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Bob Jonkman bobjonkman administrator Thursday, 29-Nov-0001 18:42:28 LMT
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  1. Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 19:18:45 EST Diogo Cordeiro Diogo Cordeiro
    in reply to
    • Colegota El Villano
    Yours concerns about big corporations are understandable and I share them (although I won't deny using their services sometimes, I guess I'm a fixer-upper). But sometimes those organizations do good things too and GSoC is an example of that.

    My activity past summer in GNU social was sponsored by GSoC, and receiving some income for the time I've dedicated was helpful. I have friends that have to work on the summer in order to help their families. Programs like GSoC allow them to contribute to the FLOSS community while receiving some important money for doing something they enjoy.

    GS in GSoC was something I have asked MMN-o for past year but it was ultimately possible thanks to GNU acting as an umbrella organization for its packages. I think GNU understands that GSoC is not something harmful as it brings students to the Open Source world.

    I feel that GNU social needs more developers and I believe GSoC can help with that. Finally, even if those developers may help only for the money in the beginning (it wasn't my case but it is legit for the above mentioned reasons), they will eventually fall in love by GS like us and will be helping whenever possible even without the GSoC income. ;)
    In conversation Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 19:18:45 EST from loadaverage.org permalink Repeated by bobjonkman
  2. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 09:45:07 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan

    ♲ @codepitbull@twitter.com: I work in IT, which is the reason our house has:
    - mechanical locks
    - mechanical windows
    - routers using OpenWRT
    - no smart home crap
    - no Alexa/Google Assistant/...
    - no internet connected thermostats

    In conversation Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 09:45:07 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink Repeated by bobjonkman
  3. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 20:51:23 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • Adam
    For when you're next Jonesing for lentils: https://sobac.com/wiki/Lentil_Balls
    In conversation Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 20:51:23 EST from web permalink
  4. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 20:46:10 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • timttmy
    • snowdusk
    I could get into that! #aNONradio was a bust tonight, @snowdusk_ wasn't online for the #InterGalacticWasabiMix tonight
    In conversation Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 20:46:10 EST from web permalink
  5. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 01:21:23 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • Christina O'Sullivan ✅ 🇨🇦
    I do like Harold Lloyd better, but his ideas on #Copyright and protecting his films have landed him in obscurity compared to other artists who were more lenient (or lost their copyright due to interfering management)
    In conversation Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 01:21:23 EST from web permalink
  6. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 17:53:18 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • Bob Jonkman
    Never mind what happens when you try to distill your own alcohol - it's even illegal to own the equipment to do it!
    In conversation Monday, 07-Jan-2019 17:53:18 EST from web permalink
  7. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 17:51:57 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • silverwizard
    That's my point - try to buy alcohol somewhere else, and *armed guards* at the border will take it away and throw you in jail for bringing in more than what they figure will have a minimal impact on government revenue.
    In conversation Monday, 07-Jan-2019 17:51:57 EST from web permalink
  8. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 15:48:33 EST silverwizard silverwizard
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    • Bob Jonkman
    • silverwizard
    @bobjonkman I mean - have you tried to buy booze elsewhere though?
    Also - every single pub I've ever been in, anywhere, has been scary expensive
    In conversation Monday, 07-Jan-2019 15:48:33 EST from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink Repeated by bobjonkman
  9. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 15:44:03 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • silverwizard
    That's because you live in #Ontario, where #alcohol sales are a government-controlled and -owned monopoly. Because alcohol sales are a revenue-generator for the government they set the price *way* above production costs. After all, how much could it possibly cost to let some potatoes ferment in a bucket?
    In conversation Monday, 07-Jan-2019 15:44:03 EST from web permalink
  10. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jan-2019 20:45:04 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • Strypey
    From that "security" advice: "Use a #Bluetooth keyboard for easier typing" https://hackaday.com/2018/12/30/finding-bugs-in-bluetooth/ Jiska and Dennis pwn all the Bluetooth things.
    In conversation Sunday, 06-Jan-2019 20:45:04 EST from web permalink

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    1. 35C3: Finding Bugs in Bluetooth
      By Elliot Williams from Hackaday

      [Jiska Classen] and [Dennis Mantz] created a tool called Internal Blue that aims to be a Swiss-army knife for playing around with Bluetooth at a lower level. The ground for their tool is based in three functions that are common to all Broadcom Bluetooth chipsets: one that lets you read arbitrary memory, on that lets you run it, and one that lets you write it. Well, that was easy. The rest of their work was analyzing this code, and learning how to replace the firmware with their own version. That took them a few months of hard reversing work.

      In the end, Internal Blue lets them execute commands at one layer deeper — the LMP layer — easily allowing monitoring and injection. In a series of live (and successful!) demos they probe around on a Nexus 6P from a modified Nexus 5 on their desk. This is where they started digging around in the Bluetooth stack of other devices with Broadcom chipsets, and that’s where they started finding bugs.

      As is often the case, [Jiska] was just poking around and found an external code handler that didn’t do bounds checking. And that meant that she could run other functions in the firmware simply by passing the address handler offset. Since they’re essentially calling functions at any location in memory, finding which functions to call with which arguments is a process of trial and error, but the ramifications of this include at least a Bluetooth module crash and reset, but can also pull such tricks as putting the Bluetooth module into “Device Under Test” mode, which should only be accessible from the device itself. All of this is before pairing with the device — just walking by is sufficient to invoke functions through the buggy handler.

      All the details of this exploit aren’t yet available, because Broadcom hasn’t fixed the firmware for probably millions of devices in the wild. And one of the reasons that they haven’t fixed it is that patching the bug will disclose where the flaw lies in all of the unpatched phones, and not all vendors can be counted on to push out updates at the same time. While they focused on the Nexus 5 cellphone, which is fairly old now, it’s applicable to any device with a similar Broadcom Bluetooth chipset.

      Aside from the zero-day bug here, the big story is their Bluetooth analysis framework which will surely help other researchers learn more about Bluetooth, finding more glitches and hopefully helping make Bluetooth more openly scrutinized and more secure. Now anyone with a Raspberry Pi 3/3+ or a Nexus 5, is able to turn it into a low-level Bluetooth investigation tool.

      You might know [Jiska] from her previous FitBit hack. If not, be sure to check it out.

  11. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jan-2019 20:17:32 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • snowdusk
    • iiogama
    Since @Snowdusk is offline tonight, some of us are listening to @iiogama's archive from yesterday. https://archives.anonradio.net/201901051800_iiogama.mp3 Join us for a chat in COM!
    In conversation Sunday, 06-Jan-2019 20:17:32 EST from web permalink
  12. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 23:45:44 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
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    • Bob Jonkman
    I've always called them "Spludgers"... https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/120766
    In conversation Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 23:45:44 EST from web permalink

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  13. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 23:38:10 EST Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • Prof Bit Rot
    Will be getting a HD improvement for this HP G60. It has no access doors. I'm not looking forward to spudgering this one.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 23:38:10 EST from web permalink
  14. find me at stardew.city (gingerrroot@kitty.town)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 17:31:57 EDT find me at stardew.city find me at stardew.city

    libraries are such an important space

    not only for free information, but especially for at risk populations and homeless populations

    they offer free or very cheap internet access (which allows for finding resoucres, job applications, etc), free access to information, bathrooms, often places have refreshments for relatively cheap as well, etc. etc.

    wanting to make public libraries obsolete is classist and just an incorrect viewpoint tbh

    In conversation Monday, 04-Jun-2018 17:31:57 EDT from kitty.town permalink Repeated by bobjonkman
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