artful modder

Understand to be useful, believe to be beautiful.

Hardware aesthetics 🔌🎨
Telecom decadence 📡💅

For my introduction, check out the oldest pinned post.

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oh you grew up watching tiktok? i grew up searching for aliens

seti@home interface to search for extraterrestrial radio signals
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2025-07-24

#IT workers: what are your favorite #podcasts for keeping up with the industry? I know about @jerry 's "Defensive Security". What else do you recommend? Not necessarily FOSS. Not only Infosec.

Please #boost !

2025-07-22

@da_667 no more tears

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2025-07-22
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2025-07-21

I'm seeing an unusually large number of phishous and mailicious messages landing in my inbox today. Granted, it's always hard to know if an uptick is related to an increase in malicious attacks or just more bad stuff figuring out how to bypass spam and malware filters. I can say, though, that most of these that made it to my inbox today are the kind that I would normally have to fish out of the spam folder. Be careful out there folks.

2025-07-21

Anybody know what happened to the implementation of this? Specifically, the first option. I believe the second is taken care of by the new Advanced Protection.

#android16 #surveillance #encryption

An accidentally exposed menu for mobile network security in an early beta of Android 16. There are two sections: the first is for network notifications, the second for encryption.
2025-07-21

@tshirtman @MySideIsHumanity

gemini, first answering the question wrong by regurgitating the human response which is to often answer the question wrong, then correcting its response when asked to figure it out on its own.

humans: god ai sucks
ai: no u

2025-07-16

TIL some of the US Social Security Administration infrastructure runs Microsoft PC-DOS from 1981. Your move, China.

2025-07-16

@Alice use a straw ya goof

2025-07-16

@fdroidorg @Walker Kinda pointless to report individual apps when the system is flawed.

2025-07-15

@Walker F-Droid is riddled with insecure, outdated apps. Never ever in my life lol

2025-07-15
2025-07-15

@briankrebs I'm going with TikTok. This is about TikTok.

2025-07-14

@da_667 shotgun wizard money gang we love blasting shells

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Thomas FuglsethUglesett@snabelen.no
2025-07-13

Public service announcement.

(Created by bsky.app/profile/campfireharve )

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!"

This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: 

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. 
 
When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. 
 
Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="
2025-07-12
2025-07-12

@patrickhadfield @Alice this fits well with my theory that butts are in an unknown state until someone looks at them

2025-07-12

@The4thGoose attacking the credibility of a source rather than addressing the issue is a typical move from that lot

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