Notices by sysop (iam_sysop@cyberplace.social)

@GossiTheDog

I'm going through this with local Office install and the \AI folder -- currently it's set to read-only and had basically every other access right removed after renaming every file in the folder.

... now we wait ...

@GossiTheDog

Thank you for standing on the right side of the moral ground.

@GossiTheDog I wonder just how much of this data was given without warrants.

I'll be happily sticking to my pre-2003 vehicles until I'm no longer able to drive.

Just like I won't allow the insurance company to track my every movement via an app.

#SurveilanceSociety

@Tattooed_Mummy

It's too bad Firefox doesn't let you actually edit the URLs that are used in the search extensions without completely writing your own...

@GossiTheDog @taylorlorenz

Proving again it only takes a couple words to make something "disappear" off the internet...

@GossiTheDog I can't wait --

@GossiTheDog

There ought to be laws preventing the creation of millions of tons of waste based on an arbitrary requirement that apparently is "not a requirement"...

@GossiTheDog

follow-up from El-Reg -- this seems a juicy target --

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/03/us_energy_contractor_englobal_ransomware/

@GossiTheDog honestly, if it was just being stoned, they'd keep the dollar bills -- these are worse drugs 😩

@GossiTheDog I'm staying here - not that I have huge "infosec" role other than having a small hosting farm at AWS.

Leaving one "billionaire owned platform" to go to another one started by the same billionaire isn't on my bingo card.

I try to learn from history.

@GossiTheDog it's been a trend for far too long:

( original image from here: https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/07/13/installing-sco-unix-part-1/ )