ilyess @ilyess@mastodon.online

My favourite #firefox extension is by far Multi-Account Containers. The fact that you can compartmentalize your browsing to the extent that this extension allows can go a long way in improving your online privacy.

Just finished #snowpiercer. It’s a really nice show. Now starts the seemingly never ending wait for the next season...

This year's #Pwn2own saw its first woman participant in its entire history. Mere participation wasn't enough though. She managed to make a name for herself with a partial win netting her a two point reward towards Master of Pwn. I hope this breaks the ice for women and we see more participation in the coming years. Go women Go!

#security

Are you FloCed? The #eff has put up a website to check whether you are part of the "original trial" set of users, as #google calls it. To find out, head over to https://amifloced.org/

#Floc #privacy

If you're using TCP port 10080 for your local dev, or any other reason for that matter, you might want to switch to another port. #chrome recently added it to its list of blocked ports and #firefox had done so late last year.

Hopefully, we’ll see an uplift in #mastodon’s user base due to #twitter’s recent outages. I mean users must get it at some point, right? Or am I just naïvely over optimistic?

I really like #metatext but it started freezing on me lately. It would just go black. Restarting the app doesn't fix it.

@jiewawa do you have the same issue?

#google Project Zero is now giving a 30-day grace period to organizations *after* a patch has been released. So this stretches the delay between vulnerability discovery and technical disclosure to up to 120 days. Hopefully we see a reduction in script kiddie hacks thanks to this.

#friday, it’s nice of you to finally show up. A lot of folks have been waiting for you.
#tgif

Backup your data, encrypt your backups, and use state-of-the-art encryption with strong keys.

The more I use goroutines the more I wonder how someone would intentionally pick a single-threaded language for anything other than a simple “Hello world” program. I might be exaggerating here but seriously I can’t think of any problem worth solving with software and that won’t benefit from concurrency. Can you?

#golang #programming

Looks like #ublockorigin works best on #firefox. Brave and Tor browser are doing not bad bare, but look at Chrome!

For more details: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

Is it just me or you can no longer view public #instagram profiles unless you have an account and log in?

AWS launched OpenSearch recently: a fork of #elasticsearch and #kibana. I wonder what motivations were behind this move and what would happen to Elastic going forward.

#amazon #opensearch

Does anyone know why toots specify where they were sent from? Is there a way to disable that?

#askmastodon #mastodon

#til a woman by the name of Joy Milne can smell Parkinson's disease. She can tell whether a person has the disease or not just using her nose with a whopping accuracy of... wait for it... 98%! 😱

@binyamin Thank you!

Unfortunately, I don't remember the author of the toot I'm referring to but if you know who I'm talking about, please tell them I said thanks.

I just published my personal website after a long period of feet dragging. It's almost embarrassing how long my domain was pointing to a bank page. But I wasn't planning on doing this at all coming into the weekend. I just stumbled upon a toot wondering why we don't see more people spinning up their own static website and establish a self controlled web presence given that the cost has become close to zero. That's all it took to trigger me to finally get this done.

#clubhouse joins the data leak party exposing 1.3M user records out in the wild. That didn't take too long.

I'm finally getting around to working on my personal/resume website. It's a simple single page static website so it should be quick right? You wish! Totally underestimated the amount of time it takes.