Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@boogah That's... not a good solution, I'm afraid. The archive-dot sites (other than archive.org) use visitors to power DDOS attacks and have been caught altering archived materials.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/

The very least Eurail could is to offer us free passes.

Anyone up for a class action?

#dataLeak #interrail #privacy #security #eurail

I, for one, am shocked at this finding. Shocked I say!
#LLM

https://theconversation.com/half-of-ai-health-answers-are-wrong-even-though-they-sound-convincing-new-study-280512

Dear Customer,

we recently informed you that ... was subject to a security incident. With this message we want to update you about important recent developments.

What has happened?

We informed you that, as a result of a security incident caused by us vibecoding the shit out of our codebase, your personal data in our customer database is now your personal data in a cybercriminal database.

Following that discovery, we immediately began the work to actually secure our system and initiated an investigation what that code actually does, and it does not look good.

The investigation has shown that the following categories of your personal data are currently being abused by people we do not control:

First Name
Last Name
Date of birth
Gender
Passport Number (including country of issuance and expiration date)
Email address
Phone Number
Physical address information
Country of Residence

Our legal advisors tell us to advice you to change your password, your passport, your phone number, your email provider, your gender, your name and your country of residence.

Good luck and godspeed.

Twenty-five years ago, the Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Offensive converged on Québec City to block the 3rd Summit of the Americas and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. Through mass mobilizations and direct action, activists successfully disrupted the summit.

Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.

So I went ahead and made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.

https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/

i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with blahblah@deleteduser.com or similar.

The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.

And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' :-D

#infosec

Today in "not from the Onion": Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business

https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ceo-war-crimes

#technoFascism #surveillance #surveillanceState #tescreal #palantir #fascism #AI #noAI #warCrime #terrorism

DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.

DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.

Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)

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is there already a database somewhere of job offers in "IT" (broadly speaking) that have refusing "AI" explicitly as part of the core premises? (and I mean it in the sense of @danmcquillan 's book, I am not "against math" as some fool tried to argue) asking for a friend 🙃

What's going to cause a Mass Diarrhea Event at the White House Correspondents' Dinner? https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/04/20

similarly, i've heard a few times that "we might cure cancer", and sure enough some brute force computation can fold proteins fast

but in practice it is more likely these tools will be used to fabricate experimental results, push dietary supplements and other snakeoil cures

and more coarsely, ai isn't pouring funding into the CDC, ai isn't reversing the destruction of the FDA, and is more than likely going to be used to justify those things

@urlyman

Sodium batteries are already in production & salt is ubiquitous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery

The "green energy dependence on lithium alone" is a fossil shakedown narrative that profits Trump donors.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-minerals-zelensky-putin-ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-1235292274/

https://globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/trump-deal-353-billion-ukraine-oil-and-gas-money/

Ron Lauder
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/world/europe/trump-lauder-ukraine-lithium.html

@Niall I also have recommendations if anyone is interested!

This is only for anyone looking for recommendations. Anyone else can safely ignore the rest of this message.

• Drilled podcast (about oil companies & their vastly disproportionate impact on climate).
• Climate Town - a series of videos on climate by a comedian with a climate science & policy degree.
• at the moment I’m reading A Climate of Truth, the most recent book by Mike Berners-Lee. I recommend his earlier books too.
• the This is How it Ends series on The Press YouTube channel (I’m currently in the middle of watching these eps: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0KKuXwuIs8k).

I have other books about climate in “to read” pile, but some are a bit more than I can manage.

Can I ask for recommendations from other folks too? Some I’ll have already read/watched/listened to, but there’s bound to be good stuff I haven’t found yet.

@lightweight @davemosk @phil_stevens

I have been warning about the term "digital sovereignty" and how it is right-wing coded and probably can't be salvaged for non-right-wing politics.

The German fascist party AfD now created a European foundation to push their fascist politics further. The name: "Sovereignty Foundation".

Even thought tactically it might feel like it makes sense to use the term to get funding, you are integration right wing politics into your thinking and speaking.

Up to about 24 different orgs now, overnight had some emails containing PII of 'deleted' users from a:

UAE based Gym Chain
South African HR Platform
EU based Hotel Reservations Platform
India based Delivery Service

and best of all

US based Antivirus Manufacturer and Cybersecurity Provider

@bagder
All of this points to the underlying challenge with this approach.

In the end we are talking about stochastic machines trying to find needles in a haystack. Essentially throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. They are just throwing the spaghetti really fast and at a cost that is dirt cheap for a nation state threat actor.

However, at the same time, this cost would be prohibitively expensive for an open source project target. Especially since you do not know how many attempts you would need to make before you can be confident that there's nothing (see the statement about no issues found in curl).

So it will always be easy to hand pick successful attempts - and it will always be impossible to (at a reasonable price, or maybe at any price) prove the negative, that there is no attack.

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Fascists will tell you that women shouldn't do science, that they're less good at it, and that they don't even like it. They should be at home tradwifing it up for some dude.🤡

Reality tells you that women are out here curing cancer.

Dr. Doudna, Dr. Kariko & Dr. Türeci (a co-author on this paper👍🏿👩🏻‍🔬)

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-early-trial-rcna331969