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I published a new report that shows how today's cybersecurity and risk profiling systems are turning into employee mass surveillance and predictive policing tools.

Based on log, device and network data,
they let companies monitor almost everything employees do or say.

We need a serious debate about what is necessary and proportionate for what purpose and about safeguards that prevent misuse.

My 76-page report focusing on software from Forcepoint/Everfox and Microsoft:
crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/p…

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I haven't reminded people in a while. I really recommend that people regularly download all their CSV files on their Mastodon profile in case their instance goes down (see the screenshot).

This is particularly suggested to everyone on an instance (especially big ones) for which the admin isn't transparent with finances and backup plans.

Better have a backup of your follows than suddenly losing everything!

Go to Preferences => Import/Export => Data Export => Download all CSV files you're interested in keeping

A screenshot of the Data Export page on Mastodon
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Tamas G

@remixman lol Some of it might go to kids, but "Most of Kars 4 Kids profits go to Oorah, a nonprofit serving Orthodox Jewish kids in New Jersey and upstate New York, with the same CEO, Rabbi Eliyohu Mintz, as Kars4Kids. " Which is certainly a bit odd along with the other practices like the Minnesota AG saying that "less than 1 percent of the money Kars4Kids raised actually went to kids in Minnesota." All of that is just not convincing to me, but they won the case in the end.
@Andy

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Holy cow, #Transitous-based #publictransit routing has just landed in the nightly version of #GNOMEMaps, and therefore the number of cities you can get transit directions in… has gone waaaay up! It can even route through a mess like Los Angeles' multiple transit authorities, or calculate long-distance trains! :blobaww:

Big props to @mlundblad for implementing this: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-m…

#GNOME #transit #travel

Screenshot of GNOME Maps showing public transit routing between two points in the Los Angeles urban agglomeration, tracing differently colored lines between three transit systems/companies
Screenshot of GNOME Maps calculating a train itinerary from Toronto to Québec City, using two train lines with Montréal as a stop-over
Screenshot of GNOME Maps calculating a French train itinerary from Bordeaux to Strasbourg, using multiple train lines/segments
#gnome #travel #transit #publictransit #transitous #gnomemaps @Marcus Lundblad
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@blindbat84 That is so cool, thank you for doing this! And don’t worry about the comma pauses. I’m not sure which extension you’re using specifically, but generally extensions designed to read a page will do so pretty slowly kind of like an audiobook narrator. Screen readers do still pause for punctuation, but that pause is generally short and will get even shorter if the user increases the speech rate. This is how that comic was read out by my screen reader as an example and I actually slowed it down for this demonstration, I usually read faster than this.

@Sarah Russell

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“Exciting news is on the horizon for AppleVis! We’re in the process of transitioning to a new home on Mastodon. Be sure to unfollow our older AppleVis account and welcome the new AppleVis on Mastodon . Stay tuned for updates—we’ll have some news to share in the coming days!

mastodon.online/@AppleVis@mast…


Mastodon

A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.online
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* URL to PDF Converter: convert any web page into a PDF file 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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McDonald's Instagram hacked, hackers claim $700,000 haul

August 21, 2024
web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=mcdon…

McDonald's Instagram hacked, hackers claim $700,000 haul McDonald's Instagram account, as well as the Twitter account of a McDonald's marketing director, began promoting a memecoin called $GRIMACE (named for the restaurant chain's blobby purple mascot). The posts to McDonald's 5.1 million followers caused the token price to spike. Then, the attacker sold off their holdings, profiting around $700,000 and plunging the token price.
They then boasted about their haul on the compromised Instagram account, changing the bio to say: "Sorry mah nigga you have just been rug pulled by India_X_Kr3w thank you for the $700,000 in Solana 🇮🇳". The token stunt by the massive company was perhaps made more believable by McDonald's previous forays into crypto, including when they launched a McRib-themed NFT project in December 2021. The company had also joked about a "Grimacecoin" back in January 2022, in a reply to a tweet from Elon Musk.

McDonald's Instagram hacked, hackers claim $700,000 haul

McDonald's Instagram account, as well as the Twitter account of a McDonald's marketing director, began promoting a memecoin called $GRIMACE (named for the restaurant chain's blobby purple mascot). The posts to McDonald's 5.
Web3 is Going Just Great

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I finally got around to linking @lloydi’s post “Context is king: long live the king!” from my own (which he references). Anyway, his post:
tpgi.com/context-is-king-long-…

He also covers a couple variations where you can stack techniques for… an effect.

And he has a mini-tool (buried in a disclosure widget at the end) in there to generate the HTML/CSS for each scenario if you provide it the words.

Very detail. Much comprehensive.

#a11y #accessibility


Context is king: long live the king! - TPGi

Want to provide extra context in accessible names for buttons, links and other controls while retaining design integrity? Ian Lloyd shares some techniques.
Ian Lloyd (TPGi)
#a11y #Accessibility @lloydi

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Thinking of @glyph's proposal that we focus on boundary tokens rather than innovation tokens (blog.glyph.im/2024/07/against-…), as I yet again have to work around the boundary that Electron places between the main and renderer processes. This isn't even a case of multiple programming languages; it's JS on both sides. Still, I wish this UI component I'm working on could just access everything the main process can access.

Deciphering Glyph :: Against Innovation Tokens

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
blog.glyph.im
@Glyph

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📣 Announcing the 2024 Design System Report Survey by @zeroheight!

For the last three years, we've been asking the same question: “What's the current state of #DesignSystems?” And just like a regrettable backflip at Krispy Kreme, we're back at it again.

What's different this time is that we want to hear from more #Developers and learn more about how you build for and with design systems. Start here:

zeroheight.com/blog/announcing…


Announcing the 2024 Design System Report Survey! - Blog - zeroheight

Join the Design System Report survey! Share your insights on design systems to help shape community best practices. Your voice matters!
Michelle Chin (zeroheight)
#developers #designsystems
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Since Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses are a topic of great interest, we mention this event tonight. Tuesday Night Huddle - Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses
Come and learn about the newest tech gadget that is taking the blind community by storm, the Ray band Meta smart glasses. Whether you are just getting started or have had your glasses for a while come learn and ask questions.
Sponsored by Kentucky Council of the Blind Next Generation. More about this event can be found on the ACB Community call daily schedule.

acblists.org/g/ACB-Community-E…

Log In

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Republican Party leaders seek to purge 225,000 NC voters ahead of 2024 elections, citing worries dismissed by state officials wral.com/story/republican-part…

Republican Party leaders seek to purge 225,000 NC voters ahead of 2024 elections, citing worries dismissed by state officials

The RNC and other GOP officials say North Carolina allowed a quarter of a million people to register to vote improperly. State officials say that's false, adding that the proposed GOP solution would violate federal law.
Will Doran (WRAL)

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Good reminder that France is one of the rare countries in the world to have a declaration obligation when **importing** cryptography.

While one doesn’t need approval, it is critical to file an accurate declaration of the encryption system to the Cybersecurity agency ANSSI.

According to prosecutors, Telegram failed to accurately complete its declaration.

cyber.gouv.fr/faq-demande-daut…
hachyderm.io/@evacide/11302969…

evacide

2024-08-26 18:18:23


Reading through the French prosecutor's press release re: Pavel Durov and Telegram, it's still not clear what is going on, but the last three items are a big red flag.
-Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration, - Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration, - Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.

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The "load more" thing in @Tusky has reached a new level of annoying. Lately, it not only drops you in a random spot on the timeline, it corrupts the displayed posts. Notice in the before/after screenshots how it appears to have loaded one additional post. Look closer though, and you will see that the timestamps on the ones below have changed. Tapping one takes you to a completely different post (with the displayed timestamp). Those posts are actually a few pages down now. Pretty please fix this.
@Tusky

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Participants in the AI Like That training course will receive information concerning how to get started by the end of Friday.
They will also receive JAWS scripts for CoPilot and Replika.
In the case of CoPilot, the scripts make working with the site far more manageable.
In relation to Replika, a keystroke will take you to the most recent message but this is also read automatically. This makes it far easier for you to talk to your Replika.
hartgen.org/ai
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