Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Sharing this to help make people aware that there have been reports of a new scam, whereby a person receives a text saying they need to book a vaccination appointment and it takes them to a fake NHS form which then asks for their bank details to prove their identity.

The NHS will never ask for peoples banking information.

The scam has been reported in the media here: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1378158/NHS-Covid-19-Vaccination-Vaccine-Appointment-Pfizer-BioNTech-Text-Scam-How-To-Avoid

#NHS, #vaccine #scam

There is a texting scam leaflet you can download here: https://cfa.nhs.uk/resources/downloads/fraud-awareness/covid-19/COVID-19_SMS_and_Text_Message_Scams.pdf

Please disseminate this email to your communities and loved ones to help raise awareness of this.

I love that this Stanford cryptography 101 course basically teaches students how to add a government backdoor.

“Adding the sending key encrypted under the government’s public key should not compromise the security properties of the chat client.”

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/cs255_winter20/hw_and_proj/proj2.pdf

😬👍

PeerTube v3: it’s a live, a liiiiive !

🎉🎉🎉 PeerTube v3 is out today!!! 🎉🎉🎉

On the blog :
➡️ The stages of development
➡️ Peer to peer live streaming
➡️ A behind-the-scenes short film
➡️ What we imagine for the future!

https://framablog.org/2021/01/06/peertube-v3-its-a-live-a-liiiiive

Illus CC-By @davidrevoy

Open Street Map of Torbay.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/50.4131/-3.3714&layers=N

I'm posting this on behalf of a 20 year old closeted trans woman who lives with her family. Her family hates her and is incredibly abusive and controlling. She really needs a place to get out to.

She's in Pennsylvania. If you're around there and can take in a person, or think you might know people who can, please pass it on.

I don't expect anything will come of this, but I'm really hoping that we can make a real difference to one person's life. She needs to get out and she deserves to be happy and to actually be able to live.

A reminder that Mastodon has tools such as block, mute, and "Hide Boosts" to help you curate your experience, and we recommended you use them.

Is there someone who appears in your timelines often who you'd rather not see? Feel free to mute/block! A hashtag/topic that one person won't stop talking about? Filter it! A person who boosts way too much for your liking? Go to their profile, click the "…" button, and select "Hide boosts!"

Make this the social experience *you* want!

@zleap
And the media fanned the flames.
If anything comes out of this, I hope its a M5M spanking. Fox news and cnn ruined journalism from the moment of their inception.

@TonyStark Thank you Stacey Abrams, Georgia, and all volunteers! #SenatorWarnock #StaceyAbrams #GArunoffs

@TonyStark @DeterminedTherapist @MariaHill It's incensing me to hear "protesters" on TV.

It's vandals, rioters, terrorists, and maniacs.

RT @schnibben@twitter.com

Do you remember, @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com ?
#WashingtonDC

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/schnibben/status/1346923307380199430

Happy new year @strypey - in case you missed it, we're now on Mastodon 3.3.0...

@TonyStark

This makes me sick! This is insurrection! A Dark Day for Democracy!

@zleap
No. They don't care. They would sooner cut off the world. It is pathetic and really, anti-American.

Thank you. I hope so, too.
@MariaHill

The U.S. Is Building a Bike Trail That Runs Coast-to-Coast Across 12 States
https://www.ecowatch.com/great-american-rail-trail-2649733595.html

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