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Embarrassing times for the European Commission after security researchers found flaws within minutes of using its age verification app. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/

(ICYMI: I have a blog post on why age verification laws are a bad idea to begin with: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/)

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it.

Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”

POLITICO
@pachli when i try to update my profile pics, on android, the app crashes at the crop action.

Someone looked at the tobacco industry, and thought, oh this will work great for social media platforms too!

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/social-media-has-positive-benefits-for-teens-report/817638/

#disinformation #worstTimeline

Social media has positive benefits for teens: report

Pew Research findings indicate that Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram play a critical role in keeping teens connected with friends, family and the world.

Social Media Today
To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

Ten years ago now, when I was teaching English in a German high school, I was checking an eighth grade student’s work and underlined an error. The assignment was to write a profile introducing your…

Literary Hub

Sorry for being nostalgic but it was kind of nice when the internet was a single, solitary, unmoving place instead of a terror that extends everywhere. You went to this specific spot to go to the internet. When you left the spot, you left the internet.

It was a place.

FUCK THE CLOUD

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717

Jason Scott called it back on Jan 16, 2009. Read the follow-ups, too.

FUCK THE CLOUD

This will be the last time I go along this area of discussion for a while because it’s just going to get very old very quickly. But I wanted, in one place, a quick manifesto/rant about this p…

ASCII by Jason Scott
And thanks to @neil for the tip!

📷 New Photo

Finally got some proper nametags for airsoft. Will look smashing on my camo.

🔗 https://hayobethlehem.nl/forge/gallery/photo/1000013190

#Photography #Airsoft

After significant research I have come to the conclusion that the best font for small texts on a website is ... Arial.