The state of Linux accessibility in 2025. This started out as a rant but became a series. Please feel free to leave feedback, comments, and subscribe via rss or email for more stuff as I release it. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/

@gsuberland ask Mr. Zzrpwoohtbrrrr to put his printer on a stable surface inside the shed and/or help him to properly calibrate the steppers 😉 they shouldn't be loud these days

@cazencott I used LLMs for studying for an online course I took last year. Anything it told me I double checked. I knew I understood the topics once I could call bullshit without going through other sources and once I could convince the LLM that it was wrong. So using LLMs and thinking by oneself is not necessarily mutually exclusive.

@drfranksauer.bsky.social guess androids hate vibe coders 😁

Source: @sentdefender on X "Footage claimed to show a Unitree H1 (Full-Size Universal Humanoid Robot) going berserk, nearly injuring two workers, after a coding error last week at a testing facility in China." Nightmare fuel.

Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/

You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department.

"Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it? You tell the caller to do unmentionable things to a goat. They sigh.

"I can assure you I'm calling from Chase bank. I understand you're sceptical. I'll send a push notification through the app so you can see this is a genuine call."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification and this pops up on screen:

This is obviously a genuine caller! This is a genuine pop-up, from the genuine app, which is protected by your genuine fingerprint. You tap the "Yes" button.

Why wouldn't you? The caller knows your name and bank and they have sent you an in-app notification. Surely that can only be done by the bank. Right?

Right!

This is a genuine notification. It was sent by the bank.

You proceed to do as the fraud department asks. You give them more details. You move your money into a safe account. You're told you'll hear from them in the morning.

Congratulations. You just got played. Scammers have stolen your life savings.

How the scam works

This is reasonably sophisticated, and it is easy to see why people fall for it.

1. The scammer calls you up. They keep you on the phone while...
2. The scammer's accomplice calls your bank. They pretend to be you. So...
3. The bank sends you an in-app alert.
4. You confirm the alert.
5. The scammer on the phone to your bank now has control of your account.

Look closer at what that pop is actually asking you to confirm.

We need to check it is you on the phone to us.

It isn't saying "This is us calling you - it is quite the opposite!

This pop-up is a security disaster. It should say something like:

Did you call us?

If someone has called you claiming to be from us hang up now

Yes, I am calling Chase - No, someone called me

I dare say most people would fall for this. Oh, not you! You're far too clever and sceptical. You'd hang up and call the number on your card. You'd spend a terrifying 30 minute wait on hold to the fraud department, while hoping fraudsters haven't already drained your account.

But even if you were constantly packet sniffing the Internet connection on your phone, you'd see that this was a genuine pop-up from your genuine app. Would that bypass your defences? I reckon so.

Criminals are getting increasingly good at this. Banks are letting down customers by having vaguely worded security pop-up which they know their customers don't read properly.

And, yes, customers can sometimes be a little gullible. But it is hard to be constantly on the defensive.

Further reading

You can read the original story from the victim on Reddit. See more comments on Mastodon.

#bank #CyberSecurity #phishing #scam #security

@dielinke lol bezahlte überstunden? wo gibts denn sowas?

@heiseonline nur wir Kartoffeln können uns so intensiv und lange an dem Thema abarbeiten 😂 den meisten Spaniern wars komplett rille - otro día al sol

@ErinRose And "Industrial Designer" too because job site searches usually conflate that with "Product Designer" >:(

if we can't get software people to stop taking over non-software terms to sound legitimate, maybe we can get physical design jobs to add "physical" to the name? "Physical Product Design Engineer it's actual real life things I promise"

@simulo kafka is full of bugs and insecurities 😄

The guy drops some really important truths about manufacturing:

America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back — Molson Hart

https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back

artist fighting back against AI music by poisoning his songs to degenerate models https://youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA&si=5hTFeEGrZOWhWhw4 🔥🔥🔥

@dascandy @david_chisnall meanwhile doctors use whatsapp to discuss their patients... 🤦‍♂️

@david_chisnall similar story with the adoption of 3D ultrasound. From my med-tech experiences in Europe I feel like healthcare is slow because finance rather than best care is priority, infrastructure is cobbled together poorly - supporting new devices and their use is often a huge project for IT departments, contracts lock in hospitals to specific vendors and admin rather sees doctors / nurses working than sending them to a workshop to learn how to use new tech

@unusual_whales cowards

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London.

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@unusual_whales golden dome? like the ones in Russian hotels? LMAO

@bauchhaus thoughts and prayers 🙏