⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

The Truth is Out There: The X-Files started 30 years ago today with the aptly-named "Pilot"!

It's hard to believe that it's already been 30 years since I was hooked on what quickly became my favorite series of the 1990s (even though I gave up before the end of the first run).

And to think that the alien episodes were accompanied by so many fantastic, quality one-off stories. It was fascinating throughout my teenage years.

By the way, Tooms should be back in 2023.

#Babylon5 #TheRoadHome

My motivational phone lock screen

It’s not just about selling you ads.

Ex: you’re a teenager living in a highly conservative state. You’re visiting sites your ultra religious family don’t want you to. Google tracks you NATIVELY IN THE BROWSER and informs 3rd parties of your interest in LGBTQ sites.

You’re NOT SAFE using Chrome.

This is very interesting: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0

It’s sad to hear #ChaimTopol’s died, it really is.

SF fans of a certain Age will remember him in #FlashGordon … but his signature role was as #Tevye in #FiddlerOnTheRoof

#DoYouLoveMe has to be THE song from the piece …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_y9F5St4j0

Ridiculed at first, "Flash Gordon" has become a campy cult classic, and Sam J. Jones talks about getting the role and making the film.

https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2022/01/31/flash-in-the-pan-sam-j-jones-on-making-the-cult-classic/

#SamJJones #FlashGordon #CultClassic #80smovies #80s #movies #Movienews #entertainmentnews #entertainment #Film #Celebritynews

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable

"At current cost levels the SLS program is unsustainable."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-finally-admits-what-everyone-already-knows-sls-is-unaffordable/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is absolutely crazy stuff. Chinese hackers were able to get into a bunch of government email accounts by forging Microsoft access tokens, but how it happened is wild.

Apparently an internal Microsoft system responsible for signing consumer access tokens crashed, then a bug in the crash dump generator caused the secret key to be written to the crash dump. Microsoft's secondary system for detecting sensitive data in crash dumps also failed, allowing the crash dump to be moved from an isolated network to the corporate one. The Chinese hackers compromised a Microsoft engineer's account and were able to get a hold of the crash dump. They were not only able to find the key and figure out that it's responsible for signing consumer access tokens, but were also able to exploit a software bug to use it to sign enterprise access tokens too, basically giving them the keys to the kingdom.

So many security system had to fail for this to happen. Either the hackers were very lucky or extremely patient.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

It's true.

Hack of a Microsoft corporate account led to Azure breach by Chinese hackers

Other failures along the way included a signing key improperly appearing in a crash dump.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft-corporate-account-led-to-azure-breach-by-chinese-hackers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social