Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org
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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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I once spent something like 18 months protesting GitHub every single day over the ICE thing and even I think the “requiring 2fa and supporting several different ways to do it is a very evil bridge too far” people have completely lost the plot
@alsorew
In general, cheating in foundational courses makes one ill-prepared for the more advanced courses.
A physician isn't looking up what "anterior" means, they're checking diagnostic criteria. A software engineer isn't looking up what short-circuit evaluation is, they're checking API documentation. And so forth.
@lowd
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Your skill as a writer is inversely proportional to the number of words you have added to an article for SEO purposes.
#SEO #PaddingIsntWriting #LongerIsntBetter #enshittification
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#USA #DNA #FacialRecognition #Algorihtms Privacy: "The detective’s request to run a DNA-generated estimation of a suspect’s face through facial recognition tech has not previously been reported. Found in a trove of hacked police records published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets, it appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use facial recognition on a face algorithmically generated from crime-scene DNA.
It likely won’t be the last.
For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable criteria."
https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/
@nazokiyoubinbou
In hacker culture this "hate" is typically tongue-in-cheek hyperbole whose payload is a genuine opinion.
Any actual anger might be a mix of fear of becoming obsolete and fear of cultural decay from newcomers not grokking the old ways. But at that point it's hardly about text editors anymore.
@nixCraft
@nazokiyoubinbou
The headline feature of nano is that it has basically zero learning curve, which makes it great for quick edits to config files, but this isn't very interesting to someone who has already invested time to become proficient in a more powerful editor.
@aurorapenguin
Only the Itch and GOG releases were in 2023. It was published elsewhere before that.
@aeva
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"Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?" (PDF):
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03622.pdf
Spoiler: Yep.
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Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical's repackaging of the Steam client through snap.
The best way to install Steam on Debian and derivative operating systems is to follow the instructions at http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ and use the official .deb
We are not involved with the snap repackaging. It has a lot of issues.
If you don't want the .deb, please at least consider the flatpak version.
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/
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@Thoradin
You should make sure they know they can use an authenticator app of their choice, and reinforce this by naming at least a couple options.
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@mikehaynes Definitely a lot of attempts at #IndieWeb / #smallweb search engines/repos/lists. I’ve (somewhat poorly) tried to capture a lot of them here… https://shellsharks.com/indieweb.
In no particular order…
- https://ooh.directory
- https://www.marginalia.nu
- https://indieseek.xyz
- https://kagi.com/smallweb/
- https://searchmysite.net
- https://whimsical.club
- https://theuselessweb.com
- https://theforest.link
- https://personalsit.es
- https://indieweb-directory.glitch.me
- https://godteeth.com/misc/randomweb
- https://blogroll.org
- https://indieblog.page
- https://blogs.hn
- https://neocities.org/browse
- https://wiby.me
- Webrings: https://foreverliketh.is/blog/exploring-the-personal-web/
*Maybe someone could build a search engine that would aggregate results from all or some of these?
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.
The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.
The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.
It was their cell phone provider.
Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.
I am very serious.
@blurp
Best mainstream option for sure, but Librewolf (a fork of Firefox) has more privacy-focused defaults. It even bundles uBlock Origin, which you should be using anyway.
@martlund
On Windows:
71% Google Chrome
14% Microsoft Edge
9% Mozilla Firefox
4% Opera
2% Yandex Browser
Note: except for Firefox, all of these are Chromium-based.
@LoganFive
Bonus: you later discover that the crossed-out one is correct, so you circle it, and cross the other one out *twice*.
@LoganFive
How this happens: you forget that you changed it, and also forget where you have it written, so you reset it back to what you thought it was.
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[PLEASE BOOST | URGENT] With 0w0.is shutting down I am needing a place to migrate my Fediverse account as I would still like to use Fedi.
If anyone has any suggestions for instances PLEASE let me know!!! I prefer an akkoma based instance if possible but i’m flexiable!
Instance must be okay with me posting monthly mutual aid requests as without them I starve, lack of what little medical I have, etc. Preferably a trans/queer server or trans/queer safe I am an anarchist so something along the lines of that would be cool too!
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What is the index of an empty string in an empty string?
https://successfulsoftware.net/2023/12/13/what-is-the-index-of-an-empty-string-in-an-empty-string/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://successfulsoftware.net/2023/12/13/what-is-the-index-of-an-empty-string-in-an-empty-string/
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- Parienve@mas.to
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- 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
