Things aren't looking well with the world, but treat yourself to this AWESOME list of accepted talks over at @why2025camp - just SO much goodness! (and two talks from me, which I will be doing my utmost to also make awesome). This will also be streamed live for the world: https://vote.why2025.org/why2025

@drmabuese fuck that shit. Engineers have far more agency than you think. Don’t give up preemptively. Get to work. Make things more efficient, see what happens. Jevons paradox is the worst excuse ever.

This is important to sign and share. I archive Dutch language educational games (yeah very niche, that's why they require archiving) and I have to deal with lost media a lot. Don't let games disappear, please.

stopkillinggames.com

Help request. My brother has Stage 4 colorectal cancer.

His life insurance has refused to pay out on a technicality, meaning he and his loved ones cannot afford the mortgage on their home.

I've never asked for anything in return for infosec stuff, but if you have anything spare, please chuck it this direction instead:

https://gofund.me/b9a0d8f4

Ultra spicy post claiming to be from UK retailer employee (M&S or Co-op) about their experience with TCS on their security incident. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1ll1l6c/scattered_spider_tcs_blame_avoidance/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.

Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!

Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏

een Weekend Vrij abonnement geeft zo veel vrijheid. Je kan zomaar naar Venlo bijvoorbeeld. Ik weet niet waarom je naar Venlo zou willen gaan, maar het kan.

@soatok I did a lot of evangelism for GPGP during the last three decades. But there were never more than a handful of people in my circle who were actively using it. We all know it has its issues as it doesn’t encrypt headers while it’s not easy to setup and use for Joe Average. So I only had a few people actively using it and most of them stopped after a while because no one else was using it or they lost their keypair after setting up a new notebook.

Yes Signal has some points that can be criticised, like the requirement of a phone number to register or the fact that others can see your phonenumber and Signal username when joining a public group.

All these things and some more can be criticised. But that doesn’t change the fact that Signals encryption is secure and that they don’t collect any data on their users. It’s easy to use, it’s secure, Signal respects your privacy and they don’t collect more data than absolutely necessary.

And that’s the reason I don’t get tired telling people to use Signal when they want secure and private communication.

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-slack-workspace-changes-coming-on-friday-june-20/

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.

Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?

I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎

I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.

Give it a try: https://phreak.kmcd.dev/

#phreaking #2600Hz #bluebox #RetroComputing #hacker #infosec #Tech

Want to know more about Signal's cryptography?

https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/

None of the alternatives people recommend even come close to the standard they set.

Input Prompts features more than 18 input methods. All icons in two PNG sizes, spritesheets, vector source file and font files (TTF/OTF) all in a simple style that fits every game.

Best of all? It's free, CC0, public domain.

https://kenney.nl/assets/input-prompts

@me ill one up you, look at what the product manager at scaleway told me once they fixed my server!

Nice job 🇳🇱

For people finding out that the Dutch government coalition just fell, we have a thing called demissionary government where things just continue in a caretaker fashion. Since the current government was not actually achieving anything, we might not even notice.

@huitema a good instance, unfortunately i have yet to find one i feel at home at :<

The IETF is making videos of previous meetings available by youtube. Youtube used to be freely accessible, but now requires signing in with Google account and opting into Google surveillance. Do people here believe that peertube could be a practical alternative? What would it take?

@Huubje then im not screaming loud enough. if Majin Buu can tear a hole in the void so can i