken the site by bumbling around in the rate limiter. There’s a reason the limiter was one of the most locked down internal tools. Futzing around with rate limits is probably the easiest way to break Twitter.”

Foreign intelligence analysts looked at all the data available on the US and decided that weaponizing our own stupidity would be the most effective way to disrupt our government.

@voltronic @ecksmc

Lol. Yes. This is VERY bad. and Nope COSO is not vulnerable to this attack.

^^ He bought it to kill it. It's the only thing that makes any sense.

Went looking on the web for help solving a problem today and found an article with example code that looks extremely similar to code from one of my own public repos.

I’ve been using the Toot! app on my phone for CoSo for quite awhile now, but today it stopped working. Seemed like it stopped being able to refresh its OAuth access token. Finally broke down and got the CoSo app. Happy with it so far. Bring on that firehose!

@CoSoTips Unsolicited opinion: I just joined a week or two ago (idk I lost track) and went pro instantly because I LOVE being the customer, not just product with legs.

If your company is using the "PreCrime Network" of bfore.ai , or quad9 for DNS (which use their blocklist), you might want to be aware that the "0.05% false positive rate" appears to be .

I started looking into this new service when a site I manage for a non-profit got blocked by them and, by proxy, quad9 (which I use for DNS on my home network). It seems they use some sort of machine learning model to try to identify which sites might "become" malicious. 1/x

It’s meant to be a spectacle, dismantling something people care about.

He imagines himself a digital conqueror, sacking online communities and driving waves of cyber vandalism.

Watching though, it seems more like the emperor tearing off his own imaginary clothes.

Grotesquely clownish and repugnant, an obvious failure unable to face reality.

We’ve all heard that the mark of a senior engineer is answering every question with “It depends…” but I’d like to introduce you to another one of my favorites that has been the theme of my day today:

“Wait, so how did this ever work?”

It’s acknowledging that it did work at one time and you are realizing that you don’t understand how. Instead of forging ahead to “fix” it, you should go back and learn how it used to work first so that you know what to do.

Friends on twitter urging to “stay and resist”. Um, the act of leaving and taking followers with me to is resistance. We are the product, if we aren’t on twitter, then there is no product(data) to sell to marketers.

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a Christmas movie, not a Halloween movie! That's the whole point! I don't know why I care about this so much!

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Scion Altera

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.