Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

“Body language is an important part of communication” is a popular belief people hold. They’ll use it to justify in-person work and “cameras on.”

This belief, like many others about “professionalism,” ignores whole groups of people, including neurodivergent folks.

I wish folks who fight for Creative Commons/against copyright maximalism fight as hard for the wages of artists here and now, whether against streaming payouts for musicians or for-profit generators taking the output of writers and illustrators and using it to replace them. Not in the "oh, if only you'd listened to us and replaced the entire economic system in a way which would totally have fixed this, 100% guaranteed we promise", but in the practical here and now.

Folks who don't do this don't really come off like they're in favor of artists, just that they like free shit.

Every time I see reports of Russia designing their own fundamental tech I think of how US agencies have to be licking their chops. They'll have far fewer legal restrictions about what they can hit; their targets will have so many fresh vulnerabilities and there will be no obligation to disclose.
https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/110300669694591368

I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months

And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone, this time from Norway: in 2022, a 28yo man filmed a uniformed police officer assault his two 26yo friends. The officer took his phone, turned it towards him to unlock it and deleted the video. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/8J7A5w/politivolden-i-kongsberg-dette-vet-vi

@chort @thegrugq @tomatospy Agreed. Expertise is the combination of knowledge, skills and *experience.* Which is why training isn’t enough. You have to experience many different situations in #infosec.

I was inspired by this great write-up on operating your own email server by @jwildeboer : https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/ (Worth a read!). So I sat down and built some automation around this excellent blog post.

Long story short here's "version 0.1" of a dockerised mailservice: It features SMTP and IMAP servers, supports TLS (via letsencrypt), DKIM/DMARC for sending and receiving, and comes with a monitoring suite.

Set-up requires only minimal configuration.

Check it out at https://github.com/t-lo/mailserver .

I will never criticize anyone for worrying about follower counts on social media because I live in the United States where a few thousand more followers might be the only thing that saves you when you launch your seemingly inevitable medical emergency GoFundMe.

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

Shameless plug: thanks to some hard work by my awesome iCloud Keychain colleagues, all your keychain secrets are belong to you. They’re end-to-end encrypted and we have no way to read them: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/icloud-keychain-security-overview-sec1c89c6f3b/1/web/1