Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I don't understand why a user would want engagement-based sorting at all.

Why would you want to only read what is popular? That sounds like the kind of thing that a low-self-esteem teenager victimized by the fashion industry would worry about.

‘Don’t fool yourself’: billions more needed to protect tropical forests, warns new report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/19/dont-fool-yourself-billions-more-needed-to-protect-tropical-forests-warns-new-report-aoe a tiny price to pay for the stability forests bring to the planet

How a New UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Lead to the Repression of Civil Liberties - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/un-treaty-spyware/ we need to keep an eye on this... #privacy

"lack of sustainability of Chromebooks provided for schools is hurting the Environment"

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-another-e-waste-crisis-for-the-e-waste-crisis-pile-chromebook-churn/

I spend way too much time feeling Weltschmertz. I know many other people feel helpless about the direction our world is taken. Others have decided 'the hell with everyone else, I'm in it for myself & my family'. Others are willfully oblivious.= & still others are plain ignorant. I spread a bit of derision at the selfish & willfully oblivious. I try to conserve enough energy to have empathy for those in the first & last categories... hard when the momentum is almost all going the wrong way.

The best thing that Dominion could do with their infusion of cash from Fox - for both their reputation and for the good of democracy - would be to invest it into developing more robust, auditable election technology, such as optical scan systems with features to facilitate Risk-Limiting Audits.

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman provides an effective framework to analyse the functioning of the media... Manufacturing Consent explains in detail the ‘propaganda model’. Despite being written in the ’90s, the five filters of the model that affect editorial bias still function even today, in the 21st century."

#MehakNeel

https://www.sociologygroup.com/mass-media-as-a-power-institution/

#media #MediaBias #NoamChomsky #EdHerman #ManufacturingConsent

#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM

So a southeastern Oklahoma sheriff and others were caught on tape literally plotting to murder journalists, and now they say *the person who recorded the conversation* is the one who will face felony charges. Our statement is below: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mccurtain-county-sheriff-kevin-clardy-illegal-recording_n_643ebeb7e4b011a819bd6016

A statement from Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern on the conviction of Asheville Blade journalists for documenting a homeless encampment sweep at a public park after closing time on Christmas night of 2021:

The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course is published!

This book doesn't aim to be an exhaustive guide to everything you need to know to be a system administrator. Instead, this book allows me to act as a remote mentor to someone starting out in IT or system administration whether as a full-time job or as a full stack developer.

It's available in premium hardcover, paperback, and ebook forms here:
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/kyle_rankin

#writing #SelfPublishing #linux #publishing

@anathema_device @Teri_Kanefield

… and as a result, Fox is paying over three quarters of a billion dollars. Right? What if Dominion went to trial and the jury found in their favor, then felt fair damages was $20 million?

This is a civil lawsuit. This settlement is fucking unreal. They did very well. Dominion doesn’t owe anyone except their shareholders anything, for better or worse. That’s how it works.

Has Larry Lessig Lost The Plot? Tells Supreme Court That #AI Should Get #Patents - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/18/has-larry-lessig-lost-the-plot-tells-supreme-court-that-ai-should-get-patents/ staggering in its unexpectedness and deeply disappointing...

For the past seven years, a malware-based proxy service known as "Faceless" has sold anonymity to countless cybercriminals. For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. In this post we'll examine clues left behind over the past decade by the proprietor of Faceless, including some that may help put a face to the name.

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us, a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services.

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground's most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised "Internet of Things" devices -- such as media sharing servers -- that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices. Those with IoT zero-days could expect payment if their exploit involved at least 5,000 systems that could be identified through Shodan.

March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to "the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate."

Kilmer said Faceless wants to become a one-stop-fraud-shop for cybercriminals who are seeking stolen or synthetic identities from which to transact online, and a temporary proxy that is geographically close to the identity being sold. #Faceless currently sells this bundled product for $9 -- $8 for the identity and $1 for the proxy.

More here:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/04/giving-a-face-to-the-malware-proxy-service-faceless/

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