Thinking about computers, cryptography, privacy, literature, old tech, ACAB.
Reading through abbreviated bios of Nazi war criminals, rubbing my hands together vigorously.
Employed historically as copy boy, factory laborer, barkeep, mechanic, English/German prof, sysadmin, programmer, technical editor/writer.
| Website | https://www.oneeyedman.net |
| Location | Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR (and also Seattle) |
Wow. Respect.
"65 years after the assassination of Congo's 1st PM, a Belgian diplomat will face trial"
"More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed secessionists, a former Belgian diplomat will stand trial for war crimes in connection to the assassination."
I hope the current US gov cosplayers are paying attention. Justice will be waiting.
This man is 93.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/yema-lumumba-assassination-trial-9.7136710
More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed secessionists, a former Belgian diplomat will stand trial for war crimes in connection to the assassination.
So with the revelation that the owner of a big Fedi server is a target of a lawsuit, and that if things go badly the server may find itself seized—
I realize that that users on that instance follow users on my instance, so there are going to be semiprivate posts of mine that may fall into the hands of people—law enforcement, data brokers—who are not beholden to any Fedi Admin Code of Honour.
(I already do not post about my crimes on Fedi, if I were the kind to do crimes.)
Server seizure is just not a part of the ActivityPub threat model. What if it was? How would it change the protocol to protect data at rest, or perhaps not even keep it at rest on a server but defer to the originating server?
End-to-end encryption [user-to-user, not server-to-server] could be part of the answer, but it need not be the whole answer.
I welcome considered thoughts, so any response I see within an hour of my posting this will be ignored.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116233508481864379
LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS INC $22,132,743.00
LEXISNEXIS SPECIAL SERVICES INC $6,381,187.65
THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES LLC $27,237,471.89
Payments from ICE, since the beginning of the second Trump admin, to companies that are also major library vendors (and major collectors of data about what library users search for and read)
No idea what the "direct action tools" to be unveiled on March 17 will be, but I will come back to https://unplugice.org/ to find out
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman
https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158
There you go, there it is. Yup.
This is a long way of saying: the last few days should have hopefully laid bare to the world how utterly incompetent and delusional capitalists are. They do not play some critical role in the economy. They do not possess some secret knowledge or special wisdom, or, really, seem to understand how the world works. We do not rely on them to allocate capital wisely and efficiently.
They are, at best, naive marks of the world’s most obvious conman, so desperate for yet another dollar that they’ll believe anything that flatters their greed.
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Autonomie und Solidarität
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