IT security student. Programmer of digital duck tape, learning to write digital plumbing. Aspiring cryptographer. Personal research interests include zero-knowledge credentials (to counter online antisocial conduct while protecting privacy) and AV/image non-repudiation (to counter deepfakes).
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Last Notes npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Considering that the Trump regime's actions have been more aligned with the strategy foreign policy interests of #China in general, and especially the #CCP in particular, than any other government principal's interests, I suppose it should not be too surprising if the #WhiteHouse app leaks information to #Huawei. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Great to hear Kay Dean of #FakeReviewWatch discussing fake review with #rightToRepair and #rightToOwn advocate #LouisRossmann today. I’m looking forward to seeing what else WeRecoverData will have brought upon themselves. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/116954518144682511 npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David That is exactly the purpose for the construction of the prosperity gospel doctrine: to teach the poor and working class that the rich and poor deserve their status as such. That's why billionaires pay so much to sponsor its being preached, published, and otherwise promulgated. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116684532400425767 npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David I don't yet have the skill to lead such a project, but one project I'd love to contribute to developing is a federated ride-hailing app. Solving the payment and safety parts, using a decentralized network, would take some substantial research and novel development, but the rest should be pretty straightforward. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Indeed. In a typical year, well over 100 hours of my work is providing private support in use of Canadian government websites. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Any guesses what #Microsoft broke with some #slop-stained part of the patch set this time? npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/115996932693787995 npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Hey, @npub1sme…s590 or other combat vets: Suppose someone is writing a fictional story of a youth resistance movement. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David And some more options for #iceOut to defeat the #LRAD: npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Of particular importance to #iceOut organizers in #Minneapolis #Minnesota and other cities under #gestapo occupation: how to protect yourself and others against an #LRAD, including how to reflect the attack towards the attackers. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Start frequenting a gym if you don't already. Emphasize functional fitness, balance, mobility, injury prevention, endurance, and especially agility. If you can afford them, take classes in parkour, freerunning, tricking, or acrobatics; or, if you have the skill, teach classes. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115867867113553037 npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David uBlock Origin blocks it. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Hey @npub1qmg…s6k5 / @npub1595…kxyf, npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Going after the money is one important tactic. Another is going after the bigotry. Retrospectives by formers confirm, as social psychology has long show, that bigotry is only unlearned through positive experiences and relationships with members of the targeted group. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David The RNC is just as off-topic as the DNC. (Unless: any RNC leaders in this thread?) npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Tariq either couldn't discern or didn't care about the difference between disagreement in the course of discussion of one topic and changing the topic. Let an ideologue derail a discussion and make it about their favourite grievance instead, and that's all that will get discussed. The misdeeds of corporate Democrats go without saying and are off topic in this context. It's worth discussion within the DNC or among those who have sway therein, but irrelevant here. (Unless: any DNC leaders in this thread?) npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David I think the majority of American people are so used to neither needing needing to meaningfully oppose the power structure of their country, nor having any idea how to do so effectively, that they needed the relatively small and easy victory of the Kimmel show. Those with whom I've tested framing this issue as a proof case of what they can do when they act in unison, across the lines of divide-and-conquer, seem receptive. With the right messaging, and with the pragmatism to promote solidarity and scale (rather than ideologically purity testing and infighting), this can be the start of some real momentum. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David As @npub1fdr…lvhs elucidates regarding the many causes of ecology becoming recognized as one cause with the development of the concept of ecology, and regarding so many technology-mediated social injustices and all the facets of #enshittification ultimately having a singled root, the solution to cause fatigue is to unify causes. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David If #NATO countries need a deterrent, this is what to target. Demonstrate the capacity to invert the function of the Great Firewall, to block propaganda and surveillance and allow accurate but prohibited information, in response to intrusion into infrastructure. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Surprise, surprise: the Yelp-for-humans app founded and run by a man, purported to exist for women's safety, was in fact predatory, negligent of women's safety, and actually a grift to extract money by exploiting women's fear and selling a false sense of security. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David The "nothing to hide" line is a manipulation ploy by those who have the most power and seek to keep it and gain more, as information about you is power over you. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David About that "important update": Google does not allow registering Gmail addresses with hyphens. The only non-alphanumeric character it allows is one or more (non-initial, non-final, nonconsecutive) periods, which after registration, it considers essential when signing in, but optional when addressing email. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Are any #veterans organizing to stand between the anti-ICE protesters and the illegally deployed Guards and Marines? Where are the vets who protested the #VA cuts two days ago? It’s the same Nazi ordering the National Guard and Marines around as is gutting the VA. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David IANAL, but from what I've seen of US case law, when police fail to self-identify as such and, while not recognizably police, impose imminent risk death or grievous bodily harm (which is generally presumed in cases of kidnapping), if the attacked person survives police-gang revenge, the trial outcome usually depends on the race of the person asserting self-defence to excuse use of lethal force against an assailant. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David I’d follow up by asking their understanding and opinion of the Paradox of Tolerance. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David “Neoliberal” is one of too many examples of leftists and other progressives tending to be strategically self-defeating in our choice of labels for concepts. The misunderstanding of the term would have been entirely foreseeable and mostly avoidable, had the people coining the term taken a moment to consider the perspective of the unpersuaded audience: particularly in light of non-vocational post-secondary education being, in most countries (certainly including the US), a class privilege. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Hon. @npub12j4…vque, please advise the PM urgently to get his head out of the sand and advise HM Charles to order stationing of UK deterrent aircraft in Canada and ships in Canadian waters. We'll need our own soon, but for now, we don't have time to make them. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Related: There are four lights! npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David This is a #nationalSecurity disaster in the making, and a personal #cybersecurity disaster for hundreds of millions. The moment a server to person with access to keys gets compromised, the data exposure will make the #SaltTyphoon breach seem like one of those times a cop or journalist leaks the gender of a source through a pronoun. The data currently protected by #E2EE is much of the most sensitive data there is. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Day 2 is coming and going with too little additional action against the US oligarchs backing the US tariffs. On day 3, Justin and Pierre and Jagmeet and Paul should agree to have the GG reconvene Parliament explicitly to drop the DRM laws Canada enacted in exchange for the free trade treaty the US is now violating. This would harm the financial interests of US oligarchs like Musk and Bezos (as by letting Canadians legally jailbreak Teslas and Audible books), and it would create a lot of much-needed high-value work for Canadians, and a new set of products and services to distribute globally (except to the US, where those would remain illegal). npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David That's a start for day 1, and let's not act alone: Let's partner with other countries to respond with coordinated reprisals, such that a trade attack on one is a trade attack on all, for which all will answer in unison. The US, and especially Trump and his oligarchs personally and their companies, must be assured to always lose more for every trade attack, so long as it persists, than anyone they attack. The way to do this is in close and *rapid* cooperation with all other trade partners. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David And one or dehumidifiers of sufficient power for your home air volume. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Ah, minorities and near-minorities: the only way to get sufficient results from a legislature anywhere near sufficiently quickly. Nothing motivates politicians to get of their hands their hands and do something more than a performative drip-feed of just enough to seem like they're doing something like that constant threat of losing power. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Hon. @npub12j4…vque (since you're the only one I've seen here), please give this a read and forward it to your peers and counterparts. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David Others have already covered the “no such product exists in the market” answer, so I’ll just throw some wishful thinking into the Ethernet winds and suggest to the #infosec / hacker community that it seems we’ll collectively need to create the @npub15f7…m7wr of cars. There’s enough knowledge and money among a sufficiently large subset of us, especially if enough late career professionals decide they’d rather not entrust the detailed time-series geolocation of their family to a company which can’t avoid recapitulating the vulnerabilities of the 90s, and to the data brokers to which it sells that data, and to the advertisers and governments and criminal organizations buying from those data brokers. npub1ltjs98zjpqsdfvpk2an4vvt3kdyeqcx6z42dlnmnr6835739n92sa95j9y David An interesting application of machine learning may be camouflage recognition—analogous to fingerprint or face recognition. The exact alignment of a pattern to fabric pattern pieces per article of clothing or luggage is presumably unique.
