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Question for infosec folks: Someone recommended that I look at using Drata (drata.com/) to help my SaaS company comply with ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc. Is this another CrowdStrike?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Another compliance standard it is viable for is SOC2, but this mainly means that you acknowledge various company policies via their website. The client you install on your machine checks for certain settings but at least on Windows it is unable to verify whether the system goes to the lock screen automatically after 5 or so minutes and whether drive encryption is enabled. Instead, you need to take screenshots and upload them, but nobody checks them.
in reply to Matt Campbell

For wiping a device remotely, a separate MDM tool is required (at least for Windows). I'm not sure if the Drata agent scans for or prevents the installation of software the company doesn't allow or that is malicious - I haven't noticed its presence at all other than a yearly reminder for acknowledging policies. It doesn't seem to do much, so probably not a CrowdStrike.


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🎶 “Once again I fall into my feminine ways” 🎶

Full of gratitude that this immersive exhibit was extended at the SFMoMA. I cannot recommend it enough. A beautiful reflection on community, friendship, and music.

This was my third time experiencing it, and I still cried and sang. So moving.

in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 the exhibit is called The Visitors and can be found on the 6th floor of the SF moma! Strongly recommend!!


55 years ago, an American became the first person in history to walk on the lunar surface.

As President Kennedy said, it was a challenge we were unwilling to postpone and one we intended to win.

We led the world to the moon in 1969. Now, we'll lead the world back.



That is beyond cute! I wonder if AI wrote that statement? :) disabled.social/@Faylen/112816…


Look, I've had numerous (well documented) complaints about the Biden administration and the fact that I don't think its liberal, incrementalist policies go nearly far enough in the face of a fascist project to control every aspect of our society, backed by corporate power. With that having been said however, I dunno how *anyone* can still be arguing that there are political, institutionalist answers to the fascist takeover we're experiencing in America when even straightforward incrementalist policies by an elected Democrat President are being struck down or otherwise blocked by Calvin Ball rulings from federal courts stacked full of fascists:

truthout.org/articles/appeals-…

Appeals Court Blocks Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit’s temporary ruling against the administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan comes just over a year after the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s sweeping student debt cancellation proposal."

This case isn't even about using political power to stop fascism, it's a clear cut situation of providing debt relief for folks being ground up by the student loan industry. If fascist judges are prepared to interfere with regular policy issues and block milquetoast presidential initiatives, you can sure as shit bet they're going to do the same thing about any political efforts to stop the fascist takeover of our society. Whether you're for taking to the streets, or you believe in stopping fascism at the ballot box, it's 100% clear to me that we're not going anywhere good as a country so long as these corrupt, be-robed nazis are running Bartertown.

There's more than one way to reform the American federal court system, and I don't have all the answers for you. It's entirely possible the Biden administration can keep working around these rulings for a little while to continue offering student loan debt relief to millions of Americans victimized by the student loan industry. What I do know however is that sooner or later the political issues raised by the fascist takeover of our courts will come to a head, and by hook, or by crook, we need to find a way to shatter the power of corrupt judges who're now running the country for their reactionary corporate donors; rich donors and corpos who clearly support the larger fascist project, might I add. Ignoring this reality is a nonstarter - both politically, and in our greater society.

#StudentLoans #USPolitics #CourtReform #Biden

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Day 2 talks are all wrapped up! We’ll be back tomorrow at 16:00 UTC for more presentations.
events.gnome.org/event/209/tim…
#GUADEC2024


"The ... PAC effort is spearheaded by Mike Novogratz, the cryptocurrency billionaire who backed Dean Phillips in the Democratic primary"

Folks, the movement to replace Joe Biden is being led and funded and promoted by media moguls (who hate that he's going after them for antitrust) and by cryptocurrency bros (who hate that he's regulating and taxing their magic internet money), and rich folks in general (who hate that he's staffing and funding the IRS to make them pay their fair share).

The people standing by him? Bernie Sanders. AOC. The Congressional Black Caucus. The United Auto Workers.

Of those, which side do *you* think is more likely to be right about this?

hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/…




After many years away from the stage, I am back! It looks like I’m accepted to give a talk at the Matrix Conference (2024.matrix.org/) to present ✨ native simplified sliding sync ✨: how it differs from the first version of sliding sync (an experimental project implemented inside a proxy), how we’ve implemented it inside the Matrix Rust SDK etc. Gonna be fun!

#matrix #RustLang

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A short story of a question turned into a new pending #curl feature:

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

#curl


Ludzie komentarze piszą, a ja się łapię za głowę...
Myślałam, że nanoboty w szczepionkach mRNA to już przebrzmiały temat, ale nie - dostaliśmy właśnie pytanie, czy zajmiemy się sprawą, bo "sieją mac adressami po bluetooth" 🤡



And Track 2 talks on the livestream here: youtube.com/live/we5Pfoa223Q?f…
#GUADEC2024


GUADEC day 2 will be back from the break soon. Catch Track 1 talks in 15 mins on the livestream here:
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#GUADEC 2024



#GUADEC2024 Track 2 talks will be starting up in 5 mins. Watch the livestream here: youtube.com/live/we5Pfoa223Q?f…


an old libcurl answer of mine on stackoverflow being questioned because I did not provide links to back up my statement when answering questions about code I wrote...

stackoverflow.com/a/28714247/9…

😂

(but yeah, I have stopped answering questions over there)

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This reminds me of a "discussion" over at the dark side (twitter), as Grady Booch replied to a post of Elmo that he has no idea of software engineering. Shortly after a fanboy ask Grady what he has ever done for software engineering and he thinks Grady has no clue.

That was popcorn time 😁

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

you’re awesome, but this could’ve prevented with a simple “src: I’m the author” instead of expecting everyone to know you by name (which is something I consider a well read engineer would know, but still)
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Allow us to introduce you to Mike, our potential mascot. He made his debut last year at #FOSDEM, but never made an appearance since. What do you think, should we embrace him into our family? Let us know in the poll!

#mascot #branding #OpenSourceDesign

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It immediately reminded me of Cl***y, even before I read any comment. That is, not really good memories.

As long as it comes hidden behind a content warning, I guess I can live with it.

I don't mean to be harsh or devaluate the work done here, so I'll try to be more specific. The combo metallic-object-that-sit-on-a-desktop with eyeballs-that-stare-at-you-all-day under those exageratingly-friendly-eyebrowns, it reminds me of office work, management, and surveillance.

in reply to AntennaPod

Na, I don't like it. It has no neck 😅 and it's kind of infantile. I connect your brand more to stability, innovation, connection and self determination and I don't see that in Mike.


Endpoint Security extensions and DriverKit were ambitious projects, but they sure are looking good in retrospect mstdn.ca/@michaelgemar/1128193…
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the ocsp fetcher on seirdy.one has problems now. i need to switch to a proper ocsp fetcher to complete my “I can’t believe it’s not Caddy™” setup. Disabled OCSP Stapling in the meantime. :sobbing:

using shell scripts for ocsp stapling file refreshing is bad for puppy.



Our first presentation of #GUADEC day 2 is Keynote Speaker Stephanie Taylor. Catch her talk “Google Summer of Code 20 years of OSS Mentorship” in Track 1!
events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…
#GUADEC2024


I see a joke template.

"As someone fascinated by infant baptism, The Godfather (1972) was a real disappointment. How would you like it if I took you to see a film called 'Sicilian New Yorkers Murdering One Another' and it was just an hour and a half of people promising to bring up a child as a Christian"

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as someone who really likes math, The Matrix (1999) was a real disappointment. How would you like it if I took you to see a film called "Kung Fu Reality Simulator" and it was just an hour and a half of someone reading from a large set of numbers in a two-dimensional array


Welcome to day 2 of #GUADEC2021! We're starting up in Track 1 in just a few minutes
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Neat! "Pencils Made From Recycled Coffee Grounds Are Functional and Smell Great" mossandfog.com/pencils-made-fr… #coffee #pencils #recycle

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I just stumbled across a truly cool design hack that leverages unicode to bold characters where no bolding is possible.

When i went to bookmark thetinypod.com/ the title inserted into the form was bolded.

I wrote the code that put the title in that form. There's NO way formatting should - or can - come through.

Then it got weirder.

🧐 Mini Investigation Time

🧵 1/?

in reply to masukomi

Can you paste the full text so I can try it with various TTS options on Windows?
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt

after the following emoji are the letters T I N Y in bold looking lower case characters. Those are immediately followed by Pod with no space and another emoji to mark the end of what should be read as tiny pod

👉 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆Pod👈

in reply to masukomi

NVDA on Windows with eSpeak NG reads it like this:

back hand index pointing right letter 1d601 letter 1d5f6 letter 1d5fb letter 1d606 Pod back hand index pointing left

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt the first character is Unicode Character 'MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL T' (U+1D601)

which explains why it isn't pronounced. it's not a letter for speaking.

in reply to masukomi

I guess a screen reader or TTS engine *could* just replace those characters with their ASCII equivalents. I'm actually kind of surprised that the NVDA developers, usually quite pragmatic and (at least some of them) blind users themselves, haven't done this.
in reply to masukomi

Both NVDA with the Windows OneCore David voice (the default for new NVDA installs) and Windows 11 Narrator with one of the newer natural voices read it as "back hand index pointing right Pod back hand index pointing left".

I don't have JAWS on this machine.

in reply to Matt Campbell

i feel like the pronouncing it as if it were a letter should only be done IF the reader knew it was in a prose context and not a math context. You wouldn't want it making the plosive t sound when reading a math equation.
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in reply to masukomi

@matt
TalkBack / Firefox: right finger tiny pod left finger.

IIRC, TalkBack started treating math symbols as letters a couple versions ago because of their misuse on social media. Which has left the blind mathematics community annoyed.

in reply to Adrian Roselli

@aardrian Given the commonness of online abuses of those symbols compared to proper use for mathematics, I think TalkBack made the right pragmatic choice. And even in the altter case, how important is it to know that it's the bold mathematical x as opposed to just x? The extra info could be exposed through the screen reader's feature for reading text attributes, as if the text had been bolded through an HTML tag or the like.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@aardrian Assistive technology developers, and I am one, must always remember that the goal is to provide access to the world as it is, not wait for it to become what we wish it was.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@aardrian Still, until all AT developers get around to adding this workaround, it is of course better to not use and promote this kind of Unicode hack.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @aardrian Yeah i went back and edited the original posts to change how i described it (now that i know it's not from some other spoken language) and indicate it's a BadThing™
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @aardrian The next version of NVDA will have the option to do this as well. It's off by default and you can choose to have it apply when reading characters or just blocks of text.


В Интернете регулярно появляются посты и комментарии о том, что опросы показывают поддержку россиянами Путина и войны, и даже её рост на фоне санкций. Как человек, лично проводивший сквозные соцопросы по телефону, я хотел бы рассказать, как на практике, п

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Best analysis I've seen of the disastrous failures at Microsoft and Clownstrike" that took down so many vital services: wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/…

"What we're seeing today isn't just a major fuckup, but the first of what will be many systematic failures — some small, some potentially larger — that are the natural byproduct of the growth-at-all-costs ecosystem where any attempt to save money by outsourcing major systems is one that simply must be taken to please the shareholder."







Gajim 1.9.2 has been released 🚀

This release brings an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, usability improvements, and many bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

#xmpp #gajim #chat

gajim.org/post/2024-07-19-gaji…

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Our native language projects translate #LibreOffice into 100 languages, making the software usable for billions around the globe! Learn what they did in 2023: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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Statt der 2. lebenden Fremdsprache, Latein oder Griechisch können gehörlose und hörende Jugendliche bald in ÖGS (österr. Gebärdensprache) maturieren. Es wird ein entspr. Maturafach geben.

Das sind mal echte #GoodNews!

#Schule

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