was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm
we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans
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Jenna Ortega's film Winter Spring Summer or Fall will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival (New York) on 6 June 2024.
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#JennaOrtega #WinterSpringSummerOrFall
I love this photo of Helena Gualinga (from her Instagram). She's a human rights and climate activist from Ecuador fighting to stop fossil fuel exploration in the Amazon.
#HelenaGualinga
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I thought I had posted about her before. Anyway, I like, besides everything she stands for of course, also the contrast between her looking tribal one moment (when at home) and highly fashionable the next (for speaking engagements and such) (the things you have to do to save your land...) but especially how she combines the two.
I found some more photos on her own Instagram that illustrate that point.
Stop mining the Amazon! Protect this woman's land, and actually our whole planet.
#HelenaGualinga
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#ClaudiaJessie #Bridgerton
‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats
Being cast as a scheming toff in the global phenomenon Bridgerton was a surprise for Claudia Jessie. Fiercely proud of her roots, the Brummie talks about etiquette lessons, getting too many tattoos and why working-class actors so often get a rough de…Sam Moore (The Guardian)
I still love this dialogue. The one time I had to do the whole dialogue instead of taking one line out of context for increased mystery:
Turns out the new Doctor Who companion Varada Sethu will not replace the 'current' one but be in addition to her in the 2025 series. And I say 'current' in quotes because that 2024 series also still has to start for real (in May).
They say she played previously in Hard Sun, which I saw six years ago, so now I've got to try to remember what character that was.
#DoctorWho
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Her showreel is good though. Also helped me remember who she was in Hard Sun. I liked her, I quoted her character back when I was still doing that on Tumblr (now on @randomlinesfromtvandfilm ):
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She was also in Doctor Foster in a small role, but I remember liking that one.
Get yourself an actress who can do both...
The new series of Beyond Paradise has a new actress (Melina Sinadinou) that I didn't know before. As you can see in the first photo (from her Instagram) she seems totally my type. Weird is very ok for me... But maybe for others the second photo (her professional headshot from Spotlight by Harry Livingstone) is more conventionally convincing?
They're advertising the series to start on BBC First this Monday 21h00. But it already runs on BBC One and I caught a glimpse. Her character seems interesting and she's worth watching for the acting too.
I found this last photo in such extreme resolution that you can see the photographer taking the photo reflected in her eyes. Proves that the twinkle in her eye is not photoshopped!
Hi Harry!
The Wednesday blu-ray doesn't have the "[barely restrained seething]" subtitle... That's a Netflix-only feature... The disc has the much less inspired "[breath trembling]". It's not all advantages to owning the disc...
I loved how that subtitle captured Jenna's Wednesday.
#Wednesday #JennaOrtega
I can't wait for season two! But I'll have to...
It's a shame Emma didn't get to use her werewolf training this season, maybe next? Wednesday got knocked unconscious a disconcerting amount of times, it's a good thing she has Goody now, might help with the healing.
It's weird how they seemed to have special events every single day, Harvest Festival, Outreach Day, Poe Cup, Raven Dance, Parents Day, etc. Hardly any actual lessons seemed to be happening. Still, instead of more school, I'm hoping for the next season to be set outside the school. And have more Goody Addams, I like a powerful witch.
#Wednesday
This weekend marked 30 years since the start of the Rwandan genocide, one of the darkest chapters in African history.
Some 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were massacred during 100 days of bloodshed by Hutu extremist militias, before rebels from the mostly Tutsi RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) seized the capital and ended the slaughter.
The then RPF rebel commander and now President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, held a ceremony over the weekend, honoring the victims.
One factor of the Rwandan genocide that scholars point out for its critical role in enabling the slaughter, is the dehumanizing rhetoric that targeted the Tutsi people. This was highlighted at the ceremony over the weekend.
I'm trying to wonder how Abiy Ahmed, who made headlines throughout the 2020ies for his dehumanizing rhetoric, referring to his foes as "hyenas," "cancer" or "weeds" in violent public and social media outbursts, must have felt hearing that part.
"Siyad Arts," a pen name for a Somali political cartoonist, one of the most prominent in the Horn of Africa, produced this drawing today and captioned it:
"The irony of it all. Abiy, Ethiopia's dictator and genocider commemorating Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi while the effects of his own genocide against Tigrayans can still be seen."
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They managed to make geoblocking of films even more irritating: I get a specific mail from Amazon Prime Video, telling me that Finestkind with Jenna Ortega is now available for rent. That's great, because I still want to see it, since Paramount+/SkyShowtime is not carrying that film in my country.
I go to their page, only to be met with the popup that this film is not available in my location.
Then why send me that email?!
Anyway, dear Americans, Finestkind is available for rent in your country!
#Finestkind #JennaOrtega
"We value your privacy" they always say. It's just never followed by an offer indicating just how much they value it.
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Corina Bradley's series Hotel Cocaine will be on MGM+ in just over two months.
Miranda Cosgrove's film Mother of the Bride is on Netflix 9 May.
Katie Douglas's film Lazareth is out 10 May.
#CorinaBradley #MirandaCosgrove #KatieDouglas #HotelCocaine #MotherOfTheBride #Lazareth
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That is exactly what it is, thank you. I couldn't find it in the list of channels Amazon was trying to sell me, but it turns out that was (surprise surprise) because I'm already subscribed to it! It used to be called differently, StarzPlay I think, and got renamed.
Now if they only had Paramount+ too in my country like they do in most places...
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The blu-ray for Wednesday arrived today! On Wednesday. Starting my umpteenth watch-through.
With recently the great experience of watching Miller's Girl on the big screen and now eight episodes of brilliance to see, these are really Jenna days...
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
We're getting the full opening credits in episode one. I think on Netflix we only got them on two episodes and not the first one. Or do I misremember?
Edit: I do misremember. Episode two has the shortened opening credits.
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A few years ago I realized that more companies need to let engineers have some money to contribute to OSS. Say a percent or two of their salary that they can give to free software that is used by the company.
This would help fund software, help get rid of the bureaucracy (don't have to justify it, etc), and put the money where it's likely most needed.
They likely know which projects are under funded or critical to the company.
> blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software…
Deciphering Glyph :: Software Needs To Be More Expensive
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
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> Say a percent or two of their salary that they can give to free software that is used by the company.
think of it like the 401k match and then an additional "benefit" of a few % on top of that which you can direct into open source projects of your choosing? That sounds interesting
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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
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I was introduced to @craigmaloney via Open Metalcast, an excellent podcast featuring CC works at the heavy guitar end of music, which he put out regularly for many years. I never met Craig in person, yet I feel I knew him and I mourn his passing.
My sincere condolences to his family and everyone who was close to him.
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Dafne Keen as Jecki Lon in The Acolyte can be seen in these first look photos of the character in Entertainment Weekly, together with an interview where Dafne talks about the character, how she played her, and that the horns made hugging anyone on set a safety hazard.
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#DafneKeen #TheAcolyte
Also sharing the blog post by Cory Doctorow related to the latest reshared post, since it is in itself interesting and goes beyond the mentioned article, and because the attached thread seems to be broken:
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Interesting insight in what businesses and investors are hoping AI will do and what AI can do and how these don't match.
Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:
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AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do thatThomas Claburn (The Register)
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> Lanyado also said that there was a Hugging Face-owned project that incorporated the fake huggingface-cli, but that was removed after he alerted the biz.
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Update requirements.txt to remove huggingface-cli (#7202) · huggingface/diffusers@56b6845
Internal message: https://huggingface.slack.com/archives/C03Q18WK18T/p1709529892062479GitHub
The fine folks at akkoma released a security update that fixes some things with the diverse ways of putting stuff on your domain (uploads, stolen emoji, mediaproxy). Some of those patches will make it into Pleroma too, but for now:
RUN UPLOADS AND MEDIA PROXY ON A DIFFERENT SUBDOMAIN. That prevents any impersonation issues.
We will drop any support for same-domain setups in the near future, it's just not worth the risk.
Check out the information provided by akkoma for details and more fine grained mitigation steps: meta.akkoma.dev/t/akkoma-stabl…
Akkoma stable 2024.03 - Securer? I barely know her!
Hey there, quite an important one for you here today. We’ve got ourself a vulnerability and it’s time to make like a tree and patch. Not sure what that means but that’s neither here nor there.Akkoma
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Orphan Black Echoes will be released on 23 June.
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I'm so surprised by the people in the comments saying they have already seen it last year and are waiting for season two. How? Also this looks like it's US only, so I won't be able to see it?
#OrphanBlack #OrphanBlackEchoes
xz vulnerability summary:
- Affected versions: 5.5.1alpha, 5.6.0, 5.6.1
- Fixed version: revert to a 5.4.x build
- Affected distros: including but not limited to Debian testing & unstable, Ubuntu 24.04 (not yet released), Fedora 41 & Rawhide, Gentoo, homebrew
- Mitigation: Red Hat recommends you cease using any affected systems, and only redeploy once patched versions are available. Debian recommends upgrading ASAP.
More info:
lists.debian.org/debian-securi…
redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-secu…
Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access., (Red Hat)
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🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.
Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)
Security Advisory: redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-secu…
#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy
Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access., (Red Hat)
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The vulnerability may be present in Fedora 40 but it is not believed to be activated. Fedora 40 users are advised to use caution and update their systems soon when the rolled-back version is available, for more certainty.
Fedora 39 and 38 users are not impacted. (2/3)
Security Advisory: redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-secu…
#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy
Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access., (Red Hat)
More details available from Red Hat's blog on the vulnerability. A special, huge thank-you to our first responders and Fedora friends who have been working long hours to address this issue in top-priority. We couldn't do it without you all! 💪 (3/3)
Security Advisory: redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-secu…
#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy
Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access., (Red Hat)
Thanks to everyone involved in resolving this huge mess.
Do I understand correctly that Fedora 40 is assumed to be unaffected, because xz 5.6.0 had been built with --disable-ifunc since March 04?
#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl
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me, learning about about the atomic age: man it's so goofy they tried to use radioactivity for everything.
15 YEARS LATER
every tech company i've ever interacted with: We've added AI to our product!
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The person who designed this one is telling on themselves
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in reply to Molly White • • •...why are there three different kinds of crabs?
Also some crabs get very very large.
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in reply to Molly White • • •I suspect that whoever wrote the captcha text didn't stop to consider choice of words, quite possibly not even realising that there'd be a problem.
Your description, @molly0xffff, tells me that s/bigger/biggest/ would be appropriate.
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Never mind.
Capitão Barba 🏳️🌈⃤
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in reply to Molly White • • •This is wild!
I've written about the ridiculousness of CAPTCHAs and how they're an accessibility nightmare. Most things that claim to distinguish humans from computers are really just separating users into groups of "desirable" and "undesirable."
If anything, this mosaic of blurry animal jpegs and confusing instructions just makes that categorization even more obvious.
What a time to be alive 🙃
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in reply to Molly White • • •But don't get me started on catchpas that assume the rest of the world are familiar with USA road furniture.
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in reply to Molly White • • •I see the problem here but, tangentially, maybe this will make people learn little more about nature? 😂
"Siri, what is the biggest crab species on earth and is it bigger than a panda?"
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