ceresbzns

@ceresbzns@infosec.exchange

always hopeful, rarely optimistic

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CartyBoston, to random
@CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net avatar

"CartyBoston: not giving a flying fuck about Disney since 1959"

ceresbzns,

@CartyBoston
How about purely terrestrial fucks

ceresbzns, to internet

Retweeted on Twitter by someone who stopped posting on Fedi 30 days ago but has been active daily on Twitter since then. (Let's not even get into the fact that OP is also out there producing free content for Twitter)

Listen, I do a real bad job of living up to my own moral and ideological ideals, but this is Parks and Rec spike-the-camera level irony

ceresbzns, to random

@TurboTorbo
Y'all doing OK?

ceresbzns, to random

Another one down. @hostilespectrum has stopped posting on fediverse, but is chugging along on twitter with a blue check (lel)

dustcircle, to random
@dustcircle@masto.ai avatar

Woman accused of drugging her date in Miami, stealing over $600,000 in Rolexes and other jewelry

https://flip.it/7LIFhK

ceresbzns,

@dustcircle
I have so many questions

How did she get into the safe?
Why did he have half a MILLION dollars of jewelry in it?
Is this an insurance scam?

Wild

robotfactory, to random

Uhh... What year is it?

(Yes, i know... industrial control systems)

ceresbzns,

@robotfactory
Narrator voice

> the year is 2098, industrial control systems rule the Earth

chris, to random

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    ceresbzns,

    @chris
    What are all the middle buttons?

    ceresbzns,

    @chris
    Where did you get the rad keycaps?

    bikepedantic, to random
    @bikepedantic@transportation.social avatar

    Almost eleven weeks after, finally have first post-mortem income/cash flow. How the hell do we expect normal working poor to fare floating things for eleven fucking weeks?

    ceresbzns,

    @bikepedantic

    Credit cards, payday loans, GoFundMe

    I.e., profits for the profiteers

    ceresbzns,

    @dr2chase
    @bikepedantic

    The whole process fucking sucks. Like, your family is devastated and also suddenly responsible for reconfiguring finances and dealing with 500 kinds of bureaucrats and funereal business vultures?
    Leave it to USian culture to turn grieving and funeral rites into a series of business models

    krusynth, to random
    @krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town avatar

    It's very sad to me that the American Dream (tm) has gone from "work hard and you will succeed" to "find another sucker to scam and you'll get rich." Particularly since most of the folks who think they're scamming are actually the suckers.

    ceresbzns,

    @krusynth

    Two contentions, Mr Hunt

    1. "the American dream" as a cultural artifact is like, maybe 70 years old. Before that, the scam hustle was certainly still alive and well, it just took the form of land speculation and railroads or literal snake oil, etc. Or, you know, abject worker exploitation or literal slavery or genocide and ecocide and land theft.

    As it stands, that American Dream nonsense was basically a bargain for the white middle class families. The rich played their own game per usual.

    1. Blaming consumers for this phenomenon is missing literally half the picture. The other half is the OUTRAGEOUS amount of money poured into these enshittification engines by venture capital and institutional investors. So if you want to blame someone for mass-produced garbage and casino equity markets, maybe blame financiers, the rich, and the easy money policy of the past 30 years?
    ceresbzns,

    @krusynth

    Beyond that, I agree with your main call to action. We should put our money towards local news and local shops and local services. I raise these points because I don't think it's useful to blame the boats for the storm.

    ceresbzns, to random

    @micah really great panel on the talk today. @BennettTomlin was esp incisive, per usual #bitcoin

    ceresbzns,

    @micah you've spent a lot of time thinking and writing about bitcoin. Do you spend much time thinking about #ethereum or #monero?

    ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs@kolektiva.social avatar

    I am 3D printing trophies for embarrassed people in the first dog training class so they feel welcome and less embarrassed. The embarrassed people don't come back, and I need them to so everyone can learn from them. They hate being singled out unless it's funny. I need to come up with catchier titles and other categories. I need one for the Pooper, the Pisser, the Humper, the Barker, the Growler, the Ungovernable...?

    ceresbzns,

    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs
    The Ungovernable!

    ceresbzns,

    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs

    In order:
    Shitzu? Don't Mind if I Do
    Tinkletown Terrier
    Engelbert Humperdink
    Honkatron 2000
    Grumbleguss
    Bakunin's Best Boi

    mycorrhiza, to random
    @mycorrhiza@post.lurk.org avatar

    One thing I changed my mind about in recent years is that I think “link rot” is fine, and that efforts to preserve all of the information on the web are misguided. Supposedly, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but what if the reason we keep on falling into the same patterns of behavior is because we remember them? We certainly remember the 1930s enough to recognize where the creeping fascism we see today is headed, and it’s apparent that all the remembering in the world isn’t enough to stop it.

    ceresbzns,

    @scanlime
    lmao

    @mycorrhiza @alive

    hakan_geijer, to random
    @hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social avatar

    Hell yeah, Bruce. You fuckin' tell 'em.

    "Kids are natural hackers. They do it instinctively, because they don’t fully understand the rules and their intent. (So are artificial intelligence systems—we’ll get to that at the end of the book.) But so are the wealthy. Unlike children or artificial intelligences, they understand the rules and their context. But, like children, many wealthy individuals don’t accept that the rules apply to them. Or, at least, they believe that their own self-interest takes precedence. The result is that they hack systems all the time."

    From: A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

    ceresbzns,

    @hakan_geijer

    I've read several other Schneier books, and they're all very good, right up until he gets to the political analysis, so I wasn't very enthusiastic about a bunch of Bruce Takes on how rich people are getting away with hacking those naughty rascals, when in reality the whole basis of the political project of capitalism is about giving power to the capital owners.

    Like, the fact is that when poor people try to "hack" systems, the state apparatus just fuckin' murders or jails them (regardless of whether or not the rules say what they did was allowed!), because that's the point. When rich people do it, the state just throws up their hands and says "ah well" even when they could easily use their discretion to pursue the same means.

    So a lot of the time it's not really a loophole, it's just convenient cover for complicity, because the state actors don't want to pick a fight with the rich people who can give them a cut.

    Like Frank Wilhoit said - “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    ceresbzns,

    @hakan_geijer
    And when successful "hacking" by the outgroup is done, the rules get changed VERY quickly.

    Just look at how fast it took the otherwise paralytic US Congress to make it illegal for people to protest outside a Supreme Court Justice's home.

    ceresbzns,

    @hakan_geijer

    Like, if a guard lets you walk into a vault, because you each take turns guarding and robbing, is that hacking? Or is that just theft, but Bruce doesn't want to call it that because that would require a total reexamination of the liberal premise of Rule of Law?

    ceresbzns,

    @hakan_geijer Fair

    BetaCuck4Lyfe, to random
    @BetaCuck4Lyfe@kolektiva.social avatar

    It's often said we should never assume malice where ignorance suffices, but I'm starting to think we underestimate malice.

    ceresbzns,

    @BetaCuck4Lyfe

    I've been having this dialogue a lot lately

    ceresbzns, to infosec

    GrapheneOS is awesome.

    If you're in the market for an Android OS that respects your privacy, has secure defaults, and still enables you to use Google apps and Play store apps on your own terms - I highly recommend it. Great experience using it so far.

    ceresbzns,

    @chmod777
    I love it, honestly. I use it for everything I used stock Pixel Android and with basically no issues: mobile banking, email, music, calls and texting, etc etc.

    Pairs nicely with yubikeys over NFC or USB, battery life has been good, no trouble installing or updating apps from Play Store or F-Droid.

    The biggest inconvenience so far was having to install a separate SMS app because native SMS is busted with no intent to fix but who cares, took me like 5 minutes to do that.

    My next goal is to eventually get off of all Google services entirely, but that's a big project. I definitely don't ever want to go back to stock Android, Graphene is a strictly better upgrade as far as I'm concerned.

    ceresbzns,

    @chmod777
    I've been using Google Maps and OpenStreet Maps regularly, no difference

    ceresbzns,

    @chmod777
    Happy to! Lmk if you make the jump

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