Rich Stroffolino

There’s been reporting on this before but people are being trafficked and forced to run cyber scams. A reason I find those “we scammed the scammer” video on YouTube distasteful.

I’ve really been enjoying using Micro.blog. Something about having a little bit ownership of one feed and having that go to other channels. Admittedly, Micro.blog is still a service that can go away, but at least its a more easy exported RSS-supported blog.

It is always funny to me that Nissan does not own nissan.com. It belongs to some kind of computer company that posts very Web 1.0 content. Keep on holding out!

What’s the oldest piece of tech you use regularly? I started thinking of this when I saw my mom was still using her original iPad we got her back in Christmas 2010 (its a tethered solitaire machine now). Mine is probably my Nikon N90s SLR, which date back to the mid-90s.

It’s amazing the coverage Bluesky gets from where it is at as a network. It saw outages and performance degradation after adding 5000 users in a day. For comparison, Mastodon regularly adds almost twice that many in a day. Of course, this also underscores the other issue with Bluesky, although often billed as decentralized, it actually isn’t federated. So it still has a centralized point of failure.

Of course, Mastodon servers have buckled under the strain of no users. But the seemingly paultry numbers that put Bluesky in fits speaks to just how small it still is.

So Cyber Security Headlines just turned 3! It’s really weird to think I started this deep in the pandemic. The time has flown and I’m really proud of how the show has grown and developed since we started. Can’t wait to bring in more new voices over the course of this year.

We’re just naming threat groups from old Reddit usernames:

Our analysis attributes the email server compromise to the ScarCruft threat actor.

It would be funny except for the part that this was a North Korea group spying on a Russian missile contractor.

I hate that every time I go to open a Microsoft Office app, it reminds me that I don’t own the app. That maddening little authentication window pop-up checking to see if I have a right to use this app. And it makes the app slower to open to boot.

Canon even took the joy out of throwing away a printer:

Canon is warning users of home, office, and large format inkjet printers that their Wi-Fi connection settings stored in the devices' memories are not wiped, as they should, during initialization, allowing others to gain access to the data.

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands was one of the games that I spent the most time on growing up. My brother and I found it on a CD of a few other old Dungeons and Dragons PC games at K-Mart for $0.99. The thing about it that has endured the most is its soundtrack. Just an hour of solid Sound Blaster chunky jams. Someone keeps posting it to YouTube Music. It’s intermittently taken down, but it’s my favorite work music when it’s available.

As far as puns related to Peloton security bugs, I feel like we can do better:

People could potentially lose more than just pounds by using a Peloton treadmill, as the Internet-connected fitness equipment also can leak sensitive data…

I am a big fan of the Arc browser, so happy to see it’s no longer behind what seemed like a token waitlist. I was doing a screen share today and I had a Windows user jealous they could not try it out. Really helps make for more organized browsing.

A movie in its third round of reshoots being edited by screening committees, what could go wrong!

The movie was in the middle of postproduction and beginning test screenings that summer. While a timeline is not clear, from summer 2022 to the beginning of 2023, The Lost Kingdom underwent two rounds of reshoots and held several uninspiring test screenings.

Also shoutout to the Hollywood Reporter for ad tech that makes the site hatefully unreadable.

Forget Oppenheimer, we need a movie about Edward Teller’s dream of nuking Alaska to create a pointless artificial harbor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proj…

Wow, a man working for a company that had it’s revenue slashed by an Apple privacy change thinks that the Apple OS is worse. Not that this isn’t a perfectly valid take, just love the idea this isn’t the default company line from Meta these days.

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I’m not saying this Bustle piece is written by a LLM, but writing like this is why GPTZero doesn’t work.

As mentioned, Dolittle, which tells the story of a Welsh veterinarian with the ability to communicate with animals, failed to meet expectations among critics and at the box office. The film, which also stars Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, and Emma Thompson, currently holds a 14% critics' approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earned $77 million at the domestic box office, falling short of its overall budget.

It’s not often you see product reviews or previews where the excitement for the product is palpable. But Sean Hollister seems almost giddy in his first look at the Framework 16, and I don’t blame him:

I don’t trust any company — no ethical journalist should. This is a pricey machine that could let you down. But I think Framework is one of the only companies, maybe the only one, that could get this right. I sincerely hope Patel and his team do, because it’s the kind of computer I’d like to own.

Purely anecdotal but I asked my two teenage nephews about if they tried Threads. Neither had heard of it and after I explained it kind of laughed at the idea of using Twitter.