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LinuxAndYarn

@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social

🐧Linux sysadmin, infosec aficionado, occasional writer, genx emo kid, 🏳️‍🌈️old lesbian marrried to https://journa.host/@Chrisblue, 🏳️‍⚧️️24 years post, ⚾️Phillies phan phorever, ⚽ever hopeful WNBA & NWSL will give us a franchise. she/her/yo 💙️💛️ Black and trans lives matter. Full stop.

I am avoiding birdsite trauma and will reject follow requests from people who have no posts. Don't take it personally.

infosec on-topic account: https://infosec.exchange/@linuxandyarn

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mttaggart, to random

Sigh

Listen carefully. You can deplore the US healthcare system without thinking that hospitals getting ransomwared are getting what they deserve.

No patient deserves to be put in jeopardy because of price gouging from pharma, insurers, etc.

amcasari, to random
@amcasari@hachyderm.io avatar

"Coffee before humans" isn't a value statement.

It's a reminder that our short time together is more valuable when my brain is awake enough to meet you in the conversation, and that I regret every time I feel underprepared.

JamesGleick, to random
@JamesGleick@zirk.us avatar

If the bribe you’re soliciting is $1,000 in a paper bag, the FBI will arrest you. If it’s $1 billion in dark money, does that make it legal?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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brennen, to random
@brennen@federation.p1k3.com avatar

star trek series just about the star fleet style division who are constantly fucking with the design of the uniforms

mattblaze, to photography
@mattblaze@federate.social avatar

Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.

All the pixels that are fit to print at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520

luca, to stackoverflow German
@luca@social.luca.run avatar

As an EU citizen, I'm using my right to deletion to get to remove my data for me.

Here is the link to the form: https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

I requested a copy of my data for my personal backup and to confirm if they fulfilled my request.

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Video Shows Deputy Fatally Shooting Black Airman In His Own Home

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roger-fortson-body-camera-footage-florida_n_663d5659e4b0fe081b3089e0

IveyJanette, to random
@IveyJanette@mastodon.social avatar

His ass only got 1 year?

Should have been at least 10 years.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/california-man-drove-crowd-stop-asian-hate-rally-sentenced-1-year-pris-rcna151490?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=663d63c087bf060001223ec3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&s=09

grimalkina, to random
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

Thinking about slow work, of which all justice work is a part, in a world that wants you to feel worthless for it. Thinking about how I got off a plane in time to hug my wife after we saw a picture of snipers on her campus surveilling her students. Thinking about how many backyard bbqs we've had those students over for (rented tables outside, our tiny cottage can't hold them all). Thinking what is the exchange rate of bbqs to guns on campus in the calculus of whether a student feels safe

grimalkina,
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

It's hard maybe impossible to express reality on social media but in the words of Dr. Steven Thrasher (from his book "The Viral Underclass"), "How can we survive in such an underclass, or maybe even shrink its scope, if we don't learn to recognize it and think about it communally?"

The world wants it all to be so invisible. Invisible teachers, invisible systems, our queer household making room for other people's kids' secret thoughts, us cut off from our own stories even, unless we keep trying

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

mcc,
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Not only does Stack Overflow say you don't have a right to remove your words from Stack Overflow, according to Stack Overflow, you don't even have the right to decide what words Stack Overflow publishes under your name.

ErikUden, to random
@ErikUden@mastodon.de avatar

The perfect Mastodon moderation principle

bicmay, to drugs
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com avatar

On Free The Pill Day, I’m calling on POTUS and Congress to take concrete steps to require insurance plans to fully cover contraceptives regardless of whether they’re prescribed or available over the counter! We need equitable access now. Join us ➡️bit.ly/FTP_InsuranceCoverage

Chrisblue, to random
@Chrisblue@journa.host avatar

He promised to revoke ALL the climate progress Biden made [The Washington Post] What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

bicmay, to random
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com avatar

"...the lost wages of even a day or two can be equivalent to a month’s worth of gasoline a worker would need to get to their job, or the choice between paying an electric bill or buying food. Wething said showing up to work sick poses a risk to co-workers and customers alike. Low-paying jobs that often lack paid sick leave — like cashiers, nail technicians, home health aides, and fast-food workers — involve lots of face-to-face interactions."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/paid-sick-leave-post-pandemic-state-laws/

Urban_Hermit, to random
@Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social avatar

1/3

I basically blocked a guy yesterday, in real life.

I came back to my car from gathering mussels. And this other guy, fat, walking stick, bucket, big modern pickup - except for the nice vehicle he could have been me from the future, starts braying "are those for me?"

It is his attempt at a joke, a conversation starter. He repeated it 3 times, increasingly louder. I ignored him. Okay Boomer, I don't have to talk to you if I don't want to (I'm 51 by the way).

I know it will be me someday...

Urban_Hermit,
@Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social avatar

@laprice
I hadn't heard the phrase "gray rocking" before. I love learning new things from you guys. And kudos to the younger people for coming up with and sharing effective strategies.

This seems to be a pretty good description, for anyone else who hadn't heard:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/grey-rock

CarveHerName, to history
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social avatar

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

It is heartening that the editor of the New York Times is being widely condemned for his indifference to saving democracy. Dan Froomkin's piece today has a sampling of the loathing Joe Kahn unleashed. https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

If journalists cared about protecting democracy, they would be campaigning -- yes, in their news pages -- for free and fair elections.

Apparently that's too "partisan" for people whose fetish for balance has led them to help democracy's enemies.

So please read and pass around this piece from @marcelias, someone who cares passionately and is doing his best.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/when-trump-attacks-our-elections-we-will-have-no-excuse/

misty, to random
@misty@digipres.club avatar

Looks like the same attack that took down the British Library for so long also targeted the US Library of Congress, but good multifactor auth and fast action from their IT and security staff protected them. https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/05/thwarted-cyberattack-targeted-library-congress-tandem-october-british-library-breach/396399/

kevincollier, to random
@kevincollier@mastodon.social avatar

USAA really really not reading the room here and is now unveiling voice account verification, just as the whole world knows it's trivially easy to clone someone's voice with AI. Incredibly bad decision that will undoubtedly lead to bank accounts getting drained.

HunkThunderzone,
@HunkThunderzone@beige.party avatar

@kevincollier

I'm a USAA member and found a few leadership emails. Sent them a little piece of my mind "Listen to the geeks that told you NOT to do this and fire every single one that said you should. Someone is trying to make fraud easier."

mastodonmigration, to random
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

Seems like petitions to remove Aileen Cannon have become a thing. Newsweek reports that over 300K signatures have been gathered.

These may not have any force, but it is something tangible you can do to register your disapproval. Another is to channel this anger into electing Democrats.

Here are four of the petitions to remove Aileen Cannon:

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-judge-aileen-cannon-must-recuse-herself-from-trumps-case?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/remove-biased-judge-cannon-from-u-s-vs-trump-case

https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-judge-aileen-cannon-must-recuse-herself-from-trumps-case-2

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/819/262/485/demand-judge-aileen-cannon-recuse-herself-from-the-trump-case/

Newsweek article: https://www.newsweek.com/remove-aileen-cannon-petitions-300k-signatures-1898410

MichaelTBacon, to random
@MichaelTBacon@social.coop avatar

I realize that the Fedi at this point, at least my network, skews pretty anti-religious, and fine. But please realize how much this means to so many people and how much it will mean to people in the future. You don't have to agree with an institution's theology to celebrate people no longer feeling hurt and hated and excluded.

https://www.theassemblync.com/culture/religion/united-methodist-church-charlotte-gay-marriage

MichaelTBacon,
@MichaelTBacon@social.coop avatar

Side rant: You know what's really stupid about "microblogging" the way it evolved under the bird site and continues under many Fedi instances, including @social.coop? I can only post 500 characters of text, which is literally smaller than the minimum file size on most operating systems. But I can post a damn screenshot and put 1500 characters in the alt-text, which even with low res and grayscale is probably 100k.

Just let me write actual text!!!

realhackhistory, to random
@realhackhistory@chaos.social avatar

Looking at you Markoff.

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