ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Microsoft Authenticator prompts the user to accept sharing analytics during the first launch. The prompt only dismisses when the user taps on "Accept." In fact, the app starts sending analytics even before accepting the privacy statement.🤦‍♂️

In this video, we downloaded the authenticator app from the App Store and we opened it as we monitored the iPhone network traffic. While the app was showing the permission prompt, we captured at least 3 calls made by the app sending diagnostics to Microsoft. The app sent 14 KB of analytics even before accepting the prompt.

The message on the prompt actually says that Microsoft needs to collect diagnostic data in order to keep Authenticator secure and up to date. 😵‍💫

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #2FA #InfoSec #Security #Microsoft

https://youtu.be/r5456XXG6v0

Lying on the deck under the flowers looking at the stars (and then ruining it by wondering if I can take a photo of the stars, which it turns out yes, I kinda sort of can)

Tandy Australia 88/89 catalogue to be scanned soon. Is there anything in it that you’re hoping to see?

While searching for "#BreakOut" I just found a barcode reader for #BASIC source codes.

("Acorn User", 12/1984, p. 65-70)

1776-1933 - major bank crisis every 10 years

1930s - FDR bank rules enacted

1930s-1980s - no major crisis

1980s - rules rolled back

1980s-2010 - major crisis every 10 years

2010 - Dodd-Frank rules enacted

2010-2018 - no major crisis

2018 - rules rolled back

2023 - crisis?

Okay that’s nice. 🥲

The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of Sir David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press #Sustainability https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears

Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas

In Utrecht, NL people have been falling into a pond because duckweed has been stressed by the cold and turned it red an looks exactly like a cycle path.

A retronym is a word that describes something that used to be the only kind of something, like acoustic guitar and postal mail (or snail mail).

Here's a new one to me: pork bacon!

#Language #EnglishLanguage #retronym

🚨 The Antarctic annual minimum has definitely passed ➡️ "This is the lowest sea ice extent in the 1979 to 2023 sea ice record, setting a record low for the second straight year."

See more at http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2023/02/antarctic-sea-ice-minimum-settles-on-record-low-extent-again/

A complete Rainbow taken at around 30k ft above the Earth.

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As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to #GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.

Serious poll, trying to get a more accurate read of the vibes.
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Considering everything you can think of, what do you consider the state of the world to be?
#poll #polls #fedipoll

@rozanski @codinghorror You may also like the barn.megaparsec measuring spoon. A barn is an area roughly covering a Uranium nucleus. A megaparsec is three and a bit million light years. Multiply them and you get a volume, about a third of a teaspoon. My spoon is within ~1%