dbread @dbread@qoto.org

Ouch.

"Unfortunately, the LastPass employee never upgraded their software to activate the patch," Plex said in a statement. "For reference, the version that addressed this exploit was roughly 75 versions ago."

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/lastpass-hack-engineers-failure-to.html

#LastPass #Plex

Wine pairing. For me it is even simpler, I just drink white wines.

@lowqualityfacts can you just confirm which part of this toot was meant to be low-quality?

Tomorrow (Mar 7), I'm doing a remote talk for #TUWien:

https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373

On Mar 9, you can catch me in person in #Austin at the UT School of Design and Creative Technologies:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-center-presents-cory-doctorow-tickets-526627556197

And remotely at #UManitoba's Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture:

https://eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/event/ethics-of-emerging-technology-lecture---rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/

On Mar 10, Rebecca Giblin and I kick off the #SXSW reading series:

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP1143284

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You have nothing to hide until the government suddenly declares your behaviour illegal. #abortion #usa #meta #facebook #google #e2ee #encryption

Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.

@blakereid

If you're in right wing controlled state like Texas, you might want download a copy of the Tor browser now.

https://www.torproject.org/

It's frequently used to get around network blocks by repressive regimes. (And can also make it harder for advertisers to track you if you happen to live in a less repressive regime)

As example the BBC produced a tor hidden service version of their site to provide BBC news in Ukrainian & Russian. Tor can view regular webs sites, but I think the hidden sites perform a bit better.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981

Ideally one would live in a free country not ruled by a repressive state, but apparently we don't get to have nice things like that without quite a lot more political organizing and resistance.

Now is the time for resistance. To fight for human rights.

To free the internet from mass surveillance. Now is the time to stop #chatcontrol

We urge all politicians of the EU to take a democratic decision.

Read the full story at https://mullvad.net/chatcontrol

Frage: Brauche ich WhatsApp?

Frage: Ist Microsoft 365 in der EU rechtskonform einsetzbar?

Frage: Sind proprietäre Softwarelösungen im Sinne der öffentlichen Verwaltung?

Antwort:

😂

ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide - https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt