Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Consider moving off #LastPass if you're still using them.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/lastpass-hackers-infected-employees-home-computer-and-stole-corporate-vault/

Encryption keys to customer vault backups were stored in an encrypted vault accessible to only four employees.

But apparently LastPass did not audit nor care if the computers that could access the critical production vault were locked down.

And so, a vulnerability in a third party consumer app on one employee's computer was the entry point for an attacker.

(lack of) #devops #security

Drone footage shows that Brent Scarborough Company has begun clearcutting the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta, Georgia. The city government has overseen the murder of Tortuguita, the charging of dozens of activists with terrorism for as little as occupying a tree or attending a music festival, and now they are hurrying to destroy the forest before a public reckoning can take place.

As species go extinct by the thousand, as hurricanes and forest fires and other disasters exacerbated by climate change tear through your community, when you find yourself living in a concrete wasteland, remember—none of this was inevitable. These tragedies are the direct consequence of the selfish and destructive decisions of self-seeking politicians, corporate profiteers, and armed mercenaries—specific individuals who have names and addresses. They are making the earth uninhabitable in pursuit of what they imagine to be their personal gain, imposing the consequences on the rest of us.

We owe it to the future of all living things to stop them.

https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity

People arrested for standing next to an sign, for having a jail support number on them, for just being in a public space next to an active land defense project.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/31/georgia-cop-city-activists-prosecutors

see ya, feedly. shameful stuff.

Why do I do what I do on Mastodon? Why do I post so often about the climate emergency, our environmental crises, and the rapacious, murderous impact of greedy capitalists?

Is it because I believe I can help to stimulate large-scale change that will alter the direction we’re going? No, not really, although of course that would be nice. Except I know my reach here is minuscule compared to that of Twitter “influencers,” or the corporate media, or the Hollywood dream factory. I doubt I can do anything to change the course of history.

So, why do I do what I do? Is it because I like scaring people? Do I enjoy being seen as a doom-monger? Well, not exactly. It’s no fun being called an alarmist. However, I believe an alarm MUST be raised if people are to comprehend just how dangerous our situation truly is, and how vital their upcoming actions might be.

And that’s the real reason I do what I do. Not to scare you or make you depressed (though that’s an understandable and normal reaction), but to encourage everyone to take action.

Learn about and accept the reality of what’s ahead of us as the climate continues breaking down and society unravels. Think about what adequate preparation could mean for you and your loved ones. Reach out to others you can assist, or who can assist you.

Build a community. Make things better whenever and wherever you can. Because we *are* stronger together.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #Anticapitalism

Public Cloud as a software abstraction to build more resilient and elastic infrastructure is great as a software engineering concept.

What's concerning is the concentration of power among 3 Big Tech companies all belonging to the same country which has unfavorable laws of surveillance such as the CLOUD Act.

The popular adage needs a little re-framing.

The Cloud is American corporations' computers with full access given to government agencies.

#Cloud #PublicCloud

Winnie The Pooh Escapes Copyright Hell, Grabs Some Weapons, And Immediately Gets Kicked Out Of Hong Kong - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/29/winnie-the-pooh-escapes-copyright-hell-grabs-some-weapons-and-immediately-gets-kicked-out-of-hong-kong/ #china #XiJinping

How anyone puts any faith whatsoever in our judicial system (along with the rest of our government) is beyond me. All of the rhetoric about rule of law is obviously nothing more than that - rhetoric. If there were anything like an actual Left in this country, we would hear a lot more about Donziger, and Chevron's court-assisted thuggery. But everybody is too busy egging on WWIII to pay much attention, I guess.

https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/the-us-supreme-court-just-legalized

@costrike @timnitGebru

"AI doesn’t do any of this because what it does isn’t writing. It can’t write because it doesn’t think. It can’t think because that’s not what it’s designed to do. "

^ ^ ^

This. A million thousand times, *this*.

Britons have more confidence in EU than Westminster, poll finds - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/30/britons-more-confidence-in-eu-than-westminster-poll-brexit #brexit is going so well more people trust the EU than the UK parliament...

Folks who're fans/supporters of the Electronic Freedom Foundation - I just got a tentatively positive response to an email I sent yesterday asking if they could please add a Fediverse account to their website front page's "Follow us on Facebook or Twitter!" call to action. Please feel free to join me in encouraging them to join us here - I suspect they'll respond well to a broader grassroots movement requesting it!

Microsoft slips ads into Bing AI Chat

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/29/that-was-fast-microsoft-slips-ads-into-ai-powered-bing-chat/

Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripping with AI hype. Here's a quick rundown.

First, for context, note that URL? The Future of Life Institute is a longtermist operation. You know, the people who are focused on maximizing the happiness of billions of future beings who live in computer simulations.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

#AIhype

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TikTok is, as security expert Bruce Schneier says, part of a "shady" company.

China is a vile dictatorship that censors and spies on its people, and is an international predator.

But Congress members are lying when they pretend that banning TikTok is a solution to the problems Congress itself has allowed to fester -- namely the tech and big data industries' relentless spying on all of us.

Solve that, with tough laws, and TikTok is much less of an issue. Hint: Congress prefers theatrics.

"Clearview is a private company that is making face prints of people based on their photos online without their consent," EFF’s Matthew Guariglia spoke with BBC News for a story about this "huge problem for civil liberties and civil rights" that absolutely needs to be banned." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

I'd love to see this succeed: https://antitrust.nextcloud.com/