Today is a good day to remember the time I told my Jewish grandmother, who had been an officer in the Red Army all through WWII, about the debate over punching Nazis.

"This is trick question," she said, narrowing her eyes. "When you are done punching, Nazi is still alive, yes?"

A lot of your software freedom rockstar heroes saw Gamergate and alt-right bro shit in person and did nothing about it.

Remember this when they show up demanding to lead the resistance.

This is the realest advice I have for people who are wondering how they're going take effective action in the upcoming Trump administration: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/

A bill called the ‘Stop Resistance Activities by Federal Employees Act’ was introduced in the House yesterday. It covers federal employees at or above GS-15 and would impose very serious penalties for “opposing, obstructing, or impeding lawful directives from the President, Vice President, or any other political appointee”.

The language is….well it’s fascism. And I’m not exaggerating. And maybe it won’t pass this time, but we all see the trend.

https://pfluger.house.gov/uploadedfiles/strafe_act.pdf

Once again, for the people in the back: we don't build back doors because there is no way to build a back door that only good guys can walk through, motherfuckers.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=byoB7m

China targeted and might have held for months access to the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=C5ywbp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

A simple technique called “POSSE” offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party social media platforms.

https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

#POSSE #indieweb

A new take on the sextortion email scam includes pictures of the targets’ houses, but don’t fall for it. You probably haven’t been hacked. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/new-email-scam-includes-pictures-your-house-dont-fall-it

y'all I just almost got phished by a really plausible looking domain renewal email impersonating gandi.net

the only reason I didn't get phished is because I logged directly into gandi because I had some other stuff to do instead of clicking the link. (The email was also in french which I'm not sure if that helped or hurt the scam TBH)

Keep your guard up, especially if you are on gandi.net (and turn on 2FA!)

john mulaney was at the salesforce conference and the transcript of him reading the attendees to filth is so cathartic https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/comedian-john-mulaney-brutally-roasts-sf-techies-and-ai-at-dreamforce/

📦 #Platypush 1.3.0 is out!

This release turns procedures into first-class citizens.

Procedures are the bread-and-butter of Platypush customizations. They allow you to specify some custom logic that can run within the application, either from structured requests or code snippets - both #Python and #YAML scripts are supported. They are akin to recipes in #IFTTT and tasks in #Tasker.

You can call them from an event hook when a certain condition is met, from a cronjob or an alarm, from stand-alone scripts, from other procedures, and so on.

This release improves the integration of procedures into the UI, turning them into entities that can be controlled from the entities panel - and, soon, embedded into custom dashboards.

It also introduces a new powerful procedure editor, which allows you to visually create your automation routines through an intuitive UI with drag-and-drop support (a big part of this release has been about getting drag-and-drop to work nicely on mobile too). The new UI supports nested if/for/while blocks, break/continue/return, setting context variables, variable name autocompletion, export to YAML (if you prefer to have your procedures stored in the configuration rather than the db), and more.

This UI has been inspired by the job done by Joao Dias on Tasker (I’ve always wanted to have a similarly powerful block-based UI to create custom routines also on desktop/server), and in part by IFTTT’s recipe editor.

Python procedures can also be easily managed through a new file editor component that allows you to precisely navigate to their definition.

This release also includes a new file browser component. You can now browse your files on the Platypush instance, create/edit/delete/upload/download them directly from the Platypush UI, even if you don’t have SSH access to the machine.

Happy hacking!