#Facebook once again shows their commitment to privacy by logging users’ passwords in plaintext https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/facebook-developers-wrote-apps-that-stored-users-passwords-in-plaintext/

#DeleteFacebook #DontTrustZuck

I changed the password on my work MacBook on Monday, and ever since, it's been switching between requiring the new password and the old one, seemingly at random.

I find this behavior... puzzling.

The Programmer's Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we *thought* they were going to be easy.
HT https://davelane.nz/our-digital-ills-and-possible-commons-cure / https://scottw.com/pc
#development #programming

Bold idea - Let's replace #JS with something better: https://john.ankarstrom.se/english/texts/replacing-javascript/

#WebDev

TIL about CAA records: https://sslmate.com/caa/

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Just downloaded both a Gopher server and an X3D (WebVR) model... because that's how I roll.

I just backed "CYB_R: A #cyberpunk genre adaption of #5e #DnD" on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kellyblack/cyb-r-a-cyberpunk-genre-adaption-of-5e-dnd
#games #rpg

35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/12/27/35-years-ago-isaac-asimov-was-asked-by-the-star-to-predict-the-world-of-2019-here-is-what-he-wrote.html

"Let me tell you of the days of high adventure..."