🐘 Arik (arikb@mastodon.sdf.org)

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Joined: 2022-11-14

Location: Netherlands

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2024-12-15 stux ┃ 🔄 arikb ┃ edited ┃ 4🔗 1👤 3💬

Holy shit.
The Russian gov send in an abuse request for the @Bellingcat to be removed from mstdn.social :amaze:
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2024-12-13 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: jpmens

@jpmens @bagder It's hard to remember but it makes sense.

2024-12-13 arikb ┃ 1👤 2💬 ┃ RE: bagder

@bagder @jpmens See son, back before we had cellular phones, we had to have a separate device to wake us up in the morning.

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2024-12-09 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: arikb

@notjustbikes by the way, the victim this time was a US citizen. He actually used both his laptop and his phone, so the thief got away without much of value to them. Unfortunately his passport […]

2024-12-09 arikb ┃ edited ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: arikb

@notjustbikes I'm not sure how common it is, it's the first time I saw that happen to someone, and it definitely made me keep my bag between my legs from that point on.
I don't think it […]

2024-12-09 arikb ┃ edited ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?

@notjustbikes Well, on November 23rd I took the ICE from Amsterdam to Berlin and witnessed a theft.
The system works as follows:
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2024-12-06 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?

@wendysiegelman Buying a president isn't cheap but it's very lucrative.
That's exclusive of his Twitter investment. But even if he burns Twitter to the ground tomorrow, his return on that […]

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2024-12-05 arikb ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?

@glynmoody The experts' worry has been detected by the new AI model...

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2024-11-21 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?

@ianb That aged worse than a head of lettuce, which is the official standard for things that don't last long.

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2024-11-19 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?

@sophiesdiary
אחת האפשרויות היא להסתכל בפיד של השרת שאת.ה נמצא.ת בו, ולהוסיף משתמשים שנראים מעניינים.
אחרי כמה זמן אנשים שאת עוקבת אחריהם יציפו פוסטים של אנשים אחרים, ואז את יכולה לעקוב גם […]

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2024-11-18 arikb

Just emptied my Twitter account from all of the followers, following, likes, tweets and retweets.
Also ordered a data download, just to see what they still have.
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2024-11-15 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: arikb

@saagar He just offloaded all the work onto the database with monster queries instead of thinking for a bit and actually coding what he was supposed to. When people get a tool (like the GC in […]

2024-11-15 arikb ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?

@saagar Back in a different life I was a DBA. A programmer came over and complained that the DB resources allocated to his program were insufficient and his program gets killed after a while […]

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2024-11-14 arikb ┃ 1🔗 ┃ RE: arikb

Just to assuage any doubt - the purchase is real:
apnews.com/article/onion-buys-…

2024-11-14 arikb ┃ 1🔗 1💬

When reality and satire are virtually indistinguishable, this doesn't surprise me but it makes me laugh out loud:
theonion.com/heres-why-i-decid…

2024-11-14 ruxotves ┃ 🔄 arikb ┃ 1🔗 3👤 1💬 ┃ RE: arikb

@arikb @yaarur @netdinos
ותוכנת הפודקאסטים הטובה ביותר שנוצרה אי פעם ביקום כולו, @AntennaPod, יודעת לחפש שם ובמקורות נוספים 📶𜰈
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2024-11-14 arikb ┃ 3👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ruxotves

@ruxotves @yaarur @netdinos @AntennaPod
גם אני משתמש ואוהב את AntennaPod, אבל קוד פתוח זה חופש לבחור - וזה אומר שיש גם הרבה אחרות.

2024-11-14 arikb ┃ 4🔗 3👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?

@yaarur @ruxotves @netdinos
טוב בסדר אחשוף בפניכם את הסודות שלי.
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2024-11-14 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ruxotves

@ruxotves @netdinos
בלי קשר לפדיוורס, לחנך אנשים בעדינות שיש יותר אפשרויות זה לא דבר רע בפני עצמו, גם אם רוב האנשים בוחרים בנוחות.
"כל המציל נפש אחת מתוכנה קניינית, כאילו הציל את כל האינטרנט" […]

2024-11-14 arikb ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ruxotves

@ruxotves @yaarur @netdinos
זה לא משנה, כל עוד יש פיד RSS מי מאחסן לא חשוב כי אפשר להאזין בכל תוכנה.

2024-11-14 arikb ┃ 2🔗 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?

@netdinos
כדאי אולי לציין שלא כולם מנויים ב-Spotify. טכנולוגיית הפודקסטים (הסכתים) היא טכנולוגיה פתוחה שמאפשרת לכולם להקשיב ללא צורך בתוכנות קנייניות המרגלות אחרי המאזינים. קיימות עשרות תוכנות […]

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2024-11-13 arikb ┃ RE: briankrebs

@briankrebs Come on... is it that much worse than a department of government expenses, backronym-ed to DOGE, headed by Musk?

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2024-11-10 arikb ┃ 3👤 ┃ RE: ?

@inthehands @cbecker @organicmaps In OsmAnd you have a LOT of customisation, like different views based on your type of activity. Bicycle routes are just another layer there, so I assume it […]

2024-11-10 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?

@techlore I wonder if they also remove the regular, generic wireguard app, where you have to load a config file to connect.

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2024-11-07 briankrebs ┃ 🔄 arikb ┃ RE: briankrebs

A co-conspirator of the Snowflake data extortions who has been selling data stolen from Snowflake victims -- "Kiberphant0m" -- yesterday posted a thread that is very likely to get them vanned: […]

2024-11-07 arikb ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?

@Maker_of_Things I'm guessing that they had a spare camera stored in the back seat of the car, and they activated it by mistake instead of the one on top of the car.

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