Senior Security Compliance Engineer
@stuartl @pojntfx if you use a modern browser (especially Firefox or Chrome, but I think Safari might as well these days), the traffic is even protected against someone storing the ciphertexts, developing a quantum computer, and breaking the elliptic curves used.
I talk about the effort of making this true internally here, using that very slide đ.
A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:
It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.
Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.
For folks who've asked for details about the story behind Prince of Persia (rotoscoping my brother on VHS, etc), you'll find many answers on my website at https://jordanmechner.com -- and if you want to go deeper, in my published journals and my graphic novel memoir REPLAY.
After 4 years, I have lost my job. Now, I am being rejected without a reply (even on weekends!) to positions where I have all of the skills they asked for.
I have >10y experience with POSIX, C, C++, Wasm, MCUs and also willing to learn Go/Rust/Zig... I also contribute to many FOSS projects like @speed_dreams_official , @dino , @dillo and slcl.
I hope the fediverse (and not AI) can help me.
Remote/hybrid preferred
CV: http://slcl.privatedns.org/public/11f10f9b57b18eef5ad03e1f76136ab1
Completely random assortment of helpful resources, any theming of which is completely coincidental.
Trans World Express - https://transworldexpress.org/wiki/Main_Page
"Lawyer, Passport, Locksmith, Gun", by @deviantollam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI
"Simple Sabotage Field Manual", from the CIA - https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
Project Gutenberg mirror of the above manual: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
@MalcolmNance Has anyone asked him to clarify what ANTIFA ***means*** in this case?
I see that Hegseth wants to administratively separate service members who have medical waivers for shaving.
It's hard to imagine this as anything other than a targeted means of pushing Black people out of the military.
For those that don't know, the military has "personal grooming standards" that are enforced across the services; this includes a requirement to shave daily, if applicable. This is for a few reasons: to ensure a "uniform, military appearance", but also nominally to ensure a good seal with a gas mask.
However, so-called "no-shave chits" can be issued to service members for a variety of reasons, and these waivers exempt those people from this requirement.
For example, I once saw a guy who had one because a tree branch or something whacked him in the face during an exercise and gave him a gnarly slice that needed stitches. He couldn't reasonably shave _over_ the stitches, so medical gave him a no-shave chit while that was healing.
But the most common reason for issuing no-shave chits is for folks with "Pseudofolliculitis Barbae" (PFB), more commonly known as razor bumps, which are ingrown hair follicles on the face and neck.
Razor bumps are a real thing, and while I understand they are extremely painful, more concerning is that they can become infected, rendering a service member mission incapable.
But here's the thing: razor bumps affect Black folks more than others; up to 60% to 80% of adult Black men who shave regularly will experience them. The percentage among other demographics is much, much lower; like close to an order of magnitude lower. The military's own data, snapshotted in 2023, says that 63.5% of PFB cases since 2000 were among non-Hispanic Black service members (https://health.mil/News/Articles/2023/08/01/Pseudofolliculitis-barbae).
And let me be clear here: this is a real, known, diagnosable medical condition, studied and recognized by dermatologists. It's not like there's some kind of conspiracy to get out of shaving or something dumb like that. And from everyone I've ever known who's had it, they'd really, really, rather they didn't. I understand it sucks.
So separating service members who have medical shaving waivers will disproportionately affect Black service members. There's no way Hegseth et al don't know this.
"But wait a minute! What about the gas mask thing!?" I hear someone ask, "that sounds pretty legit." Ok, here's the deal: the waiver says you don' t have to shave down to the skin; it doesn't say you don't keep things trim and keep facial hare short. No one with a no-shave chit is running around with a full beard that's keeping them from putting on a gas mask.
But even if they were, what about all the SpecOps guys with their "operator beards"? And anyone who's been on a multiday mission outside the wire knows there are times when adherence to the grooming standards takes a backseat to operational necessities; most of us have gone a couple of days without a shave.
And if there were really a serious threat of chemical warfare and you absolutely needed to ensure you could get a seal with a gas mask, you'd shave regardless of the chit or you'd be in MOPP-4 anyway (with no exposed skin). Note that a gas mask really only covers the face and eyes; you'd be putting on a hood and other equipment to cover up the rest including, you guessed it, the area of the face and neck where the seal isn't perfect.
So yeah. I fail to see any way in which this effort is anything other than explicitly racist.
former tor relay operator is being systematically destroyed by feds for refusing to decrypt tor traffic from his exit node. they literally told a judge his graphics driver was "dark web hacking software"
now he's in jail with a head injury from their raid, having seizures, denied medical care, no lawyer
all the evidence is documented here: https://rockenhaus.com
independent journalists need to pick this up immediately. this family is getting destroyed and it's all documented with video evidence (i made a mirror of all the videos as idk how long they will last on youtube)
please boost this. people need to be talking about this case
As the person that founded the most high profile Black instance in the fedi and still develops safety tools for this environment, there is still a lot of resistance in the fedi in accepting how massively it failed Black and Brown internet folks.
I donât mind the technical discussions between ATProtocol and Activity Pub because they both have stuff to learn from each other, but the fedi damaged reputation isnât due to technical concerns.
The fedi has a *terrible* reputation to the point people are choosing a corporate option they know is bad over a free one.
Folks really need to think about what that means.
I regularly talk to folks who left the fedi and they *consistently* say the bigoted harassment they faced on the fedi is the *worst theyâve experienced* online. These arenât people that are unfamiliar with how digital communities work. These are veteran digital citizens that are accustomed to bad faith engagement on the web.
Fortunately, the rise of Blacksky and other independent installs are rendering Bluesky irrelevant as it continues to enshitify, but the fedi needs to accept its utter failure in regards to safety and moderation is a central reason why we are talking about Bluesky at all.
I do believe itâs possible for the fedi to still be a major player in social media.
But it has to be real about why many people believe Bluesky is the lesser evil.
Seems as if we are rapidly finding our what happens when you fail to understand Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance and tolerate the intolerant...
"Kilmeadeđ¨is advocating for extrajudicial killings on FOX, yet Matthew Dowd was fired by MSNBC pointing out Charlie Kirkâs dangerous rhetoric. This moral asymmetry in the media and online is destroying democracy."
-S Watts
#Fascism #Democide RW #Media #FoxNews #TrumpRegime #Republicans #Protest #USPol
Politics have no place in Football so it was unacceptable for Colin Kaepernick to peacefully take a knee to protest systemic racism, but the NFL proudly held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk because we must honor a man who denied systemic racism even exists.
This is America.
Alternate framing: We have a problem with policies that help nonwhites, not with policies that hurt them
Hey gang, I really need a job. UK, remote, something to do with computers.
I've been doing all sorts of software plumbing for a decade now, I can speak C, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, even a bit of Assembly for certain architectures in a pinch.
I might not be extremely specialized in any one area but you bet I can solve that one nagging problem you're not sure what specialist you need for. I've done frontend, backend, embedded, everything.
Please boost!
