Nel @Navertal@schelling.pt

Fourteen moves in and nobody’s taken a piece

I keep ending up in this situation where my vibing with a person’s train of thought thread will be interrupted by a plain-spoken statement that is such clear bullshit (highlighted) that I’ll end up questioning both the person’s overall POV and my own willingness to relate to it.

It happens with people I like and/or follow so I don’t want to respond directly/abrasively, but I experience this so often that I feel the need to comment on it.

Looking through my browser cookies and I gotta say

Guys

You need new branding ideas

Oh hey, look at that!

3. There are a lot of discussions related to open source that this whole affair ties into - the thanklessness of maintaining a software repo for little to no compensation, what constitutes abuse of users' trust, what you can actually do with a GPL when it comes down to it.

2. The new owners are really suspicious, and they know it.

The code in the previous toot was executed by a site called owebanalytics, a domain registered at the same time that the first suspicious update to The Great Suspender was pushed. The name is meant to resemble Google's openwebanalytics. Financial transactions associated with the new owner appear to have been made with BTC. And values found in the scripts have been found on other phishy extensions.

Wow, so many things.

1. No indication that anything was done beyond tracking browsing, but the capability for tracking keystrokes etc. appears to be in the code.

Just to cover my bases, I'm about to change all my passwords. Have been meaning to put together a personal data breach bug-out manual anyway.

I think I’m about to massacre this poor guy

Talking to my dad last night I learned that when he was a kid, there were devices in shoe stores that let you see live x-rays of your feet. Whenever he was there he would sneak onto one to watch his toe-bones wiggle until a clerk told him off.

Been thinking about the standard scam mechanic - open with a call that only the naive and overtrusting will answer, then exploit the mark’s trust to siphon their money away to you.

I think there are similar patterns that select the overly thoughtful and conscientious to suck away their time and energy - recommending that someone put together a bureaucratic task force to address an issue they find urgent, for example.