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I love that at some point in time the IIS default webpage on the #homestarrunner website just became the text “this is strongbad” https://old.homestarrunner.com/default.htm

I love that at some point in time the IIS default webpage on the #homestarrunner website just became the text “this is strongbad” https://old.homestarrunner.com/default.htm

🚨 Encryption isn’t optional anymore. In EdTechSR Episode 342: Jason & I discuss why the FBI wants you on Signal, Google’s antitrust headaches, and AI tools that’ll blow your mind.
🎙️ https://edtechsr.com/2025/05/30/edtechsr-ep-342-encrypted-by-default/

EdTechSR Ep 342 Encrypted by Default
where technology news meets educational analysis Welcome to episode 342 (“Encrypted by Default”) of the EdTech Situation Room from December 18, 2024, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) unpacked the FBI’s unprecedented advice urging Americans to use encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, discussing the implications for personal privacy, national security, and school digital literacy…

Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless it is opened (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678350/microsoft-dma-windows-10-11-bing…

Microsoft will finally stop bugging Windows users about Edge — but only in Europe
Microsoft’s changes to Windows 10 and 11 in countries covered by the EU’s Digital Markets Act will make Bing less annoying and let you ditch the Microsoft Store

Test site deployed
This will be running for a few weeks as a test.
#meshtastic

Turns out #synology 's home folders are set to chmod 777 by default!
https://blog.aaronlenoir.com/2018/05/06/ssh-into-synology-nas-with-ssh-key/

Looks like it wouldn’t be too hard for ICE to tap the Flock cameras increasingly deployed around SF, if they aren’t already, by asking either SFPD or other PDs it shares access with to do the searches for them
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nati

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent insists US will 'never default' on its debt (Myles McCormick/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9c652f09-cfca-4078-9e2b-5fdacd772a75
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p76#a250602p76

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.