I've just watched the #Amiga demo HAMazing by Desire and I want to say a few words about it. The first ones are: it's insane what hardware that's almost 40 years old could do. It blew my mind as a kid and rightly so.
The demo is all about leveraging HAM mode, which allowed you to display up to 4K colors simultaneously. Let me explain how that worked and how remarkable this demo is. 🧵 1/6
Seven years ago we lost our sweet Jacob to liver disease. Reading was his favorite activity. In his honor we do a book drive to support Georgetown Medical Center’s children’s department. Please contribute a book: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/E57018RQ7JMS?ref_=wl_share
Memory errors in consumer devices such as PCs and phones are not something you hear much about, yet they are probably one of the most common ways these machines fail.
I'll use this thread to explain how this happens, how it affects you and what you can do about it. But I'll also talk about how the industry failed to address it and how we must force them to, for the sake of sustainability. 🧵 1/17
Youngest calls me Daddy. I’m not super happy about it, and I am worried about it for summer activities, but it is what it is.
Recently, Youngest climbed onto a two person swing (one of the “horse” or “elephant-ear” style ones) with another kid and asked me to push the swing.
Other: “Where’s your dad?”
Youngest: “I have two moms!”
Other: “Is your dad dead!?”
Youngest: “No!”
Other: “But where’s your dad?”
Youngest, laughing at the absurdity: “I have TWO MOMS!”
Other: “… your mom is good at pushing.”
Sending logs from php to stdout inside a docker container you’d think would be easy and a solved problem. It’s definitely not. I’ve seen dozens of different and clever ways.
My tried and true method for the last few years has been to use the DIO extension.
After googling to see if anything changed in php to make it possible, one comment sent me down the dark path of FFI.
This little evil dirty disgustingly sly, and while proud of won’t use gist was the result. 😈
https://gist.github.com/ralphschindler/94a1a51145ff3cc0df2d54b1c5acb9c9
Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/
You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department.
"Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it? You tell the caller to do unmentionable things to a goat. They sigh.
"I can assure you I'm calling from Chase bank. I understand you're sceptical. I'll send a push notification through the app so you can see this is a genuine call."
Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification and this pops up on screen:
This is obviously a genuine caller! This is a genuine pop-up, from the genuine app, which is protected by your genuine fingerprint. You tap the "Yes" button.
Why wouldn't you? The caller knows your name and bank and they have sent you an in-app notification. Surely that can only be done by the bank. Right?
Right!
This is a genuine notification. It was sent by the bank.
You proceed to do as the fraud department asks. You give them more details. You move your money into a safe account. You're told you'll hear from them in the morning.
Congratulations. You just got played. Scammers have stolen your life savings.
How the scam works
This is reasonably sophisticated, and it is easy to see why people fall for it.
The scammer calls you up. They keep you on the phone while...
The scammer's accomplice calls your bank. They pretend to be you. So...
The bank sends you an in-app alert.
You confirm the alert.
The scammer on the phone to your bank now has control of your account.
Look closer at what that pop is actually asking you to confirm.
We need to check it is you on the phone to us.
It isn't saying "This is us calling you - it is quite the opposite!
This pop-up is a security disaster. It should say something like:
Did you call us?
If someone has called you claiming to be from us hang up now
[Yes, I am calling Chase] - [No, someone called me]
I dare say most people would fall for this. Oh, not you! You're far too clever and sceptical. You'd hang up and call the number on your card. You'd spend a terrifying 30 minute wait on hold to the fraud department, while hoping fraudsters haven't already drained your account.
But even if you were constantly packet sniffing the Internet connection on your phone, you'd see that this was a genuine pop-up from your genuine app. Would that bypass your defences? I reckon so.
Criminals are getting increasingly good at this. Banks are letting down customers by having vaguely worded security pop-up which they know their customers don't read properly.
And, yes, customers can sometimes be a little gullible. But it is hard to be constantly on the defensive.
Further reading
You can read the original story from the victim on Reddit. See more comments on Mastodon.
The Guardian today has a photo of tents on the steps of UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall, the admin building. I spent a night in such a tent in 1985, as part of an anti-apartheid protest. That protest now has a lengthy Web page praising it on the official UC site, because the whole movement achieved its goals.
Ironically, today's protest could equally well have taken place in 1985, also.
THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK
For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).
Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.
She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.
Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was a “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.
The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.
Fucking love this artist 😂
#MONA #art #kristenkachele #sexism #discrimination #performanceart #australia
If kids are "catching gender dysphoria" because of social media, it's because visibility matters. People see others, it is discussed, and they ... recognize some aspect of themselves in it.
That's it. One of the reasons I recognized I was queer early on was because... my mom had gay and lesbian friends and the visibility gave me a name for something.
THIS. IS. A. GOOD. THING.
Sustainability is a security issue. Consumers only have demands for a burnt out maintainer and the only help that arrives has long-term malicious intentions.
Husband of a smart, outspoken woman, father of two little girls. ❄️ Peace and quiet enthusiast. 💾 PHP/Node/Java/Go dev 🤗 He/him.🍹 Unfollowable. https://ninozaur.com