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Hack For the Holidays.

Earlier this year I released my first Android app.

Rfparty is a tool to audit your wireless world. Xmas time is when all manner of new IoT and BLE enabled devices come into our lives. Rfparty helps you review what data these devices are broadcasting.

The app will be on sale from xmas to new years eve for $2 on Google Play. Learn about BLE and support independent Black Programmers.

#cybersecurity #wardriving #BlackMastodon

https://blog.dataparty.xyz/blog/rfparty-a-new-way-to-see-ble/

Rfparty - a new way to see BLE

Today, Millions of IoT devices emit wireless BLE advertisements. Rfparty is an app for exploring your wireless world. Built for educators, developers,

We couldn’t decide whether Grandpa should be buried or cremated, so we’re going to let him live for now.
A castle in Italy has braille etched in the railing that describes the view for blind people🤎

All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.

Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.

For thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.

By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.

Sound familiar? It should.

You see, when male brewers felt threatened, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-dominate-the-beer-industry-until-the-witch-accusations-started-pouring-in-155940 #history #HistoryRemix

Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started pouring in

Today, beer is marketed to men and the industry is run by men. It wasn’t always that way.

The Conversation
Dmitry Kokh from Russia has been named the Nature Photographer of the Year 2022. His winning photograph "House of Bears" was taken at an abandoned Weather Station on Kolyuchin, an island off the coast of Russia.
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The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

Mastodon and the Fediverse: Beginners Start Here | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.
because that what left lane do