Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

who called it “writing documentation” and not “manual labor”

I can't even begin to describe what the state of gaming on the Linux desktop is even like any more. When I started using Ubuntu back in 2005, Wine barely worked. Native commercial games were an absolute chore to get running.

Now, we're at a point where I can easily play loads of indie, retro, and AAA titles with great graphics and smooth be gameplay. My desktop plays Returnal like a PS5. My handheld can do something like 40 years worth of games, plus many current titles.

This kind of stuff really really makes me frustrated with Apple.

Their hardware is pretty good, but their software and, especially, the way they tie together their services to lock possibility away and the way they outright condescend to their developers is actively toxic.

They increasingly spend their time figuring out new ways to be digital landlords, extracting money from the processes of using their devices, death by nickel and dimeing you to the bone.

https://mastodon.cloud/@drewmccormack/109942080102963327

Kudelski Security has discovered a novel attack on the ECDSA cryptographic algorithm.

Named Polynonce, the attack can be used to extract the original signing key from ECDSA signatures generated with weak pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs).

The researchers proved their attack by recovering private keys for a few hundred Bitcoin addresses that used weak PRNGs.

https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2023/03/06/polynonce-a-tale-of-a-novel-ecdsa-attack-and-bitcoin-tears/

i don’t know if enough people understand that anticapitalism is more about stopping the financialization of everything and autocratic corporate structures. it’s simple: if you do the work, you make the money, not some billionaire leech at the top

The concept of "community-run and -powered networks" does not compute or click in non-capitalist landscapes. There's always an assumption that "scaling up" and "growth" requires even more consolidation or some super central concerted efforts to get things going, which is a smack in the face of people who _have_ and _will_ continue to get people moving in the ways usable.

We do _NOT_ need to repeat the cycle shown to us by venture capitalists. We can do (and have done) better. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/3/iDMg)

reading Ford's "autonomous vehicles reposess themselves" patent and this is some grim, if completely expected stuff.

"Typically, the owner is uncooperative at this time and may attempt to impete the reposession operation. In some cases this can lead to confrontation. It is therefore desirable to provide a solution to address this issue."

They describe
- Escalating pressure, including disabling air conditioning/heating to "cause an additional level of discomfort to a driver and occupants of the vehicle"
- Emitting "an incessant and unpleasant sound every time the owner is present in the vehicle. The reposession system computer may also ensure that the owner is unable to turn off the sound without first making contact with the lending institution."
- Locking your car in a geofence so you can only use it to drive to work and get groceries, to not "adversely affecting a livelihood of the owner of the vehicle and hampering the owner's ability to make payments towards the vehicle."
- Yes, of course, the central component is that they want to be able to have your car drive itself to the tow lot and impound itself, but also "If the market value of the vehicle is below the pre-determined threashold price, the reposession computer may autonomously move the vehicle from the premises of the owner to a junkyard" - the logic of which is bog-typical **vile** for capitalism, they would rather it be scrapped than used by a poor person.

https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20230055958

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