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• Post #3628169

  RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873103458200655 Separate question: Why in the world would logging in to Snapchat, Apple and Facebook accounts share and result in storing (associated with that activity) of some Microsoft-internal global device identifier? #privacy

• Post #3626905

  Earth will be at aphelion in about five and a half hours (at 17:31 UTC). That's when we start going downhill, back again toward the Sun. Just like when you are at the top of a rollercoaster ride. Enjoy the ride! #aphelion

• Post #3626767

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116872704717933207 And when Swedish media reported on this, one word they used for them was... Wait for it... SPACEBALLS. No, seriously! "Rymdbollar" in Swedish. #SpaceDebris

• Post #3380005

  Or for that matter the list of who someone blocks. If someone were to DM me demanding that I block (or for that matter unblock) someone, I probably would block the person doing that. Who I block is no one else's business. At least Mastodon allows hiding follows and followers. @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange

• Post #3337489

  A Fedi post, linking to a Fedi post, which contains a tumblr screenshot, of a Fedi post. Are we coming full circle?

• Post #3332752

  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116759868416707730

• Post #3332742

  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116759868416707730

• Post #3331495

  Facebook AI-generating answers based on peoples' public Facebook posts? And people thought that Google indiscriminately pulling stuff from Reddit for their AI was bad.

• Post #3316786

  #ScribesAndMakers 14 June Most people [oppose] gatekeeping, but (aside from [keeping out] AI garbage), [should there be] any form of "quality control" [for] self-published work? I have read at least one trad-published recent book by an established author which was, for lack of a better word, crap. Well past just "I didn't like the story". I have read quite a few indie authors' books which have been great. "Quality control" or gatekeeping is clearly not th...

• Post #3316769

  #ScribesAndMakers 6/14 Most people are opposed to gatekeeping, but (aside from the obvious need to keep out AI garbage), do you think there should be any form of "quality control" [for] self-published work? I have read at least one trad-published recent book by an established author which was, for lack of a better word, crap. Well past just "I didn't like the story". I have read quite a few indie authors' books which have been great. "Quality control" or...

• Post #3197410

  @patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social Fair point, I suppose. Not the answer I was hoping for to be honest but at least it's an answer. Thank you!

• Post #3196409

  Since `@media aural` and `@media speech` are deprecated in CSS since at least Media Queries level 4: What is the current preferred way to detect (preferably in CSS) when a user is using text-to-speech output so that document elements that have no relevance or can't be rendered aurally can be hidden/skipped? I've looked through the MQ4 media features list and don't see anything relevant; but surely I can't be the only one who wants to do this? #CSS #WebDev #accessibility #AskFe...

• Post #3102407

  @reverseics@infosec.exchange "Situation normal, all fucked up".

• Post #3101806

  @sundogplanets@mastodon.social I'm with @_elena@mastodon.social on Linux ranking high on the list. Maybe systemd specifically. Oh and generative AI. If you manage to get all of those into one post, you will almost certainly simultaneously endear and enrage roughly half of Fedi.

• Post #3097950

  RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116692225180685734 This is similar to, but distinct from, the argument I hade a year and a half ago with respect to switching from paid proprietary to free software and putting the money toward the developers of that software. https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/microsoft-365-switch-donate/ In this case: it doesn't take a large portion of the money to make a big difference if the total amount is insanely huge. In that case: it doesn't take much mo...

• Post #3095713

  @AzzuenBenAslan@meow.social Something to try: get to the point where the main window *should* show up but doesn't. Press Alt+spacebar. Does the window control menu show up?

• Post #3076472

  @forst@mastodon.social Well, it doesn't look like it's DNS at least, so that doesn't leave many options. 😉 The site loads for me though, although only that one.

• Post #3075957

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116687014689391748 The Mastodon 4.6 series bumps the node.js requirement to >= 22, per the 4.6.0-beta.1 pre-release release notes on Microsoft Github. Debian Trixie is at version 20, Forky is currently at version 24. Guess no 4.6 for those of us who run Debian Stable until next year or so when Forky makes Stable. #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

• Post #3073812

  @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Same with IP addresses and to a lesser extent MAC/EUI addresses. There are three IPv4 and two IPv6 ranges specifically reserved for the purpose.

• Post #3027351

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116675091003987420 Cute idea. Now, let's see. Per their privacy policy, among else, they collect one's full name, email address, phone number (shared with Google for account validation), date of birth, and a "stable account identifier" from either Apple or Google. They require using either Apple or Google to sign in. They require collecting precise location data. Messages are readable in plain text by the service. And more. Yet "r...

• Post #3026552

  WTAF?! Getting locked out of your cloud-based password manager would be really quite inconvenient. Being locked out of it by the provider because of actions taken by an adversarial actor against your account would be rather worse! If you haven't, then please consider your backup plan for if you ever get locked out of the one service that lets you into for all intents and purposes everything else. Do you even have a current backup? https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/01/password-...

• Post #3022269

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• Post #3021664

  Någon som springer och köper lite halsmedicin till Fredrik innan kl 15? 😉 📯 #Sverige #HesaFredrik #VMAtest

• Post #2975206

  @_the_cloud@mastodon.social The techs would know after the second time to go check the ends first, thus not leaving people time for a coffee break, so I suppose technically wrong? 🙂 @rotan@mastodon.ie

• Post #2918632

  Fun tidbit; I don't know if it's the case elsewhere but at least here, to get a pilot's radio license for hot air ballooning, a person has to demonstrate proficiency with phraseology involved in taxiing on an airport, clearances in controlled airspace, etc. Not because they are likely to ever use it. Just because that way it's the same for everyone, no matter the type of aircraft involved. @chrisjrn@social.coop @xssfox@cloudisland.nz

• Post #2864790

  @DXC_0@infosec.exchange Certainly Microsoft owning Github has no bearing on Microsoft banning from Github someone who uses Github to publish security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. I mean, that would be utterly absurd. Sarcasm mode off. Computer, send toot.

• Post #2734737

  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum seems relevant and has a handful of links too.

• Post #2723376

  @xgranade@wandering.shop There's https://curlie.org/en and https://kagi.com/smallweb that I can think of right now. Certainly Curlie falls in the same niche as the original Yahoo web directory. Also https://internetphonebook.net/ but that's not exactly the same thing.

• Post #2474379

  @fennek@bark.lgbt Glad you got it fixed! Hope you had a good backup. 🙂 💻 🐈 @keeya@icy.arcticfluff.eu

• Post #2280467

  @ryanc@infosec.exchange Guilty as charged, I suppose. 🙂