Notices by Brian Hawthorne (bhawthorne@infosec.exchange)

@pluralistic Works great now! All ordered. And thanks so much for the libro.fm link. I’ll probably come back for the audiobooks too.

@pluralistic All the others show up as available add-ons, but not the RTB e-book.

@pluralistic Also, the kickstarter doesn’t seem to have a Red Team Blues ebook option. There are two offers for Picks and Shovels ebook, and one for The Bezzle, as well as the audio book combo for RTB and TB.

I read the other Marty Hench books from library copies and figured I’d pick up my own copies along with the P&S pre-order.

I read

@pluralistic The link to your blog is “Oops! That page can’t be found.”

If you are wondering about the motive of the cybertruck bomber in Las Vegas, NV, USA, it is pretty clear from what he wrote:

“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?
“Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.
“Consider this last sunset of'24 and my actions the end of our sickness and a new chapter of health for our people. Rally around the Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans! We are second to no one.”
–Matt Livelsberger

https://nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PO-003a-01-03-25-Livelsbergers-Letters.pdf

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@rysiek Even before I switched to infosec.exchange, I don’t think I ever hit a rate limit when posting, so it sounds like something about your instance needs some tuning! I do like threaded conversations, but I rarely read posts that are split into multiple pieces. I gave up keeping a separate blog when I realized that I do most of my best writing when I’m not thinking about polishing it for perfection.

@rysiek This is why I use an app (Mona app) on an instance (infosec.exchange) that runs the glitch-soc fork of Mastodon and has a reasonable length limit, so I can post everything all at once in a single post.

@mastodonmigration @mekkaokereke Well, we could start by getting everyone to stop chasing them away.

@georgetakei Owl my….

@evan @JasonPester I’ve noticed this sort of assumption in many polls here, mostly posted by people who appear to be allistic. Many autists may not make the same inferences regarding metaphor or implications. Given the high proportion of autistic people and people for whom English is not their first language here in the Fediverse, my recommendation is to avoid wording things in a way that requires people to try to intuit your intentions.

In this case, if consent is intended, then it’s probably best to mention it in the wording: “Would you consent to sharing your…”

@inthehands @darkuncle Well, a Gen 1 iPhone had no AppStore and no way of installing software beyond the carefully coordinated set of Apple apps. Non-Apple software was limited to web apps. In retrospect, perhaps Steve Jobs was right.

@mmasnick.bsky.social @mike Is the bridge two-way? In other words, can you see this comment on blusky? Or is it one way like the threads.net bridge?

@ATLeagle @Nonilex @StitchyMc @mcepl Just carefully crack open all the cans to release the pressure and let all the carbonation out. They will look normal, but the beer will taste flat and horrible, just like the politics. I guarantee that beer will never be bought again.

@ATLeagle @Nonilex @StitchyMc You are giving them far too much credit. I see two kinds of people co-opting words like “woke.” The first is politicians who are using it as a dog whistle to rile up their racist supporters. They don’t have a coherent definition because they don’t need one. The second group are their supporters, who know that they mean “all those people we hate.”

The Republicans in the USA have been doing this repeatedly, inventing new words to replace the n-word. You are not going to get a “conservative view” because they know they can’t be honest about their abhorrent racism.

The same is happening now with conservatives in Germany and the UK, except there the racism is against immigrants from outside Europe. I know nothing about racism in the Czech Republic, but I would love to hear what @mcepl thinks about immigrants there.

@ATLeagle @mcepl @Nonilex @StitchyMc “Woke” to conservatives appears to be a dog whistle meaning “black,” so anti-woke means anti-black/white power and woke-free means all-white.

@davidrevoy @ailnoth Is that little pixie sitting next to Mastodon @pixelfed ? So cute!

Liberated from threads.net and their terrible meaningless AI alt text. Original poster credit in the Alt Text.

#WarriorWoman #KamalaHarris

@paul @Janne_O @mekkaokereke The USA is 50 individual states with a federal government that has limited powers (the biggest perhaps being national sovereignty in foreign relations). In terms of things like voting, you need to compare the USA to the EU, not an individual nation-state like Germany.

Is this a smart way to handle voting? Absolutely not. But unless we rewrite our entire constitution with a constitutional convention or a bunch of constitutional amendments, that’s the system we have.

@evan Then why did you ask which I would want most for my child? Maybe this is one of those trick questions where allistic people know they are supposed to intuit the context or subtext and “read between the lines.”

Seriously, if you meant to ask a question about the nature of the occupations, why did you instead directly ask us a question about our aspirations for our children’s achievements?

#ActuallyAutistic

@evan Skipping the question this time as I want for my offspring whatever makes them most fulfilled.