Got a response back from Microsoft telling me that a Costco-impersonating email from 40.107.94.115 "did not originate from a mailbox associated with a Microsoft account" and "Unfortunately, we are unable to take action against e-mail accounts that are not within the Microsoft network." WTF?
@lippard I only suggest because my domain was getting a lot of spam for whatever reason - it was getting marked as such but was still annoying. Then I started getting diligent about reporting them and it's all but stopped. I might get 1-2 messages a month now. If you use something like Thunderbird, there's a plug-in to make it easy to report.
#cybersecurity zealots often shame humans for writing down their passwords, but as someone who just had to excavate the digital remains of a loved one who died suddenly:
please write down your credentials somewhere a trusted human can find them, especially your phone passcode and any primary passwords (like for email accounts, password manager, etc.)
the humans who care about you will need that access for many reasons; a "badass" threat model will only add helplessness to their grief
@shortridge It's a real problem. It sucks when you can't recover credentials to social media accounts, and those accounts get juiced by other people. Source: father's Facebook account got hacked by some random person. Thankfully I backed up a bunch of the photos that were associated with the account beforehand. Even more in that I deleted my account after they died, so when I recreated it years later, I couldn't report the account properly.
Someone said that no one is as “dangerous” as the person who has only read one book. Well, about 100 million Americans haven’t read any books. What the fuck they?
If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr#EndDRM#BoycottSpotify#Spotify
So, for several million people on this collection of websites, it's been a whole year since we came here from a different website. Do we still need the play by play of what's happening on that other website?
@georgetakei 😂😂 A non zero number of smoothbrained voters who throw around "Genocide Joe" will hand us Trump 2.0, while touting their moral superiority with some tiktak clips. Gonna be a fun ride!
One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life expectancy, only about 20% of Neanderthals made it past 40 years of age, and the average life expectancy for modern Amazonian tribes is 53 years. Being that I am now 42, I'd like to live a little longer than that, and the reason I can is MODERN MEDICINE, access to clean water, good and plentiful food, living indoors when it's too cold or hot, working jobs that aren't as physically demanding. Telling people that if they go back to some kind of traditional past lifestyle, that they will live a healthier happier lifestyle is a falsehood and a dangerous one. Get medical advice from a medical professional, who bases their research on science, not some person on YouTube who bases their ideas on things that seem true to them.
@zompus@RickiTarr No kidding. I had a badly cracked molar removed, a bone graft (real cadaver bone, rehydrated with my own red juice) and later an implant installed and I was not awake for any of it. And I'm super f'in happy I don't remember people hammering away on my face or pushing my sinus for up to make room for said bone graft. And I'm eating right now with that fake tooth. Modern medicine ain't perfect but holy hell it's a lot better than it was 100 years ago.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
@stevesilberman "Fascism will come to America wrapped in an American flag and carrying a cross." - attributed to no one since nobody knows where it came from.
Following a busy 2023 legislative session, what #tech policies will state legislatures advance next year? Join CCIA Thurs. 11/30, 1- 2pm EST for a live discussion on recent state legislative trends & a 2024 legislative forecast.
@CCIAnet Would love to see more strict data privacy protections implemented at the state level. Let's get more pressure on Congress to pass a data protection bill that actually protects US residents, and strong repercussions for companies who don't put enough effort into data protection. Looking forward to seeing what is talked about in this meeting.
In 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 gave us a stark, terrifying, but very valuable lesson in how thin our collective values are once push comes to shove. Within WEEKS after lockdowns started, the op-ed class repeatedly suggested that
We should suspend child labor laws (they claimed, incorrectly, that children weren't harmed by COVID)
The elderly have already lived long enough and should be willing to die now to help the economy.
The weak and compromised should be regarded as expendable.
I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.
@mattblaze I feel like people lost a lot in watching crazy OTA TV late at night. Public access shows like Jim Spagg, oddball stuff in my hometown and crazy stuff like this. I won't lie though, I get chills down my spine when I watch the video.
@boilingsteam Also, I have to use Facebook because of family and groups. Groups is a huge feature. The car groups I'm involved with have a huge presence and wealth of knowledge/manufacturing/designing in those respective Facebook groups. This used to be facilitated by email mailing lists or forums. There needs to be a good replacement for that, and really, there needs to be a DIY SSO solution for Fediverse platforms.
The Crimson Diamond by @JuliaMinamata seems to be a must-have for every Laura Bow fan. It shares the same beautiful and thrilling atmosphere with the Colonel's Bequest with its lovely dithered EGA graphics and well-composed music.
Please help this game onto GOG for a low-threshold DRM-free distribution and the perfect target group of old-fashioned gamers 💚
I played through the demo. Wow. That takes me back.💚
I loved this demo and would play the entire game when it's released. I would love to know more about the development process, too - engine, graphics, etc.
For anyone else reading this - do yourself a favor. Download this and play it. If you played all the OG Sierra games, this will be very intuitive.
When Universal filmed "Dracula" in 1931 with Bela Lugosi, it also filmed a Spanish language version with different actors, on the same sets. First the English shoots for a set would occur, and then the Spanish shoots.
Comparing the two films is extremely interesting, with many observers actually considering the Spanish version (which runs half an hour longer than the English version's hour and fifteen minutes!) to actually be the superior film overall, and notably more explicit and erotic. It's fairly easy to find in the usual places and is definitely recommended viewing.
Service NSW says starting tomorrow it will scan the "Dark Web" for the email/password combination people use to log in and alert users if it finds that the credentials have leaked. I wonder what service provider it is using for this. #infosec#Australia