yeroc @yeroc@social.cleverlibre.org

"Here’s a brief list of some things I’ve learned with the help of Flipper Zero this week: Some animal microchips will tell you the body temperature of your pet. My neighbor’s car tire pressure sensor leaks data to anyone in range of the signal. My iPhone blasts my face with infrared signals every few seconds. My home security system has built-in signal-jamming detection. WIRED’s office bathroom has a soap dispenser that broadcasts whether it needs a refill."

My colleague Dhruv Mehrotra has been playing with the Flipper Zero for the last few days

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-flipper-zero-tiktok/

#FlipperZero #hacking #data #news #WIRED

I look into rowing. Suddenly I get ads for rowing machines on Instagram.

That’s just creepy, and if you try to defend this, you are creepy.

Our #mastodon4j fork get's some traction. We've started to create some issues, defined a milestone 2.0.0 release, and continue to define what needs to go into our first library release. If you guys have any input or are willing to contribute, then checkout this #GitHub repo here:

https://github.com/andregasser/mastodon4j

Every boost on this post is welcome 🙂

@grumpygamer naomi wu said recently something really funny on that topic

Just fyi. #openinformation

I find this letter from John Carmack interesting in that it summarizes a sentiment I've heard from literally all of the highest impact/most effective people I've talked to at large companies:

You can make a big difference, but you're constantly fighting against a self-sabotaging organization.

I know some fairly high impact people who aren't bothered by this kind of thing; those people tend to say things like "I try not to care too much" or "I used to get too frustrated, so now I [do less].

Today on @Wired I argue that we, by which I mean narrowly the media, but more broadly everybody, have fallen into the same trap with Elon Musk as we did with Donald Trump. We've played into their strategy of making the story about them, which means that media coverage serves to feed the pro- and anti- camps and obscure what's actually going on instead of illuminating—a, simple, stupid hack that turns us into the opposite of what we're supposed to be.
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-elon-musk-media/

Folks, if you are in the #TwitterMigration process, check out https://www.movetodon.org/

It is an awesome and extremely easy-to-use tool to find folks from your Twitter network on M@stodon and follow them. I just followed 200+ folks 😂😂😂

Huge shoutout to @Tibor
#twitterpurge

my favourite blogging trick is to write the headings so that they tell the story on their own. What's the most important idea? Put in the heading!

I don't see a lot of other people doing this, but IMO it makes blog posts a LOT easier to skim if the reader is busy

Throughout my career, I have believed that it is essential to dig into mysterious pathological systems behavior even if it seems somewhat tangential, for it can often reveal problems deep in the system that can have much more damaging presentation.

For a vivid example of pathological behavior, a deep underlying problem, and (especially) the methodology to connect one to the other, read this extraordinary analysis from @oxidecomputer engineer Dave Pacheco:

https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/issues/1146

"Twitter Inc. has suspended an account on its platform that tracked the private jet of Elon Musk, the social-media giant’s new owner."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-suspends-account-that-tracked-elon-musks-private-jet-11671036887

Announcing the release of MuseScore 4!

The largest release I have ever worked on. Features a new audio engine; new orchestral library; VSTi support; an engraving overhaul; a new UI and hundreds of feature improvements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc08RhOQDR4

Download https://musescore.org/en

It looks like Apple is finally going to allow third-party app stores, which is a pretty big win. Why are they doing it? Upcoming EU requirements that will hit in 2024.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe

Audio clip of Premier Danielle Smith telling us why this Sovereignty Act is so important... To fight paper straws 🙄
#ableg #abpoli

I spent an afternoon testing this JNA-based (Java Native Access) webcam capture driver. I got video preview and QR-code capture working in #JavaFX on macOS 13/Apple Silicon. This is pre-release, but looks very promising!

https://github.com/eduramiba/webcam-capture-driver-native

cc: @johanvos

Using Shared Memory-Mapped Files in Java https://bit.ly/3OO9yMI by @PeterLawrey #Java

You know what they apparently say now: a pound of the cure is worth not having to endure an ounce of the prevention.

New blog post, "Understanding A Protocol", in which I discuss my experience implementing ActivityPub and the next steps for @takahe.

https://aeracode.org/2022/12/05/understanding-a-protocol/

@ct_bergstrom Maybe we need to start setting exams where we tell students to use the cheat-bots and paste in the answers, but then the actual exam is to GRADE THE BOT’S ANSWERS and explain which answers are wrong and why 🤣