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Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims

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You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks...
You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department."Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it? You tell the caller to do unmentionable things to a goat. They sigh."I can as...
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I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes

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This has to be the most infuriating bug report I've ever submitted.I went to type in...
This has to be the most infuriating bug report I've ever submitted.I went to type in my 2FA code on a website - but no numbers appeared on screen. Obviously, I was an idiot and had forgotten to press the NumLock button. D'oh! I toggled it on and typed again. No numbers appeared. I switched to another tab, my numbers...
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Blogs strip off for CSS Naked Day (2020)

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Receive push notifications from your rice cooker

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I have a lovely, and reasonably priced, Mini Panda Rice Cooker. It does not have any...
I have a lovely, and reasonably priced, Mini Panda Rice Cooker. It does not have any SmartHome features. You put in water and rice, press a button, it cooks rice. Nice!The only problem is - I don't know how long the rice will take to cook. It uses "Fuzzy Logic" to work out exactly how much heat and time is needed fo...
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There's nothing you can do to prevent a SIM-swap attack

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It is tempting to think that users are to blame for their own misfortune. If only...
It is tempting to think that users are to blame for their own misfortune. If only they'd had a stronger password! If only they didn't re-use credentials! If only they had perfect OpSec! If only...!Yes, users should probably take better care of their digital credentials and bury them in a digital vault. But there are...
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Hot on the heels of a post I wrote 4 years ago, wouldn't it be useful...
Hot on the heels of a post I wrote 4 years ago, wouldn't it be useful to have a well-known URl for user avatar images?When I sign up to a web service, I don't want to faff around uploading an image to use as my avatar. I want that service to look at my email address or social-sign-in and automatically pick up my pre...
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Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub Using OpenStreetMap

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I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my...
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spending the day at the park".So, is there a way to recreate that early Web...

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ActivityPub Server in a Single PHP File

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"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid that computation is too carbon intensive."

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Edit This Blog Post

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A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP

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Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference

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Compressing Text into Images

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