FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@renbymon supermarket near me still has the “Power Boost” single use power banks too. Literally a charged Li-Ion power bank that once it’s discharged you just bin it.

Single-use vapes are such an environmental hazard when not disposed of correctly; they should never have been allowed on the market.

https://fosstodon.org/@Ryanteck/111029023060513597

"mom, how are computer programs made"

"you see, when two silly catgirls like each other very much-"

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The opposite of "Dark Matter" is "Luminous Matter" which implies the opposite of the "Dark Web" is the "Luminous Web"

Vapourware
Software
Firmware
Hardware
Crunchyware

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft

These are the first 6 companies designated as ‘gatekeepers' under the Digital Markets Act.

They have 6 months to ensure their core platform services comply with our rules, including:

✔ Allowing users to unsubscribe and remove pre-installed services
✔ Allowing the download of alternative app stores

❌ Banning tracking outside of their services without consent
❌ Stopping ranking their products more favourably

➡ https://europa.eu/!NbfBbn

#DMA

ok we all need to get ready for the "don't you fucking dare download Chrome for iOS" campaign

the message is simple: "don't you fucking dare download Chrome for iOS"

the reason: as bad as Safari might be, can you imagine how bad the web landscape will suck if Chrome gets even more marketshare

defenders could do better, still. for example, corporations could learn to hold off on launching the shiny new thing that everyone is excited for, until it's had adequate security attention.

of course, they won't, because corporations don't really do patience when money is on the line. so "could" isn't really true, it ascribes them too much agency.

there's a generally accepted principle in information privacy and security, "no security by obscurity". that is, it's safer to assume that an attacker knows exactly how your systems work, and your defenses need to hold up even so.

inside a large enterprise it gets really, really tempting to rely on obscurity anyway. "it's not public, nobody will know"

Microsoft did everything "right", at least by corporate standards. they still lost.

as someone who's been involved in the architecture of systems like this, this was a good read

(our focus of course has been privacy, but there is no privacy without security)

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

@hikari the vibe of "I just opened Office Sim 1996 and am about to do some fraud"

Neat: SmolSharp, a way to (mis)use C# native AOT compilation to produce very small executables. There's a C# OpenGL water rendering demo in under 8 kilobytes. https://github.com/ascpixi/smolsharp