neck deep in star trek @catgoat@meemu.org

Full phone number database of #Clubhouse is up for sale on the #Darknet. It contains 3.8 billion phone numbers. These are not just members but also people in contact lists that were synced. Chances are high that you are listed even if you haven't had a Clubhouse login.

someone was generating facial recognition disrupting face mask designs on redbubble. they were generated using a program this person had written or tweaked and one version was hexagons or pentagons (maybe nested, not only tesselated) but there were more in the works. I cannot. find them, does anyone know the thing I am talking about.

Okay, so, we seriously thought we could do this completely by ourselves, but we're not actually sure if we can.

Our cat had a UTI and that's taken care of with an antibiotics injection, but our emotionally and financially abusive father was making us choose between the cat and paying back a debt to this company called ProCollect (something we refused to do). We don't get paid next until August 5th and already did our paycheck advance for the week and we've never done that before, so we don't know if it'll even work.

As it turns out, our cat might have a (apologies) fucked up paw from trying to jump up on one of the shelves in our room, something we thought he succeeded at, and which is something we didn't notice until extremely recently (as soon as yesterday night) and we would like to stop restraining him as soon as possible.

Please help us. The Xray and check in alone we hear is probably about $220 USD. We would like to get to $300 - $350 USD to account for car gas money, any meds he might need, and the fact both us and the cat still need food.

Why didn't we say anything until now? Well, what else are you going to do when you think you can do everything by yourself?? We didn't think we would need the help and we're also scared shitless.

We only have a Cash App for now because our PayPal and Venmo don't like our system name, so we have to do something about that, sorry:

https://cash.app/$rusanyacollective

Oh wow, Germany's healthcare system is adopting Matrix as the base layer for their secure communications system.

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix

The Houston Computer History Museum is liquidating everything they have! If you are in the vicinity of Texas and enjoy old computers, go take a trip there and save a piece of history!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1178156389355802/

HT to @catgoat for sharing.

Hey has anyone on the fediverse done much research on RCS Universal Profile? Would like to understand it more and it seems hard to get the real lowdown without a ton of marketing bullshit or weird telco lingo I don’t know.

For those hoping it will get better or to just "wait it out and see":

The situation is unlikely to change or improve (as anyone who has spoken to Gargron can tell you, he is certainly not a man who easily changes his mind...). Constantly reminding mastodon.social to do their jobs is not something that is frankly the community's job.

Either way, the damage has been done. Instances are already blocking it despite its size and a lot of the fediverse is no longer accessible to mastodon.social.

If you want another instance, well, https://joinmastodon.org/communities is a good starting point.

Police rounded up a bunch of gay men at a hookup spot in MD, USA: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/07/four-men-arrested-breaking-sodomy-law-maryland-police-raid/

Several men were sent to jail overnight and are facing charges of violating a MD sodomy law, never mind that courts in MD's jurisdictions have already tossed similar sodomy laws in other states after SCOTUS's ruling in Lawrence.

I expect they'll escape being sentenced, or win on appeal. But they've already been punished for their non-crimes: jail, arrest & legal fees, etc.