Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

Tuesday motivation

"Systems people rarely blame people for things. They blame systems. The fact that people act in certain perverse ways that produce results that no one wants is not usually (there are exceptions) the fault of the people. They're the rational behave behavior of people in the
system and the question is what's wrong with the system? not what's wrong with the people in it?" (#DonellaMeadows)

A good reminder to focus on learning more about the systems when studying incidents #LFI

Really important, deeply reported, superbly analyzed piece from Kathryn Joyce about the internecine war within the new right and what it means for the rest of us:

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/21/the-postliberal-crackup-the-gops-post-midterms-civil-starts-with-the-new-right/

I'm going to say this again - my white friends who aren't racists do not mind me talking about racism. If you find yourself disturbed by or uncomfortable with topics on racism, you may want to tell yourself some hard truths. And then, work on your findings. You may be racist.

Tailscale has recently been notified of security vulnerabilities in the Tailscale Windows client which allow a malicious website visited by a device running Tailscale to change the Tailscale daemon configuration and access information in the Tailscale local and peer APIs.

To patch these vulnerabilities, upgrade Tailscale on your Windows machines to Tailscale v1.32.3 or later, or v1.33.257 or later (unstable).

https://tailscale.com/blog/windows-security-vulnerabilities/

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Another Black person played Mastodon "instance roulette" and lost.

We need a Mastodon instance Green Book pronto or this ain't gonna work.

This is starting to feel like the WW2 Dunkirk evacuation where the Black and Indian Commonwealth soldiers were abandoned on the beach...

https://twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1594711597359980547

It's a heavy day for all of us.

If you are in a bad place for ANY REASON, or just need someone to talk to, I implore you to reach out.

Trevor project lifeline:
📱 1-866-488-7386
text START to 678-678
🌐 https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

We love you. We need your light. This world is a better place with you in it.

#TDoR

Here is this week's newsletter, hot off the virtual presses.

• Twitter decay sparks security fears
• Iran hacked U.S. federal agency
• Zeppelin ransomware quietly cracked
• Infosys leaked AWS keys for a year
• And a brand new cyber cat

Sign up: https://this.weekinsecurity.com

Read: https://mailchi.mp/zackwhittaker/this-week-in-security-november-20-edition

What's obvious to basically everyone in the industry but is probably surprising to everyone else is that twitter is a harder problem than getting a rocket to the moon. One of these problems only involves physics, the other involves humans.

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

He's photomatt on Twitter, or look here too: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

Boost for visibility, please? Spread the word!

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr

I wrote a blogpost on how to get on Mastodon for regular folks who might find all this a bit scary. In it I recommend they get an account here on social.vivaldi.net
"A Twitter Off Ramp: A tutorial for getting on Mastodon"
https://patricia.no/2022/11/18/twitter_off_ramp.html

ICYMI: Brave on desktop can now quickly remove extra text strings from URLs so you can share clean links.

To use the feature, just right-click the URL bar and select "Copy clean link."

probably my biggest advice as a code reviewer is to always ask dumb questions. in the course of answering the dumb question, the author is likely to self-report some bugs that were not obvious!

"He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us. I cannot do that anymore."

- Mike Evans, Evangelical D-Riders for Trump

They got what they wanted - the support of "Christian Hate" & the Gospel of prosperity.

Now they're trying to say they KNEW it was wrong, but Trump tricked them.

Don't let them do it.

They made their bed, now they need to sleep in it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/key-evangelical-figures-turn-on-trump-he-used-us/ar-AA14fSKb?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2c82963a5bb541a984a863e3c34382da

Sometimes you get small life wins - my therapist is amazing, she just emailed me this article reinforcing things we talk about - including 'stop trying to fit in'

This makes my day - New issue of Scientific American calling out some of the trends in misunderstanding and mistreating autism https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-treatment-shifts-away-from-fixing-the-condition/

Time and time again this whole "no politics, we only care about the code" attitude is just a screaming dog whistle for bigots, Nazis, and abusers. This guy just said it out loud.

If you think it isn't and you haven't figured it out yet, you are not fit to lead a community.

Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego put Republicans angling to cut aid to Ukraine on notice Wednesday, calling on fellow bishops to challenge efforts by GOP lawmakers to stop the flow of resources to the embattled nation. https://religionnews.com/2022/11/16/cardinal-aks-bishops-to-challenge-lawmakers-who-want-to-cut-ukraine-aid/