Mastodawn

"In February, police in Claremore, Oklahoma arrested farmer Darren Blanchard for speaking a little too long during a community meeting about data centers. The city charged Blanchard with criminal trespass, a crime with a $200 penalty, but he’s vowed to fight the charge. He recently shared video of the bodycam footage for the first time with 404 Media"

This is insane. Cops are being used as weapons to keep the power of corpos upright.

https://www.404media.co/bodycam-footage-video-claremore-oklahoma-data-center-meeting/

Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting

We spoke to Darren Blanchard, the man arrested while speaking out against data centers at a community meeting. He's sharing the bodycam footage of his arrest for the first time with 404 Media.

404 Media

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116806767345470213

When returning your work laptop, don't forget to leave IT a little stroopwafel... as a treat!

CologneGhoul 10h ago

Cameron MacLeod 12h ago

"Beginning next week, most Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries

As the cost of clean energy keeps plummeting, it gets more and more obvious how much money we waste, and how much financial risk we incur, by staying with fossil fuel."

From https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-about-free-is-that-affordable

How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?

The latest on energy, climate and affordability

The Crucial Years

CologneGhoul 10h ago

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Elena Rossini 🌈10h ago

🚨 Important update about my latest #WSocial article 👀

A user on #ATproto cracked the code and came up with a reasonable explanation for the made up number of comments on W Social's homepage.

The number next to the speech bubble (comment icon) are an "engagement metric": the sum of boosts and likes. It all makes sense now!

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

(scroll down to the end of the article for the update)

W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

Elena Rossini

CologneGhoul 10h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116810671808975233

At this point it's only a matter of time before companies will pay money to AI agents so that those AI agents will fix the companies other AI agents, that were vibe-coded with even more AI agents, that were made by a company that largely uses open-source software made by unpaid Human developers.

CologneGhoul 11h ago

Christine Lemmer-Webber 12h ago

A vulnerability in ffmpeg allows remote code execution via a crafted media file https://www.securityweek.com/ffmpeg-pixelsmash-flaw-allows-rce-on-video-players-media-servers-nas-appliances/

This affects anything that would even try to generate a *thumbnail*, and that includes your file browser, your fedi server, etc etc etc.

EDIT: Replies have pointed out that ASLR needed to be disabled for the exploit to work, so it may not be quite as exploitable as the press release makes it sound. Not sure. (At least, not without many retries.) At any rate, look forward to deploying the fix.

FFmpeg PixelSmash Flaw Allows RCE on Video Players, Media Servers, NAS Appliances

PixelSmash is a vulnerability in the FFmpeg framework that can be exploited via crafted media files for remote code execution.

SecurityWeek

CologneGhoul 11h ago

Bought a tower-fan ventilator last summer for a cheap price (Bought it from someone that never used it, and never opened the box for half of what the item would cost new).

This summer i can feel that it was one of the best investments i've made.

CologneGhoul 11h ago

Elena Rossini 🌈16h ago

SCOOP: on #WSocial's website, comment counts for posts by prominent users are incorrectly displayed, showing artificially elevated numbers.

An ATproto user came up with an interesting theory for it.

My article: "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#blog #BigTech #EUBigTech #TEP #TrustedEuropeanPlatforms #TrustYourFeed

W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

Elena Rossini