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jpmens

@jpmens@mastodon.social

Small-scale fiddler, enjoys doing & teaching. Wrote a thick book on FLOSS DNS servers. Dreamed up @OwnTracks over MQTT. Ansible with NOCOWS=1. Loves plain text. I (re-)toot in several languages. https://jpmens.net

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EUCommission, to random
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar

🗳️It is the final day to have your say!

Today these countries will vote in the :
🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇱🇺 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇪🇪 🇱🇹 🇵🇱 🇦🇹 🇸🇮 🇭🇺 🇭🇷 🇷🇴 🇧🇬 🇬🇷 🇨🇾

Democracy starts with YOU.
or others will decide for you.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

You won't find this on the NY Times homepage, but "If Trump Wins" is very much the kind of journalism we need from the most important news organization in America.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/07/us/politics/trump-policy-list-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE0.HGUJ.n4G0j7au9_es&smid=url-share

If the Times -- and the rest of our news media -- did this kind of thing relentlessly, they'd be doing their jobs.

It's now or never, journalists. You -- and democracy, which makes what you do possible -- are a prime target of the fascists.

(Paywall-free link)

evacide, to random
@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar

Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

eniko, (edited ) to random
@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar

it's only called copilot+ pc in the redmond, washington region of the USA, otherwise it's just sparkling spyware

jpmens, to random
@jpmens@mastodon.social avatar

Sometimes I check a program's man page to see if there's support for doing X, and then I stumble across being able to do Y, something I've wanted for ages.

Today, in `man ag':

ag --pager 'less -R' ...

which keeps coloring, whereas

ag ... | less

obviously doesn't.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

asmodai,
@asmodai@mastodon.social avatar

@jpmens Alternatively, export PAGER="less -R" so it works for multiple tools.

scy, to random German
@scy@chaos.social avatar

Sonntag wird gewählt. Schon mal der Hinweis, dass in der Wahlkabine laut § 49 EuWO nicht gefilmt oder fotografiert werden darf.

https://bundeswahlleiterin.de/dam/jcr/1fa20204-6169-4b33-aaf1-ff429ede3a5c/europawahlordnung.pdf

Wenn ihr dabei erwischt werdet, dürft ihr euren Stimmzettel nicht einwerfen. Ihr könnt ihn dann allerdings im Beisein mindestens eine*r Wahlhelfenden vernichten und einen neuen erhalten.

Der Sinn dahinter ist, dass euch niemand zwingen kann, für eine bestimmte Partei abzustimmen – und dafür dann einen Nachweis (das Foto) erhält.

#EUWahl

rysiek, (edited ) to infosec
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Lukewarm take:

When I see general* "security advice" that mentions "do not use public WiFi" or "use a VPN", I am immediately suspicious about all other advice offered.

Yes, a decade ago that was a consideration, because most sites were not using HTTPS. Credentials were flying cleartext on the wire.

Today, almost all sites use HTTPS. Doesn't mean the risk is zero, but it's way lower.

*) "general" meaning "without a very specific threat model in mind", meant for general public, etc.

#InfoSec

rysiek, (edited )
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Also, shout-out to @letsencrypt for dramatically changing the security landscape of the Web for the better over the years.

Rarely is there an example of a project so effective and so directly improving everyone's lives, while at the same time keeping the original engineering mindset and just Doing Stuff Right™ humbly in the background.

Next November it will have been exactly a decade since LE started. We all owe them a huge 10th birthday party.

#InfoSec

geomob, to random
@geomob@mapstodon.space avatar

This week is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, so we thought it fitting for our recommendation from the Geomob podcast archives to be Ep. 158 in which guest Chris Barrington Brown shares the details of his project to create a digital record of the logistics involved in the build up to D-Day

Enjoy: https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-158

tveskov, to random Danish
@tveskov@mastodon.social avatar

🦊

simon, to random
@simon@simonwillison.net avatar

I got a good quote in this story about that dumb Zoom Idea to have "digital twins" attend meetings in your place https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/zoom-ceo-envisions-ai-deepfakes-attending-meetings-in-your-place/

Quinnypig, to random
@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social avatar

I'll trust Microsoft's AI with anything even slightly nuanced just as soon as Excel stops telling me the glass is January 2nd full.

noodlejetski, (edited ) to random
@noodlejetski@masto.ai avatar

so if I'm looking at this correctly, 80% of the voting MEPs were for indiscriminate scanning of all our messages: https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=167712

this is fun :/

JoSuus, to random
@JoSuus@todon.eu avatar

Any C-based open source projects that are beginner-in-C-friendly and looking for new contributors?

Boosts are appreciated

SomeGadgetGuy, to windows
@SomeGadgetGuy@techhub.social avatar

It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

pajowu, to random German
@pajowu@chaos.social avatar

Wer bei der Gematik hat eigentlich die englische Übersetzung der E-Rezept-App zu verantworten?

Hier nur mal ein kleines Beispiel:

Meine Erinnerung = My Memory
Einnahme-Erinnerung = Revenue Reminder
ein = a
aus = out of

Screenshot der erezept-app mit der einstellung “my memory – revenue reminder” im zustand “a”(sic!)

habbie, to random
@habbie@fosstodon.org avatar

DuckDuckGo search results now have terrible AI summaries, courtesy of Bing.

Bye DuckDuckGo. It was good while it lasted (which was a long time!). I will sincerely miss you.

david, to random
@david@theblower.au avatar

Dang that old IBM Model M is huge on my desk.

david,
@david@theblower.au avatar

Does anyone happen to have some grey Model M keycaps they no longer need? Specifically the Right Ctrl, Left Arrow and End keys, since mine seem to have gone walkabout sometime in the last 33 years.

#retrocomputing #modelM #keyboard

isotopp, (edited ) to random
@isotopp@chaos.social avatar

The amount of stupid currently available is staggering.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clones-digital-twins-videoconferencing-decoder-interview

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Trump's most obvious lies (like pretending he never led chants of "lock her up) are perhaps the most disturbing.

Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar
joerg_spengler, to random German
@joerg_spengler@muenchen.social avatar

Der Verbrennungsmotor ist das Gegenteil von #Klimaschutz und mitverantwortlich für Extremwetterereignisse. #Europawahl

phos, to random

UUID, barely used. Has never been in a collision. No lowball offers

smallcircles, to Signal
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

Meredith Whittaker president of @signalapp on #Xitter announces #Signal will leave #EU market if #ChatControl regulation by @EUCommission comes into effect.

MEP @echo_pbreyer for a long time is raising awareness of the pervasive #privacy-eroding nature of this regulation, which won't have its intended effect of protecting children.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551260

#EUCommission is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in how good regulation is followed by dystopic stuff, eroding trust.

TwraSun, to random German
@TwraSun@mastodon.social avatar

Tja…

pitrh, to devops
@pitrh@mastodon.social avatar

Friends, is the fact that the Humble bundle that has my "The Book of PF" along with a number of other good titles, the "Dive into DevOps" bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/books/dive-into-dev-ops-no-starch-books has sold more than 8,000 bundles and made more than CAD27,000 for the charity a cause for celebration or should I hold off until we see rounder numbers?

Anyway the bundle runs until June 10th 2024, so get your clicks and cards ready!

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