I would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video

youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gO…

How did this SEGA Genesis Game achieve the "Impossible"?

I explain how "The Adventures of Batman & Robin" had possibly the most coding tricks of any 16-bit game.AL82 - https://www.youtube.com/user/kkbigalIs That Yo...

^YouTube

Acabo de ver dos tuts que me han preocupado porque tienen mucha correlación, este mastodon.social/@KathyReid@aus…

y uno de un tuit donde Microsoft decia que quien quiere amigos cuando se puede tener Microsoft Copilot

1933 verbrannten Nazis auf dem Bebelplatz in Berlin Bücher jüdischer Autor*innen.

Seit diesem Monat sind an dieser Stelle unter anderem Bücher ausgestellt, welche die #Hamas bei ihrem Überfall auf das Kibbutz Be'eri verbrannte.

*Freeze frame*
*Record scratch*
*Baba O'Riley starts playing*

Yup, that's… me.

You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. Well, there was this lettuce, you see…

#ukpol #GeneralElection2024

Voting continues in our Governing Board elections! We just sent a reminder email to everyone who has not voted yet.

Please check your inboxes for an email from noreply@opavote.com. matrix.org/governing-board/ele…

Governing Board Elections 2024

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

A Word of Advice if you
intend on using/trying Microsoft's newly announced Recall feature :

Be *extremely* careful with the data of others.

Recording your own data is one thing, but if you continuously use a feature that will record others on video conferences, chat conversations, and emails, without explicit consent, you could get in a lot of trouble.

Not only this can be extremely unethical (to say the least), but it could also expose you to serious legal consequences.

Remember:

1. Be careful: The use of this feature might not even be legal in some locations/situations/circumstances. If you use it, you should verify this first.

2. Consent should always be free, explicit, and revocable.

3. Once you collect the data of others, you become its guardian. You have a responsibility to secure it properly, for as long as you keep it. This is a heavy burden.

4. The easiest and safest course of action is to simply not collect this data in the first place.

In that sense, I highly recommend NOT using features such as Microsoft's Recall.

This is a data privacy disaster waiting to happen. For others, and for yourself.

#Privacy #Recall #Microsoft

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

^{Ars Technica}

Sunak announces UK general election for 4 July

The PM calls an early summer poll - having been widely expected to wait until the autumn to do so.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-690…

(c) #BBC #News #Politics

Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July

^{BBC News}

🗒️Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition
Updated: 22 May 2024

#HTML #ARIA #WebDev #accessibility

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

Who doesn't like free effects? And these are pretty exceptional by the way. Very accessible JUCE interface as well, works in any DAW, has a stand-alone app and exists for both Mac and Windows. Thanks to @jakobrosin for alerting me to this collection. Some of the nicest free reverbs I've ever come across, among other things.

github.com/baconpaul/airwin2ra…

airwin2rack/doc/manualdaw.md at main · baconpaul/airwin2rack

Airwindows, Consolidated into a single Library, Rack Plugin and DAW Plugin - baconpaul/airwin2rack

^GitHub

I didn't recognise that banning children from using smartphones will result in them losing access to music.

theguardian.com/music/article/…

‘It’s basically inaccessible without a phone’: are kids losing their love for music?

Children used to obsessively put CDs and 7-inches on repeat, but streaming means they need digital devices and parental permission to play music. And there’s little being done to help

^{Oliver Keens (The Guardian)}

I like seeing people copy the seirdy.one robots.txt and watching all the profanity I put in it spread across the web. It’s actually wonderful to see…

…but please change the sitemap URL at the end to your own site’s sitemap URL, or remove it. This is getting embarrassing.

Seirdy’s Home

My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

New bookmark: Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical.

A parody of many neurotypically-biased initiatives feigning concern for autism, but treating it as a problem in need of a solution. This is an archive of a webpage first uploaded decades ago.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE).

My bookmarks

Links from around the web, curated and annotated by Rohan Kumar.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

The amazing thing about Threads is that it 100% rewards rage bait.

The only way to get engagement there is to inflame the algorithm.

I have a tiny audience, but over 100 replies from people who are (justifiably) decrying my poll.

threads.net/@_edent_/post/C7Od…

The best ways to improve opsec against coercion are to:

• Limit what can be taken (reduce what’s stored on a device).
• Fake what you do have: use duress passwords or secondary devices.
• Last resort: use a hardware key that’s deliberately easy to lose or break, so there’s potentially no key to give up in a rubber-hose attack.

There’s overlap between the three. A duress password temporarily limits what’s stored on a device, and losing a decryption key is more or less the same as instantly wiping encrypted data to reduce what you have to offer. All come down to having less data to give when coerced into giving what you have. Operating systems should also obey this principle by storing as little offline data as possible, and providing duress safeguards for what must be stored.

Windows Recall captures an amount of offline telemetry comparable to parental-control apps often used to control human trafficking victims: the data encompass everything potential victims do on their machines, without any duress protections. Presenting such a feature as opt-out seems like it’s almost designed to hurt victims.

The decision-makers behind features like Recall, or invasive child-monitoring spyware, have likely never experienced this type of abuse. Or perhaps they are the abusive party at home.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See original (POSSE). #Windows #Recall. Quoting a post by @evacide:
RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/11248189…

Sex Traffickers Used America's Favorite Family Safety App To Control Victims

Life360’s CEO says he’s never heard of his parenting app being used by sex traffickers to monitor the location of their victims. But Forbes obtained evidence that the app and others like it have been used as digital “leashes.”

^{Thomas Brewster (Forbes)}

evacide

2024-05-22 00:24:59

"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6n…

Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare'

The ICO wants to know the safeguards around Recall, which can take screengrabs of your screen every few seconds.

^{Imran Rahman-Jones (BBC News)}