Notices by Adam Katz (adamhotep@infosec.exchange), page 2

@catsalad #SilentSunday The trees are taking over!

More at
https://www.boredpanda.com/hungry-trees-taking-over-things/
and https://www.reddit.com/r/TreesSuckingOnThings

@stefan @tedium if Mastodon were larger, it would have this same problem but worse (since there is no centralized moderation); there's nothing stopping somebody from setting up @stefan@stefanbohacek.link or @stefan@stefanbobecek.online. It's a cost of federation.

@nixCraft

I don't understand how Chrome is worth "at least $15-$20 billion" when it's >99% FOSS. Developing Chromium is a giant money sink and the only reason it outperforms Firefox is that it's backed by a company willing to pay that bill.

If Chrome is sold, the buyer will be forced to either monetize it somehow (how? Remember how poorly that worked for Opera and Netscape before them?) or else to go non-profit with some other source of funding.

The Right™ option in this line of thinking would be to force a new Chrome Foundation non-profit and to either fine GOOG enough to establish an endowment for it or else to implement some sort of corporate tax on web/cloud services to fund it (or, at the corporation's discretion, Mozilla, whose primary funding comes from Google today and will likely dry up with this ruling).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-s-chrome-worth-up-to-20-billion-if-judge-orders-sale/ar-AA1ujJKa

Cloudflare now supports security.txt! It's off by default, but this should really help adoption. This is a very good thing.

HT @troyhunt, who posted this to X but not here.

@ryanc I too have had surprising success "fixing" web forms simply by right-clicking the "submit" button, inspecting, and then running $0.click() 🤷

@ryanc This is a good list. Humans are bad at random:
https://infosec.exchange/@adamhotep/112440540150220075

@ryanc IANAL, but my understanding of the Apache License is that it simply ensures the underlying patents are freely available to the software's users; you can't yank out the rug. Yes, that might be a complication if you want to sell your related patent, as the new owner cannot retract the software's licence.

@ryanc I recommend the Apache License 2.0 for this. It's a bit stronger wrt conferring protections regarding patents. The FSF even prefers it for this tier of FOSS:

The Apache License 2.0 is the best non-copyleft license that does what a copyright license can to mitigate threats from software patents. It's a well-established, mature license that users, developers, and distributors alike are all comfortable with. You can tell it's important by the way that other free software licenses work to cooperate with it: the drafting processes for GPLv3 and the Mozilla Public License 2.0 named compatibility with the Apache License 2.0 as a goal from day one.

@clacke @knwmoon
The author is @aethernaut btw

@ryanc That seems pretty clear. He's not even claiming to have "lost" the keys.

Am I missing something wrt Craig Wright claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto? Doesn't he just have to sign something with one of Nakamoto's keys or transfer the first bitcoin in a publicly verifiable manner? Bitcoin is pseudonymous rather than anonymous...
https://www.wired.com/story/craig-wright-satoshi-nakamoto-trial/

@ryanc @astraleureka
I've been confused about that since moving here. The last time I checked, there were three or so licenses in the whole ofNYC (or maybe just Manhattan). Most of the places that looked like dispensaries were selling CBD. Then something changed and they a sell everything.

@clacke I think you meant "somewhat annual"

"Semiannual" means "twice a year" while "biannual" is usually a synonym but can alternatively mean "every two years" (aka "biennial"). Confusingly, "biweekly" usually means every two weeks.

https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/bi-vs-semi-weeklymonthlyannually/

https://english.stackexchange.com/q/18540/112762

@nixCraft
The last Hurd release was in 2016. Debian has been doing some good porting work, but there's nothing happening upstream ☹️
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news.html

@hacks4pancakes

@jerry how much of a superset of Mastodon is #calckey?

@mattl They switched places at the table before he answered.

His answer must have been "musical chairs"