⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

I wish I didn’t feel like Apple was one of the very few, sometimes only, major tech companies trying to build with privacy in mind. Yes, I get there are arguably places it may or can erode that design. They’re besides the point for now.

And granted, I generally like Apple’s products. But in some ways I also feel like I’m stuck here; I truly wish more of its peers valued our privacy.

Look at this. Look at it. What on earth. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

#Apple #Microsoft #privacy

I went to the aquarium today and there was a guy in a wetsuit pushing a penguin around on a box, back and forth through the water

someone asked why and he says, "yeah, she kinda just really likes riding on the box"

I'm still not over it y'all

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

The best way to think of SLS is as a balding guy with a mullet: there are fireworks down below that are meant to distract you from a sad situation up top.

For eight minutes SLS roars into the sky on a pillar of fire. And then, like a cork popping out of a bottle, the tiny ICPS emerges and drifts vaguely moonwards on a wisp of flame.

[It is] a first in space flight, [a] rocket that is at the same time more powerful and less capable than the Saturn V.

It's wild that you can just do anything. Date the wrong person, choose the wrong career. You can go outside and start eating dirt if you want, and the universe lets you. Not even a pop up like "Are you sure?"

Breakdown of the lego coliseum begins... I'll keep you updated.

#lego

While working, I like to listen to mundane voice recordings of old NASA missions. Makes me feel like I'm working on an important space mission rather than marketing.

BOOM!

What an episode!! Another classic Moffat #DoctorWho

Discuss it here:

https://forum.tardis.guide/t/episode-discussion-boom/1938?u=shauny

@pvonhellermannn @kim_harding Contrast with how, say, economists are quoted. The economy is always rebounding or suffering or all the other verbs, but folks don't "believe" that stuff, it *is*. We only delve into feelings and beliefs when it's economically uncomfortable, like for pandemics, climate change, housing, poverty, racism. Those are all "felt" by someone, whereas profit is meant to be *real*.

I eventually did get the program to run but only by intentionally installing it wrong

Blog post summing up my investigations this week into SNCF's decision to stop selling most international train tickets

“SNCF is stopping sales of most international tickets – a decision rooted in incompetence, and communicated with malevolence”
https://jonworth.eu/sncf-is-stopping-sales-of-most-international-tickets-a-decision-rooted-in-incompetence-and-communicated-with-malevolence/

So, that was Moffat’s first episode of this series of #DoctorWho… personally I thought it was better than the last two. Could tell the twist from like 3 minutes into the story, but the way they resolved the main dilemma was neat enough.

Didn’t realise the number of references to other parts of the Whoniverse til later though. Apparently these marines are from the Kovarian branch of the church? And the Doctor destroyed that company in a comic sometime ago?

watching #TheExpanse and am very amused by the little clicky-clicky noise the mag boots make as they grab & release on the decking. it sounds like everyone is tap-dancing their way through the vastness of space 🙃

there are worse ways to travel ¯_(ツ)_/¯

(I really want them to break into a dance routine 😂)

brb, starting the Ask an SC Agent and Drone advice column

Is It Time? Three Signs It's Ready To Throw Off Your Work Eccentricity Deep Cover

The Top 5 Ways Of Succeeding At Work When You Don't Have A Drone Partner or Knife Missiles

I am not exaggerating this:

I created a new hostname in DNS, then added it to my existing webserver config.

It was online for 3 seconds -- 3! -- before getting a 404 request for `/.git/config`.

If you're relying on obscurity to protect your services, get that right out your fool head today. You have about 3 seconds to get your act together.

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

Doubtless Apple will spin the innovation of deleted photos randomly returning from the dead with today's date as being for your comfort and security, as usual. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/15/ios-17-5-bug-deleted-photos-reappear/

Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor
(ars technica) https://lwn.net/Articles/973783/ #LWN