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@deviantollam Pretty sure YouTube doesn't like external links in comments, so sending it here—This is an interesting blog post about...

@deviantollam Pretty sure YouTube doesn't like external links in comments, so sending it here—

This is an interesting blog post about fullscreen browser tech support scams: https://textslashplain.com/2023/09/12/attack-techniques-fullscreen-abuse/

It's honestly shocking this hasn't been more effectively mitigated yet. I've seen almost identical scams for years now, and found an article from 2017 describing the same tactics, so it goes back at least that far. In some ways they've gotten more brazen in the last few years with the alarm sounds and voiceovers.

Microsoft has announced some kind of AI detection tool for Edge to stop this sort of scam, which imo is like putting (expensive, climate-damaging, privacy-violating) wallpaper over a gaping hole in the wall. 🙃

Anyway, thanks for the PSA and hopefully it helps someone out there!

Using C++ after developing a taste for Rust has involved reading a lot of blog posts called "X considered harmful" so I can learn...

Using C++ after developing a taste for Rust has involved reading a lot of blog posts called "X considered harmful" so I can learn to do the harmful thing

(Thanks music school for a very approximate understanding of German and the comments on this toot for the etymological detour...

(Thanks music school for a very approximate understanding of German and the comments on this toot for the etymological detour https://vis.social/@yetzt/113274113731760432 )

Maybe they didn't lean into this because Google's motto was still "don't be evil" when they made k8s. I guess a...

Maybe they didn't lean into this because Google's motto was still "don't be evil" when they made k8s. I guess a RoboCop-style Cybernetic Governor mascot would have been bad for optics, or something. Cowards

Yes, Kubernetes means helmsman, but it's also the root word for "cybernetics" and "govern". I don't want to...

Yes, Kubernetes means helmsman, but it's also the root word for "cybernetics" and "govern". I don't want to "Orchestrate", I want to Cybernetically Govern

If I'm not doing something important, running into a software bug can be a fun sidequest. It makes me think about how the...

If I'm not doing something important, running into a software bug can be a fun sidequest. It makes me think about how the software/webpage/computer works in a way that is easy to overlook when it's polished and Just Works™. Today I learned about HTML datalists and how they haven't been fully supported in Firefox for Android for at least 6 years. This has me researching how to contribute to Firefox, and how datalists work in Chrome (they add autocomplete suggestions to the keyboard? Who knew [probably web developers])

Examples here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist

Amusingly, this time it was a literal bug that led me to to the software bug; the webpage was an online survey to report spotted lanternflies.