Notices by Dusk to Don :raccoon: (dusk@todon.eu)

@briankrebs

@dalias Curious if you could share a TL;DR of what an IT admin might consider as an alternative to MDM? Just manage remote machines manually?

@cwebber

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If you’d like to hear from the always brilliant @margaret about her time reporting in #Minneapolis including a bit of hope—why she thinks that The People will ultimately prevail, please enjoy this episode of Even More News (also available in podcast form; search for #someMoreNews )

One interesting tidbit:

She describes two independent community organizing efforts:
1. Folk watching, documenting, and alerting neighbors about #ICE and #DHS
2. #mutualAid e.g. feeding folk who, by virtue of either their citizenship status or the color of their skin, are sheltering in place

Was interesting to hear that there was more secrecy around the latter, to protect those in hiding

https://youtu.be/V_Cpz4xOfAw

@aral

Well said. Demand our journalists write headlines with “percentage of gross/net profits” or, like you use, “days/hours to recoup”

Raw “amount paid” is largely meaningless at the scale at which these companies operate

@arstechnica

I found the following post on the #hackerNews discussion this Jeep OTA update debacle

~~~~~ [begin quoted post] ~~~~

> Roslin: It tells people things like where the restroom is, and-

> Adama: It's an integrated computer network, and I will not have it aboard this ship.

> Roslin: I heard you're one of those people. You're actually afraid of computers.

> Adama: No, there are many computers on this ship. But they're not networked.

> Roslin: A computerized network would simply make it faster and easier for the teachers to be able to teach-

> Adama: Let me explain something to you. Many good men and women lost their lives aboard this ship because someone wanted a faster computer to make life easier. I'm sorry that I'm inconveniencing you or the teachers, but I will not allow a networked computerized system to be placed on this ship while I'm in command. Is that clear?

> Roslin: Yes, sir.

> Adama: Thank you. 'Scuse me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKGbg16ulU

Basically me when talking about cars I'll buy.

~~~~ [end quoted post] ~~~~

Credit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559387

#IOT #jeep #battleStarGalactica

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” will remain the funniest message ever sent.
🫡 🇺🇸 🤡

Watching #defcon talk on #signalGate

Hear the speaker mention getting source code via mastodon contact. “Ah!” I say to myself. “I’ll bet I follow them.”

(Confirmed)

Micah: “One of the first things I noticed when going through the [forked Signal] Android code was that it contained hard-coded credentials.”
🤣🤣

Great talk, @micahflee !

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlhsT5Kbsk

#infosec

#behindTheBastards is a great podcast.

**Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism**

[quote from Part 2]

❝The maintenance of every border implies violence. And this is both physical borders like the border between us in Mexico, and like what you're seeing right now with the attempt to legislate like what counts as a woman, with all these anti-trans things. Both of those borders are maintained by men with guns, with violence. There's the threat of violence behind building every one of those borders. If you cross this border, or at least cross it in the wrong way, force will be used against you. Every democracy does this, and it does this not just in terms of who can enter the country, but who gets to vote.
[...]
. . . because what you do as the reactionary is you find that border wherever it exists, and you start pushing inward. And as you start pushing inward from that border, you will start fracturing the democratic consensus that exists until you can destroy democracy. And that's how you gain power as a reactionary movement within a liberal That's how you destroy liberalism. You find the border that they placed and you start pushing inwards. That's what Carl realizes, and that's what he lays out, and it works today as well as it did back then.❞

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-carl-schmitt-the-mind-276486999/

#fascism

Robert quoted Arendt in that episode ⬆️:

❝Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.❞

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

👀 SOUND LIKE ANYONE WE KNOW??

#fascism

@inthehands

That’s a great platform.

But oof, do I have some bad news about where the Democrats get their campaign funding 😝

@catsalad @Natasha_Jay

*pride husky has entered the chat*

🌈 🐺

@dumpsterqueer

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the unaltered Windows 11 Start Menu.

@skinnylatte

Paid in sand dollars, I presume?

Walking into a new codebase at work,
looking around, like “How have y’all been _living_ like this?”

#dev #humor

This is how I feel about the entire lineup of generative #AI product offerings from #Meta and #Google

[edit: thanks to @cstanhope for noting, gif is sourced from the work of Simone Giertz]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2evC2xTNWg

#gemini #humor

#AskFedi (would love your support in boosting, TYIA! :goose_honk: )

I maaaay be writing a piece on Mastodon + Fediverse for the radical free-speech zine Slingshot Collective?

https://slingshotcollective.org/

(Anarchist / Socialist vibes, founded in Berkeley, CA)

...if I can find the time.

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❓ My question for YOU:
What are the specific weaknesses / shortcomings of Mastodon's approach to moderation, specifically as it relates to shitty speech directed at fem, trans, black, and other marginalized communities.

⭐ I'm not explicitly asking for additional labor from e.g. #blackMastodon (though it's welcome if you care to share)

⭐ I'm seeking previously-posted perspectives from individuals from marginalized communities who have been negatively impacted by the way that moderation is structured in #ActivityPub

Part of my rough current understanding of (one of) the issues:

If person A posts post 1, and person B comments [a shitty] reply 2, reply 2 remains visible and attached to post 1, unless there are instance-level blocking actions taken. Do I have that right?

Thanks all!
👋

I like the take that 'it's raining men' and 'let the bodies hit the floor' are two songs describing the same event from different perspectives.

👋 Hiya @PaulaToThePeople !

Thanks so much for your kind offer of support!

If anyone is looking for a more "read the docs" sort of approach as a place to start, bop over to https://fedi.tips/

(with gratitude to the incredible @FediTips )

@ErikUden

Don’t forget Senator Josh Hawley, another insurrectionist, running out of the capitol to the tune of “Chariots of Fire”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCwvSNgigE

Tired of all of the "bloat" and "features" of Mastodon? Want something that's way less user friendly?

Here's twtxt, "a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers."

> You want to get some thoughts out on the internet in a convenient and slick way while also following the gibberish of others? Instead of signing up at a closed and/or regulated microblogging platform, getting your status updates out with twtxt is as easy as putting them in a publicly accessible text file.

https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

[This seems like a silly thing that I do not care to use. But I DID like discovering https://docs.asciinema.org/ from its docs]

#microblogging #twtxt

@slothrop

✅ 😊