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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Everybody is looking forward to the next No Kings Day in the spring. The official date will be announced once we land this with the full No Kings coalition, but trust us that it’s coming. And we can’t wait, either. ❌👑

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Playing some games with the Freebooters at https://live.freebooters.uk/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

Should be no surprise considering bsky constantly protects nazis, the far right, and all flavors of bigotry at the expense of Palestinians and trans women.

Fortunately, their information already spread so far and wide that at least half of the Blood Tribe nazis lost their jobs following the mass doxx. Chris Pohlhaus, leader of BT, estimated financial losses at over $2 million lol. Happy holidays!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Apple Maps: get off at this exit to your right

Stay to your right
Stay to your right
Very good stay to your right
Stay to y-- TURN LEFT NOW TURN LEFT RIGHT THIS FUCKING INSTANT TURN LEFT TURN LEFT DEAR GOD TURN LEFT OR WE WILL ALL DIE

...

There's a hazard up ahead is it still there?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I do not enjoy being the kind of pedant who is annoyed that the "musical_note" emoji 🎵 actually shows TWO NOTES.

And yet, it is who I am.

Boosted by jwz:
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

You sort of have to admire just how aggressively Wang did not care about naming things

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

“How did the US lose its sheen? …the first blow was the Iraq War… Revelations of civilian casualties and torture at CIA black sites further undermined America’s reputation…Then came the erosion of US economic legitimacy with the 2008 financial crisis… The coup de grâce was the crisis in America’s political and moral legitimacy brought about by the presidency of Donald Trump.”

— Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
https://a.co/eQm4FCC

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I think the reason it’s so hard to garner empathy for the poor is because so many Americans believe they are a rags-to-richest success story, that they pulled themselves up by their boot straps. It’s a “poverty is in the eyes of the beholder” type situation.

But unless you come from generational poverty, you simply don’t know how much the system is designed to keep you there. If you haven’t experience that you just don’t know.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

So if you initiate the phone-to-phone Signal account transfer process, and it almost completes, such that the account is transferred, but the data isn't, and then errors out ... and if you didn't have backups enabled ... then your entire chat history just vanishes into thin air with zero recourse. In other words, Signal nukes your history from orbit on the old phone before validating that it actually successfully transferred to the new phone.

I am indescribably angry right now.

(The extra insurance you need, that I didn't have, was to enable general backups on the old phone first, and make sure that a backup completes on the old phone before initiating the transfer.)

Edit: kindly folks in my mentions are trying to explain that Signal wants to ensure that there is only ever one primary phone. The problem is that the risk of data loss due to the lack of confirmation of data transfer is well known enough to be in their troubleshooting guide (which, by the time you know you need it, is too late):

https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/115790449517648907

The user should be vigorously, repeatedly warned of the risk of data loss, right there in the transfer workflow, and strongly encouraged to make a backup prior to initiating the transfer.

Edit 2: In the old phone, all history was visibly absent, immediately after the account was transferred. But now, after reboot of the old phone ... all of my message history is there?! But the backup option is gone, so I can't create a local backup in order to try to restore it. But at least all the history is still on the old phone? But there appears to be way to move it.

#Signal

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

What fun is an API if it can’t respond as if it’s an Italian chef?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The political worship of Zohran
Mamdani worries me a bit. I don't want to be a thief of joy. Be happy! But know that he *will* disappoint us sooner or later.

Not in the way that Obama was disappointingly—learning a centrist was cosplaying a revolutionary.

But because it will take more than one democratic socialist elected to see change. Remember, it's not just the GOP that's against Mamdani. His own party turned their backs on him. He's out there alone. We fail if we make him "the one."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Merry Christmas to everybody, except that dude who works for Elastic, who decided to drop an unauthenticated exploit for MongoDB on Christmas Day, that leaks memory and automates harvesting secrets (e.g. database passwords)

CVE-2025-14847 aka MongoBleed

Exp: https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/blob/main/mongobleed.py

This one is incredibly widely internet facing and will very likely see mass exploitation and impactful incidents

Impacts every MongoDB version going back a decade.

Shodan dork: product:"MongoDB"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
stefano@bsd.cafe ("Stefano Marinelli") wrote:

I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.

And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".

Which is fascinating, really.

I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.

At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.

Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.

#IT #Blogging

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hdv@front-end.social ("Hidde") wrote:

✏️ Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all

a new blog post! (*I do want the kill switch, but responsible rollout matters even more in the grand scheme of things)

https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Uh … AI bubble costing the US as much money in 12 months as *two major wars over 13 years* is quite the buried lede!

"If it can't go on forever it will stop." — economist Herb Stein, 1985. (The "it" is a placeholder for any economic process.)
https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/115782207999466966

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

good to know

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I noped out of Stranger Things on episode two when they telegraphed clearly what their storytelling priorities were by killing off the only character I found relatable. Everything I’ve seen about the series since reinforces my belief that I’d have found the entire thing stupendously annoying

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

In retrospect, it’s hard for me not to see that switching to digital was initially, and for several years, a creative setback. These film photos from 2004-5 were much more interesting than the digital pics from 2006 #photos #film

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

This pigeon portrait is probably one of the earliest digital photos I took that I can actually tolerate today. Taken in 2006 #bird #birds

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Manage the chaos of temporary projects! 📁🔥

🧪 **try-rs** — A workspace manager for your throwaway Rust experiments

💯 Supports dated folders, fuzzy search, Git cloning & safe cleanup.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/tassiovirginio/try-rs

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #commandline #experiment #devtools #productivity #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 0370950a0f757f15.mp4

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

An issue I have with commenting on "AI" these days is that the "pro" side is so wilfully obtuse, disingenuous, and manipulative that it's impossible for me to comment without calling them out as massive fucking assholes and I'm trying my hardest not to do that kind of thing on social media

Like, you dickheads know exactly what you're doing. Stop pretending you're all 'critical' just because you wring your hands occasionally about security issues even as you continue to use these broken systems

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

For those who haven't got the backstory here, a GenAI company basically pre-ordered 40% of the world's RAM to lock out competitors... then Micron, who make their profits by making RAM, decided to also stop making RAM to chase GenAI fad.

So now PCs and servers are basically unaffordable. Nobody is quite sure what will happen.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

$3k RAM running Chrome.exe, might sell my PC and buy a car

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

the ram in my gaming PC is worth ten times how much I paid for it a few months ago

RIP CIO IT budgets, just as a spoiler - they'll burn through it in the next few months.

Also RIP their blood pressure when they get their Azure bill and E5 renewal quote.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

❌ spaghetti code
✅ hentai code

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

If he think the party faction that rejected Ramaswamy for being Indian will forgive Vance for marrying one, he is in for a rude wake up call.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tomgag@infosec.exchange ("Tommaso Gagliardoni") wrote:

"Unfortunately We Are Unable To Provide Feedback"

No, you're not "unable", you are unwilling. And this is not OK.

https://gagliardoni.net/#20251227%5Fnofeedback

Many cybersecurity and Web3 conferences refuse to provide an explanation of why a submission was rejected. The argument is that it would be too much time consuming due to the large volume of applications, but in this blog post (which is both a rant and an open letter) I make the point that this is just an excuse, and it's due time to change this behavior. It's not only a lack of respect for the community, but also a red flag about the transparency of the review process.

Please be better than this.

#cybersecurity #security #infosec #web3 #rant #academia

jwz wrote:

Lobster Heist.

$400K lobster shipment hijacked en route to Illinois Costco locations: Dylan Rexing, CEO of Rexing Companies, said the shipment was picked up in Taunton, Massachusetts, but never reached its destination. He said the theft appears to be...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0%5F

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
alien@mastodon.green ("Alien🍉") wrote:

@fromjason in my very humble opinion the key word is the word "selling". What if technology -regardlesss if it's later on somehow sold- was giving us what we need. I think this because the times when I see actually different, cool and useful things are usually under free software communities *first*