@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig yikes. where does it say DMs?

@GossiTheDog And of course they're not explaining *how* they're going to implement those "controls".

@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig or as I've been doing for years, opt out of Slack. I'd say go with something like Jitsi/Matrix but that's not for everyone.

@GossiTheDog *sigh* So now I need to put Linux on the one computer I had set up for casual use. More work for me, yay 😞

@GossiTheDog The absurdity of this manufactured society never stop to amusing me. Thankfully we have great minds and open source.

@GossiTheDog Oh no!

@GossiTheDog @wdormann Several linux distros have already investigated how they're impacted by this (thanks @mgorny and @VoidLinux). Any takes on this from @almalinux and @alpinelinux?

@GossiTheDog Debian Sid's and testing's liblzma has the backdoor, although it looks like it was reverted already. I don't think any official releases of Debian or Ubuntu had the compromised packaging. https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.6.1+really5.4.5-1_changelog

@GossiTheDog that's an amazing piece of research there.

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No Notes. 📰

Don't tell this to the MBAs though. 🤫👂

@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes the "onion is no longer satire it's prediction"

but for "tabletops I don't want to be real but are going to become real"

@GossiTheDog Taking shortcuts and conning people is capitalism 101. With technology that doesn't really work, or doors start falling off airplanes mid-flight. This is what happens when all you have is a degree in business with no knowledge of what your business actually does.

@GossiTheDog Also adding "Taiwanese" as Language or "Taiwan" as favorite cuisine / tourism destination may also work... ^^

@GossiTheDog
And what if you don't want be phished via people in India?
"Modi"?

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social 八九六四天安门 LMAO 🤣

Explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

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If you're part of a minority, press 1. Otherwise press 0.

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@GossiTheDog "who owns or controls the registry for the TLD" seems a fairly important consideration for domain names, tbf

@GossiTheDog i mean it's a cool tld but come on, once the Taliban took over the country the writing was on the wall.

@GossiTheDog we ain't got that much water :blob_smile_sweat:

It's super odd that I never see in the news how much natural resources and electricity all AI stuff actually use. Most people I've talked to have no idea.

@GossiTheDog how did I know that PowerPoint would eventually destroy the planet?

@GossiTheDog and the UN climate conference will be hosted by an oil corporation ...oh wait that was already 2023

@GossiTheDog I assume they did the ACME bit from somewhere else or the MITM box and then just MITMed the rest of the ACME flow that should’ve gone to the actual VM?

/CC @hanno

@GossiTheDog /cc @letsencrypt #letsEncrypt

@GossiTheDog Hope to see a thorough review!

@GossiTheDog I don't think there has been a game this hyped ever. Even cyberpunk seemed less (and that literally had fanboys saying 'this will change gaming forever' until it was released and they actually saw it..).

@GossiTheDog thats awesome!

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Depending on your job, keyboard activity and productivity aren't necessarily the same thing. I spend a lot of keystrokes when I am responding to ridiculous inter-departmental emails, and that usually has no productive value at all.

What is the benefit of knowing when people are typing a lot?

@GossiTheDog i wonder how they are using this data internally other than for marketing.

@GossiTheDog Why not link to the piece?

@GossiTheDog Up 72% seems a lot...
Also, I take it it is *just* Mastodon and not the other Activity Pub services?

@GossiTheDog https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey
#activitypub

@GossiTheDog Uh, I have to check my crawler ^^ Seems it is less instances but more MAUs.

Mastodon has a few structural weakness when it comes to security vulnerabilities:

- if you can get RCE, you can suspend every federated instance. That forces remote unfollow of all users. Restoring your server from backup doesn’t fix that.

- there’s no auto update feature and/or one click upgrade for admins

- admins have bolted on patches galore - eg search patches, UI changes etc - which makes upgrading more complex

@GossiTheDog Haha yup..

@GossiTheDog I can't see anything fixed, still 'try again' stuff, and besides that a bunch of Blue got flagged as bots by a bot, and they can't contact support and they whine in API development forum

@GossiTheDog "it's the engineer making $250k, that's where all our money's going" -a guy who's making $55m

@GossiTheDog Just like in every other company including the German publich railway!

@GossiTheDog YEAH!! I know some want Twitter to stay, but I hope it's next.

@GossiTheDog it sounds like...they were better at selling time on their cloud resources to other people instead of running their own product on it?

@GossiTheDog Is it just me or can I not find ANYTHING about starboard.co formerly olympicmedia.com or their respective business entities?

Like they have a few business index entries (Olympic does) but they're listed as a few dozen employees, a few hundred $k to a few million in revenue.

Doesn't seem like a "huge conglomerate" to me. Seems more like someone bought a legit but unknown, lowkey existing corporation to fold a social media company *into*.

@GossiTheDog have you seen this @Tupp_ed ? Surely it's a GDPR breach if they're doing it within the EU?

@GossiTheDog Wow! Sounds like Tesla is about as secure as the trashy bird site.

@GossiTheDog Check this out !
https://democraticgazette.com/nepotism-was-never-supposed-to-be-this-hard-ivanka-buried-for-vanishing-after-trump-indictment/

@GossiTheDog How is that guy still CEO, I've been asking myself for the last 5 years

@GossiTheDog Zuck is just doing his best at emulating his business mentor, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

@GossiTheDog LEGS ARE COMING!

@GossiTheDog OMG

@GossiTheDog I click “sign-in options”, then connect to a local Active Directory.
It never ask me to actually connect, so I’m right at the next window, and can continue to install.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Good! Now I can finally install Linux without a..... Waaaaaait.... You tricked me!

@GossiTheDog Excellent analogy. Perhaps we should start replacing "capitalism" in our vocabulary with "cancerism".

@GossiTheDog Do you remember Agent Smith's monologue in the firist Matrix about humans being a virus? He said we just consume and then move on to consume again. I remember seeing that for the first time and being like...MINDBLOWN.

@GossiTheDog Attitudes, theories and know-how leading to faster growth become dominant in the course of history. Groups growing fastest will destroy or assimilate others. Their attitudes then become the basis for the next round. The growth ideology is part of this. It is a self-amplifying process. When this ideology started, world economy was smaller by about factor 600. Initially, the limits of resources could be ignored. It seemed to work. Now, we are hitting the limits.