Davey Barker

@dvyio
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Creative technologist in London. Started in chemistry, now working as a designer/developer with an interest in product management.
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/dvyio
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PHOTO BLOG: Earlier this month, a storm chaser from the Netherlands took a wonderful photo showing several textbook ice halos, including a 46-degree halo, a 22-degree halo with parhelion (sun dogs), and an upper tangent arc. https://www.accuweather.com/en/leisure-recreation/live-news/weather-permitting-photo-blog/933860

And based on what's happened the past 48 hours on Twitter... think forward

Imagine - say - Washington Post revealed abuse of workers at a Tesla plant in Shanghai

What would happen?

Would it be dealt with fairly? Now I really doubt it. The reporter(s) would get blocked, and links to the story flagged.

Twitter is no longer a reliable and predictable place for news and the first take on the news.

Elon Musk seems to be determined to destroy the utility of Twitter. You're now forbidden to post links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr, as well as link shorteners.
This is stunningly stupid.
#Security truths

#introduction
I use this account to post from a collection of simply amazing #pictures capturing everything from lucky shots to remarkable events in #history.

That's it! Follow and enjoy.

And here's a real photo set of a victorian couple trying to keep it together. Back in those days, one needed to hold very still as the camera collected light.

#interesting #cool #amazing #incredible #pics #photos #rare #rarepics #rarephotos #amazingshots #photography #followfriday #ff

who could have ever predicted a student coding project with three people working on it and over 2 million users would have multiple critical vulnerabilities?

"The issues we reported allow any attacker to access all data, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages. This also includes private email addresses and phone numbers entered during login." https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/

⚠️ Warning: do not use Hive Social πŸ‘‰πŸπŸ‘ˆ

Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. Update: The vulnerabilities are currently no longer exploitable because Hive deactivated their servers. More details Following the Twitter takeover, a number of services promising to be an alternative gained traction. One of those is β€œHive Social”, which reached more than a million users in the last weeks. Of course, we were interested and took a look at Hive from a security standpoint. We found a number of critical vulnerabilities, which we confidentially reported to the company. After multiple attempts to contact the company we finally reached them by phone and they acknowledged the report. After multiple days and multiple reminders by us, they claimed to fix them within the next two days. However after those two days, multiple vulnerabilities we reported were not fixed and still existed at the time of writing. ⚠️ We strongly advise against using Hive in any form in the current state.

If you're looking to populate your Mastodon with the people you follow on Twitter, I can recommend https://www.movetodon.org/.

It was able to find around 10% of the people I follow on Twitter β€” which is more than I expected β€” and it's pretty easy to use.

Movetodon: Finds your Twitter Friends on Mastodon

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.