Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

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!

In case you missed it, here's last week's comic illustrating the history of #Twitter in four panels:

the CEO of Flickr, who is now active here at @d0n, is wondering if #Flickr should implement #ActivityPub and become part of the #fediverse!

https://twitter.com/donmacaskill/status/1594945727255699457 #FediNews

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

Artemis I – Flight Day Eight Update: Unexpected Loss of Communication with Orion is Restored https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/23/artemis-i-flight-day-eight-update-unexpected-loss-of-communication-with-orion-is-restored/

Oh dear. I've just been informed that collecting the names of every person on the planet for my naughty and nice lists is, and I quote, “a significant and wholly irresponsible breach of #GDPR “.
I'm going to hand out about 8 billion consent forms soon. If you could all get them back to me ASAP that would be appreciated.

Doing a bit of an experiment. Boost if you agree!

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Her body is her choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

Artemis I – Flight Day Seven: Orion to Test Search Acquire and Track Mode, Exit Lunar Sphere of Influence https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/22/artemis-i-flight-day-seven-orion-to-test-search-acquire-and-track-mode-exit-lunar-sphere-of-influence/

Start reading where it says "I was an intern at spacex years ago"

https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd

Here's a thing I just had a reasonable amount of fun drawing live on stream.
#MaxHeadroomDay #MaxHeadroom #DigitalPainting #MastoArt

On November 22nd, 1987, at approximately 9:00 PM, Chicago's WGN-TV was hijacked briefly by an unknown figure wearing a rubber Max Headroom mask. The intrusion lasted only a few seconds before being cut off by engineers at WGN-TV.

at 11:00 PM, viewers of Chicago's PBS affiliate, WTTW-TV, were settling down to watch the Doctor Who serial, Horror of Fang Rock.

And then, minutes to the story, and out of nowhere, came Max Headroom once again... and the most infamous signal hijacking and trolling incident to ever hit the airwaves.

For approximately 90 seconds, "Max" made comments about Chuck Swirsky, calling him a "fricking liberal", holding up a Pepsi can and tossing it while saying "Catch the Wave" (Max Headroom was a Coca-Cola spokesperson), making comments about dirty gloves, humming the Clutch Cargo theme and quipping "I still see the X!" (the last line of the last Clutch Cargo episode, not the oft-misheard "I stole CBS!"), complaining about his "piles" while making loud farting noises, and towards the end of the broadcast, being spanked by a French maid with a fly swatter. The transmission was finally cut off after that, dropping viewers back to the Doctor commenting "As far as I can tell, a massive electrical shock. He died instantly."

To this day, no one knows who "Max" was, where they came from, or for what reason they did it. It's still one of the most mysterious occurrences, and still has that air of mystique to this day. And honestly, let "Max" stay anonymous. It's a lot better and a lot cooler that way!

#MaxHeadroomDay #HackThePlanet #HijackTheAirwaves #ChicagoTV