Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

A Möbius strip walks into a bar, sobbing.

Bartender: “What’s wrong buddy?”

Strip: “Where do I even begin?”

OMG I'm having a KDE vs. Gnome conversation on Fedi and everyone is being polite and understanding and nice.

Is this a Fedi thing, or is today special somehow, or am I dreaming, or what?!

Last year we announced we would be joining Mastodon to explore an alternative to today's social media. 



We’re excited to announce we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta, with hopes to open to the public soon.

This is just the beginning. Read more about the launch of our instance, including how to join the public waitlist. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

Gonna love using this thing for search

Hey, I'm scheduled to be on MSNBC's 11thHour tonight with host Stephanie Ruhle.

My part is around 11:30 ET.

The prompt: How journalists can effectively cover Trump in light of what we saw in the town hall yesterday.

#journalism #journalists #uspol

With the news that Musk has apparently selected a woman to take over for him as Twitter’s CEO, I am reminded of the “glass cliff” phenomenon:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/women-often-put-charge-failing-companies

When/if Twitter ultimately goes under, remember that Musk created the conditions for it to do so.

Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug

Fix will eventually render all kinds of older Windows boot media unbootable.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-patches-secure-boot-flaw-but-wont-enable-fix-by-default-until-early-2024/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Master of the Eyerolls.

I have started to keep track of "Free Speech Tsar" alternatives here: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2023/05/10/free-speech-tsar/

How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI

After decades of watching Kremlin-backed hackers, the FBI ID'd weaknesses and pounced.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/how-the-fbi-pwned-turla-a-kremlin-jewel-and-one-of-worlds-most-skilled-apts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@elonmusk@twitter.com @EndWokeness@twitter.com 8. If you want accurate information, please do not rely exclusively on Twitter to get it.

Musk has changed the way this website works to promote people who push his preferred narratives.

Instead subscribe to Popular Information.

It's free to sign up.

http://popular.info/subscribe

NextGen Healthcare, a US-based provider of EHR software, says hackers breached its systems and stole the personal data of more than 1 million patients https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/nextgen-healthcare-data-breach/

#mastodon #fediverse
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.

"More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier."

Elsevier's profit margin is around 40%. Claiming that academic publishers prey on researchers, more than forty leading scientists are setting up "a nonprofit open-access journal".

Publicly-funded knowledge should be free.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

#Research #Publishing

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-06 Sa

GM’s plans for in-automobile content as a service; banks hit the wall; once again, full self-driving is near; I agree with Josh Marshall that there is unlikely to be any debt-ceiling negotiation…
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2023-05-06 Sa

so on #Bluesky, rather than going with the well-documented and defined webfinger protocol, behind the .well-known directory, decided to make their own shit for verifying domains via HTTP.

thus, somebody took the S3 bucket name "xrpc" and now is s3.amazonaws.com on the platform

going great

https://bsky.ipg.gay/profile/s3.amazonaws.com/post/3juud6zh5ur2n

Wrote up some thoughts about @takahe and a refactor/redesign I'm doing, with the aim of more customisable profiles and proper domain separation: https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/

(also, maybe we can support BlueSky/AT as well? Who knows!)

Techdirt leaving #Twitter. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/03/goodbye-twitter-techdirt-will-soon-end-our-automated-posting/

@mpanhans not currently. the idea was that Bluesky would create a protocol which Twitter could adopt eventually. But it was never a requirement. And Elon pulled the service agreement Twitter had with Bluesky.