Mastodawn

Vendor: We've divorced our application from the Linux distribution, so you can install your own on Linux according to your specifications!

Also Vendor: As long as you only use this specific deprecated Linux distro that is no longer supported. Or distributed. And you can't upgrade the OS by any major revs, or use any similar OS. And we don't provide guidance on partitioning or performance settings for our blessed OS.

bill, technomancer Mar 11

Oh great Fedibrain, I have a burning question!

I would like to cut through all of the SEO garbage in search about effective workplace and safety communication. I'm looking for teachable models that ensure conversations result in a standardized approach to:

Raising issues
Responding to concerns
Getting attention or focus on hazards
Ensuring everyone understands what those mean
Ensuring everyone understands the appropriate response
Knowing when an issue is complete, and understanding indicators that the issue is closed.

I've seen this in different locations. The US Army has a pedagogy around this. Many organizations that do safety inspections have an entire culture around this (SGS, for example). Japan has models of some of this behavior, where in many places a person points and says, in a specific manner, what to watch out for.

I'm looking for short classes on this, or books people can reference, something I can suggest to some management folks.

bill, technomancer Mar 9

/DΞV/ЯДИDФM Mar 9

My dearest OpenBSD / OpenSMTPd / Dovecot / Roundcube gurus.

I absolutely love OpenBSD as my mail server but there is one piece I've never been able to figure out:

Is there a way to be able to create filter rules for Dovecot and within Roundcube mail? I'm just not sure how to find out how to do this?

I've been using imapfilter fine but it would be nice to do this the lazy, GUI way inside Roundcube, if possible.

Guidance very much appreciated!

bill, technomancer Mar 2

Justine Smithies Mar 2

Hypothetically if I were to look for another #ThinkPad on the likes of Ebay ( new as in not older than 4-5 years ) and wanted to use #OpenBSD on it with working suspend and resume as well as working intel AX200/AX210 WiFi.
Which model would you suggest ?

bill, technomancer Mar 1

If you live in Colorado, you may want to get on the phone directly to your legislator about SB 26-051 which is going to force age verification into every aspect of an OS.

#HardenedBSD

bill, technomancer Feb 28

Phillip Vuchetich Feb 28

Since online review sites are full of biased and inauthentic reviews, are there any personal recommendations for a point of sale + online payment processing and reservation system for a new, tiny nonprofit in the US? About 20 or so local artists will be part of 501(c)(3), which will have scheduled classes, recurring membership fees (for access to studio resources), and retail sales of local artist work (need to track per-artist inventory / commission). Initially they are looking at Square Plus because some of them are already familiar with the hardware, and it seems to meet all the requirements, but a post on payroll processors by @coreysnipes reminded me to look at alternatives. Basic CRM/marketing (probably just bulk email to existing customers about upcoming events) would be needed, but can be separate. The price point of $300 POS hardware and $50/month + <=3% credit card fees looks like an amount that could be budgeted. They are making a Wordpress website, so it could either be integrated with that or just link to another site. Thanks!

bill, technomancer Feb 28

After looking at open source api docs last night, do you know what would be really helpful, especially with the Linux focused ones (because most of those assume dependency on search)?

If the people writing the API docs would stop using common words for modules, calls, etc. Even better is if the docs for the API entry are exact matches for what is written in the code.

A module called "stasis" is a terrible name. Worse is naming something m.stasis but documenting it in the API docs as Stasis. Searching for "Stasis" or other common dictionary words is a bad idea. Not much better than naming calls and modules: a, the, and, so, huh, and that.

Maybe I should write a worst practices example app for April 1.

bill, technomancer Feb 27

Any thoughts on alternatives to DUO for heterogeneous self-hosted MFA managed systems? Would like to explore something NOT integrating with Persona.

https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/116142810017259522

Tinker ☀️ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software) You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification? Yeah, that Persona. Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials... ...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona... ...or be fired. https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification #Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI

Infosec Exchange

bill, technomancer Feb 26

Adrian Roselli, pH0 Feb 26

“Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol is dead”
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

Given the statements from #Buffalo cops, the medical examiner, and Border Patrol, none of them should be investigating this.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.

A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Investigative Post

bill, technomancer Feb 26

Oh, for fuck's sake, why the hell are SSL certs being issued now for only 200 days instead of a year?

Why not make it 199 days? 32 days? 1.3 days? 4.32 hours?

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