ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

‘Our identity lies in these songs’: saving the music of #India’s Biate - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/forgotten-songs-collective-saving-music-biate-indian-hill-tribe-global-audience so much wonderful culture is being lost around the world; more must be done to capture it before it is too late... #ethnomusic

In a democracy, the private depends on the public.

Businesses depend on public resources: roads, bridges, highways, sewers, a water supply, airports and air traffic control, a patent office, public education for your employees, public health, the electric grid, the satellite communications, the internet, and more.

Individuals depend on clean air, water, safe food, public safety, access to education and health care, housing, employment ...
Without such public resources, you are not free.

Last week, I discovered a public Amazon S3 bucket belonging to a French bank that contained approximately 16GB of data (122 339 files), including static assets such as CSS, JavaScript, and images, as well as official documents, schema, unverified IBANs and API documentation.

While the bucket was intentionally left open, the bank's security team promptly responded to my report and corrected the issue.

However, there are several potential risks associated with leaving an Amazon S3 bucket open to the public.

By knowing the name of the bucket, I was able to download its entire contents, potentially gain access to sensitive information (naming convention, API endpoints), and even deduce the bank's AWS Account ID (prod?) and AWS Organization ID.

In today's AWS Security landscape, it is generally considered best practice to use a CloudFront distribution to expose static files rather than leaving S3 buckets open to the public.

As a fun side note, I discovered that Google was also indexing the bucket's contents.

Despite the security lapse, the bank was grateful for my report and even rewarded me with a $10 credit as a customer.

Overall, it was a reminder that security is an ongoing effort, and we should all be vigilant in protecting our assets.

#AWS #Security

I started a new account on Twitter to see what would happen. I made no posts and followed 8 others; weather, traffic, local police and news. My time line is NOTHING but right wing hate, absolutely nothing else. #Twitter #elonmusk #rightwinghate

@jesse soft launch. We are kicking the tires and making sure the instance works.

Day 28 of 28 under the linear accelerator for stereotactic radiosurgery for a recurring brain tumor that pops up every few years to try and kill me.

I feel bad at this point, functioning, but strange, fatigued, dizzy, and clumsy.

I'll know in March if I'm cured.

Please feel free to reach out if you're in for a #craniotomy or three, or have a #schwannoma or #AcousticNeuroma, or if you need the support of someone who has survived some hard life lessons.

To a better 2023!

"In the meantime, Henry said, his business boomed. If some potential clients avoided him because of the statues, more sought him out. “We’re busier than we’ve ever been,” he said; Team Henry has grown to 200 employees after starting out 15 years ago with just four."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/02/devon-henry-confederate-statues-richmond/

#Virginia

Let's all take a moment to appreciate that Mastodon, Twitter's current heir apparent, is completely devoid of all the web3, tokenized, blockchain/nft bullshit that crypto cultists have been feverishly mansplaining will power the internet going forward. None of it is necessary to build a robust, decentralized infrastructure. It was all a bunch of lies and self-deceit to lure suckers into the shitcoin casinos. Let 2023 be the year that crypto dies with a whimper.

#web3
#crypto
#blockchain
#nft

This article is great - genuinely reorienting on the entire space program and especially Mars https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

This should be the top story on every news outlet...

"Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
-Isaac Asimov (Today is his day.)
#bookstodon

Most Americans don’t realize state funding for higher ed fell by billions | PBS NewsHour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/most-americans-dont-realize-state-funding-for-higher-ed-fell-by-billions

copyright should be death of the author at max, probably more like five or ten years tbh

In the US, where the gap between rich and poor has grown faster than in any other country, the top 1% has captured 95% of growth since 2019. During that time, 70% of Americans became poorer.

As of March 2022, California was the U.S. state with the most multi-millionaires and billionaires and the largest homeless population, doubling in digits since Covid-19.

At what point does the greed of the ultra-rich contribute to this historic Los Angeles County homelessness emergency?

Thoughts?

@mandaroza @mandaroza@mastodonapp.uk Qoto works fine. It's probably that your friends are on servers who have blocked Qoto. We can't do much about that, and it's something that happens in the Fediverse when it is filled with all independent servers.

This is the very reason Qoto tries not to block any servers because that breaks federation as you and your friends have noticed.

The only way to test our hypothesis that changing societal expectations about the future can help change the future, is to do it.

If anyone would like to help us with that test, we would be delighted.

Thank you to everyone who has boosted our toots.

Please feel free to share the Aspen Proposal on other social media, in your local newspaper and around your kitchen tables and campfires.

http://www.aspenproposal.org

#sustainability #Nature #politics #economics #ClimateChange #biodiversity

I'm glad insulin is capped at $35 for people on Medicare. It's a bill Democrats unanimously vote for, and so-called "pro life" Republicans unanimously opposed.

But here's the thing.

Insulin needs to be free & accessible to all people. Healthcare is a human right & there's no reason why corporations should profit billions off a life saving drug, the patent for which was sold for $3.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no person should struggle with insulin access. #MakeInsulinFree

Obviously, the author leaves out, that the majority of the community moderates other inhuman attitudes such as #racism, #sexism, #homophobia and #transphobia and blocks instances which don't actively take action against this content.
That's also why radical right-wing Mastodon projects like Gab.ai don't stand a chance in the community and wither away in isolation....

Just another article filled with #bullshit...

This blog article, whose author has also written against Mastodon in the past, has several weaknesses at once:
He mixes past and present by omitting events in the past.
He also uses disinformation in the article with the misleading rendition of the underlying technology in Fediverse, the responsibilities of freely available software, and the misappropriation of the moderation mechanics and actual moderation practices in Fediverse..