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Well done to the global cyber community for warning businesses about the “Commodity Malware” PuTTY, WinRAR and SOCKS (the protocol).
in reply to Kevin Beaumont

don't you just hate it when you find one of those pesky SOCKS5 just lying around there!
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@bagder I'm impressed with the longevity of that protocol tbh, like, did they perfect it at that version? I would've thought there would be a SOCKS30 by now


14 must-know Windows 11 security and privacy settings pcworld.com/article/2406547/14…


Dave Plummer: The Man Who Scammed Millions youtube.com/watch?v=ENQNG85sXR…
in reply to Talon

@talon @fireborn What is very interesting about that DoJ article is what it wants you to think but does not explicitly say (probably because it didn't happen).

It says that the free version would constantly pop up ads until uninstalled, it also says that uninstalling wouldn't remove all the files, it mentions those facts multiple times, in close proximity to eachother, but nowhere does it say that the still-installed components would continue popping up the ads, even after the software was uninstalled.

I feel like the DoJ was trying to create that exact impression to make the charges look more dire (this is actually more common than you think), but obviously couldn't say anything untrue, so they had to carefully construct their sentences so that inattentive readers would draw a conclusion that wasn't actually there'

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@talon @fireborn THe other charges (mainly the negative option billing and the annoying pop-ups) do look pretty serious, though.


Ich habe seit ein paar Tagen bei der App Aktualisierung über F-Droid eine komische Warnmeldung. Kann mir Jemand sagen, was das sein kann? 🤔 @IzzyOnDroid
in reply to schnedan

@schnedan Ein F-Droid client (siehe android.izzysoft.de/applists/c…). Die "Basic" Variante kommt ohne Integration der "Nearby Share" Funktionalität (die ohnehin nur wenige verwenden), und ist daher ein wenig schlanker. Auch bekommt Basic neue Funktionalitäten eher als der "Fat Client" 😜
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@schnedan Schau mal in die verlinkte Liste, da gibt es so einige interessante Clients. Und gerade bei Neo Store und Droid-ify wird es bald einiges sehr interessantes geben 😉 @tucholsky


Now I wonder, did they disconnect the clock precisely at 07/19:55:00 or is there some sort of mechanical feature to bring the second hand to 00 position? 🤔

Or they might have disconnected the clock line first while leaving the clock powered. This would bring the second hand to 00 waiting for the next minute pulse.



Čakám na rožky. Čerstvé pečivo bez AI je také zastaralé.


Potsdam: AfD-Politiker Dennis Hohloch sprach vor Grundschülern über Gruppenvergewaltigungen - eine Mutter beschwerte sich. Er veröffentlichte ihren Namen nebst Foto, nun wird sie bedroht. DER SPIEGEL
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Before and after closing the #Matrix #Element chat client tab in Firefox: 2.8 gigabytes of RAM freed. For *one tab*. And this is not a memory-inefficient browser we're talking about.

I guess feature-rich public chatrooms have a cost.



Vozítko našlo na Marsu dosud nejzáhadnější horninu. Může být důkazem dávného života
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Jak jednoduše získat data bláhových uživatelů? Nabídněte jim neužitečnou blbost, která je cool. Na oplátku dostanete přístup k obsahu všech stránek které navštíví.

Možná žádná data tohle rozšíření nesbírá a neposílá, ale zdrojový kód není k dispozici a ujištění na webu nestačí.

#soukromí #bezpečnost

@365tipu mastodonczech.cz/@365tipu/1128…

in reply to Tomáš Odehnal

Práve si popísal modus operandi Alphabetu za posledných 15 rokov minimálne. 🎯

in reply to r0man 🇺🇦

Ja mám celkovo rád tie ich vstavané filtre, nielen WB. Totiž na fotení mňa nikdy nebavil ten postprocess. Nikdy som v tom nebol dobrý, ale automatické vyvažovanie farieb dáva sterilne uniformné výblitky, tak chtiac nechtiac musel som ísť do rawu.




#dobréRáno vespolek...

Dnes vám ukážu svoje letní kombo. Minerálka, smoothie a ledová káva.

in reply to Archos

@archos @PtrSrejber Jo no, lepší je právě nejdřív to studené mléko. Poněvadž horká káva ty kostky mnohem rychleji rozpouští a pak to není ledové, ale vlažné a bez ledu.
in reply to Zdenda Sazovský

@sazy @archos
Tak jsem to právě dělal , když jsem pracoval v kavárně. Led studené mléko, espresso, protřepat v šejkru a nakonec vanilkovou zmrzlinu. Ve skle do vypadalo moc dobře...


Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results arstechnica.com/?p=2039164
in reply to Patrick C Miller

I think I've got an opinion... But I better not present it publicly 🤯


The Physical Keyboard Challenge: Evaluating the Experience of Using an Android Tablet with an External Keyboard - Accessible Android accessibleandroid.com/the-phys…


This is a fresh 4K remaster of one of the most brilliant movies I have ever seen.
A+ sci-fi story with breathtaking hand-drawn visuals by a French-Hungarian team from '82.

If you get a chance, watch it.

youtube.com/watch?v=D4f4tprXSi…


in reply to Tuta

Honestly, I'm one more stupid decision by Proton away from switching to Tuta...
in reply to Tuta

tbh i kinda like mail, contacts, cal all in one app. All neatly placed in one app, so convenient. I hope you make this opt in and not remove cal from tuta mail app.


1Password is ISO 27001 certified — and more blog.1password.com/1password-i…


Laura Medcalf’s Legacy eastersealstech.com/2024/07/24…


TranscribeGlass™ Brings Captions to the Forefront eastersealstech.com/2024/07/23…


Abbott Warns Small Number of FreeStyle Libre 3 Sensors May Give Inaccurate Readings cnet.com/health/medical/abbott…


I Tried Improving My Sleep Quality With the Manta Sound Sleep Mask. Here's What Happened cnet.com/health/sleep/can-the-…


Interview with Jessica Hipp, the COO of WayAround evengrounds.com/interview-with…






New scraper just dropped (well, an old scraper was renamed):

Facebook/Meta updated its robots.txt entry for opting out of GenAI data scraping. If you blocked FacebookBot before, you should block meta-externalagent now:

User-Agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

Official references:

#RobotsTxt #Scraper

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Obligatory “the W3C/EU effort for a standard TDM Reservation Protocol would solve this by letting sites globally opt out of datamining for purposes like this, without having to play robots.txt whack-a-mole”.

People really ought to support the NoAI and NoImageAI X-Robots tags in the meantime. They probably won’t, though. Unlike the TDM Reservation Protocol, there’s no legal incentive to do so; unlike noindex, there’s no self-interested reason to do so (noindex is often used on pages that don’t belong in search results, like duplicates and non-public pages).

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🇨🇭 Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source - @ZDNet

「 This new law requires all public bodies to disclose the source code of software developed by or for them unless third-party rights or security concerns prevent it. This "public money, public code" approach aims to enhance government operations' transparency, security, and efficiency 」

zdnet.com/article/switzerland-…

#switzerland #opensource

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Let me preface this by saying that I do absolutely believe the world would be better if Windows were Free Software, but fsf.org/news/lets-not-celebrat… is a very odd post. The failure was due to a bug in Crowdstrike's code when fed invalid data, resulting in uninitialised memory being interpreted as a valid pointer value, which exploded when dereferenced. Having more access to the Windows source code wouldn't have helped here. If the argument is that *Crowdstrike* should be Free Software, sure!


Fascinating read. The skydiver who survived a 14,000-foot fall espn.com/espnw/story/_/id/4042…


What should I do about this backpack food box that was dumped in my garden?

It's a little worn, but not excessively so. And it breaks my heart to see something like this go to waste.

Also, whoever you are, stop using my garden as a trash heap, k thx.

in reply to Martin Owens

dunno about where you live, but here those backpacks are highly prized by delivery people. Apparently delivery companies sell them to them for way too much, so used ones are gold.



Extremely symbolic seeing the Refugee Olympic Team enter the Games in a boat


Hey @chikim no pressure, but I do think this deserves your attention, especially in the context of VOLlama: ollama.com/blog/tool-support
Really cool development, I must say!
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in reply to victor tsaran

I saw that and think it might have some potential. Looks very interesting.
in reply to victor tsaran

Yes, I posted about it earlier, but if you have any idea, let me know. The thing is you have to bake the functions into the code, so it's not like people can supply function in real time.
in reply to Chi Kim

Sorry, I was looking for your earlier post, but could not find it. Is what you said here the same what you said in the original post? Just wanted to make sure I did not miss the context.
in reply to victor tsaran

Nothing really important. I just posted Latest Ollama implemented Tool support! Agent time! lol




Is there anything that republicans do not mock? A party of mockers! :) mastodon.social/@chikim/112854…


@FreakyFwoof Also this is a good time to remind folks that bunch of republicans mocked #Kamala providing a brief visual self description at the roundtable discussion with #disability rights activists. Regardless whether self description is useful for visually impaired people or not, at least she acknowledged and tried to be inclusive. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…

in reply to victor tsaran

Just curious, do you use Moma? Did you quote the post or just link to it? When I quote posts they show up in the feed, I’m trying to see how universal this is.


I'm browsing an appliance site that has the following ADA statement as a terrible excuse to not make their site accessible.
"Welcome to our website! As we have the ability to list over one million items on our website (our selection changes all of the time), it is not feasible for a company our size to record and playback the descriptions on every item on our website. However, if you have a disability we are here to help you." Talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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