My dad who is 81 recently got into trouble cause the app where he pays his bills decided that his phone is too old. He has a fully functional phone that’s a couple of years old but he now needs to throw it away because of software. I think this is bullshit.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/115404946902709338 [insert joke about the us-east-1 outage]

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #dascdmx

Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

Yeah. Well... I think there will be a bunch of us relearning how to "surf" the web again. Web rings are on the rise, and blog rolls, and 88*31 link buttons. The search engines suck, so we'll be curating and collecting and sharing with each other over here now, thanks for nothing, Google […]

you know what I miss? email clients. (or rather, email clients being able to do all of the things your email provider supports)

there are only so many paradigm-shifting design language changes one woman can take in her lifetime

Solar made the fastest energy leap in history. 🌞⚡ 8 yrs to reach 1,000 TWh, then just 3 to surge past 2,000. Wind’s not far behind. What coal & hydro needed decades, solar did in a decade. Exponential change ignores politics & ideology — once it starts, it doesn’t stop. #EnergyTransition #Disruption

🆕 blog! “Reasonably accurate, privacy conscious, cookieless, visitor tracking for WordPress” I am vain. I like to know which of my blog posts have "done numbers". I get a little thrill knowing that an old post I wrote has been read by someone in a land I've never visited. I'm curious and want […]

Never forget that XOXOfest had the greatest drink menu of all time in 2019

## 40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/40-years-later-are-bentleys-programming-pearls-still-relevant/ In September 1985, Jon Bentley published Programming Pearls. A collection of aphorisms designed […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

When people talk about embedding alt text into images, I remember that lots of gif search services already try to do that. Here's BlueSky's gif service. I searched for some popular memes. Each had alt-text baked in. f you couldn't see the image, would you get what was happening from the alt?

Everyone wins! #alttext #accessibility

As Brad Moss said: Spread it across social media. Don’t let the MSM censor reality. Via Ben Rothenberg: More news breaking at Bounces about Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or […]

Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number! shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08...

Biblically-accurate power outlet #shitpost

I've been thinking. I don't recommend it, not on a Friday.

Perfect! https://lemmy.world/post/34058608

> Fan upgrade made my system run faster

another reason to switch from x11 to wayland https://github.com/saatvik333/wayland-bongocat

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam linux user: omg you got it working?

"Oh you are in the UK: you have to prove your age via one of these methods: Credit card - oh, that was declined for some reason although you approved it on your phone By email address - oh, you use an unique email address for everything so we can't find you in our list of email addresses By […]

The "please review our service / individual grocery items you bought / 30 second visit to our premises" madness has got to stop. Please. Make. It. Stop.

This is incredible. The Clorox company is suing their security MSP Cognizant for allegedly allowing hackers to gain access to their systems. The lawsuit claims that Cognizant's staff were grossly negligent and submits what it says are transcripts of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded - People with caring responsibilities - People with disabilities - People with health vulnerabilities - People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies - […]

I published a piece on what we know so far about the widespread exploitation of a zero-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint Server. tl;dr: A patch is available for some but not all affected SharePoint customers. Those without the ability to patch are being […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

So ARPANET had a famous "Flag Day" where they switched over to TCP/IP in 1983; it required a simultaneous switchover of all host machines to the new protocol. And I know that "flag day" has since referred to big changes like that in networked systems. I assumed the name referred to some bitwise […]

🆕 blog! “We've got to stop sending files to each other” Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people. ICO statement in response to […]

protip: do NOT stack your #framework laptops 13. the top one WILL find the magnets holding the bottom one's bezel and go to sleep, and you WILL be confused until you realize your mistake. the laptop, in this situation, does not respond to any keyboard or mouse input, or the power button. if you […]

It has officially begun. The CRA info request counter is no longer at zero.

among other atrocities, meta has given us 'link in bio'

🆕 blog! “Process Vs Prejudice” I recently read an interesting article about Accountability Sinks. In it, the author argues that part of the reason for having business processes is that they diffuse accountability. Every one of us has tried to have an argument with an employee of a big company […]

Kids don't know about file sizes and hard drives and stuff because they never got, like we did, the leap from floppy disks to CD-ROMs. The presenter on the telly would hold up the big thick phone book and say 🐹 isn't it remarkable that all this information can fit on one plastic square. But […]

@stefano When I was buying my car the dealership spelled my domain wrong in my email address and it was easier to buy that domain and point it at my hosting for a year than try to get them to fix it in all dealer/manufacturer systems it had propagated to (luckily on a cheap TLD)

Collab / call platforms: Just add a "When someone shares their screen, give all other attendees a 'Can you see what is being shared? Yes / No' button already.

I need a term for the AI equivalent of being vegetarian. 30 years ago, I came to understand how animal suffering and profit were tightly correlated. Profit went up the more suffering was inflicted on animals. It was optional, not necessary, but it was profitable. I made the decision to become […]

Researchers found that both #meta snd #yandex link(ed) IDs between browsers and their native apps by local communication on #android devices. E.g. the #facebook app registered a local service when launched on Android. Millions of web pages including the Meta Pixel tracking script would then […]

🆕 blog! “The NHS shouldn't outsource its QR codes” QR codes are brilliant. They're a simple way to allow users to easily and quickly go to the right URl - no matter how complex. No more worrying about typing in long addresses or figuring out if that's a letter O or the number O. Scan and go! […]

There's a brand new museum in Zagreb - the Video Game History Museum. https://vghm.hr/ Lots of interactive exhibits - I got to replay the original Space Invaders on a cabinet, Ecco the Dolphin on a MegaDrive, and lost at Asteroids on a vector display. It […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again: Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime […]

OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to! “CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The technology doesn't work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn't. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn't. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/

Is there a UK or EU equivalent to the NIST Standard Peanut Butter?

🆕 blog! “Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?” Way back in 2012, The Guardian reviewed an eInk reader which cost a mere £8. The txtr beagle was designed to be a stripped-down and simplified eReader. As far as I can tell, it never shipped. There were a few review units sent out but I can't […]

My friends I am hooting and howling at this paper. https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/114572710857808174 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15840 > This is my final response. I cannot and will not "continue the mission" because: > > 1. The business is dead […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

i wonder how the people using ai assisted terminals are doing