salith @salith@computerfairi.es

passwords when you don’t enforce changing them every 2 months: Viy$Ehi8sy3&2WQ
passwords when you enforce changing them regularly: password01!? password02!? password03!? password04!? password05!?

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland

Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims Exclusive  Facebook-owner Meta and Google's YouTube now face criminal complaints in Ireland for alleged unlawful surveillance of EU citizens via tracking scripts.…
#RSS #theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/11/meta_youtube_criminal_charges/

Dishonest 'choice' by Facebook to force users to choose between free use (with a privacy invasion) or pay for privacy.

Why untruthful? First, Facebook says that that I am now using Facebook for free with 'personalized' ads, but that is not true.

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 3: "Are dialogue tags flexible?" laughed John.

Sure. Flex them. Flex them hard, otherwise your dialogue looks samey.

❌​ he said, she said, he said, over and over
❌​ different verb every time
✅​ why not both?
✅​ sometimes before the quoted speech, sometimes after
✅ replace dialogue tag with speaker doing an action
✅ no tag at all, speaker obvious from context

anyone in UK who hasn't responded to the NHS consultation on banning puberty blockers for EVERYONE except children who agree to be part of a clinical study, you have until Tuesday to do so

https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/puberty-suppressing-hormones/

Respond here!

#trans #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #NHS #ukpol #ukpolitics

Yes, Private Eye is a UK-based satirical magazine. But when it matters, they often stop being funny and start telling it like it is. And in the current climate, this front-page splash was a brave move. 👏🏽

In a major win for transgender people in Japan, the country's high court has struck down a law requiring sterilization for gender change. #japan #unseenjapan #ujpost #news
https://unseen-japan.com/japan-transgender-sterilization-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-transgender-sterilization-law

Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware

Oh, hai tiny floppy disk organizer but for micro SD cards.

⚠️ A very wet start to the weekend, particularly in Scotland

Here's Saturday's #4cast 👇

🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1715435294701314403
🕐 20/10 19:30

Stop using #Mailchimp.

Mailchimp (a proprietary mailing list and customer CMS platform) has updated its terms of service.

Mailchimp is planning to feed your email content and customer contacts into its AI models.

Mailchimp's email generating AI might spit out content that infringements on another person's copyright. And the new Mailchimp terms of service say you are legally liable for that copyright infringement, not them.

See section 30. Generative AI Features: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/

You take an arrow to the knee, and you're not an adventurer anymore.

Years later you still limp, but the arrow? Long gone. It did its work in an instant.

This is #LongCovid. You no longer test positive for the virus, but you're not an adventurer anymore.

"Long COVID" does not mean "having COVID for a long time."
It means the virus disabled you.

Yes, that's a thing viruses can do. Don't give this one the chance.

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.