Machine Code Isn't Scary

https://jimmyhmiller.com/machine-code-isnt-scary

#HackerNews #MachineCode #Programming #Education #TechLiteracy #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews

So many people insist on making shitty GIFs from the 1990s, instead of any actual video format that came out in the 30 years since.
#GIF #video #fileformat #techliteracy #mpeg

@rakoo @delta @cy @thunderbird

It is a good tool because it allows for self-custody of keys.

• Also by that notion manually setting up an eMail account is also complicated for anything that Thunderbird can't autoguess or doesn't have in it's database.

Shure that isn't an excuse for #Thunderbird to not deliver sane defaults and handhold users asking them at account creation/import if they want to create/import a keypair and/or wish to automatically activate it.

• Same with pulic keys: #Enigmail used to have the nice feature to automagically attach the Pubkey to every eMail and to automatically sign and encrypt them. In fact I have this preconfigured to the point that any non-encrypted eMail requires me to manually confirm stuff.

I don't "belittle people for not knowing how to use gpg" but instead acknowledge the lack of #TechLiteracy as a matter of facts because most people got groomed into being consoomers and into ignorant users.

• It's not their fault, it's decades of failed education and awareness that now demand compound interest like credit card debt.

@HumboldtUni Ich halte das für fundamental falsch, weil #Schulen heutzutage nichtmals fundamentale #MediaLiteracy geschweige denn #TechLiteracy hinbekommen.

• "#KI" taugt nur für #Shitposting, #Memes und #Mansplaining und nicht für #Bildung oder #Wissensvermittlung und läuft daher den Kernzielen der #Pädagogik zuwider!

Wir brauchen mit solchem Bullshit nicht anfangen bevor niht jede #Schule #Glasfaser und mindestens nen kompletten Klassensatz an #Pi500 am Start hat damit #Schüler*innen auch #Informatik lernen und nicht zu #Microsoft-#Kunden verblödet werden!!!

Ernsthaft, da hätte die #EU das in andere #Forschung und #Entwicklung oder #Infrastruktur investieren können, statt irgendwelche #Buzzwords wie #AI nachzurennen die eh nur dazu da sind #Geldverbrennung zu betreiben!

@lordsplodge @nixCraft @Daojoan that's because the #Internet became #accessible for #TechIlliterates & #MediaIlliterates and #Consoomers who are either unable or unwilling to use their brains.

• It was a mistake to let #Boomers and #MassMedia be allowed online!

#sarcasm #rant #TechLiteracy #MediaLiteracy

🎉 OpenAI's new #image #generation API: because who wouldn't want their tech experience interrupted by a "please enable JavaScript" message? 👨‍💻✨ In a groundbreaking move, #OpenAI ensures that even accessing cutting-edge AI requires the tech literacy of remembering to turn on cookies. 🍪🔒
https://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/ #API #TechLiteracy #AIInnovation #JavaScriptCookies #HackerNews #ngated

🖥️ Is your monitor resolution secretly causing your end-of-day headaches?

Did you know that the screen resolution you work with daily affects not just image quality but your overall health and productivity?

Check out this explainer on what terms like 720p, 1080p, and aspect ratios actually mean: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/what-screen-resolution-or-aspect-ratio-what-do-720p-1080i-1080p-mean/
#TechLiteracy #DigitalWellbeing #MonitorTech #WorkSetup #EyeHealth

Study Suggests Natural Intelligence Affects Computer Skills More Than Training.
New research indicates a person's innate intelligence may influence their computer proficiency more than previously thought. The findings suggest that practice alone may not be enough for some to become comfortable with technology.
The study challenges assumptions about training and highlights the role of cognitive ability in tech literacy.
What do you think—does natural aptitude outweigh training when it comes to mastering computers?

#TechLiteracy #Psychology #ComputerSkills

https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-a-lack-of-intelligence-not-training-may-be-why-people-struggle-with-computers/

@pixelcode @taylan Your nonchalant "So what?" gets people publicly murdered by the state in many juristictions...

• Which is why there is no substitute to teaching proper #TechLiteracy ffs!

If things were so easy as in "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" then @signalapp would be shut down.

• Or do you really think that in a world where multi-year long sting ops like #ANØM / #OperationIronside / #OperationTrøjanShield get greenlit that @Mer__edith would risk dying of old age in jail for non-paying users?

If you do think so then you should really get some professional help, cuz you seem rather lost...

• #Signal doesn't even bother to have an #OnionService, much less to provide means to use their service without self-doxxing with a #PhoneNumber, which at best is pseudonymous and requires money to attain and maintain...

It's #centralization is an absolute nightmare and mist be deemed as criminally neglectful!

@Andromxda @mollyim no it's not bs and fanboying @signalapp isn't going to change that.

If #Signal was secure it would be the #1 comms tool of organized crime...

• Yet I've only seen #TechIlliterates shill it.

Real professionals use #SelfHosting capable, fully #FLOSS'd solutions like #PGP/MIME & #XMPP+#OMEMO.

• Again: Demanding #PII like #PhoneNumbers and shilling a #Shitcoin-#Scam (#MobileCoin) makes Signal literally untrustworthy and if it doesn't for you then maybe your standards are just too low...

It's just me reading the room: Cuz #ComSec isn't done woth "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" and everyone who claims so without pointing out #OpSec, #InfoSec & #ITsec is BSing hard.

• The cold hard truth is that #TechLiteracy is irreplaceable and the only solution to it is to actually teach normies how to "get gud" with stuff like PGP.

Fortunatelty, @thunderbird and @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and many other tools make that easier than ever before.

• So rather than vomiting insults against my intellect in my mentions, go to the next @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth / #Cryptoparty / @cryptoparty@chaos.social and lend a hand.

@empathicqubit @crazy_pony @signalapp @monocles @delta

I disagree, because the few steps needed can be taught to literal #TechIlliterates within minutes, and I did so several times, walking them through.

• We as #TechLiterates are responsible to teach #TechLiteracy to #TechIlliterate "#Normies", or we deserve then damnation through our own hubris!

@licho @osman provide evidence the code @signalapp released is actually being deployed.

• Whereas @monocles has #ReproducibleBuilds to the point that @fdroidorg literally pulls their git and builds it from source.

Not to mention pushing a #Shitcoin-#Scam (#MobileCoin) disqualifies #Signal per very design!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoO2uWrX1M

• Given the collection of #PII like #PhoneNumbers, the ability to restrict functionality based off those and the fact that #Signal is subject to #CloudAct make it inherently not trustworthy.

And don't even get me started on the fact.it's not sustainable to run it as a #VCmoneyBurningParty!

• As soon as Signal becomes a problem, it will be taken offline, and due to the fact that it is #centralized, #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider that's trivial for authorities.

Same as identifying users: They already got a #PhoneNumber which in many juristictions one can't even obtain without #ID legally, thus making it super easy to i.e. find and locate a user. Even tze cheapest LEAs can force their local M(V)NOs to #SS7 a specific number...

• All these are unnecessary risks, that could've been avoided, but explicitly don't even get remediated retroactively!

Again: Signal has a #Honeypot stench, and you better learn proper #E2EE, #SelfCustody and #TechLiteracy because corporations can't pull the 5th [Amendment] on your behalf!

@SteveThompson no, we need to ask the real question and demand proper #Parenting as well as #MediaLiteracy & #TechLiteracy.

• Otherwise we continue to blame inanimate objects (i.e. #Guns & #Cars) for social problems (i.e. #ViolenceCulture)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390

Batteries marketed with "mAh" is one of the biggest ongoing consumer electronics cons.
#marketing #techliteracy #consumerelectronics

@ai6yr @briankrebs OFC this targets #TechIlliterates and the only effective means here are:

1. Teach #TechLiteracy instead of consumerism.
2. Mandate #confirmation & #notification - #PopUp|s for every use of #Clipboard (similar to #webcam use by websites)...
3. Ban #JavaScript - seriously!
4. Ban #Windows, because it's a #Govware, espechally since #Windows10 and even more so on #Windows11 that is *insecure in every configuration!
5. Put #TechIlliterates before a system they can't feck up. I.e. @tails_live @tails / #Tails for that reason alone (can't run such commands if they neither got #root nor any #persistent #storage to target).
6. Normalize the use of @torproject #TorBrowser!
7. #Teach #tech #literacy instead of #consumerism!
8. Ban #GAFAMs and their shitty products!
9. Migrate every #TechIlliterate to #Linux and don't give them administrative privilegues.
10. Teach tech literacy instead of consumerism!

@CCC +9001%

Ich erwarte dass #TechLiteracy gefördert wird und sämtliche #Angstkultur, #Entrechtung, #Überwachungsstaat und #Polizeistaat die nach 1949 eingeführt wurden ersatzlos gestrichen werden - MIT ZINSESZINSEN!

#FreiheitStattAngst #SicherheitStattCyberfaschismus #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #CryptoParty #FLOSS

That feeling, when you finally get rid of...

Google ❌
Microsoft ❌
FB/Insta/Whatsapp ❌
Twitter 💀❌
Spotify ❌
Adobe ❌

#bigtech #techmafia #selfhosted #datasovereignty #privacy #cybersecurity #righttorepair #techliteracy #linux #FOSS #federated

@Avitus @lispi314 @lauren THE REQUIREMENT FOR A #PhoneNumber BY @signalapp IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• #KYC IS THE ILLICT ACTIVITY!!!

If you gonna say "JuSt GeT aN iMpOrTeD #SIM / #eSIM!" then you obviously expect people to have way more #financial means and #TechLiteracy than is needed to get absolute N0obs setup withb#XMPP+#OMEMO and pay for @monocles / #monoclesChat!

@neil basically #InternetCensorship because the #UK failed to tech #TechLiteracy & #MediaLiteracy...