CJ
@mateloos.be
Sound engineer with a passion for the outdoors. Rumored to be obsessed by ecology & cosmology.
#FOSS enthusiast running #Debian since potato, Google-free mobile since CyanogenMod.
Signal, Matrix IDs on request.
Pics by me unless otherwise attributed.
#FOSS enthusiast running #Debian since potato, Google-free mobile since CyanogenMod.
Signal, Matrix IDs on request.
Pics by me unless otherwise attributed.
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CJ
@mateloos.be
· Jan 10
Seem's we're amongst good folk 😏
"The [@citizenlab.ca's Access Now] helpline has more people in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan region, given that these are hotspots for spyware cases"
They "look into about 1,000 cases of suspected government spyware attacks per year."
"The [@citizenlab.ca's Access Now] helpline has more people in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan region, given that these are hotspots for spyware cases"
They "look into about 1,000 cases of suspected government spyware attacks per year."
Government spyware: A team of security experts investigates when journalists and activists get hacked techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/m... #Staatstrojaner
Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.
techcrunch.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Seem's we're amongst good folk 😏
"The [@citizenlab.ca's Access Now] helpline has more people in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan region, given that these are hotspots for spyware cases"
They "look into about 1,000 cases of suspected government spyware attacks per year."
"The [@citizenlab.ca's Access Now] helpline has more people in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan region, given that these are hotspots for spyware cases"
They "look into about 1,000 cases of suspected government spyware attacks per year."
Recommended reading for anyone wanting to take on this kind of data, where the tech challenges can seem overwhelming and gems may be hidden under piles of dirt:
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Recommended reading for anyone wanting to take on this kind of data, where the tech challenges can seem overwhelming and gems may be hidden under piles of dirt:
Why "sun centers" are required by law to display this placard in every cabin:
"USE OF TANNING BEDS MAY CAUSE CANCER.
Consult your MD. UV may seriously damage the eyes. Wear protective goggles. Some meds & cosmetics may cause side effects. Prohibited for underage & skin type I."
"USE OF TANNING BEDS MAY CAUSE CANCER.
Consult your MD. UV may seriously damage the eyes. Wear protective goggles. Some meds & cosmetics may cause side effects. Prohibited for underage & skin type I."
December 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Why "sun centers" are required by law to display this placard in every cabin:
"USE OF TANNING BEDS MAY CAUSE CANCER.
Consult your MD. UV may seriously damage the eyes. Wear protective goggles. Some meds & cosmetics may cause side effects. Prohibited for underage & skin type I."
"USE OF TANNING BEDS MAY CAUSE CANCER.
Consult your MD. UV may seriously damage the eyes. Wear protective goggles. Some meds & cosmetics may cause side effects. Prohibited for underage & skin type I."
Ter inspiratie.
🙏
🙏
Was daarnet in de plaatselijke AD Delhaize. Ik zei aan de kassa. Reken er nog vier maaltijden bij voor de voedselbank. De kassierster werkt er voltijds en zei.
De actie loopt sinds half november en je bent de eerste die dit vraagt. 😳😳😳
Als onze kar vol lekkers ligt kunnen we toch nog delen.
De actie loopt sinds half november en je bent de eerste die dit vraagt. 😳😳😳
Als onze kar vol lekkers ligt kunnen we toch nog delen.
December 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Ter inspiratie.
🙏
🙏
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Vibert Douglas fought against gender discrimination in her field, earned an MBE for her war service, was a celebrated astrophysicist and one of the first individuals to receive the Order of Canada.
This is her remarkable story.
🧵 1/8
This is her remarkable story.
🧵 1/8
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Vibert Douglas fought against gender discrimination in her field, earned an MBE for her war service, was a celebrated astrophysicist and one of the first individuals to receive the Order of Canada.
This is her remarkable story.
🧵 1/8
This is her remarkable story.
🧵 1/8
Flashed open firmware to router via USB to serial adapter. Small win for me.
Waiting for USB to serial to RJ45 firmware update is 🔭. Unless flashed, GOTO function nor object tracking work.
Difference between risk of bricking a 50€ router & a 10k 🔭 which isn't even mine is huge. 😰🥵
Waiting for USB to serial to RJ45 firmware update is 🔭. Unless flashed, GOTO function nor object tracking work.
Difference between risk of bricking a 50€ router & a 10k 🔭 which isn't even mine is huge. 😰🥵
December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Flashed open firmware to router via USB to serial adapter. Small win for me.
Waiting for USB to serial to RJ45 firmware update is 🔭. Unless flashed, GOTO function nor object tracking work.
Difference between risk of bricking a 50€ router & a 10k 🔭 which isn't even mine is huge. 😰🥵
Waiting for USB to serial to RJ45 firmware update is 🔭. Unless flashed, GOTO function nor object tracking work.
Difference between risk of bricking a 50€ router & a 10k 🔭 which isn't even mine is huge. 😰🥵
"Netflix for stalkers"
🤣😂😰😨🥶☠️
🤣😂😰😨🥶☠️
And phew boy it gets a lot worse with this excellent video showing how Flock's exposed systems put people at risk (h/t @jsrailton.bsky.social):
youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...
youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Netflix for stalkers"
🤣😂😰😨🥶☠️
🤣😂😰😨🥶☠️
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The Week Between Christmas and New Years
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Week Between Christmas and New Years
~"To add to that [artistic] freedom, Belgian culture […] seemed to embrace [comics] with ease. “It wasn't looked upon as a minor genre or a genre that would cast a shadow on literature. It was used in Catholic press, it was used in socialist press. Everybody needed their comics.”"
#belgium 🇧🇪
#belgium 🇧🇪
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
~"To add to that [artistic] freedom, Belgian culture […] seemed to embrace [comics] with ease. “It wasn't looked upon as a minor genre or a genre that would cast a shadow on literature. It was used in Catholic press, it was used in socialist press. Everybody needed their comics.”"
#belgium 🇧🇪
#belgium 🇧🇪
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Interview @knack.be naar aanleiding nieuws I-Police en gebruik #AI door politie in België. Bedankt @elisahulstaert.bsky.social voor interview!
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
Artificiële intelligentie bij de politie: ‘Ze doen nu al veel meer met AI dan we denken, we weten er alleen weinig over’
I-Police, het project dat het kluwen lokale en federale politiedatabanken moest centraliseren, is op een teleurstelling uitgelopen.
www.knack.be
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Interview @knack.be naar aanleiding nieuws I-Police en gebruik #AI door politie in België. Bedankt @elisahulstaert.bsky.social voor interview!
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
Zot hé. Zo fantastisch mooie sterrenstelsels en daar zijn er zo ongelooflijk veel van dat we die geen naam geven maar gewoon een catalogus nummer.
Hier, nummer 6000 uit de New General Catalogue.
Hier, nummer 6000 uit de New General Catalogue.
Gorgeous: NGC 6000, a sparkling spiral galaxy in Scorpius
In its core, stars are typically older and smaller; cooler, lower-mass stars appear redder, while hotter stars shine bluer
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko - Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç)
In its core, stars are typically older and smaller; cooler, lower-mass stars appear redder, while hotter stars shine bluer
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko - Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç)
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Zot hé. Zo fantastisch mooie sterrenstelsels en daar zijn er zo ongelooflijk veel van dat we die geen naam geven maar gewoon een catalogus nummer.
Hier, nummer 6000 uit de New General Catalogue.
Hier, nummer 6000 uit de New General Catalogue.
"gravitational wave recoil kick" 😯🥸
🧪📡💫
🧪📡💫
JWST observations indicate that the double nucleus in NGC 4486B likely results from an eccentric nuclear disk formed after a supermassive black hole merger and gravitational wave recoil. doi.org/hbg5vt
Astronomers explore the double nucleus of galaxy NGC 4486B
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4486B.
phys.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"gravitational wave recoil kick" 😯🥸
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"could have enabled them to remotely control the vessel"
cc: @bartgonnissen.bsky.social
cc: @bartgonnissen.bsky.social
France arrests Latvian for installing malware on Italian ferry
French authorities arrested two crew members of an Italian passenger ferry suspected of infecting the ship with malware that could have enabled them to remotely control the vessel.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"could have enabled them to remotely control the vessel"
cc: @bartgonnissen.bsky.social
cc: @bartgonnissen.bsky.social
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Btw, this is also why Francesca Albanese is facing sanctions from Rubio - she exposed these same tech companies and their complicity with Israel's genocide.
She deserved more solidarity. It never stops with Israel.
She deserved more solidarity. It never stops with Israel.
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Btw, this is also why Francesca Albanese is facing sanctions from Rubio - she exposed these same tech companies and their complicity with Israel's genocide.
She deserved more solidarity. It never stops with Israel.
She deserved more solidarity. It never stops with Israel.
Reposted by CJ
Francesca Albanese—
"It is becoming more and more intense—personal threats, physical threats, the sanctions—it has not silenced me because you cannot silence the truth in the face of a genocide.
"It's just a matter of time before this injustice ends, sooner or later, it will not last forever."
"It is becoming more and more intense—personal threats, physical threats, the sanctions—it has not silenced me because you cannot silence the truth in the face of a genocide.
"It's just a matter of time before this injustice ends, sooner or later, it will not last forever."
December 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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So well put. Isolate the US. Don't buy their products, don't go there on holiday, persuade your employer to ditch US tech. And be nice to individual Americans, nobody deserves this kind of government and in the end, Americans will pay the highest price of all as it is their country that gets fucked.
UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
December 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So well put. Isolate the US. Don't buy their products, don't go there on holiday, persuade your employer to ditch US tech. And be nice to individual Americans, nobody deserves this kind of government and in the end, Americans will pay the highest price of all as it is their country that gets fucked.
Strikes is about the only means of pressure us worker bees have.
It's up to govt and corporate to check their balances: which is more costly - giving in to strikers' demands or loosing customers?
That's the whole purpose of strikes.
It's up to govt and corporate to check their balances: which is more costly - giving in to strikers' demands or loosing customers?
That's the whole purpose of strikes.
“Each day of strike action represents a loss of €25 million for our economy. But above all, in the long term, it simply damages perceptions of the reliability of our airport.”
2,400 flights cancelled due to strikes at Brussels Airport this year, 330,000 passengers affected
2,400 flights cancelled due to strikes at Brussels Airport this year, 330,000 passengers affected
www.brusselstimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Strikes is about the only means of pressure us worker bees have.
It's up to govt and corporate to check their balances: which is more costly - giving in to strikers' demands or loosing customers?
That's the whole purpose of strikes.
It's up to govt and corporate to check their balances: which is more costly - giving in to strikers' demands or loosing customers?
That's the whole purpose of strikes.
O ironie.
Sta me toe deze hilarisch te vinden. 😂
Sta me toe deze hilarisch te vinden. 😂
Door een beveiligingsfout in de federale Kamer is het salaris van MR‑kamerlid en voormalig staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering Mathieu Michel op een frauduleuze bankrekening terechtgekomen. #tech-nonchalance www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/p...
Phishingmail leidt tot diefstal van salaris ex-staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering Mathieu Michel
Door een beveiligingsfout in de federale Kamer is het salaris van MR‑kamerlid en voormalig staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering Mathieu Michel op een frauduleuze bankrekening terechtgekomen. Dat meldt...
www.demorgen.be
December 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
O ironie.
Sta me toe deze hilarisch te vinden. 😂
Sta me toe deze hilarisch te vinden. 😂
Don't sharpen your pencils too short just yet ✏️📼
for your holiday reading pleasure:
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Don't sharpen your pencils too short just yet ✏️📼
Koud hé. Zo helder ook buiten!!
Voor m'n avondronde de 🔭 nog es opgesteld zodat die al kan koelen.
Zelf even opwarmen en dan nog es naar boven kijken 🌘🪐🌌
Voor m'n avondronde de 🔭 nog es opgesteld zodat die al kan koelen.
Zelf even opwarmen en dan nog es naar boven kijken 🌘🪐🌌
December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Koud hé. Zo helder ook buiten!!
Voor m'n avondronde de 🔭 nog es opgesteld zodat die al kan koelen.
Zelf even opwarmen en dan nog es naar boven kijken 🌘🪐🌌
Voor m'n avondronde de 🔭 nog es opgesteld zodat die al kan koelen.
Zelf even opwarmen en dan nog es naar boven kijken 🌘🪐🌌
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George Roy Hill's multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇲 American caper film "THE STING" starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Harry Gould and Robert Earl Jones premiered #OnThisDay in 1973 in Los Angeles and New York
🎬 Universal Pictures
🎬 Universal Pictures
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
George Roy Hill's multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇲 American caper film "THE STING" starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Harry Gould and Robert Earl Jones premiered #OnThisDay in 1973 in Los Angeles and New York
🎬 Universal Pictures
🎬 Universal Pictures
🌞 and ⤵️
IRVING BERLIN (blue skies)
YouTube video by Reinaldo Adrian
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🌞 and ⤵️
#Surveillance has become so cheap it's become pretty hard to escape.
The problem isn't in collecting the data. It's who and what has access to the treasure trove.
Since Snowden everyone knows expert hoarders aren't experts at securing these assets and abuse is ubiquitous.
The problem isn't in collecting the data. It's who and what has access to the treasure trove.
Since Snowden everyone knows expert hoarders aren't experts at securing these assets and abuse is ubiquitous.
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
#Surveillance has become so cheap it's become pretty hard to escape.
The problem isn't in collecting the data. It's who and what has access to the treasure trove.
Since Snowden everyone knows expert hoarders aren't experts at securing these assets and abuse is ubiquitous.
The problem isn't in collecting the data. It's who and what has access to the treasure trove.
Since Snowden everyone knows expert hoarders aren't experts at securing these assets and abuse is ubiquitous.