Nivex 🐧 📻 @nivex@octodon.social

Freedom under capitalism means freedom to die of...

- starvation
- exposure
- preventable disease
- treatable disease
- loneliness
- violence at the hands of the police

The sheer number of talks about burnout at tech conferences (including ones I've given) lead me to believe that every talk should just be one slide that says "Smash Capitalism". #allthingsopen

"Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They're Restricted" – https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html

This could be why you're depressed or anxious | Johann Hari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5IX-np5fE

"Just like junk food doesn’t meet your nutritional needs, and actually makes you feel quite terrible, junk values don’t meet your psychological needs, and they take you away from a good life."

Anachronism and roleplay are wonderful

someone at arrl thinks they're clever

I'm starting to see bot attacks over #IPv6 on my #wordpress site. #sysadmin Not sure if this is good news for IPv6 or not... ​

'Letter from GitHub employees to CEO about the company's ICE contract'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/letter-from-github-employees-to-ceo-about-the-company-s-ice-contract/fb280de9-2bc3-40d5-b1a5-e3b954bf0d25/

Hugely relatable..

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/want-it-all/

Hey. We all know medical debt is a big problem in the USA.

Wanna do something about it?

Here's a charity that buys medical debt and forgives it in a way that keeps the people who owe that debt from owing taxes on having that debt forgiven. https://www.ripmedicaldebt.org/

Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell people on the bus or train. Donate in your most racist and entitled relative's name and tell them you did it.

“This is why I say some of this stuff is entirely too complicated. We've brought this upon ourselves: building breathtakingly high stacks of ridiculous systems where few (if any) people can keep the whole thing in their head.” http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/05/nxdomain/

Looking back at the Snowden revelations by Matthew Green

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/09/24/looking-back-at-the-snowden-revelations/

#infosec

Let’s start a hot new trend where people are nice on the internet

Farmer presenting on pastured livestock at conference today said an interesting and troubling thing about installing solar panels for extra income: don’t put any in view of the road. Apparently if they are visible people will come at night and steal them.

new rule: no more gritty reboots unless they actually feature gritty playing the main role