Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

watching all these different folding ideas videos about rich grifters

like decentraland, the mikkelsen twins, NFT's...

all these huge fucking amounts of money that're talked about... like goddamn

rich motherfuckers really are swimming in opulence while the rest of us get the crumbs huh

Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.

TL;DR: Don't turn it on.

The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.

We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted. As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers. There is no option to add a passphrase to protect the secrets, to make them accessible only by the user.

Why is this bad?

Every 2FA QR code contains a secret, or a seed, that’s used to generate the one-time codes. If someone else knows the secret, they can generate the same one-time codes and defeat 2FA protections. So, if there’s ever a data breach or if someone obtains access .... 🧵

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #2FA #Google #Security

Self-driving cars are not going to be designed for safety, regardless of whether it's technically possible. We're already seeing that in San Francisco.

Take Teslas for instance. They could use their "self-driving" technology to make sure the car yields to pedestrians, stops at stop signs and red lights, and drives below the speed limit.
They don't, though. Musk knows what cars are for: they are for using violence to put your convenience over other's safety. If Tesla made a car that followed the law, customers would be furious.

We're seeing autonomous vehicles become more aggressive and reckless as well, because cars don't work without the threat of violence.

hi all ✨
i'm monir (they/de/den), based in copenhagen, denmark.

i'm a techno-anthropologist who's researched how unfairness is embedded in social media platforms, machine learning algorithms and tech in general.

key words: queer activism, sustainable and fair tech, ngo work, anger towards the system(s)

i live for: (vegan) food, my partner and our cat, the community™, doing pottery, growing fruits and veggies, gaming and tv-shows, queer futures and ethical traveling

#introduction

Hard not to feel worn down towards earning your degree when it seems like every field you could be getting into seems to have bought into ChatGPT/machine learning evangelism at the expense of ethics or even basic quality control.

I still mask up and I am thankful to everyone else that does as well. The reality is that the pandemic has not ended, and for people in high risk categories (like myself and my partner), the pandemic has become quite a bit more dangerous because no one is masking.

Tfw you're a lefty ""tech""" person (the quotation marks matter), but you also are an anarchist so you starve for analysis of the harms of social media, AI etc that doesn't default to an argument in favor of strengthening the state

I agree that these technologies need limits, I do not trust the state to make or enforce these limits in a non-oppressive way

HI! I'm Freeman I'm and I'm creating a fully open source texture library composed of base materials that you can use as they are or modify to create more unique and complex ones. I currently have:

-Wood
-Concrete
-Steel
-Iron
-Copper
-A paint overlay to apply over any other material.

I would like to make at least 4 or 5 more for the first release. What base materials would be useful for you?

Boost are really appreciated.

(First image is big)
#MaterialMaker #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

Adblockers are security software

Let’s welcome #Russia state media to Fediverse by defederating their pravda.me instance.

It seems to be run by a volunteer and for now it has hundreds of mirrored state media accounts such as RT, TASS and 40k fake users boosting these news as the admin likely wants to boost this project and obtain government funding.

Research by Kovaliov21185@mastodon.social and evidence can be found here https://mastodon.social/@Kovaliov21185/110259577733421165

Tienduizenden slachtoffers van het toeslagenschandaal strijden al jaren voor gerechtigheid. Maar de afhandeling? Die komt na een eerste compensatie van 30.000 euro maar niet op gang. Daarom spande het Nijverdalse stel Renate Wolbers en haar partner Jeroen Wolterink een zaak tegen de overheid aan. Het is in het veelbesproken toeslagenschandaal de eerste keer dat slachtoffers op deze manier hun recht willen halen.

En dat is ze vanmiddag gelukt.

#toeslagenschandaal

https://www.rtvoost.nl/nieuws/2220704/doorbraak-in-toeslagenschandaal-door-nijverdals-stel-rechter-stelt-staat-aansprakelijk-voor-schade

Solar powered e-bike:

https://zolarenergy.net/

#solarpunk #bike #fuckCars

A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic