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Mozilla dropping web extensions on mobile is the most existentially horrific thing to happen to the web. There is literally no one left that believes that a browser on the mobile is the user's browser, & I absolutely detest this.

Thanks so much for the killer write up,
palant.info/2020/08/31/a-grim-…


A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons

Mozilla limiting users’ choice to 9 add-ons on mobile is only the latest development. Add-on support is degrading across all browsers and will continue to do so.
Almost Secure

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The remarkable origin and purpose of the shiny cobalt leaves on the Malaysian tropical plant #Begonia #pavonina

#Plants #Jungle #QuantumMechanics #Photosynthesis #SlowLight
popularmechanics.com/science/e…


Behind This Plant's Blue Leaves Lies a Weird Trick of Quantum Mechanics

There's a very good reason for this plant's iridescent color.
William Herkewitz (Popular Mechanics)
#SlowLight #photosynthesis #quantummechanics #jungle #plants #pavonina #begonia

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The slow destruction of Twitter means I don’t have to limit myself to 280 characters anymore.

So this is a LONG-ASS post about having been online for decades & lost so many spaces to malfeasance and malice & what to do now, how angry I am & how hard this will never stop being.

Because I need to SCREAM ABOUT THIS TRASH.

catvalente.substack.com/p/stop…

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

I bet you're wondering how we got here...
Catherynne M. Valente (Welcome to Garbagetown)

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#NowPlaying: my Acoustic Espresso playlist on Spotify

This is my favorite morning playlist, featuring solo acoustic guitar and fingerstyle music. With both original compositions and covers. Every few weeks I update the playlist with some new pieces that I picked up.

Feel free to reply with suggestions!

👉 open.spotify.com/playlist/4kex…


Acoustic Espresso // Instrumental Acoustic Guitar Music for Your Morning Ritual

Acoustic Espresso // Instrumental Acoustic Guitar Music for Your Morning Ritual · Playlist · 213 songs · 62 likes
Acoustic Espresso // Instrumental Acoustic Guitar Music for Your Morning Ritual (Spotify)
#nowplaying

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@libreoffice For those who haven't yet tried LibreOffice: Now is the time for all good men & women to come to the aid of their software... Seriously, LO is the next best thing to bacon sizzling in a skillet. It might even be better than sex (nah, just kidding!) 🤦‍♂️

Seeing LO on :mastodon: reminded me to donate so I just kicked in a few bucks at libreoffice.org/community/get-…

While you're in the donating mood, Mastodon is also open source. hint, hint... 👏

#opensource #donate

Get Involved | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

community, LibreOffice, office suite, free office suite, Document Foundation, get involved, opportunities, developers, testers, localizers, translators, documentation writers, users support, native-lang, designers, marketers, marketing, design, admin…
www.libreoffice.org
#opensource #donate @LibreOffice

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This study from Stanford shows that people who use GitHub copilot produce code with more security flaws than people who don't; it's roughly the same size as the study GitHub keeps quoting saying it makes developers faster. theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_…

Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy

At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound
Thomas Claburn (The Register)

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nsfw/erotic Illustration

Dom Krampus, Sub Santa

Ho Ho Ho

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if you want to support my art:

✨ ko-fi.com/roh_orc
✨ patreon.com/roh_orc

[ #art #MastoArt #NSFWart ]

digital illustration; santa klaus wearing a pup mask, on all fours, with a leash on his neck being held by Krampus with leather gear.

ROH, the Orc | creating art about magic, adventure and gay orcs | Patreon

Become a patron of ROH, the Orc today: Get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators.
Patreon
#art #mastoart #NSFWart

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the sad reality of open source software development

In short: folks love the amazing decentralised encrypted comms utopia of Matrix. But organisations also love that they can use it without having to pay anyone to develop or maintain it. This is completely unsustainable, and Element is now literally unable to fund the entirety of the Matrix Foundation on behalf of everyone else - and has had to lay off some of the folks working on the core team as a result.


matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the…


The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 | Matrix.org

Matrix.org
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The Matrix.org Foundation

the post tries to explain the situation: matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the…. many governments don’t contribute at all, or only are willing to sponsor new features (which then take resources away from improving the core). perversely, “public money for public code” has been interpreted as a justification to only pay for new features rather than supporting maintenance.

The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 | Matrix.org

Matrix.org

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Cracking encrypted Lastpass vaults

markuta.com/cracking-lastpass-…


Cracking encrypted Lastpass vaults

The recent (2022) compromise of Lastpass included email addresses, home addresses, names, and encrypted customer vaults. In this post I will demonstrate how attackers may leverage tools like Hashcat to crack an encrypted vault with a weak password.
Naz Markuta (Markuta)

Federico Mena Quintero reshared this.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer cleared of “black mark” against his name after 68 years

arstechnica.com/science/2022/1…

The lead scientist on the Manhattan project was accused of being a Russian spy in 1954 ; the revocation of his clearance now has been nullified.


J. Robert Oppenheimer cleared of “black mark” against his name after 68 years

Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954.
Ars Technica

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Joseph Henrich, evolutionary anthropologist:

"More than any other animal, we depend on learning from others. Cultural evolution occurs alongside biological evolution. You can look at a human & study the genes that they’ve inherited from their parents… but that person has also acquired beliefs, values, practices, norms, languages & ways of thinking from their parents & other members of their community."

english.elpais.com/science-tec…

#culture #cooperation #learning


Joseph Henrich, evolutionary anthropologist: ‘The best antidote to white supremacy is more science’

The chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard spoke to EL PAÍS about immigration, social structures and his book on cultural evolution
Jon Gurutz Arranz (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
#culture #coopération #learning

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People wonder why I am always so harsh on #LastPass. Thing is, I’ve been watching them ignore security risks for years. Yes, things that they are being warned about again and again, yet they choose not to address them.

You think unencrypted URLs are bad? Take a look at this seven years old presentation by Martin Vigo and Alberto Garcia Illera: blackhat.com/docs/eu-15/materi…. Starting with page 69 it explains how the custom_js feature could be abused to extract users’ passwords.

Guess what, this feature is still present and used on PayPal for example. Still no encryption and nothing to protect the users. No change whatsoever in at least seven years that LastPass was made aware of this issue.

Instead, when disclosing #LastPassBreach they again lie that they don’t have access to your passwords. But they do. Anyone with access to their server does. NSA could order them to extract your passwords. Hackers who gain access to their server could abuse this to get your passwords. Or just to run their JavaScript code on any website, and then they don’t even need your passwords.

And that’s only one out of the many documented backdoors that LastPass chooses to ignore, both in terms of implementation and their public communication.

#infosec #ApplicationSecurity

#infosec #lastpass #lastpassbreach #applicationsecurity

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If you want to gift all Delta Chat users something you may boost or forward delta.chat/en/2022-12-15-uidev… to somebody who might be interested to help with Android/iOS or other developments. We wish you all some good last days of this year!
A cute painted greek delta in a with green twigs, some xmas balls and presents

Delta Chat: Decentralization Unchained (Psst ... want a UI/UX dev job?)

What do indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest, friends in Cuba, families in Iran, activists from Russia, a monastery in Cambodia, and many folks in the Fediverse have in common? You guess...
delta.chat

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Hey folks!
As part of my new year resolutions, I decided it's time to pass the torch for the @crossposter maintenance to someone else.
This is not about maintaining the service, but the tool itself, the dev side of it.

If you're into #ruby, #RoR and you used the crossposter, reach out: github.com/renatolond/mastodon…

Please boost for reach :)

#crossposter


Call for new maintainers for this project · Issue #918 · renatolond/mastodon-twitter-poster

It's been a while since I haven't been able to do more than minimal maintenance for this project, it achieved what I needed on a personal level (I implemented all features that I needed for...
GitHub
#ruby #ror #crossposter @Mastodon-Twitter Crossposter

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audiogame-manager
stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project: git.stormux.org/storm/audiogam…
All wine bottles are now sandboxed. I think I have everything working like it should, but there certainly could be bugs. If you would like to help test, please install your favorite games and make sure they work just as well as before.

audiogame-manager

Installer and launcher for Windows based audio games under wine for Linux.
Stormux: Powered by Gitea

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Sprachfilter
@Friendica Support Ich habe jetzt diesen Sprachfilter gesetzt, weil mir die englischsprachigen Beiträge mittlerweile überhand nehmen:
1. Muss ich "Den Sprachfilter verwenden" noch aktivieren, damit diese Einstellung wirksam wird?
2. Was konkret bedeutet Vertrauenslevel in die Spracherkennung? Den erläuternden Text verstehe ich nicht.
@Friendica Support
This entry was edited (3 years ago)
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

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Schaf (fka Bionk)

1. Sprache, die Du sehen willst in die "Lesbar"-Zeile eintragen (zB "de" wie gezeigt)
2. "Den Sprachfilter verwenden" durch Haken setzen aktivieren
3. Der "Vertrauenslevel"-Schieber setzt die Zuverlässigkeit, mit der alle übrigen Sprachen erkannt und ausgeblendet werden. Im Beispiel muss sich der Algorithmus mindestens 32(%-ig (?)) sicher sein, um den Text einzuklappen. Es wäre unklug, einen sehr hohen Wert zu wählen, weil dann zu viele Sprachen nicht "sicher" erkannt würden und daher sichtbar blieben. Zu geringe Werte hingegen blenden ggf zu viele unsicher erkannte Texte aus. Musst Du ausprobieren und den für Dich akzeptablen Wert selbst finden.
Und am Ende nicht vergessen, die geänderten Einstellungen unterhalb des Dialogs zu speichern.

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Putting this together was lots of fun. Thank you for all of your interactions and encouragement. I was glad to see that I made some of you happy. Here's to hoping I can come up with something creative in the future.
It was suggested to me that I should archive all of what I posted in the series. I wouldn't like to promise anything at this point but I'll look into options.
And now, speaking of charts, I leave you with Martin Garrix's "Animals", a chart-topping track from, I believe, 2014, remixed to the tune of a traditional Polish Christmas carol. Enjoy! and have a merry celebration of the festivity close to your heart. If you don't celebrate anything, have a great day as well!
youtube.com/watch?v=J_Ks0EkRsy…

Martin Garrix - Przybieżeli Do Betlejem Zwierzęta (Slupe Christmas Edit)

jako że święta za miesiąc postanowiłem się trochę pobawić i takie coś wyszło ^^enjoy B|mój sałndklałd: https://soundcloud.com/tigondub
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