Employee of the month

“They’ve been hopeful that they can have Democratic champions for their policy agenda, and not just have Trump’s cronies sticking out their necks for them.” https://theintercept.com/2026/11/10/kalshi-polymarket-betting-hiring-democrats/

Something similar for me. I did 4 years, I had fun making things, doing research, etc. The one thoughtful thing I got was unfortunately also just junk (3D printed model).

I prefer gift giving when it’s with people I know and see, when I know they’ll use or otherwise appreciate what I give them. Been doing a lot of handcrafted stuff, homemade food, and event gifts.

For receiving: especially in the last 7 years or so, I don’t want to get purchased gifts.

New Life Fellowship church, 1 block from our house, is full of MapleMAGA folks. Lots of anti-science/anti-vaxxer/anti-maskers. Even if I didn't hate churches - I actively avoid being near any MapleMAGA people.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

Cannot agree more. That was shitty, the turds had already filled the bowl.

@fluepke @q @Lunaphied @manawyrm @masek For the TPM wrapped key format, there are two cases

Simple case: Wrap under a symmetric key (“TPM2_Create” and related APIs for non-resident keys); key AES-CFB and HMAC-SHA256 keys are derived with KDFa (instantiation one of the NIST KDFs) from parent key’s “seed” value (256-bit random), deterministically in a way dependent upon the key to be wrapped. IV is picked randomly from the TPM’s RNG. Encrypt-then-MAC.

Slightly more complicated case: to a public key (“TPM2_Duplicate”)

• If Inner Wrapping is in use, prepend SHA-256(secret || name) to the key, then AES-CFB is done with a zero IV with the innerIntegrity key, which is provided by API parameter
• Then you derive the Outer Wrap key form a KEM with the destination public key, then do KDFa to derive AES-CFB and HMAC-SHA256 keys in the same way as done above and encrypt in the same way as above

(The optional Inner Wrapping/innerIdentity exists for certain offline backup scenarios; you can ask a TPM to redo the outer wrapping without touching the inner wrapping. I’d also use it for channel binding to e.g. an outer TLS channel during key provisioning)

I feel like there is a gap when it comes to support groups for the partners of someone with a severe progressive illness. I feel that a lot of what's out there is, maybe understandable, aimed at older people and those more physically involved in caring. But like, I don't know anyone my age (early 40s) dealing with this shit, and the emotional turmoil is the hardest bit. Maybe there needs to be a mastodon hash tag for, no idea what. I don't think the label of "carer" really fits for me

@ProPublica funny how they accused everyone else of making vote-altering systems, then proceeded to make the actual vote altering systems themselves

@PhoenixSerenity
I always say this and shut the door.

"Ἀπὸ παντὸς κακοδαίμονος
Apò pantòs kakodaímonos."

They don't understand ancient Greek, but no matter.

"Away from me every evil spirit" (or idiomatically, "Begone, all evil demons!").

prepared piano mambo

There might be some kind of case to be made that reddit did get too big for what it was, but lemmy won't have to worry about that until it's at least a hundred times its present size.

@dec_hl woohoo, er ist so knuffig.🥰

@Vivaldi Clean the link a bit, but not enough, it needs a polished touches🖌️.The 1st line is the raw, 2nd line the 'cleaned' and into the red rectangle the minimum link required to work. There's a second kind of links, but you got the point, isn't it?

Eventually in future, might create a list with patterns to handle better the 'cleaning', even create our owns, share'em with community...It's just a coin flip on air.

SVU shit happened there. It wasn’t just actors or consensual bs from some freaks. It was, compare that girl to the girl on the missing posters on vicap and the fbi missing people posts shit.

Then the Arabics found the place. They began auctions of their “concubines” giving their real cell numbers.

I didn’t know about this sub but now am horrified and unsurprised.

You forgot the Slavetrade sub. Where they’d post pictures of women that appeared to be have been tortured in cages for sale.

@AbandonedAmerica what a metaphor