So many people I know say “I only use Signal to talk to you”, it’s like I’m the awkward one for not using Facebook.

I guess if it’s your moral obligation to steal from the workplace it reframes it somewhat.

I'm not sure what actually happens, but I mostly stopped buying paperbacks on Amazon a good while ago, and if I do, and I'm unhappy with the quality I'll return it.

Kids here in the UK get educated about online safety in school, schools have sessions for parents covering this stuff too. My own kids have had age appropriate internet access all their lives, its not been difficult to control it, we have had the tools and knowledge for years.

This stuff really isn't about child safety in my opinion.

I also have a PiKVM with the switch for network level access which works really well too.

One thing I certainly couldn't do was pay attention to nothing happening for an hour just incase something happened.

The rice cooker gives me a notification and requires nothing from me.

The microwave sounds an alarm that requires me to attend to it like an emergency.

I like this idea, I wouldn't buy one but I always want more vertical space on a laptop screen.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubiquiti-user...

Was it worth it to put all his customers at risk like that?

He is honestly lucky, the "hackers" could have done much worse, it would have been much more profitable for them to go after his customers via his software than to demand money from him had they been financially motivated.

> Third, the hacker has been trying to inject XSS attacks into app

> Now he's hiring a developer to shore it up.

So this is an ongoing attack? He should probably also hire some incident response and get some security consultancy.

I get "time blind" when I'm fixated on something like work, programming, reading, research, etc. While it can be a good thing, it also means I forget to eat, don't take breaks, miss meetings, or just spend way too long doing one thing and end up wondering where the day went. Typical notifications don't seem to snap me out of it either.

The app creates a thin, always visible line at the bottom of my screen that shrinks inwards as time passes, at the end of the allotted time the screen will blur preventing me from doing whatever I was doing and snapping me out of my hyperfocus state. I can choose how long the timer runs for and how long the screen blurs for. Tonight I added a loop feature so I can use it like a pomodoro timer with enforced breaks.

It's a simple menu bar app for MacOS and could be better, but it does what I want it to do. I've been using it for the past week and found it really helpful.

I haven't used Swift before so it was a good learning experience too.

It's the same principle as a Time Timer (timetimer.com) which I used previously but I find my app works better as the screen blur actually prevents me from just continuing whatever I'm doing, and the bar is always in my line of sight.

https://localmess.github.io/

This technique was discovered, makes me wonder how many undiscovered techniques are still in use.

I put a youtube video on the TV last week and all the adverts were deep fakes of famous people saying you can get rich with this one trick and a QR code to scan. One of the videos was a deep fake of the UK PM Keir Starmer saying thousands of people can claim an unknown benefit. How are these adverts not considered harmful?

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I think some kind of KVM over IP solution would probably be what I need so I can put the workstation in another room.