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KelsonTalksTech

@KelsonTalksTech@snac24.keysmash.xyz

Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him. Testing Snac2 and trying to keep my other accounts from getting too boring when I blather on about tech stuff.

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BleepingComputer , to Random stuff
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Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable says that all reviews on the platform will no longer be fully anonymous starting May 22nd and will now show members' profile pictures and first names.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/opentable-is-adding-your-first-name-to-previously-anonymous-reviews/

KelsonTalksTech ,
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It's not often you see a company announce a data breach ahead of time!

BleepingComputer , to Random stuff
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LastPass revealed this week that threat actors targeted one of its employees in a voice phishing attack, using deepfake audio to impersonate Karim Toubba, the company's Chief Executive Officer.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-hackers-targeted-employee-in-failed-deepfake-ceo-call/

KelsonTalksTech ,
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Of course, that goes without saying, but it looks like they were actually on the ball this time.

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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Sketchy Botox shots spark multistate outbreak of botulism-like condition

So far at least six people in two states have fallen ill; four of them were hospitalized.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/sketchy-botox-shots-spark-multistate-outbreak-of-botulism-like-condition/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

KelsonTalksTech ,
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A "botulism-like condition" after known exposure to botulin toxin? Wouldn't that just be botulism?

KelsonTalksTech , to Random stuff
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""Epoch time" redirects here. For other epochs, see Epoch (computing). For the newspaper, see The Epoch Times."

jfc don't get those mixed up

brooke , to Random stuff
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the word 'meta' is now semantically meaningless as it could mean either "discussion about the state of the social-discussion-sphere" or "the company that runs facebook" and there's no way to know which

KelsonTalksTech ,
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I would not be surprised in the least.

CC: @brooke

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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The 2024 “Modern Manners” book now includes EV charging etiquette

Be polite, plan ahead, don't jump the line, and other charging tips to ensure harmony.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/the-2024-modern-manners-book-now-includes-ev-charging-etiquette/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

KelsonTalksTech ,
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And the most basic: Don't park in the charging space if you're not going to charge your car. Even if your car is electric.

I can't count the number of times I've had to look for another charger because someone had parked in front of one without even plugging in.

Even if they had been charging earlier...if you can unplug it when you're done, you can move the car too.

KelsonTalksTech , to Random stuff
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I'm experimenting on my tech tips articles with , a web app that acts as an intermediate layer between sites that want a share button and newer social media sites like instances.

The author describes it here: https://werd.io/2024/share-openly.

Basically:

  1. The publisher links to Share Openly with the URL and title or description of the page to share.
  2. The reader clicks on it and tells SO what site they want to share on (pre-filled or type in a hostname, with the manually added ones remembered).
  3. SO opens that site's post form with the text pre-filled and ready to go.

It knows where to find the posting forms for several kinds of server software, and you can add a <link rel="share_url".../> template to your site to tell it where to look. I may do this for my Postmarks site.

But not everything has a post form that can be pre-filled. Heck, not everything has a front-end to begin with. So I can't just put that link tag on my instance and point to the post form, because there isn't one. And it doesn't look like Elk or Semaphore have a way to pre-fill a post either.

sigh Sometimes I really wish had taken off.

Anyway, here's an article on my site with "Share This Page" linking to the webapp
https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/finish-by-scheduling/

KelsonTalksTech , to Random stuff
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I keep meaning to try out the LXQt+Wayland combo on the PineTab2 (LXQt is so much faster than KDE on this thing), and I keep not getting around to it. Sounds like the 2.0 release will be a good time to try it.

https://lxqt-project.org/blog/2024/04/09/wayland_faq/

It sounds like most of the remaining pieces have alternatives or workarounds.

brooke , to Random stuff
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Apparently there is a small but consistent percentage of Wikipedia Android app users who run it on their Chromebooks.

We don't.... recommend this exactly but it does work. :D

Too bad Windows Subsystem for Android is being end-of-lifed or I could horrify my colleagues with another thing to try. ;)

KelsonTalksTech ,
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It hasn't been deactivated yet, has it?

KelsonTalksTech ,
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Reminder to self: fire up a Waydroid session after work

KelsonTalksTech ,
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Oh yeah... I'd forgotten about that. sigh -- I can only imagine Amazon was hoping to promote their store and Microsoft was trying to avoid sending more money to Google, and neither of them realized they'd be mutual albatrosses for it.

Apparently people have been able to run F-droid on it, though!
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/any-interest-in-exploring-running-f-droid-on-windows-11/13983/29

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible

"These are unthinkable numbers, but we’re not breaking any physics to achieve this."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/elon-musk-just-gave-another-mars-speech-this-time-the-vision-seems-tangible/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

KelsonTalksTech ,
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I don't doubt the physics of getting people there. Or at least objects with comparable mass to people.

I doubt he has anything resembling a workable plan for keeping large numbers of people alive for long periods of time on Mars.

KelsonTalksTech ,
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Relevant: https://www.acityonmars.com/ looks into a lot of the engineering, biological, economic, social, political and legal issues involved in actually trying to build a settlement with actual people on another planet. And the recurring theme, over and over as they talked to experts in each field, was that the research is either too early or too sparse to be usable yet (or in some cases, just not being done).

(My review of the book: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/city-on-mars/ )

BleepingComputer , to Random stuff
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Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing 0x80073cf2 errors when using the System Preparation (Sysprep) tool after installing November Windows 10 updates.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-windows-sysprep-issue-behind-0x80073cf2-errors/

KelsonTalksTech ,
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For a fraction of a second I read the error code as the number of errors caused

axios Bot , to Random stuff
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Mapping out cities with fully booked Airbnbs paints an almost perfect picture of the path Monday's total solar eclipse will take as it crosses from Texas to Maine. https://t.co/azB0N33gbu https://t.co/zSbkJp977F

KelsonTalksTech ,
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Image and direct link to article in case t.co stops working (or you don't want to click on it)

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/airbnb-bookings-eclipse-april-8-map

brooke , to Random stuff
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"HTML email is easy, you don't have to do a test run before sending to customers"

KelsonTalksTech ,
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Even better when Outlook decides not to show any content at all.

Just Outlook, not anything else.

For your business-to-business emails.

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Something I've been pondering about is if there is a good parser, anybody know some good resources for that?

KelsonTalksTech ,
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The Bridge section here lists a few:
https://delightful.club/delightful-activitypub-development/

KelsonTalksTech , to Random stuff
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Looks like still doesn't federate properly with or .

Which may be a feature as far as most GTS and Snac users are concerned!

But I do want Threads to technically be able to federate with most/all other software that uses , so it can be user/admin choice whether to accept connections from the giant instance...and more importantly, to cut down on the risks of vendor lock-in and EEE.

And I hope more compatible systems will cut down on the "OK, my software federates with itself and Mastodon, I'm done" problem. In some cases there may be bugs on the smaller project's side, and fixing them might also fix issues talking to other small projects.

GTS has already fixed a bug found by trying to federate with Threads, but there's still a bug on the Threads end preventing them from talking to each other.
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/2491

Key quote:

If Facebook had an issue tracker for threads, someone could open an issue there. If threads was an open source project, we could look at the code and immediately know what's up, but... 🤷

I might take a look at the Snac logs later and see if there's anything on this end breaking communication with Threads, or if it's all on the Meta side.

KelsonTalksTech OP ,
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This is interesting: In Snac, I can see a Threads post boosted via a Mastodon account. It's a post from a few days ago on the account I tried to follow earlier. And according to the timeline and API, I am following them from Snac. But they aren't showing up on the list of people I follow.

This suggests that Snac is able to interact with Threads posts, and is able to follow Threads accounts, but runs into trouble retrieving Threads profiles.

Partial federation is a more interesting problem IMO than no federation, so now I really want to take a look at the logs!

KelsonTalksTech , to Linux
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Some useful articles for configuring the on -- specifically using :

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-with-awall-on-alpine-linux/
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Zero-To-Awall
https://www.zsiegel.com/2022/01/13/configuring-alpine-linux-firewall-with-docker

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