Mikanniko @mikan5@fedibird.com

Neues Jahr, neuer Vorsitz! Im Jahr 2023 übernimmt der BfDI den Vorsitz über die Konferenz der Informationsfreiheitsbeauftragten (IFK) in Deutschland.

Die IFK tagt zweimal jährlich. Sie fasst Entschließungen und Handlungsempfehlungen zu aktuellen Themen der Informationsfreiheit, um neue inhaltliche Impulse zu geben und die behördliche Offenheit auszubauen.

https://www.bfdi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2023/01_Vorsitz-IFK.html

/ÖA

Musk helped extremists in #Brazil get their message out.

Late 17thC containers of gold & silver, made in #London

Made to contain 'Goa stones' - concoctions of 'Bezoar, Ambergreece, Pearl, Unicorn's Horn, Coral & such other of the greatest Cordial preservatives, Corroboraters and Renewers of strength and youth'
(British Museum)

This stone lives in our garden, it is covered in lichen and cushions of moss. A mini ecosystem on it's own.
#Lichensubscribe #Mosstodon

Sorry for the Twitter link, but Patrick Wardle doesn't yet have a Mastodon account that I can find.

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1611482670156091392

Microsoft security blog post "comes close" to ripping off Wardle's "The Art of Mac Malware," and doesn't cite prior research, which it clearly draws upon, he says.

The post in question: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/01/05/unraveling-the-techniques-of-mac-ransomware/

@jerry any idea if someone has made or is making an open source alternative to Facebook marketplace? I find marketplace incredibly useful, but would love the possibility of moving to another ad-less platform down the line.

Elon Musk fired Twitter's entire staff in Brazil except a few salespeople.

Among those fired: "eight people who moderated content on the platform in order to catch posts that broke its rules against incitement to violence and misinformation."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-bolsanaro-twitter-facebook/

#Brazil

I was tooting about scoop this a few days before the new year, hoping maybe Experian would see the wisdom or providing an on the record response. They never did.

Today's story includes a great quote from Sen. Ron Wyden, who told me Experian never responded to him either, in respond to his questions to them about my last scoop in re Experian (where they were letting ID thieves hijack existing Experian.com accounts by simply signing up as the target consumer using a different email address).

Here's the lede:

"Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian's website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer's report. All that was needed was the person's name, address, birthday and Social Security number."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-security-to-view-credit-reports/

@inherentlee @taurus @futurebird Mastodon early on was indeed hella queer ...but it's not just the tech adoption challenges that are barriers to POC. "Mastodon: a partial history" looks at both of those aspects -- the section on "Dogpiling, weaponized content warning discourse, and a fig leaf for mundane white supremacy" discusses some 2017 incidents but similar patterns still occur today.

https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-a-partial-history

@futurebird We've tried the personal-responsibility approach; it doesn't work at all, but that's not the point of it at all.

The "personal responsibility for systemic problems" gag is a _strategy_, not a policy.

It's not meant to "work"; it's meant shift responsibility away from policymakers and on to those subjected to their policies, and letting abusers of the system escape criticism and accountability.

It's frustrating and exhausting because it's working exactly as intended.

Moderating this instance has taught me that we really should strive to understand before assuming bad faith on the part of someone that’s apparently offended us. But when someone crosses your line, they need to go. Don’t be dramatic about it - we don’t get internet points by pointing out the flaws in other people.

Life is too short - for all of us - don’t make it harder on each other than it needs to be.

Happy New Year!

❤️❤️❤️

My colleague Devin Paden is making available the Powershell program he wrote to manage our vCenter environment when I was teaching at Champlain College. It allowed us to deploy entire network environments in minutes for each student in a class.

https://greenmountaincyber.com/docs/category/range-control/

https://github.com/gmcyber/rangecontrol

Optical recipe recognition. You take a scan of a cookbook and extract the recipes into a standard format. Much like optical music recognition takes sheet music and extracts it into music xml files. Recipes are facts. Like laws. Nobody owns them.

男性にこそ読んで欲しい。If you identify yourself as male, please read it. Boys must be well-informed and actively educated in such topic, as much as girls should, if not more. #Fedibird

What Is Rape Culture?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/what-is-rape-culture

@mmasnick I know it's the wrong sentiment but I don't like demonstrative charity where you're looking somebody in the face and showing them you're being a good person. So much of evangelical missions is about showing you're a good person, giving grocery money to a lady you've convinced not to get an abortion vs advocating for a reliable safety net.

Henrietta Lacks was a poor, Black, young mother diagnosed w cervical cancer in 1951. When her cells were collected w/o consent, scientists saw they multiplied remarkably fast.

“HeLa” cells changed #science. They’re used globally to study viruses, drugs, hormones, genes, diseases & develop vaccines. Lacks passed away at 31 w no recognition.

Rebecca Skloot’s beautiful book about her life & legacy is changing that. Now her statue will replace Robert E. Lee in NC. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/henrietta-lacks-statue-roanoke-virginia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #history

[Mary Armstrong: A Freedwoman]

Mary Armstrong, a formerly enslaved woman, sitting on the steps of her Houston home at the age of 91. [August 8, 1937]

https://www.curioushistonian.com/mary-armstrong-a-freedwoman/

#history #houston #histodons #blackhistory #BlackMastodon

The Forensic News scoop on Abramovich/Curaleaf is being picked up in Israel https://www.themarker.com/wallstreet/2022-12-23/ty-article/.premium/00000185-3e6f-dc10-a7d7-7eff92a30000

Elections matter! => Congress is ready to give the City of Jackson, Mississippi $600 million under the federal omnibus package—an enormous sum that would finally make addressing the Jackson water crisis and fixing the city's broken water system a reality. #BlackMastodon

Wow just reading this article title makes me picture two armies on a battlefield facing off... "Can legitimate interest be an appropriate lawful basis for processing Artificial Intelligence training datasets?" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026736492200108X

QT from https://someone.elses.computer/@lilianedwards/109555326867770095 [参照]