Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Twitter engineers—or outsiders who hack them—can tweet from any user account without being detected, according to a new whistleblower complaint to the Federal Trade Commission shared exclusively with The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/

Twitter has reinstated the account of white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nick-fuentes-reinstated-twitter-1234667137/

Sen. Hawley says he wants to ban TikTok for everyone in the U.S., where the app has more than 100 million users and a growing role in youth culture, information and free expression:

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1617886533536866308

All the state-device bans have led to this, "the U.S. adopting a Chinese attitude toward the internet: We’re going to block things we don’t want you to see because everything’s a national security threat"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/20/tiktok-bans-states-colleges/

If you are a #FOSS software maintainer, and a large number of your users complain about the same thing over a prolonged period, and your response is that the software is behaving as designed and the solution is for the users to change rather than the software, then you're doing it wrong.
The right solution might not be the one the users suggest—you may need to get more creative—but it's DEFINITELY not to tell the users they're wrong.
(This isn't about #QT'ing, but also it is.)
#ListenToUsers

This seems... risky https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/

BREAKING: Iowa's House has passed a bill to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year to pay families' private school costs, a top priority of Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.

"The private school voucher bill passed 55-45, with nine Republicans joining every Democrat to oppose the bill. It's expected to win passage in Iowa's Senate tonight.

Roughly half of Iowa counties don't have any private schools."

This is completing what Betsy #DeVos couldn't do as SoE. It's a clearly labeled plank of the #NAR
'S 7 mountain dominion theology, that is being used as a framework to install #Christofascism.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/24/iowa-house-senate-lawmakers-pass-kim-reynolds-private-school-scholarships-education-bill/69822687007/

#News #ChristianNationalism #Iowa #Demoines #education

Did a bit of organizing in this growing Google Doc (now 25 pages, ha) of Fediverse and Mastodon feature ideas. This kind of thing makes me very happy -- people have smart ideas, are bouncing off each other, and collaborating.

We now have subsections (Browsing, Posting, Onboarding, etc) and a table of contents where you can browse all the ideas easily. I'd welcome more organization if anyone feels like hopping in and adding it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EnkjkSW14hR_uTdwEW7vqRaaIXDMlNQ4WRNoPmnn_z0/edit?pli=1#

LastPass parent GoTo confirms that hackers stole encrypted backups and an encryption key for some data during a recent breach, first acknowledged on November 30 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/goto-says-hackers-stole-customers-backups-and-encryption-key/
http://www.techmeme.com/230124/p18#a230124p18

Broken Britain.

“Would you like to know more?”

#GTTO #GetTheToriesOut
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RT @guardian
As a police officer, I was asked to undermine an alleged rape victim – I wish I could say it was a one-off | Anonymous https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/20/police-officer-alleged-rape-victim-david-carrick?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1674217233
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1616492107920703501

The GOP can't keep from telling us they want to both cut and "privatize" Social Security and Medicare.

When people say it out loud, listen.

House GOP eyes Social Security, Medicare amid spending battle https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/01/24/gop-social-security-medicare-debt-limit/

The charlatans are bailing.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/franklin-graham-wont-endorse-trump_n_63cf9245e4b01e928865f246?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostPol@twitter.com

I am proud of the fact I survived fundamentalist Christianity. It could have eaten me up, and it nearly did, but I survived and I’m proud of that. #ExChristian #Exvangelical

@comatory COURAGE and INNOVATION. I hate how #Apple insists on pulling #macOS down to the level of iPadOS.

@Lunatech @dm319

I have put #linuxmint on the machine of my parents for this exact reason. Its super stable and due to its rather conservative development approach the UI stays familiar them (low intensity users with Windows background). They will find their way around even if they only use the machine once a week.

It saved us a lot of money and my support effort mostly remains limited to major release upgrades.

#Apple has released #macOS Ventura 13.2. Along with some two dozen #security #updates, it contains several new features and fixes. https://tchlp.com/409cSY2

Another sad moment from VA: “Virginia Republican lawmaker Tim Anderson just announced he is suing Barnes and Noble for selling books that promote LGBTQIA+ rights. It is no longer just about banning books in schools - they are now coming for private businesses.”

I’m reminded that before WWII VA had euthanasia laws on the books for the mentally ill and “sexually deviant”. Germany sent people to study them.

@gabriel

Generally speaking, yes.

Here's s great 1 minute script to install #Postfix, #Dovecot, #OpenDKM, #SpamAssassin, etc., Complete with copypasta keys, Etc., And use the MXToolbox .com tools to check your MX RRs, #SPF, #rDNS, and you should be fine sending even to that shithole gmail:

https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz

It's a pretty awesome install. Waaay better than all that bloated moocow stuff.

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS

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wtf why can’t you resize System Preferences window horizontally in #macos Ventura? I just upgraded, some of the UI feels really off…

Always nice to see things like this.

Flexibit's Mac addressbook replacement, CardHop, just updated and two of the changes are:

* Added support to add Mastodon usernames to a contact card
* Added support to detect Mastodon usernames in the parser input

#macos #apps #flexibits #cardhop

@stopgopfox

Problem is, these people are going to fill up our hospitals so that the rest of us can't get care when we need it. Like they've done during several of the COVID surges.

Maybe we should start a follow-up campaign to Catturd's. "You know what they give you at the hospital? MEDICINE. Stay away!"