Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
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“« usbkill » is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer.”
https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill
Via cron.weekly #144
Nice to have problem: you cannot record an audio lesson because down the street a Blues band is playing very loud... 🤣
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RT @matt_fortini@twitter.com
Il Comune di Cento ha scelto di passare a un “office” libero, gratuito e #opensource, @libreoffice@twitter.com, in sostituzione di altre soluzioni proprietarie e a pagamento. I fondi risparmiati sono stati investiti nella formazione informatica del personale.
https://www.comune.cento.fe.it/aree-tematiche/relazioni-il-cittadino/il-comune-cento-passa-software-libero-0
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/matt_fortini/status/1291070177870860289
I'm not easy to annoy, for a hacker.
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Look at this cool-ass, hand-made notebook @ekaitz_zarraga made for me and sent me! 🤩 😍
I'd say no: no blockchain.
#HTTP stands for #HyperText Transfer Protocol.
Yet, since decades, it's not anymore a protocol optimized for HyperText transfer.
Now, what if we wanted to design a protocol REALLY optimized for such goal?
We could design it from scratch for high bandwidth high latency network, maybe over something like BitTorrent, sharing signed but mostly unencrypted and cacheable contents and occasionally encrypted ones. Always static: browseable but not interactive, yet easy enough to self-host to allow social conversation through additive creation of new contents into such Web.
But how to name such protocol?
HTTP has been taken and corrupted. 😒
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This ad hoc theater made from hay bales.
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I'm about to do a Reddit AMA about BlueLeaks, the 269gb hack of police data, with Mara Hvistendahl from The Intercept. We've been digging into the data and reporting on it -- ask any questions you have! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i3nnup/were_an_investigative_reporter_and_the_director/
1943: Italian phrase book for American soldiers during the second World War.
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● NEWS ● #Vice #Environment ☞ Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzn5a/theoretical-physicists-say-90-chance-of-societal-collapse-within-several-decades
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The SDF Plan9 Boot Camp 2020 continues with weekly weekend meet ups. Do you want a slice? email membership for one! @neauoire
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I've noticed a recent linguistic shift in some young people, referring to websites as "apps". Reddit is an "app". The college website is an "app". "Which app did you see that on?"
I don't know if this is just shorthand (they likely access sites through an app) or a genuine misunderstanding of what's going on.
I don't want to be dramatic, but I'd lying if I said it didn't concern me a little. The WWW is a great resource which is free and interoperable. (Well we're down to just 2 browser engines now, but that's another matter). It'd be a shame if the WWW withered away, replaced by "apps", because people didn't know what they had.
"Damn kids. They're all alike."
"You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arrest-florida-teen-fbi-irs-secret-service
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curl -s http://artscene.textfiles\.com/vt100/globe.vt | pv -L9600 -q # Spinning ASCII art globe. Visit the parent directory in that URL for more animations.
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Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348130/apple-documents-steve-jobs-email-books-amazon-apps-antitrust-investigation-schiller
No really: I don't care about being or not being included among the lives that matter!
My life matter for the people I love. To me that's enough. 😉
I was just trying to explain why the argument of the meme fails short in Europe.
Most of us know that dialogue with people different from us is the only way to progress. And we know that usually, those who spread hate and fear (far right, far left, whatever) do not want to see problems solved, because their power comes from such problems.
Maybe there is a language barrier at work.
Anyway, if you say to an European that "black lives matter", there is a very high probability you will get as a response something like "sure, obviously: all lives matters!".
That's because there is no STRUCTURAL racism here, but there are other forms of structural oppression at work.
If you don't care about such other form of oppression that are more common here (and are basically due to income and wealth), fine: your problem.
I was just trying to explain a cultural mismatch that usually cause hated misunderstandings... like you see in this conversation.
Joined May 2019
