Notices by Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social), page 3

Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 22:05:34 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- The federation's favorite uncle
- Coco
@guizzy @lain I'm really pretty tired of this "Pleroma/GNU Social/SomethingElse is Nazi software/space" bullshit.
I had a StatusNet account until Evan killed identi.ca years ago; a shit-ton of great people I talk with here every day have accounts on Pleroma or GNU Social. Some are their developers.
#Mastodon benefited handsomely from there being a large community of dedicated people in Fediverse before Mastodon was a thing. Let's acknowledge that and stop being so condescending.

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2017 12:53:47 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)

Found in #IRC:
"apparently people are getting around Chrome and Firefox telling everyone that non-HTTPS password fields are 'not secure' by just using regular text fields. they change the font on the text field to 'text-security-disc', which is apparently a font that exists of all bullets and looks just like traditional password fields."
How about instead of investing time and effort into schemes like these, you just ROLL OUT #HTTPS FOR FSCK'S SAKE!
#InfoSec #DevOps #SysAdmin

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 22:04:12 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)

#systemd is amazing. Produces copious amounts of logging that do not actually say anything useful.

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2017 21:10:35 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
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- Matthew Lövelace
@starbreaker I can confirm this. The man has died after several days in intensive care, never regaining consciousness.
Left a well-written and argued letter explaining his motives.
All over media in #Poland. Ruling party is trying to spin this as "an act of a mad man" or a "troubled person". The man predicted this in his letter.
Haven't seen a mention outside Poland.

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2017 19:48:55 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- Doug Webb
- solidarity with ppl in rojava
@douginamug @paulfree14 damn, they fscked it up. Here's a different link for the same video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE6aH_y7NU
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1. 30C3: No Neutral Ground in a Burning World (EN)
  
  By Christiaan008 from YouTube
Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2017 07:26:21 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- Jeff Cliff
- Stéphane Bortzmeyer
@jeffcliff @bortzmeyer "big fuckup"? You mean like Internet of Things? ;)
#EternalSeptember will never be over. The Internet is turning into cable TV. Consider: https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet/
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1. Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet
  
  By Leo Mirani from Quartz
  
  It was in Indonesia three years ago that Helani Galpaya first noticed the anomaly.
  
  Indonesians surveyed by Galpaya told her that they didn’t use the internet. But in focus groups, they would talk enthusiastically about how much time they spent on Facebook. Galpaya, a researcher (and now CEO) with LIRNEasia, a think tank, called Rohan Samarajiva, her boss at the time, to tell him what she had discovered. “It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook,” he concluded.
  
  “It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook.” In Africa, Christoph Stork stumbled upon something similar. Looking at results from a survey on communications use for Research ICT Africa, Stork found what looked like an error. The number of people who had responded saying they used Facebook was much higher than those who said they used the internet. The discrepancy accounted for some 3% to 4% of mobile phone users, he says.
  
  Since at least 2013, Facebook has been making noises about connecting the entire world to the internet. But even Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s operations head, admits that there are Facebook users who don’t know they’re on the internet. So is Facebook succeeding in its goal if the people it is connecting have no idea they are using the internet? And what does it mean if masses of first-time adopters come online not via the open web, but the closed, proprietary network where they must play by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s rules?
  
  This is more than a matter of semantics. The expectations and behaviors of the next billion people to come online will have profound effects on how the internet evolves. If the majority of the world’s online population spends time on Facebook, then policymakers, businesses, startups, developers, nonprofits, publishers, and anyone else interested in communicating with them will also, if they are to be effective, go to Facebook. That means they, too, must then play by the rules of one company. And that has implications for us all.
  
  The data
  
  11% of Indonesians who said they used Facebook also said they did not use the internet. Measuring Facebook penetration versus internet penetration is tricky business. Internet penetration numbers come from national regulators and from estimates by the International Telecommunication Union, a UN body. These are generally months if not years old. Facebook numbers come from Facebook’s advertising platform. These can be tricky, too. Some people have more than one account. Some accounts are rarely used. And some people access Facebook through phones with only the most basic of online features, in which case it is hard to argue that they really are using the internet in any meaningful way.
  
  In an attempt to replicate Stork and Galpaya’s observations, Quartz commissioned surveys in Indonesia and Nigeria from Geopoll, a company that contacts respondents across the world using mobile phones. We asked people whether they had used the internet in the prior 30 days. We also asked them if they had used Facebook. Both surveys had 500 respondents each.
  
  It would appear, on the surface, that more people use the internet than use Facebook, a perfectly sensible outcome.
  
  But a closer look at the data (available in full here) shows that 11% of Indonesians who said they used Facebook also said they did not use the internet. In Nigeria, 9% of Facebook users said they do not use the internet. These are largely young people; the median age of respondents with this combination of answers is 25 in Indonesia and 22 in Nigeria.
  
  It would be silly to extrapolate this to the entire population of Nigeria or Indonesia. But the survey does provide replicable evidence of the behaviors described by Stork and Galpaya. Considering the substantial percentages—about 10% of Facebook users in our surveys—the data suggest at the very least that a few million of Facebook’s 1.4 billion users suffer from the same misconceptions. (Quartz commissioned limited surveys in just two countries; we encourage researchers and other journalists to conduct more large-scale studies.)
  
  The effects of the misconception also are visible in the survey results. We asked respondents whether they follow links out of Facebook. In both countries, more than half of those who don’t know they’re using the internet say they “never” follow links out of Facebook, compared with a quarter or less of respondents who say they use both Facebook and the internet. If people stay on one service, it follows that content, advertisers, and associated services also will flow to that service, possibly to the exclusion of other venues.
  
  How Facebook became the internet
  
  At Davos this year, Sandberg told the well-heeled crowd (paywall) that in the developing world, “people will walk into phone stores and say ‘I want Facebook.’ People actually confuse Facebook and the internet in some places.” Or as Iris Orriss, Facebook’s head of localization and internationalization, has put it, “Awareness of the Internet in developing countries is very limited. In fact, for many users, Facebook is the internet, as it’s often the only accessible application.” (Emphasis in the original.)
  
  Facebook is “often the only accessible application,” as Orriss puts it, but that’s because Facebook—which did not respond to requests to comment on this story—has worked to ensure that it is the easiest and cheapest to access. The company backs internet.org, an initiative to “bring the Internet to the two thirds of the world’s population that doesn’t have it.” Yet internet.org’s showpiece, an app now available in nearly half a dozen countries, provides free access only to Facebook, Facebook messenger, and a handful of other services (the precise lineup varies by country).
  
  Most of these other services are well-meaning and related to development: Women’s rights. Jobs. Maternal-health information. An Ebola FAQ. The only concessions to the wider web are Wikipedia and Google search. But clicking through on a Google search result requires a data plan—and that must be paid for by the user. (Despite the name, internet.org is not a non-profit concern, but very much a part of Facebook Inc.)
  
  Ghana’s Facebook phone looked like a Blackberry with a big blue “F” as the central button. Telecom operators across the developing world also contribute to the confusion—though this is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Mobile web users spend a lot of time on Facebook and WhatsApp (also owned by Facebook). Mobile networks see this and offer these customers social-only plans.
  
  In India, you can get a Facebook-only data plan for $2.50 a year (the cheapest full data plans cost about $10 a year.) In the Philippines, Facebook-only plans cost a fifth as much as data plans. In Ghana, telecom operator Tigo once sold a Facebook phone. It looked like a Blackberry with a big blue “F” as the central button. Even in America, Sprint offers a data plan (paywall) solely for access to Facebook and Twitter.
  
  Finally, there is Facebook Zero, which predates internet.org and allows users of basic phones to access Facebook at no cost. Mobile operators have grumbled about this particular arrangement. Let them. One day Facebook will beam its services from the skies with its fleet of indefatigable, solar-powered drones.
  
  Why it matters
  
  Facebook bosses generally dismiss suggestions that the whole internet.org project might be self-interested. Writing in Time, Lev Grossman was granted access to Mark Zuckerberg when the Facebook CEO went to India to promote internet access. When Grossman asks whether internet.org is self-serving, Zuckerberg allows only that it may, one day, several decades down the line, pay off: “If you do good things for people in the world, then that comes back and you benefit from it over time.”
  
  Dave Wehner, Facebook’s finance chief, is more forthright. “I do think that over the long term, that focusing on helping connect everyone will be a good business opportunity for us.” If Facebook becomes one of the top services in these countries, he explained in a recent earnings call, “then over time we will be compensated for some of the value that we’ve provided.”
  
  That is a fair goal for any profit-seeking company. And besides, isn’t some access better than none at all? John Naughton of the Guardian argues that this is not the case:
  
  This is a pernicious way of framing the argument, and we should resist it. The goal of public policy everywhere should be to increase access to the internet—the whole goddam internet, not some corporate-controlled alcove—for as many people as possible. By condoning zero-rating we will condemn to a lifetime of servitude as one of Master Zuckerberg’s sharecroppers. We can, and should, do better than that.
  
  “It has very serious implications. It’s a proprietary platform. It’s not the open internet that we love and cherish.” Already services are starting to move away from the open web and to Facebook. And it’s happening not just in the poor world, but in poor parts of the developed world, where there also exists a sense among some that using an app isn’t the same as using the internet, which requires a web browser like Safari or Internet Explorer. Salix Homes manages government-owned subsidized housing in some the poorest parts of Salford, a deprived area in the north of England. Salix recently decided to accept complaints and rent payments from its tenants on Facebook.
  
  “We took the view that let’s go where people are rather than force them to go to our website,” says James Allan, the firm’s marketing manager. As a result, interactions are up 90% while traffic on the website has fallen.
  
  Allan is not in the business of deciding whether Facebook’s omnipresence among less affluent internet users is a good or bad thing. It is simply a thing. But as LIRNEasia’s Samarajiva says, “It has very serious implications. It’s a proprietary platform. It’s not the open internet that we love and cherish.” Yet he is optimistic that Facebook eventually will lead its users to that place.
  
  “Maybe it will introduce them,” he says, “to the larger concept of the internet. They’re already on the internet. They just don’t know they’re there.”
  
  A note on the methodology: The surveys of Indonesia and Nigeria used through this piece were administered by GeoPoll, which uses SMS to conduct real-time surveys without the need for face-to-face interaction in remote areas. This survey was conducted in late December in Indonesia and Nigeria, with 500 respondents from each country, equaling a margin of error of 4.38% at the 95% confidence level. For more information on this methodology visit research.geopoll.com. In addition, Quartz also commissioned surveys of India, Brazil, and Indonesia from Jana, whose members are reached via smartphone. Quartz asked Jana respondents, “Do you agree with the statement ‘Facebook is the Internet’?” Quartz also asked a representative sample of Americans the same question using SurveyMonkey.
  
  Read this next: $30 smartphones are here—and they’re getting better every day
Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2017 12:25:36 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@lnxw48a1 it's like: "What is it, exactly, that you don't understand about what Tor is about?" ;)

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2017 11:52:30 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)

Oh boy...
"Allow Tor relays to be configured to block selected hidden services, including racist hate sites"
We are glad that tor project has spoken out against racist hate speech sites but talk is cheap.
Tor routers stil advertize hate sites like "--.onion". Please include this url as blocked in the default configuration so that routers will not broadcast it."
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23270
o_O;
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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2017 10:46:02 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- SHA2017
There is a raging discussion at @SHA2017camp #SHA2017 about whether or not 🍍 on a 🍕 is a good idea.
I mean, obviously we all here agree it is, right? 🍍

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 20:39:32 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- SHA2017
Anybody going to @SHA2017camp ? Two Polish hackers will need transport from Amersfoort to the camping grounds tomorrow evening. Halp!

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2017 19:09:28 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)

Fuck.
"Troubling news coming out of Syria about the death of Bassel Khartabil, the Wikipedian and Head of Creative Common in Syria, who has been imprisoned in Syria since March 15, 2012. Bassel was reportedly executed shortly after his disappearance in 2015, but no formal information was ever given to his family and loved ones.
Bassel is a Palestinian Syrian national whom his love of technology has got him into trouble in Syria"
http://jimmywalesfoundation.org/horrific-reports-that-bassel-khartabil-has-been-executed-in-syria/
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1. Horrific: Reports that Bassel Khartabil Has Been Executed in Syria
  
  By JWF Staff from Jimmy Wales Foundation
  
  The #WhereIsBassel campaign
  
  Troubling news coming out of Syria about the death of Bassel Khartabil, the Wikipedian and Head of Creative Common in Syria, who has been imprisoned in Syria since March 15, 2012. Bassel was reportedly executed shortly after his disappearance in 2015, but no formal information was ever given to his family and loved ones.
  
  Bassel is a Palestinian Syrian national whom his love of technology has got him into trouble in Syria, as the revolution of 2011 has taken place.
  
  Bassel, the lead of Creative Commons Syria, had been detained in an undisclosed location for 9 months until he was transferred to Adra prison, where he finally gained access to see his family and wife on a weekly basis.
  
  On October 3, 2015, Bassel disappeared. Reports claimed that his name was stricken off the prison register and he was taken away by security forces from his cell to an unknown location.
  
  Today we received the horrific news that Bassel was executed immediately after his disappearance nearly two years ago.
  
  Foreign Policy magazine named Bassel one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2012, “for insisting, against all odds, on a peaceful Syrian revolution”. In March 2013, Index on Censorship awarded Bassel the 2013 Digital Freedom Award for his work using technology to promote an open and free Internet. Following his disappearance, the MIT Media Lab offered Bassel a research scientist position in the Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media.
  
  The Creative Commons Board of Directors called for Bassel’s immediate and safe release in a resolution at its most recent meeting. In November 2015, Bassel was offered by the board a position as a Digital Cultural Preservation Fellow. His numerous and impactful contributions to the open web and the commons have always inspired collaboration, community and the sharing of culture and knowledge.
  
  Bassel, an open source software developer, was a key contributor to projects that digitize, preserve, and share cultural heritage works. The #NEWPALMYRA project, co-founded by Bassel, is an online community platform and data repository dedicated to the capture, preservation, sharing and creative reuse of data about the ancient city of Palmyra. It features 3-D models of ruins from Palmyra. Bassel’s life project continues to develop these days by his friends, who were hoping for his safe return but were shocked today to learn about his horrific death.
  
  #WhereIsBassel?
  
  The Jimmy Wales Foundation launched with the Free Bassel group the #WhereIsBassel campaign. The #WhereIsBassel campaign has spread globally. On March 19, 2016, marking the week of the 4th anniversary of Bassel’s arrest, people from all over the world asked together: #WhereIsBassel? London, Berlin, Paris, Toulouse, Sicily, Boston, San Francisco, Shenzen, Singapore and Beirut – all called out for the Syrian government to reveal Bassel’s whereabouts and send him free. Unfortunately, our joint cry was unsuccessful.
  
  .
  
  Jimmy Wales and The Jimmy Wales Foundation are strongly condemning the criminal execution of Bassel, an innocent activist, and sending our deep condolences to Bassel’s wife and family.
Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2017 19:32:28 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺
@cbowdon because we have already Discourse in production, used by a large number of users, and I need to upgrade it.
Shouldn't have gone with Discourse to begin with. The red flags were there. Eh.

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2017 22:55:17 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- acw🍍
@acw the usual pineapples
pineapple beauty
american pineapple
the pineapple redemption
never-ending pineapple
back to the pinapple

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2017 21:34:07 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- acw🍍
@lnxw48a1 @acw fun fact,# Nextcloud has built-in #WebRTC support: https://nextcloud.com/webrtc/
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1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  Audio and Video Chat
  
  from Nextcloud
  
  Audio and Video Chat
Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2017 08:12:37 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- OCCRP
- FSFE
I can't stress how important it is. Without #GnuPG secure communication would be extremely difficult, and journalists and their sources would be in even more danger.
I #SupportGnuPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DqfWz-KHSI&list=PLjX3x3GHoOWLvnbryh7pqYHcf8FFwdE5q&index=11
cc @OCCRP @fsfe
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1. Michal Rysiek Wozniak Daily
  
  By GnuPG Org from YouTube
Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2017 23:04:25 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)

If anyone knows a service similar to Hetzner's StorageBox, but based in the #USA, please let me know.
basically, I need a few TiB of space accessible via SFTP/WebDAV/NFS/CIFS/whatever that does not cost too much and preferably has no costs per GiB downloaded down the line.
Reference:
https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-produktmatrix
#SysAdmin #SysOps #DevOps #BOFH

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2017 12:44:21 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- Kaito
@cphuntington97 Ubuntu switched to systemd because Debian did:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
Debian switched to systemd, because it's "faster" (not that important on servers, because "RHEL/CentOS did", and apparently without much debate:
http://linuxsay.com/t/why-did-debian-switch-to-systemd-and-what-is-the-future-of-the-distribution/388
RHEL/CentOS switched to systemd because it's their internal project I guess.
This whole thing looks bungled.

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2017 18:58:46 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- Stitch 🐺
@stitchxd @lnxw48a1 well... yeah. It can let you brick your machine (by mounting EFI vars read-write) and "it's not its fault" according to Lennart.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
Or it can let you `rm -rf /` without any verification:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5644
I love Lennart's response in the latter especially, showing he has no idea how `rm -rf /` works pretty much everywhere.

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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2017 22:43:50 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)

"Trump and first lady Melania Trump returned to listen to music on the terrace, which faces the Intracoastal Waterway, and shake hands and schmooze with members and guests at the club — all of whom had paid Trump’s business to be there (or been paid-for by their hosts)."
"Membership at the Mar-a-Lago Club now requires a $200,000 initiation fee — a fee that increased by $100,000 after Trump was elected."
http://ur1.ca/qv4rj
Well, that's an interesting business model.
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Rysiekúr (old account) (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2017 09:57:37 UTC Rysiekúr (old account)

Apart from ideological arguments (with which I largely agree), are there any concrete reasons/arguments to use #VeraCrypt full disk encryption for #Windows, rather than the integrated #BitLocker?
#InfoSec

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