Tux in Brussels @tux@mastodon.multimob.be

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?

There are great initiatives over here.

A local NGO named DigitalForYouth collects and refurbishes laptops and phones for low-income groups and schools.

Sadly, they seem to be completely adverse to the idea of using free software and will impose Windows 10 on every machine. 😞

The mobile app for #Jitsi Meet has been updated to 20.1 this week.

They fixed an annoying bug in the settings dialog. Entering a custom URL for the server was a real pain. Now it’s quite easy.

This is very good news. There are lots of Jitsi Meet instances around, and this setting is really useful. (And I had some friends about to give up only because of that poor usability problem.)

I learned something about NS, the Dutch railways: they use GNU/Linux for their info screens.

Slight misconfiguration here, though. 😉

#Instagram has gone too big, it should become independant from #Facebook.

That way, instead of #GAFAM we could start saying G-MAFIA. 😄

Matthias Kirschner (from #FSF Europe) raised an interesting concern during his #FOSDEM talk.

Some people might say: "I want a restrictive #licence to the software I’m writing, to prevent 'bad guys'—e.g. the military, the Mafia—from using it."

Bad idea: if people are killing other people, software licences are probably not something they would really care about.

Better stick with licences that do not impose personal views about who and what purposes. (Copyleft is important, though.)

It is interesting to see how attacks are quickly mutating.

Today, hundreds of "GET /.aws/credentials" requests started popping up.

In the past hours, I have seen a large number of requests in my #nginx log.

"GET /.env HTTP/2.0" 403 146 "-" "curl/7.58.0"

Hundreds of bots looking for the file, then going away. Most addresses resolve in compute.amazonaws.com

They are very obviously trying to get a config file. Is it still that old Laravel #exploit?

#hack

Here is what it looks like.

It feels good to live away from Windows machines. This is getting creepier every day.

Installing #Chrome also installs a side executable that can search the hard drive and remove programs it thinks might interfere with the browser.

Remember: If you behave like malware, then you ARE malware.

#DeleteChrome #DeleteGoogle

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/20/how-to-block-the-chrome-software-reporter-tool-software_reporter_tool-exe/

#xkcd fans know that "Correct Horse Battery Staple" is a strong #password.

I inadvertently saw a user applying the 4-word password principle in front of me:
– Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
😄

I bet this opens the door to a new type of effective dictionary attacks.

Lesson for all of us: teach your users to be smart and never rely on simplistic rules.

#security #hacking

#Samsung #Android updates are equisitely non-explicit.

—"The security of your device has been improved."
—"New / enhanced features"
—"Further improvements to performance".

No detailed information of any kind.
Maybe they assume we shouldn’t know.