Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social), page 24

@rysiek @lattera @Tusky As a handle? i think you can but i have yet to try this. For an address yes that works just fine with some nginx/masto tweaks ( See this instances about page for it's onion address )

@noelle my GNU/Years resolution is 1920x1080, just FYI.

A friendly reminder, I will have 2 sessions at #34C3, both outside the main schedule.

1. About internet censorship circumvention at the #Teahouse (Day 2):
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Session:Let%27s_talk_about_practicalities_of_internet_censorship_circumvention

2. About information security theater, at Rights and Freedoms (Day 3):
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Session:Information_security_theater_vs._Investigative_journalism

Join me, let's have a chat about these topics.

The #Diaspora (and broader Fediverse / The Federation) assembly is huge. 2 long tables, if I see correctly. Wow.

@angristan I did my #TwitterSuicide almost exactly 5 years ago, during #29C3. Mainly because I could not rationalize criticizing walled gardens and using one at the same time.

Never looked back.

https://mastodon.social/media/HWfJbEybEsNFs0c3YB0

@hoergen @maiyannah *and* communicate with people from outside of The Fediverse.

Case in point, a friend wants to leave birbsite, asks me where should they go. My answer now: "Well, you can go to Pleroma, or GNIU Social, or Mastodon, or..." friend gets confused, backs away slowly.

If I could just say "Fediverse" and point them to a single place of finding an instance on whichever part of the network, that would be a whole different story.

That's how Mastodon (sadly!) eclipses the Fediverse.

Delicious, delicious burn:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_from_a_Freedman_to_His_Old_Master

Context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Anderson

@lnxw48a1 https://mastodon.social/media/MAFpIpF9Xt2lIa73wfQ

@cwebber @er1n well, I quite loathe systemd, and the main reason I hate its guts is *because* it's a monolithic abomination.

So we kinda agree?

@nolan I think the reason why so many people (including myself) got so riled up with #MozillaRobot thing is *because* we understand how important Mozilla is to the healthy Web.

Them doing shit like this (and there was more - like the time they got caught using Google's analytics/telemetry stuff) means that we lose some hope. That's what hurts.

@chosafine Facebook is already "free traffic" on many providers. Making Mastodon or Diaspora second-rate netizens (since Facebook will be able to pay for the "premium" access to users) is a simple business decision. Which will drive more people to Facebook and make the lock-in stronger.

But sure, nothing to worry about.

@rrix @staticsafe @wxcafe and the tragic thing is that we are all caught up between rock (telecoms) and a hard place (content behemoths), while governments mostly just smile and nod, trying to look like they know what's going on.

Or, actively censor shit, which is obviously even worse.

Nobody in this debate is on citizens' side.

Holy cow:
https://bgpmon.net/popular-destinations-rerouted-to-russia/

"Early this morning (UTC) our systems detected a suspicious event where many prefixes for high profile destinations were being announced by an unused Russian Autonomous System.

Starting at 04:43 (UTC) 80 prefixes normally announced by organizations such Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitch, NTT Communications and Riot Games were now detected in the global BGP routing tables with an Origin AS of 39523 (DV-LINK-AS), out of Russia. "

#InfoSec #Networking

#Enigmail 's blocking of copy-paste makes people unsafe.

It basically means people cannot use password managers for their GnuPG key passwords. The alternatives for most users are:
- use a shitty password (perhaps re-using it);
- use a key without a password.

The person who came up with this idiotic idea should get drawn and quartered.

#InfoSec

"Microsoft has posted an out-of-band security update to address a remote code execution flaw in its Malware Protection Engine."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/07/microsoft_emergency_update_malware_protection_engine_needs_erm_malware_protection/

Oh noes, not again!
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/06/27/rce-microsoft-malware-protection-engine/

It's actually the fifth RCE in it this year alone:
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=26&product_id=9766&version_id=&page=1&hasexp=0&opdos=0&opec=0&opov=0&opcsrf=0&opgpriv=0&opsqli=0&opxss=0&opdirt=0&opmemc=0&ophttprs=0&opbyp=0&opfileinc=0&opginf=0&cvssscoremin=0&cvssscoremax=0&year=0&month=0&cweid=0&order=3&trc=15

#InfoSec

222 cases of pilots refusing to start their engines when when refugees due to be deported in dubious circumstances were aboard: https://www.waz.de/politik/piloten-stoppten-dutzende-abschiebungen-in-nrw-id212729551.html

/via @pudo

@enkiv2 Yeah, it definitely is reinventing the wheel to some extent. :)

But seems like the wheel needs some reinventing.

How many #InfoSec #SysAdmin #DevOps and other techie people have dedicated servers running and not being used most of the time to their full potential? I know I do.

Surely there is a way to have them connect and create a libre cloud - think of it as SETI@Home or Folding@Home, but for running services (say, docker containers or VMs).

That could create infrastructure for people who cannot afford their own servers, but would like to play with stuff.