are YOU making a website with INFORMATION?

it needs a date. if its not just a list of links... it needs A DATE.

yes your blog, youre recipe edit etc NEEDS A DATE..

please, can we get this right

I had to deal with a freshly unboxed Android phone, and the flipping *clock* app, that was installed by default, came with a privacy policy.

I discovered this because the clock started crying that it couldn't work properly without Google Play Services.

I don't care what the privacy policy was for. I am tired. A clock app does not need to be in a position to have any privacy policy more involved than "we collect and report no data".

The clock is now disabled.

I am so tired of this.

Don't mention explodey stuff near TSA. Noted ✅

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

"If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking" - Leslie Lamport. As a programmer, he'd know this personally, as many programming ideas work fine in your head. Until you try to type it in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport

decomplexifying #curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/27/decomplexifying-curl/

I seem to remember the EICAR test string https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file has been used in DoS attacks. Like, supply the string to a log/database such that it will be corrupted by antivirus. However, I cannot find any direct sources. Who can help?

Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google proposal divides opinion
Link: https://devclass.com/2024/10/22/should-javascript-be-split-into-two-languages-new-google-driven-proposal-divides-opinion/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955353

New release! 📣

Parents can now shield their children from clickbait and shock value with powerful new video controls that show authentic thumbnails and clean titles.

Full release notes: https://kagi.com/changelog#5108

#Kagi #AdFree #Search #Family

Gmail account appears to be fine, but the Amazon account has definitely been hijacked. Looks like the attacker texted a link that the neighbor clicked on this morning, and that completed some sort of account ownership transfer. Neighbor assures me they just clicked the link and didn't enter anything. They just landed on an Amazon page that said their account had been successfully transferred to someone else (they have a screenshot of the hijacker's email address).

They've been on the phone with Amazon trying to get it resolved, but if the description is correct it sure seems like there's a vulnerability on Amazon's end here.

At exactly the same time the SMS was sent the neighbor's Gmail account got hit with a firehose of thousands of spam messages persisting for several hours, which is why they thought the Gmail account was hacked (and also why they clicked the Amazon phishing link from the SMS).

Does this sort of thing sound familiar to anyone?