facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

16WW Electricity Profiles - 16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile - https://m.e…

16WW Electricity Profiles
16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile

I can at least configure GrapheneOS in such a way that I can block app installations entirely in secondary profiles and use my main profile as an admin account for installing, updating and forwarding all these apps to other users
For me, the hardest part is dealing with social media, the fear of missing out is strong. But hey, what can you do? I'm aiming to gradually shift toward a lifestyle mostly based on using Tor.
See you all another day.

X starts rolling out About This Account globally, letting users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the signup date on the profile (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1992335925322613127

Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) on X
In a couple hours, we'll be rolling out About This Account globally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the signup date on profiles. This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town

Folks using #PhanpySocialDev , there are 2 new features that need a bit of testing:
1. QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings - includes scanner (camera) too
2. Import/export accounts - the export *excludes* access tokens, so need to login again after import
They’re quite hidden, so just a heads-up 🙇‍♂️

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

In case you had not yet seen this elsewhere.
#gmail #ai #privacy #infosec

There are many good reasons to switch from Whatsapp to Signal, here is another one.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html

3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.

St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025
#photography

The many things you can learn if you copy the entire #WhatsApp user directory
https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Account…

Finite element model predicts micromotion-induced strain profiles that correlate with the functional performance of Utah arrays in humans and non-human primates https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ae1bda

A year on #GitHub
https://git-wrapped.com/profiles/nfrankel

(Troll, but not really)
It's official: #CPython is planning to kill the #Gentoo WD40 profiles.
https://discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-rust-for-cpython/104906

💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
If you want to know more, read the thread below:
https://bsky.app/profile/marmole6.bsky.social/post/3m5m2u5u7gk2m

Emilio Mármol Sánchez (@marmole6.bsky.social)
During past years, research focused on ancient #DNA has gained a lot of interest, with dozens of papers being routinely published each year📃 But what about ancient #RNA? The common preconception is that these molecules, as opposed to DNA, do not last long after cell death. https://media.tenor.com/gMBUgkYXPxIAAAAC/ponke-ponkesol.gif?hh=498&ww=498

"WHILL Model C2 Electric Wheelchairs and Model F Power Chairs do not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections. An attacker within range can pair with the device and issue movement commands, override speed restrictions, and manipulate configuration profiles without any credentials or user interaction."
No comments...
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Let's Encrypt Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026
#news

Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026
Let’s Encrypt will no longer include the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage (EKU) in our certificates beginning in 2026. Most users who use Let’s Encrypt to secure websites won’t be affected and won’t need to take any action. However, if you use Let’s Encrypt certificates as client certificates to authenticate to a server, this change may impact you. To minimize disruption, Let’s Encrypt will roll this change out in multiple stages, using ACME Profiles:

Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.

Masto Admin Tip

Every masto admin surely knows to regularly clean up cached media from remote servers with the command
But do they also know that this doesn't include remote profile images from users who mostly probably haven't even logged in at home for years?
So likely admins should also run
To remove remote profiles that haven't been needed in a month?
I only discovered this last night, and running it examined nearly 400,000 accounts and removed 86Gb, or 70% of the media storage space!
Now instead of being 100% full, our media drive is 29% full.

Grindr now is awash in spam for Twitter profiles. All named DTF, all fake-looking femme images. Grindr isn't trying very hard to stop spam.

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

🚫 If you use #Steam, I have a #fascist you can block! 🚫
His bio says:
"There are only two genders
The only "strength" in diversity, is diversity of thought!
There is no such place as "palestine""
Link:

MI5 warns of Chinese spies using LinkedIn to gain intel on lawmakers https://therecord.media/mi5-warns-chinese-spies-using-linkedin-lawmakers

Interesting article from #cybersecurity researchers at ITRes on yet another flavor of “EDR silencer” tactics, this time using a maliciously activated VPN connection that “sinks” or blocks traffic to EDR telemetry endpoints. Helpfully, they include detection and prevention techniques too, including likely the best idea, restricting by technical policy who can create VPN profiles.

SinkVPN: Redirecting endpoint cloud telemetry by abusing usermode VPN tunnels 
The article discusses SinkVPN, a technique that enables non-admin users to create malicious VPN connections that can divert and block cloud-bound traffic, evading security measures. It highlights t…

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

I did not know Firefox had profiles within profiles, wtf? It now makes some sense, but still a little confusing to discover it because a shortcut to launch a profile did not really exist.
#firefox

#FediData: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal #Fediverse Dataset from #Mastodon
> Our dataset integrates user profiles, text, images, and social interactions.
> FediData could serve as a founda…

Managed charging of EVs (called 'smart charging' in Europe) could save California $5 - 18 billion on distribution grid upgrades by 2040. Increased electrification (transport, buildings) offsets increased infrastructure costs by -0.2-4.5¢/kWh for all.
https://www.

Mastodon is showing me a "who to follow" widget and I checked out two profiles and they are people who haven't posted in a year or more. (One since 2022!)
Maybe this feature needs a tweak.
#mastodon

Investigator breaches white supremacist sites, exposes users​ | Cybernews
https://cybernews.com/security/investigator-exposes-white-supremacist-sites-users/
'An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate and exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. Photos and other sensitive details have been made public, and the full “WhiteLeaks” data is available to journalists and researchers on DDoSecrets.'

I now need to find all those online profiles where I have described myself as an "inactive" pilot and remove the word "inactive" from them. After a hiatus of a dozen years, I just passed both the ground and air work portions of a flight review, and once again have a current "license to learn."
#aviation

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

It seems like 75% of new followers have chuffed(.)org and gaza-verified(.)org URLs in their profiles.
THEY GET INSTANT BLOCKS.
AFAICT, those are scams being run by a mix of Russian mobsters and spoiled rich kids. I do not care enough to determine otherwise.
I do care about the brutality inflicted upon the Palestinian people for many decades. I care about the millennia of bigotry inflicted upon Jews. In short: I have more immediate problems. I hope they can find peace w/o i…

SoilGen: A Comprehensive Tool for Generating Synthetic Soil Profiles for Geotechnical and Seismic Analysis
Mersad Fathizadeh, Hosna Kianfar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12429 http…

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

Visual Function Profiles via Multi-Path Aggregation Reveal Neuron-Level Responses in the Drosophila Brain
Jiangping Xie, Ruohan Ren, Xiao Zhou, Ao Zheng, Jiasong Zhu, Wenyu Jiang, Ziran Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06934

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

The evolution of influence operations
from crude Russian troll farms to sophisticated AI systems using large language models;
the discovery of GoLaxy documents revealing a "Smart Propaganda System" that collects millions of data points daily, builds psychological profiles, and generates resilient personas;
the fundamental challenges of measuring effectiveness;
GoLaxy's ties to Chinese intelligence agencies;
operations targeting Hong Kong's…

MPs and peers have been told they face “a covert and calculated” attempt to recruit parliamentarians through two LinkedIn profiles linked to the Chinese intelligence service.
After MI5 issued an espionage alert on Tuesday, saying that two people were operating on LinkedIn to obtain “non-public and insider insights”, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, told MPs the effort was focused on those “with access to sensitive information about parliament and the UK government”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/mi5-issues-alert-to-mps-and-peers-over-chinese-espionage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨
🤳 QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings
🔃 Import/export accounts
📸 Extract description from attached image metadata
🐛 Bug fixes
🔗 https://phanpy.social/
…

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-departur…

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Schön zu sehen, dass #digitec #galaxus aktives Mitglied der #chocolatey Community ist. 🙏
#opensource