Notices by Martin Seeger (masek@infosec.exchange)

@GossiTheDog I thought that M$ declared VR dead some time ago. I am surprised that FS 2024 supports it at al.

@hacks4pancakes We see that every time a hype cycle ends. I still remember a time when being able to write HTML was an in-demand property 😀.

P.S. Everyone starting a degree related to #ai now: that will also be your fate.

Dear US-Americans, here are my predictions on what will be happening based on what happened already and who those actors are:

• Musk will revamp treasury by introducing a new payment method
• He will kick off X as payment platform with the government as launch customer
• Alleged reason will be efficiency and control
• You will not be able to receive federal funds other than by X
• No X account, no money
• X account disabled by Musk, also no money

I wish I was joking …

Under the assumption that TikTok is run by a Chinese Intelligence Agency (not very likely), a takeover by Oracle would still represent an ethical downgrade in my book.

@jwildeboer Zuckerberg and Musk will be locked in a bidding competition. As a compromise those shares will then go to Trumps children.

Please remember: The Caesar Cipher can be truthfully called „military grade encryption“.

It has been used successfully in world famous military operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher

@jwildeboer There is a button? Have to check …

The quantified self will be great. If they ever get it working right.

This morning my smart scale from #withings suddenly decided that the correct unit for my weight is stones and pounds. I hadn’t changed anything.

Where in the world do they still use those medieval units? Sounds like UK.

Wenn man diesen Thread (https://mastodon.social/@avatter/113787293864389194) liest, dann muss eigentlich jedem klar werden, dass man amerikanische Social Media nicht mehr nutzen kann (auf Mastodon erzähle ich da niemanden was neues).

Schon bevor Trump an der Macht ist, sind die Auswirkungen heftiger, als ich befürchtet hatte.

Mark Zuckerberg wurde vor die Wahl gestellt, einhalbwegs respektabler Mensch zu sein oder Milliardär zu sein. Er hat sich für das Geld entschieden.

I am doing my job for more than 32 years now.

Email has been my primary method of communication from day 1 and I have archived nearly all emails (except spam and newsletters).

That are in total 47 GB till today with a rate of adding about 3GB per year (email bloat is hitting me hard).

I just cannot switch to #outlook Every time I tried, Outlook had one look at my email archive, whimpered, rolled over and died.

Mozilla #thunderbird in comparison is doing a complete full text search over all my 30+ years of communication.

That saved my ass multiple times.

I keep one year of communication in one folder. That makes it easier to track complicated affairs where the subject has changed during the exchange.

So here a big endorsement for OSS from me: https://www.thunderbird.net/

Do we have someone from #southkorea here that can explain things to an interested audience here?

I do not understand how the suspended president could not be arrested. News reports say that the "military" prevented it. From my understanding, the military is under civilian control. Are those rogue units?

Shit happens: https://imgur.com/gallery/keeps-happening-1J5MBhG

#gaming

Had to add the video directly, Imgur doesn't allow embedding.

The @bucketchallenge was on the 38C3 and talking about open S3 buckets and their scary content:

The talk ist available:

• In German: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-projekt-bucketchallenge
• With English translation: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-projekt-bucketchallenge#l=eng

But the most shocking thing he talked about: how difficult it is to get someone to care about innocent peoples data.

One thing that really angers me: the name of perpetrators are usually carried through history while the name of the victim dies with him/her.

Remark concerning #Azerbaijan #Airlines #Flight #8243:

We would do well to remember the names of the pilots who died.

They fought for over an hour with a mortally wounded plane to get it as good as possible to the ground.

They had now yaw, no rudder, no ailerons, no flaps, only the power level of the engine as means of control.

Air Traffic Control denied them the use of the closest airports and sent them to cross a sea.

What they have shown is courage in the face of insurmountable odds. They knew exactly what their chances were. Their airmanship was on the highest possible level.

Their names are Igor Kshnyakin and Aleksandr Kalyaninov.

To the media: please don’t give any airtime to the obviously disinformation spreading speaker of the Kremlin and report about those who saved 29 lives.

They: "Martin, are you in Christmas mood?"

Me:

Don't fix what isn't broken: https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminals

In my professional opinion this is the best malware protected setup I have seen for years.

If someone is wondering, why there are now suddenly so many donations to Trump (or settling of lawsuits) happening.

This is an ancient ritual called "kissing the ring" and we are observing it's modern implementation.

The phrase in an an allusion to a traditional manner of expressing obediance to a bishop (especially the pope) or king. You did this by bending your knee and kissing his ring.

All our dukes, barons and earls ... I mean our beloved economic leaders are now falling over their own feet in order to acknowledge the suzerainty of Trump.

My major criticism of Trump (far before any political ideology) is that he wants to rule and not to govern. He wants others to acknowledge his authority. This is far more important to him than what to do with that authority.

One could have sympathies with the company leaders if they were doing it in order to shield their employees from any fallout. But the major reason for them is to protect their own fiefdoms aka billions.

Like his dark master, Trump will have no qualms of wrecking any billionaire if someone crosses him. And the billionaires (quite realistically) believe the chances of the courts to side with them to be marginal. So they demonstrate subservidience.

This gestures are basically publicly saying:

We are willing to throw any employee, principle and user under the bus in order to protect what we have.

Interesting times ...

From time to time, I read things that make me wince. Lately this happens quite a lot. Certain election results now play out. But while this one is related, it is not a result of that election. But it made me wince even more.

Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/texas-house-introduces-bill-to-establish-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve.html

There is nothing strategic about having a Bitcoin. Especially it will not be there, when you most need it. It is just a ploy to transfer money from the taxpayer to the oligarchs and get more suckers to invest.

Trump, Merz und der Elefant als Haustier

Politik aus der Sicht eines Computerspielers und Netzenthusiasten

Das hier wird ein langer Thread, sowohl von Umfang als auch Zeit bis zum letzten Post her. Ich habe den Text inzwischen x Mal angefangen und wieder verworfen. Daher lege ich jetzt mal los und poste. Schauen wir mal, wo es überall hinführt. Ich mache jetzt die ersten 3-4 Posts fertig, alles weitere kommt wie Zeit und Motivation vorhanden ist.

Im Titel dieses Thread steht Trump für die Vergangenheit und wie sie uns an den Rand des Abgrundes geführt hat, an dem wir jetzt stehen. Trump ist aus meiner Sichtr kein spontanes Phänomen sondern das Produkt einer langen Entwicklung.

Jetzt stehen gerade wir in Deutschland vor der Frage, wie es in nächster Zeit hier weitergeht. Folgen wir auf einem ähnlichen Pfad und machen Merz, der sich schon als der nächste Kanzler geriert, zu unserem Vertreter in den kommenden intzernationalen Auseinandersetzungen.

Den Elefanten als Haustier brauche ich zu zwei Zwecken: Zum einen möchte ich manchmal Gedankenspiele machen, wie eine poltische Kraft vorgehen kann. Dazu brauche ich eine politische Bewegung. Diese wird T.R.O.E.T. (Tierisch Relevante Organisation für Elefantenhaltung und Tierpflege) sein, die sich dafür einsetzt, den Elefanten als Haustier in Deutschland zu verbreiten. Daneben dient er auch der Aufflockerung und Unterhaltung, die in der Politik inzwischen ein wesentlicher Faktor ist. Für die Anregung dazu Danke ich einem Lehrer von @isotopp

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