Kevin Neely 

@ktneely@infosec.exchange
433 Followers
498 Following
1.2K Posts

Personal: technophile, oenophile, lexophile, gastronome.
Professional: information, network, and computer #security #infosec #cybersecurity

Interests: #cyberpunk #linux #tech #privacy #hacking #reading #PDX

Music: most non-pop genres. I usually listen to #KEXP,and #KUTX, #SomaFM streaming

I love #food and #wine, you'd probably call me a #foodie

Way too many projects at any given time

Love to write but don't do much of it (see projects) and also #fountainpens and actual notebooks.

LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kevintneely/
GitHubhttps://github.com/ktneely
Websitehttps://the15thstandard.com/
Bookwyrmhttps://bookrastinating.com/user/ktneely
Kevin Neely 3d ago

Making risotto and drinking a Negroni. Someone send me to #Milan already!

#cooking #cocktails

Kevin Neely 4d ago

I received an email from an #AI training company in which they are

disappointed the recently-passed big bill didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.

Because regulation will cause harm due to not knowing enough about the tech.

And then later goes into the AI News section, in which one is a report of LLMs committing blackmail in an Anthropic study, and another report of LLMs with access to tools using them deceptively to avoid oversight, resist efforts to be replaced, etc.

Well, I'm convinced! Convinced that some serious thought needs to be applied here and if the federal government can't do it (which they obviously cannot), then it's up the states to lead, just as they did with #Privacy laws.

Kevin Neely 5d ago

Do you publish a site on #Vercel? Are you annoyed by or just want to prevent scraping by #AI

Since I don't manage the underlying infrastructure, I wasn't sure if I could deploy something like #Anubis. A quick search through the docs reveals they have built-in bot mitigation settings in the firewall function, even at the free tier.

Note that these are off by default, so you need to go in and change them.

Kevin Neely 6d ago

We had a bunch of #watermelon leftover from last weekend's BBQ. Why, thank you #nigellalawson for your frozen watermelon daiquiri recipe!

🍉 #cocktail

Kevin Neely Jul 8
Charlie StrossJul 8

Two tools are needed: (a) inheritance tax (which worked well in the UK circa 1940-1980) and (b) wealth tax (over a threshold excluding a first home and a regular person's pension).

What we've got now: the bottom 50% bear 90% of the tax burden.
https://mstdn.social/@fatsam/114818666799857374

Daniel Keys Moran (@fatsam@mstdn.social)

A guy who I've known many decades said that my embrace of the far left had lowered his opinion of me a lot. We were talking about wealth taxes, qua my earlier post about 90% tax rates. But not just income taxes, estate taxes, real estate taxes, generally speaking, asset taxes. The billionaire class has to cease to exist. What the bootlickers defending them seem to not understand, is that this is the *nice* way to make that happen.

Mastodon 🐘
Kevin Neely Jul 8
Tom Jul 8

With Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers. That means:

If somebody clicks a link in a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their website.

They do _only_ get the instance domain (e.g. metalhead.club). No information about the user!

I've enabled this setting, because I am sure that it will increase awareness of Mastodon's existence. 💪

Edit: (in previous versions, Mastodon did not send referrer-Headers)

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Kevin Neely Jul 8
KevinJul 6

"Sherman said, 'If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life. If we would not submit to an emperor we should not submit to an autocrat of trade with power to prevent competition and to fix the price of any commodity.'"

— Cory Doctorow: The Bezzle, pp. 13-13

Doctorow quoting Senator John Sherman's speech to Congress in 1890.

Kevin Neely Jul 7
jonny (good kind)Jul 6

You may have heard that globalchange.gov and all the national reports on climate change have gone down.

We got em all on #sciop, a webrip and all the PDFs extracted: https://sciop.net/datasets/globalchange-gov-webrip

Edit: context - https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

globalchange.gov rip - Dataset - SciOp

Preserving Public Information

Kevin Neely Jul 7
KevinJul 5

Review of "Hamlet, Prince of Robots" (5 stars): A skillful adaptation of a classic

https://bookrastinating.com/user/ktneely/review/838912

Kevin Neely Jul 6
CryogenicNighthawkJul 6

Has anyone used a Pine Phone Pro? Is it usable for a Linux expert, or do you have to file a bug report a week?

#AskFedi #BoostsWelcome