Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

Q: If Elmo believes that 2FA is "bloatware," what does that say about the security of Teslas?

A number of people asking, "what's 2FA" while I've gone off on an infosec and auto side tangent.

It's a good time to learn about 2FA. It's basically a second key, of sorts, to use before you access your accounts. Here's how MSFT describes it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/security/business/security-101/what-is-two-factor-authentication-2fa

There are 3 main kinds:
SMS (better than nothing)
Authenticator (better than SMS)
Dongles

Twitter just fucked up the way their SMS 2FA works along with other stuff Elmo considers "bloatware."

Climate Change Is Fueling a Public Health Crisis. Doctors Need to Address This.
It’s time for doctors to recognize the growing effects of climate change on people’s #health.
#climate #climatechange
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-fueling-a-public-health-crisis-doctors-need-to-address-this/

Desert dust collected from glacier ice helps document climate change.
Ice holds secrets to understanding atmospheric weather patterns.
#climate #climatechange #science
https://news.osu.edu/desert-dust-collected-from-glacier-ice-helps-document-climate-change/

Yeah, it's Zelenskiy fault for sure. Man who united whole world against the evil. Definitely not because of Russia. Country who killed tens of thousands civilians, spread terror, raped our women, men and kids, kidnapped 30k ukrainian kids. Nonono.

Russia, go fuck yourself 🎉
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RT @tassagency_en
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has made his country bankrupt and deprived its citizens of a future, Vyacheslav Volodin, Russian Stat…
https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1592045962444570624

Top 5 warmest October global temperatures since at least 1891 - Japan Meteorological Agency (https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/oct_wld.html). Small differences in ranking are normal between data sets.

1. 2015
2. 2019
3. *2022*, 2021
5. 2018

Convoy Lawyer is making the point (in a really unnecessarily complicated way) that no intel agency said there was a CSIS Act s.2 threat to the security of Canada. Definitely does not help government’s argument, but will now have to hear from Ministers why this advice was either rejected or ignored. Plus many other natsec folks to hear from this week. #POEC

https://twitter.com/stephaniecarvin/status/1592214518402547712?s=46&t=_oGzsSI71z7t7eWV67mjIQ

Espionage charges in Canada are relatively rare. This seems to have originated with the internal security branch of Hydro-Québec. Canada has also struggled to prosecute espionage cases so let's see where this goes?

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2022/hydro-quebec-employee-charged-espionage

What do academics say about cost overruns and delays of #nuclear constructions?
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Sovacool (2014):
💸 97% of nuclear plants had cost overrun.
⌛️ 64% had delays.

Nuclear: 117% cost escalation
vs
wind 8% and solar 1% (see table attached)
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Locatelli (2018): "All nuclear power plants under construction in Europe and USA are delivered over budget and late"
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Flyvbjerg: Nuclear power plants are bespoke, slow to build, and fat tailed for financial and safety risks.
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Details: https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/schedules-costs-and-risks-of-new

“I think that ‘1.5 is still alive’ is a form of hopium”—a portmanteau for false hope—“and I think hopium is very dangerous,” said Peter Kalmus, a NASA climate scientist and activist who signed the letter.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-will-likely-miss-1-5-degrees-c-why-isnt-anyone-saying-so/

Habermas was right: how minds are changed on #SocialMedia

I know longer remember who shared this but it's Fascinating stuff.

https://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/in-knowledge-we-trust-unpacking-the-language-of-persuasion-in-social-media

I do not personally feel that human extinction is likely, but I do feel we are currently on a highway to messy civilizational collapse and a long dark ages, and the key to getting off this highway is to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and ramp it down quickly. #EmergencyMode

I find myself in the same position I was in during the early days of the birdsite, wondering what to post. Don’t want to be political or polemical in these early days, but mustn’t be too bland either. Not going to show you the scones I baked, share my latte art or describe my sourdough starter. Nor should I plug my current productions just yet. Easy enough to know what we don’t want Mastodon to be …

… anyway, that’s my current thinking

Just woke up and learned about #fedified. I literally work at my day job on technology to aid verification of sources and let me tell you: it seems like a pretty big hack of a project that misses the point. Basically you have to trust the humans who run that site. What we actually need is buy-in from organizations to provide rel=me linkbacks to their various representatives. And for unaffiliated people who want verification, you add it to your website. That's it. We already have it on Mastodon

@Saupreiss
No, I don't trust policy makers at all. I expect them to move the goalposts farther back again.

As it becomes very clear that 1.5°C above baseline is inevitable and might be only 5-10 years away, we'll soon begin hearing about 2°C being the optimal target, and 2.5°C the new ceiling we must not surpass.

It's a dangerous game to play, but it's the only way for them to pretend things are under control for as long as possible. They'll do anything necessary to avoid a system change, which us what we really need.

#degrowth #AntiCapitalism

@mastodonmigration Open for registrations: https://ajar.social/ #twittermigration #mastodonmigration

I was using Crossover as a way to mirror what I did on Twitter over onto Mastodon but now I feel I want to separate the two sites. They are very different and what might be suitable on Twitter doesn’t always feel appropriate on here so I’ve stopped. #TwitterMigration