Nick @internic@qoto.org

Periodic reminder that I run the Fediverse AU #Mastodon server for #Australian #NZ #research and #university organisations who don't have a home on Mastodon.

https://fediverse.au

And here's a piece I wrote on why universities are reluctant to run their own Mastodon servers (recently updated with information on referrer tracking and social media platform support)

https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2023/07/18/why-are-universities-reluctant-to-join-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

#universities #SocialMedia #HigherEd #Fediverse #FediverseAU

We are happy to announce Tusky 25 beta 1!

It includes translation feature, improved screen transitions, metadata display improvements and a lot of other improvements.

Catch it on F-Droid or Play Beta (soon) or get it from releases page:
https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v25.0-beta.1

The people that process our food and the people that work in the distribution chain are being forced through employment pressure into multiple covid infections since 2020.

This is not sustainable in any way.

The people who care for us when we’re sick the most are being forced through employment pressure into multiple covid infections since 2020.

This is not sustainable in any way.

#covid

"I deleted keys generated by our TV for 5 straight minutes. 5 Minutes of like 200BPM clicking. I restarted. Everything worked again. I laughed so hard I cried. I felt like I'd solved a murder."

Tech people, THIS IS A GREAT FANTASIC READ!!!

The title is, "DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S"

https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t
#Tech #Android #TV #Debug

Vale Daniel Dennett, who thought and wrote about the mind with unsurpassed clarity and rigour.

https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/

Another week of seeing patients in family medicine. Masks will always be required in our office. To protect newborns, seniors, people with diabetes, pregnant people, people with cancer, essential workers, my staff, myself, my family. There’s nobody whose health I’d risk. #MaskUp

This one is personal: Dan was a friend.... Mourning a philosophical giant: Philosopher Daniel Dennett dead at 82. Part of the "New Atheist" movement, Dennet was best known for work on consciousness, free will. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/philosopher-daniel-dennett-dead-at-82/

"My friend, a writer, texted last night from his trench to say a gentle goodbye. His unit is expecting an attack anytime, but they do not have the heavy artillery they need to repel the assault." read Oleksandra Matviichuk, on why Ukrainians keep fighting

https://iwpr.net/global-voices/why-ukraines-fight-must-continue

Post News, which sought to be a Twitter alternative, is shutting down. I have 5.8k followers there but rarely use it. I decided I’ve bandwidth for only two platforms after putting my Twitter accounts in suspended automation — Threads is one of them and Mastodon is the other. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

MITRE disclosed that one of their research and development networks was compromised by a foreign nation-state threat actor in January 2024 using Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887. Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE) is a collaborative network used for research, development, and prototyping. MITRE included a timeline, observed TTP methods (mapped out to MITRE ATT&CK techniques cc: @howelloneill) and their incident response actions. No IOC provided. 🔗 https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/mitre-response-cyber-attack-one-its-rd-networks and https://medium.com/mitre-engenuity/advanced-cyber-threats-impact-even-the-most-prepared-56444e980dc8 h/t @reverseics

#MITRE #Ivanti #ConnectSecure #CVE_2023_46805 #CVE_2024_21887 #threatintel #cyberespionage

The FTC has cracked down on another telehealth company for misusing patients’ sensitive health data.

Monument, which aims to help treat addiction, revealed info to Meta and Google without users’ consent.

We uncovered that was happening with @STAT: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2024/04/19/ftc-cracks-down-on-telehealth-addiction-service-monument-for-sharing-health-data

Open access paper titled "The impact of real-time carbon dioxide awareness on occupant behavior and ventilation rates in student dwellings"

Highlights:

- Air quality awareness led to reduced median CO2 levels in 77% of bedrooms.

- Air quality awareness doubled the ventilation rates in 70% of dwellings.

- Display-integrated CO2 monitoring is an effective air quality intervention in student dwellings.

#IndoorAir #IAQ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778824002482

I also found some *ancient* Usenet maps.

This is a great piece by @micahflee about the significance of supporting ephemeral usernames in @signalapp and the challenges #Signal faces developing the gold standard of private messaging apps.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/signal-app-username-phone-number-privacy/

#privacy #security #encryption #signal

Tell the truth about Biden’s economy. "Trying to make voters appreciate the connection between inflation and wage growth — or the fact that the United States has done a superlative job of navigating a worldwide economic crisis — may be a quixotic task. But it is not an inherently classist or condescending one." https://www.vox.com/24134257/biden-economy-inflation-wages-interest-rate

We just lost another great light of rationalism. Dan Dennett helped get me started in philosophy of mind way back in the late '80s. Dan was right about lots of things. https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/

Final coffee thought for this morning is this image popped into my head while someone was giving me unasked for advice and now you must be subjected to it:

imagine I am climbing up the outside of a skyscraper mission impossible style with all kinds of wild gear I made for myself and from inside the skyscraper on the other side of the windows, which they can't perceive, people yell advice based on their experience of navigating to the top by pressing elevator buttons

As you were

Read the original 2023 investigation that exposed how hundreds of soldiers charged with violent crimes were administratively discharged instead of facing a court martial:
https://www.propublica.org/article/military-army-administrative-separation

As @pluralistic reminds us, capitalists absolutely hate capitalism, and they're systematically returning us to their favorite system: feudalism.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/