Notices by Michaël Ball (michaelball@mastodon.social), page 9

@rysiek because of how much the EU migration regime is willing to let people die and how much effort was instead put into fabricating this "investigation" and subsequent seizure of the ship. None of that was new to me, but it still hit me again in those 30 minutes.

A sysadmin classic for the holidays: http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Y'all are into #privacy and #infosec, I hope?

Then hey, maybe consider buyin' a condom for your smartphone's charging cable if you don't already have one. It'll let you block your charging cord's data connections when you charge from unfamiliar USB ports, juuuuust in case there's something gnarly hidden under the casing or lurking on the host computer.

Have a good deal on two that I found during my time spent rummaging around in Bastard Bezos's Bargain Bin. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T0DW3F8/

So, basically Mozilla's latest shenanigan has led to me installing GNU Icecat on machines that aren't already running Abrowser.

I hope they made a lot of money, because their silly decision to automatically install a plugin without telling users is going to damage their reputation.

The most gutting thing is they've done some fantastic work improving browser performance recently.