salith @salith@computerfairi.es

Let's talk about xPal, which purports to be an encrypted messaging app. https://xpal.com

Anyone that reads my blog probably already knows where this is going.

If this post accidentally reaches escape velocity and people that don't know me find it: Hi, I'm a furry cryptography nerd. Usually when I talk about so-called private apps, it's to disclose vulnerabilities in them.

(Today, I just don't have the damn energy to do a formal write-up.)

Let's start with how they market their app.

Ah, Pope Francis croaked. Another high profile reactionary transphobe bites the dust.

Catholic popes aren't and can't ever be allies, short of dismantling the entire rotten structure.

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20240402_dignitas-infinita_en.html

So let's be clear, not only did Pope Francis consider trans people to be an affront to god and a rot in society, but he also held deep anti feminist views and believed women's value was in being subservient to men and not trying to hold the same level of authority as them. Not really someone I'm going to mourn. Sorry you fell for his repainted "hate the sin love the sinner" line about gay people

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

jimmy neutron is actually composed of three jimmy quarks, held together by a james bond

"Our glorious leader has blessed us all, by taking away the "beautiful tariffs that will make us all win" he had blessed us with earlier."

Watched a YT vid last night about the Windscale fire.

20 mins long, and though it was well produced and enjoyable to watch something was conspicuous by its absence; the changes that UK gov forced the plant to adopt, despite protests from technical staff, which made the reactor run well outside design spec.

That might not seem like much but the vid presents Windscale as an accident due to a "fatal design flaw" and not gov pressure.

MAGA hat from #Greenland 🇬🇱

UPD: me and my friend are working closely with dogpatch press right now.

additional development of the story: they also told me that the con director tried to confiscate their mobility aid because it had one of the antifa patches on it. and also broke their partner's glasses that are worth $100.

i encourage you to spread the word about this.

#furnalequinox #furry #furnal2025

FOSS is awesome but if you are mad about windows being evil and shitty the answer is not "tell people about linux". it isn't gonna work! it will never work! the answer is STOP MICROSOFT the answer is break the company the fuck up the answer is to get politically organized to round up all those fucks and throw em in prison for their crimes against humanity and software or whatever

but until then what you're doing is telling people "actually you're at fault here" for crimes of corps

Elite Dangerous recently rolled out a new mechanic: Player System Colonisation! Players can now go to a system and stake their own claims! They can build a space station, and they get a cut of transactions from owning it! Some player decided "hey, I like Pulsars, they look pretty, I'm going to build a space station around a Pulsar." the problem is, when you do that, the game tries to lock the orbit of the station to the rotation speed of the star.
soooo.....

https://old.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1j6x1m7/do_not_dock_at_lantern_light/

PSA for anyone with an #Amazon #Kindle or even just any #kindlebooks , they are about to permanently remove the ability to download books to your computer. Your last day to use this functionality is February 26, 2025, so you have about a week. There are no easy ways to grab it all at once, but it's worth it to me to be able to access my 500+ #ebooks so I'm clicking on them one by one anyway. Amazon has been very quiet about it, so spread the word.

We get A LOT of AI "enhanced" job applications.

Often they read as generic buzzword nonsense. Occasionally we get candidates who mention the wrong company. Many include items we definitely don't want or need.

A cover letter this morning had this new gem: "With a strong foundation in programming, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, along with experience in my past career as a teenager, I am confident that I would bring value to your organization."