Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

One thing being overlooked in this matter of requiring $8 Twitter Blue for 2FA discussion is that in order to pay Elon you need to give him a credit card number. This provides him with your real identity and exposes you to potential credit card theft if that information were to be compromised.

Signing up for $8 Twitter Blue compromises your anonymity and financial security and Elon making it a requirement for 2FA.

#twittermigration #2FA #twitter

Faith schools are divisive and exclusive. How will children learn to live together and understand each other if they are segregated? Families who wish their children to have a religious education can arrange for this out of school hours; it should not be the criterion on which admission is secured.
#NoMoreFaithSchools

Analysis: Fox News has been exposed as a dishonest organization terrified of its own audience

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/business/fox-news-dominion-lies/index.html

White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/18/white_castle_fingerprints_fine/

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Microsoft says no more talking with the Bing AI about its feelings. (It doesn't have any.) No more leading questions about sentience. (It's pattern-matching internet text.) And no more rambling chats. (It's just copying your tone, anyway.)

Now, after five question-answers, it says it would "prefer not to continue this conversation."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/18/microsoft-bing-chatbot/

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" Yes! I still existed while unemployed.

Terrorists killed their daughter. Now they’re fighting Google in the Supreme Court. Gerrit De Vynck previews a case that could reshape the internet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/18/gonzalez-google-lawsuit-supreme-court/

Twitter wants to save money on sending texts for 2-factor authentication. Even if a lot of people won't switch to an app authenticator (which is the better but more complicated option, which leads to lower adoption) and will therefore be way less secure.

The company framing this as a way to block "bad actors" is misguided. Many more accounts will be easier, not harder, to hack. If this was really about SMS insecurity, why allow Twitter Blue accounts to keep using it?

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter

Twitter said it is removing SMS 2FA for non-paying accounts by March 20, in what is one of the stupidest security decisions made by a company in recent memory.

This is how to keep your Twitter secure without giving Elon Musk any money: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/18/how-to-keep-twitter-secure-two-factor/

Wow. WaPo digs into why the South has the lowest credit scores in the country (adding to individual consumers' borrowing costs, freezing then out of credit at all). The answer: Medical debt. Because the South didn't expand Medicaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/

"Fox News has stoked conspiracy, propaganda, insanity and the most despicable lie in American history that led directly to an insurrection."

Get more on those willingly hurting America and why we all deserve better: http://bit.ly/3k6Oiqq

If you're using SMS-based 2FA you should switch to TOTP (time-based one-time password) codes generated by an app.

Don’t let others tell you that you *need* a paid service for this like 1Password, or that you have to use an app from BigTech like Google Authenticator. There are better, privacy-respecting, secure and open-source apps:

On iOS use Raivo (https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application)

On Android use Aegis (https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis)

#2FA #Twitter #OTP #TOTP #privacy #FOSS #openSource

@annaleen Trans rights are a reliable miner's canary for human rights in general: if they're attacked, the invisible toxic cloud is coming for everyone else very soon. (They're not the only signal that human rights are under attack, but they're a very sensitive one and I've never heard of a major anti-rights offensive that didn't attack trans people as well as whoever the ostensible target was.) So: solidarity!

The more I think about what went wrong with web search, it comes down to this: the internet companies did not ever come up with a workable definition of truth, or fealty to reality, or anything like it. What are the markers of fact in some text? They never figured that out.

You cannot organize all the world’s information without that core concept.

The chatbots are just making this failure plain (and weird).

I want this framed.

Quite possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

#cartoon #humor #funny

I registered on Codeberg today after seeing some other developers switch to it. I've had the account for about 3 hours by now but after browsing around the website, setting up SSH/GPG/2FA and creating a first repository, I love the UI/UX. I've always liked the GitHub UI/UX, and I feel like Gitea (which is what Codeberg is using) gives a very similar look and feel. I might make the switch as I'm done with GitHub after their Copilot plagiarism.

#Codeberg #GitHub #development #git #OpenSource

The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/18/dustbowl_doe_climate/

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