Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hello 🌏 ! This is #phosh's mastodon account. It'll have phosh's release announcements and posts/boosts of related projects. Looking forward to an interesting and bright Linux mobile future 📱 .

How to be creative - a thread 🪡

Creativity. That electric spark inside all of us (yes, *all* of us) longs to invent, envision, and inspire. But all too often, it feels out of reach. It's obscured by the monotony and the relentless demands of daily life.

The good news is this: the creative drive is intrinsic to human nature. It's an innate impulse. And with dedicated practice, we can unlock it, even in the context, stress and bullshit of the busiest schedule.

New blog post: my experience contributing to #Forgejo. I'll continue doing more of those reports to evaluate the #onboarding processes in #FOSS projects.

https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/contribution-experience-report-forgejo/

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Anyone looking to hire a senior software engineer, or perhaps a pentester?

I just lost half my team in another round of layoffs, and it's feeling grim around here—looking for a new employer. Hoping to find one that does something good for the world.

My main experience is in backend dev, APIs and such, but I had my start in web dev and wouldn't at all mind going back to full-stack work.

Security has been a huge part of my life, and it would also be fun to pivot to doing offensive security in my day job, not just as a hobby. :-)

#GetFediHired

We saw #malware uploads to Codeberg increase in the past weeks. Although our users are likely not the target audience of these files, we still want to remind you:

Watch out and stay secured. Do not run files from untrusted authors.
On Codeberg, double-check the project's legitimacy (e.g. user age, stars / issues / activity) or the source code itself.
Visit the project's homepage and use official download sources.
Never let emails panic you, consider if it's part of a #phishing campaign.

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Are you mad about the decline of independent journalism (e.g. Pitchfork!)?!

Mass layoffs at newspapers and magazines?

The disappearance of good, fun and sane things to read??

So are we: 60 writers and artists who've formed a cooperative to bring you FLAMING HYDRA, debuting shortly, $3/month subscription, help us get this thing off the ground!

https://flaminghydra.com

#media
#journalism
#journalists

Latest comic on pundits still making excuses for Trump

#fascism #authoritarianism #democracy #journalism #media #insurrection #election #politics #cartoon #comic

Folks, politics constitutes a *much* wider sphere of actions than simply voting D or R every few years.

Civil disobedience is politics.
Labor organizing is politics.
Mutual aid is politics.
Protesting is politics.
Activism is politics.
Striking is politics.

In the end, it turns out they were all fascists the whole time! 😮

[Proof There’s No Israeli Crime The USA Won’t Defend - Novara Media]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOaGLSBk4ls

#Github stopped displaying files without #javascript. Github does not get a pass because it's 0% free software. I will not create new projects on github.

If you need a redirection rule (e.g. Redirector plugin), this works for specific files:

match: https://github.com/(.*)/blob/(.*)

destination: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/$1/$2

Some still argue that abandoning Twitter is a form of cowardice or retreat — giving up the digital public square to the trolls and propagandists. But staying implies complicity with the breakdown of constructive discourse and the race to the bottom.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/there-is-no-moral-argument-for-staying-on-twitter-x-cdef14b04730

Some have warned me that calling out these issues will burn bridges. But if those bridges are built on unfairness, maybe they need to be crossed less, not more. Yes, there's a risk. I might get labelled as a troublemaker or, worse, get blacklisted. But what's the alternative? Staying silent and letting these problems persist?

F**k no.

German law is making security research a risky business.

Current news: A court found a developer guilty of “hacking.” His crime: he was tasked with looking into a software that produced way too many log messages. And he discovered that this software was making a MySQL connection to the vendor’s database server.

When he checked that MySQL connection, he realized that the database contained data belonging to not merely his client but all of the vendor’s customers. So he immediately informed the vendor – and while they fixed this vulnerability they also pressed charges.

There was apparently considerable discussion as to whether hardcoding database credentials in the application (visible as plain text, not even decompiling required) is sufficient protection to justify hacking charges. But the court ruling says: yes, there was a password, so there is a protection mechanism which was circumvented, and that’s hacking.

I very much hope that there will be a next instance ruling overturning this decision again. But it’s exactly as people feared: no matter how flawed the supposed “protection,” its mere existence turns security research into criminal hacking under the German law. This has a chilling effect on legitimate research, allowing companies to get away with inadequate security and in the end endangering users.

Source: https://www.heise.de/news/Warum-ein-Sicherheitsforscher-im-Fall-Modern-Solution-verurteilt-wurde-9601392.html

Friendly Reminder to #2FA users: Imagine your primary machine fails today. How will you restore your access to your online accounts?

Please ensure you saved your scratch token somewhere and have working backups of your TOTP app or a backup hardware key.

Thank you!
#Backup

@mekkaokereke What’s the point of grades? Is it:

FORMATIVE FEEDBACK: “You’re good at this, not so good at that. You did well enough at prereq X to take class Y.”

RANKING: “Hey, employers, grad schools, you suck at interviewing, but don’t worry, we’ll tell you: this student is better™ than that student.”

MOTIVATION: “Work hard or the institution will punish you”

CREDIBILITY: “We only grant degrees to people who actually did something”

These are all in •direct• mutual tension.

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I am fed up with trying to track down where I saved the most recent slideshow documents and other course materials (across three computers + 1 cloud storage file system), and I'm finding myself once again thinking that I really ought to put all this crap into a git repo.

So, I'm looking for thoughts on how I ought to format the relevant documents.

Poll below. Boosts welcome.

This weekend!

Book talks on Working It with Matilda Bickers and It Did Happen Here with Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern, Erin Yanke, Jonathan Mozzochi & Pete Normal as part of the Heart of the Valley Anti-Capitalist Book Fair.

Learn more at http://hotvbookfair.noblogs.org

Is anybody #hiring for a contract, part time or full time remote designer/illustrator? I have lots of work on currently, but I am actively looking for longer term projects!

As usual, mostly everything you need to know about me is on my portfolio @ https://andycarolan.com - Let me know if you would like to see my Résumé, and I will get it across to you!

Boosts appreciated! #fedihired