It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

I'm pretty sure 60 years of civics classes taught by football coaches is what got us here.

Did you know that if you change the `dl=0` at the end of a dropbox link to `dl=1` it'll just automatically download instead of taking you to that dumb webpage that plays videos terribly?

You did? Great.

DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT IF YOU CHANGE IT TO `raw=1` IT WILL LOAD THE ACTUAL FILE IN THE BROWSER WINDOW WTF HOW DID I JUST FIND THIS

A whole new approach to social engineering: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/pentagon-leak-traced-to-video-game-chat-group-users-arguing-over-war-in-ukraine

From the court to the sidelines.

Once a star as a player, Dejan Milojević is now helping the next generation learn the tricks of the trade as a coach with the Dubs.

@TriNet@twitter.com || #YourPeopleMatter

ChatGPT reminds me of my mom: it thinks I’m one of the top cyber researchers to follow on LinkedIn, and it’s convinced I worked for the NSA.

What happens when you click a phishing link in your corporate email system. https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/129do6h/a_comment_i_found_engineers_being_engineers/

This is going to cost Shasta County millions by the time the litigation is over and at least a couple of members of law enforcement should have absolutely refused to participate in this sham.
I hope the prosecutors take a long, hard look at criminal charges against 4H and that the school system considers banning them entirely.

But at least they taught that 9 year old girl a lesson!

And put an end to mom's embarrassing Facebook campaign to save the goat.

I predict at least 2 or 3 4H executives will need to jump on a sword before this is over.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair

This seems like a really excellent day not to be on Twitter any more.

Just found this fantastic piece Maggie Smith wrote about her divorce.

"I felt missed as staff." Leave it to a poet to make a short piece count; it is astonishing to me how many women I know who resonate to those words.

https://www.thecut.com/article/book-excerpt-you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-maggie-smith.html

#Feminism #InvisibleLabor #GenderRoles #Divorce

My brand new VW ID.4 keeps warning me that my emergency call service license has expired because it can't find 2G/3G coverage. It turns out this is a known issue that cannot be fixed without a software release.

I bought an ID.4 but I got a VW Bug

I just checked my spam folder and found that Twitter has been emailing me tweets every day for months..

I just checked my spam folder and found that Twitter has been emailing me tweets every day for months..

I'm not writing an entire blog post about how stupid a US TikTok ban would be because this is all that needs to be said:

If the Chinese government is in your threat model, don’t install TikTok on your device. Otherwise, your actual problem is surveillance capitalism.

A wide range of Android phones are vulnerable to attacks that fully compromise the devices at their deepest level: the baseband. Fixes have yet to be delivered, except to a subset of vulnerable Pixels. In the meantime, Google and Samsung advise, users should do something that's not possible for most vulnerable devices: turn off VoLTE. Both Google and Samsung declined to provide further, actionable guidance to at-risk customers. Worse, even if/when it's possible to turn off VoLTE, this advice completely neuters most phones of any kind of voice calling capability.

This incident once again underscores the security mess of the Android ecosystem. It also demonstrates the lack of cooperation Google and Samsung regularly exhibit in keeping their customers safe.

Super sad.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/critical-vulnerabilities-allow-some-android-phones-to-be-hacked/

It is so easy to hate on SVB and say their depositors should be take the loss along with their shareholders and the stock market in general... but IMO you are forgetting the pain an economic shock will cause everyone.

And ignoring that stopping runs on a majority of small and medium sized banks and preventing hundreds of startups from failing all at once is pretty cheap both economically and politically versus the alternatives.

In a FAIR world, advocates of deregulation would pay the price and progressives would be rewarded. Does anyone think we live in that world.

We can debate the virtues and moral hazards all we want; the simple truth is that the companies who deposited billions in SVB were acting responsibly punishing them would only exacerbate all sorts of terrible outcomes.

SVB management made some mistakes, not huge ones, and their shareholders paid the price. That's likely the best outcome of a bad situation.

@jerry Any chance you could be available to chat for a few minutes about a digital signature based user authentication solution we want to port to mastadon?

My schedule is pretty flexible and I would really value your input.

If anyone notices a big spike in productivity this afternoon, it is absolutely unrelated to the fact that Reddit has been down for almost an hour.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was getting you to click “I Agree” to the 1,956-page user agreement without reading it.

I'm glad everybody got a couple of days of schadenfreude out of their systems, because if SVB deposits are still locked down on Monday then:

1) Companies are going to start missing payroll and will fire/furlough normal folks (ACH has to happen Monday for 3/15 paychecks)

2) Small-Medium businesses all over will start pulling out of smaller banks, causing national contagion

3) There will be massive consolidation into the TBTF banks