i think the most annoying thing about this whole discourse is that people refuse to judge threads by the standard of any other fedi instance

like if a mastodon instance got set up and federated right now and it allowed the shit threads allowed it'd be widely defederated IMMEDIATELY

there are accounts literally CALLING FOR THE DEATHS OF QUEER PEOPLE on there right fucking now

the only reason people are even willing to give them a chance is because it's a big corpo, but that should only be reason to give them less of one lmao. especially considering meta's history in particular

don't let them lower the bar for moderation standards here

#FediPact #meta #threads #FediForum

"I maintain #DonaldTrump is the single most dangerous defendant who's on pretrial release in the United States of America. He's a danger to the community. He's a danger to the witnesses. He's a danger to the jurors. He's a danger to the judges and their staff. He's a danger to the prosecutors and their staffs. He's a danger to the family members of all of those groups."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dangerous-defendant-pre-trial-release/?cx_testId=34&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0&cx_experienceId=EXBC2Y8ICPSS#cxrecs_s

Weekend gridlock. Midday traffic jams. Congestion-free Fridays. The new normal for Toronto commuters and what's being done about it

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/weekend-gridlock-midday-traffic-jams-congestion-free-fridays-the-new-normal-for-toronto-commuters-and/article_f66174ce-e61f-11ee-acc6-7fea8b84a6d6.html

“Downtowns will never be the same. This idea of a work-first or work-only downtown is over. What a downtown is increasingly for is entertainment,”

“Transit systems have to adjust. Transportation systems have to adjust. Highways have to adjust.”

@gerrymcgovern

Doesn't that make NYC guilty of counselling crimes?

Ships with a second round of aid for Gaza have departed Cyprus as concerns about hunger soar

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/middle-east/ships-with-a-second-round-of-aid-for-gaza-have-departed-cyprus-as-concerns-about/article_b1d3fc49-52f8-50aa-8c93-9fb4c98e3a1d.html

> JERUSALEM (AP) — A three-ship convoy left a port in Cyprus on Saturday with 400 tons of food and other supplies for Gaza as concerns about hunger in the territory

By comparison, in the Berlin airlift, the peak *daily* delivery was 12,941 tons.

#Gaza

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade

Toronto police didn’t investigate. 38 hours later, they found this woman dead in a room with her alleged killer

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/toronto-police-didn-t-investigate-38-hours-later-they-found-this-woman-dead-in-a/article_92292042-dfd5-11ee-8641-e71d738bd0ad.html

> Three officers — Consts. Victor Lai, Sivapragasam Sivachandran and Adam Yurkiw — are facing misconduct charges including neglect of duty and discreditable conduct for failing to investigate a Toronto shelter’s

for those who didn’t get the joke: tomorrow is Trans Day of Visibility, March 31st. and this year, Easter Sunday happens to fall on the same day.

this is what happens when religious and political leaders incite anti-queer and anti-trans hatred: followers *act* on the rhetoric https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513048/car-burnout-skid-marks-left-on-gisborne-s-rainbow-crossing #NZ #LGBTIQA 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@therightarticle

I suspect that the crime rate for Tory MPs is around 90%, if they were fully investigated.

But they know that the police focus heavily on PoC, especially immigrants.

@hugo

For an "independent researcher and speaker", the author sure sounds like an advertising copywriter.

"Delighting customers". Hah!

@hengymrohebwlad

I know that, but there are people in Wales who speak English, most of the time, though some of my friends are fluent in both, and German.

Cymru am byth!

@jstatepost @ohellofedefo @pixelpusher220 @RickiTarr @bobjmsn

"I heard my mother asking the neighbors for salt." But we had salt in the house. I asked her why she was asking the neighbors for salt. Because our neighbors don't have a lot of money and often they ask us for something.
I also ask them for something small and inexpensive, so that they feel that we need them too. This way they will feel more comfortable to keep asking us for everything they need."
Respect for human dignity is undoubtedly one of the noblest feelings. Author Unknown.

@rothko

There are francophone communities, like in St Paul, though less so, these days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul,_Alberta

@MaJ1 @RickiTarr

@adub

So far, kolektiva is my leading candidate for a move. Sigh.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the first legal same sex marriages occurring in the UK. Happy anniversary to every happy couple made whole since then.

Canada, let's get real: restricting access to devices like the Flipper Zero will hamper development of strong, secure technologies, and won't solve the problem of car hacking. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/restricting-flipper-zero-accountability-approach-security-canadian-government

@awpeet

I'm rewatching Star Trek Deep Space 9 with my son.

2 days ago was an episode where DS9's computer was fooled by voice recognition.

You'd think 3 centuries would have taught us not to rely on it.

I think a LOT of people are missing the fact that we got LUCKY with this malicious backdoor.

The backdoor was created by an Insider Threat - by a developer / maintainer of various linux packages. The backdoor was apparently pushed back on March 8th (I believe) and MADE IT PAST all QA checks.

Let me state that again. Any quality assurance, security checks, etc., failed to catch this.

This was so far upstream, it had already gotten into the major Linux distributions. It made it into Debian pre-release, Fedora rolling, OpenSUSE rolling, Kali rolling, etc.

This is an example of Supply Chain Security that CISOs love to talk and freak out about. This is an example of an Insider Threat that is the boogey man of corporate infosec.

A couple more weeks, and it would have been in many major distributions without any of us knowing about it.

The ONLY reason we know about it is because @AndresFreundTec got curious about login issues and some benchmarking checks that had nothing to do with security and ran the issue down and stumbled upon a nasty mess that was trying to remain hidden.

It was luck.

That's it. We got lucky this time.

So this begs the question. Did the malicious insider backdoor anything else? Are they working with anyone else who might have access to other upstream packages? If the QA checks failed to find this specific backdoor by this specific malicious actor, what other intentional backdoors have they missed?

And before anyone goes and blames Linux (as a platform or as a concept), if this had happened (if it HAS happened!!!) in Windows, Apple, iOS, etc.... we would not (or will not) know about it. It was only because all these systems are open source that Andres was able to go back and look through the code himself.

Massive props and kudos and all the thank yours to Andres, those who helped him, to all the Linux teams jumping on this to fix it, and to all the folks on high alert just before this Easter weekend.

I imagine (hope) that once this gets cleaned up, there will be many fruitful discussions around why this passed all checks and what can be changed to prevent it from happening again.

(I also hope they run down any and all packages this person had the signing key for....)

#infosec #hacking #cve #cve20243094 #linux #FOSS

@EricLawton kinda flabbergasted that it took this long

@awpeet

In a century or so, if there still is a Canada, we may have finally implemented all the recommendations of the TRC and MMIWG Inquiry.

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