DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

TIL: #bash provides pseudo devices for TCP and UDP connections:

echo "hello" > /dev/udp/127.0.0.1/1337

or

exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n" >&5
cat <&5

I'm baffled how I've never discovered that until today.

@fribbledom Special handling of certain file names is for redirections, and it is a Bash feature.

"Bash handles several filenames specially when they are used in redirections, as described in the following table. If the operating system on which Bash is running provides these special files, bash will use them; otherwise it will emulate them internally..."

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirections.html

@jasper @nik

Copyright may be broken, but turning the Copyright Office into the court, judge, and jury for bulk copyright claims is not how to fix it. https://act.eff.org/action/prevent-copyright-trolling-tell-congress-that-copyright-claims-can-t-be-treated-like-traffic-tickets

The FBI routinely uses National Security Letters to impose gag orders on companies without an end date. We've filed a new brief telling the 9th Circuit that endless gag orders are unconstitutional. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/eff-supports-unnamed-company-bringing-end-endless-nsl-gag-orders

What do the Xinjiang police want to know when they check your phone? Well, if you've been abroad for "too long" they check for:
- WhatsApp, Viber, or Telegram
- other “unusual" software
- VPN usage
- “harmful URLs" in your browsing history
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/human-rights-watch-reverse-engineers-mass-surveillance-app-used-police-xinjiang

Pharma and biotech companies want to scrap the requirement that patents be "new and useful." Once they don't have to meet that basic standard, health care costs will rise. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-don-t-need-more-bad-patents-8941b5c6-5bb1-4d93-9ca1-a2da87c4458e

Don't miss the #OffTopicalPodcast that was LIVE at #linuxfestnorthwest #lfnw with special guest @lunduke https://youtu.be/CjeJD9KOCXQ

"This is a GAME CHANGER! Purism's ETHICAL services are HERE!"

- @gbryant (aka "The Linux Gamer")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycZBAsRzNZs

RT @IEEESSP@birdsite.link
One paper shows how you can use a hard drive to record sound. The paper's author then used this technique to record the audio for their preview video. Take a listen, it is pretty amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EHQCuWI2jg

https://twitter.com/IEEESSP/status/1124033564616613889

RT @softwarnet@birdsite.link
#infosec
If Facebook thinks that AI Edge - reading messages before/after encryption - is a security solution - they are smoking some really bad granola. It's a back door.

They are using your hardware to do the data mining and stealing your info.

https://twitter.com/softwarnet/status/1125353877308448769

RT @troyhunt@birdsite.link
How on earth did @PCMag manage to publish a piece on certificate authorities and only focus on the paid ones without a single mention of @letsencrypt? Can you comment on this @gleefulmischief? To conclude that "You usually get what you pay for" is grossly misleading. https://twitter.com/PCMag/status/1049419422362931200

https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1125467916525240320

https://twitter.com/jakebackpack/status/1126904689583378432

<<I do sort of love the fact that people think a species that can't manage a perfect 4-billion-year old self-sustaining solar-powered biosphere surrounded by its own self-generated forcefield are gonna somehow be able to build a viable space habitat. >>

This belief is the Atlas Shrugged myth, the idea that all the problems of Earth are caused by other people, the untermenschen, that if you just put all the self-selected supermen together you get paradise.

It's what's driving Silicon Valley's Cloud and Big Data and Disruption fixation. It's what's driving transhumanism and "rationalist" cults and Bitcoin and the alt-right. It's what's making SV ignore the inflated rents they're cursing cities with and the suffering that causes.

It's fascism.

No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.

You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.

It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.

Say hello to Telephant!

I've written a little Mastodon client for the Desktop - called Telephant - and am currently looking for beta testers!

Want to help out and don't mind compiling the app yourself? (Don't worry it's fairly straight forward and I've added detailed instructions to the README!)

Join me here:
https://github.com/muesli/telephant

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Kaidan joins the KDE community:
https://www.kaidan.im/2019/05/10/kaidan-joins-kde/

In Idaho, a judge has ruled that law enforcement cannot compel a person to unlock their phone with a fingerprint because it would violate their 5th Amendment rights, following a similar ruling in California earlier this year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/05/10/the-us-government-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-phone-with-your-fingerprint-another-judge-rules/#c3889a144454

In the previous ruling, a California judge decided that both face and finger biometrics are protected.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#4a967c1842b7

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