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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

... there was a knock on her door in the morning, and she was greeted by nine officers in tactical gear and firearms who said they were executing a search warrant. Martinez was questioned for over three hours about her voter registration efforts in Texas ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-raids-latino-democrats-lulac-homes/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Here, have some flowers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/27/i-thought-you-might-need-a-bouquet-today/

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• Flowers at the entrance to my house (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Intel board member quit after differences over chipmaker's revival plan - https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-board-member-quit-after-differences-over-chipmakers-revival-plan-2024-08-27/

industry veteran oversaw manufacturing, and complained of risk-averse & bureaucratic culture, bloated workforce, & lack of AI strategy/planning for their future. this does not bode well for Intel.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Tucker Carlson (former Fox News host) is a very strange person

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/27/trump-supporters-attack-tim-walz-campaign-military-coaching-background

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Lidia Martinez, 87, said nine officers from the attorney general’s office showed up at her front door at 6am last Tuesday and spent hours searching her home as she watched in her nightgown. She said they told her they were there because she had filed a complaint that senior citizens were not receiving their ballots.“

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/27/ken-paxton-texas-home-raids-lulac-members

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“I was on my helicopter flying over New Jersey when all of a sudden it went down,” he said. “I was with Willie Brown, who is also now dead, quite frankly.”

He said that he would never agree to a debate on ABC because the network “is very biased against dead people.”

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-backs-out-of-debate-by-claiming

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

andreamm ("Andrea Matwyshyn") wrote:

Are you a fan of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper? Here's a newly declassified internal lecture from NSA. Thank you to NSA, NARA, and the Library of Congress (whom I pestered about this lecture) for restoring and releasing this important and exciting piece of computing history! https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

adub@kolektiva.social ("A-Dub") wrote:

my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥

“Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.

— Local Cranky IT Guy” [shared with permission]

#Enshittification

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hah! truth:

https://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2024/08/27

@laloalcaraz is spot on again

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“John Kelly, Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff.
A retired Marine General.
Not supporting Donald Trump.

Jim Mattis, Trump’s former Secretary of Defense.
A retired Marine General.
Not supporting Donald Trump.

H.R. McMaster, Trump’s former National Security Advisor.
A retired Army Lieutenant General.
Not supporting Donald Trump.

Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump.
A retired Army General.
Not supporting Donald Trump.“

- from VoteVets

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

We all want to raise awesome kids, right?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/27/what-kind-of-parent-would-you-be/

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• The Progressive Parent, by Kavin Senapathy (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

oh yay, tomatoes!🍅

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• tiny tomatoes on my plant (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I've known gambling addicts. The one thing I know for sure about them is that they lie and cannot be trusted.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/27/ive-known-gambling-addicts-and-am-wise-to-their-lies/

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• Nate Silver brags about betting $10,000/day on the NBA (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

far too young to die for one’s country 💦

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I went to the fancy grocery store because of this and learned that they no longer carry matcha pocky :BlobhajSadReach:

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I figured Chappell Roan was in for a bad time with her fanbase after seeing some bizarre discourse about gay men supposedly not liking her because she didn't pander to them.

This struck me as a particularly bad sign because it was a rhetorical move to claim her as being authentically and exclusively for her lesbian admirers AND it wasn't even slightly premised on observable reality (she had just dressed up as Divine days before)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I had a dream where I found a bag of skittles that was half and half matcha and lemon. It was just a random little side detail but I was disappointed when I woke up and realized I couldn't try them

Reblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

Good reminder that France is one of the rare countries in the world to have a declaration obligation when **importing** cryptography.

While one doesn’t need approval, it is critical to file an accurate declaration of the encryption system to the Cybersecurity agency ANSSI.

According to prosecutors, Telegram failed to accurately complete its declaration.

https://cyber.gouv.fr/faq-demande-dautorisation
https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/113029696954871293

Reblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

djm@cybervillains.com ("Damien Miller") wrote:

Everyone tech-adjacent celebrating Durov's arrest should read the charges against him as some are very problematic:

- Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration,
- Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration,
- Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.

How many OSS tools violate these?

https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault 🍉") wrote:

@fromjason @taylorlorenz

Even Harris-Walz paid 200 influencers to attend the DNC and they all stopped producing content after they would not allow a Palestinian to speak. They’re in trouble with young people.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

Taweret@octodon.social ("4 8 15 16 23 42") wrote:

Just a paranormal pants

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

@taylorlorenz your and Ken Klippenstein's reporting on Biden's use of social media influencers is underrated. I think it's the biggest story no one is talking about and I hope there's more to come.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Listen ingto John Mayall Jazz and Blues Fusion play "Goin' Down The Line" on Jul 5, 1973

https://wolfgangs.app.link/Ko1rTCIdoMb

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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

@marcedwards It sounds 95% like a gas car (Elantra N to be specific), and it perfectly emulates the torque curve, rev limiter, and loss of power when shifting.

But personally, I don't care about engine sounds of any car — I prefer to hear the tires squeal :)

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• vroom vroom at goodwood

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

📢 New blog post: My response to the 🇬🇧 UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA): https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/08/26/my-response-to-the-cma/.

As a Web developer who addresses people across all platforms and regions, including iOS/macOS users in the UK, I followed the @owa's pledge and sent an email to the CMA.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here is a medium format duck.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• A duck in a tarn. The water is very still and reflective, with the ripples from the duck's movement clearly visible on the surface.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

My studio is waaaay tooooo fulllllllll

so... studio cleanout sale!!! 30% off my keyboard magnets for a few days

https://reinventiongarage.etsy.com/listing/1725045889

(would love boosts for visibility ❤️)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mossdemonsketches@sunny.garden ("MossDemon’s Sketches") wrote:

Snoqualmie Falls

Spent more time on this one than I have on any art in A While! Ballpoint pen on paper.

#snoqualmiefalls #waterfall #ballpointpens #drawing #pendrawing #TraditionalArt

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• Image is of a waterfall seen from an elevated position. It’s drawn in black ballpoint pen on white paper, rendered entirely with varying weights of vertical lines. As the water cascades down, it seems to curl into spirals, and the mist produced also spirals up and away, as though in being cast forth into the world, it creates life. (remote)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

JUST PUBLISHED: press release from the Paris Judiciary Tribunal, laying out the specific charges against Pavel Durov.

These all appear to be France-specific charges, nothing to do with the European Commission.

Worryingly, this seems to be a “throw everything and see what sticks” situation. Such charges could be brought against Signal or any other encrypted messenger.

The inclusion of cryptography-related charges is especially troubling, as it suggests an attack on the fundamental security technologies that encrypted messaging platforms rely on.

This confirms my worst fears and means that this must be fought, hard. They’re going for a precedent.

If these charges lead to significant legal actions or convictions, it might embolden other jurisdictions to pursue similar cases against other encrypted messaging platforms like Signal. The implications could be far-reaching, potentially challenging the very legality of providing end-to-end encryption without compromising user privacy.

#paveldurov #telegram #encryption #france

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• TRIBUNAL JUDICIAIRE Pavel DUROV, founder and CEO of instant messaging and platform TELEGRAM, was arrested at Le Bourget airport in the outskirts of Paris on Saturday, the 24 of August 2024, then taken into police custody at 8 p.m. This measure comes in the context of a judicial investigation opened the 8% of July 2024, following a preliminary inquiry initiated by Section J3 - JUNALCO (Fight against Cybercrime) of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office. This judicial investigation was opened against person unnamed, on charges of: - Complicity — web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group, - Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law, - Complicity — possessing pornographic images of minors, - Complicity - distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group, - Complicity - acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering or selling narcotic substances, - Complicity - offering, selling or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, tools, programs or data designed for or adapted to get access to and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system, - Complicity - organized fraud, - Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by 5 or more years of imprisonment, (remote)
• - Laundering of the proceeds derived from organized group’s offences and crimes, -Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration, - Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration, - Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration. The investigative magistrates in charge of this preliminary judicial investigation have requested a co-referral of the Centre for the Fight against Cybercrime (Centre de lutte contre les criminalités numériques, C3N) and the Anti-Fraud National Office (Office National Anti-Fraude, ONAF) for the pursuance of the investigations. It is within this procedural framework in which Pavel DUROV was questioned by the investigators. The custody period was extended until the 25" August 2024 by an investigative magistrate and can last up to 96 hours (that being the 28" August 2024) given the applicable procedure for organized crime offences, as referred to above. Laure BECCUAU, Prosecutor of the Republic scom.parquet.tj-paris@justice.fr (remote)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

💼 Paid work alert!

I’m looking to commission legal experts to produce an opinion on a set of questions regarding how the European Commission’s Digital Services Act (or similar regulation in force) can affect end-to-end encrypted messaging services in Europe.

1. Under exactly which conditions Signal group chats would be liable for moderation under the DSA (or other relevant EU policy currently in force),

2. The reasoning that indicates that Signal's end-to-end encryption for group chats (and the Signal service's lack of visibility thereof) would not absolve them from these moderation requirements under the DSA (or other relevant EU policy currently in force),

3. The most likely prescription from the EC on how Signal is supposed to achieve such moderation to comply with DSA (or other relevant EU policy currently in force) in spite of end-to-end encryption?

We at Symbolic Software are ready to pay to commission a public report from legal experts that clarifies the above questions beyond a doubt. Please get in touch at nadim@symbolic.software if interested, and thank you!

#europeancommission #digitalservicesact