Telling your contacts not to use Google nor Meta/Facebook. If everyone you email use gmail, then Google has all your emails.

Then someone will write an utility that automatically sets timezone using geoclue location data.

It would be fair to compare browsers without adding extensions, with default settings.

This would show which browser have the best security and privacy out of the box. Also, the comparison would be practically impossible otherwise.

Most people use defaults, and I suspect a large portion of users install no extension, unless maybe if a tech-savy relative adds an adblocker.

Translation: We’re extremely short staffed, so we are shaming our employees into sacrificing their vacation

While that’s true, but there’s no indication of Microsoft brute forcing with million of combinations.

The article you link says Microsoft is only trying a few obvious passwords: the filename, and words found in the plaintext message.

Proper encryption isn’t just about using a strong algorithm. It’s also about proper key management, ie not sending the password in the clear via the same channel as the encrypted files.

ZIP isn’t a good way to encrypt, but what Microsoft is doing is simply reading the email, and decrypting zips with the password found in the email body.

All encryptions schemes can be trivially broken if you have the key. It’s not even breaking, it’s just normal decryption.

Sodas

Quite the contrary.

Password hashing is standard nowadays.

When a database is compromised, brute forcing hashes is necessary to recover passwords, and the short ones are the first ones to be recovered.

These 5% of negative reviews probably has nothing to do with you. There’s always a small amount of people unhappy for random or unrelated reasons (broke up with boy/girlfriend, car broke, etc) and who would write negative reviews no matter what. It’s possible they cannot dissociate the course from other things happening in their life. They just happened to be unhappy at that time, and felt like leaving a nasty review.

Taler is closer to an EMV card alternative, rather than a cash alternative.

Hopefully cash remains. But regions and businesses are already starting to go cashless, so I’d rather have Tale as an option.

Would Taler be more resilient than a typical EMV/AmEx card? It’s designed as an online payment system but it’s less centralised, so that could help.

It’s already an attractive project due to its privacy feature, and due to it being more regulation-friendly that cryptocurrencies. If it’s resilient enough it could act as a digital cash.

That’s interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.

My point is having a very old constitution isn’t much of a boast if keeping it as-is causes political issues.

Tradition and inertia.

The USA is proud to have the oldest and longest-standing written constitution. The fact it hasn’t been rewriteen in a long time help explain why there’s still an electoral college, slavery for prisoners (13th amendements), and weak regulation of campaign finance.

Don’t waste time trying to reason them. If you’re not able and willing and sue them to enforce the GPL license, the company won’t care.

You should directly informe one of the organisations mentioned previously, they may have a lawyer and experience fighting this kind of fight.

Best you can do youself is collect evidence that they’re distributing modified GPL software, and write a precise description of the issue, to help these organisations kickstart their investigation into the GPL violation.

Twitter/X is such a cesspool. The end of nitter is an occasion to completely stop using Twitter, and instead go to the fediverse, subscribe to a newspaper.

I had to start using Google Messages recently because Signal dropped SMS support. It sounds like it’s time to switch SMS app yet again. Sigh.

This reminds me of Glootie.

Glootie is a character that first appeared in Introducing: Glootie! […] He has DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP tattooed on his forehead.

Someone like Glootie once once asked me to develop his app. I expertly dodged the bullet by referring him to an organization that coordinates freelance developments. Someone explained to him that he’d need 1 or 2 developers plus a project manager, and probably told him typically hourly rate and number of hours for such projects. Never heard him again speak about the app.

Late for presents preparation as usual. A piece a broken glass punctured my bicycle tire today, hopefully I wasn’t far from home. Day job is good. I can’t complain much.

I think the question is whether anonymity cause or enable hate speech, not hate itself. And as important, wether banning anonymity can be a remedy against hate speech, without causing harmful side effects.

Do you know of a study that have confirmed anonymity as a cause of hate or agressive speech online?

It may not be that simple, even if that sounds plausible. But there’s the argument that anonymity is helpful to protect against some agressive behaviors.

While there are many examples of people using anonymous social media accounts to abuse others online, it’s equally clear that anonymity can be a lifeline to many users and communities. Posting anonymously can allow people to protect themselves – to openly discuss and deal with complex topics safely. It can allow people to speak out about abuse, and seek information.

From: Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer, by Harry T Dyer