Notices by André E. Veltstra (aeveltstra@mastodon.social)

@rain Depends on locale. Here in the USA, we spell it u-less.

@fructose_dealer Looks like a healthy brain and self-reflecting psyche right there. There should be more of us!

@chucker @tindall @qwazix It's a good, straight-forward editor, that has helped me out for several years. It did little to ease my programming needs. But it's available and does exactly that which it is meant to do.

@jasper Here we go:
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/y9i9eJ

@jasper Interesting read. Difficult to read, too, unfortunately, because some manager or web designer decided that small screens don't exist. I'll see if I can get the text reflown.

"No! That chicken had no feathers!"

~ Joe Hills from Nashville, Tennessee, streaming live right now on Mixer, YouTube, and Twitch.

#Hermitcraft #Minecraft #JoeHillsTSD

@khaos_farbauti TL;DR: use honeypots and keep changing ways into your data.

In my local area the power is out for hundreds of thousands of people.

This is absolutely ridiculous. We're supposed to be the greatest country in the world? I guess if you count greatest in power outages...

The power company estimates it will take several days to restore service. Days! So... all my food will go bad. And I'll have to wash my clothes elsewhere.

Great...

@Ephaemera @hntooter OK. Then I wonder what the author implied.

@varx Yes, they did!

@djsumdog May be both? For Firefox I tend to use Policy Control. Works quite well, but not very friendly to use.

@Ephaemera @hntooter This is an important detail: many people blame police's visibility as a cause for protest violence. In the Netherlands, the government found that reducing police visibility during protests also diminished violence during protests.

And this is why you should browse free from #javascript most of the time, unless you have determined the site's safety and trustworthiness.

#JavascriptFree #Security #Privacy #Antivirus

New Angler-based #advirus targets #cybersecurity researchers on #MSWindows, infects the victim with #Bedep and #TeslaCrypt. 

"Angler Takes Malvertising to New Heights", on Trustwave by SpiderLabs: https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/angler-takes-malvertising-to-new-heights/

@Are0h Wouldn't you think that the reporter disagreed with your valuation of their comment? Now I don't think that being called worthless is a reportable offense: I've grown quite a hard skin. But I'm sure some people feel our statements a bit more sharply. Hence the report.

Or they're a troll, aiming to waste your time. Also a possibility. I've had that happen.

@zensaiyuki Certainly. Distributing the effort over a billion devices just makes it faster, and at someone else's cost.

And there's millions of web browsers "infected" with bitcoin-mining javascripts, delivered via unsuspecting web sites using advertisments. That's bad only because it uses CPU, memory, and battery. But what's stopping the makers of such botnets from reusing their infrastucture for decoding or brute-forcing password hashes?

Remember when NASA conducted the SETI project? Millions of volunteers allowed NASA to install a tiny client on their personal computing device, that would churn away bits and pieces of a space signal, to figure out what it meant.

Now we have billions and billions of internet-connected devices, over which we have no control. Who's to say those aren't abused into a botnet that happily and quietly breaks encryption algorithms?

@lightdark OK. Illiterate person here. Then what's a kWh? Kilowatts used in an hour? On average?

@juliank @BestGirlGrace Password composition rules only make remembering passwords harder for people. It does nothing to make it harder for computers to crack the passwords. Computers don't care. They happily churn along.