Ocram Ippec @marco@linuxlab.sh

🤕 oof, bad day to be a salt consumer

https://saltexploit.com/

Looks like salt has unwittingly distributed a WORM and is now being subject to crypto-mining backdoors, which is anyones guess what the actual use of these will be for...

#exploit #salt #supplychainpoison

I would hold baby yoda

Shigeru Miyamoto to the n64 Goldeneye staff:

> "He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital."

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-10-26-miyamoto-asked-rare-to-tone-down-goldeneye-007

@selfsame @fraggle

Really? Techbro's are defending him?

🤦‍♂️ sorry y'all. that's an unfollowable action. and if you get uppity about why I un-followed, you'll get a no-response block. I will not feed the trolls on this. You are wrong, and that is how I see your participation.

Spicy take: if you gave a damn about software freedom, you'd be working to pick up the GPL/FSF torch he dropped instead of fighting that lost battle.

OH: Yeah but we're not playing the price is right, we're playing django is wrong!

I don't really identify as a frontend or backend developer.

I like code.

I like writing really difficult code.

I don't care where that falls on the spectrum.

I just want to be challenged.

interesting factoid - bitnami owns about 11% of the stable helm charts in the helm/charts repo. 🤔

A toot's got me wondering about the nature of consent in a specific way; I won't ever have an Alexa or anything like it, and maybe you won't either; but other people will.

And now I'm thinking, if you have one of these lumps of spyware in your home, should you be *required* to offer a formal warning to any visitors? I think so; you're required to place CCTV warnings if you run CCTV, and if anything systems like Alexa are more invasive, not less.

The data from a CCTV system might never leave the premises; the data from these "assistants" goes **directly** to servers outside either your *or* your host's control, where your voice may be datamined for any damned purpose the server owners choose.

Don't feel bad about saying "I don't wanna come over, you've got an Alexa running." It's not paranoia to be creeped out by AIs (or persons) unknown listening to your private conversations. It's *normal*. You don't *need* anything to "hide" for you desire not to *share* to be valid.