Tux in Brussels @tux@mastodon.multimob.be

"mail‌.‌com respects your privacy. To learn more, please read our ‌Privacy Policy."

Guess what? The link to the privacy policy contains a long tracking string.

Another "creative" attack.

Somebody pretending to write on behalf of cPanel, informing about an alleged update of their privacy policy, in the name of GDPR compliance.

Attached is an HTML containing Javascript looking like this:

document.write(unescape('%3c%6c%69%6e%6b%20%72%65…

This is breaking my heart:

# uptime
12:13:37 up 364 days, 13:57

And I had to reboot it now.
Didn’t even reach 1 year. 😭

This has been a recurring issue with F-Droid: after you have properly updated all your apps, sometimes the notification badge won’t go away and will still catch your attention.

The first version of #Ubuntu was released 16 years ago, on October 20.

The other day I was teaching algorithms to a group of 12 years old children.

Namely how to calculate leap years, why 2100 will not be a leap year while the year 2400 will, and so on.

Suddenly, several kids exclaimed: "Why bother? After all, by 2100 there will be mass extinctions because of #climate change, none of us will be left to see that."

It always looks good in a console.
You can add it to your motd if you want.

echo "My name is "`pwgen -s 128 1`", how are you?"

#Android on a #Samsung device. 🙄
I still haven’t found a legitimate reason why Galaxy Store needs those permissions.

Of course, coronaviruses existed long before SARS-CoV-2. 😃

The point here is to say they have been really forward-looking by reserving a domain name for such a generic term.

notovirus.com, rotavirus.com, adenovirus.com… have also been existing for more than 10 years. Maybe one of them will become a familiar term one day.

coronavirus.com redirects to a page by the WHO. Fine!

According to WHOIS, the domain name was created… back in 2002.

Domain Name: CORONAVIRUS.COM
Registrar URL: uniregistry.com
Creation Date: 2002-08-13-T02:31:44Z

#coronavirus

Got this on one of my domains:

From: <complicated address with @gwart.xyz>
To: postmaster@<mydomain>

This email is a harmless security check to your email system. It does not attempt to penetrate or circumvent your security measures.
To opt-out of these security checks please visit the opt-out link.
<link with a token ID containing my domain>

I suspect they want to see whether the mailbox is monitored, in case I would open their link.
What is the trick here exactly?
#hack

I’ve seen this often.

User sends a screenshot of her screen.

On the screenshot, you see a tab with a google search result page for "How do I take a screenshot?" 😃

Oh, it is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS day today, right?