kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Yet another supply chain attack in a popular browser extension impacts millions.

You should not be worried a supply chain attack might hit you. You should be worried about damage control for the ones already installed on your critical systems.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/846272/37d25507fa3e9cd3/

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thisworldofours.pdf

«Security people are like smarmy teenagers who listen to goth music: they are full of morbid and detailed monologues about the pervasive catastrophes that surround us, but they are much less interested in the practical topic of what people should do before we’re inevitably killed by ravens or a shortage of black mascara»

"Mój ulubiony nauczyciel na uniwerku robił dobre wprowadzenie do dziennikarstwa: 'Jeśli ktoś mówi, że pada, a ktoś inny, że jest sucho, to twoją pracą nie jest cytować obu, tylko popatrzeć, k**wa, za okno i sprawdzić, kto ma rację.'"

Czy ktoś może to wysłać do każdej redakcji w tym kraju?

Market-driven economy is totally fine as long as we're talking about choice in clothing styles and car models. When it comes to things that people depend on, like energy, markets fail. They have done so currently in Texas where its private energy providers were not ready for an emergency: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/texas-energy-system-faces-a-winter-reckoning

It never makes business sense to invest resources into managing emergencies. It's much cheaper to just shrug and say "shit happens", as customers have nowhere to go anyway.

#fedihive help please,
many moons ago i came across a modern tool that was perfect as a replacement for sshfs - namely to mount a remote folder as a drive but that it would persist across laptop's power suspends and migrations to different (wifi) networks - local/public...

i lost the link and the name. it's almost like a syncthing but for mounting folders instead for syncing them.

anyone has ideas what this project would be?

(pls boost)

parler XD

Interesting!

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Bonfire is a new project that aims to combine an open source hardware device with FOSS federated social networks to allow you to physically control your own data, and to operate offline too if you want. You can follow at:

➡️ @bonfire

The official website is at https://bonfire.cafe

(Bonfire was previously known as CommonsPub.)

#Bonfire #CommonsPub #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #Hardware #OpenSourceHardware #OSH #OffTheGrid #Privacy #SelfHosting

In our latest newsletter:
- A safer internet starts with a privacy-friendly device
- Should /e/ implement a “panic” PIN feature?
- How to support /e/OS development

Read below in🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹🇪🇸

#degoogled #smartphones #privacy #opensource

https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-a-safer-internet-starts-with-a-privacy-friendly-device-should-e-implement-a-panic-pin-feature

K-9 Mail is looking for funding

Never heard of K-9, well nobody is perfect:
K-9 Mail is an open source email client focused on making it easy to chew through large volumes of email

Via:
https://k9mail.app/2021/02/14/K-9-Mail-is-looking-for-funding

PSA: #pandoc is freaking awesome:
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extensions

I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out if I should use CommonMark, or Python Markdown with Nikola static site generator to get all the things I want (like: footnotes, tables, strikethrough, frontmatter, etc.).

Turns out, I can just use pandoc Markdown with specific extensions I want.

Damn, this is sweet.