R00t#d @rooted@toot.cafe

So if you only use profanity during the full moon, does that make you a swearwolf?

Since smartwatches can now read your pulse, there should be a feature where it deletes your browser history when your heart beat stops.

Start-Up Suicide, Patreon Style http://www.pretty-terrible.com/start-up-suicide-patreon-style/

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Computers are everywhere. They control our access to culture, knowledge, information, education & work it enables us to participate in democratic decision-making. It is crucial that in the 21st century software is controlled by the society #FreeSoftware #HumanRightsDay #Article19

#Enigmail 's blocking of copy-paste makes people unsafe.

It basically means people cannot use password managers for their GnuPG key passwords. The alternatives for most users are:
- use a shitty password (perhaps re-using it);
- use a key without a password.

The person who came up with this idiotic idea should get drawn and quartered.

#InfoSec

Apple's on a good run lately.

To recap, users in the last month had:
- Bug that let anyone be root with an empty password
- Fixed that bug then un-fixed in another update
- Bug that autocorrected "I" to [?]
- Bug that exposed HomeKit
- Bug that broke file sharing
(Via: https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/939105671441780736)
#infosec #apple #iphone

Probably the most important thing I've written about GNOME in the past few years. It's long, but take the time to read it all.

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2017/12/11/developing-skills-with-gnome/

On Wednesday, Internet users will descend on the FCC in Washington to defend #NetNeutrality. If you can’t join them… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/940045479538126848 source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/940045479538126848

They want the FCC to delay voting on #NetNeutrality until they investigate comment fraud

https://www.wired.com/story/fcc-must-investigate-fraud-before-voting-on-net-neutrality/

A noble call, but fundamentally misguided as it assumes the FCC leadership isn't already bought and sold

The net can't survive a rigged system and an apathetic populace. Subverting special interests with community managed alternatives is one possible solution. I don't know if it will work, but I'd rather try that than do nothing