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firefly

@firefly@neon.nightbulb.net

I am a #bibliologer and a #cryptologer. I study the Bible, codes, and ciphers among other things. I enjoy #poetry. I like #neologisms. I burn with insatiable curiosity about everyone and everything.

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frassmith, to random
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Dear authors. If you follow me and I see that your stream is entirely made up of quotes from and about your latest book and links to buy it, sorry, I'm not going to follow back. You've made your point, but I don't need to see daily, weekly or even monthly ads for your book.

#MastoSPAM

firefly,
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@frassmith

Lord willing I will get around to publishing a book one day. I think by this comment you have earned a free copy autographed with ink from pressed coffee beans.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    firefly,
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    @GossiTheDog

    The same healthcare industry that robs the sick and poor with sickeningly overpriced care, meds, and services, gets robbed itself. I shed no tears for the corrupt medical industrial complex.

    Conservative Plan Calls for Dozens of Executions if Trump Wins (www.thedailybeast.com)

    A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40...

    firefly,
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    @gregorum @AppleTea

    Which equates to 535 kings ruling over 300 million serfs.

    Or are they all just sockpuppets for one hidden king?

    Smell the democracy!

    svetlyak40wt, to web
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    Great news, everyone!

    I've published a first version of the static site builder StatiCL.

    As you might assume from it's name, it is written in Common Lisp.

    Now I'm replacing all my sites which used Coleslaw with this new builder, because it is more flexible and suitable not only for blogs.

    Read more in the docs: https://40ants.com/staticl/

    I need first testers, so feel free to share your feelings and issues. Also I'd appreciate if you'll boost this post.

    firefly,
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    @svetlyak40wt

    spot on rationale for 'why' and 'advantages'

    hobbsc, to coffee
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    Drinking #coffee over a brand new white shirt. Living dangerously.

    firefly,
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    @hobbsc

    Egads!

    screwtape, to random
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    One of my uni student computer friends has gotten too powerful to really ever need help or commentary with their bog standard Micro$oft classwork.

    What advice should I give to make their computer life harder?

    firefly,
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    @screwtape

    Chain them to a wall in front of a Commodore 64 and require them to learn Lisp while interacting with the Lemmyverse.

    firefly,
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    @screwtape @CryogenicIce9

    Software freedom may feel good at first until that damn penguin nails you with his sharp beak.

    246052c37882f81dc9eb3023256a1ee668024f8494d1437f3a93a9221e4b3d16, to random
    @246052c37882f81dc9eb3023256a1ee668024f8494d1437f3a93a9221e4b3d16@mostr.pub avatar

    Some of the most apparent chem trails I’ve ever seen.
    https://m.primal.net/IFAD.jpg

    firefly,
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    @d388af725538cea442c0a9f8c35b87@mostr.pub @246052c37882f81dc9eb3023256a1e@mostr.pub

    try harder

    firefly,
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    @Nyfure @Habahnow

    Voting is a witchcraft mind-spell ritual in which the victim thinks his wish gives him power.

    61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb79d1ddbc3e7bff19cf2298f40466f8715e9, to random
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    There are like 10 people on nostr whose thoughts and opinions I care about. People I’d like to meet in real life.

    The rest is nebulous clouds of words moving and morphing and blurting. I watch, periodically interacting with complete sentences.

    firefly,
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    @61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb7@mostr.pub

    ... mostly btc pumper dumper parrots ...

    TootTropiques, to bookstodon
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    "One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."

    --Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    @bookstodon

    firefly,
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    @TootTropiques @bookstodon

    Fools of a feather fantasize together.

    rat, to Autism
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    14-year-old grandson: 'my hack-fu makes me happy'

    Gran: “He’s never done any of it in a malicious way. Why didn’t the school system put in more filters, or firewalls, to prevent children from getting into that?”

    County Spokesperson: "Threats to over 100,000 students’ safety, including hacking, will be met with the full force of the law and applicable District policy."

    https://infosec.exchange/@douglevin/112412361774579936

    firefly,
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    @rat

    HACKING IS NOT A CRIME
    ACKING IS NOT A CRIME H
    CKING IS NOT A CRIME HA
    KING IS NOT A CRIME HAC
    ING IS NOT A CRIME HACK
    NG IS NOT A CRIME HACKI
    G IS NOT A CRIME HACKIN
    IS NOT A CRIME HACKING

    61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb79d1ddbc3e7bff19cf2298f40466f8715e9, to random
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    The U.S. government has created enemies to keep you scared of what those enemies might do to you. So they remain needed.

    firefly,
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    @61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb7@mostr.pub

    Bingo.

    JustTooOdd, to oklahoma
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    In the latest installment of Oklahoma's elected officials not having the necessary background to do their jobs, we have this:

    The Satanic Temple plans to place ministers in Oklahoma schools if new bill becomes law

    Of course Oklahoma legislators don't want those chaplains in schools. And, it apparently never occurred to them that allowing one religion means allowing ALL religions. I don't even think this is some misguided 1st Amendment challenge. It's just ignorance, ignorance that doesn't belong in public office. #Oklahoma #FirstAmendment #ReligiousFreedom #SatanicTemple

    https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/the-satanic-temple-plans-place-ministers-oklahoma-public-schools-new-senate-bill-36-becomes-law-chaplains-volunteer-background-checks-religion-community-service-representation

    firefly,
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    @JustTooOdd

    Religion and religious institutions or entities are two entirely different matters in law.

    No religious institution has the right of access to anything public.

    But every believer in a religion has the right of his own expression in public.

    But the purpose of public school is not religious expression of any kind. The purpose of public school is education for the cultural and commercial benefit of the society. Our civil society and all its laws, and the very fundamental principles of our laws are founded on and originate from the Lex Talionis of the Old Testament and the Golden Rule of the New Testament and are uniquely and fundamentally Christian. Every attempt to undermine that is a treasonous attempt to collapse the society into chaos and belam. The separation of powers clause is straight out of the Bible. The rights of man being superior to the preogatives of government is straight out of the Bible. It did not originate with the Greeks or Romans, whose 'democracy' and 'republic' was a form of racial supremacist fascism. These western principles of law originated with the Nazarenes who carried forth the Bible and the Gospel to the world.

    The modern concept of the nation state as a vessel that affords equal rights to all inhabitants is a fundamentally Christian idea. Even when it was ephemerally practiced in the ancient world it was because of the influence of Hebrews or Christians on the rulers of the Empires of those ages.

    Whatever is calculated to disrupt that end of equality before the law, and substitute it with a false and destructive equality, regardless of your claims of 'religious freedom' such treachery can and should be limited and curtailed by public policy. It is called the, 'necessary and proper' clause. Under the common law it is called the peace and order of the state.

    The freedom of Satanists to offend and blaspheme against the vast majority is neither necessary nor proper, and is a false equivalence. Everyone who worships Satan should be in a lunatic asylum, along with you. Putting satanism on equal footing with the faith that gave us our liberty is beyond insane. Nobody has the right to promote the worship of devils and demons. The only right they have is to have their heads examined.

    firefly,
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    @iAmTheTot @return2ozma @mibo80 @Plastic_Ramses

    You must not have been a civil or criminal defendant in a court room.

    firefly,
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    Telegram: We keep you private. Now enter your phone number to sign up.

    firefly,
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    @SnotFlickerman @CoderSupreme

    Some digital cameras and phone cameras can also embed the GPS coordinates in the pixel data so that even if you delete the EXIF metadata the GPS location and device serial number are still present in the image. Many document printers also embed device serial number and other data on printed documents by using nearly invisible dot encodings.

    firefly,
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    @match @CoderSupreme

    What should you do about surveillance technology? Ask a Amish hacker!

    firefly,
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    No easy way at all. The specs would be in-house manufacturer docs. Recall that digital cameras used to embed date and time visibly in images in a corner. The logical progression was to embed other data such as device serial number, geotag data, etc.

    Regarding the schemes for steganographic identification in devices such as cameras and printers, this information is usually kept a trade secret. The Secret Service would probably already have the spec docs for data hiding. Many manufacturers already have working agreements to provide back door assistance and documentation for the hardware surveillance economy. Ink chemistry profiles are registered with the Secret Service. The subterfuge is to 'investigate counterfeiting' but it is also used to identify whistleblowers and objective targets by their printer serial number or ink chemistry, or the data embedded in any images they are naive enough to publish.

    If you are a undercover reporter secretly video recording, unbeknownst to you the video could have metadata encoded using a secret scheme. If you registered that product for a warranty, or bought it online and had it shipped, or paid with a credit card or check, or walked beneath the electronics store cameras without a hat and sunglasses to pay cash, it is easy for the state organs to then follow the breadcrumbs and identify the videographer.

    Almost all 'free' wifi hotspots offered by chain restaurants and hotels are logged with the data being stored indefinitely, showing your mac address. It takes only a little bit of investigation and process of elimination to find the user on a camera feed history, to see who was connected when a certain message or leak was sent. If you use a wifi hotspot in a McDonalds, Wendy's, Starbucks, etc. smile for the surveillance camera which will also have your device's unique MAC address in the wifi history. This MAC address data is automatically sent to a central station, for example at the Wandering Wifi company, and God only knows how long they store it.

    None of this nonsense makes anyone safer. These people hate us.

    firefly,
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    Try Polaroid.

    firefly,
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    @hperrin

    VPN + Tor = incognitopottamus

    firefly, (edited )
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    @helenslunch

    "I have nothing to hide ..."

    Nice story, bro.

    When you post a real photograph of yourself, wife, kids, and all your social security numbers and bank account numbers, along with a complete history of all video rentals and library books, and your private confessions of folly, vice, and sin-- post all that on your Lemmy profile, then I'll believe you have nothing to hide.

    dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319, to random
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    German food good.

    firefly,
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    @dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae148@mostr.pub @8d34bd2432240c5637174a3db19187@mostr.pub @61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb7@mostr.pub

    You can buy either electric or hand-cranked flour grinding mills for the countertop. Then just buy whole grain from the farmer or mill and grind your own flour right before baking.

    axbom, to random
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    How people trust this software for decision-making is beyond me…

    https://chat.openai.com/share/534ac2bd-332c-43d5-a26c-4b1bd8050c38

    firefly,
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    @axbom

    shitGPT: The cat sat in the crap.

    schizanon, to passkeys
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    PassKeys seem like a bad idea. Google backs them up to the cloud, so if your Google account is compromised then all your private keys are compromised. I don't see how that's an improvement over password+2FA at all.

    Now security keys I get; keep the private key on an airgapped device. That's good. Hell I even keep my 2FA-OTP salts on a YubiKey.

    #passkeys #fido2 #webauthn #yubikey #2fa #otp #authentication #cryptography #security #passwords #passkey #password #securityKey #google

    firefly,
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    Structural security trumps computational security ... or ...
    Diffuse structural security trumps amalgamated computational security ...
    All your big, strong passkeys in one basket is less secure than your passwords in many individual baskets ...
    Trying to explain this to tech bros can resemble pushing a wagon uphill ...
    Because they want to sell something, logic is not paramount.

    See here:

    https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2023-September/038186.html

    "A password in my brain is generally safer than an app or SMS stream that can be compromised. Although a passphrase may in some cases not be computationally more secure than a token mechanism or two-factor sytem, the simple passphrase is often structurally more secure because that passphrase only links to and exposes one service target."

    and here:

    https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2023-September/038188.html

    "I like to compare it to having one basket of eggs in one spot, and many baskets of eggs in many places. If your one basket of eggs has the master key to all the other stronger keys, is it easier to get the one basket, or the many baskets with weaker keys? So in this scenario cipher strength is not the most important factor for security. With a single basket one fox or pick-pocket or one search warrant can own all of your eggs for all your services."

    #Passkeys #Passkey #Passwords #Password #2FactorAuth #Authentication #Security #Cryptography

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