León Castillejos @L1Cafe@social.privacytools.io

https://www.xda-developers.com/mediatek-su-rootkit-exploit/ Huge, very easy to exploit MediaTek vulnerability leaves Android devices completely unprotected, and it is being used in the wild right now.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. - Shah Rukh Khan

https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubbles-mirror-flaw

Did you know that, before being able to swap out the optical apparatus of the Hubble telescope, a temporary fix was applied using the Fourier Transform by means of modelling the image transformation on Earth, and just reversing it?

Computer Science is fascinating indeed.

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” - T. E. Lawrence

My cellphone carrier doesn't offer a free API for programmatically sending SMS messages. Or at least not for free, they do have an option for businesses but it's extremely expensive.

I have an old Android phone I could keep in a drawer with a SIM card to act as an SMS gateway. My question is: Is there a service that allows me to expose an HTTP REST endpoint for (securely) sending (maybe receiving too) SMS messages? Better if it's FOSS. Thanks!

Lo peor no es cometer un error, sino tratar de justificarlo, en vez de aprovecharlo como aviso providencial de nuestra ligereza o ignorancia. - Santiago Ramón y Cajal

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle

I have a 16 GB MacBook Pro.

Purple is compressed, blue is wired (locked by kernel drivers, etc), red is active (userland and so on).

16 GB of RAM is absolutely enough for a laptop nowadays and for the next few years. Perhaps 5 years down the line I will have a little more trouble as web browsers become increasingly bloated, but it is fine for now.

By the way, I typically run two Chromium instances side-by-side and another Electron-based app, and still struggle to hit near 75% of RAM usage.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha

#Buddhism #Inspiration #Motivation #Happiness

OpenSSH finally adds support for U2F keys! This is awesome! https://www.zdnet.com/article/openssh-adds-support-for-fidou2f-security-keys

I find the sweet spot to be at deferring feature updates for 60 days, and security updates for 8 (just enough to make sure a week passes before any issues are found, just in case).

For example, I just received update 1909, which was released starting in November 2019: https://www.howtogeek.com/437112/whats-new-in-windows-10s-19h2-update-arriving-fall-2019/ , more than enough time to fix its rough edges.

#suggestion

Since it is well-known that Microsoft Windows 10 updates tend to be buggy on the day of release, it is possible to defer upgrades for a given period of time. This means you won't get the latest and greatest features, but if you're a content producer, a professional who relies on their computer, or just a heavy gamer, you may appreciate the improved stability.

Note that this requires Windows 10 Pro. If you run Home, I recommend you upgrade to Pro.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026834/windows-10-defer-feature-updates