People need to be paying attention to this disinformation being perpetuated by Musk and APTs.
Signal is far better from an encryption POV than Telegram.
If you want to keep those bytes off the record, do NOT use Telegram.
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People need to be paying attention to this disinformation being perpetuated by Musk and APTs. Signal is far better from an encryption POV than Telegram. If you want to keep those bytes off the record, do NOT use Telegram.
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My yearly complaint that there are no mastodon apps with administrative/moderator tools.
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Taking a stand on shooting dogs seems weird until you realize its not only problematic on the surface... it's also a euphemism for anyone they consider non-human... and that's what they are really signaling.
AN/CRM-114
@thegibson Goddamn right. That fucking guy never had a pet and anything he didn’t like was ”like a dog”
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
@thegibson This seems like a strong (if somewhat selfish) argument for animal rights, veganism, environmental activism, etc: If a common strategy for committing atrocities against humans is to "dehumanize" them, or treat them like animals, maybe treating animals with dignity and compassion would help counteract such rhetoric. Some might say "but we can't even treat humans with dignity and compassion", but what if normalizing atrocities against animals is part of how we got here?
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One of the best talks at DefCon this year. An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification
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I REALLY WISH CWS WERE JUST CALLED A SUBJECT. A severe case where a simple name causes so much tension.
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I love an incredibly bad takes by people considered to be thought leadership.
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socketwench
@thegibson "Naomi Wildman is the best Star Trek captain, in this essay I will..." [take is deemed insufficiently bad and poster insufficiently thought leadery enough]
All your base are belong to us
@thegibson Everyone who told us the blockchain was the future? The Crypto bros who thought money grew on electronic trees? The AI crew who thinks ChatGPT will save the world? Or Sam Altman, who invests in the most oppressive technology to keep us serfs?
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I've got sticks and marshmallows, who wants to have a campout over the smoldering flames of the social media silos?
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Joseph Menn with a steaming hot pile of WTF?!?!
Charles U. Farley
@thegibson If you were designing our PKI system to enable governments and other shady entities to surreptitiously insert themselves, I'm not sure what you'd do differently. And let's not forget Google's role in ensuring that remained the case by refusing to implement DANE.
The_Gibson :veilid:
We're not here to replace Twitter. We're here to restore the future. Twitter is now the past. Welcome to the timeline WE were promised.
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Ironbeagle
Absolutely! It is so nice to not have an algorithm decide which content I see next on my timeline. It is also nice to not be bombarded with ads. As a teenager I discovered BBS chatrooms and this reminds me of those days. It is definitely part nostalgia for me but this is also how it should have always been. I do not want a drop-in replacement for Twitter, I want something better and I feel this is it.
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Meta's market valuation is below Home Depot's?!?! You can do it... we can help.
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That's one way to market it... stay classy ShiftLeft.
Radical Edward :hackers_town:
@thegibson useless to you maybe, but that's, uh, not who you should be worried about
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It's just pure evil now, no supposed moral standing... just capitalism and feudalism under a unelected theo-fascist regime. Survive.
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Friendly reminder: if you need to plan something with many people, then don't do it on public social media. Use Signal. Use ToR.
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@thegibson Don't personally recommend signal, because it needs your phone number... Element or Briar is the way to go!
Tony Stark
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Post your fails. Pwn your imposter.
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XorOwl 🎃
@thegibson set a cron to * 12 * instead of 0 12 * and sent an email to all my clients 60 times in an hour
Jeremy Worrells
@TheGibson Reading through the replies brought a couple of my own to mind:
Nils 'Kojote' Hitze
@thegibson I once double booked 200+ credit cards of our customers - that was after I accidentially deleted all stored "valid until" dates from our customers credit cards. Magic
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Let me break it down for you.
There is a concerted misinfo campaign that now has Musk parroting that signal has security flaws.
Signal has been incredibly responsible in addressing reported bugs with alacrity.
Telegram is a steaming hot mess of bad to no encryption.
They specifically want protesters to use the bad one so that data can be more easily harvested.
Not sure who started this yet, but I have my suspicions.
@Mer__edith runs one of the best teams in the space.
Anyhow Signal is the far better solution between the two. Don’t fall in the trap.
Let me break it down for you.
There is a concerted misinfo campaign that now has Musk parroting that signal has security flaws.
Signal has been incredibly responsible in addressing reported bugs with alacrity.
Telegram is a steaming hot mess of bad to no encryption.
They specifically want protesters to use the bad one so that data can be more easily harvested.