Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

improbably, 2022 gave us a happy ending, just before the buzzer. just one, but still. a good one.

i hope greta thunberg is somewhere fucking CACKLING. i hope she is ugly laughing. i hope she is laughing so hard she pees a little.

i know i am.

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

Thinking about password managers, what is the recommended Master Password format for a normal user out there?

(Assuming 2FA is enabled also)

What’s the balance of something you need to type in a lot with something that is Really Bad if breached …

#InfoSec #Tech

Please vote and boost, I need some data for a non-InfoSec audience article

Memo to the media:

Stop letting politicians get away with calling asylum seekers "illegal immigrants" or saying they're not coming to this country "the right way." Seeking asylum is legal. Presenting themselves at the border & requesting asylum is "the right way" to seek asylum.

@micahflee Reminded me of this classic:

@molly0xfff
Such the difference between district courts and the supreme court.

District court: "My husband is a partner at a firm that did some work for FTX, and may do work in the future for those suing FTX. I'm recusing myself"

Supreme Count: "My wife was an internal planner in an armed insurrection against the United States. I see no problem here"

Profound boredom is the root of all innovation. This paper covers it well, but every substantive project I worked on started offline with limited technical resources and lots of time to kill (metasploit, recog, runzero): https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/social-media-may-prevent-users-from-reaping-creative-rewards-of-profound-boredom-new-research/

Offline doesn't mean no computing, just lack of boredome-drive-page-reloading. So erm, if you seeing this, drop into offline mode, find a park, and fidget until you find something all-engrossing to sink your time into.

It's almost 2023, and I'm ready!

@questauthority well it's not like "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is a core tenet.

And of course by the principle of textualism "as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me." literally means only Jesus' actual brothers.

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figured I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

The US Catholic bishops talk a lot about the decline in religious commitment and the need for stronger religious values in the public square.

Yet prominent Catholics like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis engage in political games of incredible cruelty with the lives of migrants — in Abbott's case, right on Christmas Eve.

While the US Catholic bishops remain totally silent….

It's almost as if their words about declining religiosity and moral vaules are just empty, isn't it?

#Catholicf #GregAbbott

Actual conversation I had…

Me: Billionaire philanthropy is nothing more than PR. Tax billionaires.
Troll: Lol you trust the Govt to spend our money?
Me: Yes, the Govt is elected by We the People, and therefore is accountable to us and can be voted out.
Troll: Govt is bought.
Me: Bought by who?
Troll: By billionai—...😳
Me: ...🤔
Troll: Ok, Tax billionaires.

"There, he meets regularly with an impressive, ideologically diverse range of policy wonks, diplomats, and political theorists for conversations about the global economy and military conflicts and constitutional law and I’m kidding. He goes there to play golf. 'He just goes, plays golf, comes back, and fucks off. His world has gotten much smaller. His world is so, so small.'” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-running-for-president-2024.html

@D0xter @stoXe @briankrebs The first guy that swatted him was destined for great things. He's now in a Phillipines prison for murdering a girl.

A later guy that tried to swat him grew up to become the latest hosting provider for Kiw*farms.

Threat intel people should always pay special attention to threat actors that harass Krebs, because they tend to be more dangerous than usual.

Also because it's wrong to let attacks on journalists slide.

@Kurt Here's file footage of him unplugging sensitive equipment.

Whoever I get introduced to a new tech infrastructure, I too like to test it by randomly unplugging sensitive sever racks. Keeps people on their toes.

Praying tonight for all those who are homeless in this cold. May they find warmth and shelter over these next few nights.

The Intercept's Lee Fang worked with Elon Musk on a "Twitter Files" story and used the opportunity to launch his own personal Substack, knowing his colleague at The Intercept @micahflee is still banned by Elon Musk for his factual reporting on Musk.

If Lee Fang is going to boost his own personal substack at the expense of any kind of principled solidarity with his colleagues, why should I continue my recurring donation to The Intercept? I'd rather my money go directly to Micah and Robert Mackey than to indirectly fund Fang's work - let Fang raise money on his own substack.

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@taylorlorenz Remember the history of Mastodon. It was not built in the face of Musk buying twitter. It was built by people who could not be on Twitter safely even when Jack was in charge. Decisions like no text search and no reblogging were in specific responses to the abusive behavior that led Mastodon's creators to do the hard work of setting up an alternative in the first place.

These pre-April 2022 users who still own the majority of large instances and are the active developers of the software did not want a place for Journalists - many would have found the prying and data aggregation journalist do on social media exceedingly distasteful.

unless things change Mastodon will never have the broadcast vibes of Twitter which emphasized views and interactions. This social network emphasizes the building of direct relationships and to use it successfully you need to be ready to spend far more social capital developing trust and reputation then the equivalent Twitter account.

Twitter under Jack Dorsey really catered to journalists and politicians because they brought in lots of views, and it became a great place to not only put out a story, but to develop one as well. Mastodon was designed by people who didn't want their social media interactions on the front page of the New York Times. For that reason, I suspect that journalists, news makers, and politicians will remain on Twitter in spite of Elon Musk. They are to Twitter what live sports has become to cable TV - the one use that a new technology cannot easily disrupt.