Stephen LB @[email protected]

Some good news for a change. Bee population recovering due to regenerative farming.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5767381/bee-population-recovering-regenerative-farming/?fbclid=IwAR3dNcAKZik8MH2W9pWUOSAURHi80nZBP00ak0eCEyrWGxrNV5BN8PEHHtU

VeraCrypt 1.24 available:

https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Release%20Notes.html

– The maximum length of passwords is 128 bytes in UTF-8 encoding for non-system volumes now (previously limited to 64 bytes).
– Many new features are for Windows only, e.g. optional RAM encryption of keys/passwords (using ChaCha12), or erasing encryption keys from memory to prevent cold boot attacks.

#veracrypt #encryption #security #infosec #cybersecurity

@trickster
2008: The economy blew up because people spend money they didn't have

2019: The economy is blowing up because people refuse to spend money they don't have

This will not get old for some time.

is that a fucking

magazine fed floppy drive

Linux users are wizards: they do more work for the same functions, but in exchange they get more flexibility and power.

Windows users are sorcerer: they get innate support and intuitive functions, but not nearly as many tricks as the wizards.

Mac users are warlocks: they bonded their souls to a malevolent power that doesn't actually care about them.

Simjacker – abusing the [email protected] Browser to track phones:

https://www.adaptivemobile.com/blog/simjacker-next-generation-spying-over-mobile

– it requires the [email protected] Browser on the targeted phone, and a mobile operator allowing special SMS
– many details are missing
– mobile operators can remotely uninstall [email protected] Browser; so this perfectly shows that you can't "take back control" of your phone by just installing some LineageOS on it

#simjacker #vulnerability #smartphone #security #infosec #cybersecurity

If you haven't heard of KaiOS before, you probably think Firefox OS is entirely dead. But actually, as a fork of B2G, KaiOS has silently grown to a user base of more than 100 million people on devices from more than 10 manufacturers, making it the third most-popular mobile OS after Android and iOS now.

They just launched proper developer docs, as well as an app store:

* https://www.kaiostech.com/meet-the-devices-that-are-powered-by-kaios/
* https://developer.kaiostech.com/

Mastodon client for KaiOS, when? All JS/Web clients should work.

Wow…

So electron improved their security features with the recent version 5, but by doing this broke tons of applications because they either need User Namespaces or an SUID executeable (to launch proper isolated subprocesses).

#Signal Desktop noticed this problem and as well and "fixed" it in the worst way possible:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/1ca0d821078286d5953cf0d598e6b97710f816ef

On the other hand #Riot Desktop did a proper fix, which enables an SUID bit on this binary: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/commit/56674ea70849b3a793fa7b862945163aa10b36b8

#infosec #security #linux

RT @[email protected]
Vies et morts des navigateurs de 1996 à nos jours

What OS camp are you in? Hopefully this will be big so please boost so we can get as many votes as possible

Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times https://www.zdnet.com/article/upcoming-firefox-update-will-decrease-power-usage-on-macos-by-up-to-three-times/

Amazon Deforestation Reveals Tribe Of Isolated Rich Sociopaths Completely Untouched By Consequence

https://www.theonion.com/amazon-deforestation-reveals-tribe-of-isolated-rich-soc-1837623801

RT @[email protected]
Helloooo!! My game, Wilmot's Warehouse, is out TODAY on PC, Mac, & Switch!

Help me slide, stack, and sort hundreds of items and deliver them to customers. Bring a friend along for some co-op organising too!

Purchase and info here:
https://finji.co/games/wilmotswarehouse/

Thanks! :^)

This one's rich. A new white nationalist party who wants to run in the upcoming federal election submitted paperwork including names and addresses of 250 supporters. Only trouble is, once they submitted they realized that Elections Canada is now required to make that list public, and they REALLY don't want people to know who's supporting white nationalism. So it's panic time in Nazi Town.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-nationalist-party-public-shaming-1.5263497

I'm thinking about this onion headline CONSTANTLY

According to WebKit, webpages can save readers' batteries by minimizing how much JavaScript is run, and group together requests.

Also cutting down animations can help because that requires rerendering, and always prefer CSS animations to JavaScript or GIFs. transform/opacity/filter animations are more efficient in WebKit, but FireFox/Servo don't care as much.

https://webkit.org/blog/8970/how-web-content-can-affect-power-usage/

Introducing Small Technology Foundation, Site.js, and Tincan

https://ar.al/2019/08/26/introducing-small-technology-foundation/

#Brazil #ClimateCatastrophe

Can somebody just @ John Bolton and tell him Bolsonaro has some oil he’s tryna nationalize???

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-agribusiness-ranching/