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Security Tightens Around Putin Amid Coup and Assassination Fears, According to European Intel Agency

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/security-tightens-around-putin-amid-coup-and-assassination-fears-according-to-european-intel-agency?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=automated

#crime #corruption #news

Press freedom is your freedom. #WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD

Let the truth be told, let the press be free. 📰

Journalists give voice to the voiceless, hold power to account, and keep citizens informed often at great personal risk.

Too many face intimidation, censorship, and violence simply for doing their job.

This World Press Freedom Day, we reaffirm our commitment to protecting journalists and defending independent media.

Because free press is the foundation of democracy.

New Nazi Database: Carl Orff Never Needed a Party Card https://www.flyingpenguin.com/new-nazi-database-carl-orff-never-needed-a-party-card/

This is absolutely wild: The #Zambia government has just cancelled the world's most important digital rights conference #RightsCon 2026 which was supposed to start next week in #Lusaka. 3,000+ participants are now hanging in limbo (myself included), some already traveled to the country.

I feel for the folks at #AccessNow who have been working so hard on this for months.

https://www.facebook.com/100069038505521/posts/1285179577126647/

Now it's official: #RightsCon 2026 has been censored and cancelled by the government of #Zambia.

This is a loss for the global #DigitalRights community, a bigger one for #AccessNow, and maybe the biggest for #Zambia and the entire region, as future human rights events will think twice before setting foot there. 😪

What a needless waste.

Well, fuck. #RightsCon

https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116489046392280018

It's 2026 and #RightsCon still doesn't have a #Fediverse or #Bluesky account. Kinda blows my mind.

"Federate, don't concentrate: balkanisation is freedom.
- Vulnerability triage in the LLM era."

"The political instinct that calls federation "balkanisation" inverts the engineering reality. In a system whose sole central producer has just publicly conceded it cannot keep up, balkanisation (multiple producers, multiple identifier spaces, interoperability-by-design rather than interoperability-by-monopoly) is freedom: freedom from single-point-of-failure, freedom for specialised producers to enrich the slices they understand best, and freedom for consumers to compose the synthesis that fits their environment."

https://codeberg.org/tzafaar/Buffers_overflow_into_policy/src/branch/main/briefing%20notes/federate-dont-concentrate-briefing.md

Looking to buy effective pepper spray in #Brussels -- any advice where to go?

#ShoppingAdvice #Belgium

I spent nearly 4 months investigating the inner workings of a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group. Here's what I found:

- The group used generative AI tools to aid in almost every part of their operations.

- They exfiltrated 26,584 cryptocurrency wallets from victim systems, with a combined value totaling as much $12 million dollars.

- In several cases, the threat actors set up entire front companies to lure in developers via fake job posting, then infected them with malware.

- The threat actors successfully pulled off a supply-chain attack by compromising a VS Code extension developer's system.

🔗 Full article: https://expel.com/blog/inside-lazarus-how-north-korea-uses-ai-to-industrialize-attacks-on-developers/

Hollo 0.7.11 is now available and includes an important security update. If you are running an older version, please upgrade to 0.7.11 as soon as possible.

@evan I'm trying to follow various tags via tags.pub but it appears that my follow requests fail and are stuck in "pending". Is this a known issue?

#fediverse #mastodon

@jwd630 @molly0xfff That's awesome, thank you!

Planning a crash course in #Wikipedia editing for my parents-in-law who are retired anthropologists, and wondering if there are accessible non-techie guides on how to get started as a Wikipedian?

#retirement #parents

@EUCommission It is for parents to raise their children. Not policymakers.

Wow. #Fedora #Asahi Linux on a Macbook Pro m1. This may be the most pleasant Linux desktop experience I've ever had.

Congrats on getting this far, @AsahiLinux !

I just discovered that there's actually a plugin to have an actually pretty interface on #Koreader!

Here's how it looks on my #Kobo Clara 2E! But it's super customizable and has a lot of modules and ways to arrange things, enjoy!

https://github.com/doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin

@joel FINALLY! Thanks for flagging this.

So #BlueSky was down today. Tempted to register the webpage "isthefediversedown.com" which is just static HTML of the text "no"

I have developed a foolproof system for inbox zero. it’s called “a separate email address I never check” and I feel fucking great about it buy my course.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This is why I believe Bluesky was never meant to be federated. To create a Bluesky "instance", like Blacksky is heroically attempting, you have to perfectly duplicate every server Bluesky runs. But Bluesky is a business operating at a loss by burning unlimited-for-now VC cash. That has always implied only a business with unlimited VC cash can create an instance. Blacksky is succeeding. Except on days where they aren't.

Because this is the other "we used future alien technology to make it worse" thing about Bluesky.

In the "natural", Hobbesian form of P2P, the more nodes you add the less work per node you need to do, because of work sharing.

But Bluesky's "federation" is like blockchain. When you create a second "instance", that instance must duplicate *literally all the work* of the first instance. It must scrape all the posts itself. It must archive all the posts itself. It must CSAM-scan the posts itself.

P2P is a world where naturally the more people use it, the faster and more resilient the network becomes. Load gets distributed. Working nodes talk to each other and ignore nonworking nodes. That's how the primitive, BitTorrent era systems worked.

Bluesky somehow applied superfancy alien future technology to invent P2P traffic jams. When one node goes down, the others go down because they depended on it. Because it's a mesh of interoperating microservices by different providers, not federation.

well, duh.

Hopefully the last one.

One more test

Aaaaand, one more try.

Ah well, it happened again.

Just a quick test to see whether #hollo still craps out every time I publish something.