Sounds legit to me.

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month.

Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Also, the horses (quite rightly) have to stop and wait at mandatory vet checks in these sort of competitions to make sure their health is not being risked in the process, whilst human athletes are generally allowed to run themselves into the ground if they choose to.

Kavari DJ set @ Ormside Project

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The neighbors are having one of their all night loud bad doof doof music parties again. It's like my bedroom is cosplaying my tent at hacker camp with Gerafel too nearby, but without the fun and camaraderie of camp.

This puts me in mind if the time I dunked a cookie in my whisky, and damn but that cookie tasted good.

🎶 we don't want him, you can have him, he's too fash for me 🎶

If you want to see a corpus which includes examples of malicious PDF files gathered from the internet, have a look at UNSAFE-DOCS (CC-MAIN-2021-31-UNSAFE) – Digital Corpora share.google/xGuh9AnqzdVm...

Also, may I point out that the by definition a file containing malware is something someone has "gone out of their way" to create.

No, you haven't been working with Acrobat longer than I have been alive.
Not that appeal to "I've been using x since before you were born" is a valid argument anyway.

@langsec.hacker.gf @valkyrie.hacker.gf

Some people really are determined to double down on being wrong on the internet. Sigh.

See example below, wrong in more way than one...

Yup. I have to say, my replies were more for the purpose of helping anyone else who came across the thread to understand it truly is a real threat, than out of any hope said idiot would listen to what others had to say & learn something new. (They proved me right in my estimation of their idiocy.)

Yes, I know

As for the PDF format standard, it's a huge standard that has undergone many changes and versions since the original Adobe PDF format. These days the PDF Association is in charge of the standard. Improvements to the standard were made as part of SafeDocs.

Are you referring to ARPANET? I'm not sure what you mean otherwise by "being on DARPA", given DARPA is an existing agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, via which quite a lot of research is funded. The SafeDocs project was a DARPA project that ran from 2018 to 2023.

He's not sowing unjustified fear. PDFs can absolutely contain malware. It's a big problem. There was a whole 5 year DARPA cybersecurity project called SafeDocs to further develop methods to detect malware in PDFs & find a safe subset of the PDF format (& use those methods on other file formats too).

Cats mortally offended to learn that the people food they are begging for is an orange.

I like that apparently we're all not just normal posters dreaming of returning to the homes we fled to escape fascism but some kind of shadow posting government in exile dreaming of our return *to power*

I also made use of the fact that PE classes were 1 credit, so easy to wedge one into the interstices of what counted as "full time" for no difference in tuition to take 5 semesters of fencing 🤺

We'll note that I was a computer science / mathematics double major... I just made sure I filled my breadth requirement with actually interesting to me stuff.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

Human / Animal Relationships: Biological and Philosophical Issues

Plants and Man

One I can't remember the official name of that I dubbed
Insects and Man

The Hero and the Trickster

Kendo

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.

Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

You and me both! I grew up on Tom Lehrer and on Electric Company and just like you only found out those Electric Company songs were Tom Lehrer as an adult.

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

Oh, her? That’s Bastet, just keeping an eye on everything.

Slightly diminish a band

Ziggy Stardust and the Dust Mites from Mars

A tuxedo cat sitting on a chair looking baffled as to why she has a stuffed toy mouse draped over her head.

Confuse a cat