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Google is tying reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing over de-Googled Android users

The ways in which Google can lock you into their ecosystem are often obvious, but sometimes, they're incredibly sneaky and easily missed.

CAPTCHA tests are annoying, but at the same time, they can help protect websites from bots. While these tests are alre

https://www.osnews.com/story/144909/google-is-tying-recaptcha-to-google-play-services-screwing-over-de-googled-android-users/

#Android

Google is tying reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing over de-Googled Android users – OSnews

@letsencrypt is in the middle of an active incident. Issuance of new certs has ceased. Heads up. https://letsencrypt.status.io/
Let's Encrypt Status

Support for Let's Encrypt services is community-based and information on current status and outages can be found at: https://community.letsencrypt.org

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YubiClicker is Cookie Clicker, except every click is a FIDO2 assertion from a physical key tap. Climb a public leaderboard by out-tapping your opponents. YubiKey, Titan, Feitian, Solo, and Nitrokey all qualify.

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Closed so many tabs after the whole adventure with DFS channels. That sense of accomplishment 😌

Should've looked at the RFC for DHCPv4 Classless Static Route option sooner. TIL that if this option is present, the Router option is ignored. Explains why I had issues with routing on #Kobo #EReader. I take back what I said, dhcpcd behaved correctly.

Seems like at least #macOS and #iOS are working around this. If they don't see a default route in option 121, they ignore this option altogether, so I didn't notice this problem earlier.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3442

RFC 3442: The Classless Static Route Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 4

This document defines a new Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) option which is passed from the DHCP Server to the DHCP Client to configure a list of static routes in the client. The network destinations in these routes are classless - each routing table entry includes a subnet mask. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

IETF Datatracker

I recently looked at my iPhone‘s traffic and was painfully reminded at how it sends every keystroke you type into the home screen search to Apples servers by default.

Every. Single. Keystroke. Instantly.

Just searching for a contact, an appointment or a local file? Doesn’t matter, it gets sent to Apple anyways.

You probably want to turn this off :>
Go to Settings -> Search and disable „show related content“.
This disables web search in the launcher, but what do we have browsers for?

Woo, managed to enable 5 GHz DFS channel support on #Kobo Clara BW!

The kernel is indeed signed, but the Wi-Fi driver is an out-of-tree module and is not signed in any way. Sources are available, took me a bit to find what to change, but ultimately a success.

Bundled DHCP client dhcpcd 6.6.6 is a bit buggy though. In my network I advertise a classless route. That seems to take precedence over the default route, so the reader ends up without one.

#EReader

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