Gareth Kitchen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @gruff@mastodon.technology

Shoot. I commented a line in file. A simple command that deletes a couple of thousand records from a table to allow for a daily refresh. That was three years ago. Said table is now rather large...... 3 million records... I never knew my ISP had a cost of query limit! :(

Oooo, it's arrived..... Fit for a keyboard warrior! 🙂 Metal construction and the 'proper' mechanical Cherry key switches. Clickety clackity just like the original IBM keyboards of the 80's. It's a dream to type on...... #daskeyboard

An illegal bitcoin mine. The heat source was spotted by police drone and thought to be a cannabis farm!

https://west-midlands.police.uk/news/bitcoin-mine-uncovered-during-industrial-unit-raid

UK's secretive Data Services & Analytics (Home Office) has data on 650 million people. I guess they must all have forgotten to tick the non-consent box.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/home-office-immigration-data

Fairphone praises LineageOS.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits-five-years-of-updates-with-some-help-from-lineageos/

I just scanned the QR-Code on my Covid vaccination passport. What could possibly go wrong? Spawning a WScript.shell FFS, I hope it's sanitised!!!!

I've been using Vivaldi for a year or two now but got frustrated at slowness when four of five tabs are used. Switched to Firefox, pretty snappy but it just crashes, rather than slowing. :( Back with Vivaldi.....

F£&k it, just renewed my Green Party membership. Just love the sense of purpose, enthusiasm and desire for change.

Enough said....

You can't be too careful, online, nowadays.... But the rest of the family are getting a little concerned....... lol

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-1000-hackers-worked/

Remember, the original development team at Microsoft that delivered Excel consisted of three people.... Microsoft know about these things.. /s

Well, LastPass jiggering with their free users has backfired. My eldest was a long time user.

So, I have just upgraded to the
Bitwarden family plan.

It's free for regular users but opensource projects like this need support.

https://bitwarden.com

Really enjoying my new brilliantly repairable and environmentally friendly @Fairphone FP3+. Running Google free LineageOS 17.1,
Signal, @protonvpn, @protonmail, Vivaldi Browser along with some other amazing FOSS apps thanks to
@fdroidorg. :)

lol. from the Whatsapp terms and conditions circa 2010.

https://archive.is/I120r

How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic

Pesky AI

Cars have come off the road trying to cross a cattle grid after sensors mistook it for a wall and slammed on the brakes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-55571080

Just checking out Nadhim Zahawi's (UK Minister for Business and Industry and COVID Vaccine Deployment) web site. What hope is there?

https://pberba.github.io/security/2020/05/28/lastpass-phishing/

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/