Wish the sun to stand still 🌞

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Wasn't there something about adults who lived in towns where 3rd spaces (like pubs) disappeared became more aligned with far-right politics. Ahhh... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/27/progressive-paris-far-right-french-capital-food-culture-community-extremists The results are in.

@ahhhhhhhhhhh@mastodon.social @crt@c64.page If you're in the US then chances are good you can still do banking via the web. That's what I do.

@amiserabilist@beige.party You win the fediverse today! 🏆 I would have given you the Internet, but its looking too ragged for gift-giving these days.

@Prometheus@infosec.exchange I'm just posting this reply to let you – and your followers – know that I'm reporting your OP. Race "science" is pseudo-scientific and underpins eugenics, Social Darwinist and fascist movements.

@khleedril@cyberplace.social Yes, and I admit to having more than a few eye-roll moments at all the mobile linux boosterism seen on fedi. Meanwhile, we are supposed to recoil from FOSS Android because "forks aren't a thing anymore". No. Android is the only successful open source, general-purpose computing platform for consumers. Having a consistent reference GUI and app package format is at least half the reason why.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng You said the magic words – personal computing – so I boosted this. I've also been wondering the same thing. But we may never see an email plotting "more centralization" the way we've seen them plotting "make it addictive". Its easier for now to explain the trend as their desire to create immersive, addictive experiences and surveillance. Centralization may be seen as a prerequisite or a side benefit of addictive systems that track people; addicts are easier to stalk since they keep clinging to the surveillance apparatus. Of course, this motive is still political. We should also reflect on how open source has not been a great friend of privacy and autonomy. As early as 2000 in venues like /. I was being lectured that users didn't need an open & feature-stable personal computing platform... the masses would receive Linux freedom in the form of online services and gadgets with Linux and other FOSS buried inside. It happened, but it resulted in the opposite of freedom because it didn't enable non-technical users (tbh most techies didn't like the chaotic Desktop Linux experience, either). In offering no standard or at least defacto UI to users, we offered them zero commitments in the general purpose computing segment (i.e. PCs). Computer science says that commitments are formed as interfaces, and we have denied that the rule also holds for user interfaces. Slathering candy graphics on top of chaos has backfired.

@foolishowl@social.coop Nowadays... Crime scales. Criminals can automate contact with people, and easily do it to people in almost any country. Email and the Web aren't a refuge. The tech culture that promoted easy-to-use trust tools has collapsed; can-do has been replaced with cynicism. You are right to think we are in a bad place with trustworthy communication. I remember those days when phone calls were generally valid.

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social Xiaomi also introduced their new microkernel-based HyperOS. From what I can tell, it is available in Europe as I keep seeing news and reviews of HyperOS 3+ devices here on fedi in non-English European languages. Their microkernel is supposedly a version of Apache's NuttX, so that makes me wonder how much of Xiaomi's stack could be assembled from open source.

@offby1@wandering.shop Because they have the money to buy tokens, and you exist to take the responsibility.

@grandwordiness@fosstodon.org Right now no one can prove that code was made with LLMs that do not greedily scrape independent sites until they are forced offline. Codeberg has had a lot of downtime because of LLMs, too much IMO. https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all It boils down to a simple survival issue, and the answer cannot be that you have to reside in the belly of a giant conglomerate to get work done. The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven as these corps are some of the heaviest users and promoters of captchas, age verification, and outright surveillance.

@clankgy1@infosec.exchange I occasionally download what I like, and save them to a microSD card. Then I can pick the UI that I want, and I'm not jonesing for intriguing-new-sensation-from-ai every minute of the day.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117009280284614590 People who control the guardrails have privileged access to a source of 0day vulns... #ai #opensource #infosec

@z3r0fox@mastodon.social I loved model-building when I was young, but I do not get the appeal of these specific lego kits either. A proper kit will look like (even move like) the real thing, while the lego version just says "hey, I'm another quirky expression of lego".

@PragmaticAndy@mastodon.social Author: "They didn't get it; those stories are about degradation and collapse." Oh, sweet summer child... they get it. 🙃 Framing oligarchs as stupid is one of the strongest knee-jerk responses among intellectuals today and its getting us nowhere.

@petrillic@hachyderm.io @bunnie@social.treehouse.systems It sickens me a little to think of how hard I hustled the SMT factory to get the boards built, and the guys who worked overtime to hit our deadline. They did it gladly, and with great alacrity for just a couple hundred bucks. Then I look at the majority cut that Crowd Supply/Mouser commands and their opaque delay on fulfillment. It’s not fair to the workers, it’s not fair to me, and most importantly, it’s not fair to the backers. I have to wonder what other channels could facilitate a project like this. What if @opencollective@mastodon.opencollective.com got into #crowdsourcing? #crowdsupply

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117004691842978242 #flock #surveillance #abortion #policestate

@jann@infosec.exchange Then your OS has to understand PNG renderers and the types of output they make. And also which other renderers use them, etc.

@theod@social.treehouse.systems Of course. And the "effective altruists" will find ways to bury the facts showing that society has worsened, not improved, because of the LLM craze.

@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange Obtaining data is in the core programming of these models, and so is circumvention.

@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social I disagree. Linux embodies an outdated architecture and a microkernel will greatly reduce the amount and severity of security issues. Linux wasn't providing a way to reach for the future – stemming the insane tidalwave of exploits we see in the news every week – and the public's willingness to be herded into a dystopia hinges greatly on that legacy of insecurity. The fact that most of us are talking about microkernels is an indicator our interest is anything but "just because".

@mhoye@cosocial.ca PS - If you thought this was intended to support online platforms absorbing kids' free time, think again. The unspoken assumption is always that parents won't take responsibility and set limits. So all arguments about age verification (both pro and con) insist that kids must have an accessible online presence. (Egads!) Parenting is the excluded middle, so its a contest between anarchy and fascism. Guess who always wins that contest...

@fuzztech@infosec.exchange They'll get male-pattern baldness sooner, though.

@clankgy1@infosec.exchange Remember how Lost In Space got wacky...

@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social There's a lesson in this about BSD licenses.

@casually@mastodon.social Subscription fatigue plus privacy fatigue has quietly rebuilt the home server. Great, hopefully that will also help rebuild the home PC.

@rogue_corq@mas.corq.co In this context, what does starting and prolonging the Iran war signify?

@maya@social.seattle.wa.us There must be some mcmansions out there where this would fit right in.

@mwyman@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io At some point these streaming add-ons will start acting as net proxies for the TVs. Just watch. Roku was recently bought by Fox News, and Apple is no bastion of integrity itself.

@mxchara@seattle.pink Gnome is the favorite default DE of most large distros: Less licensing issues that might (theoretically) pop up, and a lot fewer features to maintain than KDE. Users often switch to KDE or something else because they want a 'regular' desktop with features and not a mobile-inspired UI. KDE strikes a better functionality and "just works" balance for me, even though it has a reputation for not liking nVidia setups (I avoid nVidia because they're hostile to open source). FWIW, my first desktop was Enlightenment way back in '98.

@katalogeur@mastodon.social If this club was in eastern Massachusetts then we may have been friends. 🙂

@dbattistella@mstdn.ca Um, the houses don't look right.

@schrieveslaach@fosstodon.org @scottjenson@social.coop Open source needs a lot of UX help Yes. It needs to show commitment to the wider community because the candy-graphics approach hasn't worked. If UIs are not consistent (we throw different, unrelated UIs at users all the time) then the computer science rule of interfaces says we have a problem. We as a developer community are refusing to make the "interface promise" and users correctly interpret that as chaos. The denial that the interface consistency rule applies to user interfaces comes from an anti-user mindset. Android bucked this trend by supplying a reference UI. The result was wide acceptance. I think we should forget about Desktop Linux (which underneath is just a religious quest to make the masses love Unix) and focus on forking Android with its new desktop mode. We get user acceptance and (probable) access to a much larger array of apps, an SDK that developers actually use, and a universe of use cases and other ideas that translate into products that users readily understand.

@DavidM_yeg@beige.party The house on the left looks very odd. Never seen one like it.

@lwn@fedi.lwn.net The SCO Group's of the future are going to have a field day turning Linux into a museum piece.

@carnage4life@mas.to There is no sanctuary from the Googleplex computer...

@ra6bit@infosec.exchange Yeah, this sound cool, like something @bunnie@social.treehouse.systems created. (Oh, he did...) I just got the crowdsupply shipping notice for the Dabao Baochip units I ordered, which is what the Defcon badges are based on. https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao

@dln@mastodon.social @bunnie@social.treehouse.systems Did Finn discover another way to verify the integrity of silicon: The sniff test? 🙂

I see that response is agreeable to the "burnitdown" set.

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social The global far right is operating within a mode of language and communication that many liberals simply don’t understand. We’ve got to get better at grasping it—and countering it. Didn't Umberto Eco make a specific point about Nazi's use of slippery language while they consolidated power? There is definitely some gap in contemporary understanding. For example, I keep hearing lately that someone has uncovered the special "new link" between technology and fascism. Um, techno-fascism is actually the original fascism. Please... look it up.

@notasnek@infosec.exchange Because of limited space?

@RnDanger@infosec.exchange The way I interpret it so far: Trump wanted Morocco to recognize Israel, and pushed Congress to pass a law recognizing Spanish territory adjacent to Morocco as Moroccan. The law was passed. Then a social media blitz landed that said people could travel over the border and get access to Europe; people arrived by the thousands. Full backgrounder from ex-intel Malcolm Nance (easier to start at 47:20)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rXXXltmD0

@chroma@raccoonisland.social @flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange Fedi UX is inconvenient and/or broken in a number of ways. Its not the fact that people have to choose an instance. Its the fact that the fedi rubric still doesn't know what to do when you click on a link to fedi content, and no other application knows either. So an Ivory user may click on a link to a regular web page, and if that web page (or any page on any site) links to fedi content then the user will likely end up on a Mastodon web page – not Ivory – which doesn't recognize them and (gasp!) presents a prompt to log in to their home instance (on the web, not Ivory). The confusion is compounded by the makings of an eventual security nightmare; phisher's delight. There is so much UX f_ckery contained in that one example that I'm positive anyone encountering it more than once – and is not a techie who easily recognizes the context rug pulls and hops over them as you and I do – will probably run away from this. Non-fedi web sites can't effectively link to fedi content, because you are going to land on the author's instance not your own. So authors who began experimenting with fedi en masse in 2022 don't expose their readers to the fediverse.. they just keep using the "Share with Facebook/X/Insta" links. That is a sad, if not dead, ecosystem. Does the lack of monetization drain urgency from these UX issues? It might. But IMO, that still leaves us with a competence issue in much the same way that a Linux community which insists on presenting 7 different GUI options to users is a competence issue. Mastodon is the Linux Desktop of social media, and monetization won't make it popular. If monetization thoroughly explained the gap in popularity, we would see a version of the fediverse with instances that display ads. The problem is that the ActivityPub spec is incomplete (it should have a protocol handler definition) in addition to a raft of other UX issues that are ignored or even aggravated by Mastodon devs.

@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange Granted, I don't have access to the full article... but I didn't see any claim that they were autonomous machines (robots).

@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social "...a Russian VPN..." lol, a "nobody vpn" from Russia. And you are aware that independent audits of log practices are part of VPN claims? Don't use a VPN service unless they have these audits.

@libreoffice@fosstodon.org You should point out that switching to an MS Office 365 subscription puts your private data in peril. Microsoft insists that its AI datacenters ingest copies of the users' data. you're presented with an innocuous window informing you that to use the new version of Outlook, Microsoft will need to sync your emails, events, and contacts to Microsoft Cloud. A cancel option is available, but there's no option to refuse and continue using your client. https://www.xda-developers.com/privacy-implications-new-microsoft-outlook/

@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social In the Linux desktop context (not browser) I regularly encounter tooltips that get in the way of me clicking on the thing underneath. I wish that was handled more intelligently. FOSS devs also need to learn sane practice in handling menus & sub-menus. The Network Manager UI will update and reset (close) the AP selector submenu less than 1sec after the user opens it. Also, no hysteresis whatsoever when moving between menus. Re OP: Its nice to know that web standards can still improve. But the web is no longer trusted by most of society; it has been demoted in favor of the app walled gardens you mention. This means the user seldom has any direct relationship with URLs or other Internet structures. @mconley@fosstodon.org

@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social Show me a world where non-Fortune-100 websites are comfortable just staying online (vs high traffic and slop generation) and I'll show you one where LLM input will be moderate and sustainable.

@alecm Who gets to verify or filter the hw/sw in a system is a primary concern. Remote services cannot do this to clients without killing the open web (and taking personal computing down with it as well).

@grandwordiness@fosstodon.org Strained servers due to nonsensical crawling Its great that people who disagree with codeberg's policy can just move to or create another service where they can pay $$ for the heavy grind. I would be so disappointed if they quietly agreed to clean up the mess made by LLM wastrels.

@carnage4life@mas.to Google should change its logo to this...