mastodon 4.7.32L, Wikipedian, Debian Developer, MediaWiki core dev. Boba journalist, believer in free software and free knowledge. Professionally I work on SecureDrop.
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Incredible, someone at Red Hat is apparently reading my toots and slowly scrubbing their website of references to their "compressing the kill cycle" project.
Here's the file they don't want you to read: https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf
p.s. if you work at Red Hat and have inside info on what's going on, my Signal is "@legoktm.12345" - happy to protect you.
I don't know why people are focusing on IBM's history when we know that Red Hat, today, is a military contractor working with the US Air Force to make their AI-powered drones faster so they can "compress the kill cycle" (a real thing they advertise!!) in all of the US's illegal wars
Red Hat has since removed their war crime-supporting "Compress the kill cycle" marketing page from their website but left other references up, e.g. https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf (also saved on IA now)
A really good summary of what compressing the kill cycle means in practical terms was recently published in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
🚨 the @securedrop@social.freedom.press team at Freedom of Press Foundation is hiring 🚨
We're looking for a Cryptography Engineer to help us build out the new end-to-end encrypted version of #SecureDrop
✔️ fully remote
✔️ all FOSS
✔️ help secure whistleblowers and investigative journalists all around the world
More details in the job posting, happy to answer any questions
https://freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/610227-cryptography-engineer
:boost_ok:
#GetFediHired #Rust #FormalMethods #Encryption #Cryptography #Whistleblowing #OpenSource
I would've been shocked if a *jury* didn't find #Ticketmaster guilty
https://apnews.com/article/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-trial-f0ffdd20dd4f64e8b4bb9d97134b826f
Kudos to the (lowercase) united States for sticking with the case after the (uppercase) United States tried to corruptly cut a deal.
Now it's time for remedies!
reminder that the US did once abolish DST and everyone hated it so much that Congress reversed itself within months
yes, switching is bad but losing that much sunlight is way worse tbh
there are a number of other problems, like the fact that a number of states/cities are in the wrong timezone!
19 years since my first edit to #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%E2%80%9307_San_Jose_Sharks_season&diff=prev&oldid=122614698
You know things are going super well when people are learning about the intricacies of the Court of Arbitration for Sport procedures and how its ad hoc court system works.
What a sad downfall at what used to be an incredible media outlet. Time to pull the plug.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-signal-tip-line-breach-hack
And subscribe to Drop Site News, which is truly carrying on the legacy of The Intercept.
🚨 🚨 🚨
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a PhD student, aka "DAC" has defeated 10-year incumbent Adriano Espaillat, Chair of the Hispanic Caucus, who had been in elected office since 1997.
This is a far far bigger upset than Zohran (an elected official) defeating Cuomo (a scandal-tarred candidate who already had to resign).
🧊 🧊 🧊 the rent has been frozen
https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/25/rent-freeze-vote-stabilized-housing-mamdani/
what a week for #NYCpol
RE: @securedrop@social.freedom.press
What I've been up to for the past 9 months basically, pretty excited we're finally close to releasing:
(also unpopular opinion: I get why people don't like Electron but as a developer, it's fantastic)
EXCLUSIVE: Justice Sotomayor on AI, taxes, and more
In answering questions from law students at CUNY today, Sotomayor said there are three "critical skills" students absolutely need to learn: writing, public speaking, and ... AI??
“You should not be graduating without taking an AI course,” she said. And that using it is explicitly "not cheating."
She also talked about taxes, birthright citizenship, never losing a case again / losing all your cases, and more.
https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/03/13/exclusive-justice-sotomayor-on-ai-taxes-and-more.html
RE: @securedrop@social.freedom.press
fwiw, Opus 4.8 was not able to immediately find this bug, whereas Fable was (once I pointed Opus to the specific file, then it spotted the issue)
RE: @securedrop@social.freedom.press
The low priority issue we disclosed today managed to get assigned CVE-2026-50000.
Didn't include this in the writeup, but just for the purpose of keeping score, this would likely not have happened if it was written in #Rust because mutability is part of the type system, so you don't end up accidentally mutating what should be an immutable object!
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/security/advisories/GHSA-78xq-8jf3-gpfx
RE: @securedrop@social.freedom.press
“While vulnerabilities were identified, none are considered easily exploitable by attackers. This lowers their practical risk and indicates that SecureDrop Workstation is on a good security level compared to systems of similar size and complexity.” 😎
New blog post: Archiving Hell Gate's FYIs
https://blog.legoktm.com/2025/05/08/archiving-hell-gates-fyis.html
Hell Gate's website has a "FYI" blurb which is usually one to two sentences with a link to a story about some current event.
Unfortunately it's not well advertised; so I've created an archive of them and set up an RSS feed:
"So what, some say, if he is legally barred from ever seeking the White House? Republicans do illegal things all the time. They’ve been talking about running Trump for an equally unconstitutional third term since he won the election. Most might dismiss such thoughts out of hand, but I find it to be more fun to entertain them."
lmao
https://www.ettingermentum.news/p/the-official-aoc-alternative-tier
"The single most important statistic in New York City politics is not someone’s race or whether they have a college degree or own their apartment — it is what year they were born."
