Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

Don't know what to do or were to start in resisting the MAGA authoritarian takeover? Need to start small? Check out this link:

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important.

https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions

#Resistance

HT: @garrettbucks

@samlitzinger Just remembered what happened when Silvio 'Bunga Bunga' Berlusconi, Italy's Trump (or, to be more precise, Trump is America's Berlusconi) died: his heirs called specialists to appraise his art collection, which occupied a WAREHOUSE, and the recommendation of those exquisite Italian experts was "burn it all"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67162602

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#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies #FOSS

Interesting Git repos of the week:

Detection:

* https://github.com/tstromberg/ucd - hunt for unauthorised changes
* https://github.com/mnrkbys/fjta - check for anomalies in your FS timeline

Exploitation:

* https://github.com/hardenedlinux/tzram-audit - audit your TrustZone implementatation

Nerd:

* https://gist.github.com/halcy/b4f455ef05c4c36906107e9367b8dd63 the Fediverse in FUSE

#security, #research, #code

We’re all trying to find the collaborators who did this.

https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/114226655742304795

Wow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account.

If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability is publicly known.

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

@arstechnica@mastodon.social 1st, Code Berg, is an alternative to GitHub, but located in Germany.

That is where I have been working on a list of digital service providers, outside Us Jurisdiction. It has not been easy. Often you will find "company 1" is located in "France" (random example), but is owned by another company in "Germany" (random example), which is ultimately owned by a company in the United States.

In making my list, I have learned just how much people "simp" for a corporation. It is that tribe mindset folks have. You point out how their own TOS (terms of services) quote either an address in the United States, or quotes a bunch of laws in the United States, and people still want you to list their company because "reasons" (insert random excuse). I am sure, they're happy with their service provider, but the whole point is to come up with a list of service providers, outside Us Jurisdiction (laws).

Here is my list. It is open source and a community effort. https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction