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19 year old Mr Big Balls, who works for CISA now, has been involved in hijacking SIMs and SWATing FBI agents. CISA refused to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/

The whole discussion around "Careless People", the tell-all insider book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, published by Macmillan, on Facebook/Meta again shows why printed books are important. Should Facebook/Meta succeed in court or by direct negotiations to get parts of the book edited or removed, they can't take the printed pages out of your book the way the actually can with ebooks on your Kindle ...
If you believe Donald Trump personally signed 1,500 pardons for J6 insurrectionists then I have an autopen to sell you.
It's Monday, which is a good day to remember that the data broker industry must be destroyed: https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762
Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users

The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.

Gizmodo

Starting on March 28, Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. In other words, everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon. @ArsTechnica reports:

https://flip.it/cGX-fa

#Tech #Amazon #AI #Alexa #Echo

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Ars Technica

Condolences to @ricci on making it to the orange site, let's see how bad their takes are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166830

Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone | Hacker News

It's likely I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about here, but:

If you're trying to compile a language with features like continuations to machine code, I wonder if it would be a good idea to ignore the cpu's stack, allocate your entire memory to heap and roll your own linked list structure to store your local variables. Function calls become significantly slower because you have to make a call to malloc to get a new frame, but the upside would be that reordering the stack becomes extremely cheap and no longer involves memcpy

Also a huge fan of the headrest designed for someone at least 6 inches shorter than me

"Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox"

They basically took over an existing 3rd-party FF extension. I've been using that one for some time now, works well. Looks like Apple's made a few improvements already. So far, so good. Kudos!

#apple #firefox #icloud #passwords #mozilla
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/04/apple-icloud-passwords-firefox-add-on/

Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox

Apple now has a dedicated iCloud Passwords add-on designed for the Firefox browser, which means Firefox users can access passwords and logins stored...

MacRumors

According to CNN the South Korean National Assembly voted unanimously in favor of over-turning the emergency martial law decree (190 lawmakers were present out of 300). None the less the martial law order continues to be enacted despite the National Assembly striking it down.

Update - The vote was unanimous.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/asia/south-korea-martial-law-intl/index.html

#SouthKorea

Martial law reversed in South Korea after president’s surprise decree sent shockwaves

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol backtracked on his shortlived decree in the early hours of Wednesday local time and withdrew the troops deployed to carry out the order. South Korean lawmakers are now calling for resignations.

CNN