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

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

ORG, along with privacy activists, tech companies and security experts, have long warned that it isn't possible to scan messages that use end-to-end encryption without undermining privacy and security.

While this is a huge victory for all campaigners who've highlighted the dangers of the spy clause to be used for mass surveillance, the powers could still be used in the furture.

✊ We continue to fight for the removal of the spy clause.

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #e2ee #surveillance #ukpolitics

Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne is out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/girl-genius-adventures-in-castle-heterodyne-is-out-now/

#IndieGame #Steam #PCGaming

In EXACTLY two weeks, Starter Villain is out in the world! If you're going the print media route, it's not too late to pre-order the book from your favorite local bookstore - not only will this make sure you get your copy the day it comes out, but you will help out your local bookstore (and me!) in the bargain. Everybody wins! I can't wait for you all to meet this book.

Step 1: remove unnecessary #javascript

https://www.nray.dev/blog/300ms-faster-reducing-wikipedias-total-blocking-time/

"Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/09/writing-an-app-is-like-coding-for-laserdisc/

It turns out my code was fine. I was running my program wrong

Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999 started 48 years ago today with "Breakaway".
This means that the TV series takes place exactly between the year of its broadcast and today.
#scifi #space1999 #gerryanderson #spaceship #tvshow #moon

Moved to a new office but wisely kept old hardware setup.

Valles Marineris compared to Grand Canyon #mars

Me planning to teach computing stuff, imagining exchanges:

— So, the file system is like a filing cabinet with an index …
— What’s a filing cabinet?
— And you have these files in it …
— What's a file?
— OK imagine a bunch of index cards th–
— Wh–
— Sorry, sorry. Uh, you know the wallpaper on your laptop screen?
— Yes
— Imagine that was a real desk.
— OK. Do I have to share it?
— No. You know all the documents you have on it?
— Yeah
— Imagine they were really on the real desk
— OK?
— Now,

Is anyone familiar with #PeerTube? I'm aware of it as an option, but haven't explored it yet. My kink education YouTube channel with thousands of subscribers just got deleted. I'd be looking for a well-established adult instance that already has subscribers, ideally.

#nsfw #adult #kink #sex #sexpositive #sexpositivity #fediverse

Watch to the end.😘👌

Every year I see videos from burning man and get more and more confident my body can no longer handle the combination of drugs required to make that seem fun

@tclark @cstross @daviddlevine all the open source kids talk about nextcloud as the best way to replace Dropbox with better offline capabilities.

Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy.

Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $.

If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.)

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

Good grief the mansplainers are out in force this morning, trying to tell me which weird random text processing package of the month I should FORCE my publishers (hint: billion dollar multinationals) to adopt in place of the Word/InDesign/PDF workflow they finally standardized on after a decade or two of growing pains ...

@Keltounet @hywan I watched my mother progressively (and completely) lose the ability to use her iMac during her final decade because Apple kept f*cking around with the Mac OS X user interface, the way Mail worked, the colour of the window maximize/minimize buttons, and stuff that probably looked trivial to a 30-something UI designer but was deeply disruptive to an 80 something with impaired memory. And by losing that access, she lost touch with friends (via email).

Another day, another suggestion that you’d be better off using a standard grid reference than What3Words.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/what3words_geolocation_criticism/