You! @personanonduvda@social.bau-ha.us

Webbkoll – feature request for detecting report-uri/report-to directives:

https://github.com/andersju/webbkoll/issues/19

– All: What is your opinion on these directives?
– Admins: Do you use centralized providers like report-uri.com/uriports.com or your own reporting server?
– Users: Did you check for these directives ever before?

#reportingapi #reporturi #reportto #webbkoll #privacy

Simjacker – 29 affected countries released:

https://www.adaptivemobile.com/blog/simjacker-frequently-asked-questions (question 3)

– In Europe, at least 1 mobile operator in Italy, Cyprus, and Bulgaria is/was affected.
– At least 61 mobile operators are/were affected worldwide.
– ~861 million SIM cards are affected according to the report.

#simjacker #vulnerability #smartphone #security #infosec #cybersecurity

So say the macOS Catalina update bricked your Mac (https://twitter.com/aral/status/1181466695250128896) and so you need to copy your account to an external hard drive so you open up Terminal in recovery mode and pop in something like:

cp -R /Volumes/bricked /Volumes/external

You know you have to wait about a day for the 1TB to copy over so you leave it. Next you check: the damn thing is asleep.

🤬 🤬 🤬

To fix:

Open another terminal window and enter:

caffeinate

FFS! Recovery mode should do this by default.

Another thing: I can't stand people that pretend passion for a trade/practice, then proceed to gatekeep. My knowledge is free, and I'm eager to help when others run into issues I have experience resolving. Even if I don't, I'm willing to learn with you.

watching chernobyl while assuring myself of the superiority of capitalism

The prospect of living off of battery for days has me thinking about low power electronics, too. Laptop is too power hungry, though I do have that 7 inch one. I guess I can get a SIM card and move it to the feature phone I have in a drawer somewhere if I need long periods of power. Or I could switch to a 2 way pager instead of 1-way. That depends on 2 networks but can send and receive both SMS and email with a battery that lasts for days

people who donate thousands to millionare twitch streamers.

Twitter admits email address and phone number given for security purposes was used for targeted ads
https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-emails-phone-number-advertising-privacy/

Someone earlier said Jeff Bezos makes more in a week than you could have earned at $5k/day since Columbus reached the US.

I didn't believe it.

I checked.

It appears to be true.

This is disgusting.

me: i would like to put an X button at the corner of this box

css: hmm, have you considere'd, fuck you?

le average day on le fediverse
#RageComic #Epic #Relatable

The Cloud is to the free and open Internet as nuclear weapons are to solar power.

Slightly smaller, much shorter lived, about as powerful during the time it stays in operation, built by a group of military-industrial contractors, with highly secret internals, and used as a strategic weapon between nation-states... with the ability to just flick a switch and make things the American government doesn't like go away.

Although that last capability may have a slight problem of fallout.

♲ @alexander@deko.cloud:

"We have noticed that you are using adblocker"

This is what another website said to me a minute ago. Then it asked to whitelist them.

Dear website, you are wrong. I am not using ad blocker. I use some anti-tracking functionality in my browser. I don't even have control on most part of it unless I want to pop up the hood and go really deep in there. Also I use some blacklisting of especially abusive ads and trackers on my router. Sorry, I can't whitelist you, there is simply no easy click of a button to do so.

And you know, website, it took years and years, decades even to develop this sort of environment you find yourself running in. At first I was even glad to see banners. They were fun to see. Then as years went by I installed ad blocker. It was really simple back then. Then it just went on and on - and here we are. You are not whitelistable. Most likely your ads won't display even on unfiltered direct connection and clean Firefox install with default settings.

So what can I do? Ask yourself, dear website, how have you driven all of us to this. Sure as hell it wasn't me.

Now when we have this cleared I am going to look for an easy way to bypass your "anti-adblock" shield. I won't even bother using any dedicated tools for that. If in about 30 seconds I won't see the content I want I will close the page and move on. Also I'll make a mental note not to click on your links again because of this.

How to fix this, you ask me? I don't know. Maybe accept the fact that ads are so last century? How about dropping these user tracking annoyingly contextual ads altogether and try something else? Like, you know, conscious advertising? Like old school magazines (the ones on paper) did?

And DoubleClick and friends can go fuck themselves. Ad banners are dinosaurs and the business feels chilly because the asteroid already hit.

#ads #adblock #internet #rant

Whoa, love these diagrams by the EFF for explaining encrypted SNI (server name indication):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/esni-privacy-protecting-upgrade-https

#Privacy #DNS

HELLO YES THIS ARCADE HAS FUCKING MELTY BLOOD THANK YOU

Most of the systems I've found are Gek controlled. So I'm getting in good with those capitalist bastards. But it's a good way to earn tech upgrades for your stuff. I wish it were a good way to make money. There's too little money and too much I want to spend it on.

...and point out that it's simply a stalling tactic because he *knows* our healthcare is trash.

But it doesn't end--it's just one lie after another, and there's only so many subtle ways to say to someone "you're very ignorant and susceptible to American propaganda."

But my favorite one was when I pointed out how many pharmaceutical companies have made a killing using public-funded research to create their products.

Then they turn around and claim they have exorbitantly high costs due to "research," ignoring their direct and indirect taxpayer subsidies.

His response: "well, Post did the same thing to Kellogg: he stole the recipe for Grape Nuts from him and made a killing."

Again, very little relevancy (people aren't dying from overpriced cereal nor subsidizing its creation), but it makes someone pause and thus gets them on their heels.

But yeah, working people.defending pharmaceutical billionaires. This country is an absolute fucking nightmare.

Whole foods workers demand Amazon stop working with ICE.

https://www.eater.com/2019/8/12/20802568/whole-foods-workers-amazon-letter-ice-palantir

Yes! You can't fight fascism without fighting capitalism, and unions are essential for that.

@ilovecomputers wait this is literally a metal gear rising revengeance quote tho

"What about all the good things war has done for us? Why don't we ever hear speeches about that? Jobs, technology, a common purpose... All we're sayin' is... GIVE WAR A CHANCE!"
— Sundowner