Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Okay, putting my hand up to help potential switchers. If you're thinking of switching to #XMPP this #GlobalSwitchDay, drop me a private mention and I can help you figure things out! Offer valid till stocks last

(I've been using XMPP-based federated messaging since forever, and know a bunch of servers including some I can invite you to, as well as a bunch of apps depending on your needs. This is just me though so I'll have to close if I get too flooded!)

#BoostsAppreciated #GuidedSwitch

Trump and his wholly owned Republican congressional majority are preparing legislation that is blatantly designed to prevent MILLIONS of Americans from registering to vote.

More from the Brennan Center for Justice, which closely tracks this stuff:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/restricting-freedom-vote

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Of course, we'll be broadcasting on our self-hosted Owncast instance – which you can follow right here on the Fediverse to get notified of this and any future streams @cast

And, we'll be uploading the stream to our Peertube channel afterwards, which you can also follow here! @coopcloud@tv.undersco.re

Ok, so that's annoying. For some reason, Gmail has started querying the reverse ptr for my mail server's IPv6 address, which is a /64... I've specified the ptr for the whole /64, plus the ::1, ::2, and now it's started rejecting the ::1b, because apparently that's 'not defined'... so do I have to explicitly define every possible permutation?

This weekend (Feb 1st/2nd), join Co-op Cloud online at Fluconf for "Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federation", our first-ever presentation about the social/democratic/human side of the project.

Scheduling still in progress, time and date to be announced as soon as we know!

– 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #Fluconf #Democracy

So, in the process of migrating my website from Vercel to Hetzner, I was able to do a pretty good write-up of what I did. If anyone wants to follow in my footsteps (or alternatively, point out all the things I've done wrong) , I think it's a decent guide!

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/vercel_hetzner

Bookship, the anti-amazon that gives $$ to local bookstores with every sale, now has ebooks. That’s a big deal: https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

We are living through an increasingly successful plot to end the American experiment.

One reason, though hardly the only one, is that journalists have normalized the extremist movement that organized and is carrying out the plot.

Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other sensitive data from the Chrome and Safari browsers as they visit sites such as iCloud Calendar, Google Maps, and Proton Mail.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/newly-discovered-flaws-in-apple-chips-leak-secrets-in-safari-and-chrome/

The main issue I see is that they charge in Euros. I don't have a problem with that philosophically or anything, I'd just be worried that the US economy tanks and suddenly it's like four US dollars to one Euro and *poof* you can't afford to pay for site hosting any more.

Why would I be worried about the US dollar tanking, you ask? IT'S A MYSTERY

So before this week my only knowledge of tagDiv was that they were a company that created WordPress themes. I almost used one for Eviscerati.Org, but I went with PenNews because it was marginally easier to configure.

Anyway, I got an email today stating that they were providing WordPress hosting:

https://tagdiv.com/wordpress-hosting/

Anyone have any experience with them on that front?

Experts saying not to use DeepSeek and put sensitive information In it because “You don’t know where the data goes.” is pretty rich coming out of America…

Really feels like the wheels are falling off today. Around much of the globe. Desperately sad and grim.

@AnneleiseHall @lightweight The worst of that is that those far-right ideologues who are indeed of sound mind and body, e.g. Project 2025, will, and indeed are already, taking full and unfettered advantage of Trump's lack of mental abilities to pursue their agenda. Trump's bad enough, but they are the real danger.

Since my time with the U.S. Treasury came to an end on January 20, I'm now available 10 hours/week for consulting. My expertise is the budgeting, procurement, and oversight of major custom software projects. If that is relevant to your interests, let me know!

The best thing that might come from the new US administration is that every other country in the world abandons US big tech on the grounds of digital sovereignty. That'd be a tremendously beneficial (and cost-saving!) outcome for the world and could mean the death of big tech. Win-win. Bring it on.

#Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running #Linux servers - https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/facebook_blocks_distrowatch/ "I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter." everybody get off #facebook now

Absolutely wild vulnerabilities over at Subaru:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/01/millions-of-subarus-could-be-remotely-unlocked-tracked-due-to-security-flaws/

The researchers were able to get into a Subaru admin account just by guessing the email, and bypassed the "security questions" because they were only checked in the browser.

Just... utter malpractice. No excuses.

(And then it turns out Subaru is storing precise location history of cars for at least a year, possibly indefinitely, and allows remote unlocks of the cars, from this terribly insecure website...)