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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

I likely comes as no surprise that at least some EV charging infrastructure has been rolled out with laughably bad security. The fact that someone could probably cause significant damage to the local power grid or plant malware for future vehicles connected with very little real effort is wild, especially since many chargers are in only minimally protected public spaces. It’s like being able to stick in a specially formatted debit card and suddenly have full access to a bank’s entire internal system. https://www.saiflow.com/blog/the-hidden-ccs2-attack-surface-on-ev-chargers

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The Hidden CCS2 Attack Surface on EV Chargers

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

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@aburka@hachyderm.io @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com

I did something similar when ProPublica’s union stood up their strike fund GoFundMe. I also sent an email to the membership team at the company and asked they share with executive leadership saying:

I absolutely stood with the workers in their efforts as a long time reader.
Listed several of the specific demands the union effort wanted in a contract that were important to me as a reader with trust in ProPublica’s reporting.
I was suspending my monthly donation to ProPublica and sending that money instead to the strike fund.
Agreed to double my monthly donation to ProPublica if they agreed to a contract with the union.

By no means do I think I individually had a material sway, but it felt like a reasonable approach and made clear my position and how valuable ($$$) it was to me so that executives focused on numbers could understand.

And of course, I did renew and increase my donation last week when they announced a contract outline.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

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Yeah, when I said "laughably bad security" it was the "laughing instead of crying" kind.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

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@rmondello@hachyderm.io if any are developer focused, definitely some kind of best practices guide for making using passkeys to login easier for users. It’s so confusing to trigger the passkey prompt as a user, and I end up using passkeys less than half the time I could because the site doesn’t make the passkey flow easy to find - the fact that it’s separate at all is part of the frustration.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

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Also, anyone who pays any attention at all to how drivers in San Francisco behave could have predicted exactly this outcome. Private drivers violate transit only lane restrictions all the time, anything that will save them even 5 seconds is fair game. Anyone that thinks drivers would willingly forego a shortcut through downtown traffic is not fit to make decisions about road usage or transit regulations.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 4mo ago

Free project idea: a TV show review site, with a simple rating scale to signal how “safe” a show is to watch based on plot continuity. 🟢 The series is concluded naturally with no unplanned cliffhangers. 🔵 The series currently has a cliffhanger, but has an upcoming season that could resolve things. 🟡 The series currently has a cliffhanger but has not been renewed (or cancelled) for a further season. 🔴 The series has ended or was cancelled with a significant plot cliffhanger.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

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@hanscees@ieji.de Based on reading the post, not terribly difficult. Probably the hardest part is writing the malware itself, since it seems getting access and planting it is relatively trivial.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 4mo ago

I remember hearing discussion about this while I was in Amsterdam a few weeks ago, there was certainly discontent among locals about the potential deal.

More actions like this please. The world should be rich with independent and local companies and tech. Centralized control and ownership only ever serves the centralized owner and actively harms everyone else.
https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

POLITICO

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

Across Europe, there have been increased concerns about the bloc’s reliance on American tech.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

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@bennett@assemblag.es I was just reading about that, can’t say I’m at all surprised. It’s very similar to a change they made and admitted to last year where Waymos will now slowly inch forward into intersections to make a turn even when a pedestrian is in the crosswalk. Which is actively illegal in California, though a large share of human drivers do the same. And their justification is that’s the behavior people expect from a car, so it’s actually more appropriate to do it than not. How they got away with admitting they programmed their cars to drive illegally, I’ll never understand. I can’t wait until June when they can start being cited by police and traffic enforcement in California.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

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@drahardjaI I wonder how well that translates to the US, and if there’s a similar phenomenon for areas that may never have had a density of social/communal spaces like rural and suburban communities that in the US often tend towards right-wing parties. Though religious communal spaces would seem to be the exception there.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

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@kristinHenry@vis.social That is particularly appalling 😞

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 32mo ago

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@5t3ph@front-end.social The scroll margin/padding one is a true life saver. We have a sticky header and people have been complaining the whole time that anchor links “scroll too far” and keep filing bugs for it. I’ve refused to build a JS implementation to work around that and this will finally get things working right 🎉

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 7mo ago

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@rmondello not quite the same, but it’s been a while since their live activities accurately logged an actual arrival for mine or a friends flight unless I directly open the app after it’s due in. It just gets stuck between landed and gate arrival.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 4mo ago

RE: @Daojoan@mastodon.social

I’ve long had simmering thoughts about the damage to society that cheap, ubiquitous… everything has caused, by way of the internet.

Yes, affordable access to lots of things is important. But the waste generated by making things too cheap and single-use oriented is a cancer. Coupled with having a million options for any given purchase, and price becomes the driving differentiator because who doesn’t want to save a few bucks.

mastodon.social

JA Westenberg: "The Costco theory of the internet: People are ti…" - Mastodon

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 4mo ago

Contact your close family and friends TODAY and agree on a safe-word for situations like this. Make sure they require the safe word before any money changes hands or other serious decisions are made.
https://sfist.com/2026/05/26/local-woman-bilked-out-of-thousands-after-scammers-clone-daughters-voice-with-ai/

Local Woman Bilked Out of Thousands After Scammers Clone Daughter’s Voice With AI

SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports

Local Woman Bilked Out of Thousands After Scammers Clone Daughter’s Voice With AI

An East Bay mother recently answered a call from an unknown number, which turned out to be scammers using AI and deepfake technology to sound like her daughter, whom they said had been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel — part of a growing trend of scams.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 4mo ago

While discussing hardware prices with a friend today, I looked up the hard drives I bought back in February out of curiosity.

They are currently almost twice as expensive as what I paid. Which was twice as expensive as they were in October when I originally thought about buying them.

400% price increase in 7 months.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 5d ago

Bought up a handful of albums I’ve been missing in my music collection today because of #BandcampFriday where the platform waives its fees so artists get a bigger cut.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

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@scott@carfree.city Oh yes, I’ve seen this dozens of times easily.

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 3mo ago

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@joesteel@duck.haus or a functioning fare system

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanboswell@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net Wow, regulation that specific is great, I wish it were common here in the US. The manufacturer of the charger that was targeted is based in Germany and by all accounts are at least moderately common in parts of mainland Europe. I wonder if they have any in the UK and if those are better protected (ironic) or also vulnerable (and illegal).

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