Notices by The Embodiment of RED :fire_t: (thraeryn@hackers.town)

Uber is testing a service that lets you rent someone else's car.

It's like a capitalist's worst-informed take on what they think communism is, turned into a revenue stream.

Y'know how nice it is to message someone through my XMPP server, never once worrying that our messages will be intercepted? Knowing that they'll go "poof" in a couple of days anyway? That my little server is beneath most notice in the first place?

I never get a message from my dentist, or the city, or some shitstain who bought a thousand-pack of target numbers and a hundred-pack of SIM cards. It's me and my friends. And, like ActivityPub, it's federated; they don't have to be on my server.

XMPP isn't new and shiny. It's mature. It's robust. Those qualities, in most cases, should trump "new and shiny".

It looks and acts like texting.

I do not get why people keep looking for The New Secure Communication Method, especially ones brought to you by Capitalists.

I really wish folks would hold the motherfuck off trying to reinvent the "secure communications" wheel until it actually NEEDS a rework.

Veilid is coming! Veilid is coming! :veilid:

Cult of the Dead Cow, the group whose members coined the term "hacktivism", sat for senate testimony in 1998, and took Microsoft down a peg with Back Orifice—some of the original People Who Do when it comes to exploring and highlighting security concerns—

those people came together with folks from right here at hackers.town (where, hey, several of them are community members) and others across the internet to create a new tool. What's it like?

Well, it launches soon. (At DefCon, no less, which is beyond fitting.) What we know so far:

• built with privacy in mind, especially thwarting scrapers and miners (a problem which frequently rears its head in the Fediverse as soon as some new doof sees the Mastodon API 🙄 )
• NOT built around a goddamn blockchain
• distributed & serverless
• open source
• designed to be an extendable framework

Maybe most importantly, it's designed by people who are here, have been here. People aware of the issues that keep popping up in the Fediverse. People who have seen our communities struggle to keep their members safe with imperfect tools.

I'm excited to see the new tool they created; feel it in my metaphorical hands, find unexpected ways to use it, unexpected ways it breaks. 😅 And to watch others using it, building on it, doing things I don't expect.

It's coming!
https://veilid.com

A'ight, folks, it's almost time for some #wrestling, courtesy of #AEWDynamite

I might go 'head and live-toot my reactions to the show tonight; I'll put 'em behind a CW, but feel free to mute #AEWDynamite from like, 19.00–21.30?

WAAAAAHHHGOD

The sloppier someone sells, the more effective a spot looks ... bc by the time you get to TV, your shit needs to be crisp.

An ugly sell looks like a legit injury. An ugly sell will work me every time: hook, line, and sinker.

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

I mean, an Orange Cassidy match is a solid curtain-jerker on any show. Even after basically two months of weekly TV.

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

Jesus.

An #AEW unsanctioned match gets ugly.

Jericho better have spent the past week planning that shit with Cole, or there's a non-trivial chance Adam Cole doesn't recover from the next head injury. 😬

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

"Karen Jarrett" is such an absurd set of sounds

It's too much like a "Jearimy Bearimy" or a "Carrot Garrett"

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

This is a good choice; Jack Perry is a far better pre-tape than live promo

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

OPEN HOUSE RULES MATCH

House of Black are low-key proving they have some of the best minds in the biz right now

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

"Don't let those guys make you look stupid."

That's a great line for a face talking about a chickenshit heel.

Fuckin' love Mark Briscoe, now and forever 💕

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

The Blackpool Combat Club vs. the reunited Elite is a legitimately obscene amount of talent for any one match. That's eight of the world's best wrestlers, hands down.

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

AR Fox, Blake Christian, and fuckin' Metalik is a great team, actually, and I hope this match is a 15-minute spotfest

#AEWDynamite #wrestling

It's Wednesday! All I gotta do is get through the day, and there'll be an episode of #AEWDynamite to watch. (Hopefully a more exciting one than last week's; seems like it.)

In the meantime, I'm starting the morning off with some more CD ripping. ? And holy cow, does Exact Audio Copy take forever.

I managed to find a few things in my collection that are slightly rare; got a couple of self-released albums from some local/regional acts. I think one of 'em was a Kickstarter project, even; they signed my album booklet.

I have a lot more autographed shit than I'd ever have guessed.

The opening strains of this track... [closes eyes, breathes deep] They're perfect, every time. Menace as music. ? :pinched_fingers:

Sascha Konietzko on synths, Günter Schulz on guitar, and Our Lord of Lard, Raymond Watts, practically moaning rough sex into your ear.

KMFDM VS. PIG, "Secret Skin"
#NowPlaying #np

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVReMnc7-M

Your secret skin
will shelter me
Your secret skin
can't hide your shame
Your secret skin
will smell of me
Your secret skin
can't hide your name

[shiver]

#AEW is still leaving money on the table by not putting Jay Lethal in a ten-gallon hat so that he, Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, and Sonjay Dutt can be billed as "Cowboys and Indians". #wrestling