Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

From "Hacking Exposed," 2012, but still relevant:

Mergers, acquisitions, scandals, layoffs, rapid hiring, reorganizations, outsourcing, extensive use of temporary contractors, and other events may provide clues, opportunities, and situations that didn’t exist before. For instance, one of the first things to happen after a merger or acquisition is a blending of the organizations’ networks. Security is often placed on the back burner in order to expedite the exchange of data.

Good move from the mods at rpg.net!

#uspol #ttrpg #rpg #gaming #resist #humanity #GoodVsEvil

A reminder that "executive orders" are exactly that - orders from the president for the executive branch. They are not laws, and they do not directly bind anyone not in the executive branch of the US government. They might affect how laws are enforced and other things the executive branch does that affect private individuals, but they are not "orders" that private individuals (or organizations) are required to obey.

I have decided that a server with training wheels is preferable to me constantly beating my head against a LAMP stack. Migrating now.

I typed Gulf of Mexico into Google Maps, It edited my query without permission and showed me the Trump cult invention that isn't and never will be the real thing.

The sole honest element is the oil-drilling rig as the illustration for what "Gulf of America" signifies.

Fuck you, Google, forever.

I remember when people would tell me, you have to buy software from the large software companies or it will probably break and be terrible.

Today, it’s like, Google property? Microsoft invested? V.v.sus. The software lives in a self-hosted machine named for a pun on some obscure kink, the developer is a furry, the logo is two furries, it’s gpl’ed and if you do five minutes of due diligence you’re going to see all of their politics and most of their butt? I will trust this software with my life.

The graduate job market, in particular, is dreadful. What makes it worse is these are kids who followed the advice to do things like IT and sciences, come out with £60k debt, and find no jobs at all. The political impact of this is going to be severe as they start to believe they were conned.

Oh no.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/we-are-disabling-comments.html

🚨 Cool job alert! 🚨

At @freedomofpress, we're hiring a Senior Digital Security Trainer to help us facilitate security education for journalists.

This role is based in Brooklyn, NY. Strong US-based remote candidates will also be considered.

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01/22/2025
Ah yes, the low bar dopamine hit. But ethically.
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16495
#Ethics,#SocialMedia

i kind of hate when people talk about "tech" because if you asked people who they think the worst people in the world are, people like Musk and Andreeson would be dramatically disproportionate on lists named by programmers.

the NRx and TESCREAL bullshit subsists within a rich, powerful sliver of the tech community. there is a reason why those motherfuckers hate their workforces so much. most workers welcome their hatred, but fear losing their jobs.

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“A loving world would be a world without bosses, without masters, without Chains.”
-Emma Goldman

US-funded ‘social network’ attacking #pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/v-fluence-pesticide-critics "v-Fluence halts operations after widespread backlash over private portal profiling environmental health advocates" guardian becomes more vital by the day...

I noticed a very strange URL today, a JS resource in a parking permit renewal site:

https[://]prodpci[.]etimspayments[.]com/orld-Swearer-they-profes-ayre-andlessedomenthoug

It's a constant string, as far as I can tell. Which is weird, because it looks like the output of a passphrase generator, except with characters dropped?

It returns a bunch of garbage-y stuff, but not just the usual compressed JS—at a glance, it looks obfuscated. Also, after logging in, there's a POST to this endpoint that returns JSON with a `token` field.

This is at https://prodpci.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/somerville/rpp_login.jsp if anyone is curious.

📢 The GUADEC Call for Papers is officially open!
Submit your paper by March 16th via this link: https://events.gnome.org/event/259/abstracts/#submit-abstract

Join us for an amazing conference in Brescia, Italy, from July 24-29! 🇮🇹

Folks, a few of us will be having our monthly meeting to discuss #libre, #FreeAndOpenSource digital stuff, the politics surrounding it, and any other topics that interest the group. We'll be meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz tomorrow (Tues 11 Feb, 20:00 NZDT) for anyone who is interested in joining us! Let's see if we can 'challenge' our BigBlueButton...

'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-through-annas-archive-despite-few-seeders-250206/

"Every week brings a new chorus of voices demanding that [insert tech giant] must “do better” [...] We’ve become digital peasants, petitioning various lords and kings to please, please fix the internet for us."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/

Yes, maybe you don't like life outside of #youtube . But if you only publish there, you've become a digital peasant subject to the whims of your lord.

Youtube is not my friend, so if you stay confined there, I won't watch you.

#digitalsovereignty