r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
The problem of sharing too much info about yourself in those innocuous looking quizzes shared on social media
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/
“... in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be inadvertently giving away the answers to “secret questions” that can be used to unlock access to a host of your online identities and accounts.”
Melissa McEwen
Tech workers didn't mean to ruin your city https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/tech-workers-didnt-mean-to-ruin-your-city-173a038a1e52
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ruth [personal / 🦇 / 🕷️ ]
Hm, for folks, what are some larger instances you might recommend to folks which have busy timelines and are a little more generic which aren't mastodon.social?
Melissa McEwen
Audrey E.
Can someone share the witches.town shutdown notice with me?
Melissa McEwen
Why Gothamist Should Stay Dead: Gothamist was a business model based on taking advantage of writers, we should move past it, not resurrect it
https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/why-gothamist-should-stay-dead-1cd5bda175cc
socketwench
RT @briankrebs@twitter.com: The security researcher who originally reported the @panerabread@twitter.com security vuln that exposed millions of customers' private info has just penned this response to the company's unbelievable response to my story. worth a read: https://medium.com/@djhoulihan/no-panera-bread-doesnt-take-security-seriously-bf078027f815
Melissa McEwen
@starbreaker Layering some images on top of each other with some text like an ideal command would be something like
$ program-name --input base-image.png --layer logo.png xcord ycord --darken 10% --crop 500 500
Melissa McEwen
Anyone know any other command line image (like images as in pictures not disk images) processing tools besides ImageMagick?
Melissa McEwen
Can you look at another federation's timeline? Seems like options are local + entire federation. Would be nice to follow a few different specific ones. #Mastodon #question
Melissa McEwen
"Grindr is sharing their users' HIV status info (tied to email and GPS data) with two third-party companies, a data analysis shows -->" https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/grindr-hiv-status-privacy?utm_term=.uo4EWjP2k#.pcNzLkmEN
Michael 🚀
Did you know Twitter sells tweets? They do. Since the API only lets you pull data going back 7 days, the way you get data on anything older is to buy it from Twitter. They're selling old tweets to people who do research, marketing, elections. 💰🐦💰 https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/batch-historical/overview
Melissa McEwen
@intherain @bgcarlisle @guinan Ha it makes me wonder what other stuff I love is "competence porn." I think RPGs where you have a team of characters working together like Dragon Quest is a bit like that too, at least for me.
Holly 🇳🇱🌹🗽
@bgcarlisle @guinan My friend calls this "competence porn". Like show me a group of people, working together as a team, doing the right thing. Not some lone, sketchy, guy breaking all the rules.
Melissa McEwen
@nev yeah, trivial at that level price wise though honestly sometimes a nightmare even at an admin level (I used to work with Cisco licensing)
Melissa McEwen
@nev you'd think people in tech would know about the nightmare that is user licenses...
Melissa McEwen
@nev "$6.67 per member, per month"
Melissa McEwen
@cypnk I make an OK ish amount of money from Amazon Affiliate links which work in RSS but I agree we need some kind of sustainable model- some feeds do just have a preview and you visit the actual site to read more
Melissa McEwen
I clicked on the plans and it would cost $20,000+ A MONTH to get access to this content wtf
Melissa McEwen
I'm kind of convinced Slack is evil since they've convinced so many often well-meaning groups to congregate there and then holds a lot of the group-generated content hostage
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