Windows is a toy OS, good enough to play video games. But many confused people think it’s okay to use for critical or sensitive operations.

The article focuses on techniques that help bots spoof browsers, to make them impersonate a typical human visitor.

It’s not obvious how this helps people protect themselves against surveillance while being online. Using python scripting is not a practical way to browse. But it’s handy to write scrappers.

It’s certainly useful to misbehaving bots that try to evade anti-bots protection.

That’s true. The reason is there’s lots of bot traffic spoofing real users, sometimes even going through residential proxies.

When bots spoof users well, the last option for projects is use these PoW captcha that annoy everyone. Enshitification continues.

By spoofing the fingerprint, developers can make their automated tools impersonate real users more convincingly, thereby bypassing bot detections.

Many OSS projects and personal web servers have bot detection because they would otherwise drown under (AI) scrappers and other bots traffic. Hosting or bandwidth cost is often unsustainable without bot protection.

If you don’t want to kill these projects, honor robots.txt by default, use throttling, don’t try to circumvent bot blocks. Look if there’s a purpose built API available to bots. If they don’t want to offert such API, go find something else to do.

XMPP, Conversations is a Nice Android client.

Incoming SMS and RCS audio attachments received by Google Messages are now automatically decoded with no user interaction

I wonder if lockdown mode disable this. We’ll probably know with article 3.

Caling your MEP is more efficient.

If you understand the security implications, you probably won’t enable it.

The sad thing is you paid to get a car with a TCU, then paid a mechnic to remove it. Assuming you’re not a mechnic/hobbist yourself.

It’s good that Mozilla is shaming car companies and shining a spotlight on the issue. Journalists need to ask about tracking and privacy when a new car model comes out. Buyer should ask sellers the same.

Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.

He should at least have “DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP” tatooed on his forehead.

And it downloads Tor to connect to C2. So it’s a machine with Internet access AND without security mesures.

So it might be a target with poor IT. A windows machine shouldn’t be left without AV, especially if it has Internet access.

Any Brave alternative that works on iOS?

I’ve installed brave on some familly iOS device because that’s the best I could find at the time. But hope to find a good replacement.

Cromite use a third party repo, rather than being in the main one. And I’m hesitant to add repos for my system’s security.

Do anyone has some informations or sources on Cromite’s maintainer, whether cromite.org is safe to add to repos?

This could further accelerate the arms race between malicious srappers and websites.

My fear is this would create collateral damage, block legitimate scrappers and visitors, hassle people with an increasing number of captcha.

Please make an effort to avoid X.

If you’re looking for someone’s or an organization’s feed, look for alternatives such as:

• Look for that person’s Mastodon account,
• Look for a blog or website. It may have a RSS feed, if not try https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate
• Look for a bluesky account, and get its RSS feed with a tool like https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate

It’s less creepy than asking “This is your home address, isn’t it?”

Recall the time when Windows came on a DVD, had no Microsoft account option on install, no ads in settings nor in the startup menu, no AI slop.

It was still shit, but it feels shittier now, and harder to setup and configure in a way that’s bearable.

Thanks for the information.

The app is distributed in a third party repo, not the main F-Droid repo, so before installating I’m trying to check if it’s open-source, had some independent review, and is safe to install.

The source is available but the license isn’t recognised as OSS according to the OSI website. https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay https://opensource.org/licenses

This may explain why it’s not in the main F-Droid repo. It’s better than closed source anyway.