Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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Corporations are people. Embryos are people. Is there anything MAGAs don't think are people?

Oh, right. Women.

NEW: Popular internet-connected video doorbells can be hijacked by anyone who's close to them, researchers find.

All someone needs to do is download an app, hold the doorbell's button for eight seconds, and they can pair the camera with their phone.

These vulnerable internet-connected video doorbells are still on sale on Amazon, while Temu and Walmart took them down after Consumer Reports alerted them.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/popular-video-doorbells-eken-tuck-hijacked-researchers/

Anyone who tells you "we are running out of time" is using a trick known to fiction writers everywhere.

Yes, I also have a master's in fiction writing 😂

It's called the ticking clock device. It creates suspense and keeps readers glued to the screen or turning pages.

Stoping now because JJ is insisting on a walk, and have you ever tried arguing with a dog?

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I was recently honored to receive the Berryman Award for editorial cartooning from the National Press Foundation. Sharing a couple pics from the awards dinner in Washington, DC. I had a great time (and got to meet Al Roker!)

Photo credit: Lisa Nipp for NPF

#media #journalism

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency from developer devices, researchers said.

The malicious repositories are clones of legitimate ones, making them hard to distinguish to the casual eye. An unknown party has automated a process that forks legitimate repositories, meaning the source code is copied so developers can use it in an independent project that builds on the original one. The result is millions of forks with names identical to the original one that add a payload that’s wrapped under seven layers of obfuscation. To make matters worse, some people, unaware of the malice of these imitators, are forking the forks, which adds to the flood.

“Most of the forked repos are quickly removed by GitHub, which identifies the automation,” Matan Giladi and Gil David, researchers at security firm Apiiro, wrote Wednesday. “However, the automation detection seems to miss many repos, and the ones that were uploaded manually survive. Because the whole attack chain seems to be mostly automated on a large scale, the 1% that survive still amount to thousands of malicious repos.”

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/github-besieged-by-millions-of-malicious-repositories-in-ongoing-attack/

Is the recent #Fediverse #spam wave over? We hope so. Thanks to all #instanceAdmins for cleaning this up.

What can we learn from this? Some thoughts regarding #ForgeFederation: https://blog.codeberg.org/what-we-can-learn-from-the-fediverse-spam-for-codeberg.html

#ForgeFed #Forgejo

@AnarchoNinaWrites Maybe because they don’t want their candidate to change his ways. Maybe because they’re just as morally vacuous about the genocide of Brown people on the other side of the planet as he is.

I really have no words for what it means to watch 100,000 people vote "present," in a primary, for a swing state you NEED to have in the general and then say to yourself "I could demand my candidate change his ways before Trump wins this, but naw, fuck that, I'm going to go yell at randos online and insist they change the votes of 100,000 strangers in Michigan."

This, makes sense to you folks? Really? Could not be me.

I believe that #FreeSoftware #development needs free software #tools.

I’m tired of all the excuses for injecting #proprietary software like #GitHub, #Discord, #Transifex, #Slack, etc. into the development workflow. What's the point of making free software then?

We *do* have good free software tools available, we just need to use them.

Projects like #Forgejo show us exactly how it's done. Free software all the way, no compromises, no excuses. 👍

This is exactly the right direction.

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal”

On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza, a moving piece by CrimethInc. http://crimethinc.com/AaronBushnell

Art by @krime

#FreePalestine #Gaza

I wrote a rant about why biological collections are important and under threat!

http://dantheclamman.blog/2024/02/27/the-biodiversity-collections-crisis/

EFF interns Dez Peltzer and Colin Brandes helped This Is Reno by mapping the city-operated security cameras for which Reno officials had refused to provide locations.
https://thisisreno.com/2024/02/surveillance-city-reno-officials-would-prefer-you-not-know-where-its-security-cameras-are-view-a-map/

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It seems like WWIII is definitely on its way, and while it shouldn't, I think it actually needs saying: you shouldn't be rooting for it.

Why are so many people cheering for war, for escalation? Why are so few calling for peace, for diplomacy, for negotiation? I guess because propaganda is effective and even people who have read "Manufacturing Consent" often enough can't tell when it's being done to them. But gawddamn is it ever depressing.

https://www-aftonbladet-se.translate.goog/nyheter/kolumnister/a/O8w761/sverige-har-frivilligt-underkastat-sig-usa

One way for Trump to hustle up half a billion. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2024/02/27

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@brembs @UlrikeHahn @jorge @open_science
#openscience

Are you forced by your #bank to use proprietary #apps? Have a look at background shared on the @fsfe 's discussion list by @floriansnow from a #FreeSoftware angle:

https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2024-February/013383.html

Florian's questions:

* What's your experience with your bank?
* How do you do your #banking?
* Is there an important angle that I missed?