$INSTANCE defederating infosec.space cuz 'Feds are there' is like the most dense idea I've heard.

• Sorry to break it to you, but @snowden and the whole #PRISM affair seems to have gone over your head...

We live in the age of #33ThomasStreet & #Room641A, so unless you put your stuff behind a #VPN that endpoints in #Tor, they'll #BULLRUN you for the lulz.

• If you are genuinely frightened about the #NSA aka. #AmericanStasi - (and you should) - then you need to realize that your threat assessment either accepts that and treats all comms in the #Fediverse as public and insecure (Which #Mastodon explicitly warns you about in it's DMs: They are not secure!) or you stop using #Fedi entirely.

Like you guys honestly believe that using #Signal will be more secure than #XMPP+#OMEMO when the confirmation-#SMS sent by @signalapp will earmark you as 'Person of Interest'… and it's very centralized nature among many problems makes it a #HoneyPot run by #UsefulIdiots from my POV!

• Look up #CloudAct and tell me I'm wrong…

Look, I hate to be the one poppin' bubbles and you with your instance have your right to choose to (de-)federate with whomever you want.

• Which is why I don't callout said instance. Dogpiling wouldn't fix people that densely wrapped in tinfoil.

• You have the right to block me.

But just like looking away doesn't make problems go away, neither will ignoring the truth.

• That may discomfort you, but that is the #InconvenientTruth.

I'm sorry if this #venting seems bitter, but some folks really need to get the fuck outside and #TouchGrass since there are folks on said instance working in that whole MIL/INTEL complex they so despise.

Unpatched flaw in #OnePlus phones lets rogue apps text messages

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unpatched-flaw-in-oneplus-phones-lets-rogue-apps-text-messages/

Trying to use KDE Connect on Debian Cinnamon: How do I get dark mode? Other qt6 apps, including qt6ct, show dark themes, but KDE Connect is blaring white.

Alternatively, is there another program I could use to type SMS messages from my desktop?

EDIT: qt6ct gives me a warning

The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME environment variable is not set (required values: qt6ct or qt5ct).

To use it, start your Qt applications with “-style Adwaita” parameter, or export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=Adwaita environment variable. For the dark version, use Adwaita-Dark instead of Adwaita.

env QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct

For all my friends in Birmingham and Solihull:

There's a new text-based mental health service for Brum & solihull. Text the word Space to 85258 - you'll get 4 automated messages and then put through to a mental health support advisor.

It's free, anonymous and doesn't show on bills.

I've received more SMS spam than ever since the "Likely Spammer" label was introduced by Comreg.

Including a new one this morning about rescheduling a DPD delivery, which weirdly doesn't appear on my phone, but only on my Watch as a notification...

I swear they are attempting to solve this in the most bare minimum way possible and yet... they are still failing.

I reregistered my old iPhone (it has its own line and SIM) and it completely blew up my primary iPhone. No idea why, just won’t “register” with iMessage and now I can’t send texts or iMessage on my main line.

Kablooey.

Four years after starting it, I finally finished the original #PhantasyStar.

The last leg of the game was annoying, simply because I kept finding out I was missing some random item, and ended up doing the final dungeon 3 times.

It's a great game overall, and I highly recommend the Sega Ages version. That said, there is some obtuse stuff here and most of the adventure is just finding out what to do. There aren't a lot of choices for the player to make as far as I could tell, so I probably won't replay this one for a while.

First in a series of fine art #SMS scams. Open edition, autographed by the artist.

Another day out with #phosh and the #OP6

- Woke up with #gnomeClocks
- Looked up the address of the via #Firefox and its mobile config
- picked my way via #puremap's offline map feature
- Send #SMS via #Chatty
- Replied a toot via #tuba
- Listened to via #gapless
- Looked up the appointment time on #phosh's lockscreen plugin backed by #eds
- Checked pulse via a simple pacer up using #phosh's lancher plugin for the short

No console needed.

@EdwinG

I've run into this with a number of businesses. I'm also with you that as far as I know, there's no way to text a "regular" landline.

The stupid part of this is that this problem is both solvable *and* detectable in advance. I've written integrations with the big communications providers, that you use to let your application/website send texts - there is a mostly-reliable way to query "can this number receive texts?" before you try to send a text, and they generally also give you the option to send a robot-voice message, so you can fall back to that.

Without being too much Old Man Yells At Cloud, I'm pretty much in agreement with others that say that these kinds of fails are the result of young / inexperienced designers or developers not considering anything outside of their personal experience - most of them have never used a phone that couldn't send and receive texts. They don't even contemplate the possibility of a user of their system not being in exactly the same circumstances as themselves. This kind of oversight should be caught by project management, but ...

Just ran into another case of this...

Reputable online seller of <things> in Canada, medium-sized, one of maybe half a dozen options at the national level.

Go to buy <object> for several hundred dollars. Fine.

Whether I try to create an account, or checkout as guest, it wants my phone number. Fine, credit card companies want that as an additional line of defence against fraud.

However... before you can continue to the next step, you have to "click to receive a verification code" that you need to enter to complete the form.

And it must be trying to send that code by SMS/text, because I'm not getting it. My phone is a landline; there's no way to text it. They don't try email or sending the code by robot-voice to the phone number, either.

How Do I Capitalism?

#GBDK-2020 v4.4.0 is out!

- Improved #NES support @michel_iwaniec
- SDCC 4.5 compiler
- Added Linux ARM binaries
- Many fixes & features

New examples!
- #MegaDuck Laptop hardware
- Text Dialog @laroldsjubilantjunkyard
- #GameBoy MBC7 Accelerometer & MBC3 RTC

https://github.com/gbdk-2020/gbdk-2020/releases/tag/4.4.0

GBDK is an #opensource C development kit for the #GameBoy/Color, #MegaDuck, #SMS, #GameGear and NES

Durch eine absurde Erfahrung mit der #Sparkasse suche ich nach #BullshitBingo Karten zum Thema #Security (#WebSecurity)

Bisher:
- Einmalcodes per #SMS
- Proprietäre #TOTP App statt offener Standards
- Support nur per Telefon
- Username und Passwort laut durchsagen
- Apps nach 5 Minuten von selber sperren
- Apps nach 3 Monaten ohne Login sperren, ohne Errorcode oder auffindbare Onlinehilfe ("90 Tage")
- App neu installieren, um Problem zu lösen (#TOFU)

Fällt euch noch was ein?