Way back in 1993, I tried to get my name attached to an amicus brief for USL vs BSDi. Apparently, I missed my target as there is no mention whatsoever of my name in the docket for 832 F. Supp. 790 (1993). But if today you are using MySQL or any of its derivatives, and enjoy having an alternative to the 800 pound (albeit very nice) gorilla that PostgreSQL has become, you may want to review this petition:
I just signed it. And it's weird to name an open source entity as the 800 pound gorilla.
I want you to spread the word that Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media is forcing his editors to "use" Gen AI as much as possible. The book I wrote for them, Hacker Culture: A to Z, is probably the last non-tech manual they ever published that isn't tainted by Gen AI.
I quit my goddamn fucking professor position at OPIT because I would rather risk my ability to pay my rent than subject my students to Gen AI "e proctoring."
Please check out https://stopgenai.com, I beg of you.
Wie sich ein Physikstudent fühlt, wenn er PolitikerInnen zuhört
(Auf LinkedIn gefunden, netterweise hat mir jemand den Link zur Quelle geschickt:)
https://www.instagram.com/wochenendrebellen/reel/DRxdmFkDWgi/
Found a lovely new style of open redirect in an e-mail phish. I have redacted the victim's e-mail address, but do not follow this link unless you have a solid sandbox. It redirects to AWS, which will show a convincing "your file is ready", and the download is a .zip containing a .js which on cursory reading generates some helpful PowerShell commands for you on the fly. Ton of chinese glyphs in the strings, but that may be a false flag.
https://ad[.]doubleclick[.]net/ddm/trackclk/N4892.5020.4774291382421/B23999293.271539123;dc_trk_aid=466016770;dc_trk_cid=131101292;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;tfua=?https://arihantjainsangh[.]org/z#dmljdGltQHZpY3RpbS5jb20K
Anyone have a good contact at Google to get this addressed? #google
We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of mobile OS 📱
We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of desktop OS 🖥️
We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of browsers 
We need more than 2 popular high-capacity cloud services ☁️
We need more than a 2 popular and secure end-to-end encrypted email services 📧
We need more than a few popular and secure end-to-end encrypted messaging apps 💬
We need SO much more diversity in tech!
There seems to be a tendency to just pit projects against each other (or buy each other) until we only get 2 options in the end. This is horrible for consumer choices, for security, for privacy, for resilience, and just leads to more enshitification everywhere once people are locked in systems without viable alternatives.
We need much more options, everywhere.
Celebrate and encourage diversity.
In tech, and everywhere else.
#Debian just announced that they will not include a fix for the PowerDNS Recursor shipped with Bookworm. "For affected setups an update to Debian stable/trixie is recommended, no further security updates for pdns-recursor in Bookworm will be issued."
It's this near religious sticking to the no-update rule that drove me to #Ubuntu way back when. Their track record is not perfect, but there is more room to do whatever it takes to keep LTS releases safe.
More than 90% of all my communications are going through @signalapp . I don't know what I would do without it.
I'm so scared anything could happen to it. That's why I give them money every month, and you should too if you can 
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Support Signal: https://signal.org/donate/
Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)
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