Interesting vid on surveillance pricing, by #MorePerfectUnion -
https://tankie.tube/w/5n5PwvVXWAPUB7X1pPyZFV
Ref: https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social/post/3m7ko3ov5gc27
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@jerry woohoo! Enjoy! 🙂
Dang, this article gives me so much joy. <33
"Why would anyone do this? He told me that efficiency was one reason. In the 1990s, the tools for high-level programming weren’t all there. Compilers were terribly slow. Debuggers sucked. Sawyer could avoid them by doing his own thing in x86 assembly, the lingua franca of Intel chips.
"We both knew that wasn’t the real reason, though. The real reason was love."
https://www.wired.com/story/programming-assembly-artificial-intelligence/
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The complexity and problem-solving required for making the Signal Protocol quantum safe are as daunting as any in modern-day engineering. In less adept hands, mucking about with an instrument as complex as the Signal protocol could have led to shortcuts or unintended consequences. Yet this latest post-quantum upgrade is nothing short of a triumph.
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New: Last night in the Senate, Ted Cruz blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.
(There was also the whole "shared humanity" reason that was already a baseline reason. Just needed a little more oomph.)
"The average Chinese person ≠ Chinese foreign policy. Just like Americans aren’t identical to U.S. interventions abroad."
What ChatGPT said when I asked it why anyone of Taiwanese heritage and American upbringing would be motivated to learn the culture and history of mainland China. Also: "Studying Chinese culture doesn’t erase Taiwanese uniqueness — it highlights what Taiwan did differently."
*sigh* touche.
💀 I see I’m not the only one to go to a grassroots meeting and leave feeling like, “What are we here for? Do you guys even have a clear understanding of your mission?”
https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/
@kofanchen That is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing; subscribed to the artist :)
Sometimes I think about old convos I’ve had with my pops about wanting to serve as a US citizen, and how very lukewarm he was about serving any nation in that way. His passion for civil service did not extend to military service. Given the backdrop of his and his parents’ experiences, that makes a little more sense now.
This is an incredible blog post.. probably moreso for me, because my Taiwanese grandmother served as a nurse under the Japanese flag in WWII. The relationships between the Taiwanese to the Chinese and Japanese histories gets super complex, but underlying all of it was simply that they sought to serve their homeland.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chinatalk/p/taiwan-confronts-wwii
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Self-replicating worm hits 180+ npm packages in (largely) automated supply chain attack https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/16/self-replicating-worm-hits-180-npm-packages-in-largely-automated-supply-chain-attack/ #supplychainattacks #AikidoSecurity #ReversingLabs #StepSecurity #JavaScript #opensource #Don'tmiss #Hotstuff #Nodejs #worms #News #Wiz
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Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps, Bleeping Computer writes.
"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as other features like Notebooks and AI agents.
"Redmond also advised admins to notify their organizations' helpdesk teams and users before the app is forcibly installed on their devices "to reduce confusion and support requests."
"The rollout will start in early October and be completed by mid-November; however, the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will not be installed on systems within the European Economic Area (EEA)."
The new AI mantra: You want it. You get it. We got what you need. You ain't gotta sweat it; we're gonna make you bleed.
[okay I stole that last bit from Chris Smither]
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Ayo, new monitoring TUI just dropped!
🌐 **RustNet** — A cross-platform network monitor.
⚡ Real-time traffic with deep packet inspection and process attribution.
🚀 Supports TLS, QUIC, SSH, DNS, HTTP/S and real-time fuzzy filtering.
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/domcyrus/rustnet
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"Public services are democracy in action."
Well stated by Richard Murphy in his video essay "Austerity is the midwife of fascism")
Video & transcript here: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09/03/austerity-is-the-midwife-of-fascism/
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I just had the misfortune of dealing with #Cisco "Secure E-mail" while dealing with a client and I must say its just red flags all over the place for me.
I'm sent an E-mail with an HTML attachment and told to save it and load it into my browser from my drive.
I would never advise a client to follow these instructions because of the potential dangers of saving and loading HTML files from attackers.
This then takes you on a ride to a sign up page ...
#security #sysadmin #email #encryption
“The central theme of black history, and [I would argue] any marginalized history, is really the central theme of American history, in a way that the history that Donald Trump is pushing, is not… Democracy in the United States has always been the effort of those people who’ve been excluded from it to be included.” — history Professor Heather Cox Richardson
I’d been trying to articulate this for the past several years, and couldn’t quite hit it the way she did.
https://www.youtube.com/live/V8deJsBwwCM?t=1965&si=MdvGKvZzJk-w7Hxw
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are now engaged, and it’s a good time to be reminded not to read online comments if we value our time and brain cells. :abloblamp:
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