More traditional landscapes from Korab, and a view to Radomir, Albania. #hiking #mountains

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/117426178182644785

Auch interessant dass da *scheinbar matrix.org ganz weit vorne mitspielt beim Lobbyreigen in Brüssel. (Neben Schibsted natürlich).

*anscheinend(!) (danke @Tautropfen)

#matrix #xmpp

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117430228877698090

Sweden is falling apart 🇸🇪☠️

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@nogodsnomasters/117428835169615251

No TERFS(trans exclusionary radical feminists), no SWERFS(sex worker exclusionary radical feminists)

If you actually read the “Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.” post going around, you’ll find a transparent attempt to clumsily string together a conspiracy.

The post is predicated on the idea that a feature of WebAuthn called “attestation”, which is only used in high-assurance and usually corporate scenarios, and usually with physical hardware security keys, will be leveraged to hurt people, somehow.

The post posits that a website like X will bait and switch users: first, you get a passkey. Then, later, scary “attested” passkeys! This simply isn’t possible to do because attestation isn’t supported on the web for mass market, consumer authentication.

Attestation for passkeys (software-based, syncable credentials) is antithetical to their mass market goals, and would freeze out independent, non-corporate-backed credential managers. It’s an explicit non-goal of the designers of passkeys, who work together in a forum anyone can join.

And trust me, websites and apps like banks repeatedly asked for attestation at the beginning of the industry’s passkey journey. The platforms, browsers, and credential management apps have held firm that the goal of passkeys is reducing phishing and **not** some kind of trusted computing scheme. (And I will note: over my dead body!)

Besides the theory of the case being fundamentally wrong, there are several things that make the post disqualifying in terms of arguing something useful or important in the realm of security, privacy, and user authentication:

1. Intentionally presenting things that are complicated as inherently suspicious. (Delivering security by design can be complicated, yes!)

2. Describing TOTP as a “great solution” for adding security to a password-based account. When the most common threat model on the web is phishing (a word the post never mentions!), TOTP hardly buys you _anything_. TOTP is phishable.

3. Seeming to be unbothered by how many logical leaps are being taken without actually understanding the topic being discussed.

There are bad things happening in tech and untrustworthy people and companies do exist, but they’re largely in the AI space, not the “let’s stop people we love from getting compromised through phishing” space.

Soon they'll throw themselves in front of trains. I hope.

These people will write history, that's for sure. But not they way they think they will. That's also for sure.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-researchers-smoking-ai-cure-cancer-palantir-cto-2026-10

Our mobilizon instance got flooded with SPAM 😒

Turns out, moderation features are lacking. Pain in the ass!

#mobilizon

Am Mittwoch wird im Bundestag über einen Antrag auf vollumfängliche Anerkennung des Genozids an Ovaherero und Nama abgestimmt. Er fordert die Bundesregierung zu einer umfassenden Reparatur auf. Doch die rechten Angriffe auf das Erinnern an den Genozid an den Ovaherero und Nama zeigen: Es ist nicht gut bestellt um diesen Antrag. An der Seite der Nachfahren der Völkermord-Opfer unterstützt medico die Aufarbeitung der deutschen Kolonialverbrechen.
https://www.medico.de/blog/erinnerungsweltmeister-ohne-glaubwuerdigkeit-20689

Här är mitt filter som tar bort betalkraven på alla Schibsted-webbplatser: https://content.nikkasystems.com/resources/adblock/schibsted.txt. Funkar i Ublock Origin, Brave och Vivaldi.

apple is now so out of ideas that their tame fan journalists are reduced to rage baiting for engagement

Sie setzt es natürlich auf die Einkaufslisteliste. Weil Apple halt.

#englischDeppen

Wenn ich Siri sage „setze bitte Schwarzen Pfeffer auf die Einkaufsliste, dann setzt sie buchstäblich „Schwarzen Pfeffer“ auf die Einkaufsliste, weil man bei Apple in Cupertino natürlich nicht wissen kann, dass man da den Kasus wechseln muss, weil man ja grundsätzlich nur von der dümmst anzunehmen Sprache ausgeht. Ausgehen kann! Muss!

#petPeeve #apple #fail

I read some post about how Mastodon consists primarily of German-speaking creatures talking in English. I'm gonna do a poll, need to test that. Boosts highy appreciated!

So, do you speak German?

Hiked up to Furcletta (the pass between Val Tuoi and Val d’Urezzas at 2,735 m) to take in the landscape with a light coating of snow: 22.2km, 1208m ⬆️, 7h27m, 2–8°C 🌥️

Das österreichische Burgenland hat vor wenigen Tagen 10 Kriterien veröffentlicht, die Datencenter in Zukunft erfüllen sollen, um eine Genehmigung zu erhalten.

u.a.

• “Eigene erneuerbare Stromerzeugung”.

• “Geschlossener Wasserkreiskauf" und maximaler Wasserverbrauch pro Datencenter von "0.05% des burgenländischen Gesamtverbrauchs".

• “sauberes Fernwärmenetz für die Region”.

Aktuell ist das eine Absichtserklärung, keine Regulierung, aber politisch ein wichtiger (erster) Schritt.

https://www.burgenland.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Bilder/Aktuelle_Meldungen/2026/10_Oktober/10_Kriterien_Datencenter.pdf

Why Mobilizon exists?

Mobilizon was born in 2019 from a simple idea: events shouldn’t depend on Facebook to happen.

In 2026, the problem remains: to discover activities nearby, many people still have to rely on platforms owned by big tech companies.

We want to do things differently. But building a real alternative takes resources, and we need your help to make it happen.

💚 Support Mobilizon every month: https://mobilizon.org/support_en

🔴🟢 Today, we launched https://gdpr-omnibus.eu/ – a website, where we ranked more than 1,000 amendments to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive.

⁉️ This sheds light on the question of who in the EU Parliament is fighting for your privacy, and who is fighting for Big Tech!

👉 Take a look at https://gdpr-omnibus.eu/ to see the full ranking and our special rankings, including one on Charter violations.

👉 Or go to: https://noyb.eu/en/ranking-who-eu-parliament-fights-your-privacy-and-who-big-tech

Morgen und übermorgen in Osnabrück!

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Es regnet gerade in Strömen. Und es hat das ganze Wochenende geregnet. Aber ich schätze, „Job ist Job!“.