"Arbitrary File Read via file:// Protocol in cURL"

Well, you see... 🤦‍♂️

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc

(https://archive.ph/bYVVj)

I feel like I know at least one person for each of these options...

In case you missed it:
The EU is on the road to backdoor E2E encryption or ban it.
On CPDP in Brussels Europol member told me openly they expect that E2E can be decrypted soon and whoever refuses to comply will face legal action (aka arrests). The privacy officer of Europol openly supported it.
If you dont take agressive action soon then say goodbye to Signal or Threema or any other tool you use. It will be banned or shutdown.
The crypto wars never left, now its endgame.
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/going-dark-eu-kommission-stellt-fahrplan-fuer-datenzugang-fuer-polizeien-vor/

God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

Laura Loomer is an advisor to Trump, and she's quite clear that what's going on is not "deporting criminal aliens" but the ethnic cleansing of all 65 million Latinos in the US. In fact she's pretty clear she wants this to be the genocide of the US Latino population.

I'm not sure many people recognize we're already a few lines into the "first they came for the..." poem. But we are.

Is this productivity?

Blood on his and Elon’s hands. Whenever you see Little Marco, picture a mountain of children’s souls crying out behind him.

Them: Alright, so first you write a test that fails
Me: Yes, I'm nailing this
Them: Then you write code that makes it pass
Me: ...you've lost me

Symbolically, on this day 29 years ago — 1 June 1996 — Ukraine handed over its last nuclear weapon to russia under the Budapest Memorandum. In return, russia pledged to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders. Russia got the nukes. Ukraine got “security guarantees." Remember?

I published a follow-up on NPR's scoop last week about a whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), who alleges DOGE created super admin accounts (w/ no logging) at NLRB and transferred ~10GB worth of data from the agency's case files.

The story includes an interview with the whistleblower -- NLRB security architect Daniel Berulis -- and examines the technical claims in his report to lawmakers. He's taking some paid leave for now, noting that the same day the NPR story ran, the NLRB removed administrative rights for its IT staff and almost everyone else at the agency.

The backstory is that both Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX have been suing the NLRB over complaints the agency filed in disputes about workers’ rights and union organizing, arguing that the NLRB’s very existence is unconstitutional. On March 5, a U.S. appeals court unanimously rejected Musk’s claim that the NLRB’s structure somehow violates the Constitution.

Here's the lede:

"A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB whistleblower said the unusual large data outflows coincided with multiple blocked login attempts from an Internet address in Russia that tried to use valid credentials for a newly-created DOGE user account."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data/

Incredibly alarming. https://www.comicsands.com/rfk-jr-autism-registry?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Given how long companies like Apple have been avoiding tax by “buying” from another country with lower tax, e.g. Apple avoids paying tax in Australia by buying “services” from Singapore, countries should be responding to tariffs by taxing the country of origin of the company rather the shipment… We’ve been screwed by US companies for far too long!

If you want to ensure your content does not get indexed by big tech LLMs, just keep it in your robots.txt file.

Another one bites the dust! The editorial board of the journal Mathematical Logic Quarterly have resigned en masse, complaining about the publisher, Wiley:

"The managing editors and editors of MLQ believe that the academic editorial process guaranteeing scientific quality control should be entirely in the hands of an editorial team consisting of members of the academic research community that are entirely free from pressure or influence of commercial and profit-oriented interests."

They've started a new journal of mathematical logic that's "diamond open access". This means simply that it's free to publish in and free to read.

Because they're German, they decided to call this new journal Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. But they'll forgive you if you call it ZML:

https://blog.tib.eu/2025/04/07/mlq-walk-out/

This move is part of a trend. The Open Access Tracking Project now lists more than 200 articles on such "declarations of independence":

https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/3/tag/oa.declarations_of_independence

If you're on an editorial board, you should want to convert your journal to diamond open access. And there are resources to help you do it:

https://www.openaccess.nl/en/diamond-open-access/resources
https://toolsuite.diamas.org/

How to out compete any major tech vendor right now: work in the same space as their core products - but just don't put anything AI in the product.

They're all so distracting tickling their own bollocks with AI right now they've completely lost focus on their core products and real customer needs.

Yes, okay, this is a bit of a whinge.

I have spent hours helping people and small organisations with the UK's Online Safety Act.

Many, many, many hours.

And... no-one is any safer for it.

#OnlineSafetyAct

Wow – didn’t think I’d be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard 😭

What you’re seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years 🛰️✨

They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕

#SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science