https://www.runzero.com/blog/oob-p1-ip-kvm/

this is a great read from @runZeroInc, @hdm, @todb, and Matthew Kienow on a new batch of IPKVMs coming out. I remember this tech was expensive, clunky, and practically only viable for the datacenter when Raritan and BOMGAR were doing it. To see these things popping up for sub-100 bucks is amazing and I'm highly considering grabbing some for my boxes in the basement of my home.

As with all things IoT:

• You can't spell idiot without iot
• The s stands for security.

As with most things IoT-related, expect ubiquity to result in seeing MANY of these things in the wild. Also, Security is kind of an afterthought with IoT devices. Trust me, I know.

My Corvid homie @cR0w has supplied me with more IoT command injections and buffer overflows than I thought possible, so... make sure you keep these things local-only behind a VPN, tailscale, or hopefully if they provide cloud-based management, you trust the cloud provider to one, support the product, and two be reasonably secure. Which... its the cloud, so don't count on either.

Moshidon crashed while I was hand typing the alt text for this image and deleted all of it. I give up - will alt text it later, or if someone sends the alt text to me.

TL;DR, Spanish vs English, remembering which way to turn a screw.

A judge has ruled in favor of Meta, saying training AI from copyrighted and pirated books is fair use.

In a similar case a judge ruled in favour of Anthropic.

It is a sad day for book writers. You have been robbed of revenue by the world’s richest people. They will make tons of money while book writers struggle to pay rent and food. There is no justice for artists and writers. My heart goes out to them.

Signal is open source, so our code is regularly scrutinized in addition to regular formal audits. We also constantly monitor security@signal.org for any new reports, and we act on them with quickness while also working to protect the people who rely on us from outside threats like phishing with warnings and safeguards.

This is why Signal remains the gold standard for private, secure communications. 5/