@beckett @jhv

Also, what constitutes major faults vs minor faults gets confusing, and a lot of plate boundaries are pretty fuzzy and jagged.

Watershed boundaries are nice to divide on because they're already well known and well defined. They just have to be grouped together.

But there's also funny cases like the Brahamaputra River that you have to futz with. It drains into Ganges but only after cutting the deepest gorge in the world through the Himalayas, north of which it's the Tsangpo river. Do you consider southern Tibet part of the subcontinent because of that? Eh, maybe, but the agglomeration of like the 5 highest mountain ranges in the world seems like a decent spot for a continental boundary. So you just say, "well, it's the whole Bengal watershed except we're going to draw a line somewhere around where it makes a big bend around Mount Namcha Barwa (where the canyon is almost completely impassable) and call it a day."

@volts.wtf It could happen. And the fascist billionaire Big Tech CEOs will be the cause. Keep that in mind as society fights back against their cancer.

Blaise Pascal started a horse-drawn bus service in Paris in the 1600’s and it was super popular amongst commoners until it was basically banned by the aristocracy. Bus service didn’t come back until well after the French Revolution. I had no idea the struggle over public transit was so long.

#Cat assistance required.

We've recently adopted two monochrome kitten sisters, and I've been tasked with naming one.

Background: When we got our first kitten, I wanted to name him Lord Pickles. Everyone else hated that name, so we settled on the Mojo Jojo instead, which worked out well since he was a naughty monkey.

Since then, it seems all of our friends have named their cats Pickles, so it's a pedestrian cat name now. When I name a cat I need a strong, unique cat name.

I've listed the ones I've brainstormed below. Let me know if any are inappropriate for a cat, or if you have other suggestions. Thanks!

```
gif (soft g)
entrapta
scoops
(fennec) shand
asajj (ventress)
misa misa (death note)
minmei (macross)
elle woods (legally blonde)
leeloo
quark (particle)
```

The morale will continue until the beatings improve.

@wyatt there's also just immediately absolutely zero issues with ordering and sorting and all of the fucking absurd edge cases around symlinks if you do this https://github.com/zip-rs/zip2/pull/236 in particular if you have a symlink a => b and then the rest of the zip relies upon a existing and pointing to a valid existing path (which is unfortunately a very common and very important use case because that's one way you can distribute a build cache)

then you have this essentially false ordering dependency that requires you to literally rewrite strings with symlink expansions in order to avoid fucked up errors depending upon the order of the entries which is fundamentally unimportant and not real. the ordering and layout of file entries should be in a way that optimizes whatever lookup patterns you have for those records. because that's how you can do a whole entire filesystem that's dead simple and doesn't use any complex algorithms whatsoever and can expand or shrink in size naturally according to the needs of the application

and that's how you can have every process always isolated in its own chroot (default inheriting from parent makes this actually good), the same way operating systems do virtual memory. right now literally every OS has a global page cache in ring 0 and they treat every read() and write() like anyone fucking wants to be reading from a shared memory buffer when they use the POSIX i/o API that specifically supports sequentially pushing or pulling data into/from a source or sink

Murder mittens

@siracusa just wait till they roll out heated seats (as a service) in your couch

Happy Labor Day Weekend everyone!

We're happy to announce that @MK created an awesome new banner for this week that is a wonderful nod to the photo "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper." Hope you enjoy it, and have a great weekend!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper

#nyc #laborday #mastodon

Brian Krebs found his own driver's license for sale on a Russian crime forum this week. The timestamp on the scan matched the day he rented a car to attend a family funeral. His mom's license was there too, scanned a few seconds after his.

The service is called Nexus. It claims over 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada, and the count grew by nearly 400,000 in a single day. Krebs traced the scans back to an identity verification vendor that checks IDs for rental car companies, big retailers, and over 1,000 marijuana dispensaries. The FBI opened an investigation on Tuesday.

Most of the people in that database never dealt with the vendor. They handed a license to a clerk at a counter. The clerk ran it through a scanner. Nobody mentioned that the scanner belonged to a different company, or that a copy might stick around long enough to get stolen. If your company scans customer IDs, you own the risk of how your vendor uses those images, whether the contract says so or not.

Two things worth thinking about:

- Every new "show us your ID" rule, including the ones sold as protecting kids online, pushes more license scans into more vendors. Each one is another place to lose them.

- A driver's license is still what banks use to open credit. A scan with the photo, front and back, in infrared and ultraviolet, is close to a master key.

I would love to see ID scans deleted the moment a check is done. Until then, ask whether your license will be scanned or just looked at before you hand it over. And freeze your credit at all three bureaus. It's free. It takes about ten minutes.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #IdentityTheft #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

In 2019, I was making toys.

@eff "Billionaires stealing creative work is fine" is a stance you can take, I guess.

It's a bad stance, but you can take it.

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

@thomasfuchs @Viss absolutely brilliant