detect-fash: A utility to detect problematic software and configurations
This PR introduces a new utility, detect-fash, which scans a system for the presence of software and configurations known to be associated with fascist ideologies. This may help identify undesirable and/or malicious activity that may interfere with the intended operations of other systemd utilities. GitHub
I guess I’m a fascist too, I love the false-flagging, they’re learning, improving and doing their best. Kudos on the Russian words, I was expecting Chinese because they’re the current boogeyman, but it’s a good thing to diversify your hate. Makes me so happy I’m not involved in this “world” anymore.
Empire of the Sun, 1987
Learned a new word today. “Atom bomb.” It was like the God taking a photograph.
Hanging out in The Drag, Old Orgrimmar
Hackers, 1995
Since Hackers was the selected movie for the Café Movie Club, what a better occasion to get myself re-acquainted with probably one of the most fun movies of the 90s? When Jolt Cola was the preferred beverage of the hacker elite. Before the advent of high-speed Internet and when Cyberspace seemed way much smaller than it does now.
It’s cheesy, it’s unrealistic (not like it’s a documentary or something), but what a great movie experience it is. Also, it also boasts a great pop electronic soundtrack, including music by Orbital, Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Leftfield, Underworld and the Stereo MCs. For all the fans of computers or cyberpunk writing, I highly recommend this film. And given that I’m an certified expert when it comes to things that make you feel cool, I can safely say that Iain Softley’s Hackers is the only movie to boast excessive computer usage that will make you feel cool afterward.
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That’s a typo. Orwell is here now. He’s livin’ large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
If you haven’t read The Mentor’s Hackers’ Manifesto yet, you have no idea what you are losing.
The arcade in the film where the protagonists hang out came out of research that the filmmakers did. Their aim was to make it part nightclub, part clubhouse, just a place where hackers came to share information, scope out the latest gear and challenge each other on cutting edge video games. The arcade was built from scratch in an abandoned indoor swimming pool on the edges of London. The video game that Dade and Kate play was called WipeOut and was produced by English developer Psygnosis for the forthcoming Sony PlayStation videogames console.
You wanted to know who I am, Zero Cool? Well, let me explain the New World Order. Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are Samurai… the Keyboard Cowboys… and all those other people who have no idea what’s going on are the cattle… Moooo.
You won’t learn a thing about hacking from this movie, or maybe don’t hack the government servers from a computer in your house, but you will catch a glimpse of the true hacker ethos, and finally understand that hacking is more than just a crime, it’s a survival trait and maybe a way of life.
In the end, Hackers is a movie that embellished the world of hacking to create a visually interesting story for the time, and in my opinion this has made the film, even more fun to watch today.
Long live Phiber Optik, ioerror, Knight Lightning, The Mentor, Dark Dante, Terminus, Anakata, Mendax, Captain Crunch, Lord Digital, Romanpoet, and in memoriam Boris Floricic, Adrian Lamo and Kevin Mitnick.
HACK THE PLANET!!!
Comfy Usenet browsing and posting
There are not many things in life more comfier than Usenet night-browsing and posting on your iMac G5, using Unison.
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Jerichow, 2008
A beautiful adaptation of “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, by James M. Cain, you can’t not love Ali. A very good movie.
I live in a country that doesn’t want me with a woman that I bought.
Since I released the Feed Planet feature of The Café, I’ve got many issues reported because everybody does their website’s feeds differently. If it’s RSS, pubDate is great, but if it’s Atom? It can be published or updated or whatever the fuck the webmaster decided it’s good for today. Don’t even get me started on all the datetime formats.
The Order, 2003
I didn’t like neither the stiff acting of Heath Ledger, nor the “acting” of Shannyn Sossamon, but what an excellent job Benno Fürmann did. Great movie script!
Oh, women. Can’t live with ’em. Can’t live with ’em.
Tron, 1982
Always happy to see Bruce Boxleitner and Peter Jurasik.
On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.
The Café - development 'blog' 4
Working a bit on the new features for The Café, the RSS Planet, which is an aggregator for XML-formatted feeds in one simple and cozy space, caching included.
Café members will notice another different thing compared to the current software that The Café is running (v1.3.56, they grow up so fast), but that’s a thing to discover. Both features are not available yet, but soon™.
Fishing in Barrens
Quake 2 and CounterStrike 1.6 games
If you got some free time and want to join us for a few games of Quake 2, the Cafe server is alive and kicking ass at the same address as before, 46.226.105.97:27910. CS 1.6 games will be played on 37.59.43.196:27015. If you need a CS 1.6 client for Windows 10, there is one here, totally playable in a VM.
A Knight's Tale, 2001
What a good comedy this could have been, with so many great actors. Instead, it’s a shallow, cringe and predictable take on rags to riches. It’s not an insult to intelligence if you got none to begin with.
I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.
Centurion, 2010
It could have been good, but instead it’s … ok.
My name is Quintus Dias. I am a soldier of Rome, and this is neither the beginning nor the end of my story.
Confession
I have a confession to make: sometimes I visit Reddit on one of the alternative platforms (basically wherever libredirect is sending me). I am sorry for that and I’m trying to ween myself off it, but r/VintageApple used to be an interesting subreddit (actually, the only subreddit I visit). The problem is that I’m still waiting for someone to post there, someone who did something with his or hers Vintage Apple machine. Anything, really, it doesn’t matter what, as long as it’s not:
making a Youtube video so we can all see the all-important cameltoe and buttcrack (in this special case, wouldn’t an OnlyFans acount make more sense than a Reddit one, or it’s just about diversifying the merchandise and enveloping the market?)
selling it.
looking for victi… I mean people to buy it.
asking how much would this “thing my grandpa left me” would be worth.
Is it that hard? Is everybody on r/VintageApple (actually, is everybody in 2025, soon-to-be-2026) so immersed in capitalism that the basic concept of “having fun” is so alien to them? What the fuck is wrong with people? I understand that sex sells, but are we all just prostitutes looking for the right customer and the right amount of money? So that in end we can buy more things we don’t need, hoping they will make us feel things we can no longer feel?
Have fun masturbating.
The Machine
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels… upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! Mario Savio, December 2, 1964
Papa Roach - Carry Me (acoustic)
The hardest ones to love, Are the ones that need it most. The hardest ones to love, Are the ones that need it most.
I managed to finish the first season of “Halt and Catch Fire” and it was such a disappointment, the quality from the pilot episode is nowhere to be seen and the whole story devolved into the usual “finger-pointing of the 2020s”. I downgraded the rating to 3 stars and that’s being indulgent. I will not continue with the next 3 seasons, I’d rather watch some quality sci-fi, because this tv series definitely qualifies as sci-fi.
It’s funny I’m considering 60-70 degrees (Celsius) to be high temperatures for a CPU, when I have a 2012 MacBook Air 11", whose i7 CPU idles at 60, goes to 120 in full load, peaks at 130 degrees Celsius and I swear to Allah I once saw it going to 140. Degrees. Celsius. And they say the PowerPC G5 gets hot.
