@davep @tychotithonus Teams?! Gnaaargh! You gotta put a content warning on that.

@catc0n well then, I can make do with what I have, and be grateful for it.

Happy travels!

@catc0n also, the payload is unreasonably big. I’m just here for the delicious but all-too-thin edible bit.

…and during a quick search of the internet just now, I learned there is such a thing as a seedless lychee. These are apparently delicious, so I dunno why they’re not the ones in the shops. They don’t even look quite as much like tiny human hearts. However, if someone were to suggest that seedless lychees instead resemble Satan’s testicles, I probably wouldn’t push back on that characterization too much.

@dnsprincess I think zoom.us might be available if you're quick

@ravirockks There are certainly limitations to CVE itself — cloud service vulns spring to mind — and some CNAs are doing a much better job than others, as the article points out. Still, I really like the uniformity of CVE. It really seems like a good thing that we have a unique and fairly universal way of talking about a particular vuln. I don’t know what we could replace it with by starting afresh which would be better, although just because I can’t imagine it doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen.

Quite extraordinary that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and many others all more or less play the game. Apple advisories are very, uh, Apple, Google has a habit of gating important detail behind logins and only providing fix details publicly on blogs (e.g. Chrome), and Microsoft, despite providing lots of useful and well structured info, also designs every single product version schema in a unique way…

All in all, CVE feels like a straw I can clutch at.

@ravirockks I’m not sure I understand where you’re aiming this criticism/devil’s advocacy. Is it NIST, MITRE, the concept of CVE itself, or something else? I’m always curious to learn stuff and consider new viewpoints, and I’m not trying to be combative here, just want to understand your thoughts.

@maxeddy We are lucky to have you. I hope the rest of your deletion project goes as smoothly as possible, and with as little emotional impact as can be hoped for.

@Tarah I’m just bracing for the day I find CISA KEV no longer updated or missing. I know at one level it’s just a list, but it’s also now something of a canary in a very troubling coal mine.

@rk “If you’re having fun and not hurting anybody, then go for it”
-me, to 10yo & 7yo, regularly. Of course, “not hurting anyone” has a very broad meaning in this context.

@maxeddy do we get to keep you here? No judgement if not, but I always appreciate who you are and what you have to say.

Seriously, though, I would really love it if just once I could teach my tech and surveillance course without having the syllabus overtaken by current events.

@jerry @neurovagrant An asset for sure, and also just someone whose presence I greatly appreciated.

I absolutely respect his decision to disconnect and wish him well always. Fabulous knitting, too.

@neurovagrant @jerry Big thank you for that. <3

It's Patch Tuesday. I miss the most excellent Screaming Goat. I don't always have the bandwidth to be present here these days, so I don't know where he went. If anyone knows why he's no longer here, I'm not trying to pry, but a simple "he's OK" would be nice. I hope he's OK.

Tired: Canada should become the 51st state of the USA.
Inspired: the USA should become the 11th province of Canada.

@jssfr @ives @FediTips oh I didn’t see your reply, which is much more comprehensive and useful than mine. Thanks.

@ives @jssfr @FediTips I’m assuming your question is in good faith, so here’s a wiki link which gives a high level answer to your question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany

Germans elect their members of parliament with two votes. The first vote is for a direct candidate, who is required to receive a plurality vote in their electoral district. The second vote is used to elect a party list in each state as established by its respective party caucus.

@rk it’s been -15°C or so here for weeks. My kids don’t even notice any more. 10yo was wearing shorts yesterday when I picked him up from an activity last night because “snow pants were too hot”.

So let me get this straight: every tech exec and VC is just absolutely tripping balls all the time now and the best they’ve come up with is a copyright-eating machine and fascism? https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-psychedelic-slumber-parties-tech-executives/

@screaminggoat Yep. I've been in this game a while now, so I'm usually less inclined to give them a hard time and more amazed that Microsoft's security advisory landscape is as coherent as it is. Usually.