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Rickard Schoultz Mar 5, 2025

Mar 5, 2025

Whenever I walk past a Tesla, I know it might be recording me, can be used to identify me, using its multitude of cameras and other sensors that stream everything to the mothership when in the so-called Sentry mode. Why do we accept this invasion of privacy? Why is it even allowed? And what do other car companies do?

Rickard Schoultz Sep 12, 2024

Micah Lee Sep 12, 2024

When you search for “mastodon” in the iPhone App Store, the top result is an ad for Truth Social #enshittification

Rickard Schoultz Sep 12, 2024

Apr 25, 2024

Super Teeny-Tiny Mastodon Tip for Newcomers 🐘✨:

There is no algorithm for your Home feed here.

On Mastodon,
WE are The Algorithm!

To keep everyone's Home feeds lively,
it is important to Boost (repost) the posts of others.

So, when you see a post that you like, if you want your followers to see it in their Home timelines as well,
don't forget to Boost it! 🚀✨

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon

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Rickard Schoultz Mar 13, 2024

@tastapod as one building services where this is relevant, I wish our sales tech team had actually made the definition of “day” more stringent in some of our MSAs, and not up for interpretation by each day and [enterprise] customer.

Rickard Schoultz Feb 11, 2024

@campuscodi one step further to having a Russia-only Internet would be to have the masses content with having all the popular vloggers on platforms controlled by the government. Next step, if not already, would be to make Russians access to YT having unfortunate intermittent routing problems.

Rickard Schoultz Jan 23, 2024

Metin Seven 🎨Jan 22, 2024

Did you know you can easily search through your own Mastodon posts?

Just include from:me in the search field.

Instead of this, you can include in:library to show posts you have interacted with or written yourself.

If you want to search through posts of a specific user, include from:username (the full username, including the instance)

If it doesn't work, have a look at this:
https://graphics.social/@metin/111821440228692015

#mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

Metin Seven 🎨 (@[email protected])

A follow-up post regarding the Mastodon search tips: If the search options don't work, the reason might be that your Mastodon instance maintainer hasn't implemented Elasticsearch. Also important: do not use capitals anywhere in the search conditions. E.g.: "From:me" doesn't work. Further reading: https://mstdn.social/@DeltaWye/111280982761530295 and https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/ #mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

Graphics.social

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Rickard Schoultz Jan 22, 2024

@neilmadden I have been using Bruno (usebruno.com) for some time, and have been a happy proponent of it. But it seems as if they recently switched to another game. Starting in November they introduced a”pricing” page, and have moved feature by feature from the free edition over to the paid one. I don’t mind paying for software, and compared to the forbiddingly expensive Postman and Insomnia licensing schemes, Bruno seems much better, but I won’t trust them just yet.

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Rickard Schoultz Jan 20, 2024

@nedbat Yes, but… Learning how a computer works by learning C is as true as it ever was. Back in the day of PDP-11 (RSX, BSD or RSTS/E) or VAX/VMS, there were also instruction scheduling, optimization as well as I/O that you did not have acces to.

Rickard Schoultz Dec 31, 2023

JosephMenn Dec 28, 2023

Today's story caps months worth of work with colleagues on a Washington Post series about critical changes in India's public governance through its domination of technology.
This piece delves into what happened before and after Apple warned journalists and politicians in India Oct. 30 that a country was attacking their phones.
What we found: The evidence suggests that India is using Pegasus again, and again going after its critics in civil society.
More surprising, and a clear sign of what the current Indian government expects from major tech companies: Ministers went on the attack against Apple, which sees India as a major market for growth.
This link is free for anyone who enters and confirms an email address.
Please read and share. Thank you.
https://wapo.st/3NEJYub
#infosec #hacking #privacy #india

India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications

Apple’s warnings to users that it had detected possible efforts to install spyware on iPhones triggered an angry reaction from Indian officials.

The Washington Post

Rickard Schoultz Jul 29, 2023

Major Hayden 🤠Jul 28, 2023

I'm surprised that #AWS took this long to begin charging for #IPv4 addresses.

More details from @Quinnypig:

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/Breaking-AWS-Begins-Charging-For-Public-IPv4-Addresses/

Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses

In a rare price hike, AWS will be charging for IPv4 addresses. The change brings them in line with other cloud providers and encourages good internet hygiene.

Last Week in AWS