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Last week we (#ReplayWorkshop) received, free, a full trailer of 275 gallon IBC bottles, already washed, pure HDPE (white or natural), for #recycling with our #preciousplastic shredder. 90 of them in total, about 47 pounds each.
A local trucking company accumulates more than they can sell or reuse. Payment from previous recycler dropped to be less than the cost of labor and transportation. They were delighted to have a local place where they could just bring the trailer and see it emptied.
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@404 Media Hey! You require me to sign in to use your website! Cool! That's fine and good!
Can you give me the option to sign in with a password? My password manager is pretty easy for me to use, but I don't tend to have my personal email open on my work laptop and so your signin flow is really keeping me from using your stuff and is the biggest source of friction for me.
Also - holy shit - your journalism is amazing, thanks.
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more like forcing them to deposit unlock keys at state (or similar) actors
and auto-releasing those keys after $time without update
It's shitty, but I do get that some manufacturers sell the device itself at below cost because people have to pay for the online services. Game console manufacturers have done that for years. If they sold it easy to unlock, people would just buy the hardware, unlock it, and never pay for the service. Which is a shitty and scammy business model, but at least it does make sorta sense.
@dalias @drazraeltod true, which is why requiring the unlock on EOL is a more "reasonable" demand (as in, will receive a less extreme lobbyist pushback).
The problem is when EOL of a device corresponds to EOL of the manufacturer. Can't really force a bankrupt entity that has long fired its engineers to unlock anything.
Perhaps the requirement should be to provide secret unlock instructions as a part of a device certification process. But then of course the repository of these secrets becomes a massive attack target.
Still, the amount of e-waste that could easily serve a new purpose if there was any documentation at all is infuriating.
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Most of the time, the update to unlock the firmware wouldn't be especially technically complicated. It just requires access to the source code, build pipeline, and signing keys. So even if it's not kept in a central repo, if codified in law that it is a priority liability against the company assets if they declare bankruptcy to provide access to that information and fund a consultant to compile the firmware update, it wouldn't take all that long per device to compete.
Think when a company that holds toxic waste goes under - there's still liability to remediate it that carries on to whomever buys up the assets, and beyond some point it becomes a Superfund site to remediate.
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@virtulis @dalias @drazraeltod either you provide the bankruptcy court with a copy of the unlock tooling or you pay a massive fine out the top of your bankruptcy proceeds, before any one else is paid.
Suddenly suppliers, insurance, banks, etc all start requiring that this stuff exists and is prove able, in their contracts so they have a chance of getting paid in cases of bankruptcy.
Unrooting is not enough. You need documentation and open-source firmwares when a device is abandoned by the manufacturer.
Also you need to define "abandoned". I am sure device makers will never acknowledge the device is EOL. They will always find a good reason why a device will not receive update :)
whenever someone pays for a software license, take a levy and send it to FLOSS foundations
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America's first sustainable urban agrihood in Detroit.
"The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more."
https://thegardenmagazine.com/this-area-in-detroit-is-now-americas-first-self-sustainable-agrihood/
https://foodrevolution.org/blog/first-sustainable-urban-agrihood/
Could the First Urban Agrihood in the U.S. Work As A Model?
Read how Detroit's “first sustainable urban agrihood” in the U.S. centers around an edible garden, with accessible produce offered to the community.Lindsay Oberst (Food Revolution Network)
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This is the part where I gloat about being right about Bluesky, right?
They never really wanted federation.
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@Shreyan Jain I'll admit to not having heard of this. If I post something using this third-party AppView, who controls the physical disk on which my post resides?
I haven't paid a ton of attention to BlueSky because I'm simply not interested in yet another walled garden.
Holy Shit
Holy Shit
The show The Order got a second season.
I want to be clear - this show did not deserve a first season. And I will be watching the hell out of it. Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose is the name for your secret society that you use to say "I know enough to only step on occult rakes"
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One of my closest friends, @craigmaloney, passed away this morning. He was diagnosed with stage four cancer a bit over two years ago. He spent that time fighting like hell for his life. His eternal optimism was almost indestructible and deeply admirable. He refused to give up, even in the face of dwindling treatment options. I was given the opportunity to visit him last week, and even as his body was shutting down, he was still full of smiles.
Craig has been there for me since we became friends, through the best and the worst times of my life. Even when he was sick, he was there for me. He affected my life in many positive ways. There are two major life paths I took because of him that have forever changed the arc of my life story for the better. One, I attended PyOhio in 2017 after only two weeks of programming experience, and it introduced me to a supportive, wonderful community, of which I am a major part today. It led to my career as a community leader, programmer, and technical writer. Two, when I left my job of six years in September 2023, he suggested I try content creation, which I had fleetingly considered once or twice over the years, but never realistically, and never in a way where I believed I actually could. He convinced me I had more than enough to share with the world, and that what I have to share is important.
I am forever grateful to Craig's wife for giving me the opportunity to say goodbye. And I am forever grateful to Craig for making my life better in so many ways. Craig is an amazing person who wanted more than anything to have a positive effect on the world. You succeeded, in so many ways, friend. Rest peacefully now.
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they banned the original maintainer!
they locked the repo!
they did everything they could to make it slower to fix!
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I'm mostly thinking of the "making the compiler do something to the source" aspect.
I'm not sure if it is self-perpetuating, but I would be surprised if that was not the goal.
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Dug out an old laptop I want to try to mod the screen on last night and started it up, and kicked off a freebsd-upgrade to 14 (last update was 2019, probably before the kids were born)
I stayed up til 1 am waiting for the upgrade to finish, but then crashed, I am now yawning through the Easter Eggs hunt and the laptop is still updating
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Imagine being a Linux devops with everything hosted at Vultr. That'd be one nightmare week. First the Vultr ToS clusterfuck (reminder: abort them ASAP) and then the xz backdoor.
Good luck to those having to deal with these issues.
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This is literally the only coherent article I've ever read on selecting a tool as a business.
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I'm gonna level with you guys.
This weekend, cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs supportively posted a quote on his Mastodon account, by a politician who suggested LGBTQ people commit false-flag bomb threats against themselves and their own drag story hours.
A few trans people including myself called him out on it. He didn't address any of our concerns. Instead, he tone-shamed and muted us.
I got pissed and wrote several toots, tagging him in some and not others. Thank you, anyone who read and boosted them.
Where was everyone else?
I can't help but feel if Krebs had quoted a politician suggesting Jews threatened their own synagogues for attention, or POC swatted themselves to "raise awareness" of racism, the response against him would be MUCH louder and carried by more than just a few trans people's voices.
99.9% of the time, attacks and threats against LGBTQ+ people -- particularly trans people -- are not "disinformation ops".
Is it because he's a tech bro, and one of the infosec field's designated mascots or what? Where are you at, cisgender mufos? Some words of support or acknowledgment of this hurt would go a long way.
Where are the reports against his instance, all the outcry I've seen on here for five years when someone egregiously fucks up and doubles down? I thought this place was trans-supportive.
I'm not hurt that he shamed and muted me, that part is just how it goes.
What hurts is the silence and inaction of mutuals on here. Disinformation, prejudice, and abuse of a journalistic platform just slid on by, already mostly buried in the timeline.
Trans people remember shit like that. We know what it means. My question is, do you know?
@jerry
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#infosec
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@Mystery Babylon @Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified: @BrianKrebs WHAT THE FUUUUUUCK
The. Fuck.
What The Fuck.
I wasn't around very much this weekend (at least on the timeline), but, what even the fuck. I am livid
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See, I use the ASFO (Wordpress) Web site to create pages for each of my episodes, with a little synopsis and a link to the recording. Like so :
@publius
Yeah, I should actually use that. But I like the tootversations that happen pro/retro spectively as well as the damgud cyberchatting.
I guess I'll use shinmera's tooter to textify the show plans. I was planning to start talking about the topics at the beginning of the week, rather than just a few hours before the show as well.
@iacore
Punk rocker Kropotkin:
My Wife: "I forgot you were drunk"
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(Explaining the joke to peeps who’re out of the loop:
Meta is censoring their competition, Pixelfed, an instagram-like fediverse site.
Not sure if it’s really happening:
Various people have tried to recreate the same situation with their Threads accounts, and their comments are still publicly available
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/is-threads-hiding-pixelfed/ )
More than a few Meta employees showed up at FediForum earlier this week, doubling down on their commitment to open protocols and “being a good neighbor on the Fediverse”. While there were some demos and fruitful conversations, one public concern flew under the radar.
An eagle-eyed Threads user noticed that their status giving Pixelfed a positive mention was seemingly hidden from the tree of a public conversation. From there, coverage picked up across the network, and even made it back to Daniel Supernault, Pixelfed’s creator.
“Meta is free to do whatever they want on their platforms,” the developer mentioned, “and I hope this is a bug.”
For now, no one’s quite sure. Various people have tried to recreate the same situation with their Threads accounts, and their comments are still publicly available. We have yet to see a statement from the Threads team on the situation.
Bug or not, a vocal part of the network is apprehensive about Meta’s true intentions with the platform, ranging from pessimism on how much effort Threads is really putting in to the Fediverse, to accusations of hostile behavior. Dropping the ball like this can hurt user confidence, especially when building community goodwill is so crucial.Prior History
Pixelfed has something of an established history with being at odds with Meta. Some of that points to Pixelfed’s form factor, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Instagram.Left: my Pixelfed, Right: my Instagram
In the past, the project was warned by a Meta employee about using the same filter names and styles for images, citing a potential violation of Meta’s intellectual property. Pixelfed complied, and changed their image filters and styles in hopes of sidestepping the issue. It never came up again.
Pixelfed filters
Additionally, there have been situations in the past where both Twitter and Facebook have censored posts linking to open source Fediverse alternatives. Even if Threads is an effort to right wrongs of the past, these situations don’t reflect well on Threads or its parent company.
When is a bug just a bug?
For all we know right now, this is very likely an unfortunate bug. However, it’s important for the Threads team to nip this in the bud, if they really want to establish good vibes about their efforts.FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta’s ActivityPub Platform
https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/fedipact-blocking-meta/embed/#?secret=7cLoHjF70r#?secret=2YsFyid9V9On the other hand, it’s important to acknowledge that there’s a segment of the network that won’t be satisfied with an explanation, no matter how much evidence is presented. Some people will block Meta no matter what, and that’s their choice.
Regardless, we’ll keep you posted if we learn anything more.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/is-threads-hiding-pixelfed/
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Pixelfed - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Pixelfed, the free and open-source decentralized photo sharing social media platformPixelfed
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Call out to any and all email protocol specialists and adjacent areas. I’d like to announce a new instance in the fediverse for the exim project.
We have an announcements bot at @announce mirroring the announce email list.
And as the initial human contingent
Lead Developer - @jgh Jeremy Harris
Social Antagonist - @bernardq - my email head.
Other members of the project may eventually turn up.
We’re still trying to work out how the project interacts with the fediverse so any other projects out there that give some suggestions please chime in.
ehlo.exim.org
This server is run by the exim project https://exim.org/ as a channel for announcements and other notifications.Mastodon hosted on ehlo.exim.org
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I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates
It means that every post published was important to the writer
Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most
You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters
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LLM generated text is fascinatingc because there's two groups managing it.
1) I am going to call the SpamAssassin side, now I know that you've likely not has email that wasn't Office365 or Gmail for a decade or more, and those are Category Two email services, but we scrappy underdogs filtering email with SpamAssassin have an effect where LLM generated text looks like garbage, and so if you generate your words or images with a GPT engine, it's gotta be scored as garbage
2) the Google/Facebook/Microsoft stance that you should allow all LLM text and diffusion images! They're great! It's the AI revolution!
The problem with Category 2 is that it rapidly makes all your stuff garbage (people only see spam), because if people can generate stuff no one wants to see, but gets past the filter, they will. Google will literally pay them to do that.
If you block that stuff, people who claim there are ethical uses for LLMs (a lie) will be caught, and those generating human supervised text carefully will be blocked.
The goals of people-who-make-money-on-clicks (read: everyone) are only served if:
We only use category 1 filters
The people making money on clicks create things that pass category 1 filters
And the whole "what is happening to facebook" is just the culmination of this obvious point
@Hypolite Petovan The problem is the phantom concept of AI polluting the decisions.
If you could say:
If a platform allows AI then it will become nothing but spam
If a platform blocks AI then it will block people using Ethical AI
But, part of it is that Ethical AI isn't real, and AI is a problematic branding term.
But part of it is that Google/Microsoft/Facebook are allowing AI posts because that way their AI marketing is easier, but it's ruining platforms.
It's really obvious but it's so hard to put into words.
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Yeah! Exactly! This!
Facebook is boosting fake content and now is a mess of spam, and that's it. Filter it like bot content, or ruin your site.
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If it helps, they've recently enabled authenticated RSS. So now I can get full text RSS feeds in my RSS reader, making it the primary way I read 404's stuff, as I don't have to faff around logging in via magic link.
@404mediaco
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