Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
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Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
mastodon / blog / listenbrainz
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Unclassified FBI Document: Ability to legally access Secure Messaging App Content and Metadata (January 2021) (beehaw.org)
An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association "Property of People" through the Freedom of Information Act....
Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org (mailbox.org)
Arrested for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, Better FOSS Firmware - Linux & Open Source News (tilvids.com)
France arrested people for being private and using Linux...
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
After over a decade spent creating Signal, Moxie has departed to focus on new efforts. (mastodon.world)
Signal may soon be getting usernames (nitter.lacontrevoie.fr)
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)
This would probably fit in better in the technology community and I’m pretty sure it has been shared already, so sorry for the duplicate, especially since it was already on the !privacyguides and and !europe communities....
What food did you not try until you were an adult? Did you have a "where have you been all my life" moment?
Despite the fact that 90% of what I ate was home cooked, mostly from scratch, meals, I managed to miss out on some basics like courgette (zucchini) and aubergine (eggplant) and BUTTER if you can believe it....
‘Save the Children Convoy’ Leaders Plotted to Capture Police and MPs at Secret Meetings, Participants Allege (pressprogress.ca)
You can’t make this stuff up…...
The "Tech Won’t Save Us" Podcast is doing a series on Musk (www.techwontsave.us)
We hear a lot about this guy, why not a little more. This podcast is doing a series on Musk that is quite revealing, totally worth a listen if you are interested in business or tech....
WhatsApp and the domestication of users (seirdy.one)
As Seirdy notes:...
SSH login without user name? (docs.gitlab.com)
I was reading GitLab’s documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user’s name it is associated with....
text clarity on windows is so good, can I get the same on linux?
I tried different font settings in the font settings and it didn’t improve much (font hinting, anti aliasing, custom DPI settings, different font size)...
Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland
Hey y’all...
When Things Were Rotten (www.imdb.com)
Over the weekend I watched the first episode of the Mel Brooks version of a Robin Hood TV series. I was surprised with how much of that first episode, alone, made it into the movie “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.” There was a lot of jokes and bits that didn’t really land to my modern sensibilities, but to my mid-40’s self,...
So your tween wants a smartphone? Read this first (text.npr.org)
Why is this episode of NOVA about data privacy recommending Privacy Badger? (www.pbs.org)
I was under the impression that Privacy Badger wasn’t considered useful any more . . . ? They should’ve just recommended using Firefox instead, yes?...
Nicki Minaj Released After Detention in Netherlands for Drug Possession Allegations (thenarinder.in)
Prescription shenanigans and my mother's GP
Hi all,...
What the hell is the reverse of impostor syndrome called?
I’ve never been a reporter....