Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Listen, please don't do this.

It's great that many folks have already transitioned off Twitter fully, but acting like using Twitter right now is an endorsement of Elon's (very real) fascism and war on journalism isn't it.

This has been FAST.

Many marginalized folks have community support infrastructure there that can't simply be ported.

Please understand, community migration is SO much more fraught than individual migration.

Elon Musk told a Tesla investor on a Twitter spaces meeting that he wouldn't stop attacking trans people like her daughter -- or his -- no matter what damage he did to the company's brand or stock value, that his ability to spew hate on Twitter was more important to him than apparently anything.

I certainly hope someone will #disbar #StefanPassantino

LASTPASS NEWS ALERT AND COMMENTARY:
LastPass attackers know your name and billing address and all websites you have saved passwords for, and if your master password isn't sufficiently strong may be possible to brute-force open everything on attacker's machines.

PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING: https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

The fact LastPass doesn't encrypt website URLs is a known flaw it appears they never fixed on purpose, going back almost 6 years:
https://hackernoon.com/psa-lastpass-does-not-encrypt-everything-in-your-vault-8722d69b2032

This eventual possible security breach was planned-for as part of LastPass' design for username and password protection. This doesn't break the core offering.
But it has stripped away multiple layers of protection and will hasten my looking at @bitwarden

It's impossible to be completely secure in a massive offering. However I have always disagreed with their decision to not 100% encrypt all metadata, and this event shows that was a foolish choice when seen against the inevitable of the entropy our complex electronic systems.

In the end, a password manager is still right choice in comparison to alternative. And a cloud-native offering like LastPass strongly hedges against data loss by normal users trying to manage their own vault. That is an undersold primary risk, not hackers. Still, very disappointed.

Current password setup:
- Primary vault is LastPass with 2FA
- Core fallback "key" accounts like email that allow pw reset are only in a KeyPass db file with 20char password, synced via OneDrive+2FA.
- This is then further backed-up with BackBlaze, using 40char encryption key

I try to be mindful every morning when I walk my pup -- she sets a great example!

Happy Solstice!

#astronomy #solstice
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/the-turning-point/

oh boy time to change my fuckin lastpass password when i get home

Secret Service accused Cassidy Hutchinson of lying but won’t testify under oath themselves

Alito accused a pastor of lying about his leak but won’t testify under oath himself

Trump accused others of lying but won’t testify under oath himself

Why? They know perjury is a felony

On the last business day of 2022, leading password manager LastPass has revealed that customers' password vaults and personal information has been copied by hackers.

This represents a dramatic update to a breach the company first disclosed in August. If I were a LastPass user, I'd change both my master password as well as each password stored in my vault. I know that's a pain, but the precaution seems warranted.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/lastpass-says-hackers-have-obtained-vault-data-and-a-wealth-of-customer-info/

Overjoyed. #CatsOfMastodon

Heidi having fun at the dog park in -25C weather #DogsOfMastodon

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

Something to keep in mind always, but especially in the coming days:

Grief, loneliness, family estrangement, depression, addiction all seem to hurt more this time of year. Just about everyone I’ve met with this week is struggling extra

… I guess what im saying is, please be good to each other. Life is hard right now for a lot of people, and the holiday season can put every kind of hardship into laser focus. Mind how you go.

PHOTO BLOG: Earlier this month, a storm chaser from the Netherlands took a wonderful photo showing several textbook ice halos, including a 46-degree halo, a 22-degree halo with parhelion (sun dogs), and an upper tangent arc. https://www.accuweather.com/en/leisure-recreation/live-news/weather-permitting-photo-blog/933860

I just wore a KN95 to protect my face from the wind while shoveling my driveway and it worked better than a scarf 😂

I'd rather belong to an echo chamber that fights for the rights of all human beings, than one that only fights for themselves

The thing Bob loves most about being a werewolf is when his wife takes him on a car ride.

West Point will remove Confederate symbols from its campus - The storied military academy will take down likenesses of Robert E. Lee as part of a Department of Defense directive to do away with installations that "commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy." #npr

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1145107950/west-point-confederate-symbols-robert-e-lee

Hate Leader Nick Fuentes Is Recruiting Incels

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/hate-leader-nick-fuentes-is-recruiting-incels/

#uspol
#BlackMastodon