Anyway the entire ops/dev world just dodged (we think/hope we dodged, anyway but are not 100% sure) the biggest supply chain attack in history that would have screwed absolutely, literally, everyone.

This needs a giant f**king industry-wide post-mortem once we're sure we're not all doomed.

The unsung heroes of today are all the backdoor authors who do proper benchmarking and profiling, so that they don't get caught because SSH logins are too slow.

subscribing to oss-security@ be like "Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys", "Reflected XSS except it does not execute due to CSP", and then you become seeing "backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise" notification

(if this is how you learned, https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4)

Look, I went over the Snowden documents as a journalist, but I never saw anything that shocked me quite like this story of Meta buying a VPN company for "security" but then spying on users of competitive apps by decrypting the traffic.

This is a real SSL added and removed here :) moment.

Seriously, like wow: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

Court document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.735.0.pdf

German #folklore is _full_ of tales of evil, prideful nobles who were eventually punished for their sins.

So why is modern media - starting with #Disney , and moving on from there - so full of pro- #monarchy propaganda instead? Lots of "Just Kings", "Plucky Princesses", and so forth. Why is the implication in media nowadays that being exalted by the circumstances of your birth is likely to make you a good person? Instead of being totally oblivious to your own class privilege - and that's probably the _best_ case!

I wonder if anyone has done any scientific research on all these "pro-monarchy" narratives in modern media, and how they came into existence.

It's important to understand that "age verification" schemes being passed by states, ostensibly to "protect the children", won't do that and will bring about incredible abuses.

In order to age verify children, obviously EVERYBODY of any age must be verified, for every account, under every name or pseudonym, ultimately on every site no matter how public or private the topic, and before downloading any apps.

Children will find ways to work around this. They'll use the accounts of adults, which will be openly traded. But because these age verification systems must by definition be based on government IDs, the verification process creates a linkage between your account names and your actual identity, subjecting you to all manner of leaked personal information, government abuses (think MAGA in charge), and worse. Firms will claim their systems either don't keep this data or can't be abused. History strongly suggests otherwise, and when courts step in, those firms will have to do what the courts say, often in secret, when it comes to collecting data.

Age verification is in actuality a massive Chinese-style Internet identity tracking project -- nothing less -- and there are many politicians in the U.S. who look with envy at how China controls their Internet and keeps their Internet users under police state controls.

general reminder that anyone who thinks the world is overpopulated or will be in the near future is a fascist.

the world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people already. there's space to house that many, if only we had the political will to make housing a public service and destroy the concept of private property (as in landlordism; your toothbrush and undies will still be your toothbrush and undies).

white people make up about 15% of the world population. 'overpopulation' should be read to mean 'too many people who aren't white', and can thus be discarded. discard relationships with the people making such arguments while you're at it.

Like, seriously, do you folks not understand what you're saying?

Birth rates in western capitalist countries, you know, the ones PRIMARILY responsible for boiling the planet, are declining. So what you're doing, is showing up in my mentions to low-key advocate for mercing brown people. Like that's literally what you're doing; that's where your line of argument ends.

If you were just WRONG, and you fucking are, I might ignore that. But my replies are not a safe space for nazi propaganda.

Boost if you (Nyan-binary edition):
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- Are nonbinary
- Have at least one nonbinary friend
- Either hoard too much gender or not enough
- Are secretly several animals in a trenchcoat
- Probably met a nonbinary person once

💛🤍💜🖤

Nobody will ever know which apply to you! xD

#nonbinary #boost #silly

Dear New York Times et al,

He was never a successful businessman.

1. He inherited 400 million dollars and turned that into zero dollars.
2. He went bankrupt 7 times.
3. Some of those bankruptcies were casinos, literally a licence to print money which he couldn't manage.
4. He conned kids with cancer out of money once. That's why he can't run a charity anymore.
5. The following business ventures no longer exist or are insolvent:
a. Trump Steaks
b. Trump University
c. Trump Mortgage
d. Trump Vodka
e. Trump: The Game
f. Trump Ice
g. GoTrump.com
h. Trump Magazine
i. The New Jersey Generals
j. Trump Airlines
k. Trump Entertainment Resorts (filed for bankruptcy FOUR TIMES)
l. Trump Tower Tampa
m. Trump Taj Mahal
n. The Trump Plaza
o. Trump Castle
p. Plaza Hotel
q. Trump Media and Technology Group
r. Truth Social
s. Trump Shuttle, Inc
t. Trump Fire
u. Trump Power
v. Trump's American Pale Ale
w. Trump Marina
x. Trump Casino, Indiana
y. Trump Style
z. Trump World Magazine
aa. Trumpnet, LLC
ab. Trump Entrepreneur Initiative
ac. Trump Fragrances
ad. Empire by Trump
ae. Trump Mattress
af. Tour de Trump
ag. Trump Network
ah. Trumped!
ai. Trump Menswear
aj. Trump Home
ak. Success by Trump
al. Trump Hotel Bedding Line
am. Donald J. Trump Eyeglasses
an. Donald Trump Regency Lighting
ao. Select by Trump Coffee
6. Of the 16 companies that were manufacturing Trump-branded products in 2015, only 2 remain in business less than 10 years later. Neither of those companies are American. One is located in Panama and the other is located in Turkey.

Stop saying "successful businessman". My little company founded in 2014 has been in business longer, employs more people, and makes more income than 99% of his ventures. The difference between him and me is access to capital, which means he gets unlimited bites at the apple, and I get just this one if I'm lucky.

Signed,
a small business owner in Washington

People who can comfortably live off 30% of their income cluelessly explaining savings to people who can barely live off 100% of theirs is a phenomenon I encounter way too often.

YOU'RE NOT BETTER AT BUDGETING YOU JUST HAVE MORE MONEY.

@schratze there's a 70s SF novel called Gravitor (Hugh Darrington) that, among other things, is about how all of society has to wear a wristband (much like a smartwatch) that's connected to their bank account, and all public amenities (houses, phones, internet terminals) require a symbolic payment of 1 credit, and the protagonist has his forcibly taken from him, which permanently exiles him from society.

Seems a little more real every day.

Incredible how just in a few years, the smartphone went from

"a device that's nice to have and allows you to contact people, access your calendar, play games and look up bus schedules on the go"

to

"a device you're absolutely required to own and have access to at all times because if you don't, you don't get a bank account, health insurance, public transit, or basically any online service required for enrollment in a school or an employment contract"

git pull --force-with-leash

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/19/aya-nakamura-black-woman-france-paris-olympics

Can a Black woman really represent France? Well, can a Black woman really represent California? They're both silly questions.

California is about 40 million people. France is about 70 million people. California is about 5% Black. France is about 5% Black. There are more Black people in France than in California, and Paris is Blacker than Los Angeles.🙂🙃

One thing both the United States and France are united on, is being in denial about how Black France is. 🇫🇷🤝🏻🇺🇲