Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Hackers have leveraged a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Realtek Jungle SDK 134 million attacks trying to infect smart devices in the second half of 2022.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/botnets-exploited-realtek-sdk-critical-bug-in-millions-of-attacks/

Listen to teachers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/25/richneck-elementary-shooting-teacher-attorney-speaks/

So I talked to @gedeonm at The Iconfactory over email this week about the loss of Twitterrific and, more importantly, what it means for the disability community and what it says about accessibility at Twitter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/01/25/the-iconfactory-co-founder-gedeon-maheux-talks-accessibility-on-twitter-the-blow-of-losing-twitterrific-in-new-interview/?sh=789f59c79438

Wow. MAGA fraud George Santos just virtually admitted to an illegal campaign finance scheme. This is exactly what investigators are currently probing. https://youtu.be/63Ey7Vl0KFc

Every time I talk about @Mastodon in one of my videos, I get comments telling me they couldn't figure out how to ue it, or that it's too complicated.

So, I mae a complete guide to #Mastodon: how to create an account, how to find people to follow, how to use it, and the general etiquette here!

(Of course, you all already know all of that, but now you have a reference guide you can share with people who struggle to join us here!)

#opensource #Linux #fediverse

https://youtu.be/1ypCRB_3Q_k

Research papers increasingly refer to websites like GitHub for code, which may be a problem...

About 20% of preprints referred to GitHub in 2021. Yet, these web pages are often not archived, jeopardizing their long-term availability.

"The growing use of Git Hosting Platforms in scholarly publications points to an urgent and growing need for dedicated efforts to archive their holdings in order to preserve research code"

via https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.04895
#OpenScience #OpenSource @academicchatter

CEO pay of top 5 weapon makers:

General Dynamics: $23.5M

Raytheon: $21.8M

Boeing: $21.1M

Northrop Grumman: $19.9M

Lockheed Martin: $18.1M

How is this possible? American taxpayers.

Over $400 billion of the new $850B military budget will be funneled to private contractors.

An ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING message from a teacher in Duval County, Florida who is being forced to make her classroom library inaccessible as a result of @RonDeSantisFL@twitter.com's policies

(via @MelissainJax@twitter.com)

FWIW, in the US, COVID was probably the 3rd leading cause of death for 2022 (we'll have to wait a bit for offical year-end numbers).¹

Food for thought: even if you aren't in a high-risk population, catching and spreading COVID likely contributes to some of those deaths.

This post sparked by having to remind folks of the above when doing event planning.

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¹ https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-leading-cause-of-death-ranking/

PenAmerica is tracking all the classroom censorship laws and book bans.

Index of Book Bans https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/

Index of Educational Gag Orders https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/

#education #lawprofs #lawfedi #law #constitution

#Ransomware victims are refusing to pay, tanking attackers’ profits

#cybersecurity #infosec

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/ransomware-victims-are-refusing-to-pay-tanking-attackers-profits/

Ah yes, I've been saying for a while now how much the world needs another massive tech company to begin foisting online ads upon the world...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/apple-beefs-up-smartphone-services-in-silent-war-against-google/

'Homosexuality not a crime' https://www.castanet.net/news/World/408105/Homosexuality-not-a-crime but it IS a sin, according to the RC Church! Thankfully, “sin” is just as fictitious as the Bible. Humans hurt each other, sometimes intentionally. Blaming it on “supernatural” forces (aka Satan) provides a cop-out for predators - like the ones in the Vatican. Religion is a relic that is no longer required. #exchristian #atheist #SecularHumanist #lgbtq #criticalthinking #ReligiousTrauma

Cory @doctorow has an appropriately scathing blog post today about Moderna's staggering price hike on a lifesaving vaccine created on the taxpayers' dime. The scandals around this company's abuses are epic, but the worst is that millions of human beings will die SOLELY to satisfy corporate greed. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

It's interesting that Francis gave interview to the AP, calling for the Catholic church to fight the criminalization of homosexuality & demanding bishops change their stances, the day after the extremist Pope Benedict's book was published posthumously.

#Christofascism: It Came From the Basement https://apple.news/Al5atesC6QV-gJhbF8-V58w