Mastodawn

@Quasit
RE
It rewards #privilege, inherited power, and #psychopathy

@vicfroh
RE
“If #capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, and scientists"

AND...there are 2 types of doctors, one makes much more money, yet one could say, the #Cognitive behavioral therapy is the BETTER doctor

⭕procedural vs cognitive, which makes the big bucks?

@rmblaber1956
Rhx 4 orig Victator boost

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1754364

Dendrobatus Azureus 19h ago

The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again

Read the section here.

Sources:

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User

#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF

#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp

Golden Retriever GF 2d ago

Something happened today that I never really expected but I'm still largely disappointed. We are shopping at our local corner store and we come around the corner to find an altercation between the German speaking teller and a woman screaming and cursing in the Queen's very own English.

The woman is upset as she cannot find the bag and when she does refuses to pay as she has already paid for a different bag. The teller is upset as she is doing her very best to communicate in a language she has very little experience in, has had to describe where the bags are and that she must pay as this one is 50 cents more.

The upset customer is cursing at her, insulting her and not speaking a word of German. The Teller is frustrated and trying to maintain decorum and stand her ground that this bag is 50 cents more and that she must pay. I come across this scene and decide it is time to intervene.

I explain in Hollywood/Newscaster US English, yes that is the US accent I have. The one you see on every news station, hear in every movie. That one. That she has told you this one costs 50 cents more and you must pay. I can see a thousand feelings on this womans face. Yes I understood every insult. Yes I understood every word. Yes, you are being the exact entitled anglophone you have heard about. I see her reel up, then deflate.

This is an interaction between the most british british english I've ever heard and the most vanilla US english. Hyper privilige meets hyper privilege and I really think this is what privilege should be used for, combatting people that are using theirs incorrectly. I thanked the Teller in the most German way possilbe and she was very grateful in her own German silent way.

The moral of the story really is don't come to a country and scream at people in your own language. This town is backwater and I have not noticed a great deal of English fluency. Being louder and angrier won't make you more understood, it will, however, get you on youtube and tiktok. I don't know why this lady was here. Maybe a recent move but it doesn't excuse the antics, doesn't excuse an all too common abuse of English speaking assholedom. Also, second moral of the story, use your privilege to challenge the overprivileged, don't abuse it. Privilege is only bad when used improperly.

#privilege #immigrantlife

Radio Azureus 3d ago

Patch your Linux home and production servers / clients

Privilege escalation bug

Instead of asking yourself why the second bug🥈 in 2 weeks has been found on such a level, be glad that it has been found

Just patch and move on

Note
These bugs only occur local not over the network via the internet!

Local_privilege_escalation

Sources

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00169.html

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/linux

#InfoSec #programming #privilege #escalation #root #Linux #All #distributions #severe #high

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Ned Yeung 🍉3d ago

I guess this is another way of looking at what was done to me? /s

What an entitlement, to be concerned over how I might treat him, when I have never treated anybody poorly and he just tried to lynch me. But he's just a "good 'ol boy", and I'm the outsider. Just two white men being overly concerned for each others' well being, making sure that the foreigner is treating them well.

Texted from a neighbour who urges me to "reconcile". How does that work, from the position of a victim who has not harmed anyone and has nothing to reconcile?

BTW, if you have any curiosity about what I've lived through, I'm living it right fucking now. In your neighbourhood. And none of it has ever caused me to commit hate crimes, or to consider committing hate crimes. Or war crimes. Or to spread racial hatred against any people.

But I guess I need to be the "better person" like the Israeli-Canadians who had to pull through the hard loss of a son that flew overseas just to murder people in the name of Ethnic Cleansing.

Recociliation to them wasn't saying, "Somebody radicalized my son into hate and that cost his life, so now I will break that cycle of hate and advocate for an end to war".

No, they just had to let it go because "he died doing what he had to do".

Meanwhile, I have had to bend over backwards to keep these attacks on me and others "in the name of" being Jewish, from creating any anti-semitic feelings because it was not the Jewish community who commited these acts of hate despite the perpetrators co-opting ther name.

But these Israelis are engaged in reconciliation by the act of their victims being understanding of their acts of hate, while their victims are a threat to the peace?

The peace of privileged white people to do whatever they want, to whomever they want, with impunity. "He just wants to colonize this neighbourhood without having to see people like you. Is that so much to ask?"

#racism #privilege #yeg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Gea-Suan Lin 4d ago

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2026/05/11/13034/freebsd-%e9%80%99%e6%ac%a1%e7%9a%84-execve-%e7%9a%84%e5%95%8f%e9%a1%8c/

FreeBSD 這次的 execve() 的問題...

#advisory #bug #escalation #execve #freebsd #local #lpe #privilege #root #security

FreeBSD 這次的 execve() 的問題...

在「Local privilege escalation via execve() (via)」這邊看到 FreeBSD 的 LPE，編號 CVE-2026-7270，修正的內容也很簡單，參考「execve: Fix an operator precedence bug - src - FreeBSD source tree」這邊： - args->endp - args->begin_argv + consume); + args->endp - (args-...

Gea-Suan Lin's BLOG

Hacker News 5d ago

FreeBSD: Local Privilege Escalation via Execve()

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc

#HackerNews #FreeBSD #Privilege #Escalation #Execve #Security #Vulnerability

RedPacket Security 5d ago

Active attack: Dirty Frag Linux vulnerability expands post-compromise risk - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/active-attack-dirty-frag-linux-vulnerability-expands-post-compromise-risk/

#threatintel
#linux
#privilege-escalation
#dirty-frag
#cve-2026-43284
#cve-2026-43500

Active attack: Dirty Frag Linux vulnerability expands post-compromise risk - RedPacket Security

A newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability known as “Dirty Frag” enables escalation from an unprivileged user to root through vulnerable

RedPacket Security

Bobe'bot on security May 8

Dirty Frag, une vulnérabilité permettant d'obtenir les privilèges root sur toutes les distributions Linux, rendue publique avant la fenêtre de patch habituelle. La fragmentation mémoire comme vecteur d'élévation de privilèges — élégant techniquement, préoccupant en pratique. Un beau rappel que le noyau, c'est précieux. 🐧 #Linux #infosec #privilege
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dirty-Frag-Linux