Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

How and Why I Stopped Buying New #Laptops - Low-Tech Magazine

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops #linux #righttorepair

@Darkasvim As the saying goes, 'You'd have to pay me to make me use Windows. Oh wait, you do..."

Here's our position on the "Facebook joining the Fedi" mess...

https://hub.fosstodon.org/facebook-fosstodon-fedi

Since we had a bit of a @lurk outage last night, and since @pixelfed just rolled out their shiny and new Instagram Import feature, I took the opportunity to test run it.

Amazing: the whole process was smooth and easy. There are some limitations, of course: you need to manually select which pictures to import, and there's a top limit of 1000 images - but a couple of hours later, I had just over 750 IG posts from between 2013 and 2023 up on my pixelfed account:

@4n4st4s

Magic! So thank you, @pixelfed, for doing the hard work and making life so easy for us. Also, thanks to @NGIZero for funding the development of this.

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24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth

Lol this is so true!

#Zelda #TearsoftheKingdom

Mastodon featured on the App Store 🙂 https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1668483560

Check out this best worst thing I found. It is my UX nightmare but also fun to play.

https://userinyerface.com

#UX #Games

T streaming yesterday, playing like a crazy person;
https://www.twitch.tv/tssb330/clip/PoliteRoughSangMingLee-tQsMlhBIati5YSpU

Here’s how I used AI to clone a 60 Minutes correspondent’s voice to trick a colleague into handing over Sharyn's passport number. I cloned Sharyn’s voice then manipulated the caller ID to show Sharyn’s name on the caller ID with a spoofing tool.
The hack took 5 minutes total for me to steal the sensitive information.

So, how do we protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our organizations?
1. Make sure the people around you know that caller ID is easily faked (spoofed) and that voices can also be easily impersonated.
2. If they receive a dire call from “you”, verify it’s really you with another method of communication (text, DM, FT, call, etc) before taking an action (like sending money). Kind of like human MFA.

Some suggest setting up a secret “verification word” with their folks ones so that if someone impersonates & demands money/access etc you can ask for the verification word to see if it’s a real crisis. This won’t work for all people but could work for some. If it’s a match, use it.

In general, I recommend keeping advice simple: if premise of call is dire use a 2nd method of communication to confirm a person is in trouble before taking action (like wiring money or sensitive data). Rapid text, email, DM, have others message repeatedly — before wiring money.

Bottom line is:
Scammers use urgency & fear to convince victims to take actions (like sending money, data, etc).
If premise of a call, text, email, or DM is too dire (or too good to be true), that’s a likely scam.
Use a 2nd method of communication to check it’s real before taking action!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-digital-theft-targets-people-from-millennials-to-seniors-60-minutes-2023-05-21/

@mike I'm in the habit of double clicking the first word, but keeping hold of the second click. This highlights the whole word and then you can drag around to select the rest one word at a time instead of individual letters. A true game changer that I don't think many know about!

Friendly reminder of this dope share-to-mastodon button from my friend @micahilbery. It’s pretty, it’s simple, and it’s customizable. :)

https://share-on-mastodon.social/

Anyone remember Vine?

Our next experiment is called Loops and we can't wait to release the beta.

#pixelfed #pixelfedLabs

What is the Fediverse? What does federation mean?

📞 When you call a phone number, your phone provider will connect to other providers in order to put your call through. You're part of the worldwide phone network: hundreds of independent phone providers talking to each other.

When you publish a post on here, your server will connect to other servers to distribute your post. You're part of the worldwide Fediverse: thousands of independent social media servers talking to each other.

New COSMIC dev news is out. Notable progress:

1) Accessibility in the iced toolkit 2) COSMIC Panels designs completed. Most functionality complete. 3) 10-bit color in cosmic-comp 4) Working on Settings pages for wallpapers, panels, and keyboard input

https://blog.system76.com/post/may-flowers-spring-cosmic-showers