This is sad 😢
UPDATE (2026-03-02): This toot has gotten a lot more attention than what I would ever anticipate. Some clarifications are needed. A follow up is here: https://infosec.exchange/@dazo/116158898983233133
I wrote down some ideas about how to recover after a police raid and how to prepare for it in my first blog post.
Would be nice to hear your thoughts about it :)
Boosts welcome 🔄
TLDR: This post proposes the idea to use a recovery kit, a small encrypted file prepared and distributed to friends, to help restore your (digital) life after a total data loss, for example in case of a police raid. It aims to discuss what to include in the recovery kit and gives a detailed description on how to prepare it. Request for Comments: So far I only discussed this idea with a very small number of people and this is the first time I’m writing it down in detail. If you think I’m missing something or didn’t consider something important please let me know. If you want to provide feedback or input anonymously you can use this cryptpad form Also feel free to comment on fedi or use the contact details in my profile.
Die Debatte um ein Mindestalter für Social Media geht am Problem vorbei: die Gefahren hören ja nicht mit 16 oder 18 auf - ganz im Gegenteil.
Der Vergleich zum Glücksspiel ist treffender, als diejenigen ahnen, die ihn verwenden:
* zutiefst korruptes Geschäftsmodell
* große Schäden für die Gesellschaft
* Mindestalter LEGITIMIERT das Geschäftsmodell und seine Opfer sind „selbst schuld.“
So wird der Missstand zementiert, statt an der Wurzel eliminiert.
When I grow up, I want to write like this:
https://iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kernellogger/116002653887559259
Great new manual on Git's data model by the amazing @b0rk
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
Attached: 1 video Nach drei Jahren Pause richtet der Chaos Computer Club vom 27. bis zum 30. Dezember seinen 37. Chaos Communication Congress (#37C3) aus. Wir im BSI freuen uns auf die traditionsreichste deutsche IT-Sicherheits- und Technikkompetenzkonferenz! Klare Botschaft unserer BSI-Präsidentin Claudia Plattner: Gemeldete Schwachstellen geben wir weiter, damit sie geschlossen werden. Wir wünschen eine starke Party! 💻 🛡 ✌ 😎
Was surprised to learn that there are apparently no command line tools for poking around the Linux accessibility tree, so I made Acsh, the Accessibility Shell. With Acsh you have both a CLI and REPL, in which you can do things like:
/> ls # Lists all top-level apps
/> cd firefox-1.26 # cd into Firefox, with tab completion. REPL only
/firefox-1.26> cat 0 # Get more information on the first child by index, if you're fine with the possibility that index might change before the command is processed--not likely at this level. Paths are referenced by name or index
/firefox-1.26> watch 0 # Get stream of events for the first child
/firefox-1.26> search -r button ok # Find all OK buttons in this Firefox instance
... # and more
The future, though, is probably acsh mount. This makes the accessibility tree available as a FUSE mount under ./a11y by default. ./a11y/README.md gives a better overview of the layout, but in brief, directories are apps/accessible objects with their children as subdirectories. Properties are either files containing their raw values or .json files with richer structure. There's an events.json.sock Unix socket in each directory below the root that lets you watch events for an accessible object and all its children, and you can use standard filesystem tooling to search/filter/stream. It's probably slow because there's no caching--it's meant to be a debugging/introspection tool, after all. I'll probably rename this to acfs and drop the CLI/REPL soon--it was great for prototyping and the idea to use FUSE only occurred to me after I realized I was slowly re-inventing all of a filesystem anyway.
Thoughts? I'm sure it has bugs, but what doesn't? https://dev.thewordnerd.info/nolan/acsh
Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.
We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.
Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈