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Canada, let's get real: restricting access to devices like the Flipper Zero will hamper development of strong, secure technologies, and won't solve the problem of car hacking. eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/rest

@piouzi @delta only on some platforms, and iOS is not one of them. A friend lost all of the signal history when their iphone crashed, and there is no way to preemptively prevent that.

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How many people do you know that have lost their messaging history on Whatsapp or Signal, photos etc during mobile phone transitions or breakage or through other shenenigans?

With #deltachat you can:

- export "everything" to a file and import it on any of the many different devices

- or just setup a second device through a QR code scan -- which was happily discovered here after an accidental factory reset libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2

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xz-utils was backdoored by its upstream. Tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and thoroughly documented by vuln discoverer Andres Freund on oss-security@: openwall.com/lists/oss-securit

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Raise your hand if you ever made a paper snake out of tear-off tractor-feed margins.

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Not only should you NOT provide amazon with your palm print, you should be doing everything you can to keep your finger- and palmprints out of high resolution images, as a whole. (Also your keys, but please tell me you know that already.)
theverge.com/2024/3/28/2411449

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Dear Excellent Fediversian Who Recommended Timer Pill Bottle Caps: a thousand times thank you! These things are genius. SO many times (just now, for example) the timers have saved my brain-fogged ass from double-dosing. All technology should be this useful.

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"I don't like these old sewing machines, they can only do straight stitches. How are you gonna do button holes?!"

Well, 1950's tech had a solution for that.

#sewing #antiqueSewingMachines #antiqueTools

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Lyft's new policies should be illegal.

You cannot manage your account, including cancel your membership, or delete your account without the app. The website will log you in, but then tell you that you must use the app.

I decided to cancel my membership and delete my account, because the app also will not work without Google Play Services either. The app will open, show you a notice that you need it, then close.

But putting that aside, you should at least have access to your account without your phone by visiting their website. I had to use someone else's phone just to log in, cancel, and then delete my account.

#Lyft #LyftPink

@Gina @JoelBarr There are similar tests here. Fwict, the extra time is to proctor the proctors (review the tapes). Multiple layers of distrust that result in arbitrary delays.

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#Whatsapp is updating it's Terms and conditions again. The problem with #centralized services where everyone from your work or school is on.. There is basically nothing one can do, beside quitting or accepting whatever they come up with.
That's one of the biggest problems with #centralized services, and one of the reasons why I prefer #xmpp and the #fediverse

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A stainless steel carbonation cap, used to carbonate liquids in PET soda bottles.

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@grimalkina I was having a conversation some years back with someone with a neuroscience PhD and a psych background. I acknowledged that I was feeling real insecurity about having recently joined “a really high performing team”.

She says to me “You know who else is high performing? Dogs in dog shows.”

I will never stop thinking about that.

@darkandandstormy @guardianproject it's unfortunate that more places are starting to restrict access to cash. But this doesn't mean others should follow suit, or that cash shouldn't be as widely accepted as possible.

It would be better for people in those places to push back against the restriction in order to have better privacy without involving third parties in every transaction

With so many "smart" watches, it's disappointing that they don't have the option to send a notification to a loved one if the vitals drop in some way (hear rate, oxygen level, etc)

Hopefully open source options like will allow for this, without hiding behind patents and liability concerns

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#Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@Mozilla@mamot.fr) (@mozilla@mozilla.social ) and/or #TorBrowser if you haven't done so already!

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@dansup interesting. Sharing of private keys makes them seem significantly less (or not) private. Devil's in the details, I guess. Just sounded quite odd and at odds with expextations

Some interesting thoughts in this video on children not being outside as much, impacts of car culture on walking and biking to school, and more:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=W2nB0zch

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