Mike Csees @mikecsees@qoto.org

DEFEND REALITY - Even If It Feels Impolite
The 24/7 news cycle of pain is encouraging you to forget reality, and stay in a continual state of trauma and silence. There are cures, and they are called gratitude and truth.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/defend-reality-even-if-it-feels-impolite?r=1tfo38&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

AirBNB doesn't require carbon monoxide detectors. One might have saved these lives. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/us/airbnb-carbon-monoxide.html?smid=tw-share

Mastodon has 1 CVE to date. Does this mean it is safe software? Or does the rising popularity of #Mastodon mean the start of an avalanche of CVEs?...
..These are way too easy questions based on statistics of shaky data. So let's instead see what we can find out about the #security state of Mastodon. For this I concentrate on the runtime part and analyzed the #container image and associated #docker compose.

A thread:
#mastoadmin

Lake and Sky, New Hampshire. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.

Water lilies, reflected sky, and autumn colors at a New Hampshire Lake.

You may have seen a different version of this scene rendered in black and white — I posted it not long after our return from photographing New England fall color this year. During the first days of our visit we photographed... continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2022/12/01/lake-and-sky-new-hampshire

#newhampshire #newengland #nature #landscape #photography #fall #autumn #travel #landscapephotography

It’s not often I like comments on hackernews, but this in thread about #lastpass breach “Great, now I'm going to have to rename my dog.”

“…in a democracy, it must be possible to speak truth to power.
Preserving democratic legitimacy thus means protecting a democratic information space[…]There are well-established methods to undermine a shared sense of reality & hence destroy the possibility of a democratic information space. Giving a platform to powerful people who spread outrageous conspiracy theories is one of them.”
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/musk-using-twitter-to-undermine-democracy-by-jason-stanley-2022-11

For Warmth – the great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh's poetic antidote to anger https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/01/for-warmth-thich-nhat-hanh/

Very cool. The venerable Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is now on #Mastodon ! - @TheOfficialACM

Next Wednesday—join @IWMF and @selfinvestigate to chat about protecting your #mentalhealth as a journalist and learn about @IWMF's new mental health guide for journalists. December 7, 9am ET. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcuigrzwvH9BgvMKdNHhHKFT4NTDHmcst

The Electoral Count Act is complicated, vague, and poorly drafted. Congress should use the lame duck to fix it. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/reform-electoral-count-act

I welcome Elon Musk’s statements of intent to get Twitter 2.0 ready for the DSA.

I am pleased to hear that he has read it carefully and considers it as a sensible approach to implement on a worldwide basis.

But let’s also be clear that there is still huge work ahead, as Twitter will have to implement transparent user policies, significantly reinforce content moderation and protect freedom of speech, tackle disinformation with resolve, and limit targeted advertising.

#LastPass posted an updated Notice of Recent Security Incident today.

"We have determined that an unauthorized party, using information obtained in the August 2022 incident, was able to gain access to certain elements of our customers’ information."

They go on to say that "Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture."

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/11/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

#infosec

During World War II, both the UK and US built significant numbers of "bombe" electromechanical computing devices to decode German "Enigma" intercepts. Time on the devices was especially precious in the UK and they were always booked solid. So reportedly the UK had private transatlantic circuits used to send decrypt jobs to bombe units in the U.S. that had some spare capacity, and the results would be turned around relatively quickly. This may have been the first significant instance of computing "remote job entry" processing in history.

According to the latest Georgetown @GUPolitics Battleground Civility Poll, an overwhelming 75-percent of Americans, cutting across party lines, believe “democracy is under attack.” What can you do about it? https://bit.ly/CivilityPollNov22

Mark Twain, born on this day in 1835, on racism, how religion is used to justify injustice, and what his mom taught him about compassion https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/24/mark-twain-on-slavery-empathy-compassion/

Stopping the spread. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Boost so we can make everyone laugh

My Influenza Retroviral mug has arrived from @LaurieWinkless and it is a stunner. Reminds me of the quirky elegance of Cirque du Soleil #SciArt #Virology #epidemiology

@troyhunt

I no longer post on Twitter, but occasionally visit to read items from people I haven't yet seen on other services.

I was presented with your post of Nov 22 where you asked "What’s the driving force behind many infosec people jumping from Twitter? Unhappy with Elon’s cuts? Or who he’s letting back into the platform? A genuine belief he’s driving it into the ground? Other? Everything seems normal from here, why the exodus?"

(My server has a short char limit, so see thread)