Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

MiniDebConf Lisbon 12 - 16 February 2023 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/01/msg00001.html

I’ll never understand rich people spending big bucks to have a panic room installed in their house

I panic in all my rooms for free

Just to clarify, I’m not going to #FOSDEM, I’m going to #OFFDEM.

I don’t attend, speak at, or legitimise so-called “free software” (or “human rights”, etc.) conferences that let surveillance capitalists like Google launder their reputations by sponsoring them. I’m only taking part in OFFDEM, which was created in reaction to FOSDEM’s lack of principles and ethical backbone.

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#FOSS #surveillanceCapitalism #whiteWashing #reputationLaundering #institutionalCorruption

University of Minnesota #Chemistry Department looking for a new term faculty Organic Laboratory Director: https://cse.umn.edu/chem/news/chemistry-teaching-faculty-search-2023
#ChemJobs

After going through 9 separate excruciating rounds in an attempt to land the job, Kevin McCarthy is very close to being on par with the hiring processes for entry level #infosec roles at most large companies

5 January 1858 | A Hungarian Jew, Yakow Heizler, was born in Apostag. He was a soldier. During the war he lived in Ujpest.

In June 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

One of some 430,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz. Learn about their fate: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Hungary #antisemitism

Serpent in the Sky Captured with European Southern Observatory Telescope

https://www.eso.org/public/australia/news/eso2301/

Search over 1,000 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories

#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #ESO

Image: ESO/VVVX

Slack trying to hide their security disclosure? LastPass pulled the same thing recently, but even more blatantly.

We need a searchable index of companies who hide their disclosures like this. It would be extremely valuable when doing vendor assessments.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/slacks-private-github-code-repositories-stolen-over-holidays/

#Twitter may lose its #SafeHarbor protection because it's not responding to #takedown notices for repeat #copyright infringers.
https://torrentfreak.com/twitter-hit-with-228-9m-copyright-infringement-repeat-infringer-lawsuit-230104/

The article doesn't say so, but it seems that Twitter isn't responding to the takedown notices as US law requires ("expeditiously") because of the #Musk layoffs.

This is big. #SocialMedia platforms cannot operate in the US without a safe harbor from copyright lawsuits. It's as if Musk sawed off the wings of his plane to save weight.

I wish Friends of the Earth well. We must end dependence on fossil fuels for the sake of the young and of future generations. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-64165419 #climatecrisis #climatechange

tbh I don't care about quotes, the birdsite feature we should prioritise urgently is the ability to restrict replies, and to be able to do so retroactively; this would legit improve the experience exponentially. #FeatureRequest

Marília Chaves Peixoto #Brazilian #mathematician & #engineer who worked in dynamical systems. 1st Brazilian woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics & 2nd woman to join Brazilian Academy of Sciences - 1st was Marie Curie. d. #OTD 5 Jan 1961 at only 39 bit.ly/3kPYUGc

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

DID YOU KNOW? In olden days newspapers and other printed materials were reproduced in small-scale on flat sheets of transparent photographic film called microfish, made out of pressed fish scales hence the name.

IDAD 2022 Interview with passerby about Freedom to Share: Sharing video games https://framatube.org/videos/watch/b21b22aa-8fcd-4eb0-a550-b9c96da6415f

@glennf I'm reminded of early 2017 when the GOP found itself in control of the House, the Senate and the White House and couldn't manage to get anything done for months.

If you are not following yet, #Journalist Dan Kennedy is worth your follow. I too am locked on Twitter only going in to advocate for #Mastodon, hoping my buddies will come on over.. but look how hard @dankennedy_nu
is working it to his 19K followers!

#Journalists #media #MastodonMigration

We are essentially witnessing a domestic terrorist hostage situation unfolding in congress.
McCarthy will no doubt continue to sell whatever is left of his soul to the sedition caucus.
While amusing on some levels, also becoming increasingly dangerous for America.

my prayers have been answered

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/arturo182/statuses/109638275569947706

Data alleged to contain the email addresses of more than 200 million #Twitter users is being given away for free on a hacker forum, reports say.

The stolen information includes email addresses used to set up accounts.

"unfortunately lead to a lot of accounts getting hacked, targeted with phishing, and doxxed".

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64153381