Carlos Fenollosa @cfenollosa@mastodon.sdf.org

🐘 If you tried Mastodon and you "got bored" quickly, you were using it wrong.

Here's how to fix it: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/you-may-be-using-mastodon-wrong.html

¿Has probado Mastodon y vas un poco perdido, te aburre, tienes pocos contactos?

✋🏼 STOP 🛑

¡Lo estás usando mal!

Déjame que te lo explique

The Piratebay episode is one of the craziest stories I’ve ever listened to. A must for any geek.

https://overcast.fm/+PMNeo6LXo

"This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network." I'm hoooked to Darknet Diaries!

https://darknetdiaries.com/

What a mess. Three extremely serious 0-days which leak private user data go unpatched for more than 6 months. Hopefully the disclosure will make Apple expedite the fixes.

https://habr.com/en/post/579714/

Discover if your information has been breached by tracking for file reads, database queries, process executions, patterns in log files, Bitcoin transactions or even Linkedin Profile views.

https://canarytokens.org/

Don't want to sound like an old fart. I actually enjoyed using Facebook many years ago. I enjoy Twitter, Mastodon, and other social networks. The problem with Instagram is that by centering the tool on images there are only two good use cases: selling stuff and showing off. This breaks some people.

https://archive.is/egPlc

Everybody update your iOS devices to 14.8

https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

I agree with each and every one of these 40 tips. A must read for those who spend all day around email

https://joshspector.com/one-sentence-email-tips/

Not going to spoil it -- read the article, it's worth the nostalgia trip and has lots of retro screenshots

https://lobste.rs/s/pdookk/why_are_hyperlinks_blue

Lengthy and thorough review of Google's attempts at solving chat. Some nostalgia, some unknown gems, a lot of mocking

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

Good review. The world really does need a FLOSS mobile OS, and Android isn't it. Until there is a good realistic alternative to Apple/Google we will all be tied to one of these two options.

https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2021/08/23/floss-mobile-os-aug-2021/

Twitter following the Instagram route. Mixed news. People will eventually stop using Twitter as their public blog and online homepage, and treat it as another closed social network. However, a pretty good kinda open public discussion forum will die.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/

Gotta tell you a secret. Some time ago I quit caffeine. I started drinking decaf. After a couple weeks of adjustment, I no longer needed my morning coffee to function.

Some months ago, I had chocolate milk for breakfast a few times, as a joke, because it reminded me of my kid days.

Well, it has stuck. Here I am, an adult, drinking chocolate milk for breakfast. Know what? It makes me very happy. Try it sometimes. Not being hung on caffeine is also a plus.