An Experiment

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Oct 262018
 

To all zero of my readers,

Actually writing things seems to be something I can’t muster up the will to do.

So I hacked up an rss plugin for wordpress last year to repost excepts from my tt-rss shared feed, but have left the posts it generates private. Since it’s OK if not ideal, I’m just gonna set the plugin to post publicly for now to see if it works out, and maybe as motivation to hurry up and finish tweaking the format, or writing a fresh plugin from scratch that only does what I need.

For now it will post every time I update my shared feed from tt-rss; I am leaning toward modifying it so that it collects all posts and makes a single daily entry, but I’ll see how this works first.

Ballot Access News – Sixth Circuit Expedites Ohio Jill Stein Vote Counting Lawsuit

Oct 292024
 

The Sixth Circuit has requested that the Ohio Secretary of State file a response by 5 p.m., Tuesday, October 29, in Stein v LaRose, 24-3923. This is the lawsuit over whether votes for Jill Stein (who is on the ballot) … Continue reading →

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Deeplinks – The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance

Oct 272024
 

Safe trick-or-treating this Halloween means being aware of the real monsters of street-level surveillance. You might not always see these menaces, but they are watching you. The real-world harms of these terrors wreak havoc on our communities. Here, we highlight just a few of the beasts. To learn more about all of the street-level surveillance creeps in your community, check out our even-spookier resource, sls.eff.org. 
If your blood runs too cold, take a break with our favorite digital rights legends— the Encryptids.
The Face Stealer

Careful where you look. Around any corner may loom the Face Stealer, an arachnid mimic that captures your likeness with just a glance. Is that your mother in the woods? Your roommate down…

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Jacobin – There’s No Pride in a Dick Cheney Endorsement

Oct 272024
 

Kamala Harris and her surrogates keep bragging about Dick Cheney’s endorsement. It’s deeply obscene: Dick Cheney is a depraved war criminal whose image should not be rehabilitated.
Kamala Harris’s rehabilitation of Dick Cheney’s reputation is an obscenity. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images) During a recent appearance on The Daily Show, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz touted the broad coalition supporting him and his running mate, Kamala Harris. “Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Taylor Swift . . .”
It’s the kind of reference to former Vice President Cheney that Harris, Walz, and their surrogates have made many times throughout their campaign. Stewart, to his credit, seemed to find it painful….

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The Intercept – Netflix Wiped Most of Its “Palestinian Stories” Collection — and Erased the Whole Thing in Israel

Oct 272024
 

In 2021, Netflix moved to create a new movie collection for its viewers. “Netflix will launch the Palestinian Stories collection, showcasing films from some of the Arab world’s finest filmmakers,” said an announcement of the new grouping. “[T]he collection is a tribute to the creativity and passion of the Arab film industry as Netflix continues to invest in stories from the Arab world.” Thirty-two films were slated for inclusion, with more additions planned. Now, however, following a purge of at least 24 films from Netflix’s library, the landing page for the collection contains just a single film for streamers in the United States: Lina Al Abed’s 2019 documentary “Ibrahim: A Fate to Define” — and that’s…

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Planet Debian – Russell Coker: The CUPS Vulnerability

Oct 262024
 

The Announcement
Late last month there was an announcement of a “severity 9.9 vulnerability” allowing remote code execution that affects “all GNU/Linux systems (plus others)” [1]. For something to affect all Linux systems that would have to be either a kernel issue or a sshd issue. The announcement included complaints about the lack of response of vendors and “And YES: I LOVE hyping the sh1t out of this stuff because apparently sensationalism is the only language that forces these people to fix”.
He seems to have a different experience to me of reporting bugs, I have had plenty of success getting bugs fixed without hyping them. I just report the bug, wait a while, and it gets fixed….

External feed Read More at the Source: https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/10/26/cups-vulnerability/

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jwz – Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters

Oct 242024
 

My “we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt. No not that crypto-grifter. These are different crypto-grifters: We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital […] This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.). To ensure we and our users benefit fully from this expertise, partner Kinjal Shah will join our board. If you are hitching your wagon to Blew Sky, you are…

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The Onion – Shitty Beard Barely Has Any Frolicsome Woodland Creatures Living In It

Oct 242024
 

SPOKANE, WA—Stressing that the best move would be to just shave the whole thing off, sources confirmed Thursday that area man Stephen Blanchet’s shitty beard had barely any frolicsome woodland creatures living in it. “You can tell Stephen’s proud of his so-called beard, but there are hardly any chickadees popping out to chirp a happy tune or chipmunks scurrying through in a mirthful game of chase,” said coworker Sarah Tillotson, adding that while a cheeky screech owl would occasionally pop out when Blanchet was eating to playfully nab a bite for itself, one jovial bird of prey simply wasn’t enough to make the beard work. “Some days there’s a vole in there, but it’s depressing and…

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Jacobin – France Wants to Make Olympics-Style Surveillance Permanent

Oct 242024
 

This summer’s Paris Olympics saw an experiment in AI-assisted algorithmic video surveillance. Now French officials say they want to make it permanent, in what experts call a worrying use of invasive and even racially discriminatory technology.
A surveillance camera with a statue of the Grand Palais Olympic site in the background in Paris on July 22, 2024. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images) This month, when Emmanuel Macron’s newly chosen prime minister, Michel Barnier, laid out his first government agenda to the National Assembly, much attention was naturally focused on the budget and immigration. But a seemingly throwaway line pointed to another aspect of security and policing. “We will generalize…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Blinken gives US stamp of approval for Netanyahu’s war of extermination in Gaza

Oct 242024
 

Blinken’s visit carries with it enormous political, legal and historical significance. A top representative of the American government was briefed on the plan of mass extermination and proceeded to give what amounted to an unconditional and blanket endorsement of Israeli policy.

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jwz – Hit a Y2038 bug and it’s not even Daylight Savings Day

Oct 232024
  

 function default_end_date() { 
- return (date ('Y') + 20) . date ('-m-d 00:00:00');
+ return ('2038-01-18 19:14:07'); // LOL we're all gonna die + // mysqli_sql_exception: Incorrect datetime value: '2044-10-22 00:00:00'
 }

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

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LWN.net – Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

Oct 232024
 

Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development
kernel was the removal
of several entries from the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file. The patch
performing the removal was sent (by Greg Kroah-Hartman) only to the
patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list; the change was included in a char-misc drivers
pull request with no particular mention.

The explanation for the removal is simply “various compliance
requirements“. Given that the developers involved all appear to be of
Russian origin, it is not too hard to imagine what sort of compliance is
involved here. There has, however, been no public posting of the policy
that required the removal of these entries.

External feed Read More at the Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

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Ballot Access News – U.S. District Court Will Abstain in Jill Stein Ballot Access Case

Oct 232024
 

On October 19, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson held a hearing in Stein v LaRose. At the conclusion, he stated from the bench that he believes the issue belongs in state court, and said Stein should have gone to the State Supreme Court. The issue is whether votes for Stein should be counted. She is on the ballot but the Secretary of State says her votes won’t be counted because someone not officially part of the Stein campaign filed a withdrawal of the vice-presidential nominee.

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Ars Technica – Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked

Oct 232024
 

Police use of automated license-plate reader cameras is being challenged in a lawsuit alleging that the cameras enable warrantless surveillance in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The city of Norfolk, Virginia, was sued yesterday by plaintiffs represented by the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public-interest law firm.
Norfolk, a city with about 238,000 residents, “has installed a network of cameras that make it functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an AI-assisted database that enables the warrantless surveillance of their every move. This civil rights lawsuit seeks to end this dragnet surveillance program,” said the complaint filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Like many…

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Techdirt. – Federal Court Says Three Hits From Flock ALPR Cameras Isn’t Enough For A ‘Carpenter’ Violation

Oct 222024
 

The Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision created a warrant requirement for obtaining location data from service providers. It was a limited ruling, albeit one that has had far-ranging implications.
Thanks to this ruling, law enforcement agencies have started buying location data from third-party brokers, rather than suffer the apparent indignity of having to ask a judge to approve a warrant. The underlying theme of the ruling — that the Fourth Amendment ain’t what it used to be now that everyone’s online all the time — has seen it applied to cases where location data isn’t the underlying concern. Anything law enforcement might use to engage in tracking of individuals is now under additional scrutiny.
And while this is…

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Planet GNU – Build User Takeover Vulnerability

Oct 222024
 

A security issue has been identified in
guix-daemon
which allows for a local user to gain the privileges of any of the build users
and subsequently use this to manipulate the output of any build. Your
are strongly advised to upgrade your daemon now (see instructions
below), especially on multi-user systems.This exploit requires the ability to start a derivation build and the ability to
run arbitrary code with access to the store in the root PID namespace on the
machine the build occurs on. As such, this represents an increased risk
primarily to multi-user systems and systems using dedicated privilege-separation
users for various daemons: without special sandboxing measures, any process of
theirs can take advantage of this vulnerability.VulnerabilityFor a very long time, guix-daemon has helpfully made…

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Internet Archive Blogs – Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-21

Oct 212024
 

In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available.  Please note that these services will have limited availability as we continue maintenance.  Hackers disclosed archive.org email and encrypted passwords to a transparency website, and also sent emails to patrons by exploiting a 3rd party helpdesk system. The safety and integrity of the Internet Archive’s data and patrons remain our top priorities. As the security incident is analyzed and contained by…

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Ars Technica – How the Malleus Maleficarum fueled the witch trial craze

Oct 212024
 

Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge in witch trials swept across early modern Europe, resulting in the execution of an estimated 40,000–60,000 accused witches. Historians and social scientists have long studied this period in hopes of learning more about how large-scale social changes occur. Some have pointed to the invention of the printing press and the publication of witch-hunting manuals—most notably the highly influential Malleus Maleficarum—as a major factor, making it easier for the witch-hunting hysteria to spread across the continent.
The abrupt emergence of the craze and its rapid spread, resulting in a pronounced shift in social behaviors—namely, the often brutal persecution of suspected witches—is consistent with a theory of social change dubbed “ideational diffusion,”…

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