Meta Reverses Instagram Encryption Stance

Meta has backtracked on its plan to introduce end-to-end encryption for Instagram messages, leaving direct messages stored and transmitted in plaintext, giving the company access to user conversations. This move reverses years of promotion for enhanced messaging security.

https://osintsights.com/meta-reverses-instagram-encryption-stance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#EndtoendEncryption #Meta #Instagram #Plaintext #MessagingSecurity

#Vim carnival submissions about #PKM.

I hoped to get more people involved, but that wasn’t the case. Perhaps the next one will be 😅.

I loved @malin' mapping:

inoremap <C-l> <c-g>u<Esc>[s1z=`]a<c-g>u

I'll let you find what it does

#neovim #plaintext #notes #carnivals #fediverse #mastodon #editors #opensource #indieweb #BSD #linux

https://lazybea.rs/vim-carnival-202605

ZDNet: Why Edge stores your passwords in plaintext, according to Microsoft. “A security researcher found that Edge stores your plaintext passwords in memory when you use the browser to manage them. In a social media post, researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning explained how the process works and posted a video showing it in action.”

#Microsoft #Edge Stores #Passwords In #Plaintext In RAM
#privacy #security

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/06/2014204/microsoft-edge-stores-passwords-in-plaintext-in-ram?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Envelope budgeting: planning ahead for known expenses by regularly putting money into pre-determined categories, or envelopes. This week I show how I’m doing that in plain text accounting, specifically, Beancount.

Medium (includes blog link) https://medium.com/@miscellaneplans/ptpl-206-plain-text-accounting-envelope-budgeting-in-beancount-8a5b49b3281b
Blog https://ellanew.com/2026/05/04/ptpl-206-beancount-envelope-budgeting
#plainTextAccounting #budgeting #plainText

append to your ~/.bashrc

note() {
default="notes.txt"
f="${1:-$default}"
date +%Y-%m-%d | tee -a "$f"
cat >> "$f"
echo "---" >> "$f"
}

or just do

cat >> plain.txt

and enjoy your plaintext life one Ctrl+D at a time.

The simplest note taking app for GNU systems. https://sterpeto.vivaldi.net/2026/05/03/the-simplest-note-taking-app-for-gnu-systems/

#plaintext #bash #gnu #note #notetoself

Had an oldschool #plaintext file of printer(ish) output with form-feeds (0x0C, ^L) separating pages/sections and wanted to split out each page into its own sequentially-numbered file. A little awk:

$ awk 'BEGIN{name="output_000.txt"} $0 ~ sprintf("%c", 12){close(name); name =sprintf("output_%03i.txt", ++i); next}{print >> name}END{close(name)}' source.txt

and done. Several hundred pages all split out into individual files.