Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org
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- Parienve@mas.to
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en: Mostly tech, but not entirely. Privacy is a human right.
ia: Principalmente technologia, ma non in toto. Privacitate es un derecto human.
Joined Feb 2020
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FTC announces 'click to cancel' rules after 16 000 public comments. It will "require sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up."
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Pretty much all versions of bcrypt are vulnerable to second preimage attacks because they truncate the input to the first 72 bytes, meaning the hashes for messages longer than that will collide.
This resulted in a login bypass against Okta.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24285874/okta-52-character-login-password-authentication-bypass
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@hattom
There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number but I think most people making up a number wouldn't bother.
@stecks
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There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem.
@leon
I haven't noticed.
My account blocks #threadsdotnet.
It's better this way.
@matera
The page requires WebGL, which ironically is a strong fingerprinting vector. Good privacy-focused browsers like Librewolf and Mull disable WebGL by default.
In `about:config`, the toggle is `webgl.disabled`.
You can check your browser's configuration at https://get.webgl.org/
@chickfilla
The point is to apply the principle of least privilege to all communications.
If the message is only meant for one person, or a specific set of recipients, it should always use good end-to-end encryption.
If it's public, the idea is to only share the information intended to be shared, and nothing more.
@mkj @hack13 @soatok
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💫DID YOU KNOW💫
that if you move a mouse cursor fast enough, you can get persistence of vision and, say...
*run a game of Pong inside your mouse's firmware*
🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️
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Demo from Fish Disk 501 showing an example of a painter's algorithm code to render a fractal terrain on the Amiga 4000.
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@slothrop I love the fact that he starts with "the first ad on the internet had a click through of 44%" and didn't mention
1) it was not a personalised ad
2) it didn't track individual users
3) it was relevant to the content of the page
4) it wasn't misinformation
5) it wasn't malware
6) it didn't download a shitton of JavaScript
7) it didn't link to content-farm garbage
I wouldn't be running an ad blocker if those things were still true.
@scottytrees
Chrome is horrible.
Firefox is mediocre (unless you change a bunch of configuration).
Librewolf is great.
Why settle for mediocre?
@bagder
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I wonder: Does anyone want to write their own browser engine? In your choice of language/framework?
Because I'm happy to mentor! I've found some tricks in my own attempts.
Since I see plenty of thirst for more options...
@Linux_in_a_Bit
Ironically, the way to avoid this situation is to allow people to vote for multiple options, which prevents spoilers.
(Deleted and re-wrote because I replied to the wrong comment)
@Linux_in_a_Bit
Librewolf, Brave, and Epiphany.
Librewolf, because I don't yet think Mozilla is so far gone that the blast radius will reach the forks, and Librewolf is my preferred fork.
Brave, because I do already think Google is so far gone that the blast radius will reach the *other* forks, even Ungoogled Chromium which I used to use.
Epiphany, because it's possible I'm underestimating the sizes of those radii.
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Make a normal distribution.
- alt
- Parienve@mas.to
- pronouns/pronomines
- en: they/them/themself
en: Mostly tech, but not entirely. Privacy is a human right.
ia: Principalmente technologia, ma non in toto. Privacitate es un derecto human.
Joined Feb 2020
