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mortonfox

@mortonfox@furry.engineer

Software engineer since... forever. Also do Munzee, Flagstack, geocaching (occasionally), Codewars, CheckiO, photography, Swagbucks Live, HQ Trivia.

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soatok, to random
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It’s Time for Furries to Stop Using Telegram

I have been a begrudging user of Telegram for years simply because that's what all the other furries use. When I signed up, I held my nose and expressed my discontent at Telegram by selecting a username that's a dig at MTProto's inherent insecurity against chosen ciphertext attacks: IND_CCA3_Insecure. Art: CMYKat I wrote about Furries and Telegram before, and included some basic privacy recommendations.

http://soatok.blog/2024/05/14/its-time-for-furries-to-stop-using-telegram/

mortonfox,
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@soatok Is there a good, secure chat service (that... ugh... supports sticker packs. Not a fan of sticker packs but furries seem to want those.) that does not require a phone number? Both Telegram and Signal have that problem of needing a phone number. While it is true that one can disable finding by phone number in Signal, that just looks like a workaround for a problem that should not be there in the first place.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    mortonfox,
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    @GossiTheDog If only I could lock replies to non-bluechecks instead.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    “Neuralink implants are ready for human trials” says man whose cars spontaneously combust and rockets unexpectedly explode.

    mortonfox,
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    @MissingThePt I think I'll wait for Elon to try it first.

    arch, to random
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    Oh cool, I finally got around to fixing my GitHub Sponsors stuff. So I guess if anyone wants to sponsor the random F/OSS stuff I do... there's that https://github.com/sponsors/gmemstr

    I might open a ko-fi too but frankly I'm not too worried about it at the moment. I'd love to do F/OSS stuff full time (heck I'd even be open to being sponsored/contracted to implement specific stuff for specific projects) but that's a long ways off.

    mortonfox,
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    @arch Ah, thanks for the reminder. I started creating my GitHub sponsors profile some time ago but hadn't gotten around to finishing it and submitting it for approval.

    jomo, to tesla
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    Hackers from TU Berlin managed to jailbreak cars, unlocking software-locked features worth up to $15,000 🪓🪓🪓

    They used a known (unpatchable) voltage fault injection attack against the AMD Secure Processor to glitch the boot process, got root, and retrieved the car's RSA private key 👌

    https://electrek.co/2023/08/03/hackers-manage-unlock-tesla-software-locked-features/

    mortonfox,
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    @jomo Great. I hated the idea of buying a car and having to pay more to unlock features anyway.

    yesjohn, to random
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    bluesky user complains about mastodon: it should not take rocket science just to join a social media.

    bluesky: no media tabs, no videos, no gifs, no bookmarks, racism allowed, no report option categories, block and mute list publicly available in the user profile, mayo is a slur, no manual content warnings, moderation powered by AI, no polls, no pinned posts, no privacy setting, slow app.

    mastodon: choose an instance 😩

    mortonfox,
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    @yesjohn But it takes rocket science to join Bluesky too. The rocket science of finding someone who can give you an invite code.

    Cloudguy, to random

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    mortonfox,
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    @Cloudguy Wow, thanks. I haven't heard about what security breach happened this time but I took the opportunity to clean out a lot of old logged-in devices (50 of those!?) on my Amazon account.

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