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JulianOliver

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social

Critical Engineering, tech art, techno politics, infosec, resilient infrastructure, communitarian survivalism, environmental defense, planetary futures.

I spend a lot of time helping defenders of human rights and the environment protect themselves with best-practice information and operations security. Alongside, I deploy secure infrastructure so they can safely organise.

Bows, arrows & rainforest conservation when I can.

Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti, he/him, herbivore

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danjavasiliev, to random
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Tomorrow May 14 you can catch me at Urban Hosts, Berlin in a discussion on how digital tools and systems shape our democratic processes hosted by Teresa Dillon, more info: http://urbanhosts.org
I will talk about a couple of relevant art works created together with @julian

JulianOliver, to random
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For fellow RF geeks out there, an entertaining chart for getting your comms on in the current EM conditions. From https://hamradiofornontechies.com/current-ham-radio-conditions/

croyle,
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@JulianOliver @AE4WX In the words of Adam Savage, "Well, there's your problem!"

w0bb1t, to random
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An ideological, economic, techn. & ecological analysis of how blockchain is used to cross borders & extract benefits from those most in need, includng land, labor, data, privacy & other resources .. @Escuderoandaluz

👉🏻 https://escuderoandaluz.com/2024/04/10/an-atlas-to-track-blockchain-colonialism/

cubicgarden, to random
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DropBox says hackers stole customer data, auth secrets from eSignature service

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dropbox-says-hackers-stole-customer-data-auth-secrets-from-esignature-service/

> Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information.

alxd, to solarpunk
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In the recently resurfaced debate about (or lunarpunk) aspects of and I'm intrigued by one aspect:

Why do we accept being given a solution without outlining the problem in the first place?

Why don't we listen to pitches instead of asking ourselves how we want to run our communities, how do we want to make decisions, vote, discuss things?

Just stating the problem first would make it very clear that there are multiple technical solutions, not just the Web3.

alxd,
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And for every. single. argument. for Blockchains, DAOs, Web3, there is another open source tool that does the same thing, but better, less energy-intensely, with more fine-tuning for your own needs.

You can dive into IPFS, DAT, Scuttlebutt, Git and GitTorrent, dozens and dozens protocols which can solve your problems.

But none of them come in a sleek, well-marketed package of "solving all of your problems" only a scammer can offer you.

alexandreborges, to security
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Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware:

https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/dumping-and-extracting-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-firmware/

netzpolitik_feed, to random German
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EU institutions are active on Mastodon and Peertube servers, thanks to a pilot project run by the European Data Protection Supervisor. But they’ll be shut down in May – because nobody wants to be responsible for them.

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-and-peertube-eu-closing-up-shop-in-fediverse-because-nobody-wants-to-run-servers/

GossiTheDog, to random
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    JulianOliver, to random
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    The ISS gets a major battery upgrade, 2.6 tonnes of hardware dumped.

    Everything wasn't fine:

    Nasa: "The hardware was expected to fully burn up during entry through Earth's atmosphere on March 8, 2024. However, a piece of hardware survived and impacted a home in Naples, Florida,"

    Father: "It almost hit my son. He was two rooms over and heard it all"

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/514480/nasa-says-part-of-international-space-station-crashed-into-florida-home

    yngmar,
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    @JulianOliver Even if it were to fully burn up (which doesn't mean gone) and doesn't turn into a kinetic missile bombing a house, it is still a problem:

    "It appears assumed by the space industry that the magnetosphere and Van Allen Belts are indestructible, when in fact the nature of their composition is delicate and billions of times less massive than the conductive material being added to the magnetosphere on a regular basis."

    https://arxiv.org/html/2312.09329v1

    JulianOliver, to random
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    Last night I opened up YT in a private window, & clicked on an unrelated video to that of the one I had just watched. It was a video on arctic ice melts that turned out to be 100% denialist.

    One click & there I was in endless fetid scroll of Jordan Peterson, climate change denial, 'what is woke' explainers, 'lol snowflakes' shorts, Trump propaganda, knife fights, & misogynistic, racist garbage.

    Don't tell me Big Tech aren't culpable for the hate out there. They're farming it, on a vast scale.

    txo_elurmaluta,
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    @JulianOliver is the same in the spanish youtube. No account, no cookies, private window… from unrelated video to all that hatred but spanish version

    exador23, to ai
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    When +972Mag revealed that Israel was using an called Lavender and trained on faulty data to decide who is or isn't a militant, and another one called Where's Daddy to track them until they were home to kill the whole family, many folks here rightfully wanted to know who was providing the servers and computer infrastructure for that.

    Time Magazine now has at least part of the answer: & https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/

    The Israeli Ministry of Defense, according to the document, has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to Google-provided computing infrastructure, which would allow the ministry to store and process data, and access AI services.

    ExtinctionR, to random
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    More than five times the carbon found in all of the world's vegetation combined is stored in soil inorganic carbon (SIC). Solid SIC, which often calcium carbonate has been identified in such large quantities for the first time in a new study.
    https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveals-giant-global-soil-carbon.html

    HopePunkFTW, to solarpunk
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    We definitely need a future that involves more than just parking lots and heat islands. It's awesome to see successes like in Düsseldorf


    https://www.ubm-development.com/magazin/en/the-new-green-heart-of-dusseldorf/

    GrapheneOS, to random
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    April release of the Pixel boot chain firmware includes fixes for 2 vulnerabilities reported by GrapheneOS which are being actively exploited in the wild by forensic companies:

    https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2024-04-01
    https://source.android.com/docs/security/overview/acknowledgements

    These are assigned CVE-2024-29745 and CVE-2024-29748.

    cendyne, to random
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    Deep breaths

    JulianOliver, to infosec
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    XZ, an archiving utility in broad use across GNU/Linux distributions, has a backdoor in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 that appears to fiddle with SSH auth and possibly offers an attacker RCE. Debian and Redhat have both released advisories. Thankfully RHEL and Debian GNU/Linux stable releases are unaffected. Testing/Sid are however. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-warns-of-backdoor-in-xz-tools-used-by-most-linux-distros/

    skry,
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    @JulianOliver I saw a lot of informative stuff about this today including:

    An interesting take
    https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/technologist-vs-spy-the-xz-backdoor

    How it works
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjtNDtbDNI

    FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor
    https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27

    I had to upgrade homebrew on macOS. I’m not 100% sure, but I think there was a list on ArsTechnica of other affected apps and utils.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing

    Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software pairing checks.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/oregon-governor-signs-nations-first-right-to-repair-bill-that-bans-part-pairing/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    JulianOliver, to random
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    San Jose, California, has taken its foray into the automated detection of homeless encampments - a USA-wide first.

    Based on CA's track record with homeless, we can only assume this application of computer vision to study them will not be to their benefit:

    "Local outreach workers, who were previously not aware of the experiment, worry the technology will be used to punish and push out San Jose’s unhoused residents."

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection

    databasecultures,
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    @JulianOliver This would be a good application of adversarial noise patterns on behalf of the caravan owners like the examples collected here: https://www.irmielin.org/_websites/adversarial.io/blog/allgemein/

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    w0bb1t, to random
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    Data Centers Use Massive Amounts of Water ... Global AI demand could result in as much as 6.6 bil. cubic meters, or 8.6 bil. cubic yards, of water withdrawal by 2027..

    👉🏻 https://www.newsweek.com/why-ai-so-thirsty-data-centers-use-massive-amounts-water-1882374

    linus, to random
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    posted this on twitter as a response to their product being banned in Canada

    video/mp4

    ExtinctionR, to random
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    New map shows just how extreme last month was for the planet.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/new-map-shows-just-how-extreme-last-month-was-for-the-planet-1.6810565

    blinry, to random
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    I want to try the "make 50 of something" technique again!

    So this week, I'll try to find 50 things to do with a Software Defined Radio! 📻

    I'll use this simple USB dongle, which you can get for around $30.

    kuja, to random
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    When two AI luminaries (Gary Marcus and Geoffrey Hinton) exchange barbs saying things like "you understand nada about how an LLM works!" - well, that means no one is understanding anything. We are adding layers and layers of abstraction to an already complex infrastructure. And I have doubts whether this is beneficial for humanity. It is pure makeism. The black box is not explainable.

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    w0bb1t, to random
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    Simon Weckert uses "The Republic of Null" Island to imagine physical voids & show how they connect to the realities created by the data that manifests there ..

    👉🏻 https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/exhibitions/the-republic-of-null-island/

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