jtl @jtl@mastodon.social

while #telegram is down (at least for some) take this as an oportunity to reflect:
- do you rely on a centralized service
- telegram runs on proprietary software
- it can't federate and creates by that something known as 'walled gargen'
- there are great alternatives you might like

#matrix (federated protocoll) -> https://about.riot.im/
#xmpp (federated protocoll) -> conversations.im/ , #jabber ...

for future use:
briar (in beta) has p2p
https://briarproject.org/index.html

Today's web perf fail: trying to analyze CPU usage of news sites during page load, but it turns out that most of them keep using 20-40% of my laptop's CPU even after they're "loaded."

If browsers didn't throttle background tabs, your battery would be hosed after a few hours of surfing the web.

Great blog post on Slack's "bait and switch".

https://opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-and-switch/

"The reason email is federated, is because it was developed before surveillance capitalism was a thing and because it was established and entrenched long before these companies came around.

There's a reason why your email address is still the de facto way to sign up for any service on the web (sometimes with one or two degrees of separation), and it's because of federation."

Something reminded me I still have Pidgin installd... It's strange to think that something like 6 or 7 years ago I used to have it open all the time because all my friends were on gTalk and MSN

I think it’s important to quit framing Mastodon as a Twitter replacement. They both have different uses!

Mastodon’s where you go to build/find community in a decentralized space, while Twitter’s where you go to emulate the feeling of sticking your head into a boiling vat of cooking oil.

coming soon: a story about how techbros convinced a CEO to embezzle $180k+ from a reasonably okay business to throw parties for them.

tired: stack cookies
wired: eating stacks of cookies

https://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=141272606521280&w=2 lol this is old but it owns

"you could send your credit card info in 2 or more emails if you wanted"

how about no

did you know: "chat room" is derived from the french word for cat, "chat", after the types of content (cat images) usually shared in these groups

js is entirely made of caveats

People not realizing I'm referencing a new vulnerability called Spectre: https://spectreattack.com/

ironically, i asked this question of zayo a few years ago:

"hey, what happens if all the carriers buy waves from you and then there's a fibre cut"

"uhh, that won't happen because the circuits are protected!"

well, last night's midwestern US internet outage proves zayo was full of shit, now doesn't it?

The mastodon stages:

1: getting used to the interface

2: discovering that most people are just people, engaged in everyday adventures, big & small

3: the allure of the notification sound

4: a gradual getting used to the fact that not everything is about US politics, and that it's okay to filter it out on a macro level

5: a quiet moment when you think "there can still be poetry in this world"

6: some sort of reconciliation with the quantum magic that is the federated timeline

7: pineapples

@dvddpl remember when the jquery CDN went down and half the web broke

gonna make my own ANDROID ROM, call it KANIINI ROM, gonna use this as the RINGTONE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sjTp9sQuFE

A more general question I suppose:

Are there public examples out there of MACs (Mandatory Access Control) like SELinux or AppArmor actually mitigating an attack against a system?

#infosec