Notices by brunoc (brunoc@mastodon.sprawl.club)

@aral The next natural step would be to Nix-ify this and setup your next new Mac with 3 commands. :)

#cybersecurity commencement speech from crankysec.com!

CrankySec versus HN
https://crankysec.com/blog/hn/

#cybersecurity

Reading @pluralistic say "There's a reason that every plan to "disrupt" transportation ends up reinventing the bus" reminds me of a story on Wired/Fast Company/TechCrunch (honestly don't remember) where the author begs Silicon Valley to "disrupt" the US—granted—ancient air traffic control system. Imagine moving fast and breaking things on a system that controls things that are already very fast and should not be broken? The savior complex is jarring.

The Flipper Zero is turning out to be a very nice platform capable of doing a whole lot of nifty things. I’m glad we’re over that popping out Tesla charging ports phase and heading towards a proper multitool, especially now with the new “app store”.

Swear to god, peeps. Nothing kills the fedivibes more than journalists here complaining about twitter. You know you can leave, right? It’s not a critical utility. It’s not infrastructure. You just have a codependent relationship with that site.

I was thinking about the Veilid stuff @thegibson was talking about, and this kind of hit me: I'm 45. My first computer was an MSX.I was there during the BBS days. I was there during the early craziness of commercial internet. I was there for all that shit. This is not a brag or anything, it's just to set the context. I think/fear younger folks simply do not understand that SHIT. WAS. NOT. LIKE. THIS. And that's what the mayor is talking about.

The Internet works just fine without your every move being tracked. It works just fine without ads. It works just fine without novelty TLDs. What I fear is younger folks actually believing that things HAVE to be this way. They don't. "But how will it scale?" It doesn't have to. "But how will you monetize it?" You can, but you don't HAVE to. Again: IT. WAS. NOT. LIKE. THiS. not too long ago. It was cool, and weird, and serendipitous, and raw, and ugly.

@feditips You might want to revise this toot, folks.