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The County Tyrone village of Moygashel in Northern Ireland has adorned their ritual bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets, with placards beneath the boat stating: โStop the boatsโ and โVeterans before refugeesโ.
The police have been told that there is a very real prospect of serious and sustained disorder should there be any effort to remove the bonfire.
I cannot help but admire the robust statement of the people in the County Tyrone village of Moygashel who have adorned their ritual bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets, with placards beneaโฆ
I gently remind those who think conquering the West is a push-over that they are dealling with the scions of the mud and blood, shit-stained barbarians that toppled Rome and everyone else that drew their focus.
Their current civility only exists because their barbarism was so destructive. Raised to temper your nature doesn't mean its gone, just buried, unhealthily deep. It has taken a ling time to lull it to sleep. Don't toy with the tail of a sleeping tiger.
Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps
Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topic without worrying too much about tertiary matters. Here's the TL;DR: If you actually built your cryptography properly, you shouldn't give a shit which country hosts the ciphertext for yourโฆ
Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topiโฆ
"NSAโs Tailored Access Operations is specifically chartered to hack foreign targets (and not domestic ones) for intelligence purposes. By hosting your metadata outside the USA, youโre putting it in scope of the more skilled government-employed hackers."
I do concur with that threat analysis!
"But Tor is a low-latency anonymity network designed for web traffic."
I do not concur with that.
There are reasons Tor is implemented as a SOCKS proxy.
Conflating the Tor Browser Bundle with Tor itself, isn't great?
Admittedly, while I am not a Tor developer, I have known Tor devs in plurality. I have co-habitated and worked with some of them elsewhere. Roger Dingledine crashed on my couch once upon a time, back when I had couches to offer as crash space to others; instead of years of homelessness as in more recent years (decade+?).
It's true that an egregious amount of traffic is web based though; so the Tor Browser Bundle is probably how a lot of folks ever use and/or encounter Tor in practice. Kind of orthogonal to the rest of your discourse.
Having written as much, I think even Roger would be the first to admit that Tor isn't a panacea. It attempts to provide a layer of anonymity predominantly at the IP (v4) layer. There are many other potential pitfalls, even for Tor users.
Giving a shit about which country (or more broadly; I would be concerned about NGOs) might be storing your data is probably still wise? It never sat well with me that Facebook would flag OTR traffic over XMPP as "encrypted message" in their WebUI. To me that screamed: "we are logging your data for future attacks."
As if (m)any users ever used OTR over Facebook's XMPP implementation in the first place! sigh
Which is a long winded way of saying: If Facebook/Meta Messenger claims to use the same Axolotl/Double Ratchet Algorithm utilized by Signal (and WhatsApp) and they have already previously demonstrated that they are actively logging ciphertext for potential future offline attacks, they seem to be showing everyone who should know better, that they are to be considered hostile, regardless of what nation state identity they may claim and whether the traffic hitting Facebook/Meta's servers from its ciphertext users ever leaves a nation state level border? It's totally inconsequential as a result. They should be treated as a Mallory.
Everything about Signal rubs me (and many others in the know; though I had a positively enlightening conversation over dinner with someone I met at REcon last month in Montreal who has, for reasons that remain mostly mysterious to me though grokked by someone else at the dinner table, unofficially and repeatedly backported various Signal versions to run on Windows 7 and dug into it more deeply and recently than I would ever care to [e.g. exfiltrated.com/download/signaโฆ ]) the wrong way, and I was cajoled into running Signal when it was still called TextSecure and RedPhone.
I'd love to see you explore something such as SILC (which attempted to defend against malicious server operators, a threat model which is real and still denied by most/all end-to-end encrypted comms systems entirely) or better yet, PSYC2.
I have only encountered one detractor of SILC, who while not particularly outspoken (quite the opposite) was a former coworker of mine with some skills. Unfortunately, that individual has been less than communicative with me after I emailed about a laptop that was gifted to me by that same individual, having had a (U)EFI backdoor that took me considerable time and effort and expense to identify and remediate; just to give you an idea of the level of threats with which I have already contended by those professing to be allies.
I am a terrible judge of character, and much to my own detriment, have given folks the benefit of the doubt, even given past transgressions, since I acknowledge humans make mistakes, and we can learn from such situations! However, some things (at a level below most OSes at a minimum) seem to speak for themselves.
Oh yeah, updating because I meant to mention the deeply dystopian copaganda perspective (perhaps Devil's advocate) of assigning detention time based upon cryptographic key length as posited by Poul-Henning Kamp here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3703126 (direct link to 308KB PDF here: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/370โฆ). That certainly isn't a world in which I would ever want to exist, but we already have a planet with fuckwits who have come up with "smart" contracts on the blockchain as an idiotic methodology to try to absolve themselves of attorneys?
Far be it from me to think highly of the "law" given that I was incarnated in a country which seems to have a so-called "justice" system which seems to be predominantly preoccupied with perpetuating carceral slavery in the 21st century, going so far as to apparently have over 90% of its inmates having never even had a jury trial (so much for "due process"!) but there are a lot of individuals with power and riches who likes things as they are, and would probably love a more punitive system as PHK seems to be advocating when it comes to encrypted comms systems. Just as there are, quite obviously from the headlines, governments (e.g. the UK) which are bullying private enterprises (e.g. Apple) into cryptographic backdoors (that will never end well yet they're doing it anyway!).
Having written as much, I think it's rather telling that while PHK pioneered the horridly named "jails" subsystem within FreeBSD, that Apple rather presciently (or more likely, because jkh [Jordan Hubbard], FreeBSD co-founder and also previously "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple for over a dozen years, leaving in 2013 sometime after Steve Jobs passed away [Jordan was CTO at iXSystems while I consulted for them around the same time]) decided not to integrate jails into OS X. Containers may be useful to some degree (Apple certainly eventually implemented their own Hypervisor Framework as an example in related realms), but words matter and PHK seems to have what is, from my vantage, and unhealthy obsession with "rule of law" nomenclature both in FreeBSD's jails subsystem, as well as that ACM writing to which I linked. I've never visited Denmark, maybe every cop and judge is honest there, but here in the USA, ACAB and judges are more likely to be "on the take" than benevolent and unfortunately that must be taken into account with threat modeling as well.
Kevin Crane dissects the absurd and chilling corporate fantasies around a post-war Gaza, where the involvement of Blair brings it all back to the lies of the Iraq War over twenty years ago
Last week, 170 humanitarian and human-rights groups, incluโฆ
Whether itโs bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their โirony poisoningโ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
Wirre Welt der Rationalisten: Wie eine Gruppe Tech-Philosophen zu Mรถrdern wurde https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000278547/wirre-welt-der-rationalisten-wie-eine-gruppe-tech-philosophen-zu-moerdern-wurde?ref=mastodon
Sharon Grahamโs supporters force through neutralising โstatementโ โ delegates urged to defeat it tomorrow so motions are heard In what Unite conference delegates have descriโฆ
And Albanese treats US mafia intimidation with contempt it deserves Human rights expert and former United Nations director Craig Mokhiber has slammed US Secretary of State Marco Rubioโs decisโฆ
It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee โ a โleft behindโ former mining town in County Durham โ utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.
As scores of people โ including medical staff and their families โ have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.
In my AliExpress purchase, I specifically looked for the SMALLEST cards I could find. I'm only using 32 MEGA-bytes of each card... so seriously you can't buy a card too-small. I hope this takes me off the front lines of scam-dom. Most of what I buy are 16GB claimed. If they work reliably, I don't care. Even slow cards are adequately fast.
As crappy as things are now, I suspect it will only get worse, and things could become effectively impossible to navigate.
And then we could soon (do...) have more pressing daily concerns.
I remember a decade or so ago there was someone else who ran into issues with cards and it led to an amazing blog article where they encountered the concept of โghost shiftโ.
Apparently the โghost shiftโ is when workers show up at the factory in the middle of the night when the boss is gone, rerun all the materials that failed during day shift, mark them with bullshit data, and dump it onto the market for extra cash.
The guy writing had contracted a factory to make his product and 80% of the products were failing. It was eventually traced to the SD cards being used for internal storage, which were bought for way below budget (someone pocketed the money) from workers dumping the rejected goods on the market.
Lots of that kind of stuff goes on.
I remember getting a whole batch of 74hc595 shift registers that uhโฆ didnโt shift. Same story.
Written by: @bunnie@treehouse.systems who still blogs about fascinating hardware explorations (and unsurprisingly, also designs hardware, e.g. betrusted.io/ )
Though maybe more related to hardware trust concerns, here's a BlueHat talk from 2019 on supply chain risks: youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1Aโฆ
Where did your computer come from? How many hands could have touched your machine before you powered it on for the first time? They say it takes a village to...
I had the good fortune to meet bunnie in person at REcon around two decades ago and took a hardware hacking class (back when the Chumby was still in prototype stage) from him at ToorCon as well. We last crossed paths in person in SF probably circa 2010?
I was hoping to see him (and even contemplated bringing a first edition self published "Hacking the Xbox" book for him to sign just in case, but decided I didn't want to lug the extra mass in transit on just a chance), and a bunch of other old familiar faces at REcon this year for the 20th anniversary but aside from Hugo, almost everyone was new to me!
I have been "out of the loop" for a very long time though; I think the last tangential event I attended was Chaos Communications Camp circa 2011?
So for me, a blog post from 2010 probably is still fresher in my neurons. ;)
Maybe I'll catch back to -CURRENT one of these days?
I've got more menial Maslow's hierarchy of needs layers to address first (I seem to have been stuck on the physiological needs being unsatisfactory for well over a decade as well) before loftier ideals! Still seemingly stuck in a "survival" mode. My suspicion: I will require a new (non human) incarnation to transcend my current corporeal maladies.
The US Supreme Court issued an 8-1 order on Tuesdayโwithout addressing the constitutionality of the issueโthat allows the Trump administration to proceed with the destruction of government agencies and the firing of tens of thousands of federal emploโฆ
"Eloxochitlรกn de Flores Magรณn, a Mazatec Indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been defending its river from gravel and sand dredgers for over a decade. As a well-organized and determined force, the community has endured unprecedented repression, including criminalization, torture, displacement, imprisonment, and violence. Now, the community faces a new attack โ 200 trumped-up charges against 56 residents, among them teachers, farmers, mothers, and the elderly. The trumped-up charges are meant to relate to a conflict in the region in 2014."
Let the soothing sounds of rain to help you fall asleep fast. This collection of the coziest rainy bedtime stories are narrated by a woman's voice, accompani...
Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows | Herbicides | The Guardiantheguardian.com/environment/20โฆ
#many artists for this tune These are the arms that held him and touched him Lost him somehow Colour them empty now These are the beads I wore Until she came between Colour them green Sandy Stewart is 88 youtu.be/J80QTYi9Avg?si=GJ7xf3โฆ
Although recorded by many artists including Barbra Streisand, Kitty Kallen, Skeeter Davis, and Brenda Lee, the most popular version of "My Coloring Book" wri...
Foghat Slow Ride (music video) Audio โ โSlow Rideโ Video โ live footage from 1981 I used the best live footage I could find of the band to create this one, r...
Please, donโt forget usโฆ Hope is fading as donations slow down. Weโre holding on to the little hope we have left. All weโre asking for now is to secure the most basic rights in life: Food, water, and medicine for my sick father. Please, stand with us. Your support keeps us alive. #gaza
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza.
โญ๏ธ Taybeh, the last fully Christian town in the occupied West Bank, faces systematic Israeli settler attacks and illegal outpost expansion
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The heads of the three main churches in Taybeh โ the Greek Orthodox, Latin Catholic, and Melkite Greek Catholโฆ
I used to suspect that the whale statue in front of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, aka "Sandy the Gray Whale" was cast from the same moldings as the whale statue in front of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.
Having investigated such things again now (despite having been local to the areas in my youth), it appears as if the Santa Cruz equivalent in Tyrrell Park has apparently been updated in 2025 and now has a baby whale companion! Whoa!
So I have no idea about their potential relation anymore!
The whale statue @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io shared is also new to me, but to my eyes? The barnacles do not appear as if they are to a consistent scale. ;)
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Analysis: "In conditions like the conditions the Palestinian people in Gaza face today, the concept of free choice is a lie."
โIsrael has no right even to be in Gaza or in the West Bank.. everything Israel does there.. is also illegal, including in implementing any of these plans for forced displacement whether within or outside of Gaza."
"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them... maybe you can hire..."
"just mad at myself for being upset and then feeling bad."
Been there. As a sage friend of mine once phrased it: "I eventually learned to stop beating myself up, for beating myself up."
Admittedly, I am not sure if I figured out that friend's solution for myself? His way of phrasing it was helpful framing to at least attempt to acknowledge when I am caught up in some similar mental anguish loop.
For me, changing scenery is a methodology that I find is sometimes helpful? Going for a walk in nature if possible, far away from humans and their noises is ideal! A babbling brook, raging rapids, or the moon reflected in an ocean with waves crashing seem to be fantastic for me when I can enjoy such things.
Rain drops, while soaking in some rustic hot springs far away from most signs of so-called "civilization"? Better still!
Unfortunately, it is not always easy or possible to change scenery to such realms without significant effort and often expenses.
Simpler things, such as making an herbal tisane, the meditative qualities of watching steam "peel" off the "skin" of the tea cup, help to slow down and be in the moment, a different moment than incessant negative thoughts.
Tea kettles and water and loose leaves are not always readily available.
So perhaps some headphones, and a song, or album, or something musical can be helpful, for me at least, to have another frame of reference when I am in exceedingly urban hellscapes full of human maladies.
Barring that, earplugs.
Admittedly, reducing inputs from the world around me that I find harrowing isn't the be all end all, but a starting point.
If stuck with human trappings and no good tunes are readily available, vegging out to some movies or something similar (ideally: comedic in nature if looking for levity) might be beneficial?
No doubt, if the negative thoughts are persistent (as they often are in my experience) such strategies may be of limited utility, but even temporary distractions can still be welcome in my experience.
Well, Bazzite just obliterated one of the last reasons I was still clinging to Windows 11.
My living room PC has an RTX 3090, yet Windows still wonโt run anything at 4K 60fps. It caps out at 4K 30fps or 1080p 60fpsโno matter what I do. For years, I blamed the TV. Thought maybe I cheaped out. Spent all this money on a high-end rig, and it never delivered what I wanted.
Then I docked my wifeโs Legion Go. It dual-boots Windows 11 and Bazzite.
Guess what? Same problem on Windows. But boot into Bazzite? Boomโ4K at 60fps, no issue.
Turns out it wasnโt the TV. It was Windows.
Once again, Linux quietly proves itโs the better OS for gaming.
Fuck. Sorry bro, I think I ripped her asshole. My cock is just too big for her dirty tail pipe. How come you said you love fucking her in the ass? You got some skinny dick or something cuz mine barely fitted.
Universities and artists face funding threat under antisemitism plan being considered by Australian government | Australian politics | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-newsโฆ
"The report recommended all levels of government adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Allianceโs (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. However that definition is contested in some quarters, with some concerns it was increasingly being used to conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel."
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So Prophecy was told by prophets who were shown visions of the future,Time Travel by ZOG making themselves gods altering time which is the prison of mankind.
The Empire Is A Nonstop Insult To Our Intelligence
The US has imposed sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for using her position to oppose the most thoroughly documented genocide in history. caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empireโฆ
Corporate media is more outraged at the possibility of a Democratic socialist entering the NY Mayors office than at the certainty that a white supremacist has reentered the White House.
Corporate politicians are more outraged that Mamdani won't condemn something he didn't say than they are at Trump repeating racist things he definitely said.
Silicon Valley is more accepting of a racist who dehumanizes Muslims than they are of a Muslim who defies billionaires.
The Great Depression can be seen as a sort of (very painful) correction to wealth inequality. 2008 can be seen as an aborted correction of the same type. Without that correction, we have now reached the point where the wealthy are so far ahead that they can be blatant about their ownership of the government, and there is mass unrest. They turn us against each other instead of against them. And so fascism is born.
U.S. Tourism Just Lost Its Big-Spending Tourists To Its Friendliest Ally
data from the World Travel and #Tourism Council suggests that the only country among 184 globally to experience a decline in international tourist spending in 2025 will be the United States
The US tourism industry will lose over $12 Billion this year
European Travelers Are Skipping The U.S. For Toronto
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in reply to Carolen ๐ฌ๐ง๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ • • •I gently remind those who think conquering the West is a push-over that they are dealling with the scions of the mud and blood, shit-stained barbarians that toppled Rome and everyone else that drew their focus.
Their current civility only exists because their barbarism was so destructive. Raised to temper your nature doesn't mean its gone, just buried, unhealthily deep. It has taken a ling time to lull it to sleep. Don't toy with the tail of a sleeping tiger.