Diabolic Preacher @[email protected]

Pegasus is a piece of malware - a virus - with the sole purpose to infect mobile devices. The eavesdropping made possible by Pegasus violates laws. Its trade must be banned - just like the trade with nuclear weapons is banned.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/pegasus-scandal-meaning-privacy #Fight4Privacy #privacy

Deal of the day: McMaster has a 275lb anvil for *only* $2000...

Perfect for Windows troubleshooting, when paired with any of their blacksmithing hammers*.

I wonder if that includes free shipping...

* remove battery prior to servicing.

im actually quite happy with life atm, got my new apartment, starting a new major in september, doing way better mentally and am trying to do more exercising and what not. Life is swell.

And stop putting username and passwords on different pages!

Also, Security questions are not "multi-factor authentication" FCOL!

Just discovered and fixed a (potentially serious) bug in Dolphin, KDE's file manager and generic file model:

Sorting by size would cause an unstable sort order under certain circumstances.

This sounds innocent at first, until you realize this also causes it to expand a folder's content into the wrong view parent: you expand folder A, but all its files show up below folder B.

You may think you're deleting an empty folder, but it's not actually empty 😟

Fix here: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/232

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

-- Bertrand Russell

Gmail is blocking emails with links to Tutanota. Spread the word to help us stop this!
https://twitter.com/TutanotaTeam/status/1413408730092384260

PSA: Kaspersky Password Manager has been creating flawed passwords https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/07/kaspersky-password-manager-problem/

Summary: `generate_password(seed=int( seconds_since_epoch))`.

Ars Technica ran an explanation of why Audacity's spyware isn't really spyware: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/

BS. The new privacy policy says they collect:

"Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities' requests (if any)"

Ars says:

> the odds are rather good that any given company will comply with legitimate law enforcement requests.

...but why would Audacity be collecting that information in the first place?

I. Don't. Want. My. Apps. Spying. On. Me.

Audacity is now Audashitty

"It feels like the last 20 years we've spent rebuilding all the stuff Unix users had builtin 20 to 40 years ago: online editors, shared home directories, etc. All sorts of things are repeating again.

One of the things Unix had was composability. If there's a table on a website now and one on another website, and you wanna join them? Fuck you."

-- Joshua Schachter

Audacity sends your personal data to Russia and other ‘third parties’ https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/audacity-free-collect-personal-data-russia-b1878305.html

So, Audacity is dead to me. Hope this gets forked soon, because it’s a great editor for tweaking samples occasionally.

Malware Grabbed 5.8M Facebook Passwords
https://news.softpedia.com/news/malware-android-apps-allegedly-stole-5-8m-facebook-passwords-533427.shtml

@brycec That very well could be, but in that case, I'm almost less sympathetic. Who searches for answers and doesn't read the timestamp? Stuff moves along. If you're copying-and-pasting code from 2011, you're gonna have a bad time.