Bálint 🎭 @szbalint@x0r.be

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/21/alzheimers-society-allegedly-paid-out-750000-to-staff

Apparently the Alzheimers charity paid people 750k pounds to conveniently forget about their abusive behaviour.

Tl;dr: people who believe in pgp as a useful security tool are the anti-vaxxers of infosec.

...diversity and acceptance while in reality being close-minded bigots, just doing this because they want validation from people they hang out with

- people claiming to care deeply about computer security but then proceeding to champion technologies that are patently unfit for purpose and is apparent to anyone capable of doing threat modeling (pgp, dnssec, blockchain belong here), all because they believe intentions, mythology, ethos and a dose of playing pretend counts as security.

In pretty much every area of life there are people playing pretend in each.

These are basically subcultures claiming to care about something but then being involved for completely unrelated reasons.

A few examples that I’ve run into:

-people playing communists in Hungary from comfortable upper-middle class existences, don’t actually giving a shit about inequality, just because they want to belong to an in-group and feel special

- people pretending to champion minority rights, ....1/2

It’s a shame Germany hates nukes, the only non-authoritarian nuclear armed state is...France.

I never thought I’d say this but the EU needs a common defense force, budget and a nuclear weapons programme...about two years ago.

When Orbán in Hungary had drafted a new constitution and only about a thousand of us protested way back in 2012, if I had to place a moment when hungarian democracy died then this would be it.

With the USA, that moment is after the senate didn’t convict Trump. No mass protests? No-one was throwing Molotov cocktails? That’s when authoritarianism received a silent, tacit approval from most people in the US.

Game over for now.

Fösh und chöps

Update: 4

Back to two cups of coffee a day

Today we buried my grandmother and visited my grandfather in the hospital.

We brought the last bottle of pálinka from my grandparents’ house.

The trees that bore the fruit that went into the distilling no longer exist. My grandfather no longer remembers the recipe or the fact the pálinka was even made.

So today we poured a handful of shots and toasted them, the life they led that allowed us to be here with the opportunities that we had. It’s the pálinka burning my throat, right.

So tired

Incomprehensible hungarian legalese on passanger train info displays? ✔️

Just hungary things...

About to enter the hungarian low radiowave emissions zone, where there is virtually no cell tower or other public broadcast infrastructure.

Also known as nearing Tatabánya.

Well it’s over.

I can’t decide between writing nothing or a novella on it.

I've temporarily closed registrations as I'm quite busy lately and will be for a little while.

Invites are still a valid way to get new people on this server.

So uh, we got swag

Levity or lividity - both are a thing as far as dark humor is concerned, but still it is unadvisable to mix them up.