Notices by Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)

Today is my Fediverse cake day!

I've been here for seven years.

Damn.

Cheers @jerry for running this (and several other) fediverse servers!

And cheers to everyone else for the great conversations, info exchanges, memes, and shit posts!

#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky

I'm starting up a Food Rescue program in my town.

The idea is that restaurants and stores throw away good food every night. Food rescue (also known as "gleaning") is where a person (Food Rescue Hero or Gleaner) goes to stores/restaurants and takes the good food that would otherwise be thrown out and provides it to hungry folks (either distributed centrally through a food pantry, decentrally through a free fridge / community pantry, or peer-to-peer directly to a person or family).

I'm currently researching tracking and coordination apps (such as foodrescue.us and others) but in the process of doing this I found myself at a local donut shop asking if they had 5-gallon food safe buckets that they could give away for hydroponics (i had received a tip!). They said they did and we started talking about food rescue. They said they had tried to donate their unsold donuts to a couple of pantries but no one could ever pick them up. I told them I would.

...and look what they provided!!!

My first food rescue, y'all!!!

3 dozen donuts!

I ran them straight to the free fridge! They can do this every night!!!

So cheers to Freddy Donuts in Fredericksburg, Virginia!

#foodRescue #freeFridge #communityPantry #foodSecurity #mutualAid #solarPunk

It's okay that Bluesky will be successful and replace Twitter.

Most people like the service that a corporation gives to them. Most people are willing to trade the cons that go with that for the pros they receive.

I came to the Fediverse because I - personally - can't take those cons anymore. And the pros here work for me, again personally.

I don't need all the people in the world to use the Fediverse for me to enjoy the community here. Heck, most people didn't use Twitter. They used (and still use) Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat more.

Let people use Bluesky. I hope they enjoy it and it enriches their lives. It doesnt for me, so I won't be going. But we already have a critical mass here and its fine.

Executive Director of our local libraries is doing a meet and greet with the public tonight.

Figure I'll head down to the library and join in on the conversation.

Now that the #seedLibrary is set up and thriving, I'm really interested in setting up a #toolLibrary.

We have a decent #LibraryOfThings where you can rent GoPros, audio equipment, mobile hotspots, various games, and some tools. But we really can build out our Tool Library more.

Think about it. Unless you're a hobbyist or a tradesperson, you really only need a drill when doing specific repairs or hanging a new picture or when moving, etc. Imagine just being able to go down to the library to grab the tools you need when you need them and then returning them for your neighbor to use.

I'll let y'all know how it goes!

#solarPunk #LibraryEconony #mutualAid

I need a #solarpunk game that like Shadowrun Hong Kong.

Isometric / Top Down
RPG Turn Based
But set in a bright and hopeful world.
And no fighting. Tired of killing things.

Most solarpunkesque games right now are build games... which... okay cool, but I'm bored of build games. I build things in real life and love it.

I want a story driven role playing game that doesn't involve fighting or killing things.

Ideally in a solarpunk world... but I'm not even needing that right now.

@lispi314 - Does it? Really?

I have read so many books and seen so many TV shows and so many movies and lived so many life experiences and heard so many stories of life experiences.... that don't involve killing or beating the crap out of another person.

I would argue the exact opposite.

Much of our current games are EXTREMELY limited and constrained in scope to only fighting and beating the crap out of others.

There are other problems to solve. Other obstacles to overcome. Other drama to happen. Even other conflicts.... that don't involve violence.

Violence is boring.

I want a new game.

Ooooh... figured out a way to pull LOCAL user account hashes from a specific type of multifunction printer.

They're only hashed as Raw-MD5... so that's fast to crack.

I'm going to sleep on this and talk about it more tomorrow.

#hacking #infosec #hashCracking

That moment during a manual process when you realized you probably should have scripted it... but you've done so much already you're NOW at a point where scripting it would take longer than just finishing it out manually....

Grow enough for you.
Grow enough for your neighbors.
Share freely.

Artwork from: https://www.disorganizedjoy.com/

#solarPunk #mutualAid

@thermo - Yeah, thats a big reason why I focus on heirloom and open pollinated seeds.

This is an amazing concept....

Open Sourced "3D Printed" Pharmaceuticals

Build your own pill printing machine. Feed it an open sourced "recipe" / medical chemical compound instruction. Add some base ingredients. And make your own medicine.

This is an exceedingly solarpunk idea and could be a core aspect of a post-scarcity world as it relates to healthcare.

They have information about abortion medication (Misoprostol), ADHD medication (Vyvance), and more.

There are obvious issues - especially around quality control, safety, effectiveness, and application. And the makers address this - but wow. Just wow.

I very specifically have not verified any of this. But I'm incredibly interested in diving in and learning about it and its feasibility.

The anarchist collective behind this venture, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective (@4thievesvinegar), spoke at this last DefCon 32. See @mixael's talk here (via Peertube): https://kolektiva.media/w/uvD1wWTRoh7HEto8zeSswr

Here is a @404mediaco article by @jasonkoebler : https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/

Here is their main website: https://fourthievesvinegar.org

Here is are the open sourced instructions (along with parts list - both purchased and off the shelf along with 3D printed parts): https://github.com/FourThievesVinegar/solderless-microlab

Definitely something to follow and learn more about. I'm excited and hope this is effective and grows.

(HT @aeischeid for highlighting the article and HT my dear friend for telling me about it after going to their DefCon talk!)

#solarPunk #postScarcity #healthcare #abortion #abortionAccess #ADHD

@horse - Either have the day off paid or are going to be working through the weekend....

@horse @solace10 - Three (as well) and, yeah, woke up feeling the dad jokes.

So this actually happened:

I rode an electric kickscooter down to a side alleyway across from a rail transit station to pick up some second hand body modification electronics (a CPAP) from a man who has cybernetic implants in his chest! I had to get the 2nd hand body mods off the street because I can't afford proper healthcare.

I'm living in a @GreatDismal novel.

(And, yes, the weather was cold, dreary, and overcast - the sky above was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel...)

#cyberpunk

In another example of how US healthcare is a scam.

I just paid: $1,212 (this was AFTER insurance. It would have been $2,710 before insurance) for sleep studies that confirmed what I already knew. I need a CPAP machine.

They want to sell me a CPAP machine for $758 (again, AFTER insurance). That's for the model "11". The model 10 goes on retail for $400 brand new. And I haven't even shopped around for a less expensive but still good model.

That's a total of almost $2,000 when I could have gone down to the corner CVS and bought a CPAP for $300 just to "try" and resell used (or return within 30 days for full refund).

Again... this is WITH insurance.

Fucking scams.

The topic of fashion within solarpunk came up.

It got me thinking. I enjoy studying fashion and looking at what others create but I hate the idea of gatekept fashion and fast fashion.

The library makerspace has a sewing machine, an embroidery machine, and a serger.

I was sent this podcast on free and open source "soft wear" (meaning clothes patterns): https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/055-free-soft-wear.html

I wonder, is there a Thingiverse for sewing patterns?

#solarpunk #fashion #sewing

Can we bring back web rings?

Search engines really suck right now.

(Seriously. Quit bringing up results with words that I didn't search for! I am spelling it right!)

So hydroponics are kicking off (as well as soil container gardens, backyard gardens, and community plot gardens) with me and my friends....

....and with that now is a good time to emphasize that this is not just a hobby (or a hobby at all for some). It's easy. sure. And takes little time, money, and effort... and is fun... and calming... don't get me wrong.

But we're not doing this for shits and giggles.

This is one part of a larger effort at bringing about post-scarcity food. (Note: One part. No one thing is a panacea.)

So right now, we have efforts to garden (hydroponically or otherwise) for one's self and one's family. That's good. It either supplements or fully replaces a corporate grocery store. Great.

But it's only part of it.

The next part is mutual aid. When we plant food, we also plant for our neighbors and greater community. For every 5 plants I harvest, I give away at least 1 plant. At least 20 percent. The question then becomes, how do we get the food out. How do we distribute it?

Food banks are fine. They're already set up. Many accept home grown produce. The issue with food banks is they are often means tested. You have to prove you NEED the food before you get it. That has a shit ton of issues and often just means that people who are hungry don't get to eat.

Instead of food banks, I've been using two solutions to distribute food.

1) The Olio App ( https://olioapp.com/en/ ): The Olio App let's you list your produce online. Folks can then request the item and arrange for pickup. It's like craiglist and uber eats and specifically is about giving away free food.

2) Community Fridges / Community Pantries ( https://freedge.org/locations/ ): Free fridges and pantries are physical nodes in your community where folks that have extra food, put it in the pantry. Folks that need food, take it out. Give a food, take a food. No need for apps, low overhead, works really well and is efficient.

The key to all of this is it's NOT charity. This is MUTUAL aid. You give AND you take. As we produce for ourselves we also produce for our neighbors. Everyone eats.

#solarpunk #mutualAid #freeFridge #communityPantry #hydroponics #postScarcity

@aral - So many comments continuing to "debate the technical minutiae of Threads" under a post decrying folks for "debating the technical minutiae of Threads."

Wow. 😐

Meta's Threads is to ActivityPub,
as
Google's Talk was to XMPP.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

#Threads #ActivityPub #EEE