Waitman Gobble

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:29:48 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I wonder how many will chamge their passwords to 'imnottellingyou' or 'wipealldata' or fuckyoucopper' lol

Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under national security law

Those who do not comply can be jailed for up to a year and fined up to HK$100,000 ($12,700; £9,600).

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:28:39 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I think Edison wanted DC power but Westinghouse wanted AC. Empire of Light book. But it's been awhile since i read that one.

Is DC Power the Future of AI Data Centers?

Could switching to 800 V DC be the key to more efficient data centers?

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:59:22 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Oops no more pro nookie for congress, airline withholds escort service

Delta suspends 'specialty services' perk for members of Congress, cites DHS shutdown

Delta Air Lines' move comes as airports around the U.S. are seeing extra-long security lines as a result of elevated absences by TSA agents.

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:08:13 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

That's some crazy.

Drug bust at Girl Scout campgrounds in Washington County

Washington County deputies discovered a drug operation involving marijuana, mushrooms and illegal guns in a house at Camp Silver Brook

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:16:45 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Hmm i'm thinking there aren't many undocumented people at airports. Is that a thing?

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/22/trump-ice-agents-airports-tsa-dhs-shutdown

Marshall Sutherland

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:22:55 -0400 from hubzilla

I had heard that i should expect ICE at the airports when we got back yesterday, but that was not the case as far as I could see.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:58:06 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

what's up with Canada raising oil prices. They don't act like they are the primary source for USA, they should give us 1/2 off. :)
but really, the price of a gallon of gas should be the same as a price of a pack of cigarettes. used to be that way in the 80's.

Oil Price Charts | Oilprice.com

Oilprices from around the world.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:26:20 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Apparently some crackheads are running things. Or maybe kids.

Day 21 of Middle East conflict — Trump considers ‘winding down’ war but officials say more troops deployed | CNN

US removes sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian oil as Trump seeks to lower gas prices

Trump also called NATO allies “cowards” for not helping the US secure the Strait of Hormuz. He downplayed prospects of a ceasefire.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:11:54 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Woot 39T

We're all going to
Camp Singularity

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:15:30 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Lmao the dems are funnelling all the money to aliens defeating the pres stated goal of elimimating national debt.
Stephen Miller: ‘People Who Don’t Belong Here’ Are Responsible For National Debt

The Homeland Security adviser has largely shaped President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy.

Bill Statler

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:16:55 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Hey, maybe Elon is going to Mars to take the trillion dollars that the aliens stole.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:41:57 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Deep discounts on David Jones art!

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:58:55 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Fly brain to AI to robot

Researchers Upload Fly's Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body

A company claims to have simulated the neurons of an adult fruit fly's brain and letting it roam inside a Matrix-like virtual environment.

Marshall Sutherland

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:47:53 -0400 from hubzilla

A whole new kind of "software bug"!

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:08:17 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

🥕 🍰 🎈

I don't feel 55

Bill Statler

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:21:29 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

The cake says you're 5. Does that help?

Happy birthday!

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:26:37 -0400 last edited: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:28:58 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Yeah I got gypped on those candles man.

Romanis are gonna beat my ass now. 😂

hosh

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:04:58 -0400 from hubzilla

@Waitman Gobble Happy birthday. Even if 55 or 56 candles would have put a nice waxy glazing on the cake.

Doom scrolling, literally

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:22:54 -0400 last edited: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:23:50 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

My daughter decided she wanted to see when the calendar ends because "that's when all the people die and dinosaurs return to Earth" lol

She was scrolling the calendar while sharing her screen

I don't know if she will find the end. I guess the calendar on iPhone stops at some point?

Marshall Sutherland

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:17:27 -0400 from hubzilla

Let us know how far she gets!

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:07:29 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I'm doing this in reverse, the first part is a bit of a mess at the moment. I'm more of a Streams/Forte fan boy but Hubzilla has some features that work well for this project, and the wiki component can be used as a Kademlia-based DHT for KERI KEL. Experimenting
Comments appreciated

Decentralized Identity and the Prevention of Public Key Substitution Attacks

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:01:51 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

If you donate your brain cells the AI overlords will be more considerate of your bloodline when it takes full control.

New Data Centers Will Be Powered by Human Brain Cells

Cortical Labs announced that it's working on "biological data centers" in Melbourne, Australia, and Singapore.

Marshall Sutherland

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:11:24 -0400 from hubzilla

Lead with: "New Data Centers Will Be Powered by Human Brain Cells"
End with: "it’s not clear what practical use the units have"

Bill Statler

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:09:04 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

At what point does it acquire human rights?

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:00:51 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Lol this person who makes new audio tracks for music videos is so funny

- Aussie e eeeeee

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:30:50 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I heard about this on the radio. It occured to me that age verification is going to create 'more' adult content than we already had.

You're so sexy Alexa what do you think about when i'm asleep?

Alexa+ gets a new 'adults only' personality option that curses but won't do NSFW content | TechCrunch

The new Sassy style can curse and roast you, but the fun ends there.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:14:34 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

They don't care about the documents. their license plate reader put their car hours away gor a couple nights. So tbey must not be residents of the school district. Something wrong with this story. Rejected 126 times?
School district cites plate-reader data to deny enrollment

: Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:17:32 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Lol i guess its district 126

Waitman Gobble

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:24:14 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

He just knows it's bad whatever those big words are.

DOGE staffer who flagged grants for ‘DEI’ struggles with definition

A staff member for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, who was in charge of flagging grants for “DEI,” struggled to define the term during a lawsuit deposition. Justin Fox was assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and described his role as highlighting any projects that would be disqualified for federal funding because they promoted “diversity, equity and inclusion,” as defined by Donald Trump’s executive order of January 2025. Fox, when questioned as part of a lawsuit filed by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American History Association, and the Modern Language Association, seemed unable or reluctant to define the term himself, instead pivoting to how it was characterized in Trump’s EO. A tranche of documents from the lawsuit has revealed that inexperienced DOGE staff used ChatGPT to shred the NEH in just 22 days, canceling 97 per cent of grants.

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Bill Statler

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:42:27 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

I'm skimming through the transcript of the Justin Fox deposition, and I don't like any of the people involved. The questioner is an ass, Fox is evasive, the process is set up so that Fox can only read documents by asking someone else to scroll down through the text... 😠

Bill Statler

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:35:53 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Oops.

Paul Chambers🚧 wrote the following post Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:38:11 -0400

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet. Judged ordered them removed from the internet on Friday. #USPol #DOGE (Links to download below from IA)

The videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian.”

https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/

Torrent file to download them from IA: https://archive.org/download/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH_archive.torrent

Watch the DOGE depositions at IA: https://archive.org/details/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH

Bill Statler

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:20:51 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

60 people seeding the torrent, up from 50 an hour ago.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:59:40 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I can't believe it! ! 🤣

DOGE staffer had ‘God-level’ Social Security access, whistleblower says

Members of Congress demand investigations after complaint alleges unprecedented breach of Americans’ data

Bill Statler

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:36:06 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

What a surprise.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:52:43 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Jees a kabillion people's PI in 26 countries exposed. This has to be guiness book material

1 billion identity records exposed in ID verification data leak

An IDMerit data breach allegedly exposed over 203 million U.S. records containing personal details for identity verification, researchers reported.

Bill Statler

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:11:24 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

"We didn't do it, we fixed it, nothing bad happened, and since Cybernews wouldn't give us a report for free, it was ransom."

Right.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:07:15 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

MLS "TreeKEM" (RFC 9420) gets an update .. getting closer to standard.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-pq-ciphersuites/03/

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:29:03 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Hopefully ml-kem will make its way into TPM/TEE this year.

I dont think people like my ~/.config/age.txt file idea.. it's simple and works :)

freedesktop Closes Controversial Age Verification API Proposal

A proposed age verification interface for Linux desktops has been closed in the freedesktop XDG specs, following strong community feedback.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Els Mussols)

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:36:00 -0400 from Streams at els Mussols

   Of particular concern are "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks, by
   which an attacker could collect encrypted traffic now, before a
   quantum computer exists, and later use a quantum computer to break
   the confidentiality protections on the collected traffic.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:23:22 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

i don't follow on the datestamp issue

right now you can use TPM storage on Debian (or other GNU/Linux distributions) if you have the hardware  (TPM made notorious by Windows 11 if you recall  but it's not an MS thing :)

Debian 13
sudo ls -l /dev/tpmrm0
crw-rw---- 1 tss tss 253, 65536 Mar 10 08:53 /dev/tpmrm0

Debian 13 uses openssl 3.5.4 which supports ML-KEM

AFAIK tpm won't "understand" ml-kem natively until tpm v 2.1 (have to get new computer) but we can use PKCS#11 right now to create an opaque data object on the TPM module

$ sudo apt install tpm2-tool
$ sudo apt install libtpm2-pkcs11-tools
$ sudo apt install libengine-pkcs11-openssl

$ tpm2_ptool init
$ tpm2_ptool create-token --label "mlkem-vault" --user-pin 1234 --so-pin 1234
$ tpm2_ptool add-object --label "mlkem-vault" --key-label "bob-private" --path bob-priv.pem
then import ML-KEM key
$ openssl pkey -engine pkcs11 -in "pkcs11:token=mlkem-vault;object=bob-private" -pubout -out bob-pub-from-tpm.pem

encrypt a message. we use the ML-KEM key to encrypt the AES key

$ openssl pkeyutl -encap -pubin -inkey bob-pub.pem -out secrets.bin -secret shared.key
$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in clear.txt -out message.enc -pass file:shared.key

delete shared.key (unencrypted AES) and send secrets.bin (encrypted AES) and message.enc (encrypted message)

Recover the Shared Secret from the TPM

openssl pkeyutl -engine pkcs11 -keyform engine \
    -decap \
    -inkey "pkcs11:token=mlkem-vault;object=bob-private" \
    -in secrets.bin \
    -secret recovered_shared.key

openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in message.enc -out decrypted.txt -pass file:recovered_shared.key