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An alarm in my neighbourhood started around 3:30 am this morning. Not that loud so probably a distance away yet still enough to wake me up to go and investigate. It stopped for a bit then started up again. I was trying not to get frustrated or angry but it still meant I didn't get back to sleep until after 6.
I stayed in bed until nearly 8 am and then rushed about so I'd be finished with work in time for a zoom meeting at 5:30 pm. Made it! Success!
Finally realised at 5:…

More on Alexa - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the …

Fun fact: Chia Seeds can absorb up to 20 times their weight in liquid. So if you think, “Did I put too much liquid into this?" The answer is probably no. Definitely not, no. Put more. MORE!

Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/figmas-answer-to-the-ai-software

Figma's answer to the AI software sell-off
My chat with CEO Dylan Field ahead of today's earnings call. Also: Snap loses its head of Specs right before the big launch, and OpenAI poaches another key Meta exec.

Bra av Michael Winiarski. Viktigt att vi i medierna inte nöjer oss med att okritiskt (eller utmattat) förmedla alla osanningar som Trump häver ur sig. https://www.dn.se/varlden/michael-winiarski-trump-foljde-upp-angreppet-fran-jd-vance-pa-europa/

Getting all the battery banks charged up and ready just in case we lose power this weekend.
#scwx #preparedness

I've seen a bunch of "the CA age verification law is the best way to do a bad thing and so we shouldn't oppose compliance" takes, which others are rightly pointing out is a bad stance because it's blindingly obvious that compliance now sets the stage for compliance later and the clearly set up later is mandatory verification of age data. Even if you think that, for example, California's current "progressive" government won't go there, we're all currently seeing just how easy it is for a new government to pick up the oppressive tools the "good" government was using "restraint" with and put them to worse ends.
On the other hand, I'll freely admit that distros *do* need a way to shield themselves from liability right now. The clear (to me; IANAL) correct solution is to say on your website "don't download this OS if you're in a jurisdiction where it's not legal for us to provide it."). Assuming this does put you in the clear liability-wise, it has several positive effects:
- Stops zero people from downloading it.
- Makes it clear that your project will not collaborate with fascists/oppressive regime enjoyers.
- Means that when the next law makes verifying user ages mandatory (and/or explicitly requires using Palantir-adjacent services to do so) you've already got a strategy in place and there's no need for a "debate" in your "community" about compliance.
- Gets users more practice with "the law is malicious/needlessly bureaucratic/oppressive; let's ignore it" which to be honest people in general clearly desperately need at this point.
- Is the most effective political move if you want to resist the way things are going. Forcing the other side to explain why "California bans Linux" is good rhetorical strategy. Make *them* try to explain "well it's actually not so harmful since we let users set it themselves" and answer your follow-up "but what if next year the requirements change; I just refuse to go along with this slippery slope stuff and I'm not bothered if that means you want to *ban* me."
#AgeVerification

Mister Anchor, assure me that Baghdad* is burning. Your voice, it is so soothing; that cunning mantra of killing. I need you, my witness, to dress this up so bloodless; to numb me and purge me now of thoughts of blaming you.
* Tehran

The new level of scam hit me today. Got an e-mail: "Do you have a bounty program?" This would be fun, thought I, and I answered, "Yes!" The vulnerability they'd "found" was that you can use my domain in the FROM header of the email. How cool is that! So much spoofing!
After I described that that's how email works and the reason we have DKIM, DMARK, SPF, and all of those things, they asked for $20 for a heads-up as appreciation.

Also, ich habe #Paypal gekündigt! War selbst schon einmal Opfer eines Frauds und mußte beweisen, daß ich diese Käufe nicht getätigt hatte.
#boycotpaypal
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PayPal-Datenleck: Sensible Kundeninfos sechs Monate ungeschützt
Namen, Adressen und Sozialversicherungsnummern: PayPal hat ein gravierendes Datenleck bestätigt. Durch einen Logikfehler im Code hatten Angreifer fast sechs Monate lang Zugriff auf diese sensiblen Informationen.