NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town

people: "we can build a nationwide internet through the wireless!"

me, an RF engineer with years of tactical mesh network PHY experience, multiple radio licenses, and an apartment two blocks from her corner office at a leading manufacturer of wideband SDR hardware: "good fuckin' luck"

I wish we talked about the energy used by Google's AdSense network the same way everybody talks about Bitcoin.

"Are you a man or a woman?"
"I'm a pilot."
"No, I mean what's in your pants?"
"The keys to my mech."

Hackers: Knock Knock
IoT: Who's there?
Hackers: admin admin
#botnet

""Calque" itself is a loanword from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); the verb calquer means "to trace; to copy, to imitate closely"; papier calque is "tracing paper".[1] The word "loanword" is itself a calque of the German word Lehnwort, just as "loan translation" is a calque of Lehnübersetzung.[2]"

this is fucking hilarious and amazing

Liberapay is now officially a multi-currency platform! We have implemented support for US dollars in addition to the euro. Blog post: https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-now-supports-us-dollars-f9484e3008f8

i super appreciate that #liberapay has a system that makes small contributions not only financially sustainable, but actually encouraged; there's donation tiers specifically called "symbolic" and "small"

small efforts add up 👌

~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order

kicking around the idea of a #coop #isp to try and circumvent the abandonment of #NetNeutrality rules.

It feels like I'm getting over my head. Got no experience with coops at all, although I understand the principle.

Even NPOs get over my head, I feel sometimes.

Intel: "Oh whoops, we wanted to be able to control your PC through a MINIX installation inside your CPU's Management engine to get a few extra bucks, but it totally backfired, we had no idea that an exploit would be found so soon. Sorry 'bout that. Please don't @ us, instead talk to your motherboard manufacturers pls thx!"

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html

For people looking for #Patreon alternatives, besides #Liberapay, you may want to look at https://donorbox.org as a possible *short-term* solution.

They are unfortunately not open-source nor non-profit, but their fee is 0% if you raise less than $1000 per month, and then 0.89% (aside from the Paypal or credit card fee)

Protect Your Right to Repair and Control the Devices in Your Life

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/protect-your-right-repair-and-control-devices-your-life

The Tragedy of Commons was a thought experiment made by a proponent of unregulated capitalism, how ever several sociologist have shown it to hold no real truth in real systems. A sociologist/economist Elinor Ostrom got a Nobel prize for her work on looking at cases of commons in the real world.

From Let's Encrypt:
"Looking Forward to 2018"

"We’ve got some exciting features planned for 2018.

First, we’re planning to introduce an ACME v2 protocol API endpoint and support for wildcard certificates along with it. Wildcard certificates will be free and available globally just like our other certificates. We are planning to have a public test API endpoint up by January 4, and we’ve set a date for the full launch: Tuesday, February 27."

https://letsencrypt.org//2017/12/07/looking-forward-to-2018.html

#infosec

so--

i think we need a #technoanarchism

i mean the 80s and 90s were really cool with #cyberfeminism and #cyberpunk (see http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/cyberia/ for an unbalanced account) but this laissez-faire shit is not going to cut it if it's a violent race

strategically this is not unwinnable because you can smash fascists

but the thing about technological development is, you can win forever

the disconnected communities Graeber introduces could never defeat an organized #technofascism without embarking on technological development. they would have to change in this way in order to survive, deter, or win (which risks nullifying the existing culture ofc)