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the B in LGBTQIA+ does NOT stand for buses
Life is short. Use the fancy olive oil and the special salt. Drink the expensive wine and the fine spirits you've been saving. Get out the nice plates you're worried will break. Buy the guillotine you've had your eye on. Stake out and learn the routines of billionaires. Blow that rainy day money on turning inside sources. Don't waste your life on what-ifs. Behead them all and let the revolution sing.

Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

#chrome #privacy #enshittification

Today in Email Hegemony.

People keep telling me how email is a great federation success story. The DNA Lounge store has a simple spell checker attached to the email field that knows about the 30 or so most popular domains, and valid TLDs. Every few...
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Today in Email Hegemony

People keep telling me how email is a great federation success story. The DNA Lounge store has a simple spell checker attached to the email field that knows about the 30 or so most popular domains, and valid TLDs. Every few years, I update the list of domains based on how many orders came in to our store with those domains. Here's the current top ten from the last ~2 years since our ...

I am never going to stop being angry at the people who told me, when I said around 2010 that Gatekeeper was the end of the Macintosh and possibly the end of all computers, that there was nothing to worry about because they'd never remove that third "run any software" option from the control panel

So. Homebrew is illegal now too, then?

EDIT: People seem to be misunderstanding this screenshot. This is me running a program installed by Brew and it being blocked by macOS Gatekeeper. You can see me executing it from the command line and you can see in the error message that Homebrew downloaded it. Although brew is in general working for me, this particular formula's app got blocked. After making the post I resolved the problem and do not need help.

This is, by the way, why you should trust *nothing* Google says about how "Web Environment Integrity" has safeguards against abuse. The pro-user safeguards are there to be removed! The moment the users have bought into the program, the safeguards aren't needed anymore! That's how these things work! That's the only way these things work!

I get that some organizations need to save-face.

They made a big show of saying they will pull out of the UK if this law passes...well this law is going to pass, as is, with no concessions.

The draft text hasn't changed, how the regulations will be written and implemented hasn't changed.

They got a pinky promise that the law will only be used when it can be used.

"A notice can only be issued where technically feasible"

The reality on the ground is that as soon as the UK's Online Safety bill becomes law then the de-facto assumption must be that any service provider with significant exposure to the UK might be under a notice that mandates the compromise of the security and/or privacy of that service.

The statement made today - explicitly designed to defuse any tension that might have held up the bill - only re-enforces that position.

The framing that this is a "win" for online privacy is deeply disingenuous.