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firefly

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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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@firefly@neon.nightbulb.net avatar firefly , to Political Memes

Political Memes

VOTE HARDER!

Maybe if you just VOTE HARDER
things will work out!

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A lot of good it did us.

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Fridgeratr

"The divine right of kings was a current system too. I wonder how they overthrew it"

They didn't overthrow it. The kings and aristocrats made a bargain that they would take turns being kings and aristocrats (voting) as long as the system of property, income, and estate taxes stayed in place to bleed the poor and middle class. It is the same people's grandchildren today that are your pool of candidates. We still live under a cult that considers itself having the divine right to rule the tax serfs.

@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar appassionato , to bookstodon group

The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future) by Kristian Rönn, 2024

A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival—an evolutionary “glitch” that explains everything from toxic workplaces to climate change.

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“Essential reading . . . a lively, ultimately hopeful examination of how incentivizing the wrong values and actions has led to some of our most intractable problems.”—Eric Ries, New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup When people talk about today’s biggest challenges—pollution, misinformation, artificial intelligence, inept CEOs, and politicians—they tend to frame the conversation around “bad people” doing “bad things.” But is there more to the story? Humans, it turns out, are intrinsically wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term prosperity.
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It is actually the religion of Darwinism that has led to general, short-sighted mass malaise. Survival of the fittest is the mantra of the political, religious, and financial oligarchs.

"... humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival ..."

Humans are forced to think this way because of intimidation and violence from religion and state, and economic extortion of the powers-that-be. It has absolutely nothing to do with biology or 'evolution'. Most people who make long-term plans get stomped on or crushed by the state in one way or another, and they learn that planning long-term is a risky proposition. Abolishing the income tax on wages and the property tax on homesteads would create an entirely new political and economic paradigm and outlook.

It is impossible to explain this to people who worship the state and academia. They will not be brought to realize that the institutions and ideologies and tax schemes that they support are the poison wreaking havoc on the human mind. They have too much invested to reverse course.

45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web ( www.wosu.org )

Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected Internet age, the hub of companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook. However, a pioneering company here in central Ohio is responsible for developing and popularizing many of the technologies we take for granted today. ...

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MachineFab812

I suspect you can still do PPP with a cell phone. The ones I have still have PPP dialer software in the base system. It would take some hacking, but looks possible. You could test with a NetZero dialup account.

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Too many fun ideas and too little time to explore them ...

@firefly@neon.nightbulb.net avatar firefly , to histodons group

bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group histodons@a.gup.pe icon histodons group [email protected] @poetry @photography writingcommunity@a.gup.pe icon writingcommunity group @writing haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group

Are you a webmaster with your own domain and web site?

If you have your own domain name and a web site please send me a mention with the link. I'm especially grateful for webmasters who publish RSS feeds of their sites.

I am avoiding all big tech sites as much as I can. This means I am mostly avoiding free blog sites, forums, most social media (except some Fediverse), video sites, substack, whatever. I am truly interested in reading and viewing only subject matter published by webmasters who have taken the time to set up their own web sites. This separates most low-effort work from real work. This is a good sanity check as well.

@firefly@neon.nightbulb.net avatar firefly , to bookstodon group

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Title: Millions of cats
Author: Wanda Gág
Original publication: New York: Coward McCann, Inc, 1928

A short, syrupy, predictable children's fable that is totally worth it. The story has a multiple morals entwined in a five-minute read without being moralistic. Although a children's fable the moral is every bit applicable to adults and even old codgers. I adore old writings such as this. This is a free Gutenberg book available at the link below.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74181/pg74181.txt

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@haikushack haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group @photography writingcommunity@a.gup.pe icon writingcommunity group @writing @poetry bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

Nice! It feels like a 'never give up' meme.

It hangs on edge,
Over the precipice,
Courting a fall.

@liesvanrompaey@flipping.rocks avatar liesvanrompaey , to bookstodon group

I've just finished John Steinbeck's East of Eden. I don't know why I never got round to reading it before.

It blew me away.

I loved the multitude of short story lines and deeply human character portrayals that build up de main story and clarify the themes.

I read it as a vast and moving study of what it means to be human and what it means to be "good". The entrancing style and the beautiful prose were just icing on the cake.

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Is it as good as, 'The Pearl?'

@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar appassionato , to bookstodon group

With current policies the Earth is on track to a warming of around 3 °C above preindustrial temperatures, a level of heat our planet has not seen for millions of years. Ecosystems, human society and infrastructure are not adapted to these temperatures. Due to non-linear effects, the impacts will be much more severe than just three times as bad as after 1 °C of warming.

Free download at:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-58144-1

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False prophecy and scaremongering ... ask yourself, que bono?

@dickrubin716@bookstodon.com avatar dickrubin716 , to bookstodon group

Is it too soon to Covid times from 2020 in a fictional story? I’m thinking about including that as one of the plots in an upcoming book. @bookstodon @mastodonbooks

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COVID + fiction is a redundancy of terms.

@firefly@neon.nightbulb.net avatar firefly , to retrocomputing

Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863

I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.

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@KPED@urbanists.social avatar KPED , to bookstodon group

A book I edited was written up in the local paper.

So happy to see Shannon Bohrer's book, Judicial Soup: One Man's Wrongful Conviction and What It Means for Criminal Justice Reform, getting some media attention. This is a very relatable book on a hugely important topic. When you read it, first you'll be angry. Then you'll think, "If it can happen to that guy, it can happen to anyone."

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/arts_and_entertainment/judicial-soup-by-emmitsburg-author-highlights-the-need-for-justice-reform/article_ef4a743d-e470-5146-bf92-625c0cfb2a24.html

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'Judicial Soup' is a good title.

The 'criminal justice' system is an assembly line human trafficking racket run by con artists and villains hiding behind the deadly force of the criminal state.

They secretly say their prayers to Wackenhut for a return on investment. More warm bodies equals more cash in, more 'justification' for their racket.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon group

This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.

Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.


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@fskornia @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

The sole purpose of religion is and always has been to control large masses of people.

There has never been any other purpose for religion. Take people's minds, take their labor, take their shekels. That's all it ever was for, a tyranny and a con so the worthless parasites incapable of making anything useful can leech off the masses and elevate themselves above their hosts.

Christians are especially guilty of this. Revelation says that God hates the heirarchical, pastoral grift model, calling it, 'The deeds of the oppressors of the people, which thing I hate.'

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Secularism is the religion of the state. Secularism is ecumenicalism taken to its most logical extreme. It is a religion that subverts all other religions to the power of the state. Secularism was the religion of the Roman empire and remains so today.

Go into the capitol building and look up at the dome rotunda, and you will see their secular gods painted a la fresco for all to see.

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What thing is being denounced? Specifically, and exactly, what is being denounced?

Are you conflating the Bible with Christianity? The twain shall never meet.

More than half of the Bible was written and in circulation 900-1500 years before the existence of Christianity.

If you read the Bible without Christian blinders on, it is plain that the Bible condemns Christianity and all other religions as idolatry. Rather the Bible authors call men to worship God in spirit and truth without regard to a priesthood or place.

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"technically I think you mean the Torah"

Nonsense. The first five books of Moses are called Torah. Then there is Neviim and Ketuvim. All of them together are called in Hebrew, "Tanakh" or "Miqra". In ancient Greek they were called, 'ta biblia' or The Bible centuries before Christ and the Apostles or any of the New Testament works.

> "a book which has remained copied word for word for thousands of years without changes."

This is not even remotely close to historical and recorded fact. Who taught you this nonsense?

> "The Bible is a distinct and different thing."

Nonsense, as proved above. Greek-speaking Hebrews in the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. called the writings of the Prophets, 'ta biblia' (The Bible) The LXX (Septuagint) refers to the writings of the prophets as, 'ta biblia'. See Daniel Chapter 9 in the LXX.

> "The point of the faith that arose from the Essene prophet Jesus ..."

Jesus is no Essene. Your claim is New-Age and Hebrew roots nonsense. It's just made-up wooey hooey.

> "As in, this is from whence we came, but we bring a new message from God."

Jesus preached the faith of Abraham, which is not a new message at all, but God's original message recorded in the Hebrew Bible. You are inventing history like the cults and heretics often do. The gospel preached by Jesus is the same gospel preached to and by Abraham well before Moses.

> "and the vast difference between original Gnosticism"

Gnosticism is satanism. End of discussion. Jesus was not a gnostic. The Pharisees and Greco-Roman nobility were gnostics of the school of the Hellenes.

> "but to conflate Bible as a term to mean the Torah, but none of the Jesus stuff, is simply not true."

I have conflated nothing. You're the one conflating things wrongly. You misuse the word, "Torah", which applies only to the Pentateuch of Moses, when you should be using the Hebrew word, Tanakh. But the problem with your false theory is that millions of Hebrews in ancient times didn't speak or read Hebrew. Rather they spoke and wrote Greek, the language of the Septuagint, which is how they started calling the Tanakh "The Bible" instead.

> "The Aramaic, first version of the New Testament, written in Byblos Lebanon is the origin of the term Bible."

This is based on the spurious "Aramaic Original New Testament" theory, and it has exactly zero historical or archaelogical support. And this theory is 400 years too late, since Greek-speaking Israelites had already been calling the Tanakh, 'ta biblia' for 300-400 years before any Aramaic New Testament manuscripts appeared.

Some people hate the gospel of grace so much they will go through years and ages of mental gymnastics to re-write history in support of a works-based gospel that glorifies their, 'superior knowledge'. Thereby the Judaizing or gnostic "believer" can take center stage in the salvation story with his self-aggrandizing superior rationale. Salvation is by simple faith in the Messiah as our sacrifice for all sin, not by some superior hidden knowledge. Paul the Apostle made a fine point of this truth.

In sum: Ancient Jews did call the Tanakh, 'ta biblia' or "The Bible." In fact, many bible scholars insist on calling it specifically, "The Hebrew Bible" to be accurate and consistent. Judging by your claims, you don't know what you are talking about. Take a step back and think things through before you accept such sectarian and gnostic theories as fact. I recommend you read the entire Bible two or three times through, then read several tomes on textual criticism and philology before you read another single line of theological or historical claims.

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How New Science Fiction Could Help Us Improve AI - Scientific American

Fascinating article about organizations trying foster positive sci-fi stories about AI. Good reason why AI sci-fi is mainly negative—more plausible given humankind’s record AND more interesting. My upcoming book The HONOR System is case in point.

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Oh, look, yet another anti-christ bigot. We finally have an oxymoron that makes sense.

@jillrhudy@mastodon.social avatar jillrhudy , to bookstodon group

The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group librarians@a.gup.pe icon librarians group

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They are being seen in diverse places, including the midwest and the mid south.

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Do you remember Usenet? It's still free.

https://sybershock.com/#usenet

@neko@goblin.camp avatar neko , to random

Kill all landlords and CEOs

Stolen from Facebook, a drawing of Busytown Lowly Worm driving around RFK Jr's head
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"And the worms ate into his brain ..." ~ Pink Floyd

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“Learn to swim”

Except it’s a solar flare

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@thegibson @katanova

They always spend hundreds or thousands to shield the roof and walls but always forget the $1 worth of aluminum foil to shield the brain pan!

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Secretly crossed fingers for a Carrington Event.

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@thegibson

The soul knows probablistically it must happen eventually. We know it has happened several times even in recorded history, and is the reason we even have recorded history versus, the time before recorded history. And pre-history was actually recorded before the records were destroyed. Thus is the occasional thought, or even the desire, to just get on with it now. It's understandable, but always good to shake it off and hope for better.

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G4! https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

NASA predicting G4 solar storm
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@ai6yr

We're due for the 2600 year grand solar minimum cycle. The massive magnetic energy release is right on schedule.

@frassmith@fosstodon.org avatar frassmith , to random

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.

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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@cyberplace.social avatar GossiTheDog , to random

Looks like Anne beat me to it - Ascension is ransomware, in Netflow I could see ‘em connecting to known ransomware infrastructure since a week ago. They had data exfil too.

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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 ...

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@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar 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@fosstodon.org avatar svetlyak40wt , to random

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.

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@svetlyak40wt

spot on rationale for 'why' and 'advantages'

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Drinking over a brand new white shirt. Living dangerously.

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@hobbsc

Egads!

@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org avatar screwtape , to random

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?

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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.

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@screwtape @CryogenicIce9

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

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Sinclair is selling 30% of their underperforming TV stations...

You want UHF to happen? Because this is how UHF happens.

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@thegibson

I want to know how Conan the Librarian feels about this.

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jack_william

You could ditch gmail and run your own VPS with a mail server and website and move your Linkedin CV data to your own site.

All surveillance problems solved for about $50 per year.

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The Solution of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher - paper on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17350

Image of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher
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@lcheylus

I would have hoped for a cover sheet showing exactly how the cipher is done. Instead of showing exactly how the killer performed the encipherment, the reader is left to divine that himself from the scattered data spread out over almost 70 pages. Typical cryptologist ... I prefer to not parse out a novella length paper to figure out what could have been expressed on one sheet.

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

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Nyfure Habahnow

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

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar lauren , to random

***** Google and Seniors *****

Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com/2024/05/09/google-and-seniors

Google refuses to create a specific role for someone to oversee the issues of older users, who depend on for so many things but so often get the shaft and lose everything when something goes wrong with their accounts. Google should AT LEAST (I still think the role is crucial), be providing focused help resources and a recurring (at least monthly) blog to help this class of users ("Google for Seniors", "Google Seniors Blog").

This would all be specifically oriented toward helping these users deal with the kinds of Google Account and other Google problems that so often disproportionately affect this group.

This would be good for these users (who Google unreasonably and devastatingly considers to be an unimportant segment of their user base) and frankly good for Google's PR in a highly challenging and toxic political environment.

I'm so tired of having so many people in this category approach me for help with account and other Google issues because they never understood the existing Google resources that, frankly, are written for a different level of tech expertise and understanding.

I have more detailed thoughts on this if anyone cares. No, I'm not holding my breath on this one.

--Lauren--

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@lauren

If society and government cared about old people and children tomorrow morning laws would be passed banning any and all forms of mandatory ecommerce and shuttering companies that do not have the traditional snail mail and telephone service for things. But this generation of society and government are a bunch of grifters and parasites who only care about themselves and a zillion things that don't matter.

I am by no means a senior citizen yet I find it a rare occasion when any contact with customer service of any company DOESN'T raise my blood pressure within a couple minutes of dealing with their inept dumb doltery and callous indifference. I can only imagine what this will be like when I'm old.

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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.

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... mostly btc pumper dumper parrots ...

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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

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Fools of a feather fantasize together.

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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

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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

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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.

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A password is a secret handshake you do with your keyboard.

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@mttaggart

The password is a secret handshake done by keymasons.

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@iAmTheTot@kbin.social avatar iAmTheTot @return2ozma@lemmy.world avatar return2ozma mibo80 Plastic_Ramses

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

@ErictheCerise@kolektiva.social avatar ErictheCerise , to random

I would like to reclaim the word .

It used to mean , before it got co-opted, and it should again.

For my part, I have never (?) used it in reference to .

I invite you to do the same.

I'll be tooting again in 5-7 years, about the correct meaning of .

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We may also need to weigh in on the meaning of and .

@schizanon@mastodon.social avatar schizanon , to random

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.

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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."

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Neat that code I wrote is still in use. Also.. what the hell are they thinking? I can't believe it's all that secure these days..

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Has anyone else noticed a greatly amplified volume of birds and insects? It has grown to a very loud symphony in my region. And I do mean that the creatures are carrying on a symphonic crescendo all day. The sound is mesmerizing. It is completely filling up my senses and is better than any human music. Has anyone else noticed something like this?