Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

@briankrebs I'll just say this in response, personally I never know what is going to offend someone. I have never had great social skills, and when someone takes offense at something I say or do I often agnogize over who was in the wrong, me or the person being (maybe too easily) offended.

That said, if someone has the choice to mute or block me (and they feel they must do one of the two), I'd much rather they block me so I can't read what they write and then maybe at some future point write a response that they will never read. If, as rarely happens, someone offends me so much that I never want to see anything else they might ever write, I'll always choose to block. I do use mute too, but most often because someone is posting in a language other than English but their posts are still getting through despite the fact that I have set my preferences to see English language posts only. Since I only understand English, there is no point in receiving posts from someone who writes in another language.

#privacy #Google #YouTube

https://mashable.com/article/google-ordered-to-hand-over-viewer-data-privacy-concerns

Twenty One Pilots has been my go to band this week.
https://www.twentyonepilots.com/

Some BIG announcements incoming over the next few weeks. Stay tuned...

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Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.

With a bit of help from #phoc the next phosh-osk-stub release can (optionally) hide when a keyboard gets attached.

#phosh #LinuxMobile

The Macintosh Two-Page Colour Classic was quite a handful. MacWorld Magazine described it as "Perfect for small business and people with two eyes, it's the most two-page two-screen colour classic we've seen. With its unique built-in double-degauss floppy disk eraser, it's also the most secure".

Reply with a swatch of the colour that just goes straight to your heart. Your fave hue, the best chroma vibe for your head.

WaPo has a Mar. 6 story on its homepage that's a bit baffling. The headline is: Worried About the American Express data breach? [Checks notes: No]

I'm not aware of anyone who is worried, much less aware of a breach involving Amex. The story goes on to say Amex blamed a third party for exposing customer data.

But here's the thing: This kind of thing happens ALL. THE. TIME. It just so happens that Amex is somehow more willing to put out a breach notification than others when this does happen.

I know this because for a long time I used to read all of the breach disclosures coming out daily and indexed by the various state attorneys general offices. And a notice like this from Amex was a fairly regular occurrence.

Anyway, the story is about credit card fraud. But then the advice to "worried" consumers is to change their passwords and use 2FA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/06/american-express-breach-credit-cards/

I hope everybody is having a good Sunday.

#DaylightSavingTime

Happy #marioday everyone! What was the first ever Mario game you played and what console was it on?

Send me right to jail