Good!
These companies need more regulation.
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kioshix commented on You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank mastodon.social/@Edent/11... · Posted by u/luu
The original Reddit post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1cih3kd/...
It's a pretty clever idea for the scammers to exploit the in-app notification to fool the end-user. I wouldn't blame them for being scammed in this manner. However, the post then goes on to say:
> Then he asked me to confirm the last 12 digits of my card number, cvv and expiry date.
That to me is a big red flag, and I hope that I would have spotted it if I was the one being scammed. If it was really someone from the bank, they would already have access to this information and wouldn't need an end-user to give it to them.
Although in this case, it may have been too late by that time to limit the damage. They may have been asking for this info as just the cherry on top. I'm assuming that responding to the in-app notification was probably the main thing they needed to extract the savings.
Yeah, the reddit post is worth a read. Yes, they did exploit the banks notification, but the rest of the scam seems pretty normal. Why would the bank need to move your funds? They could just block the account I would assume.
And the whole "tell me all of your credit card details except the first 4 numbers that only identifies your bank"-thing should immediately scream scam.
kioshix commented on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things tonsky.me/blog/centering/... · Posted by u/tobr
In case the author reads this: Please respect prefers-reduced-motion for your cute mouse cursors that wander over the screen in a very distracting fashion.
In the meantime, as a fix for others, in uBo add
tonsky.me##.pointers
Even better, add this to block the websocket connection for the pointers:
! Annoying pointers on blog
wss://tonsky.me/ptrs?*A member of our warehouse team contacted me.
Here's how the conversation unfolded at work:
Warehouse Team Member: "Could you log into the App Store and download an app for the printer to work?"
Me: "That doesn't sound right." I remotely accessed the warehouse computer, opened a random PDF document, and hit 'Print'. The printer queue looked normal to me.
Me: "It seems to be printing just fine."
Warehouse Team Member: "No, it actually prints a message that says you need to install the app."
Me: "What really? Can you send me a photo of it?"
Warehouse Team Member: Sends the photo in Slack.
Me: "This is something I have to Tweet..."
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Edit: Imagine being the product manager who made this decision...
I would use a baseball bat to fix it, that's so evil.
I didn't realise it'd moved into maintenance mode, where abouts is that detailed?
https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard
This application is in maintenance mode. What does it mean?
Citing Wikipedia:
In the world of software development, maintenance mode refers to a point in a computer program's life when it has reached all of its goals and is generally considered to be "complete" and bug-free. The term can also refer to the point in a software product's evolution when it is no longer competitive with other products or current with regard to the technology environment it operates within.
- The author of this application is not actively developing any new major features (only small fixes)
- New releases are published regularly depending on the contributions made by the community
- Pull requests for new features and bug fixes are accepted as long as the guidelines are followedFor someone that's not a web developer, I found Kanboard to be the easiest to set up, and it has all the basic features you'd expect. It's a traditional PHP app where you copy the files to your web server and set a few configuration options and you're good. If you want to use it locally, you download it, run php -S localhost:8080, and start using it.
Note: The project is in maintenance mode, it hasn't shut down or been abandoned.
I also use Kanboard, it's pretty decent.
kioshix commented on Secure Time Synchronization on macOS privsec.dev/posts/macos/s... · Posted by u/akyuu
Seems kinda overkill to run a Fedora VM on localhost for this.
The control centre generally feels better than Windows 10, except for switching sound outputs or getting to the volume mixer, which require too many clicks.
The settings app is a little more cohesive and has had some more control panel functionality transitioned into it.
Nothing they couldn’t have fixed in Windows 10, but it is overall better for me due to the above.
My new-ish work laptop runs Windows 11, but my personal desktop for gaming on a 6th gen Intel doesn’t meet official requirements. It has TPM 2 though, so once October arrives I reckon it’s better to run Windows 11 in a “technically” unsupported manner rather than stick with an OS which is no longer getting updates (and no, I will not switch to Linux as I’m not looking for another hobby).
Sometimes. Sometimes it does. It's all very random. My work laptop drives me nuts, when plugging back into the dock my windows return to where they were about 3/4 of the times. A quarter of the times they just all bunch up on the main monitor.