Headline: “Warren Buffett, 96, credits Coke and McDonald's for his long life”

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/warren-buffett-96-credits-coke-173300010.html

…I wouldn't go so far as to credit those things for his longevity, but this is nonetheless interesting. That is, by most standards, a blatantly unhealthy diet, and yet he's 96 and still standing.

I wonder what it is that allows him to thrive on such a diet? Some sort of genetic quirk? Access to advanced medicine?

#WarrenBuffett

Everybody do the flop!

*cat lays down, rolls over*

#asdfmovie

Other concerns raised at the meeting include:

* law enforcement using the surveillance system to spy on people they have a romantic desire for (“LOVEINT”)

* AI processing of metadata (who you message, when you message them, etc)

* banning #VPN⁠s

* surveillance of journalists and their sources

#Canada Bill C-22 “Lawful Access Act” was debated today.

That's the bill that makes #E2EE #encryption illegal, thereby giving cybercriminals a carbon copy of all your conversations and remote control of all your devices.

Well, it's seeing some push-back now, as a result of Senators getting letters and phone calls from people like you.

It's working! Don't stop calling! Don't let them put you in danger like this!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalOptimism/comments/1xl4956/comment/19s1rdfex8qo5/

#cdnpoli

Hey, remember what I said about #Reddit and their new “login (and show ID) or GTFO” policy?

Well, guess what just happened to their stock price. 📉

I guess that explains why they'd do something so drastic. Not sure why they think turning it into an exclusive club with a bouncer and a surveillance camera at the door is going to improve the situation, though, especially considering it's home to a bunch of privacy/cybersecurity/political types who are scared to death of ID checks.

I've heard a lot of USians talk about fleeing to Canada, but it's starting to look like Canadians will be fleeing in the other direction instead pretty soon…

Not content to impose heinous #surveillance and #censorship via #ageVerification of social media users, a minister in #Canada has now announced plans to impose the same heinous surveillance and censorship of gamers as well.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-digital-safety-bill-gaming-platforms-marc-miller/

Meanwhile, Bill C-34 (the surveillance/censorship/age-verification bill in question) is scheduled to be debated on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/10/22/arielle-kayabaga-1/

#cdnpoli

There's a number of real heinous things going in the world right now that absolutely merit a doomsday panic.

I doompost about them frequently.

This is not one of them.

I've heard that somebody named Mutahar is making some wild doomsday proclamations about the whole #PHP2Shell thing.

I don't know who that is, but…that kinda amuses me.

Because like, yeah, a whole lot of old unmaintained systems are gonna get pwned now…but what else is new? Next you're gonna tell me the Pope is Catholic.

I imagine this is part of why there are all these “residential proxies” everywhere, BTW. They're all insecure AF and got pwned long ago.

#infosec #cybersecurity #security

I notice that pictures involving #eyeContact are fairly often #CW⁠'d on the #Fediverse. Why is that? I take it some people have a sensitivity to eye contact? I want to know more!

It strikes me that both of the most popular desktop computer lineages (IBM PC and Macintosh) were initially marketed as Very Definitely Not For Gaming.

I wonder what was up with that? #Gaming has sold quite a lot of silicon over the years. Seems pretty lucrative.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

The author of #curl is straight-up tooting Anthropic advertisements now.

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117409500929017375

cc @catsalad

Update: For making this post, despite being as neutral as I can be, I have been added to the list.

https://gitlab.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse/-/commit/1b6709ffa3c393b1b4842f1870a519099c47a8d9

https://gitflic.ru/project/fediverse-express/fediverse/commit/87b0d6c737cf5ee013147af8e49d837b84414361

Needless to say, I am neither a scammer nor a spammer nor a defender thereof.

I'll say it again: don't use this list! If you do, you'll be blocking any number of innocent people.

This is disappointing. A list of scammers could've been useful, but a list of people who inconvenienced the list maintainer is not.

Therefore, I do not recommend using Linux is Best's list.

The person known as “Linux is Best” (or “Linux and BSD are Best”) maintains a list of suspected scammers on the Fediverse. https://gitflic.ru/project/fediverse-express/fediverse/blob?file=block_spam_scam_users.csv&branch=main&mode=code

However, @ricci recently asked https://discuss.systems/@ricci/117380019991499238 about the methodology of the list, and for this he was added to the list.

Similarly, Linux is Best was recently banned from https://catodon.rocks following an argument with the admin @panos https://catodon.rocks/notes/ar6v0c9uuhwr04vh and subsequently added said admin to the list. https://gitflic.ru/project/fediverse-express/fediverse/commit/0700ac4e530b66e18d787a07843eb6bd5816b92a

In every decade I've been alive, there's been a moral panic that was obviously manufactured in bad faith to take away our innocuous amusements, our privacy, our freedom of movement, even our ability to hold candid conversations.

1980s: D&D, going outside (“stranger danger!”)
1990s: video games, online chat
2000s: video games, online chat, airplanes
2010s: online chat, websites (“stop online piracy!”)
2020s: video games, online chat

When are people going to stop falling for this dirty trick?

In my search for a new #Sharkey server to join, one of my criteria has been that it not be located in a place where the government has or is working on a broad social media ban, for fear that these servers will be shut down.

Problem: most Fedi servers are hosted in one of those places.

Chat, am I being dumb? Should I just pick a server now and migrate later if the local government really is crazy enough to start shutting down Fedi sites?

#Fediverse

Took a look at https://freyjas.org and I'm not sure if it's a chat server or a sex cult. 🤔

The maximum penalty for non-compliance is 6% of the provider's previous year's “annual worldwide turnover” (Regulation 2022/2065, chapter IV, article 52, incorporated by reference).

One wonders what exactly counts as “turnover” for some guy with a day job who collects a trickle of donations, or a registered nonprofit funded entirely by donations. Functionally a 6% tax on those donations, I guess?

@nazokiyoubinbou

#EUKidsAct

Article 29 (page 60) requires the use of a government-certified age verification solution, so this also creates a corrupt cottage industry of government-affiliated data brokers.

Someone wants a regulatory moat, badly.