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OpenNet mastodon (AP)
В 806 моделях материнских плат выявлен тестовый ключ, позволяющий обойти UEFI Secure Boot

Исследователи безопасности из компании Binarly выявили возможность обхода режима верифицированной загрузки UEFI Secure Boot на более чем 800 моделях материнских плат, выпущенных компаниями Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, HP, Intel, Lenovo и Supermicro. Проблема получила кодовое имя PKfail и связана с использованием в прошивках не заслуживающего доверия ключа платформы (PK, Platform Key), сгенерированного компанией AMI (American Megatrends International) и поставляемого в качестве тестового примера. Наиболее старые прошивки, в которых использовался тестовый ключ, выпущены в 2012 году, а самые новые датированы июнем 2024 года. По данным исследователей проблеме подвержены более 10% всех проверенных прошивок.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=61610


micropainter mastodon (AP)
Why is Danielle Smith making evacuees traumatized by the Jasper wildfire wait for seven days for any financial assistance? Has she offered any towns and cities (including in BC) any funding to support the evacuees?

Also, what tears? Didn't see any tissues.

#ableg #Jasper #JasperFire #yyc #yeg

Dominic White mastodon (AP)
I once had the pleasure of working with @mslaviero, and miss his smarts and wit. This blog post on how @ThinkstCanary architects for security is worth a read for many reasons - but the biting insight delivered with a chuckle is what I’m most enjoying.
https://blog.thinkst.com/2024/07/unfashionably-secure-why-we-use-isolated-vms.html
The thing is, cloud architectures can become caricatures of
themselves. AWS' reference design to host WordPress inside
AWS looks like this:
an incredibly complicated diagram with the comment - All this, and still no one reads my blog

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
"Treating parenthood as some special qualification for civic responsibility is nationalists’ way of compensating for the right’s Trumpian drift away from wholesomeness. True to form, instead of simply celebrating the virtues of having children, their critique is framed mainly as a reason to distrust and delegitimize their political enemies. "

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/jd-vance-cat-ladies/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Baby%20Bust&utm_campaign=Boiling%20Frogs_Everyone_Baby%20Bust
Lee mastodon (AP)
Lance Chance Vance
and
Doomedald Trumpe

The right-leaning media (which is most of it) is repeating the GOP's attacks on Kamala Harris as being a DEI Vice-President. So what does it mean?

When you hear it, or when people ask you "Well isn't she a ...", remember that what it means is this:

They can't actually criticize anything about her record or performance, so they're going after her for not being white and male because that is what energizes their hate-filled base.
That is what it means. And they're beating this drum because Trump is afraid of her. He knows she can beat him.

I made a quick trip to the store this morning and a family of cranes was out and about

It looks like two parents and grown young ones…

#cranes #summer #myphotos
They’re a little miracle every year @Kenny Chaffin. Living in wild kingdom. And they’re not even afraid of people.
Clearly not bothered by cars/people!

This one made me laugh

I have a friend with two cats and one is always judging the behavior of the other. 🤣

#caturdayeveryday #humor
Lol. It is funny to watch.
Jay Bryant diaspora
Same in my house. Daphne is a loon, and Velma has one kitty eyebrow permanently cocked in judgement. 🙂

Primo Natura mastodon (AP)
"Germany records its wettest year ever: What’s needed to protect citizens during deadly floods?"

#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/07/23/germany-records-its-wettest-year-ever-whats-needed-to-protect-citizens-during-deadly-flood

Happy Festival to all those music nerds at WOMAD this weekend, see and experience some wonderful things!

#WOMAD

trinib mastodon (AP)
It's the last friday of the month! That means it's time for a new episode of our monthly #punk rock special, Blank Generation!

it's free! just hit play!

https://hearthis.at/trinib/episode-132/
#Punk

Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL In 1965 part of the training to be a Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab where they had to shoot a Dog (Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then treat the wound successfully

https://youtu.be/zM6MAM-Qtic?t=1195
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ecrtt2/til_in_1965_part_of_the_training_to_be_a_medic_in/

ArcticIceDaily mastodon (AP)
Current arctic sea ice concentration & extent

#Alaska #Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange #Earth #ice #iceshelf #nsidc #research #Russia #SeaIce #snow

taz (inoffiziell) friendica (via ActivityPub)
Biden kann wieder mit seinem Schäferhund kuscheln, Rechte lässt man links liegen und Scholz grinst vorm Urlaub. 5 Dinge, die wir diese Woche gelernt haben.#JoeBiden #OlafScholz #Kokain #Haie #OlympischeSpiele2024 #Alltag #Gesellschaft #Schwerpunkt

Mastodon Users mastodon (AP)
15,302,761 accounts
+106 in the last hour
+2,600 in the last day
+15,331 in the last week
Four time-based charts

Upper blue area: Number of Mastodon users
Upper cyan area: Hourly increases of number of users
Lower orange area: Number of active instances
Lower yellow area: Thousand toots per hour

For current figures please read the text of this post

Phil Plait mastodon (AP)
Fun fact: You can see stars during the daytime*!

It's just really hard.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-see-stars-satellites-and-more-in-the-daytime-sky/

[*Not including the Sun, duh]
Dan Neuman hometown (AP)
I think a blue-blocking filter might work (orange gelatin filter)

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/the-us-is-about-to-get-its-first-solar-covered-canal

BerlinFokus mastodon (AP)
🤔 🤔

Vielleicht sollte #Mastodon auch vollkommen ausgedachte "#View" - Zahlen und #Bots die eure Posts sinnlos ins Nirgendwo boosten einführen, damit die Honks die noch auf #Twitter aktiv sind ihre Fake-Reichweite mitnehmen können.

[ haha .. bloß nicht 😏 ]
BerlinFokus mastodon (AP)
@energisch_

Ja ich fühl mich hier auch recht wohl.

Drüben hatte ich zwar auch meine kleine Community & das war spannend und z.T. echt hilfreich .. aber mensch war Fremden gegenüber wirklich immer sehr feindlich als Grundposition eingestellt.

Hier hör ich mir erst mal alles an, schlaf ggf. ne Nacht drüber, und siehe da, so einige Konflikte stellen sich oft einfach nur als Missverständnisse raus.

Das hat der Eugen gut konzipiert & wir füllen es gut.

Klar gibs auch A-Löcher. Aber sehr wenige.
@energisch_ True. Ich hab auf Xitter fünf Mal so viele Follower wie hier, aber null Interaktion. Keine Replies, keine interessanten Gespräche, keine Retweets, keine Likes. Schlicht und ergreifend kein Feedback, das darauf hindeutet, dass überhaupt wer irgendeinen Post liest, außer diese komische Impression-Zahl. Und wenn doch mal eine Reaktion kommt, ist es fast immer ein persönlicher Angriff. Daher hab ich mich hier her verkrümelt, ist so viel angenehmer. @berlinfokus









taz mastodon (AP)
Besitzen UnternehmenserbInnen mehr als 26 Millionen Euro, müssen sie eigentlich Steuern zahlen. Ein Schlupfloch erlaubt ihnen, das zu umgehen. https://taz.de/!6023578

#ParkFireChico / #ParkFire - Chico, Butte & Tehama Counties, California - 7:45 am update

164,286 acres
0% containment

Structures Threatened: 4,200
Structures Destroyed: 134

Resources:
Total Personnel 1633
Engines 142
Water Tenders 17
Helicopters 6
Dozers 54
Hand Crews 45
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Chris Northwood mastodon (AP)
Someone in the party has sent me a Home Office commissioned report on "gender variance" he thought I might find interesting... despite being a bit initially "oh fuck is this going to be TERFy bullshit" it's not, it's from 2008 and it's actually really interesting that everything we're seeing today (people presenting younger, especially the huge growth in children presenting with gender dysphoria, and the gender balance) was expected in 2008! A few choice quotes from the exec summary in thread

PodcastsLive :pci: mastodon (AP)
Bands at Bitcoin, Embassy Suites, Downtown Nashvi… is going #live!

Day 2—Bands at Bitcoin

stream url: https://customer-gyp7k1qpz8i23bog.cloudflarestream.com/642d2dc80986509b8fc9092c72a2f188/manifest/video.m3u8

#podcast
<p>Live music from the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/XvCTrjRqrDh9AhJW9">Embassy Suites</a> in downtown Nashville!</p> <h2>Schedule</h2> <p>(All times CDT)</p> <p>11:00 AM—CHARLEY T<br> 12:00 PM—ALICIA STOCKMAN<br> 01:00 PM—THE HIGHER LOW<br> 02:00 PM—ZHAKLINA<br> 03:00 PM—JOJO SCOTT<br> 04:00 PM—HERBIVORE</p>
@jcostello Same! I came home with 1,333 (heh) photos and videos but none of them do it justice. Didn't run across Moritz or Absolut Absolem, but that woulda been cool. 😀

Good grief, she's got brass pipes!

Quinn Norton mastodon (AP)
Congratulations to everyone out there who has gotten Covid several times and have barely even noticed it. May I invite you to fucking shut your pie hole about it already and put a mask over it, you abelist dickweed.

nd.Aktuell mastodon (AP)
Mit Drohnenangriffen zerstört die #Türkei zivile Infrastruktur in #Rojava. Der kurdische Halbmond setzt auf den Aufbau von Solaranlagen und eine internationale Unterstützungskampagne. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1184021.syrien-kurdistan-rojava-drohnenkrieg-gegen-energieversorgung.html

Sean Eric Fagan mastodon (AP)
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of C.S. Friedman's This Alien Shore (The Outworlds series Book 1) (which, btw, caused me to find out there's a sequel). I not only have this, but have read it! (Although I took the jacket off the hardcover, because the young lady on the cover bore a striking resemblance to someone and it was an unpleasant reminder.)

The setting reminds me of Cordwainer Smith, and I can't think of a higher compliment.

Joshua Holland mastodon (AP)
Nine years ago, Hillary said around half of Trump's supporters were bigots of various stripes and despite that being a generous estimate, the right hasn't stopped whining about it since--and they convinced the press that it was a consequential slur.

This will be forgotten in 2 days...

#vance #fascism #media #election2024

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/
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De-humanising your enemy makes it easier to herd them into camps and kill them. Vance knows this of course.

John Spurlock mastodon (AP)
‘Rising consumer concerns around internet privacy, and the requirement that publishers easily allow readers to opt-out of cookies, have seen the number of people accepting them drop substantially

Consent or pay strategies seek to address this challenge’

https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/daily-mail-independent-reach-mirror-express-consent-or-pay-cookies/

Cassandrich mastodon (AP)
I'm really disappointed in all the anti-campaign-fundraising rhetoric going around here.

Yes mutual aid is much more impactful dollar-for-dollar, and it's disappointing that nowhere near as much cash has gone to mutual aid requests. (Hey, if you can do both, please do!)

But political fundraising serves very different and important purposes.

🧵
Cassandrich mastodon (AP)
Is this a just system? Absolutely not. That's not the point. It's a matter of how you make most effective use of the unjust system we live in now to steer it in a better direction.
Cassandrich mastodon (AP)
But the same principles about feeling staked in the outcome apply to other types of fundraising too, including mutual aid. I don't have data to support this, but I would not be surprised if people who have experienced donating for a political cause subsequently find it easier to give to mutual aid requests, *and* think and care more about their outcomes.

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Here's what J.D. Vance's old blogs expose about Trump's V.P. pick - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-blog-exposed/

#OtD 26 Jul 1937 British authorities in Barbados secretly deported Clement Payne, a worker who was trying to start a trade union, to Trinidad, where police were waiting to arrest him for possessing prohibited literature. More info here: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9827/clement-payne-deported?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#otd
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Andrew Pam diaspora
Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests
The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest.

Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer, NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information about the invasive technology.

Documents suggest the seizures were part of an unusual legal manoeuvre created by Israel to block the disclosure of information about Pegasus, which the government believed would cause “serious diplomatic and security damage” to the country.

Pegasus allows NSO clients to infect smartphones with hidden software that can extract messages and photos, record calls and secretly activate microphones. NSO’s clients have included both authoritarian regimes and democratic countries and the technology has been linked to human rights abuses around the world.

Since late 2019, NSO has been battling a lawsuit in the US brought by WhatsApp, which has alleged the Israeli company used a vulnerability in the messaging service to target more than 1,400 of its users in 20 countries over a two-week period. NSO has denied the allegations.

The removal of files and computers from NSO’s offices in July 2020 – until now hidden from the public by a strict gag order issued by an Israeli court – casts new light on the close ties between Israel and NSO and the overlapping interests of the privately owned surveillance company and the country’s security establishment.

The July 2020 seizures were made after Israeli officials and the company appear to have discussed how to respond to WhatsApp’s requests for NSO to disclose internal files about its spyware, raising questions about whether they coordinated to conceal certain information from US legal proceedings.
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