The Kindle Edition of Nightfire: Uprising - the first book in the Nightfire Saga - is free on Amazon until the 27th.
Join the spiderlike Addercop as revolution springs up following the death of their king. Trevis, Titus, and Bertram find themselves targets of the security forces on the colony world of Dignew and must flee to the stars where a new life - and perhaps justice - awaits.
Find out more (and read the in-progress sequel!) at https://addercop.space or buy the book directly at https://a.co/d/8LUTQvZ
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned with Crowdstrike is that, although this isn't malicious, a company has just shown off that it has kernel level access to a bunch of critical systems around the world and is willing to just run code with that access on everyone's computers without even giving it a once-over glance.
So if you wanted to get a bunch of backdoors into things because you're a nation state cybersecurity team/hacker group/bored troublemaker who wants to see the world burn/etc they've just shown themselves to be a great firm to do so with.
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Almost to the 55th anniversary of the moon landing.
We really need to go back.
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Out of all the ways to write a sci-fi novel I have to say writing it in nano running on Cool Retro Term feels by far the most appropriate.
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Not mine, found here: https://imgur.com/gallery/neat-1I6Y7qp
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Why wait for an arbitrary code execution exploit and/or spyware when you can just add auto-executing AI to your terminal?
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Like even if the companies won't pay the maintainers I feel like it's on the companies to audit the stuff they put into their systems.
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It strikes me that big companies wanting to ingest code written by unpaid volunteers/hobbyists and then expecting those volunteers to fix any and all security problems for them is like Boeing trying to build airplanes from stuff they got at the local makerspace and then being mad at the craft people when their plane breaks.
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Coworker built a new gaming PC and got super excited about it.
Til they installed windows, it doesn't have drivers for their wifi card, and they can't get to an obvious point to install the drivers because Wibdows now refuses to let you use it without connecting to the internet during the OBE, which they need drivers to do. Because Microsoft insists you have and use one of their accounts and requires that you use one to use the OS you paid for on the computer you built yourself that you also paid for, all so they can spy on you more.
And people wonder why I say Microsoft is toxic and kind of abusive.
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Bah. Left my laptop on at home while I went out of town for a few days with the idea I could remote into it.
Left it rendering overnight and it's no longer responding.
Hopefully I simply missed one of the scheduled shutdowns I normally have it configured to do, since it died around when one should go off. And not, you know, broke from me pushing it too hard.
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Been looking through more of my old stuff and have now disorganized the room that I organized on my vacation, in an effort to locate a spindle of discs that I know I have laying around somewhere that I know has some more DVDs and CDs on it. I've found a couple of loose discs from it (including the first Disc of Pink Floyd's Echoes, but not Disc 2) as well as a spindle of blank CDs and a spindle of blank DVDs that I forgot I had (and yes I looked through it to make sure it wasn't actually the one I was looking for). Couldn't find it. Did find a bunch of boxed DVDs and stuff that I'd forgotten about, which is neat.
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Slowly rebuilding my old movie collection with purchases from, surprisingly, the local computer parts reseller, RE-PC. I've managed to snag the Matrix trilogy (funnily enough, Jellyfin did not pick up on the sequels and I had to manually identify them) as well as all of the pre-JJ Star Trek movies and a few other assorted fun things
Still kicking myself because they had the entire Stargate series on DVD for $50 and someone else managed to snag it before I could, but eh.
Also slowly building up my music collection; my brother got me some Sci-Fi music CDs for my birthday (mostly Star Trek) and those have been added to my Koel library.
Fun thing is both of those have Android apps so with my VPN I'm able to just watch these things from my phone during my commute.
Now if only the later seasons of The Expanse or some of the newer Star Trek series would hit DVD.
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Hi! I'm trekkie1701c, or Chris in Meatspace. I'm not exactly new here, and I've been on Mastodon for a few years now, initially with Fosstodon because I'm a big fan of free software. Still, beyond time for me to do an #introduction post.
I'm the author of "Nightfire: Uprising", the first novel in a series that explores the moral implications of, well, uprisings. You can find out about it at https://addercop.space. I'm also a bit of a digital artist, and I sell some designs I made for the book over at https://shop.addercop.space.
Tech-wise I have an affinity for old command-line stuff, particularly from the 286/386 era, as I grew up with hand-me-down tech from then. I don't own much of it myself now, but I always love seeing people play around with it.
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