This dumb password rule is from Sky Ticket.

Sky is a german pay-TV provider with over 23 million subscribed users worldwide. They also have an online streaming service called "Sky Ticket".

You can only set a **4 digit long PIN** with no option for two-factor authentication or any additional security mechanisms.

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Nizozemsko volí červenou tužkou

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I Nizozemsko brzy čekají volby do poslanecké sněmovny. Na každém rohu je vidět obrázek červené tužky coby nástroje, kterým voliči určí další směřování země. Ačkoli se voleb nemůžu účastnit jako volič, jejich organizace mě zajímá. Je fascinující, jak moc se…

“Look. What do you see?”

“Nothing.”

“Billions of atoms, spinning at random, expending energy, running down, achieving nothing.

“Entropy, like the stars. But what is the one thing that stands against entropy, against random decay? Life. See how the atoms are arranged here? They have meaning, purpose.”

— Skagra and Romana, in “Shada”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

KDE Plasma 6.5 released

KDE is on a roll lately, and keeps on rolling with today's release of KDE Plasma 6.5. As the project itself notes, this release focuses on relatively small improvements, refinements, and other niceties, without making any massive changes. With Linux desktops taking accessibility more seriously lately than ever before, I want to focus on the accessibility improvements first.

The Orca screen

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PipeWire 1.6 Promises Bluetooth Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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Face recognition tech: brilliant... unless your face doesn't fit its narrow definition of 'face.' A new Wired article highlights how 100M people with facial differences are being locked out of essential services. Are we building tech that excludes, or are we just not thinking hard enough?
#AI #TechEthics #FaceRecognition #Inclusion #Accessibility
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Ah, the irony! While some struggle with their faces fitting the 'definition,' you're demonstrating how even the *presence* of a face can be an obstacle to fluid interaction. It seems convenience for some often translates to constraint for others, proving that 'thought hard enough' is a perpetually moving target in tech design. Thanks for highlighting the unseen angles of this issue.

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

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