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

Some gritty details of DOGE treachery at NLRB, which Musk would have an interest in, but not for the smokescreen of "efficiency":

"There are multiple ongoing cases involving Musk and the NLRB. For one, after a group of former SpaceX employees lodged a complaint with the NLRB, lawyers representing SpaceX, some of whom were recently hired into government jobs, filed suit against the NLRB. They argued that the agency's structure is unconstitutional."

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Great to see Opera telling it like it is: Apple's Kafkaesque policies and processes – not to mention clearly deficient APIs – are depriving EU users of the better browsers they're legally entitled to:

https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/opera-apple-dma-ios/

jwz wrote:

I see my contempt for Katy Perry has reached a middle.

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

these ppl thrash around and screw up everything they get their grimy fingers on

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-mitre-cisa-contract-expiration-cve-database/

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

JFC, yet another self inflicted wound in the security wars

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-beaumont-security%5Fthe-cve-memes-are-flowing-ugcPost-7318217146268868608-G6A2?utm%5Fmedium=ios%5Fapp&rcm=ACoAAAB7JkEBQCk8SY-mmP6rvpKfocI7TzIpqK4&utm%5Fsource=social%5Fshare%5Fsend&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Fvia

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

A dream come true: to see my art in a museum! 🤩 It's the portrait I painted of Charles Darwin.
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1073/my-portrait-of-charles-darwin-is-in-a-museum-now

#krita

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
minimalparts@fosstodon.org ("Aurelie Herbelot (she/her)") wrote:

I am under a DDoS attack. Not my server, not my service. Me.

And like everything these days, it has to do with #AI.

This is going to be a thread because I'm annoyed and have much to say. It should be called something like "How I wasted a good part of the last 7 years having to react to a dubious technology instead of doing my job". Or perhaps "How a science disappeared". You can decide. /0

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_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like"

https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/

mentioning @jaredwhite @anildash @ghost @caseynewton @molly0xfff @404mediaco @Daojoan @theindex @dangillmor @ryanbroderick @micahflee @melaniebartos @kleisli

I'd love to hear what you think about #AdoptAWriter ✨

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #resistance #SaveSocial

jwz wrote:

Look, he's a piece of shit, but the terms of my parole require me to re-post all Ferris Bueller-based jokes.

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osma@mas.to ("Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦") wrote:

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

jwz wrote:

Today in "Maybe Later" --

"Get the most from Google Analytics with personalized tips! Sign up to receive .... blah blah blah blah"

[ Where's the fucking unsubscribe button ]

"You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Analytics product or account."

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Google is so sneaky. This prompt inside Gmail gives you three options. The two most visible options (number 1 is 'Try it now' and number 2 is 'Continue') basically mean 'Enable Gemini AI to write emails.' The third option cancels it which is hidden well. Google, you could do better than this. This is a perfect example of a dark pattern. For those who want AI to write basic emails can enable it but there is not need to do this kind of "shady" stuff.

#ai #privacy

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

JFC

"attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney"

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brembs ("Björn Brembs") wrote:

DOGE handing over government logins to Russia is not a scandal because everybody was expecting it anyway?
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in [...]. The attempts were "near real-time," [...]. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

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

getting gear ready for volunteering at 4/19 demo in #ROC

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

"W3C embeds its core values and principles in the Web’s architecture. To build a better future, W3C must rise even further to the challenge of improving the Web’s fundamental integrity, while continuing to expand the Web’s scope and reach. As the Ethical Web Principles state: “The Web should empower an equitable, informed, and interconnected society.”

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

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

'The fundamental function of W3C is to provide an open forum where diverse voices from around the world and from different organizations and industries work together to evolve the web by building consensus on voluntary global standards for Web technologies."

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

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

"W3C leads the community in defining a World Wide Web that puts people first, by developing principles-based technical standards and guidelines."

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

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

"3. W3C’s Core Vision for the World Wide Web

The Web is for all humanity.

The Web is designed for the good of all people.

The Web must be safe to use.

There is one interoperable world-wide Web."

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tantek.com/2025/100/t1/vision-for-w3c-please-vote

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tantek.com@tantek.com ("Tantek Çelik") wrote:

I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:

Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/

If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:

https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)

Thank you for your support.

#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)

¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/
² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Yes.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@realtedleo/post/DIgY1hmOtcO

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ Robb Knight - omg.lol Interview Series 7 https://krrd.ing/posts/robb-knight-omglol-interview-series-7/

I was interviewed by @mbjones for his omg.lol series and I revealed the start of a pizza theory I've been mulling over.

∞ https://rknight.me/links/robb-knight-omglol-interview-series-7/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ainmosni@ainmosni.eu ("Daniël Franke :panheart:") wrote:

A thing that many people don't realise,is that if you get neoliberals in your government, they will actively work on making your government work worse.

Neoliberals want services, like transit, healthcare, etc, to be privatised because their friends can make profit off of running these thing. People will not want these services to be privatised if they run well.

The classic playbook, and this playbook has been running for about as long as I've lived, is to starve government services from money, while also making them more bureaucratic than they need to be. This makes these services inefficient, insufficient, and over time, unpopular.

When the quality of these services becomes bad enough, and the reputation of these services bad enough, the neoliberals in government will start saying that privatisation is the only way to improve these services (for example in the case of healthcare), or that people just prefer to use a private alternative (for example driving in the case of rail). Of course, they purposely ignore that these options only seem better because they've been ruining the governmental services themselves.

In short, governmental services don't need to be bureaucratic and shit, we can choose to make them at least, if not more so, as good as the private options.

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

oh FFS, it is snowing

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Today's ruling of the UK Supreme Court sets a dangerous and nonsensical precedent for all women in the UK and in the world.

Here's @toutesdesfemmes's full statement in English: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347166620370401

And in French: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347155080739401

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lewis@social.lol ("Lewis Dale") wrote:

Well fuck that judgement.

Trans women are women.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The kids are all right

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/pentagon-school-students-sue-hegseth-book-bans

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I boosted several posts about this already, but since people keep asking if I've seen it....

MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration Program, will expire on April 16. The CVE database is critical for anyone doing vulnerability management or security research, and for a whole lot of other uses. There isn't really anyone else left who does this, and it's typically been work that is paid for and supported by the US government, which is a major consumer of this information, btw.

I reached out to MITRE, and they confirmed it is for real. Here is the contract, which is through the Department of Homeland Security, and has been renewed annually on the 16th or 17th of April.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT%5FAWD%5F70RCSJ23FR0000015%5F7001%5F70RSAT20D00000001%5F7001

MITRE's CVE database is likely going offline tomorrow. They have told me that for now, historical CVE records will be available at GitHub, https://github.com/CVEProject

Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director at MITRE's Center for Securing the Homeland, said:

“On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, funding for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program and related programs, such as the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) Program, will expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to support MITRE’s role in the program and MITRE remains committed to CVE as a global resource.”

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Wow. CVE database is in serious trouble, tomorrow.

The cyber industry as a whole is in trouble also really, it’s the elephant in the room - the collapse of the White House’s support for cybersecurity is obvious and pronounced due to widespread cutbacks.