Vicky Steeves @vickysteeves@octodon.social

ONE open arXiv tab, ah ha ha!

TWO open arXiv tabs, ah ha ha!

....

EIGHT open arXiv tabs, ah ha ha!

HTML5 ping tracking – Firefox will enable it by default:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-firefox-to-enable-hyperlink-ping-tracking-by-default/

– HTML5 ping attributes can be used to track people if they click a link (<a href=… ping=…>) by sending POST requests to an arbitrary amount of hosts
– tracking is possible without any JavaScript, or Cookies
– Steve Gibson talked about it in Security Now 709: https://mastodon.at/@infosechandbook/101899819296611698
– ping is enabled in Chrome, Opera, Edge, Safari by default

#html5 #ping #tracking #firefox #mozilla

After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html

#DRM #EME #Google

Interesting #preprint:

📄 Perceptions and impacts of gender inequality in the geosciences are strongly gendered

https://eartharxiv.org/3jkcp/

@bgcarlisle I feel like humanities scholars are underrepresented in supervillainy.

Two great #WomenInSTEM: Computer scientist Katie Bouman and Margaret Hamilton.

Katie with her awesome stack of hard drives for #EHTBlackhole image data 😍.

Margaret and her Apollo Guidance Computer source code 📚.

After Matrix has restored its major services, they noticed that the GPG keys used for signing packages where compromised.

The key IDs are:

AD0592FE47F0DF61 (synapse)
E019645248E8F4A1 (Riot/Web)

Please make sure to no longer use those keys.

#matrix #Riot #infosec #security

Baby's first commit to Wayback master!! 🎉 It only took me 3.5 years 😅 Watch out now

Final thesis submission at McGill requires the thesis be converted to PDF/A

When I did this for my master's, I had to buy Adobe Pro to convert the PDF from Word into PDF/A

Cost me $100 :/

I wrote my doctoral thesis with LibreOffice, and LibreOffice has this built-in

:D

2014 Zuckerberg: Don't worry, Whatsapp users, we will keep your accounts separate from your Facebook accounts

2019 Zuckerberg: Lol dumb fucks

Also 2019 Zuckerberg: Btw, you can totally trust me to implement end-to-end encryption

Excited yet? #nextcloud 16RC1 is here! Time to help us finish that end-sprint and get it as stable and polished as possible for the final release!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-16-release-candidate-1-is-here-help-test/

all cats are anarchists

How To Be An Ethical Consumer:

- Don't buy from Amazon
- Spend half an hour researching where else you can buy the thing you want
- Order it from a small business
- The small business orders it from Amazon and just has it shipped to you
- Oh no
- There's no ethical consumption in a system with these fucked up power dynamics

🙂
#blackhole

My perfect idea of a date is YYYY-MM-DD

I really appreciated how @dsalo underscored that any terms you have to agree to in order to have a university email account, an ID card, etc., are not terms entered into on an even footing. They are "Agree to our terms or don't get a degree."