Greg Wittel

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@alice oof thanks for the background knowledge! I feel yucky about my small CI kit. Time to sort that out.
@hacks4pancakes oof. having just flown Melbourne to SFO I can’t imagine another 6000 km on top of that. Wishing you a speedy recovery and lots of pancakes.
Take It Down would give the rich & powerful an easy way to demand content removal—no questions asked. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor
Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to remove content about — him....

Electronic Frontier Foundation
@devtrash they sell the buildings to their buddies. Who then lease them back to the government at higher prices. Classic PE move.
@catsalad in a fit of pique I made these.
@GossiTheDog for PPS? You’re not far off.
@hacks4pancakes take care and safe travels! NZ is a blast, hope you enjoy your time there
Finally deleted my twitter account after leaving it tombstoned. Glad to be rid of that tire fire, sad I’ll lose access to public service announcements. Wish USDS would run a .gov Mastodon for this sort of thing.
@hacks4pancakes I’m sorry for your loss. Please do find a way to take a few moments for yourself. Even if it’s just a few short moments each day, anything helps. <signed, internet rando recovering from burnout>
@dangoodin I can’t say much about passthrough. We see it but the report mechanism itself is flawed as they can share the reporters’ info with the CF customer. More often, we see cloudflare turnstile heavily abused by various threat actors. It makes phish analysis at scale hard (keeps some automated analysis machinery out); Cloudflare has been not helpful at all and won’t meaningfully partner with security orgs to make this easier.