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   Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:13:15 JST Stu

   in reply to

   @inthehands I wasn't sure where in this thread to reply, but I was told yesterday that the "secret sauce" bit to Proton (and Tuta) is that only you have the decryption key to read the contents of your email. For example, I read Tuta's security page yesterday and their email search index is on your machine, because they can't do it.

   So, it's slightly better than what is obviously a protocol never intended for private communication. Having said that, I did prefer that my email was sat outside of US jurisdiction (Cloud Act) vs having to go through an international warrant.

   Good thread, thanks for putting it together. Email is definitely one of those things that are old enough that people won't know this stuff. That everything is encrypted in transit is something I learned, actually.

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   Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:17:23 JST Jonathan Schofield

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   …I use microblogging as a kind of catharsis and I’m flattered that some 1,100 people think that’s worth something.

   But because it is a way for me to work shit out in public, I’m really attached to my own post history. I frequently reference it.

   So starting all that again – AGAIN after Twitter – is no small thing for me.

   Sure I could download an archive and host that somewhere – maybe my own instance – but then all the exchanges (the good stuff) that hangs off those posts would be gone :(

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   Mark Asser (markasser@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 01:09:05 JST Mark Asser

   Back here again in the small hours. Slept for a little while before a very stupid horrible dream started. I won't give all the details, for the very sound reason that nobody wants them, but the cavalry charge in a shopping mall was the most sensible bit of it.

   So here I am, awake at the wrong time again. (Specifically, 2:37am.) Please tell me boring things, the more yawn-inducing the better.

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   Falcon Darkstar (falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 11:45:50 JST Falcon Darkstar

   I will be speaking at the final Shmoocon about eliminating the impact of SQL injection, and not about how AI cannot do pentests. But since the topic keeps coming up anyway I may as well squawk about it.

   So much of the story about AI is this: what if instead of making necessary changes, we found a way to automate digging the hole deeper?

   So it is with this. Scanners of all types, including genAI ones, can find the same old patterns. It is apparently fancy to do it with particular algorithms.

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   Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 02:22:14 JST Tinker ☀️

   Trash Panda (@raccoon) asks a great question regarding "Free Fridges" and Post-Scarcity Mutual Aid Food Distribution:

   Original Question and Thread: https://hollow.raccoon.quest/notes/a2jvqqajuvif0aog

   Question: "A thing that would worry me is people taking advantage of this and taking a shitload of food without needing it. Like, people who could just afford buying it, you know? Does it ever happen?"

   Awesome question!

   And it has a couple of answers or way to approach it. I'll try to answer it in those couple of ways.

   Answer 1) Let them. Let them take as much as they want or need. We'll just produce more. We have the means. - There is often a worry of people "abusing" a system. This is a SCARCITY mindset. It worries that there's not enough to go around, so folks will abuse it and take from others.... BUUUUUT.... there IS enough to go around... you can take what you need, heck take more than you need, and it will be fine. We. Have. Enough.

   Answer 2) Let's actually threat model this out. Like... Is this really a problem? If so... who would do it.

   So the short answer is, it's not really a problem in practice. There are many free fridges already going. No one really "abuses" (in any meaningful definition of the word) the system.

   So it's not a hypothetical. We can just look at what's actually happening. And it's not a concern.

   Long Answer: When you grow up in scarcity and first encounter post-scarcity, it is NORMAL to hoard things.

   Let me say that again.

   It is NORMAL for people to take what they need NOW and then take more for what they think they will need LATER for security and even add a buffer on top of that JUST TO BE SURE!!!

   Cool.

   Let them.

   After a while, they realize that they TOO are not consuming all they have and they start to FEED BACK INTO the post-scarcity input / output.

   This is called healing.

   Artificial Scarcity (read Capitalism) hurts people.
   Post-Scarcity Mutual Aid heals people.

   If part of that process is them using the post-scarcity system a lot until they heal and get used to having enough... then it's chill. Let them "abuse" it. It'll be fine.

   Answer 3) If we give into this fear, we produce the result of the fear without the fear itself ever needing to be realized. To put it another way, if we worry people will abuse it and there won't be enough food for others, and we don't do it out of that fear... then..... there DEFINITELY isn't food for others. Lol! Out of a fear that the prophesy will come true, we have ensured that it came true. So... like.... just do it... and deal with any problems that come up when they do.

   Answer 4) You mentioned "People who could just afford buying it" could take things they don't need.

   Cool. Let them!

   I don't want ANYONE to have to pay for food.

   I want food to be free.

   But this line of thinking that we ONLY GIVE TO THOSE WHO DESERVE IT leads to insidious things like "means testing' where we SPEND MORE MONEY AND TIME AND EFFORT to keep food out of the mouths of those who "might not need it" than if we just used that money time and effort to feed everyone including th
   e "rich".

   Post-scarcity means post. scarcity. It's not scarce. You can get free food even if you could afford to buy it.

   Just feed people.

   We have enough.

   #postScarcity #freeFridge #mutualAid #solarPunk

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   Thibault Molleman 🔜 FOSDEM (thibaultmol@en.osm.town)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 23:08:42 JST Thibault Molleman 🔜 FOSDEM

   So Linus on the WAN show last night was talking about how he had trouble diagnosing why half his pc's weren't going to sleep. He eventually figured out that it was because half the pc's had steam running but on a store page, which means a video is playing.

   Meanwhile, on Linux: #KDE plasma just has an easy built-into-the-ui indicator that tells you what is blocking sleep .... I have used this feature many times and I love it.

   So yeah, I don't know who at KDE worked on this feature, but I ❤️ you