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So Katy got a scam text claiming to be Canada Post with an underliverable package. I'm in the process of gathering information to send a report to their registrar's abuse department, but they're doing something clever to cover their tracks that I haven't fully been able to unravel.

For context, here is the link (with spaces added to prevent it from turning into an actual link and being accidentally clicked):

https:// canadapost-postecanadadeliverylivraison .com/canadapost/index.php

When opened from Safari on her phone, it loads a realistic looking phishing site, but when opened from any other browser, it returns an empty (0 bytes) page. I assume this is to hamper attempts to investigate abuse claims (though the domain name is already pretty incriminating).

Since there doesn't appear to be any kind of unique identifier, I assumed this to be some kind of spear phishing attack that was based on her browser's User-Agent string, but when I tell curl to mimic it, I still don't get a result.

Any ideas about how they're doing this?

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Sensitive content

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say what you will about medieval peasants but their cybersecurity was impenetrable

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I keep saying it, but I think there needs to be a much more robust cultural conversation about tech and consent where it concerns custodianship over other peoples' data.

If I know details about you such as your contact information, or hold work of yours in trust, how does my own relationship with tech affect and respect that trust?

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Without going fully down the "snitches get stiches" route, what duty do we have to protect the data entrusted to us? How do we exercise that duty when there is such immense difficulty in doing so, primarily because malicious actors have worked very hard to *make* it difficult to uphold that duty? Do we really have a duty to fight the whole world in order to protect our loved ones and peers? If not, what duties *do* we have?
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I don't know of or have any answers here. More I intend this as a kind of consciousness-raising? If you're writing a privacy guide, please consider broadening past the individual reader; if you're in a peer group, try to find ways to model raising these questions.

The default will always, *always* be what malicious actors make sure is the easiest choice — full submission and full subversion of community trust.

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It has come to my attention that my favourite jacket is falling apart. I would like to repair it for two reasons:

  1. I love this jacket.
  2. I can't afford a new one right now.


I have no opposition to #VisibleMending.

Suggestions?

Close up of the sleeve of an olive green jacket. The material is frayed and torn just below the seam in the cuff.

#AskFedi #ClothingRepair

#askfedi #visiblemending #ClothingRepair
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"The referee needs to be big enough to enforce the rules. The smallest government you can have is dictated by the biggest corporation you're willing to have." @pluralistic
@Cory Doctorow

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Maybe the fact that people are forming emotional connections on genAI chatbots means we have an unmet need for social workers and therapists and in fact should invest more heavily into these fields as a society

Because given the scale of investments on genAI it’s pretty fucking clear we have the money

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Jigme Datse

Not that knowledgable about that ink/line. I have noted that stuff like walnut ink, tea ink, sumi ink, very much can have a distinct flavour. A fair amount of ball point ink I've noticed certainly has a flavour. But some of the potential fountain pen inks, I can see basically not having anything you'd note.

I'll have to look up that ink.

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My favorite inventor is the person who mixed potatoes with mayonnaise and called it a salad.

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Huh. I appealed the speed camera ticket online. They sent an email saying that it was being reviewed but nothing else since. Suddenly this morning when I try to check the status of the ticket, it doesn't seem to exist any more.

I don't want to just assume they've waived it, but I don't know what else to make of this. It'd be nice to have some sort of confirmaion.

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reason tech CEOs think that every job is easily automatable is bc their job actually is easily automatable

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I worked at a company years ago, & for some reason was left alone in the CEOs office. He had one of the fancy DEC terminals we all coveted, not even turned on. I unplugged the serial cable (this dates this anecdote) and left.

A month later I happened to be in there & noticed the terminal was still unplugged.

There are engaged, hard-working CEOs out there. There are also completely useless fuckwits who contribute nothing positive. Their companies run despite them, not because of them.

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Please remember that "Red Tape" is why there's no sawdust in your bread and the nearest river has not actually caught on fire lately.

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I was always bothered by the scene in #StarTrek II when they used Reliant's prefix code. The input device they used made absolutely no sense from an electronics (or user interface) standpoint.

It just recently occurred to me though that it makes absolute sense from a quick and dirty movie prop standpoint.

#StarTrek

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Had the car towed to the mechanic's and walked to my brother-in-law's to wait for the mechanic to call us with the damage.

That was a longer walk than I expected. We also took a "shortcut" along a walking trail that I found on OpenStreetMap.

I was sure we were going to spawn a true crime documentary: couple disappear into woods never to be seen again.

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We were driving home and suddenly heard a clunk and the battery light on the dash suddenly came on.

Fantastic. We've been driving Instacart to make ends meet. We can't afford a huge repair bill right now. Hopefully it's just the alternator belt that snapped.

This car is 20 years old. It's not like it owes us any favours, but it's still a problem. The one positive thing I can say about this car is that of the two major issues it's had, it's always had the courtesy to break down a couple blocks from home so that we can limp back there and figure out what to do next.

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There is no CEO of RSS.

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@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) A question about security pins:

My understanding is that the said pins are the key pins, not the driver pins, so if I'm gentle enough to not over set them, the shape of the pin should be completely irrelevant, right? I mean, they'd only pose a problem if they were pushed beyond the shear line, wouldn't they?

@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)

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Wanted to know if I could set gelatin faster by putting it in the freezer instead of the fridge. This is the first paragraph of the first result I found on the subject.

When it comes to culinary creativity, gelatin is a versatile ingredient that can bring remarkable textures and flavors to our desserts, jellies, and savory dishes. However, those who have worked with gelatin often find themselves asking: “Will gelatin set faster in the freezer?” In this article, we’ll explore the science behind gelatin, how it sets, and whether using a freezer can indeed speed up the process.

That's a lot of reading for what the author knows damn well is a yes or no answer I'm looking for. I kind of understand why people like the idea of "AI summaries". Though I imagine this whole article was spit out by an LLM in the first place. Gotta keep people on the page as long as possible to drive up potential ad revenue, right?

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The only reason I've put up with android for as long as I have is that I've had full freedom to run my own code and install my own applications.

Google wants to end that. That's the end of android for me.

hackaday.com/2025/10/06/google…

Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores …
Hackaday

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@Unlikelylass @BustaMarx @zillion After running around like a maniac searching for the charger in my office, my garage, the storage space and literally everywhere a charger might sit ...

Turns out that Skylight Frames have the same barrel connector and a 5V 2A charger. I have the light!

@Zillion @UnlikelyLass @Console_Cowboy
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@Unlikelylass @BustaMarx @zillion

At this point that is all it does. The wifi is too old to connect to my AP and I have failed to get the USB networking from my PopOS laptop to connect. I might find an old wifi router and stand it up so that I can try to update some of the stuff on here.

This whole project has been like the 3rd act of The Graduate. Frantic rush to get this up then we all stare at each other like "now what?"

@Zillion @UnlikelyLass @Console_Cowboy
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activity pub/fediverse might not be as efficient or whatever but i think it has a long life ahead of it because it doesn't seem as vulnerable to political capitulation like all of the corpo socials right now

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Working on a simple #web site for a client, and I'm trying to balance keeping it from becoming a bloated mess of unnecessary code, and minimizing the amount of unnecessary work I have to put into it.

For one feature they want, I'm tempted to install #jQuery. It feels like unnecessary bloat, but it makes the process easier. How much overhead does it really add?

#Web #jquery
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PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains

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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
@Krafting

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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.

I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.

Edit: typo

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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.

ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org

Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.

#retrocomputing #unix #vintage

#unix #retrocomputing #vintage
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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:

1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command

2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)

3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal

edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one

This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".

#terminal #tui #linux

#Linux #Terminal #unix #tui
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