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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Did you know that @libreoffice will cheerfully open WordPerfect files created by 34 year old software? Quite remarkable.
"Wish the sun to stand still.." 🌞@bert_hubert Good time to remind people Naomi Wu was forced to stop her social media activities shortly after exposing a Chinese manufacturer's keyboard spyware. @SexyCyborg
"For years she has called attention to this problem, in which people were using apps like Signal to protect their privacy but typing on a keyboard that could be recording every keystroke and sending it to the developer, Tencent..."
The spyware was independently verified, #TenCent denied it, and then the govt paid Wu a visit.
https://skepchick.org/2023/08/maker-naomi-wu-is-silenced-by-chinese-authorities-and-why-i-blame-elon-musk/
James BennettNot the only thing, but one of the things I like about Bluesky: I made a post there a little while ago (correctly) pointing out a problem with a particular group of contrarian assholes. Shortly after, it was quote-reposted by a troll who did a Twitter-style "Oh, so we're censoring people in the name of anti-fascism now" dunk to try to start trouble.
Instead:
* Click menu, click "detach quote", confirm. Troll now just has a dunk with no quote inside it.
* Click "block", confirm. Troll is now nuclear-blocked and can't stink up anything I do.
And let me tell you, folks, they *hate* this. On a site that gives you tools to protect yourself, they can't generate the fights they want and it makes them seethe.
Cory DoctorowMy latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
Both are national bestsellers!
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April Kingdad: what is it you do again?
me: i built a ton of features into firefox
dad: okay i guess
me: and now i secure systems with an almost incalculable amount of data
dad: ???
me: also today i got quoted by consumer reports
dad: *EYES BUG OUT OF HEAD*
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/digital-security/tips-for-better-passwords-a3656305306/
Lukasz OlejnikGREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated as a cybersecurity weakness https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html
Kevin HearneCallooh! Callay! CANDLE & CROW is out today! Please enjoy and holler about it. This book has
•a sleeping dragon goddess
•the courtship of a librarian
•heists in a wizard van
•fountain pen geekouts
•whisky and cheese
•sirens and hobgoblins
•recreational donut throwing (at cops)
And more! Yay!
•a sleeping dragon goddess
•the courtship of a librarian
•heists in a wizard van
•fountain pen geekouts
•whisky and cheese
•sirens and hobgoblins
•recreational donut throwing (at cops)
And more! Yay!
Scientific American op-ed:
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
(by me):
Jeff JarvisOn Morning Joe, Mara Gay worries about how many Americans can recognize fascism. I worry about how many of Trump's voters recognize it in themselves. The problem we face is not information or belief but, I fear, belonging: They want to be his brownshirts to belong.