Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Why I'm never going to be cool with Crowdstrike https://medium.com/quinn-norton/how-antisec-died-654abf6aeff7

Signal (and many other messengers) stores push tokens in their database in plain text. Which allows law enforcement to subpoena them (though signal has never publicly admitted this happening) and then law enforcement uses these push tokens to subpoena apple to get personal information associated with it like your full name, address, phone number etc.

This way Law Enforcement can correlate your personal information with your signal account which means participants in conversations are deanonimzed. (Though content is still encrypted).

If you organize in large signal groups (or any Messaging app using push notifications) there is a high chance law enforcement and intelligence agencies can tell that you're part of a group or not.

I don't understand why nobody is talking about this more. It's extremely problematic.

Apple started publishing stats on how often this happens now. They were gag ordered to not speak about it before but they have changed course (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/)

You can find the stats here:

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/push-token.html

🚨 GEEN NS TREINEN in geheel Nederland op vrijdag 6 juni wegens #Staking. Alleen internationale treinen en treinen van private vervoerders rijden.

🚨NO NS TRAINS in all of the Netherlands on Friday 6 June due to a #Strike. Only international trains and trains from private operators are running.

my kid: mimsy help, i cant fit my lunchbox into my backpack.

me: what else is in there, taking up space?

kid: my schoolwork, and a bunch of ducks

me: im sorry, what?

~kid proceeds to scoop 30-40 small rubber ducks out of the bottom of his backpack~

#parenting

As someone who works in higher-ed and also has taught middle school and high school aged kids, my opinion is not that LLM use is exploding among students because they're lazy or stupid or anything else

it's because our educational system has prioritized a very transactional "do this bullshit, and you get the credentials you need to have a life" approach for

well

maybe forever, really

and no one should be surprised that adversarial approaches by teachers and administrators are being met with an adversarial approach by students

The post about Bell labs that this thread is a reply to is already gold, but this long read thread about Google is arguably even better. Sit down, take your time, read it attentively. Awesome content!

RE: https://transmom.love/users/elilla/statuses/114621457284876722

A message for cis women who fall for the line that their trans sistas, who you have shared bathrooms with forever, are suddenly a danger

You have put all women at risk. More cis women are now being challenged and assaulted by vigilante transphobes than trans women. If any woman is a little tall, a little hairy, has a slightly larger jawline, a slightly deep voice, or slightly masculine features, they are now at risk

You are not a feminist. You are the danger to women

#TerfIsland #TransRights

📣 ✍️ Lees en teken hier
https://www.doorbraak.eu/steun-de-stakingsacties-bij-de-ns-en-teken-de-petitie-van-wij-reizen-samen/
(Bord uit het archief)

#solidairmetstaking #wijreizensamen #acab #anticommercieleactiebeweging #1312 #NS #trein #stakers #staken #eerlijkloon #voor20

Kloster Wienhausen is een prachtig terrein met van origine een eigen watermolen tbv graanmalen.

#WetWednesday #WaterfallWednesday
#KlosterWienhausen

illegal migration is a scam invented by big border to sell more racism

like, you take the concept of "person from elsewhere", split them into "good" and "bad" arbitrarily based on if they had the right paperwork, and then make you scared that everyone you meet or hear about or vaguely know of is in the "bad" group

A First in the Netherlands!

Two seats on @Radboud_uni 's Works Council have been won by members of
@sci4futurenl.bsky.social / Scientist Rebellion.

With two student reps from Green+, we'll bring climate justice, and our students’ futures, to the heart of Radboud decision-making.