Pier Hegeman

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Privacy and information security advocate. Formerly enterprise security architect. Currently CTO at MadeDaily - Combining branded marketing with end to end encrypted data collection tools for Lawyers.
#infosec #security #privacy #cybersecurity #developer
Websitehttps://madedaily.com

Ah, the #copyfail clickbait posts are coming. Here’s my serious contribution. On your Linux machine add

initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init

to your kernel boot commandline (typically in grub). Reboot. You are now safe until the updated kernel packages become available. For distributions with the `grubby` command this is done as root with

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init"

This mitigation comes courtesy of Red Hat. Our engineers keep you safe :)

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Please boycott JK Rowling. I do not have the health to listen to defenders of Potter on why they won't boycott. Take that somewhere else please.

For those boycotting, here are alternative worlds from authors who are supportive of marginalized people:

* Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
* Emelan series by Tamora Pierce
* Akata Witch series by Nnedi Okorafor
* Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate
* Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
* Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

Share others below!

The sooner this bubble pops, the better.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/116472176913970907

Heads up for any FOSS contributors and coders!

Or anyone that knows how to code web apps and wants to contribute to solarpunk activities, bringing about post-scarcity food security, or just helping feed people:

Rootable is a Free and Open Source app that helps local towns coordinate food rescue.

Website: https://rootable.org

Code Base: https://codeberg.org/rootable/

Food rescue is where local community groups go to a grocery store, bakery, restaurant, etc., and "glean" or gather up any GOOD FOOD that would otherwise be thrown away and get to it people who are hungry.

Reduces food waste.
Increased food security.

For more info on food waste, take a look at this John Oliver episode on Food Waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8xwLWb0lLY

If you'd like to contribute code, fix bugs (usability, security, etc), assist in technical documentation or support, etc., please visit the git repo and pitch in.

If anyone needs contact info for the project lead, DM me.

This is an actively used app and helping with it directly helps feed people. This is a great way to build mutual aid projects.

#solarPunk #rootableApp #FOSS #foodWaste #foodRescue #foodSecurity #mutualAid #developers #solarPunkSunday #opensource #programming

Ghost In The Machine is a great new anti-AI documentary

i'm in it, so you know it's good stuff

tl;dr AI is olde timey race science all the way down and has been since the start. if you say that to people they'll say "look that's ridiculously narrow" but it turns out it literally fuckin is. all eugenicists and race scientists. bloody hell.

i saw the London preview last night and it rated the applause it got at the end

anyway! it's playing for the next week in London and in Kansas City!

KC MO: https://www.screenland.com/movie/ghost-in-the-machine/
London: https://dochouse.org/event/ghost-in-the-machine/

New York preview premiere is next month

there's a proper London season in June

also if you want to watch it RIGHT NOW you can pay to see it here https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p

Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine is a gripping and urgently relevant investigative documentary exposing the buried history of artificial intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life. Rejecting the notion of AI as inevitable or objective, the film traces how myths of progress and efficiency have obscured deeper political and cultural agendas, revealing the ideological foundations beneath the systems now reshaping modern society.

Screenland Armour
Daily reminder that there are tons of lovely, brilliant, kind Jewish people in the world who aren’t Zionist - the two things have next to nothing to do with one another - and that even as a simple nerd I can make an effort to boycott and refuse to amplify Israeli cybersecurity software and tools.
What if we just made the entire Internet out of dark patterns

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116450820542215851

Oh, I get it I get it! It’s whatever we think of! If we think of J. Edgar Boozer, J. Edgar Boozer appears and destroys us.

OH: "EBITDA - Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs & Donald Announcements"