RE: https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817

Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry.

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

THANK YOU […]

FOX NEWS IDIOT: If you thought the masked "Former Antifa Member" Jesse Watters had on last week looked familiar, there's a reason for that... #omg...He was also the masked "former gang member" and masked "Gaza resident" Watters had previously interviewed […]

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The number of "resistance" authors publishing on Substack remains dissapointing. I'd mutter something about the master's tools but y'all are actively donating lumber.

There are certainly good -courses- that can supplement a strong IT foundation and existing experience and credentials. Especially on targeted topics. But if it sounds too good to be true it is. You’re not landing a SOC job on a 6 month bootcamp, these days.

I guess I haven’t clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

Delighted to see China getting ahead of the game and banning scraping that circumvents technical restrictions and some kinds of deceptive advertising and monopolistic platform practices. Them claiming global enforcement scope (enforced by among other things market access bans) is also an […]

I cannot even start on the historical racial violence that runs on unabated in our lives, with the horrific treatment of especially black and native women. The numbers are right there, in black and white, of deaths in childbirth, of poverty, of despair.

I just don't care about Charlie Kirk, not […]

42 years ago today, on September 26 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces made the incredibly brave choice to disobey the letter of his orders and ignore the early warning system he oversaw. By declining to report an apparent US launch of five missiles, he likely […]

DarkSky Int'l has posted instructions on how to submit a letter to the FCC **DUE TODAY**

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E-DHPfikf438a3tiWCNeOBThyBjBGFtXuyPcWoUVw1w/edit?usp=sharing

And they've also posted a sample letter you can copy and paste […]

I can vouch. I sent registered letters to Target during pandemic to demand they enforce in-store COVID rules.

It worked.

Via Bsky randos: Address:

Disney-ABC Home Entertainment & Television Distribution
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-3515

response to this:

"Been a soc media mgr […]

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you l scold peers for not being nice.

A CVE should be assigned whenever an attacker publishes a malicious package update to a distribution, it’s a released software artifact with malicious intent and must be tracked.

Proton Mail Falls Under U.S. Jurisdiction

If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S […]

Ding dong the witch is dead

After seeing a workshop using a crappy pseudo/proprietary forensic web capture toolkit for law enforcement, I was disappointed by the lack of open source tooling to have a sane forensic collection for web capture. Following a discussion with @rafi0t he did […]

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🕑 **EU Citizens have 4 days: the clock is ticking!**

European countries are finalizing their positions on Chat Control **this Friday.** If your country supports Chat Control, it is vital you contact your representatives and voice your opposition to […]

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Very sad to see that the Finnish public health authority is continuing its ongoing practice of criminal negligence around COVID: https://yle.fi/a/74-20181617

This was a very rough piece to write, despite it just being the next piece in my AI series. *insert all the damn content warnings here* (OK, maybe not for genocide. Yet.)

It's about how AI interacts with people, rather than how people interact with AI […]

The more I think about age verification, the more I see it as a broken and dangerous model.

- Large players will exploit it to collect even more personal information. Think of the already unnecessary cookie collection happening today—this will only be bundled and abused further to validate […]

What we already knew but are now allowed to say we know...

"The first clinical trial to test the link between food additive emulsifiers and Crohn’s disease has revealed that a low emulsifier diet could be an effective new treatment." […]

But like @thephd alludes to: when you lay off your devs you loose organizational knowledge. It basically starts a clock in my experience, two years down the line most no longer have the knowledge inside the company to maintain the product anymore. The first period runs on inertia and just […]

"I keep telling them, you just push the button, listen for the whine, and then kick it in the dented spot. But no, they pay for two days of my time, put me up at the fancy hotel downtown, and bring me in to perform The Ritual."

9/?

Shuttering the NLRB is insane, if you know any labor history in America. The NLRB is the most milquetoast answer USG could get Labor to accept. Labor history in America is wild to the point of fucking insane. Strikes went into pitched battles at times. US Army vs union shootouts were a thing […]