ok, all you new people who arrived in the Fediverse this week... and there do appear to be a LOT of N00bs(in the best sense).... Let's do a Follow Friday!
@djsundog is possibly the best all around netizen on the Fedi.
@maxeddy Tech journalist, and nice and approachable too... I even assume he likes hugs.
@ella_kane our community organizer in this corner of the fediverse, and mastermind on #WeareNameless, a monthly movie viewing session... a LOT of fun!
@lilithsaintcrow and @mwlucas Both authors who have inspired discussions often, that lift the lid on the publishing industry.
@Mainebot He's like... to the north of me... but kinda smart.... and smart-alecky....actually a very solid source of quality thoughts on a wide range of topics.
@viciousviscosity qUEEN OF gIFS
@tek, admin of Freeradical.zone, also a name to watch for infosec.
@jerry Admin of infosec.exchange
@JohnsNotHere Host of the Purple Squad Security podcast
@drwho @remotenemesis @GeoffWozniak @ryen @m4iler
on and on...
Sooo many other great netizens... The instant I post this I will regret many I didn't list.
My wife has this idea to put communication boards on the playgrounds of the schools for the district she works for. Basically these have different acrylic buttons that allow kids to communicate regardless of their language or disability. She has students helping with coding and a 3D printing teacher who can help design it.
A church for wind of the idea and they said they would help pay for it if they shared the design stuff so they could help put them in all the public parks in town. It's a big project, but it could help kids play together in all public and school parks in a whole town.
Webbkoll β feature request for detecting report-uri/report-to directives:
https://github.com/andersju/webbkoll/issues/19
β All: What is your opinion on these directives?
β Admins: Do you use centralized providers like report-uri.com/uriports.com or your own reporting server?
β Users: Did you check for these directives ever before?
Simjacker β 29 affected countries released:
https://www.adaptivemobile.com/blog/simjacker-frequently-asked-questions (question 3)
β In Europe, at least 1 mobile operator in Italy, Cyprus, and Bulgaria is/was affected.
β At least 61 mobile operators are/were affected worldwide.
β ~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.
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To fix:
Open another terminal window and enter:
caffeinate
FFS! Recovery mode should do this by default.
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
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/
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.
β² @alexander@deko.cloud:
"We have noticed that you are using adblocker"
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
β> Traversing the web for interesting ideas <β
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