Alex @lx@tooting.ch

So, BGP is the new DNS (as in "it's not DNS; it's never DNS; it was DNS"):
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/

Sometimes I think that the Thunderbird team is the one group at Mozilla (ok, MZLA Technologies Corporation) who still believes in their product - even though, as we all know, Email is dead.

Insofar, the plan of rebranding K9 Mail does sound like a good move.

We have some news for you.

https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

Some thoughts on forced #password changes.

https://kevq.uk/why-forced-password-changes-reduce-security/

They're robust against quantum attacks because it's hard to make a quantum system that large.
https://xkcd.com/2626/

Bei der Diskussion heute über Waffengesetzverschärfung in den USA ist mir folgendes in den Sinn gekommen.

Was kommt eher?

Great #duckduckgo ad.

We carefully sampled the general population and found that most people are familiar with acquiescence bias.
https://xkcd.com/2618/

Me, whenever I approach a new piece of software:

Written in Go or Rust? 🎉
Python, C, C++, Lua? 😊
Haskell? 🤔
Ruby? 🤷
JavaScript? 🤦
PHP? 🙄
Java or Perl? 😭

Apple will now allow Blink and Gecko based browsers in iOS after lastest EU ruling.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/apple_ios_browser/

EU citizens, remember that you have the right to be forgotten. If you’re closing your Twitter account, you can write to them and tell them to delete your data and your account permanently and they must comply. You don’t have to leave your data with Musk if you don’t want to.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/my-rights/can-i-ask-company-delete-my-personal-data_en

#twitter #eu #legal #rightToBeForgotten

#LinkedIn

tired of being unable to right click and save an image? sick of developers using divs with "background-image" instead of an img tag? transparent 1x1 pixel gifs getting in your way?

with the right-click borescope, now everything is possible! links below~

Threema Push is here! Time to say goodbye to Google’s push service. 👋 https://threema.ch/bp/threema-push

I've always wondered what happens to that number you still use for messengers but don't own anymore:

Why tech companies should stop using phone numbers as user IDs - a super weird story in a thread ⬇️