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#Highguard gets a 10/10.
It doesn't work on #Linux due to kernel-level anti-cheat.
Anyway, it's getting 'Overwhelmingly Negative' reviews on Steam for being a 3v3 competitive shooter with nothing new that other games already do better.

🔧 Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
#programming

Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
Whenever I say I dislike debugging and organize my programming habits around avoiding it, there is always pushback: “You must not use a good debugger.” To summarize my view: I want my software to be antifragile (credit to Nassim Taleb for the concept). The longer I work on a codebase, the easier it should become … Continue reading Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job

For your Thanksgiving reading pleasure, check out Metacurity's selection of the week's best infosec-related long reads that cover
--Scammers who go to unbelievable lengths,
--How to expose a DPRK hacker seeking IT work,
--A Kiwi hacker conference installed a literal anti-virus system,
--Trump is turning his back on supercharged disinformation,
--How the EU and the US acted differently to the Collins Aerospace hack
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 11/15/25
Scammers who go to unbelievable lengths, How to expose a DPRK hacker seeking IT work, A Kiwi hacker conference installed a literal anti-virus system, Trump is turning his back on supercharged disinformation, How the EU and US acted differently to the Collins Aerospace hack

Nexstar's FCC filing in its $6.2B proposed merger with Tegna asks for urgent approval, which would require changing rules that limit station ownership (Al Tompkins/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/nexstar-perry-sook-t…

‘We are the anti-fake news.’ Nexstar appeals to Trump while seeking a merger with Tegna - Poynter
The broadcaster is pressing the FCC to fast-track a $6.2B deal that would expand its reach to more than half of US households

Please complain about Schumer and his cohort. Please give the mushy centrists black eyes. Please light a fire under all the politicians.
But…please also look for work you can do that doesn’t center around elections. Start local. Help people. Throw sand in the gears. Whatever it is, do work that counts.
Create a context in which there •has• to be an anti-fascist opposition party, because that’s the work so many people are already doing. •That• is what the cynicism is trying to stop you from doing.
/end

"Shih’s conclusions—biting critiques of the anti-trafficking industry—are twofold. First, many anti-trafficking groups rarely interact with the types of abuse victims that they say they do. Second, the rehabilitation-style work programs they operate can cause as much harm as they do good."

Performing Sin
Inside the world of anti-trafficking organizations, where former sex workers who attend Christian church services and weep in shame over their past behavior get reduced hours and higher wages.

I deeply dislike AI.
It does seem like the "nobody wants AI" crowd needs to update their world view be cause it seems like the reality is "a vocal minority doesn't want AI".
Pretending like most people are anti AI just doesn't map IMHO. I don't know what % want AI but a large % just want things that work. It just so happens generally AI doesn't work but some times it does work and people are fine with it, which is sad.
so do whatever you …

Was just reminded that I needed to kick in some more money to the BlackSky stuff.
Considering the money I’ve kicked in for great Mastodon clients and instances, the work Rudy and others are doing is well worth the same! https://mastodon.sandwich.net/@Sharksonaplane/114997406…

I work with a anti-pride sympathizer who is openly anti-Pride and strongly hates the pride flag.

Some time ago the rules changed on using digital certificates to sign exe files, so that you had to have the key on a physical USB token, which made it impossible for me because my build server is a virtual one in Amazon EC2, so I stopped bothering.
After some annoying anti-virus false positives I thought I'd have a go again using Amazon KMS. The whole thing remains fucking mental. I'm astonished that anyone can make this work at all.

Oh, look, the result of anti-immigration fascists' policies are labor shortages.
Who would've known?
(unless it's paired with starting a global trade war, I suppose; in that case you'd get an economic slump, bankrupcies and unemployment... if you don't TACO)
https://…

Italy's right-wing government unveils new work permit plan to address labor shortages
The Italian government has announced a significant increase in the issuance of work permits for non-EU workers, planning to distribute 500,000 …

I need people who work in computer touching that for those of us who touch hand tools and patients and your children's lives, anti-LLM and categorical anti-LLM sentiment is growing. it's no longer an outlier.

Presenting my #CyberWeek shopping haul for 2015!
About 10 years ago, I found this brand and model socks I really like. These socks are an anti-luxury in that they are all about the value: comfortable and durable, but not fancy. I only buy these now, some in white and some in black. Through attrition, I’ve replaced everything (except thermals) with these.
My

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

ICE has purchased “a smorgasbord of spy technology: social media monitoring, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools, and more … the government openly says it will use [these] capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions [including] anti-ICE protesters.”
#ICE #protest

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol

This article is absolute insanity. The only way I can describe it is being from a Rabidly anti-Canadian American.
And in an overall tone of disrespect for the rule of law, autonomy, democracy, or progressive thought.
"In a strategy of the retrenchment, the dismemberment of Canada becomes a wise decision. Rather than allowing it to continue down a path of anti-American antagonism, the United States could support the Alberta and Quebec separatist movements. A successful secession by Alberta alone would cripple the federal fisc, and drive separatism in other regions due to the resultant decline in their equalization payments which comprises such a substantial part of their provincial budgets. In the end, British Columbia and a unified Maritime province would be admitted to the Union as Democratic states while Alberta and Saskatchewan would be admitted as Republican states; ensuring continued balance in the US Senate.
The rump of Canada, left with only one or two provinces, would finally be able to revise its constitution with ease. Under US pressure, the rump could become a freely associated state similar to Palau, with a new constitution reordering society along American lines. In time, perhaps it too could be annexed.”
#Canada #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #Separatism #Alberta #Quebec
https://defenseanalyses.org/work/our-canadian-problem/
(edit: sorry, wrong link previously)