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What could Google have been thinking when it started selling dot-zip top-level domain names. This is such a terrible idea that you have to wonder whether something beyond stupid is involved..

In any case, you should NEVER, EVER click on a URL that ends in .zip.

https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5

#scrum

Don't use #Discord for your org

Host your own #Matrix

#TakeBackTheInternet

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-discloses-data-breach-after-support-agent-got-hacked/

I just realized a problem that everyone probably already talked about in the past.

We praise #FOSS for its openness and security, but how can we be sure that the service that a company offers is the same code as what is stored in the source control?

Is there a good way to audit online services? Like, how can I be sure that the code of, say, mastodon.example was not tampered with? And are there any good articles and/or books on the topic?

I just finished the slightly nerve-wracking but very important task of flashing and sideloading the #LineageOS 20 release and recovery images (an upgrade from 19.1). All went smoothly. #heimdallflash and #adb served me well once again. As always, many thanks to the @LineageOS maintainers! 👍 #android #foss

RT @toddcharron: @cliffhazell A colleague of mine would regular meet with his cofounders to decide what the true top priority was

They had to answer the question:
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want

They called it the Spice Girls rule https://t.co/8KRvE0wh08

👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife

Nobody wants this. Nobody wants to hear Biggie shouting out rappers who weren't even born yet when he died. It's one thing to remix old vocals or release unused vocals, but it's a totally different thing to use his voice to make something "new." Making Biggie say words he didn't actually write is just... yuck.

https://www.xxlmag.com/timbaland-notorious-big-ai-song/

#Biggie #NotoriousBIG #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIMusic #Timbaland #BIGForever

#ShodanAtScale

The "Virtual Peephole" is an open source hardware art project that shows you a feed ganked from a different insecure online security camera every time you lift its cover.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1229833824088940544

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Hey.

Just as a suggestion. Don't point internet cameras with poor security at someone's desk. I was browsing Shodan.io and found this

Product spec Vs user needs
#Memes

The CSS Zen Garden is 20 today.
http://www.csszengarden.com/

It about 9pm or so in Vancouver twenty years ago today, where I spun up an FTP connection and uploaded a handful of files to a server. I didn’t expect what happened next.

My intent was creating a site that proved CSS was a better way to design and build for the web that the mess of fonts and table tags the industry was dependent on up till that point. I figured a handful of the folks already into CSS at the time would find it neat, maybe a few other people would make an attempt at submitting, and it might prove to be a neat talking point for a few months.

What I didn’t see was how effectively it proved the point, and how revelatory that would be to the wider industry who weren’t using CSS yet. I mean I always dreamed it might reach a wider audience, but I never expected it to blow up early and remain relevant for as long as it did.

The designs it contains span a formative period of web design and development and most are of that era, and the industry has continued advancing beyond the ideals of 2003. But I keep it alive not just as an early web milestone, but also because it continues on as a reference for web curriculums and those joining the industry every day who get to experience that same aha moment the rest of us did many many years ago.

It’s no exaggeration to say that this one site launched not just my own career, but the careers of many of the contributors who are still prominent in the industry today. It remains my most significant mark on an industry I still work within today, and still feel pride in managing to create something that helped change the trajectory of the web for the better.

Once upon a time, Outlook displayed the header X-Message-Flag as a custom GUI banner message, so people started trolling Outlook like this:

X-Message-Flag: WARNING!! Outlook sucks X-Message-Flag: Warning! Using Outlook is insecure and promotes virus distribution. Please use a different email client.