Pomroka @Pomroka@qoto.org

I'm happy to announce that a new version of my Linux Forensics class is available from https://archive.org/details/HalLinuxForensics

Some of the major changes in this version:

-- Memory forensics material updated with Volatility 3
-- All new memory forensics labs, including one on LD_PRELOAD style rootkits
-- UAC updates
-- Brand new Lab VM based on Debian 11

As always, the course material and labs are freely available under Creative Commons license. Use the torrent link to download everything because we're talking >70GB of data with the new VM.

I hope to be announcing some public teaching dates in the near future. Or reach out to me and we can discuss private training for your team.

One reason I enjoy reading trans history is finding the ways my transcestors resisted. Often they lacked legal HRT, surgeries, places to live, legal employment, etc.

Some of that resistance was things like riots. But other parts of that resistance were finding joy when the world tried to discipline all joy out of them. Trans joy is revolutionary. A third part was community, how the secret knowledge of survival was shared.

Relevant Pratchett quote

#SaturdaySighting

Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre lit up in transgender colours in support of the trans rights rally/counter protest tomorrow, and framed by pride flags looking across Whairepo Lagoon from Frank Kitts Park

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement:
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not.

Figures, there are no $billions of VC / corporate money behind Internet Archive, why would anyone want to support a public service, right? 🤦‍♀️

IA ≠AI, know the difference!

#InternetArchive

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats
Dear Fediverse, meet Toby the Cat.
He has a sister, Minnie.
We are calling them #puchatepotwory, which literally means fluffy monsters, but #fluffefiends is a good translation as well :)

lmao this is the worst idea ever @lina

Cuddly 🦇

A matter of safety.

When a politician introduces or supports an anti-LGBTQ law they are saying out loud that their legislative priority is to torture at-risk children.

When they sponsor or support laws that call for separating immigrant families they are saying out loud that they are in favor of harming children and are against “family values”.

When they call for books to be banned and academically rigorous curricula not to be taught they are saying they are in favor of ignorance and parochialism.

When they ban masking and immunization, when they deny climate change, when they support subsidies for the fossil fuel industry they are saying they do not believe in science or just want the world to burn.

Why would you vote for somebody who says these things?

Latest comic on the increasing weirdness of various online shopping portals

#ecommerce #internet #shopping #business #economy #cartoon

"It's just a game, it's ridiculous to make such a big deal out of this"

Exactly. True. Here is a Hogwarts Legacy 🧵on why IT'S NOT ABOUT THE GODDAMN GAME.

I'll break it down, but it's about what it takes to fight fascism and how much of the left is deeply unprepared.

"I’m Becky Sauerbrunn, Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA World Cup champion. Since I started playing soccer, I’ve faced countless challenges to gender equity in sport, from pay disparity to unsafe working conditions. I can assure you that playing with or against transgender women and girls is not a threat to women’s sports."

https://www.news-leader.com/story/opinion/2023/02/05/bills-targeting-transgenders-athletes-are-cruel-and-pointless/69866434007/

#TransRights #NWSL #USWNT

Latest comic is up on Daily Kos.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/31/2150254/-Cartoon-Beaten-down

Let trans kids play sports (if they want to)

Szewczyka Skubę do walki ze smogiem pilnie zatrudnię. 🐉 Tylko poważne oferty.

#smog #komiks #MastoArt

Americans are like a paradoy of themselves at this point.

A squirrel sits on a pine branch.
The nutcracker.
The nuthider.
The nutfinder.

Photographer: Noel Hughes
Inst: @nhcreativelandscapes

#sunday #squirrel #nutcracker #naturephoto #forest #noelhughes #photography #SundayVibes

This week's comic on the unfortunate trend of "alpha male influencers"

#gender #misogyny #socialmedia

A co mówią wasze serca? ❤️‍🩹

#MastoArt #komiks