Notices by mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org), page 176
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mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 15:46:56 EDT 
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mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 15:13:28 EDT
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That would be one of the keys on your keyboard. -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 15:10:49 EDT
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Just found that there's a video of this.
https://loadaverage.org/url/6100612
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mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 15:03:21 EDT
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It's real X)
https://loadaverage.org/url/6100601
>I have many times said that behind many of the problems I have been talking about, there is an essential question of power. It is indeed addressing this question of power that we must concentrate all our efforts.
Replacing male sociopath with female sociopath=better.
>Extending those inevitably has a gender dimension, because so much of the work women do is underpaid and undervalued.
Implying any of that is correct/true :risitas:
Fcking insane. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5944962 -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 14:36:41 EDT
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mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 14:20:17 EDT
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Does somebody knows a model of external ide caddy for slim/laptop cd/dvd/bd drives that works ?
I just got scammed by someone in the uk selling crap and everything I look at seems to be the same. -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 14:06:52 EDT
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Same X) -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 14:03:06 EDT
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@ThreeOneThreeChris @PussySlayer @Jimmietherustle
>niggadog.jpg
More like furrie nigga. -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 14:01:29 EDT
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Classic. -
/0/ (pussyslayer@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 12:51:17 EDT 
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Just dial niggaJust dial nigga-1_IpRoYk29o.web… -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:59:00 EDT
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mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:26:11 EDT
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A few days ago, we got a backup Internet service at home. I connected both the DSL and the cable modem to the same laptop, configured the routes with weights according to the bandwidth expected from each of them, configured Tor exit node to use only the address where it has not given me headaches, adjusted some scripts to detect port shuffling at reboots, and watched as it worked just as I expected.
Well, almost. The new service also assigned an IPv6 address to the interface connected to it. The old service was supposed to support IPv6, but somehow it would never be assigned. Turns out that, with the new service in place, the old one also started assigning IPv6 to its interface.
I didn't used to monitor the old interface very much. I used to have only SSH and Tor ports open, and the new service did not even offer incoming connections (thanks OpenVPN and Tor's Onion Services for independently enabling me to get in from the outside), but did IPv6 change it?
Though tcpdump is my friend, two ports and all of the noise from Tor and from regular family use makes it all a little more interesting to monitor. Nothing jumped at me for several days.
The other day, my primary laptop seems to have overheated and died. Next day, after I failed to bring it back with parts from another dead sibling, I got its disk and RAM onto another old backup laptop to go online, and then another similar old laptop that plays the role of home gateway spontaneously restarted. Maybe a power fluke and a bad battery, but... Weird...
I hadn't checked that both services had been brought up properly after the reboot, but something was working. I woke up today with "Internet down". Some cables had mysteriously moved between the modems, but that was one of the cohabitants's attempts to troubleshoot. I put the cables back in place, checked that the automated configurations picked them both up, and... What's this weird connection here? Tor was still down, and everyone else had connected directly to one of the modems over WiFi!
I kept Tor down, but failed to find any records of the weird connection. Tcpdump could see it, but lsof, netstat and ss all failed to report it. And it was not just one, apparently there were several of them. Well, that explained the spontaneous reboot from the other day. Some scriptkiddie was in, apparently using it as part of command and control infrastructure for a botnet. What a lucky week! (not!)
I tried to find evidence of any changes to the filesystem without disturbing the running system, taking a snapshot of root and hoping whatever the scriptkiddie used to hide their presence would not pay attention to snapshots. Nothing. I tried to compare it with an earlier snapshot, but that was from before a recent upgrade that was long overdue.
I figured I'd reboot into one of the pre-upgrade hoped-good snapshots and look for signs of an intrusion on the new system, and for any signs of it with the old system. That went well. The gateway rebooted, fixed some DNS issues because of local slave maps that had expired and wouldn't update, installed updates and rebooted, all while monitoring for the telltale packets that had confirmed the intrusion. None whatsoever. So far so good.
I'd also reset both modems, so that they'd pick up new dynamic IP addresses. With the gateway rebooted into the new kernel and updated system, with all network ports enabled, I moved back in front of my primary laptop to keep on monitoring and investigating from a more comfortable place. GNU jami had given up trying to reconnect and quit; the Tor proxy on it took a little while to give up on the old circuits and set up new ones, but everything seemed to be back to normal.
Not so fast! Once I started connection monitoring on the gateway again, I noticed a few unexpected connections there. One by one, I looked for them in lsof or netstat, and found them. Phew. Until I reached one that wasn't there. An ongoing TCP connection, sending smallish packets every few seconds and receiving shorter responses. Triple-checking lsof, netstat and ss, I confirmed it wasn't there. Oh my...
Ok, let's try to figure out where this is coming from. I hoped that, by breaking the connection, I'd get whatever was behind it to reconnect, and then the audit trap I'd put in place would catch the culprit. Weirdly, my attempts to reject the outgoing packets were unsuccessful, so I ended up routing them to a blackhole and waiting for the connection to timeout. Eventually, it did, but nothing took its place.
But wait, now there's a suspicion connection to the Linux-libre server! Oh, my; it will suck if that's compromised too. Cleaning up both my home network and that remote server will be quite a pain. I wonder if the kiddies used that server to break into my place, or vice-versa... It's embarrassing either way, but... Gotta deal with it.
One of the two connections was listed in lsof and netstat on the gateway, it was an openvpn tunnel. As for the other... Let's see if the connection is hidden on the Linux-libre server too. Hmm, that port number is familiar, it's where a chrooted ssh in a buildroot listens on. Hey, look, my laptop has automatically reconnected to it!
Very long story short, the reason some packets didn't show up in the gateway's lsof or netstat output was that they came from other machines, and in all that stress, I didn't even think of checking /proc/net/nf_conntrack for masqueraded connections. The other suspicious TCP connection was forwarded by the Tor proxy running on the laptop! And once I restarted GNU jami on the laptop, I started seeing the other suspicious UDP packets fly by, with the various ASCII keywords with which I recognized them before. Its source port did not appear in netstat or lsof on the gateway, nor on the laptop, but it did appear in nf_conntrack, and there I could find the original source port, prior to masquerading, and confirm that the laptop had that port in use by jami. Phew!
I had found the scriptkiddies, and they are me!
Enough of following ghosts.
PS note to self: do not conclude there's a breakin with patched syscalls just because a gateway won't show in lsof or netstat a port that it is merely forwarding.
PS note from scriptkiddie: do not conclude there is no breakin just because you couldn't find it yet.
So blong...
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2020-08-19-phantom-breakin.en.html -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:25:50 EDT
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Back when I thought I'd get a slot at LibrePlanet to talk about the 0G project, and also speak as co-acting-president before perhaps handing an award to Richard, I thought I could do like Richard used to in those slots, and talk about relevant threats to Free Software, and publish an article about one of them. It was in this context that I set out to write A New Dawn for Software Freedom.
In the end, I did not get a speaking slot for 0G, the slot before the awards was not given to me because "it used to be Richard's not because he was president of the FSF, but because he's Richard", Richard got neither an award nor a speaking slot, and the article was not taken up by the FSF.
I guess this means I can publish it on my own, and mention it on IRC to virtual attendants at the first fully-online LibrePlanet.
As for the awards, Richard did get to present the award for the Advancement of Free Software to Jim Meyering, and I introduced the Outstanding New Free Software Contributor Clarissa Lima Borges. Thanks to Jim and Clarissa for choosing us. Congratulations to both, and to Let's Encrypt, the awarded Project of Social Benefit.
Here's the script of the speech I prepared to present the award to Clarissa, wearing a T-shirt in homage to Marielle Franco, with Clarissa's very excited encouragement:
The first fully online LibrePlanet ever, my first LibrePlanet as a host, the first ever Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor, to an individual who made their first significant contributions to Free Software last year.
But first, I wish to thank a former intern at the FSF, fellow Brazilian Valessio Brito. He designed this year's conference logo, among lots of beautiful artworks. He also got this T-shirt printed, in homage to another Brazilian, forever silenced on this day, two years ago, because of her gender, her skin color, her sexual orientation, and most of all, because she stood for human rights, for the oppressed, and she made a difference. What came to be her last speech ended with a quote: "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
All struggles for human rights are ultimately the same. We focus on digital shackles, and fight for software freedom for all users. Tonight, we recognize a fighter who newly joined us. The Outstanding New Free Software Contributor award goes to... Clarissa Lima Borges. Software engineering undergrad, at the University of Brasília. Empowered by an Outreachy intership. Welcomed by the GNOME community. Presented at GUADEC her first outstanding contributions in usability testing, a great way to make our software more inclusive for users, and to attract more diverse skills to its development. May she never be silenced, and may she keep on inspiring and making a difference for software freedom for a very long time. Please join me in welcoming, thanking, recognizing and congratulating Clarissa Lima Borges!
FTR, Marielle quoted Audre Lorde.
So blong...
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2020-03-15-new-dawn.en.html -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:16:39 EDT
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January, 2020, marked the sunset of two very popular software platforms. Users of both have long been warned in advance and extended support is available, but nevertheless many users felt compelled to upgrade. Such helplessness is common in non-free software, but free software users have autonomy. How could it feel the same?
Windows 7 is non-free, so the vendor knows they can corral users away from it, unless they heed our call to liberate it, which would enable communities to keep on maintaining it independently, just as Python 2 ones can, and indeed some have.
Whether twelve years are long enough to leave a programming language behind, and whether there are good enough reasons to do so are debatable (GCC maintains support for popular languages from the 1970's) but also besides the point: free software users always have an alternative to taking commands from a vendor.
Why, then, do some of the FAQs at the Python 2 sunset page seem to be responding to user frustration out of a recommendation to upgrade by a certain date? I suspect, after years of propaganda and abuse turning them into passive consumers, they just don't realize they have a choice, or even that they should have it. This shows we have more work to do in letting them know of their rights and freedoms in using free software, as well as of the supporting ethical framework.
As non-free software vendors and users join our communities, they may bring over their mindsets and practices. Until the importance of valuing, defending and enjoying the freedoms we have conquered dawns on users, they may mistake developer advice as mandate. This renders them vulnerable to social engineering attacks, and unethical vendors may exploit this weakness to subject users of freedom-respecting software to mistreatment that can only be imposed on users of non-free software. May the dawn break before the attack comes.
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/new-dawn.en.html -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:14:29 EDT
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I'm yet to publish the final planned inStallmant of the series (it's not at all about the FSF), but it is still at least a few days away, and I don't wish to keep anyone holding their breaths that long.
After that, mark these words: this bird won't sing like this any more, so here's a ''virtual canary'' (Serinus canaria indomitus) instead. It's not needed, but it makes for a much happier home when it's only in the unlocked cage when it wants to. It takes care of itself, but you may want to check back, once in a while, whether it hasn't flown away.
Live long, happy and free, and prosper ethically,
So blong...
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2020-03-02-deep-breath.en.html
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mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:12:02 EDT
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Here's another unplanned post before the planned closing one, prompted by attempts to portray my series of posts as attacks on the FSF.
My posts, and actions, are rather in defense of the FSF from:
pressure, external and internal, to swerve it off the course set and recently reaffirmed by its directing body;
actions that defy the given guidance; and
misinformation and maneuvers that have succeeded in containing the reaction for some time.
Had there been decisions to change course, properly communicated to staff, members and to the public at large, it might make sense to paint me as a disgruntled internal attacker. But no such things happened.
What happened were plans and actions kept from objecting parties and, once information got across, misinformation and intimidation to block reactions, to enable continued action in deviation from the guidance and thus from the authority delegated by the board.
I have no reason to doubt a large majority of staff believed to be following given guidance and acting in good faith, just kept in the dark and misinformed like members and most (all?) of the board.
But the communication walls and misinformation, the blatant bias in so-called mistakes, and most of all the stalling and refusal to take corrective actions made for a very clear pattern of subversion of authority to turn the RMS-founded FSF into an RMS-less, post-RMS FSF.
Yet some still insist it's neither a coup nor an attack on the FSF.
So blong...
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2020-02-29-attacks.en.html -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:09:47 EDT
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I was ready to come to a close of this series, but an urgent request I got takes priority over the last planned post in the series, now postponed.
I've got word of threats of violence and other ongoing forms of bullying against the FSF and LibrePlanet, presumed to be in reaction to my posts.
If you are involved and you think you are doing these things on Richard's behalf, or mine, or the good old FSF's, please bear the following in mind. And if you know or suspect someone else who might be engaging in such actions, please pass it on to them.
A main driver of my behavior, including my commitment to and involvement with software freedom, and my writing this series, are my very strong inner sense of justice, and a crushingly demanding conscience.
I can understand the anger sparked by the claims made against my friend. Abuse alone is wrong; abusing the defenseless is outrageously wrong. Our urges to empathize with victims and fight wrongs are great, admirable traits.
However, an eye for an eye is not the path to blind justice, and history is full of outrageous, false and very effective accusations, for personal and political reasons.
I found what was done to my friend very, very wrong. It made me very angry and disappointed in humankind to witness the bullying, the violence, the humiliation, and the life-wrecking changes imposed on my friend, based on twisted, exaggerated and outright false hearsay, that even conflicted with the little available hard evidence that accompanied it. The lack of empathy, understanding and tolerance for his handicaps, including the inability to take hints, the difficulty to read emotions, and the neural wiring that drives to hair-splitting, further aggravated it.
I can thus understand your anger, as you read myself and others state quite damning facts. Though I'm somewhat reassured by the confirmations I got, I'm not at all happy to watch mob justice unfold again. Though facts I've witnessed myself are strong evidence to me, to you they're no more than hearsay.
Bullying is not cool. Violence, even if driven by hearsay-provoked anger, no matter how outrageous the trigger is, is not justice, be the target friend or foe.
It's rather mob justice, that civilization efforts have for centuries attempted to replace with science- and evidence-based, painfully slow but thoughtful, rational, unbiased and proper justice.
It's often unsatisfying, for sometimes you can't prove what you deeply believe, and occasionally a deep belief or plausible suspicion may turn out to be wrong. Aside from evident speculation, I know what I wrote is true. But you don't, even if you have no reason to doubt me. Even if you have plenty of reasons to believe me!
Let's show how political pressure can be done in a more civil way, and how justice can be pursued in a more civilized way, shall we?
So blong...
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2020-02-28-violence.en.html -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 13:01:17 EDT
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Dude that poster is RADICAL ! -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2020 12:02:12 EDT
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@dolus @hakui
>Niggerman
Mr.Lovecraft please get out of dolus's body.
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