kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@social.cleverlibre.org

but some pro tips:
1. Enable Find My on your devices because if your device gets stolen you will sure as hell want to remotely wipe it.
2. If you're traveling, ensure you have a way to access Find My from your hotel. This could be a laptop or iPad you leave at the hotel.
3. Be wary of who you list as your emergency contacts as it appears a thief can view them even if your phone is put in Lost Mode.
4. Be wary of any text messages you receive after your phone is stolen.

Third, my phone's in China...?

It's been over a month and I had long assumed my phone was scrapped. But this morning I got an email saying the Activation Lock on my stolen phone was requesting my password. Huh?

I opened up Find My to see where my phone was and... it's in Shenzhen, China? Wild. I assume this is where they must finally get to scrapping my phone (unless, god forbid, they have some way to crack the activation lock).

Second, the phishing text messages.

On the second day, every one of my emergency contacts received the following text message. I opened up the URL myself and it was a full blown Find My web UI phishing page, which I assume was trying to get my Apple ID password!

For context, if an iPhone is Find My enabled and remotely wiped, it cannot be reactivated without the original Apple ID login. So unless they have my Apple ID, my phone is a brick to them. This was a step up from what I was expecting.

What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?

I recently had my iPhone stolen while on a business trip in London and, through the wonders of Find My, have been able to track its journey in the past few weeks. I found it to be a fascinating insight to what appears to be a rather sophisticated phone theft operation and thought I'd share!

The situation in early evening is even more extreme. The wholesale price for the hour from 6-7 pm in Great Britain is £2,585, that's just over €3,000 per MWh (€3 per kWh).

Tomorrow will be another very expensive day for electricity in Europe. This time, Great Britain stands out with a baseload price of €784 per MWh!

This climate pattern in the tropical Pacific has a big impact on global temperature. We've had 2 years of La Niña now, which kept the global average down, but..

"Tsundoku," the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language

https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/tsundoku.html

#otters #joke

As some of you know, I'm helping to build a free and open-source transcription app for journalists called Stage Whisper.

Unfortunately, our lead front-end dev had to step away from the project a bit, so right now we're looking for some more #Electron, #Reactjs and #javascript devs to contribute: https//stagewhisper.org

Chinese market research company InfoLink estimates 265-300 GW of solar PV has been installed this year, and expects a further growth to 325-359 GW next year, driven by Chinese and European markets!
Highest numbers I've seen around.
https://solarmagazine.nl/nieuws-zonne-energie/i28566/siliciumprijs-daalt-fors-in-2023-mogelijk-tekort-aan-zonnecellen-en-productiecapaciteit-zonnepanelen-overschrijdt-800-gigawattpiek

The NVDE's plan for 5 billion m³ reduction within a year (dated March...) and 10 billion m³ in 4 years can still be a good starting point.
https://www.nvde.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220302-NVDE-Pressrelease-options-for-less-fossil-energy-and-less-dependency-.pdf

Once we have our Dutch national plan on the road, we should team up for an EU-wide gas demand reduction plan. Because we're all in the same energy and climate crises.

Data Brokers are one of the biggest threats to your privacy. Until there are better privacy laws in the US (and I'm not holding my breath), the best you can do is find them and request an opt-out. @yaelwrites put together an excellent repo of the worst offenders. Working your way through this list reduces your attack surface significantly: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

🆕 blog! “How much decentralisation is too much?”

Twitter's over, my dudes! And now everyone is on Mastodon! But Mastodon isn't a site, it is a federated network running an interoperable protocol! Yay for ActivityPub1! Anyway, that means there isn't one Mastodon website. There are many. There is only one Twitter. There is only one Facebook. There is only one In…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/how-much-decentralisation-is-too-much/
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#fediverse #mastodon #ReDeCentralize

When looking at our OpenGL conformance test results, remember that macOS isn't certified itself! Apple's drivers have their own bugs, and we already run some games better than Apple's drivers, like Darwinia 😇

横顔が美しいね

#今日のモナ #cat

我的朋友点心，在广州被“失踪”了

不免让我想到，六四母亲们得有多心碎……

朋友分享了这首诗，我也很喜欢。然后他发现是点心写的，就是被消失的点心。💔

https://bgme.me/@msdarkside/109484495634663939

In other words, ISW also assessing not only that a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire is very unlikely in the near-term (and that Russia is uninterested in one), but also noting that Putin is specifically targeting Western audiences with the pretense that he is interested in one to cause friction, and allege that "peace would be available, if only US/Ukrainian belligerence did not prevent it"