Notices by Mx Amber Alex (she/it) (amberage@eldritch.cafe), page 3

@annika not a Tumblr user?

Pretty sure I asked before, but can anyone recommend a good #Peertube instance?

"Good" meaning:

• stable, no downtime every other week
• well moderated, strong blocklist
• reliable future (i.e. won't disappear all of a sudden – more than one person can run it, funds secured, etc.)

@HauntedOwlbear @babble_endanger if a trans person says hey do you wanna join my matrix server do NOT agree

it is NOT code for sex they WILL message could not be decrypted

@HauntedOwlbear but doctor, I am U-haul lesbians! /jk

@annika it is. latest 4.3 beta

Whoever came up with those radio buttons that you can barely tell are checked?

EUUUUUGEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNN

@DelphineUnseen and usually there are better words.

Ignorant, reckless, irresponsible, inconsiderate, hot-headed, absurd, ridiculous, or sometimes just downright evil.

@brecht @bastianallgeier scientific findings are often contrary to "common sense", aka people's gut feeling. And elections are won on gut feeling. So by nature of their job, politicians mustn't be too receptive to science.

@brecht @bastianallgeier "professional" politicians in general tend to be very anti-science. Science consistently proves their pet policies – from trickle down economics to increased policing, killing the welfare state, etc. – are counterproductive, so it seems to be an unwritten requirement for politicians to be anti-science.

I said years back that COVID could have been an unprecedented chance for Trump. He could have campaigned heavily on "I, the good American, and our good old American know-how, will protect you from the filthy China virus and keep our country safe".

But the price would have been acknowleding that scientists were right about COVID, and that price was too high.

Discrediting science and spreading the idea that scientific findings are just another opinion that can be ignored is a key project across virtually all political parties. Germany's Die Linke did it when it embraced the anti-trans moral panic, the SPD for their anti-welfare and anti-labour policies, the FDP did it to continue their "tax gifts to the rich" course even before they started catering to nazi voters, the CDU does it for just about everything they do.

Even the Greens do it to justify their heavy pro-policing stance. And the fact they keep acting as if politics is a genuine contest between people who want the best for the country and engage the AfD nazis as if they're serious shows they believe it, too, and aren't just eschewing political science to further their careers.

What I feared for a long time finally happened: my bank just bricked my online banking.

They rolled out a mandatory update for the 2FA app and, that's my guess at least, pulled Windows 7 support.

I have a laptop here that has a top of the line, state of the art, up to date Linux on it. But unfortunately, my bank doesn't have a Linux app.

This shit should be illegal.

To complain about the fact that they mandate Windows 11 (and are apparently wholly unconcerned with Windows Recall), I had to agree to a ton of cookies.

Data protection is apparently not valued at all at this bank.

Like, it bears repeating:

Windows 11, by default, takes regular screenshots of your computer. These are analysed for advertisement purposes, you can be sure of it.

Windows Recall blacks out copyrighted material from those screenshots, but not passwords or other sensitive information, including account numbers, TANs, etc.

This is not an issue for my bank.

Mandating spyware-ladden corporate operating systems should be grounds for getting their banking licence revoked.

@elilla reminds me of this one I read a while ago:

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won. by Carlos Fenollosa (Sep 4, 2022)

@elilla

I implemented all the acronyms – DKIM, DMARC, SPF, reverse DNS lookup, SSL in transport, PTR record. I enrolled on Microsoft's JMRP and SNDS, Google postmaster tools. I verified my domain. I got 10/10 on mail-tester.com., –, secured antispam measures, verified my domain, made sure my server is neither breached nor used to relay actual spam, added new servers with supposedly clean IPs from reputable providers, tried all the silver bullets recommended by Hacker News, used kafkaesque request forms to prove legitimity, contacted the admins of some blacklists.

@foone in Germany, which is infamously backwards and close-minded about i.e. disclosing 0days, you could go to prison for this.

Germany recently sentenced a software engineer to huge fines for cybercrimes, in a years-long trial that destroyed his career, because he found a plaintext password in a file, told the company about that vulnerability, and went public with it when they bitched at him what business he had finding vulnerabilities in their product (a client of theirs had hired him to figure out why his servers were crashing or smth) (and ofc he waited with the going public until the vuln was closed).

(German news article about it)

So, where does one recruit playtesters these days that isn't Discord?

#LevelDesign

@siege what's the two sides? Labour vs Greens or Libdems? Labour vs abstaining?

@siege jfc

@siege and GenderCare wins what? Do they scoop up the patients from clinics they destroyed, or do they just pretend to be a gender clinic while actually working to dismantle trans healthcare?

@siege clinics being sued