Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

... And it's still not as old as yo'mama.

#YoMamaSaturdays

In case you're wondering why #RaspberryPi is making the rounds:

The makers of the computer that can be made into a near-infinite# of unassuming devices, has hired a man whose expertise is hiding #Surveillance gear inside unassuming devices.

That in itself is understandable (he's a maker), but so is user concern.

Instead of addressing that concern, RasPi started blocking & mocking anybody who questioned the new hire.

...

IOW: RasPi is now Mastodon's first-ever real "Person of the Week"

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

@c0debabe

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/

#Pluralistic

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Does anybody else think that a private corporation managing the communications infrastructure (and holding the cryptological keys) for systems that will be transmitting above-top-secret data is a terrible, TERRIBLE idea? 🤔

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/spacex-unveils-starshield-a-military-variation-of-starlink-satellites.html

I'm hosting a webinar about trust and safety on the fediverse this Thursday, Dec 8th at 12pm Eastern. It's an introduction to the state of content moderation and community safety here.

I hope it will be useful to people at civil society organizations who have perhaps heard about Mastodon and the fediverse and would like to know more about where there are gaps in funding and services, and places where orgs could potentially help augment what's already happening.

RSVP: https://meedan.com/event/webinar-trust-and-safety-on-the-fediverse

ꜱᴇʟᴇᴄᴛ * ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇᴛ

Me: No serial killer would ever lure me into their murder van. I'm too smart for that.

Murderer:

2022 Microsoft Teams Unwrapped

You spent 4,182 minutes talking on mute.
You attended 15,011 meetings that could have been an email
You visibly nodded thoughtfully at totally implausible ideas 623 times

People have no problem singing "Jingle All the Way" as a way to express their merriment.

... but I sing THE MORE GRAMATICALLY CORRECT "Jingle to completion" and everybody stares at me like I just stole Christmas.

** English is a weird language

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Folks, this is bad news. Very, very bad. Hackers and/or malicious insiders have leaked the platform certificates of several vendors. These are used to sign system apps on Android builds, including the "android" app itself. These certs are being used to sign malicious Android apps!

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/apvi/issues/detail?id=100

Some of the same people who rabidly protested vaccines because they believed it would implant a microchip in their heads

... Are now fanatically cheering that Elon Mush is ready to put a microchip in their heads.

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.

Who felt this way recently?

Dad joke. I know, it’s a bad hobbit of mine.

@bradweed @blair_fix @pluralistic

I wish fewer people would quote Wealth of Nations and more people would read The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

"We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. He's a dangerous radical."
-- Noam Chomsky

hello again fedifriends, it's me, Sundog, back with more signposts for new folk to find fun and function on the fediverse.

as you've no doubt noticed, there are numerous frontend clients that can interact with the various ActivityPub servers in use.

one of the smaller client projects is called brutaldon, and it's a lightweight web-based client for Mastodon and compatible servers. you can use it by going to https://brutaldon.org/ and authenticating against the server you're using.

I am the accidental maintainer of brutaldon as the original author decided to move on from the fediverse and was going to take it offline, which would have made me sad as it's excellent.

however, I'm not really a python web dev, so it's been mostly gathering dust.

there's a repo at https://gitlab.com/brutaldon/brutaldon if you're a #python person who's looking for a project to contribute to, and I'll be happy to review and merge any PRs submitted by the community! and who knows, maybe you'll fall in love with the project and want to take the reins - hit me up and let's chat about it! I really just want to see it keep existing and I am not a good active steward for it at this point in my busy life.

thanks for reading and I hope some of you enjoy #brutaldon!

It’s #FollowFriday so I hope folks utilize the hashtag to find my account here!
Give me a boost! Maybe if I can show some of the big accounts on Twitter that it’s possible to grow sizably and quickly here, too, they’ll migrate over!

New firmware for your @PINE64 #PinePhone and #PinePhonePro modem, now with (beta) call recording support!

As always, you can get it from #lvfs and GitHub(https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases/tag/0.7.1)

Have fun!