szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

@Mrfunkedude Same is true for almost any car newer than 2016. Do Not give permission to your car to access your contacts.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Nothing quite angers me like using an app that recommends to me people that I “should” know.

Which means that person probably allowed the app access to their contacts.

Giving an app access to your contacts is like spreading a venereal disease. Now this app knows who I am connected to, and can probably figure out why and how. That’s more information than I wanted to give them.

Don’t give apps access to your contacts. It’s not just your privacy that’s at stake.

#Meme printers

At #37c3 they have IRC, and Matrix for text and for voice they setup their own LTE/2G/3G/SIP/DECT network where you bring whatever phone-like device and pick a 4 digit phone number.

Meanwhile in the USA for #defcon they just paid Discord money and told everyone to accept their privacy policy, and even the DC Privacy Village asks people to sign up for Slack and Google.

People ask why I fly to CCC from the USA. It is because that is the closest place to find a thriving hacker culture.

ZUOP nie ma w fediverse, ale nam bez wątpienia też życzą, więc przekazuję.

Here’s the last sketch of 2023 and probably last in the series. Do you recognize the person. I think you do if you know him, I spent a bit longer on this one ;)

Today, my wife went on her first solo trip on the cargo bike. We've had the bike since February 2023, but she's been scared to death of handling it out in real (bike) traffic.

When she returned after ~2 hours of riding she simply couldn't stop talking about how she was completely high with the sensation and all the options that had now been opened up to her. And she had taken like 25 photos of her and the bike in different scenic spots, of course 😁

#biketooter #cargobike

Potrzebny jest mi jeden mały magnes do trzymania bitów, więc kupiłem zestaw 100 szt
Będę mógł omagnesować sobie pół mieszkania
#kapitalizm

”On average, approximately 1000 times as many birds were in flight on New Year's Eve than on other nights. We found that fireworks-related disturbance decreased with distance, most strongly in the first five kilometers, but overall flight activity remained elevated tenfold at distances up to about 10 km.”

Hoekstra ym. 2023: Fireworks disturbance across bird communities https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.2694

The sucky thing about working in infosec is that you can't talk about most of the wildest, coolest projects you end up getting pulled into. It's paid work done under NDAs.

The train research done by @redford, @q3k, and @mrtick is a prime example of something that usually wouldn't see the light of day - and I'm really happy that they were able to buck the trend:

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

Can't fuck off soon enough.

#2023review

Can we please stop calling them "ecosystems" (which implies complexity and mutualism and competition between a diversity of living things)

How about "software prisons"