Menno Finlay-Smits @menn0@mastodon.nzoss.nz

"If one product like #Chromium has enough market share, then it becomes easier for web developers and businesses to decide not to worry if their services and sites work with anything other than Chromium. That’s what happened when #Microsoft had a monopoly on browsers in the early 2000s before #Firefox was released. And it could happen again.

If you care about what’s happening with online life today, take another look at Firefox." https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/ #edge

Anyone have any experience in breaking rolling code key fobs?

Decided to clone my garage door clicker and aside from the obvious playback attack I'm not really sure how you'd go about extracting the secret from the hardware.

Captured a few radio packets, seems like a 4 btye code. Not game enough to open a 400 dollar fob with no clones on the market to see what chip is driving it. Any way to identify it?

So there was a big protest today by schoolkids who blew off school and marched in the streets over government inaction on climate change.

The Prime Minister has said they should be less activist and focus on their schooling instead.

I just saw this sign. These kids are great.

#auspol #protest #activism

Now that the heartbreak at the state of my homeland is getting old, it's starting to be dominated by humiliation at being in any way associated with the country, partcularly when I see this: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/27/mississippi.html Many people (most Americans) think the US is exceptional. It is, but probably not in any of the ways you'd want it to be if you aren't an asshole.

RT @lightweight@twitter.com: Huh, will watch this with interest... https://schnack.cool - it's a #FOSS replacement for Disqus. Might give it a go on my personal site before too long...

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lightweight/status/1067325676712337409

This is just one of dozens of reasons I have to get to LCA2019 (which, as luck would have it, is happening just down the road from me, here in Christchurch, NZ in Jan 2019)... https://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/100/

@mike

I regret making this video

#China allegedly stepping up their #BGP hijacking game since the 2015 #Obama #Xi agreement to stop #military #hacking operations. The traffic routing station located in the US being a major part of the plan by China Telecom #infosec #privacy #security
https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-has-been-hijacking-the-vital-internet-backbone-of-western-countries/

RT @daringfireball@twitter.com: Google’s Night Sight Feature for Pixel Cameras Looks Astounding: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/25/night-sight

This is great work from @charlie3@twitter.com!
https://opensource.com/education/14/11/one-Linux-laptop-per-student-Penn-Manor We need to see a lot more of this, everywhere in the world. It will address the digital divide/literacy and lower the cost of education, and encourage local digital business.

RT @Spacekatgal@twitter.com: Please RT if you are a man who has never been in a bar fight. https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1047159381064929280

In Akira, the setting of both the manga and anime take place next year

Ah, Spring in #Melbourne! That beautiful time of year when leaving the house for more than a couple of hours requires you to carry sufficient clothing variations to cope with every possible weather condition that occurs on Earth.

if you're new and worried about your follower numbers, don't! mastodon is more about the community and having fun with your friends. you can drop the toxic thought process where you viewed yourself as a brand on Twitter.

Use your local and federated timelines! Talk to people if something catches your eye! Don't gamify the experience here, be considerate. Think about being part of the local & federated community instead of figuring out how to go viral. Mastodon is super fun without those habits.

Unix will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn’t think rope would do that, you should have read the man page.