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Short passwords are an open door for hackers. 🕵️ 🔓

🔑 Longer = Stronger.
How long is yours?

🔒 Learn more & secure your accounts today: tuta.com/blog/minimum-password…

#CyberSecurity #PasswordTips

New NIST recommendation 2024: Password strength chart

Tuta Survey Results: Only about half the users use passwords that are long enough. | Tuta

Why password length matters for online security & best practices to protect your online accounts.
Tuta
#cybersecurity #passwordtips

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🆕 blog! “Review: Roamless Travel eSIM”
★★★★★

I've got a bunch of travel coming up to exotic locations. Previously, I've bought a local SIM card when I've landed - but they're often expensive, fiddly to fit, and queuing in an airport isn't much fun. I've also bought pre-paid SIMs which have a fixed amount of data or only last a specific amount of time.

But the big…

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#eSIM #mobile #phones #review #roaming


Review: Roamless Travel eSIM

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#mobile #phones #Review #esim #roaming

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Regularly restarting your iPhone clears temporary files, refreshes system processes, and enhances security — and you can automate it all with the Shortcuts app.
appleinsider.com/inside/iphone…

How to automate iPhone reboots to improve performance & security

Regularly restarting your iPhone clears temporary files, refreshes system processes, and enhances security — and you can automate it all with the Shortcuts app.
Andrew Orr (AppleInsider)

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New NVDA synth add-on: Eloquence 2.0.
Note two bugs exist:
1. No choosing of audio device in NVDA's sound dialog (it re-inits the DLL with a full crash and isn't playing through nvwave player)
2. Be warned that cold-starting NVDA with this synthesizer will result in no speech, but it does work when switching from another synth over. Haven't had time to trace down why this is happening exactly, so far the only "fix" is to send a silent audio to prime the DLL for better init.
eurpod.com/eloq20-2024.nvda-ad… (and before people complain, it's 2025! I'm basing the version on the NVDA series, and making it 2025 may cause confusion to think it's fully compatible with NVDA 2025.X) Also, no shorten pauses, we might be able to add inflection and a few other things back, although doing so may reset variant parameters which is why these are not part of the driver yet. Compared to even Eloquence 3.3, it's super basic and there's not much we can do about that. I tried to disable the abreviations dictionary as well, but Eloquence still loaded it regardless, so again, no clue on it yet.
Oh, and huge shoutout to @rommix0 again, without his debug info I couldn't have done it. Hats off to you, man.
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Po dlouhe dobe jsem otevrel XCode, stahnul SDKcka pro iOS a bohuzel zjistil, ze se ve vyvoji pro iPhony moc nezmenilo. I ve svete Swiftu a SwiftUI resim stejne bizarni problemy jako za dob drevniho mobilniho vyvoje. Ten ekosystem se z pohledu DX vubec nikam neposunul.

Ale ja se nedam! Unreleased v nativni podobe uz brzy na vasich iPhonech!

#music #art #ios #development

#ios #music #art #development

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Is deploying #IPv6 one of your New Year's resolutions for 2025? Get started with our free, open webinars. You will learn:
✅ The basics of IPv6 address notation
✅ How to request IPv6 address space from the RIPE NCC
✅ How IPv6 allocation and assignment policies work
✅ How to register IPv6-related data in the RIPE Database

🗓️ Intro to IPv6: Tuesday, 14 January at 09:00 UTC
✏️learning.ripe.net/w/courses/20…

🗓️ IPv6 in the RIPE Database: Thursday, 16 January at 09:00 UTC
✏️learning.ripe.net/w/courses/14…

Intro to IPv6: Tuesday, 14 January at 09:00 UTC IPv6 in the RIPE Database: Thursday, 16 January at 09:00 UTC

IPv6 in the RIPE Database Webinar - RIPE NCC

learning.ripe.net
#ipv6

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5 Books down in the first week of the year. I actually spent more time reading than working this week, given I didn't go back for the first 2 days of the working week.
If I had to pick a weekly winner, it'd be the cool techno-crime story "in the blink of an eye", which is a typical British police procedural but with an AI twist.
seanrandall.me/recommends/B09Y…
#Bookstodon
The book cover for "In the Blink of an Eye" features a close-up of a human eye, split down the middle. The left side shows a natural eye, while the right side is stylized with a bright blue iris and binary code overlaying the skin. The top reads, "She’s ruled by her heart" and "They play by the rules" in white text. The title, "In the Blink of an Eye," is in large blue capital letters across the middle. At the bottom is a quote by Laura Marshall, "Properly compelling, impossible to put down," and the author's name (Jo Callaghan ) in white letters.

In The Blink of An Eye: Winner of the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA New Blood Dagger eBook : Callaghan, Jo: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

seanrandall.me
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Just over three weeks remain until the 27th #XMPP Summit takes place in Brussels. If you’re planning to attend but haven’t registered yet, please make sure to add your name to the wiki by the end of this week: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/…

If you’re an XMPP developer or spec author and weren’t planning to attend, I’d strongly encourage you to reconsider

For those who can’t make it to Brussels but will be in Berlin on Wednesday, February 12th, we’ll be discussing the Summit at that week’s XMPP Meetup

Conferences/Summit 27 - XMPP WIKI

wiki.xmpp.org
#xmpp

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Previously, the secretariat of IETF admitted that it is not possible to run SMTP over IPv6 anymore: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/…

Now Digicert follows up shutting down IPv6 support for CRL and OCSP because it is apparently not possible to run HTTP over IPv6 anymore. 🤬
docs.digicert.com/en/whats-new…

IETF email and IPv6 and related issues

Search IETF mail list archives
mailarchive.ietf.org

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GrapheneOS version 2025010700 released:

grapheneos.org/releases#202501…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18831…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security


GrapheneOS version 2025010700 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
#privacy #security #grapheneos

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This needs to be said, again and again and again and again, for as long as it is necessary. mastodon.social/@andymoose/113…

BenderIsGreat34 (@andymoose@mastodon.social)

I know everyone is desensitized to this now, after so many years of this bullshit, but can I just say how fucking insane it is that Americans voted in an actual felon for President and before he’s even sworn in is literally threatening invasion of NA…
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Andre Louis

@VE3RWJ Again, quoting is *not* an officially supported Mastodon thing, so you shouldn't have to be using any specific client at all. If any client supports quote-posting then it is 100% unofficial and not endorsed by Mastodon as a whole. Yes, it works (for some people) but again, not official.
Plus, quote-posting leads to shit-posting and the original poster may not even be able to see that their post has been mentioned, because it's not a direct @ mention in the first place.
I despise it.
@Chris Smart
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Andre Louis

@VE3RWJ Quote-posting definitely does not need to exist at all, under any circumstances.

If you do so, you can equally be shit-posted about by others. That's what quote posting basically is. Even if you potentially say something nice, the original poster will never ever know you did so. No threading, so it might as well be a statement made behind your back that nobody knows about. If you wouldn't like people potentially saying bad things about you, don't potentially say bad things about them. That's all there is to it. Not even a question here. Just simple fact. Quoting is beyond bad, especially given current implementation.

@Chris Smart
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Borris

@VE3RWJ It’s not just the lack of support for it, it’s also the lack of proper attribution and threading that really, really bothers me about the way quoting (doesn’t) work. I wish there was a way to block posts from being quoted at all, or I would do it for mine. So many times, I have been quoted, new threads have been started, and I had no clue whatsoever.
@Chris Smart
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victor tsaran

@BorrisInABox @VE3RWJ Yeah, I totally get it. I just think of quoting the way I use it in chat rooms. I want to clarify or augment someone else's post. Frequently, it's also about providing more context or boosting a certain comment from a longer discussion. It works quite well in a work environment where things can quickly spin out of control. I personally like the ability to quote, but perhaps the implementation should be better. (1/2)
@Chris Smart @Borris

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« #Italian gov’s possible adoption of #Starlink satellite comms system would b politicl & economic error, domestic & #EU legislators have warned, as gov doubled down on decision & #Musk revelled in the debate

If deal→signed, #Italy→1st EU country 2 formally engage w/ Musk’s #SpaceX. But would raise ?? abt its alignment w/ #European strategic priorities, including setup of EU’s #IRIS2 constellation, while potentially costing Italy jobs, sovereignty, & strategic autonomy»

euractiv.com/section/politics/…


Italy’s potential Starlink deal under fire over political, sovereignty, economic fears

Musk hinted that others will follow Italy's lead in working with his satellite communication service.
Alessia Peretti (EURACTIV)
#EU #italian #musk #european #Italy #spacex #Starlink #iris2
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𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕

It is clearly a commutative agreement in which something is given in exchange to something else. The real question is what the Italian government is expecting to receive in return (lower tariffs one exports, maybe?).

If the deal were signed it would be a brave political move, anticipating any other EU country (including other non-aligned ones like Hungary and Slovakia), and a risky one too (hope they know what they are doing and trust the people they're negotiating with).

One may object about the use of public expenditure (especially because Italy is bound to participate in IRIS too so paying twice for similar services) but every government takes such decisions on how to allocate funds.

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The Verge - Meta’s policy changes allow calling gay and trans people ‘mentally ill’ while removing a ban on referring to women as ‘household objects.’ theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471…

Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook

Meta’s policy changes around hate speech have sharply changed the content that’s banned or allowed when it’s based on gender, sexual orientation, and the coronavirus.
Richard Lawler (The Verge)

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I wonder if anyone hearing this can help me identify what sort of guitar is playing this solo (at least, I think it's a guitar): youtu.be/7zjU28f6sE4?si=oZCHQt… Thanks a lot!
If the Youtube timestamp does not come through, the solo I am talking about starts somewhere around minute 4.

You and Your Friend

Provided to YouTube by Warner RecordsYou and Your Friend · Dire StraitsOn Every Street℗ 1996 Mercury Records Ltd. (London)Conductor, Keyboards, Producer: Ala...
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Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack - Engineering at Slack slack.engineering/automated-ac…

Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack

At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust. We have our own Slack Accessibility Standards that product teams follow to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidel…
nstormann (Slack Engineering)

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AskBob's Best of 2024 - Part Two askbobrankin.com/askbobs_best_…

AskBob's Best of 2024 - Part Two

Did you catch Part One of my “Best of 2024” series? Well, buckle up, because today I’m serving up another round of ten wildly popular AskBob articles! These gems were carefully curated with assistance from a network of quantum robots, secret nodes on…
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If you're an Apple user and I spoof your phone number in a call to the legitimate Apple Customer Support line (800-275-2273), I can force Apple to send you a system level "Apple Account Confirmation" prompt to all of your signed-in devices.

This approach is commonly used by a prolific voice phishing group to convince targets they really are in a support call with an Apple representative.

Today's deep dive into this weird world was made possible in part by a series of live phishing videos, tutorials and other secrets shared by an insider that show in unprecedented detail how these voice phishing scams can be so convincing.

Please share this story widely, because I learned a ton reporting this and frankly the various methods used by these groups to dox and target people are really slick.

From the story: "Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices."

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-…

youtu.be/F44un1_y2fs

An Apple Account Confirmation message lists the recipient email address and says: Would you like to confirm your Apple Account and allow Apple to access your device serial numbers to expedite your interaction? If you did not contact Apple, do not confirm this request." Below that are two choices: Confirm, don't confirm.

A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

krebsonsecurity.com
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miki

Also, are you sure you don't have "search" on?

Search is different than scraping, data from search is "injected" into your current conversation only, and only when you enquire about a specific subject. It doesn't go into Chat GPT's training corpus.

I just asked the raw GPT-4o model (with no search), and it can't answer the question correctly, so this seems to be the case.

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In February 2024, I was in a car crash. My nerves from my spine to my hand were damaged.

#OpenSource and #Embroidery helped me imagine a more resilient future:

sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja…

I wanted to give back to the #FreeSoftware community, and the Conservancy staff and contractors who supported me. So I made an embroidery of Conservancy's logo for our fundraiser.

The top donor to Conservancy's fundraiser (from Monday, Jan 6 until AOE Wednesday, Jan 8) will receive my embroidery.

Please donate today:

sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

If you can only afford to give a little, we appreciate any support you can give!

If the top donor doesn't want the embroidery, a random donor to Conservancy's fundraiser will receive the embroidery. The random donor will be picked from anyone who donated from the start of Conservancy's fundraiser in November until AOE Wednesday, January 8.

If my journey inspires you, please donate to Conservancy's fundraiser:

sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

A work-in-progress embroidery, featuring a stylized tree similar to Software Freedom Conservancy's logo. Over the tree canopy are the words "Grow Software Freedom." Below the roots are the words, "2025 Sustainer."

Embroidery and resilient software freedom in 2025

I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.
Software Freedom Conservancy
#FreeSoftware #opensource #embroidery

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I love this article by @sphakos about their thoughts about software freedom and recovering from injury. I find it really moving:

"Why do we decide an object is beyond repair, and must be replaced by something expensive and new? Why do companies put out products that easily break physically, or will become obsolete or insecure due to a lack of software updates?"

sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja…

They also created an incredible cross stitch work that will go to an SFC donor!


Embroidery and resilient software freedom in 2025

I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.
Software Freedom Conservancy
@Sage Sharp

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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-…

#Meta #MarkZuckerberg


Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.
Matt Husser (The Hard Times)
#meta #markzuckerberg

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A thoughtful piece about Ursula K. Le Guin's activism and complicated feelings, written by Julie Phillips and published on Literary Hub. I do enjoy the little glimpses into the history of my area, too.

lithub.com/the-way-of-water-on…

#UrsulaKLeGuin


The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
Literary Hub
#ursulakleguin

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We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

▶️ Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: dair-institute.org/blog/techno…

▶️ A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: dair-institute.org/blog/educat…

▶️ An Internet for Our Elders: dair-institute.org/blog/elders…

(continued)

A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
www.dair-institute.org
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

▶️ Closure for Families of the Missing: dair-institute.org/blog/eritre…

▶️ Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology: dair-institute.org/blog/decent…

Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
www.dair-institute.org

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I watched #TheWarGames - in black and white!

I think it's wonderful; how the story morphs and grows as the serial progresses, how it ends its era dropping so many threads that would be picked up in #DoctorWho future by keeping things vague enough to be developed, rather than be dead ends.

Remarkably for a 10-parter it in no way drags, even the run about eps have a [sort of] point and develops that widening story.

The ending ep kills me and I love and despair at Jamie and Zoe's ending. Especially Zoe's; she grew a lot in her time and it's all gone and she knows, some part of her at the end KNOWS she's forgotten something and I hate it and love it. #DoctorWhoRewatch

jamie in the war games talking to - I think the redcoat (off screen) - he looks at him menacingly, holding some sort of stick that I imagine is actually a weapon but it's not clear. He says "now look, just you listen to me a moment..." as he's moving closer to them
#doctorwho #doctorwhorewatch #thewargames

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This.
This. This.
This. This. This.
THIS.
Taxes not philanthropy.
Quality of jobs, not numbers of jobs.
The best 4.5 minutes on social media.

facebook.com/nowthisimpact/vid…


17 mil. zhlédnutí · 58 tis. reakcí | Billionaires Called Out for Tax Evasion by Historian Rutger Bregman at Davos Economic Forum | This historian told a room full of billionaires at Davos that they need to step up and pay their fair share of taxes | By No

This historian told a room full of billionaires at Davos that they need to step up and pay their fair share of taxes
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