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A good 95% of my mental anguish comes from normies being able/allowed to use the Internet and honestly I think it should stop

@jazzilla @Killer_Mule also agreed upon that violence very rarely does work or is appropriate.

@jazzilla @Killer_Mule
luckily there is a shop here who sells produce of local farmers, so it's not much driving :)

there was a short report recently of a german eco farmer who doesn't apply for state subsidies anymore and who is doing fine.

@bonifartius

This is what ppl have to do. Buy from farmers. Pay the extra of it costs more. Drive the extra 15 minutes.

The cause is structural from the state and their incentives.

Guns don't work here.

@Killer_Mule

It's hard to remember the early 2000's. Like there was this relatively sane world that I have memories of where everything generally made sense and everyone was generally decently well-groomed and kind (at least if you were in the healthy middle class at the time). I remember so much of it, but it's hard to actually, genuinely remember it as it really was since I feel like so many of my memories have been tainted by the eldritch nightmare that is modernity.
Before 9/11 there was a lot of optimism. "Year 2000" "New millennium" etc.

Waco and Ruby Ridge notwithstanding, the 90s was not that bad.

The crack epidemic was largely over with the end of Bush1 and Heroin and Oxy wouldn't hit until Bush2.

Nobody knew how good they had it until it was gone.

a while back i already predicted that "clade" will be the next sciency word they'll use in conjunction with the next bad virus xD

@cjd still wondering why almost everywhere one has to care for not too much hurting people who obviously are there to harm you.

@cryptgoat@digitalcourage.social libolm was deprecated less than a month ago. Nheko didn't even have a release since then. The security vulnerabilities found are also basically impossible to abuse remotely to my understanding and were in at least some parts documented since the start of libolm's development.

Calling libolm deprecated "for a while now" is just plain wrong. While it was implicitly communicated, that development would focus on vodozemac, until a few weeks ago there was no statement, that libolm would not receive security fixes. Similarly there were also a few libolm releases after vodozemac development started, some of them I even contributed to. Additionally vodozemac is not a complete replacement for libolm, you kinda need to pull in the crypto-crate for that or reimplement some functionality on your own. The assumption in a lot of projects was, that they would switch, once vodozemac would be a complete libolm replacement. Sadly there is no interest by the maintainers to make it that.

Libolm has been audited twice, in neither case were the current "security issues" raised as a critical concern. They are not great, but they don't really impact the threat model of a normal Matrix client, as far as I am aware. Meanwhile vodozemac had a minor security vulnerability, where it wouldn't zero buffers properly on discard, because some of the rust dependencies changed their default flags.

Basically, the security issues are not a real threat. The blog posts makes it sound like a much bigger issue than it is. There also has not been sufficient time to judge, if libolm actually stays unmaintained or now that it is officially deprecated, maybe someone else picks it up and ports it to use a proper crypto lib underneath (like openssl). There also hasn't been enough time to actually write proper language bindings for vodozemac to make it usable for other clients than Element clients. Basically people are widely overstating the impact of this because of the language in the original post. The real reason to use Element over Nheko is because Element has a proper security team, while Nheko is developed by people in their free time. However that doesn't mean that Nheko didn't avoid some of the security issues Element fell into, but it might have its own security issues, since nobody ever audited it.

@Killer_Mule i buy most food from local eco farmers for years and even inflation didn't hit as bad. it's pretty resilient.

@vwdasher aren't japanese cars frequently tested as pretty secure :blobcatthinking:

A cute, cheap deathtrap? Japanese Kei cars banned by yet another US state
Limited in size and power, Kei cars are like fishes out of water on US roads.

arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/s

RUDE

#WeirdCarMastodon #KeiCar

Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text

#pollution

I'm a single-issue voter these days.

Q: Should the government...
A: No.
If you don't listen to :reddit: to buy merchandise then yes it's worth it, also you get to keep what you physically own, you get to keep the knowledge you have.

days are a bit crazy now so i can't really think about a good next song, but i plan to continue with 20 songs. really is fun and interesting self reflection.

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