@david_chisnall @soatok #Dual_EC_DRBG #NevarForget
#SecureCryptoForMeNotThee

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

my wife bought three clothing items from Fatface in-store. two turned out to be the wrong size and one had some damage she only noticed after washing. turns the cashier forgot to put the receipt in the bag. expected it to be a fight. she called up. no IVR, no hold, straight through to a person, super helpful and friendly, resolved with a full refund in under 4 minutes.

I wish every company worked like this. and now she knows it's that easy to get help she's planning to order more from them.

A Backtick Operator for C++

```C++
a `plus` b // plus(a, b)
a `std::min` b // std::min(a, b)
m `at` k // at(m, k)
u `dot` v // dot(u, v)
x `approx_equal` y // approx_equal(x, y)
```

https://sdowney.org/posts/infix-backtick-operator/

Seems about right

Not saying carbon capture will never work, but so far, well…

My most evergreen post.

“Bob, one of my employees can send email from his iPhone, but he’s not receiving any emails.”

Well, that’s backwards – usually I see problems the other way around; they can receive, but not send.

I tried working with him on a phone call yesterday morning, but when you can’t see the screen, tech support is more difficult. The client’s main business location is in a town less than an hour from my office, so I went to their location after lunch to work on it in person.

Oh, so many details were left out! It turned out that he wasn’t receiving emails on his iPhone, his iPad, or his laptop – but he could send from the phone and the laptop.

And... the problem started in March, and was continuous from then until now!

Okay. First things first. Let’s log into Outlook on the web and see whether that works. I’m starting to have a hunch that I’ve seen this problem before, with other clients.

Outlook on the web looks the same. So I went into the Rules settings, and there was the culprit. The rule was named “....” That’s it, the only rule, and the rule name was just four dots. I clicked the drop-down arrow to expand the rule. And the rule said, on incoming mail, move it to the Deleted Items folder and mark it as read! So he was receiving email all along, he just didn’t know it.

I looked in the Deleted Items folder, and there were more than 1,300 messages, including my two test emails from earlier in the day. I moved everything back to the Inbox.

Here’s what happened. In March someone had started sending email pretending to be this employee. He changed his email password, and the outbound spam stopped. That’s all the company did. They thought the problem was solved.

Well, that locked the cybercriminal out, but it didn’t delete the rule that the cybercriminal had created to cover their activity. That rule didn’t get deleted until yesterday, June 24.

THE LESSON
If you believe your email has been compromised, after securing your account, log into each device, and especially the web instance, and look for rules you didn’t create. If a device was compromised, the malicious rule may be in Outlook’s rules on the device. This scenario can also happen in other email apps, like Thunderbird, and in other web-based email accounts, like Gmail. Whether it’s web-based or app-based, look for rules or filters that you were unaware of, and delete them.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#email #TechSupport #HelpDesk

Cybersecurity - Networks - Wireless – Telecom – VoIP

Het @knmi heeft #coderood afgegeven. Houd rekening met extreme hitte in grote delen van het land. De hitte kan gevaarlijk zijn. Als je de weg op moet, neem voldoende water mee en een paraplu (mocht je met pech stranden). Check je route op: https://www.rwsverkeersinfo.nl/

@troublewithwords

“I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.”

— Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, after rejecting a 350-acre data center outside of Winnipeg

I just saw a literal anti socialism ad on YouTube.
Imo a good sign. Some people are feeling threatened. Keep it up everyone. 😂

Prime Day starts today! There are thousands of deals on Amazon, but you can maximize your savings with this one hack:

Don’t buy anything.

amazing, no notes

Ich habe heute einen Brief vom Vermieter bekommen. ⚠️ Mieterhöhung. 😬 Die letzte war 2019 und fiel sehr moderat aus. Für die aktuelle ahne ich nichts gutes.😨

Erste Seite des Briefes: Paragrafen-Blabla. Keine Info über die Erhöhung. Tief Luft holen und umblättern.

Dann die Überraschung. 🤯 Die Erhöhung beträgt nur 0,06 €/m². Das ist weniger als 1% und damit massiv unter der Inflation seit der letzten Erhöhung.

Warum ich das teile: Auf Social Media überwiegt der negative Content, dass alles Mist ist und Gier und Egoismus dominieren.

Diese geringe Mieterhöhung soll nicht die problematische Mietsituation anderer relativieren, sondern zeigen: Die Welt ist vielschichtig. Und es gibt nicht nur schlechte Nachrichten.

Where do you buy knights?

At the pawn shop, they have a promotion going on.

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.