👁 - ☁️ 🌧 🌊: Derweil in Bayern: Markus ist im Hochwassergebiet angekommen…

#Klimakrise #Hochwasser #DontLookUp

Reminder, dass das Deaktivieren von Copy & Paste auf Passwortfeldern ein absolutes Security-Antipattern ist.

Grmpf*

⚠️"Gut funktionierende Warnsysteme sind lebenswichtig – und wir müssen sie regelmäßig einem großen Stresstest unterziehen", sagt Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser.

🗓️Deshalb morgen: Bundesweiter #Warntag2024.

🚨Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Kataastrophenhilfe wird gegen 11 Uhr eine Probewarnung auslösen.

📝Zeitgleich startet morgen eine Umfrage zu den Erfahrungen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger mit den verschiedenen Warnkanälen.

Mehr Informationen: https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/D

Oh, as a topic wanderer myself (I don’t like the word “generalist”), I love and endorse this comic.

(via @simondlr’s newsletter).

Faktencheck: Die wichtigsten Aussagen aus dem TV-Duell zwischen Trump und Harris https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/09/trump-harris-faktencheck.html

ISS macht Deutsche Bahn Konkurrenz.

Then:

"Grandma, why are you saving those bits of twine and pieces of used foil? You can just go to the store and buy new stuff."

"Grandson, I grew up during the Depression"

Now:
"Dad, why are you collecting all those DVDs and saving files to disk and all that? You can just go to the Internet and find that."

"Kids, I grew up during the Great Ensh*ttification..."

#informationhoarding

Wow. 🤩
When my old #printer died a while ago, I bought a #Brother, because "the Internet" said they're the most painless with #Linux.
And it worked well. I didn't even install drivers, and it just worked.

I wanted to print something double-sided right now, and was waiting for the dialog telling me to turn the page.
Nope.
It does even that on its own. 💙

Friendly Reminder: Beim Überholen von Radfahrer:innen ist im Ortsgebiet ein Abstand von mindestens 1,5 Meter einzuhalten, außerhalb des Ortsgebiets von mindestens 2 Meter (#StVO §15/4). #Rücksicht nehmen rettet Menschenleben!

let's skip august and start october early

I have several #dice bags full of dice. All filled to the brim.

Friends just gifted me the #CriticalRole Dice Bag of Holding. 🤩
Now I have not enough dice. 😳😆💙

#ItsNotHoardingIfItsDice #ttrpg

I feel like I’ve read this before…

I do miss my (recently deceased) windows machine.

I was logged in to several google accounts, microsoft stuff, i had a specific "contaminated" browser for instagram links and stuff i expected to slurp all my data.

I need a new biohazard machine. 🧐

So nämlich.

Never use a URL shortening service - even if you own it
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/never-use-a-url-shortening-service-even-if-you-own-it/

The Guardian launched its online adventures back in 1999. At some point, they started using the name "Guardian Unlimited". Hey, the dot com boom made us all do crazy things! As part of that branding, they proudly used the domain GU.com

Over time, the branding faded and GU.com became a URL shortening service. Tiny URls like gu.com/abc could be printed in papers, sent via SMS, or posted on Twitter. They made a huge fanfare about how it would help with analytics.

You can read some of the history of the shortner to understand why it was created.

Rev Dan Catt

@revdancatt

Niche twitter thread time. I'm raising a glass to the end of the @guardian's URL shortener gu.com, which is now on sale for £2.5 million.

Back when twitter was only 140 chars & didn't shrink url links itself, making short URLs a whole important thing.

1/8 pic.x.com/wu9joo3vkw

❤️ 16💬 1♻️ 017:04 - Tue 20 September 2022

And now, for reasons best known to themselves, The Gaurdian have stopped the service and put GU.com up for sale.

The starting price is TWO AND HALF MILLION DOLLARS!

Look, if I had an asset that valuable and was looking at declining revenue, I'd sell it.

But breaking that URl comes with a problem. I've written before about why URl shortening is bad for users and bad for the web. I've even helped publish government guidance about it. But all of those were based on the premise that the shortener was a 3rd party service. I never thought someone would be as daft as to switch off their own service.

Here are some of the problems this sale causes.

Terence Eden is on Mastodon

@edent

Whoever buys the gu.com domain will effectively get to rewrite history.
They can redirect links like these - and change the nature of the content being commented on.

Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

The Steele Dossier asserted Russian hacking of the DNC was "conducted with the full knowledge & support of Trump & senior members of his campaign.” Trump's war against the FBI & efforts to obstruct make sense if he thought they could prove it. gu.com/p/axa7k/stw ❤️ 3,506💬 0♻️ 1,60115:56 - Tue 27 November 2018

❤️ 11💬 4♻️ 013:36 - Fri 19 August 2022

Is there a tweet somewhere of a future politician saying "I support this 100% GU.com/...."? Redirect that to something horrific and you have a potential scandal on your hand.

There are lots of academic papers with gu.com shortened links. Those are all now dead.

Millions of links around the web - including many on the Grauniad itself - are all now broken.

The Guarrdian could fix this by publishing a list of all the shortened URls. That wouldn't stop links breaking, but would make it possible for researchers to reconstruct the original destination.

For decades, we've tried to remind people that "Cool URls Don't Change". We'll just have to hope that the people of the future find a way to decipher all these obsolete links.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/never-use-a-url-shortening-service-even-if-you-own-it/

#guardian #hyperlinks #newspapers #url #web

I'll just define the death of my desktop pc as a successful testrun of my #backup concept. 😂

Hedy Lamarr.

I also learned that Mint can't do wide resolutions via HDMI, for whatever reason. Only Display Port. I seem to have done this correctly by sheer coincidence on my main machine.

Having set up an old machine short-term with a current Mint, knowing full well there is no fallback any more where shit was set up once and still works, I want to note:

- I 💙 #nextcloud (all my files, calendars, bookmarks, podcasts, ...)
- I 💙 #keepassxc (not only all the passwords, but also f*ing urls (thank you past me!), backup codes, port configs....)
- do backups! onsite and offsite, and think about how you can access your shit if the keepass lies in a nextcloud, and the password to that is randomized. And on that note
- I 💙 #yubikey