Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I also wonder, when the big players start federating (Tumblr and Insta are both supposedly on the way) and flooding the fediverse, if it'll make Gargon rethink his aversion to local-only posting. The fediverse is poised to get a lot bigger and a lot more noisy very quickly. When that happens, it's going to force a lot of changes.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/8427#issuecomment-415969018

So it's looking like the crash of Silicon Valley Bank isn't (at least directly) fallout from the cryptocurrency scams, but rather an old-fashioned, greed-and-panic bank run.

5 years ago, @SenWarren said: “I’m concerned about the negative impact of increased consolidation caused by S.2155.”
Within a year we were seeing the impact. (see link)
Today a bank whose growth was facilitated by the weakening standards in S.2155 failed.
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/08/elizabeth-warren-was-right-new-law-is-already-making-banks-bigger/

U.S. government mustn’t be allowed to do an end run around the 4th Amendment by buying private data about the precise movements of hundreds of millions of people collected without their knowledge or meaningful consent, EFF’s Adam Schwartz told Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admits-to-buying-location-data-on-americans-horrifying-experts

Atlanta Cop City Protesters Charged With Domestic Terror for Having Mud on Their Shoes

"In an aggressive and indiscriminate arrest sweep on Sunday, police stormed a music festival held in the Atlanta forest by activists protesting Cop City, a vast police training facility under construction atop forestland. Twenty-three of the activists arrested in the raid now
face domestic terrorism charges for their participation in the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement."

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/

#StopCopCity #defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #policeviolence #antireport #DomesticTerrorism

Most of the deposits in Silicon Valley Bank were from high fliers, not regular people. You can be sure they're working hard to get the rest of us to bail them out. The sad part is they'll probably succeed, since government policy since 2008 has been to further enrich the already rich and screw everyone else.

If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

If your organization works to investigate, expose, and prevent spyware around the world, this new funding initiative from the Ford Foundation is for you. https://fordfoundation.forms.fm/spyware-accountability-initiative-spring-2023-request-for-concept-notes/forms/9600

As a technologist I have to point out that the technological solutions to do this *safely* don’t exist. They are at best at the research stage. ML textual analysis schemes do exist, and often misfire. These systems will need to accomplish this task perfectly and also privately.

You might ask how the EU, famous for its focus on privacy, justifies the development of automated text-analysis tools that scan your private chats. The Impact Assessment has an analysis. To say that this analysis is deficient is really much too kind.

The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

Silicon Valley startups: We're libertarian, hate government regulation and oversight, and believe every person and business should be accountable for its own decisions and mistakes.

Also Silicon Valley startups: OMG,
#SVB has failed. The government better do a bailout, and the FDIC must protect all our assets expediently!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html

I think it is fine for someone to use Mastodon DMs to send any message that they would also feel comfortable sending over unencrypted email. For some people that is "basically nothing" and for others that is "basically everything".

I am making this post so that I can link it in future discussions here so I do not have to type it again.

If you are seeing this post because I linked you to it: greetings from the past! It is March 20, 2023 and the weather today in Portland, Oregon, USA is dreary.

Periodic reminder: most Non-Disclosure Agreements represent an unbounded risk to your future professional viability an happiness. Signing them is a very bad idea.

Now this is legitimately ironic: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/billions-of-pcs-and-other-devices-vulnerable-to-newly-discovered-tpm-20-flaws Poor old #Microsoft can't catch a break. Yet again I thank my lucky stars that the idea of running MSFT Windows makes me puke in my mouth.

Latest statement from the defendants of the Aston Park / #Asheville Sanctuary Camp Defendants + a phone zap (3/3)