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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

One other thing about the Signal debacle: The reference in the thread to a document being sent "in your high-side email" demonstrates that these people had access to classified systems and were able to use them. They were not using Signal because they lacked available alternatives.

Signal is more convenient that these systems, which may be the reason. Or it may have been, as many have speculated, to evade federal records laws. But whatever the reason, it wasn't out of operational necessity.

jwz wrote:

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I realized yesterday that I had never joined AAUP, the professional organization and (sort of) union for academics. They're currently plaintiffs in several lawsuits challenging the administration's assaults on academic freedom, including at Columbia.

I've since rectified my error and joined.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

On the bright side, at least people know about Signal now.

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Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

So…this is what home ownership means.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/26/oh-no-my-lawn/

jwz wrote:

"Pardon me, but I couldn't help but overhear that what you characterized as an anti-spam tool is Well Actually an authentication tool, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux."

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.

jwz wrote:

We are currently clean on OPSEC.
https://jwz.org/b/yklE

Attachments:

• video: 49af52d6b39a2754.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Signal provides:

- Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).

- Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices

- No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Please, not for #JavaScript. We already know how crazy untyped JavaScript is, that's why we're using #TypeScript. 😆

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

At work, we're looking for the next book for our "Engineering Book Club".

I'd love to recommend something like "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases", but for #TypeScript instead of #Java

Does such a thing exist?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

can we have a feature where a toot self destructs when it hits 50 boosts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ohtiniestplanet@zirk.us ("Linette Moore") wrote:

old sketchbook joke, gel pen and watercolor

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
djnavarro@hachyderm.io ("Danielle Navarro") wrote:

@matt yep. it’s written up here:

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-01-01%5Fschools-of-magic/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

AI is Plan9

1/?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot”

https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-dependence-addiction

> Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

Possibly related: what I wrote a couple of years ago on how LLM chatbots function like a mentalist's con

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
sodslawyer@mstdn.social wrote:

I FINISHED A PEN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

An OPSEC faceplant for the US Secretary of Chicken Feathers And Hub Nuts or whatever would be bad enough. But an OPSEC faceplant from the

please listen to the words

US
director
of
national
intelligence

?!??

She should lose her job.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/secretive-chinese-network-tries-lure-fired-federal-workers-research-shows-2025-03-25/
Secretive Chinese network tried to lure fired federal workers, research shows

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

who decided to call it the myth of theseus and the minotaur and not "bull-terminated string"

jwz wrote:

Welp, since yesterday's post asking questions about using OpenDMARC with Postfix got, basically, crickets, I am led to the conclusion: nobody uses OpenDMARC with Postfix.

So let me ask instead:

• Is your Postfix configured to reject mail from outsiders pretending to be you?
• Is your Postfix configured to reject messages that fail DMARC?
• If so how?
https://jwz.org/b/yklC

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Politico: "Tulsi Gabbard says Signal comes ‘pre-installed’ on government devices. The app has been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past."

#SignalGate

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/gabbard-signal-government-devices-cybersecurity-00250731

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

If you worked at #Google and committed a security violation just a minuscule percentage of what Trump's team did on Signal, your corp account would be deactivated, your badge confiscated, and you'd be led out the door permanently before you could say "Gemini".

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr") wrote:

Slams on my brakes.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ClarusPlusPlus@gamedev.lgbt ("Clarissa | making Enigma Heart") wrote:

Hi! I'm Clarissa (she/her)! I'm currently working on a retro-styled action RPG called "Enigma Heart."

(Think: Zelda II with a non-silent protagonist and a sapphic love story!)

➡️ NOW AVAILABLE TO WISHLIST!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/Enigma%5FHeart/

@HadroSoft

https://www.hadrosaurus.net/enigma-heart
https://www.patreon.com/hadrosoft

#introduction #introductions

Attachments:

• gifv: A nighttime scene in Enigma Heart, a pixel art side-scrolling action RPG similar to Zelda 2. The hero, Zalia, is using her downstab technique to pogo across a line of monsters to traverse along stretch of water in some dark woods.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

I use this new Anker power bank every day, and it just dropped to its lowest price yet
https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/deals/anker-laptop-power-bank-2025-03-26?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into CNN Underscored @cnn-underscored-CNN

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

life can be so very hard

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joby@gts.joby.lol ("Joby :red_panda: (he/him)") wrote:

DHS/ICE didn't even exist when I was in high school. It's not an ancient and storied pillar of our society. We were fine before it existed, and we'd be fine if we abolished it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

NIH ends future funding to study the health effects of climate change
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/health/nih-climate-change-funding-propublica?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health and Wellness @health-and-wellness-CNN