What do you want? You don't want to take over the universe, do you? No... you wouldn't know what to do with it, beyond shout at it.

— The Doctor, in “The Pirate Planet”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

wsj.com/politics/elections/vp-…
techmeme.com/240726/p2#a240726…

Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more

By Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

^Techmeme

Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag (Victoria Song/The Verge)

theverge.com/24205156/samsung-…
techmeme.com/240725/p21#a24072…

Samsung Galaxy Ring review: keeping you in Samsung’s orbit

The $399.99 Samsung Galaxy Ring isn’t a revolutionary smart ring, but it does a good job of convincing you to stay within Samsung’s gadget ecosystem.

^{Victoria Song (The Verge)}

Popredná ruská ekonómka Valentina Bondarenková zomrela po páde z okna

Ruské úrady údajne nenašli žiadne dôkazy o násilnom zápase alebo kriminálnom motíve. l.rockosbasilisk.com/5ajXm

Popredná ruská ekonómka Valentina Bondarenková zomrela po páde z okna

^{TASR (Aktuality.sk)}

“He says he doesn't know who he is or why he has come.”

“Well, I admire a man with an open mind.”

— Ruther and Shardovan, in “Castrovalva”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

Link: blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesign…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

^{Keith Broni (Emojipedia)}

Have you ever checked your weather app and wondered what 'chance of rain' really means? ☔️ Does it mean 20% of the area will get wet, or raindrops will be 20% smaller than usual? Or something completely different?

Watch this video to learn more 👇

🐦🔗 twitter.com/metoffice/status/1…
🕐 24/07 15:11

CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that affected 8.5M Windows devices was deployed into production due to "a bug in the Content Validator" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

theregister.com/2024/07/24/cro…
techmeme.com/240724/p5#a240724…

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

One solid hope's worth a cartload of certainties.

— The Doctor, in “Warrior's Gate”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billi…
#theregister #IT
go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…

Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal, Zachary Liu, Konrad Kollnig
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14938

arXiv:2407.14938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive. Since 2013, Google has therefore allowed users to limit ad tracking on Android via system settings. Further, under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), apps must honor opt-outs from ad tracking under the Global Privacy Control (GPC). The efficacy of these two methods to limit ad tracking has not been studied in prior work. Our legal and technical analysis details how the GPC applies to mobile apps and how it could be integrated directly into Android, thereby developing a reference design for GPC on Android. Our empirical analysis of 1,896 top-ranked Android apps shows that both the Android system-level opt-out and the GPC signal rarely restrict ad tracking. In our view, deleting the AdID and opting out under the CCPA has the same meaning. Thus, the current AdID setting and APIs should be evolved towards GPC and integrated into Android's Privacy Sandbox.

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

^arXiv.org

No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1

A story that's been persistently making the rounds since the CrowdStrike event is that while several airline companies were affected in one way or another, Southwest Airlines escaped the mayhem because they were still using windows 3.1. It's a great story that fits the current zeitgeist about technology and its role in society, un

osnews.com/story/140301/no-sou…

#Windows

It's more serious than death, Mr Stevenson. He's changing form.

— The Doctor, in “The Seeds of Doom”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

TIL that a twitch streamer and youtuber by the name of Masayoshi decided to test something out on his livestream a year ago telling people in chat to type “im 12” and, long story short over 100 twitch accounts were perma banned for “being underage” thanks to twitch’s bots thinking that were underage

youtube.com/watch?v=eYf60wpdJA…
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com…

Yes, yess, yeeessss....

mujrozhlas.cz/rapi/view/episod…

Harrisová místo Bidena? Má šanci oslovit ženy a minority i ve státech, kde Biden ztrácel, říká amerikanista Beneš

Joe Biden oznámil, že nebude usilovat o znovuzvolení na amerického prezidenta. Od té chvíle dostala jeho Demokratická strana od dárců v přepočtu víc jak miliardu korun.

^MůjRozhlas

“At the season when ice floods swamped the pasturelands, we herded the mammoths sunwards to find new grazing.”

“Tricky things, mammoths.”

— Nimrod and Inspector Mackenzie, in “Ghost Light”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

• Buon giorno (33%, 1 vote)
• Salaam (33%, 1 vote)
• Buna ziua (0%, 0 votes)
• добры дзень (33%, 1 vote)

This dumb password rule is from SecureAccess Washington.

Central authentication for all Washington State services
(DoL, ESD, etc).

Password must have *exactly* 10 characters, but form happily
lets you enter more and only throws errors after submit,
providing no useful feedback.

dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/se…

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

SecureAccess Washington - Dumb Password Rules

Central authentication for all Washington State services (DoL, ESD, etc). Password must have *exactly* 10 characters, but form happily lets you enter more and only throws errors after submit, providing no useful feedback.

^{dumbpasswordrules.com}

“You always did lack style.”

“Style is hardly the prime characteristic of your new regeneration.”

“Oh, do stop squabbling and get on with it.”

— The Master, the Doctor, and the Rani, in “Mark of the Rani”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

Choose your next words carefully, Doctor; they could be your last.

— The Borad, in “Timelash”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

This is no madness; 'tis England.

— Lady Peinforte, in “Silver Nemesis”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

Ace, I'm getting too old for this sort of thing. He's all yours from now on... I'm going home to Doris.

— The Brigadier, in “Battlefield”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Link: github.com/veggiedefender/open…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

GitHub - veggiedefender/open-and-shut: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut - veggiedefender/open-and-shut

^GitHub

All The Technology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predicted Correctly

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most inventive and whacky sci-fi properties around, and it's predicted quite a few real-world technologies. #press

slashgear.com/1620490/hitchhik…

All The Technology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predicted Correctly

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most inventive and whacky sci-fi properties around, and it's predicted quite a few real-world technologies.

^{Nathan P. Gibson (SlashGear)}