Notices by Security Writer :donor: (securitywriter@infosec.exchange), page 4

Acting on principle is fucking exhausting. Just the way they like it.

Took a long while to migrate all of our accounts out of Proton and validate everything had moved but it’s done.

Tuta for email. Mullvad for VPN. Bitwarden for password manager.

I settled on Tuta as I felt theirs to be the best, despite only allowing 30 aliases, which you cant’t delete. It’ll just mean I take a stricter approach to what I do and don’t create aliases for, and there’s always iCloud hide-my-email for the throwaway ones.

Not going to cover old ground on the politics again, but it’s a positive move. Also, having some independence with a more modular approach feels slightly liberating.

Just need to close the Proton accounts and billing down now.

OpenAI complaining DeepSeek stole its training data is just poetic.

They steal every bit of human knowledge, experience, academia, and art on the internet and somehow this is their intellectual property?

Yeah, fuck no, I hope it sinks them.

@liztai I only buy software that I can keep. Those that I’m not able to, I endeavour to crack so I can keep. I might want to share it with a friend for instance. Nobody’s bottom line is affected as the friend was never going to buy it anyway.

I remove DRM on ebooks for the same reason. I don’t do piracy, but can’t abide being told what I can and can’t do with software or media I own.

I have one SaaS service for my mail and VPN.

I’m a stubborn old relic, but it’s good that others are of this mindset too.

Supplier: We need you to sign off the security of this implementation.

Us/Customer: can we see the architectural diagrams for the systems you built for us?

Supplier: No, that’s our IP.

Us/Customer: Uhhh ok, can you tell us what standards you worked to so we can assure against the design?

Supplier: We didn’t use any standards.

Us/Customer: Then what the fuck do you want from us?

@GossiTheDog I’m autistic and this makes me want to get back on LinkedIn just to comment 🙄

@Infoseepage I’ve just silenced unknown callers for now. It’ll force them to leave a voicemail.

If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. Need to look at texts now. :)

I’ve had to allow messages and calls from unknown sources on my plane my whole life, but I’m starting to think that with all these data breaches it would be the best course of action to block anyone I don’t know. I get so many scam/spam calls/messages now.

I’m not sure how this works with calls and texts you’re not expecting though. From couriers, doctors, car dealerships etc.

I know people that do it, but it seems onerous to keep on top of.

Note to self: spellcheck ya damn posts boi.

My M2 MacBook Air is a wonderful device, but I would do crimes for a 9 device adequately spaced with low power hardware.

I’m thinking a Sony Vaio C1 series. A little bit of chunk to accommodate a very large battery and ruggedness, passively cooled.

I used the C1 as my primary computer on the road and it was the absolute best designed device I’ve ever owned. I had the most powerful version released in the west.

It had a very hard life, but never faltered.

Just look at that aspect ratio 🤤

Brain: Get up.

Body: bwahahahaha howboutno?

Just backed Pixelfed on Kickstarter. You should do the same if you love the project and @dansup work.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

@boby_biq @anon_opin I used to work in at the pointy end of companies invited to these.

What happens is a person or group of people invent an award or set of awards. Call or mail around a bunch of providers saying they’ve been shortlisted for said awards. Generate FOMO that their competitors are going and they’re not. Design some award logos. Get a Wordpress site. Charge 2-7k a table, and then per ticket. Take venue profit and food/drink service %. Get a glass piece of shit etched. Do awards. Now they’re established. Do the same next year. Profit.

Is there an easy way to delete all my posts?

They auto delete anyway under a certain threshold but I really need to up the threshold and it doesn’t seem to work retroactively.

Has anyone successfully mirrored Wikipedia?

Feels like a good time to.

@mark @WarnerCrocker I had a very far-left, maximalist reactionary phase from school until my mid 20s. So far left I’d drift into right wing populism… which is when I actually got deep undercover in that scene trying to work out what on earth they were talking about. It’s a cult, plain as day - same as the fringe left.

I had a poor education and I struggled with traditional academia due to neurodevelopment issues and the attached stigma, but started to learn on my own and read a lot, and eventually went undercover as I say. Came out of it sharpish.

It’s so easy to see how people can be manipulated when they have no better points of reference. Education is everything.

It helped me recognise how much damage the far left has done to real, progressive, socialist politics, as much as the right.

404 Constitution Not Found

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution/

Just trying it on to see how it feels.

How we all holding up?

I don’t subscribe to the whole Alpha/Beta/Sigma male nonsense. It’s been widely disproven in nature.

But Zuck suggesting they need more masculine energy, obviously suggesting more ‘Alpha energy’, standing there saying that with a paedo perm, salmon shoulders, and noodle arms is the funniest shit ever.

What he really wants is to be unshackled and unleash his most unhinged fantasies.