Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

I've witnessed a recent wave of abject antisemitism on this corner of the Fediverse.

A reminder: You never ever gotta hand it to Nazis (unless it's a closed fist delivered with significant force).

And while it's just fine to criticize the government of Israel, and their far right voters, same as it's just fine to criticize Trump and right wing voters, declaring a whole country that is an overwhelming percentage Jewish population is evil and shouldn't exist IS ANTISEMITISM.

I don't care if you want to advocate for a one state solution or a two state solution. But if you are advocating removal of all Jewish people from the Jordan river valley, you're just advocating ethnic cleansing of Jewish people, and can kindly fuck off. Historical evidence clearly shows that Jewish people have as much a claim of being indigenous to that region as anyone else.

I just realized - with so many postal services ending shipping to the US, it's going to make importing grey market medication that much more of a pain in the ass.

Furthermore, that particular CVE only creates a vulnerable configuration if they're running Apache httpd with mod_rewrite or mod_proxy. Which means if you aren't running those modules, that vuln isn't a vuln. LOTS of vulns with big scary CVSS numbers aren't actually a vulnerability unless you're using the software with specific configurations enabled.

For fucks sake, at least read the goddamn CVE links.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38476

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

I'd block you too if you showed up smearing my app with no more evidence than a low effort nmap.

@dalias @micahflee

Yeah, an unauthenticated nmap scan getting back a banner header is essentially worthless as an actual vulnerability detection. I get beg bounties for that shit constantly. And a lot of times it's just shit on the load balancer anyways.
@dalias @micahflee

The thing that makes me despair even more about US Politics isn't only the thousand absolute bonkers fash politicians. It's the fact that with everything that's going on, still some 40% of Americans are saying "Yeah, good job, more of this please!" And even if we put those politicians in a gulag, those 140 million people are here to stay.

@skinnylatte I mean maybe if you took overnight plane flights every day and only spent a few hours per place, maybe?

@skinnylatte I'll talk to people coming to the US from other countries, and they'll say something along the lines of "Okay we're here for a week. We want to see New York and DC and the Golden Gate Bridge and the Grand Canyon and Disney World. We can do that in a week, right?"

@skinnylatte Oh right. I forgot about the hours I spent on that game! 1st person sneakers are one of the genres I have a lot of patience with.

It struck me again the other day just how Amero-centric almost all AAA video games are. Almost all of them that are based on a real place are based in America. Which means I don't really get to learn through proxy about other major cities - where the rich neighborhoods or the poor neighborhoods are, where are (and what are) the major landmarks, the relative geography of how close or far away are the other major cities in the region. Hell, even the names of the other major cities.

Like China has 12 cities that are 9 million people or larger sized - so roughly NYC sized or larger (and that's not even including their metro areas which I'm sure double or triple their size). But only 3 would I even have the vaguest idea of where they are on a map, and half of those I've legit never even heard of. It'd be nice to be able to experience other places through games even if not a perfect representation, but at least get general ideas of what the places are.

An article I read years ago about the "gig economy" lives rent free in my head. Its core thesis amounted to - in many companies particularly through the 20th century, it was at least possible for someone to come in at even a low entry level job and through hard work and effort and excellence, get promotion after promotion and make their way to senior management. You could get from factory worker to become foreman to become manager to become senior manager etc.

When you're an "independent contractor" with a megacorp as a monopsony over you, and your boss is an app, there's literally zero path from labor to management no matter how good you are.

And now with AI, that trend has entered a new stage. There's going to be that much fewer pathways from entry level AI wrangler to supervisor.

I'm holding on in the face of all this hate and transphobia largely due to one thing:

Spite.

Pure spite.

The fact that they're wasting so much time and brainpower and ruining their lives to hate me, all I have to do is keep living to keep them focused on hating me and not being able to move their focus on the next "Then they came for" in line.

I won't give them the pleasure of seeing me off myself. Or letting their hate ruin me. Because that's just how much I hate them. If I can keep going despite it all, it's my one woman Fuck You against some of the most powerful awful fuckheads people in the world.

@rowens

@rowens The fact that I exist lives rent free in the richest man in the world's brain. That ain't nothin.

Like Dem Party, there's a reason you're sitting at like 10% approval. You've alienated literally everyone. Your base, the moderates, the center left, NOBODY likes your wishy washy do fuck all but send "sternly worded letters" bullshit in the face of the biggest extitential crisis the union has seen since 1861.

I will say, while plenty of neolib shitheads have remained neolib shitheads, I have been very pleased to watch as more and more people who had been center-left now swinging far left.

Throw rotten durian fruit at them
@inthehands @denisedwheeler.bsky.social

Why do you think they wear masks...
@inthehands @denisedwheeler.bsky.social

Hot Take: There's more than enough ways to bash on right wing women that don't involve insulting their appearance and style.

Yeah I kinda lose respect for folks when they uncritically say "Every Single Thing Megacorp Does Is Bad". It's worth at least evaluation of the stuff they want to propose and change and decide based on the merits of the thing whether it's worth your time and effort to oppose or not. Besides, there's hundreds of thousands of engineers at megacorps that actually do want to try to improve things where possible, and sometimes they manage to sneak good things out the door by couching it in language that makes the business people feel good.

@dalias

@maxleibman Incorrect.

1. Wait til the night of a full moon
2. Go into the forest with your coven
3. Remove all your clothes
4. Dance and chant and sing to the Goddess

Etc.

Step Z. Take your nice and neatly folded sheets and put them in the closet.

Weird factoids for Americans who have trouble with geography and perspectives:

Israel -
Population: about 10 million
Area: around 21,000 km² (disputed obviously)
GDP: about $570B

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

New Jersey -
Population: about 9.5 million
Area: about 22,500 km²
GDP is about $800B

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey

So just... When you think about Israel, think a somewhat poorer New Jersey who bombs everyone around themselves and is in the middle of invading Philadelphia.