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We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill, 2020
Dispatches from an age of impunity by an award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent
For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank, Iraq and China.
#books
#nonfiction
#reportage
#Syria
#Gaza
#WestBank
#Yemen
#Iraq
#China
Versuche haben jedoch bewiesen, daß selbst das Schlimmste zu befürchten steht.
睡眠部するか
ほんじゃ今日はこのあたりで寝ておこうかな。また明日！
I am continually impressed at the ability of giant orgs to succeed despite themselves.
I am reminded of saying that has been attributed to both Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch.
"Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it."
A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.
I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.
The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.
To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.
The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.
That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.
The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.
The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.
Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.
Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.
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UK residents: what do i have to commit so that Evri will finally stop putting items into trash bins?
考えても仕方ないことを考えたけどこれはむずかしい！
もういい！あまいものたべる！
그치만 둘다 너무 유명한 걸 #vrchat
https://yodangang.express/notes/ah92uq41n1zp00j4
ｱﾝｼｬﾁｬﾝ……ｶﾜｲｲﾈ……
ついにキタ！NotebookLMのスライドを「編集可能パワポ」に変換する最強ツール「Kirigami」
https://zenn.dev/acntechjp/articles/a878b6aa38fe53
海外で「IDEでClaude Code動かすな」が流行ってる。私はZed + ターミナル派
https://zenn.dev/kok1eeeee/articles/claude-code-zed-terminal-workflow
I'm thriving and the most productive and hopeful for the fediverse, than I've been in years.
Unfortunately, there is a concerted effort to convince people otherwise, I honestly wonder why.
Such intensity could do wonders if used in the right way, for many projects.
Rather than speculate, let’s focus on what matters: shipping, stability, and making ActivityPub better for everyone ❤️
都庁の向かいにホテルがあるんだけど、そこに泊まって夜窓の外から残業をしている人を眺めて
ポイントを貯める
MS가 AI 투자 확대로 인해 2026년 1월에 추가 감축을 단행할 수 있다는 루머
전 세계적으로 11000~22000개의 직위가 사라질 것으로 추정되며, 이는 약 22만 명에 달하는 전체 직원의 5~10%에 해당하는 규모이며 감축 대상은 애저 클라우드 팀, 엑스박스 게임 사업부, 글로벌 영업 부서가 주요 대상이 될 전망
Microsoft (MSFT) Is Rumored to...
Please set your Free Society Meter to the “national secret police shoot a woman in the head, then call her a terrorist” setting
Unsolicited Advice for First-Time Authors
You all know how I feel about vanity publishers, companies that prey on writers who do not understand their rights and charge obscene amounts of money without actually providing any services or support. Well, recently I spoke to a colleague who worked with a traditional publisher who gave them a different type of contract than what I am used to, and I had thoughts about it.
https://resiliencymentalhealth.com/2026/01/08/unsolicited-advice-for-first-time-authors/
Just released my first Rust crate: https://crates.io/crates/arq-restore 🥳
It's a program implementing the data format for the Arq backup program (https://www.arqbackup.com). I've been working on it on and off for a few weeks. It's also my first #rust project 😅
I also decided to host the primary git repository on 
@Codeberg (💕), so if you want to take a look: https://codeberg.org/tisba/arq-restore.
This is why I hate the Nordic layout
New blogpost: AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
https://rys.io/en/181.html
The way “AI” is going to compromise your cybersecurity is not through some magical autonomous exploitation by a singularity from the outside, but by being the poorly engineered, shoddily integrated, exploitable weak point you would not have otherwise had on the inside.
LLM-based systems are insanely complex. And complexity has real cost and introduces very real risk.
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AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new
rys.io · Songs on the Security of Networks
Link author: 
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@rysiek@mstdn.social
I don't particularly feel the urge to respect systems that hand you a social contract from birth saying "We've filled out your obligations already, and leaving ours blank. For flexibility, y'know?"
다들 밤이 깊었으니 거울 앞이 서서 " 이 귀여운 거 늬긔야!!,,>0<,," 한 번씩 하고 온다 실시.
I don't particularly feel the urge to respect systems that hand you a social contract from birth saying "We've filled out your obligations already, and leaving ours blank. For flexibility, y'know?"
AI fatigue
It's just every goddamn day, someone in my personal or professional life is like "just use AI for it" and I don't. fucking. want. to.
Do you know a good #essay or #text discussing this discrepancy:
People refering to #animals or #plants with gender (she/he/they instead of 'it') or discussing #personhood of #nature (environmental personhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_personhood ) are often accused of #anthropomorphism, while it seems completely normal for many to refer to #AI like a person. And #intelligence is quickly adopted for AI but not enough researched/seen in animals.
I'm searching for human-made material only! 1/2
5번 단서가 며칠째 안 모여 으아아아아악
Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women’s spaces, study finds
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almost-no-one-is-complaining-about-trans-women-in-womens-spaces-study-finds/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into LGBTQ Nation 
@lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNationLGBTQ Nation
Disability is not a moral failing.
横になったが最後、おれは寝ることしかできない───
8BitDo 컨트롤러 잘못샀어ㅜㅜㅜㅜ
'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag #photography
On 1 Jan 2026 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 adopted the Euro € as its official currency, which is reason enough for us to make this week's #geoweirdness thread about "the Eurozone"
1/n
Microsoft's Xbox Developer Direct returns on January 22nd with Fable and Forza Horizon 6 gameplay. We'll also be getting a closer look at Beast of Reincarnation, the new RPG from the devs behind the Pokémon franchise. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/858471/...
Xbox’s Developer Direct return...
After last night's huge march that flooded the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesotans are now out bright (actually dark) and early in the freezing cold blockading #ICE
This is what we are going to do across the nation. All day I will be posting protest notices and videos and we'll be playing that game where you name your city and I go find your protest for you.
Microsoft's Xbox Developer Direct returns on January 22nd with Fable and Forza Horizon 6 gameplay. We'll also be getting a closer look at Beast of Reincarnation, the new RPG from the devs behind the Pokémon franchise. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/858471/...
Xbox’s Developer Direct return...
안녕하세요~ 굼벵입니다~
그것도 주름이라고 잡으십니까?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dsbgris6alhgrfz5z5sme63u/post/3mbw5zhsdos2j
slopworld
"AI inbox", "AI summaries", ... 🤡
No "thanks" mickeysoft and scroogle, I can READ
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
"Das generische Maskulinum fungiert als kognitiver „Flaschenhals“, der den Zugriff auf weibliche Informationen im Gehirn erschwert. Dass diese Studie über 12 Labore hinweg repliziert wurde, macht die Ergebnisse zu einem der robustesten Befunde der modernen Psycholinguistik."
Nachtrag: für Zweifel an den wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen bitte die Kommentarfunktion des Autor verwenden. Typen, die hier was von "Genderideologie" faseln, werden geblocked und gemeldet.
https://nullhypothese.substack.com/p/warum-ich-gendere-die-evidenz
Alle, die mit dem generischen Maskulinum gut klar kommen, weil sie damit auch gemeint sind - oder sich damit gemeint fühlen - und sich nicht mitgemeint fühlen müssen, sollten bei Einwänden gegen das Entgendern der Sprache einfach mal ein bisschen zurückhaltender sein.
Ihnen fehlt schlicht die Erfahrung, wie sich die Welt anfühlt, wenn eins sich das mitgemeint sein ständig erschließen muss.
Änderung zwischen den Spiegelstrichen oben, aus Gründen :)
여러분 인문학의 반대는 전체주의 입니다. 인문학이 인간이 인간다워지기를 목표로 한다면 전체주의는 인간이 비인간이 되어 도구가 되기를 목표로 하니까요. 한나아렌트가 말한 악의 평범성이 뭔가요 아이히만보고 사람은 착한데 멍청해 라고 말한겁니다. 아이히만은 스스로 사고하기를 포기했어요. 비판적 사고 가치판단을 체제에 위임하고 타인에대한 공감과 이해를 스스로 거세했습니다. 수많은 수용자를 어떻게 수송할까라는 문제엔 천재적이었고 그결과에 뿌듯해 했습니다. 그가 증오워 원한을 원천으로 움직인게 아니라 그냥 국가의 지시에 무비판적이고 가치판단
Hey 
@bsi, und da gab es wirklich keine ethischere Cloud-Alternative für das Portal, bei dem nicht noch mehr deutsche Steuergelder an Faschismus unterstützende Mega-Milliardäre in den USA fließen? So von wegen #DigitaleSouveränität und so... 🤔
There are a few vocal members of the Pixelfed community that are upset that I'm busy with Loops.
I spent 8 years building Pixelfed, it's the 2nd most popular fediverse platform.
Loops is almost ready for v1.0 release, which I can then jump back full time to Pixelfed again.
8 years. I can't take a few months off?
Like, I never took a vacation until FediCon, and even then it was about Pixelfed.
I understand the frustration, but at the same time, I'm building Loops, not wasting my time.
😔
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