Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

I wish I felt like I had enough hope in the next 5-10 years to buy a house with the money I set aside from selling my old house a few years ago and stop renting.

The other day a solar panel salesperson came to my door, and I had to apologize that we're renters and couldn't install solar. I would really like to replace the most inefficient possible gas furnace and air conditioner with a modern heat pump. I would really like to install a electric car charger so I could replace my gas burner. I'd like to fix that super saggy creaky spot on the floor I'm terrified is going to bust through and make one of us fall into the basement. I'd love to replace the fence that's completely falling apart to the point that two of the three neighbors have just built a second fence alongside our fucked fence because my landlord is too stingy to go halves with them. I'd love to just feel like it's worth investing in a home and a community and a life here in this neighborhood, without constantly thinking about whether I'm going to have to leave because of absurd rent increases or because I have to flee the country. I'm not asking much, just to live my quiet little life, do a weekly injection, use a bathroom and locker room without worrying each time, on and on. I hate this country, and the fact that a few thousand people in a handful of states are the only votes that matter.

Back in my day, we had to make our fake pictures manually with Photoshop. None of this typing a bunch of words into a prompt and get back your fakes.

And we liked it.

The "if you don't like it, just fork it" mantra is another incredibly short sighted and toxic mindset of the FOSS "community".

If you've watched the FOSS space for any length of time, you would know that there's been probably less than a dozen well known projects whose forks became better known and more widespread used than their original. There's never going to motivation for people to migrate to a fork for "political" reasons when the majority of the projects core maintainers continue to support absolute fuckheads.

We can demand that toxic fuckheads be driven out - it's the far more direct pathway than "let's fork all these projects and try to migrate entire developer and user and donation frameworks to a whole new space just because people won't kick out a single Nazi".

@Arina @akareilly

I could even be convinced to reenable the "privacy preserving ad tracking" bits on Firefox if it came with a guarantee that they would remove their other ad trackers. But instead it'd just be another channel of tracking in addition to all the existing ones.

I really hate how the EU made what seemed like a great decision of requiring tracking cookie warning banners, and then the whole tech industry decided it was better to simply train the world to have all users blindly clicking accept on yet another tracking banner than reduce the amount of tracking.

Oh? Your so your extremely expensive URL on a blockchain disappeared. Sucks to be a sucker I guess.

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https://www.404media.co/nfts-that-cost-millions-replaced-with-error-message-after-project-downgraded-to-free-cloudflare-plan/

Seriously, the fact that NFTs were ever heralded as The Next Big Thing was just mind bogglingly weird. They're literally just a URL. That points to ... Something.

Just a periodic reminder:

Transphobia is a REALLY slippery slope to being an outright public fascist. Countless people who used to be "liberal" started down the "trans people are scary and bad and corrupting our children" pathway, and within a few years ended up "eliminate human rights for anyone I don't like".

@RickiTarr I'm just asking questions!

@RickiTarr Socrates would just be The Worst sort of reply guy.

Buh "Not All White People" 🙄🙄🙄
@ErickaSimone @renardboy

It's pretty damn embarrassing for someone to want a cookie for meeting some miniscule standard for basic human decency.

@ErickaSimone @renardboy

@Lazarou We can fix her.

Today's mood

That's another of those I just lean on some library code to sort out...
@WPalant @raven667 @NewtonMark @voltagex @ryanc

Ahh, it's time for the biannual tradition

Feds: "Everyone needs a RealID to fly by this date. We really mean it this time!"

States: continue to not bother to comply

Feds: "Okay, well we'll accept applications for extensions, but NEXT time we'll really mean it."

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/real-id-deadline-weeks-away-most-states-not-fully-compliant-yet/?intcid=CNR-02-0623

Bodies are bullshit.

@feld Then run a local Ethernet network with an L3 separation between infotainment and drivetrain, similar to an ICS environment. I don't care about how it's wired, it's still very possible for the dashboard and control surfaces to be physical and not digital.

A general PSA: nobody appreciates a reply nitpicking a typo or autocorrect mistake when their intended word is clearly obvious from the context of the rest of the post. You just look like a know-it-all jerk. Even if you think it's a gentle tease, it generally doesn't feel that way. Especially when you're doing it to a stranger or someone you have a parasocial relationship with.

When I think of the future tech I want to see, I want stuff like Star Wars. Physical buttons and switches and knobs. None of this "here's a glowy glass tablet. Good luck."