George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

I am a diehard Disneyphile. I am also now working as a concierge for luxury clients visiting #Napa.

#Disney is recruiting a new homeowner concierge for their first #Storyliving communty, #Cotino, a mile and a half from my home in Rancho Mirage, CA.

This is my dream job. It's a perfect match for my experience and love of Disney.

My fediverse friends, if you have any Disney connections, would you please put in a word for me?

https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/cotino/

#DisneyParks
#Disneyland

Ah, internet cafes. https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-cafes/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Due to popular demand, here is a list of the fedi-services that are part of the infosec.* family:
1 - https://infosec.exchange - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (the mothership)
2 - https://relay.infosec.exchange - Activitypub relay
3 - https://video.infosec.exchange - Peertube instance (like youtube)
4 - https://infosec.press - WriteFreely blog
5 - https://pixel.infosec.exchange - Pixelfed instance (like instagram)
6 - https://matrix.infosec.exchange - Synapse (with sliding sync) homeserver
7 - https://infosec.place - Akkoma instance (like mastodon)
8 - https://infosec.town - Firefish instance (like mastodon)
9 - https://infosec.pub - Lemmy instance (like reddit)
10 - https://fedia.io - General interest Kbin instance (also like reddit)
11 - https://fedia.social - General interst Firefish instance
12 - https://elk.infosec.exchange - Elk web interface for Mastodon
13 - https://books.infosec.exchange - Bookworym instance (like goodreads)

Risky.af is/was another mastodon instance that is being sunset due to a number of factors (lack of interest and may be losing the domain name)

The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins a growing roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who are now serving hard time for farcical treason convictions.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/07/russia-sends-cybersecurity-ceo-to-jail-for-14-years/

Look at what the Teamsters got for UPS workers. $21/hr for part time. The end of mandatory OT on days off. A/C in their trucks. Unions WORK. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

What's your favourite Wayland input interface? Boost for wider reach.

#Linux #Wayland #X

Hi all! I'm an independent scholar with a bunch of cobbled-together roles—writer, editor, educator, consultant. I focus on graduate education reform in hopes of co-creating more equitable, sustainable, joyful ways to teach and learn. I wrote Putting the Humanities PhD to Work, and have another book coming out called Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Literature. I looooove learning about ecology, esp fungi. 👋

Hello! We're new here and eager to connect with folks and communities that intersect with:
- open source software
- open data
- geospatial
- climate change
- tech for good.

Can you share this post to help people find us?

Let's boost this post that #transgender people exist

Welcome to Wayland.social: the successor to X.com.

Since I'm seeing a new wave of people saying they plan to leave Twitter, you may like my browser tool that takes the zip file of your Twitter export and returns a zip file of a web site that lets people browse and your tweets. You can just upload the files wherever you normally host html and it'll work just fine.

https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

Example archive: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/

Doing a test here to see how much reach this #mastodon account with 550 followers has compared to the same test on #Threads with a 430 Follower count.

I suspect I already know the answer.

If you see this please Boost and Like, and if you want to leave a comment feel free to that.

MOVIE SCENE:

<a 20-something-year-old daughter is introducing her new boyfriend to the family for the first time, having been invited over for a meal. After some awkward small talk, the conversation turns to more serious matters>

Dad: "so what do you do for work, Jimmy?"

Jimmy: "oh, I design DC adapters for various consumer electronic devices."

Mum: "Oh, that sounds like a great job, Jimmy!"

Dad: "wait, so you're the guy who designs DC adapters to be all to be different shapes and sizes, so they don't uniformly fit into power strips next to each other?"

Jimmy: "yep you got it, we only ever need one outlet, but sometimes we can block three!"

<Dad stops eating and looks up from his plate toward Jimmy, the room falls silent>

Daughter: "Dad? No, dad!"

Dad (shouting): "OUT! GET OUT! GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER JIMMY - PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD. DO YOU SEE THAT JIMMY? DO YOU SEE THAT?!! THAT IS A POWER STRIP THAT IS CONNECTED TO ANOTHER POWER STRIP THAT HAS ONE DC ADAPTER IN IT BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO FIT NEXT TO ANOTHER DC POWER ADAPTER IN THE SAME STRIP. DOES THAT SEEM SAFE TO YOU JIMMY? DOES IT?! JUST MAKE THEM ALL THE SAME SIZE JIMMY, SO THEY CAN ALL FIT NEATLY IN ONE OUTLET. DESIGN THEM TO COME OUT, AWAY FROM THE OUTLET IF YOU NEED MORE SPACE FOR THE TRANSFORMER COMPONENTS. YOU SICK BASTARD!!! OUT!!!!"

<Jimmy and the daughter leave in a hurry>

SCENE

In the internment camps we learned valuable skills! Like how not to get shot for trying to escape, when we just running to use the public latrine on a freezing cold night.

I have been riding an #ebike for around 6 months / 150 miles (I got it for around town, so that’s actually a lot of 2-mile trips!). The one I have, the Velotric Discover-1, cost me around $1200.

Here is what I have learned in that time:

It is impossible to build an ebike with any expectation of durability for a retail price point of US$1200.

Thus far I have repaired or replaced the following:

Rear inner tube (flat/punctured in the box from the factory)
Front brake pads (they’re the resin type because all of the components are low-end Shimano, meaning the rotors aren’t hard enough steel to be able to use non-resin pads)
Rear derailleur (the bike fell over, and since it weighs ~65 pounds, just the force of falling over bent the shit out of the derailleur, and bent the H-limit screw at like a 30-degree angle)

I’ve also had to learn how to true a rotor, and how to fix sticky hydraulic brake pistons. Last time I did any significant bike maintenance work, brakes were mechanical :)

One thing to note about replacing that rear derailleur: the identical replacement was literally $19 from Performance Bike. I could have upgraded, obviously, but I don’t know that most upgrade options would be any less susceptible to being bent all to shit when a 65-lb bike falls over. Plus I honestly rarely ever shift gears (it’s an ebike with a rear hub motor, so all I have to do is turn the pedals a bit & the motor kicks on, and it doesn’t even need a chain to operate, technically).

Having said all of that: The bike does exactly what I bought it to do – errands around town – and it does it well. I will absolutely buy another ebike (hopefully not because this one completely shits the bed, but who knows . . .)

When I do buy another ebike, I’ll spend a lot more time looking at the mechanical details, and I’m guessing I’ll be shopping in the $2k range.

I need to sell my MIDI gear. It just takes up too much room and I don't use it. Anyone in the Boston area interested in that sort of thing before I Craigslist it?
Almost entirely Roland: a rack with a Super JV-1080, a U-110, a U-220, an R-8M , lots of cards (and maybe an AR-200r if you want. I want to keep the Eurorack mixer. Could move all to a smaller rack if desired.)

If you want to share memories of Kevin Mitnick for publication in the Autumn issue, please email them to articles@2600.com. (1-2 paragraphs)

What are your plans with Threads?

#Threads #Mastodon #community #social #tech

Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. But one aspect of that vaunted list that hasn't shifted much since is that very few of these companies list any security professionals within their top executive ranks.

The next time you receive a breach notification letter that invariably says a company you trusted places a top priority on customer security and privacy, consider this: Only four of the Fortune 100 companies currently list a security professional in the executive leadership pages of their websites. This is actually down from five of the Fortune 100 in 2018, the last time KrebsOnSecurity performed this analysis.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/07/few-fortune-100-firms-list-security-pros-in-their-executive-ranks/