Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

For anyone keeping score at home:

- Musk said Trump is in Epstein files (nothing new, of course, but coming from him it is… something).

- Trump threatened to remove subsidies Musk's companies get.

- Musk endorsed impeachment of Trump.

- Bannon said he believes Musk is an "illegal alien" and there should be an investigation into his immigration status.

- Musk told Loomer that she should "side with him" because "Trump will die first".

This is just the last few hours.

I have a pretty simple first-level filter for communication platforms:

Is or was Jack Dorsey involved in any way?
Yes? Not touching it.

Hey @simplex is this really your founder? 👀
https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin

#SimpleX #InfoSec

Czekam z niecierpliwością na pierwsze Hot Tejki zwalające winę na Zandberga i wyborców lewicowych. :blobcatcoffee:

Wiadomix, to zawsze ich wina przecież, że partia i kampania kandydata centroprawicowego nie miała im nic do zaoferowania. :blobcatthinksmart:

Bo na kogo niby zagłosują, c'nie? Te głosy się PO po prostu należały! :blobcat:

#Wybory #Wybory2025

Wygląda na to, że strategia na "nie jesteśmy PiSem™" i nie oferowanie żadnych konkretów może nie zadziałać dla PO w wyborach prezydenckich po raz trzeci z rzędu. Kto by pomyślał. 🤷♀️

#Wybory2025 #Wybory

Apparently there exists a system for deep dredging of public Internet data about specific people, called #Hermes, and it was bought by the Polish national prosecutor's office in 2021.

Seems like it was sold by the #NSOGroup, but they were only a reseller for another, unnamed Israeli company.

There's been quite the brouhaha about it in Polish media, but it's kinda difficult to find any mentions of it anywhere outside Poland.

Weird.

Does anyone have any info on this?

:boost_ok:

#InfoSec

Gówno prawda, #Allegro.

Nigdy nie wyrażałem zgody na otrzymywanie tych powiadomień. Zacząłem je otrzymywać mimo to.

EDIT: seems to depend on the version. I tested it on 135.x on Debian, another person tested it on unspecified but probably newer version on macOS. Others report other behaviour. Weird.

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Yes, this happens also in Chromium.

No idea when the change was made, I don't usually use Chrome/Chromium. Might have been years, in fact. I am not saying this is new, I am saying this is dumb. :ablobwink:

No, it does not happen in Firefox.

Chrome now seems to force-change http:// URLs to https:// URLs.

As in, you paste a http:// URL into the address bar, and Chrome silently switches it to https://, and then complains the site is down.

No, this is not a HTTP redirect and no, HSTS is not involved. I tested this on a site that only has HTTP available.

This is bullshit. I tend to defend some measures like that, but this is taking it too far, making it seem like something that works – is not working.

#FuckGoogle #Chrome #InfoSec

@smallcircles huh!

@feed

@prex that depends on how exactly is that set up on their side. My guess would be: probably not, but maybe they have some internal way of handling their ActivityPub inbox.

@index@404media.co

@liaizon both seem to work for me, and provide the same timeline

@liaizon @mariusor @feed we can have *some* nice things :blobcathappypaws:

JIRA is so horrendously bad because every time anyone submits a bug report…

…Atlassian shrugs.

:blobcatpeek:

#Atlassian #JIRA #Developers

@Sibshops 404media uses Ghost as their web hosting system, and Ghost supports ActivityPub now.

@index

@prex this means that by following @index you are basically directly following what they publish on their site. It's not a separate social media account, it's part of the same system that displays the website.

It doesn't get more direct than that.

Holy cow, #404media enabled ActivityPub directly on their site! 🎉

@index :blob0w0:

:blobcathappypaws:

Apparently #PerplexityAI CEO is annoyed that people are sharing that article where he is quoted saying that their browser will track everything users do to sell more ads.

> “That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said.

This is that article, in case you'd like to share it:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

#SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #StreisandEffect

I have recently been asked by @panoptykon if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare.

I replied that yes, under certain assumptions, this is possible. And provided a rough sketch of such a system.

But privacy is not the only issue with systems like that:
https://rys.io/en/178.html

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Web

JD Vance: Ugh, I just can't catch a break! I go to Greenland, nobody wants to meet with me. I meet the Pope, he dies. It's really getting to me.

Therapist: Yes, I see. Why don't you lie down on the couch.

JD: Lie down on the… couch?.. 👀 :blobsweat: