⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

The UK Government is about to launch an advertising campaign to undermine the end-to-end security of your family's DMs. E2EE helps to ensure when you share a picture of your children, a paedophile or criminal isn't snooping on that image. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65686989 #encryption #privacy

The new #LEGO Mars Rover looks brilliant, love that they included Ingenuity, but sad there's no pet rock. https://www.theverge.com/23733997/lego-mars-rover-perseverance-price-release-date

There are so many things for which Rishi has to have "not enough information to make a decision on" right now.

I feel sorry for him.

Must be so hard to not trip over and fall in a pile of enough information. Between Boris and Suella there's just info lying all over the place.

2023 JZ1, 28m-64m in diameter, just passed the Earth at 13km/s, missing by 4,090,000km. https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2023%20JZ1

NEW: In a leaked EU document detailing 20 countries' opinions on a proposal to scan people's private messages for illegal material, which WIRED obtained, officials from Spain said they would like to ban end-to-end encryption in the EU. "It is imperative that we have access to the data," they wrote. Full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/

"The simple repair is still a wonder. Dell can talk a big game with its concepts and Apple will send massive repair kits to your home, but Framework includes one tool in the box that lets me confidently make any change I want." - FreedmanAE

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/framework-laptop-13-intel-2023

If Facebook and Instagram were to join the Fediverse and you could follow users from that world from your instance, would you do it?

Boosts appreciated. I'd like to know the current consensus of the Fediverse.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia

If you're out for a walk this Sunday, and spot a memorial bench - we'd love a photo on https://openbenches.org/

We're within touching distance of 28,000 submissions!

Boosts (and geotagged photos) most appreciated!

This is why we used Docker or another container tech like LXD or FreeBSD jails. There is no need to break the whole thing because a newer version of Python or PHP is installed on your Unix or Linux server.

Thought I’d post some of my old #NerdStitch projects, that I only shared on the bird site before. First up, classic Mac OS “sampler”.

There we go. Finally got a 5.25" floppy disk etched onto a 3.5" floppy disk

Cynics would argue there's no such thing as a glorious failure, and this account invites cynics to go away and boil their heads - JUST LOOK AT THIS THING!

Basically a caged ekranoplan, the Aerotrain was the future of the railways. As long as you remember that the future of the railways in the late 1960s was usually a great big government axe.

Still, a two-seater Pratt & Whitney jet-powered aircushioned hot rod locomotive, eh? Stick that in your Whyte notation and smoke it.

#FailureFriday

And whose fault is that?

So, some of you are observing that my posts are really dumb.

Yes, but they pale in comparison to some of my life choices.

UK peeps: consider signing this government petition (to halt passage of the Online Safety Bill, which will gut end-to-end encryption including your online banking security, personal message privacy, and right to privacy in general): https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

Disagreeing with the results of #Eurovision is what brings all us Europeans together. We can't fight it. Nobody dies over it. We all come together to wonder who the hell voted for all the other countries we didn't vote for. It is the most wonderful of wonderful things.

Also, and this is key:

"Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.”