Public Notice
Lots of reports of crypto spam attacks coming in from multiple instances today.
Seems like the bad guys are getting kinda worried about Mastodon.
Instance admins are taking this very seriously and working hard to fend off the attacks.
What can you do? If you see a crypto scam post, don't engage with it. It's just a bot anyway. If you mute, block and report the post it will help administrators isolate the attacker account.
We got this!
@estheria @justafrog @ForeverTepsMom@mastodon.social @StillIRise1963
You're right I was absolutely shocked to find Perrier & San Pellegrino bottled water amongst many many other European brands on sale in supermarkets in Thailand. What the hell are we thinking of - transporting bottles of water halfway round the damned world!!!
In my local supermarket in Luxembourg, during the run -up to Christmas some years back, I was horrified to see a bottled water brand called 'Bling' on sale. The bottles contained water (allegedly) from a spring in the USA!
Techniques used to track animals using eDNA -- DNA from cells shed from breathing, walking, touching or excreting -- can also be used to track humans.
New research shows that identifiable individual sequences can be recovered and studied, raising serious #privacy concerns (from @ufresearch researchers)
https://theconversation.com/you-shed-dna-everywhere-you-go-trace-samples-in-the-water-sand-and-air-are-enough-to-identify-who-you-are-raising-ethical-questions-about-privacy-205557
For some reason, I got a ton (or at least several ounces) of people asking me about Faraday bags for phones the last couple days.
While I’m not in the Faraday bag testing business, you might find this writeup I did a couple years ago helpful, mainly to explore how you can think about what Faraday bags do and don’t do and how to measure them. Go science!
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