Notices by Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange), page 2

So, cis Americans, you're now living through the first day of a federal genocide against trans people, as defined by the Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide. As happens almost without exception unless stopped, it is both likely to proceed to mass murder and to expand to include additional social groups, possibly including you.

What are you going to do about this? Are you going to take up arms and fight to prevent your friends and neighbors from being murdered by the state? Are you going to harbor fugitives, get them medical care, and help them leave the country? Are you going to disrupt the function of state offices and destroy records to make their work impossible?

Or are you just going to hunker down and go along with what's asked of you, in hopes they don't get around to killing people like you? Are you, in other words, going to be a good Nazi?

If you think you're going to maybe go on a few big nonviolent protests and be angry on social media, like you did last time, but you know money is tight and you just started a new job and... congrats on failing to understand the situation and choosing to be a good Nazi.

History is unfortunately quite clear here. There are no other options left. Either you literally, physically fight this, or you collaborate.

If you think this is extreme, well, you've made your choice. See you in hell.

@quinn
I mean, I've been imagining that since I was like eight and listening to the INF treaty negotiations, if not younger.

@quinn
Bold of you to suggest we'll have organized schools where teaching this kind of minutiae will be deemed worthwhile in a hundred years

@rafi0t
Or perhaps we should say, Quíñ.
@quinn @whvholst @th

@rysiek
Honestly, this is the first I've heard of it, and hopefully the last. If it's even dumber in other ways too.... Yeah. Lolsigh.

Could people just stop trying to "improve" things they don't understand?

https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/

@dalias
Idk, I have pretty strong feelings about not inviting queer folks to have a nice time in a country that kills queer folks, even if the folks one invites are gonna be safe themselves. It's pretty colonialist, if you're going there for that reason.
@n3tn3rd @hacks4pancakes

Do (software) emulators/VMs exist for Sharc DSPs? How performant are they on, say, modern macOS ARM?

@dalias
Yeah, I have bad news for you about the reality of queer rights in Nepal. The rhetoric is good and the tourist experience is ok, and that's about as far as it goes.
@n3tn3rd @hacks4pancakes

Having just read a bit about the impact of the "business as usual" bias among German Jews in the runup to WW2 and the lack of meaningful resistance that it led to, is pretty terrifying watching the same bias today.

@dalias
I mean, it's also wildly insane from a climate perspective to fly the entire security community to Nepal? We shouldn't be flying nearly as much as it is — doing it much much more is an unserious suggestion.
@n3tn3rd @hacks4pancakes

@dalias
I have bad news for you about the availability of conference facilities in hotels (there are some! At least a half dozen credible options as long as you're under 1k people and can book the whole hotel! Let's move RSA there!)
@n3tn3rd @hacks4pancakes

@dalias
Oh man, if only a country like that existed.
@n3tn3rd @hacks4pancakes

@hugo
I'd look at a pixel running grapheneOS personally, but it does mean mucking about with re-imaging the phone. They've got an aggressive sandbox for Google play services (not installed by default) so you can still interact with the normal app store and most stuff should run fine. There are exceptions — often the banking apps — that won't run on anything without a stock os, which will also include the de-googled fairphone.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

@iraantlers

@hugo
I will note that despite owning a recent pixel, I haven't yet done this myself, because I loathe sysadmining a damn phone
@iraantlers

@hugo
You're going to want a shop to do a lot of the work on the current models, at least, but I'm hoping the EU right to repair law will at least push things in the right direction.
@iraantlers

Oh, and obvs this is just fallout from this set of laws. There will be other pushes, too — one I'm particularly worried about, once a standard for obscenity is set, is the destruction of paper archives of queer and trans history (many of which are not digitized), and attacks on US-held digital archives. They mean to erase queer and trans culture by whatever means are necessary, and erasing history is a critical component of that. This has happened before, and it must not happen again.

@hacks4pancakes So, the way I'd guess they would like this to play out:

1. Successful state porn ID requirements are a model for a federal requirement passed later this month.

2. The federal requirement is a global requirement on US companies, meaning that if you want to host porn, you can't have a US company in the stack.

3. The definition of porn is expanded to include all material that discussed queer and trans people, probably in stages, as well as abortion, contraception, and general reproductive health, at a minimum.

4. It's made clear that the same standard must be met for personal and non-commercial sites, including offline and paper storage, providing an easy avenue for targeted prosecution, especially of queer folks with kids.

5. A requirement is added that all logs must be forwarded to the government for compliance checks, which then provides reasonable for device searches during any other routine interactions with authority, like traffic stops and border crossings.

6. The definition of obscenity (which is what this is — bringing back Comstock is a stated goal) is expanded to include seditious materials, aka left-of-center political material, "critical theory", "DEI", etc., again with the onus placed on companies to positively prove they are not hosting it illegally — again, globally, regardless if the content is legal in the country the company operates in.

It's another looming disaster even if the database is never breached and malware groups never take advantage of it (which they will, obviously).

@bedast
Interesting. I'm very curious if they also do this in Europe. It's directly illegal in Finland at the very least, regardless of what legal agreement they have with the driver.

@quinn
Obvs, yes, I'm poking at etymology.
@KevinMarks @Tarah