Mathijs @mathijs@lermer.nl

Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/microsoft-says-mandatory-password-changing-is-ancient-and-obsolete/

And annoying too. And does very little to improve security.

We just need to get PCI to stop forcing that and everyone will be more better off.

Test if your browser implements FLoC:

https://amifloced.org/

Brilliant Holmes!

https://climateadproject.com/offsets/

This climate ad project is great!

Federated Wiki

Federated Wiki sites share pages circulating within a creative commons. A single-page browser application can read from many sites at once and save changes in that browser. Users who host their own sites can login there to have their edits shared back to the federation as they edit.

http://federated.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/federated-wiki

#wiki #federated

Nasieku the giraffe, a heavily pregnant giraffe successfully stepped out of a floating badge across the Lake Baringo to her new & safe home on the mainland of Ruko Conservancy.

If my teachers had told me that I'd be using calculus to play Factorio I'd have paid more attention.

Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover in this image taken April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument, located at the end of the rover's long robotic arm.

Crocodiles in trouble after their prey started evolving 😀

Myanmar is fighting for democracy.

Do you know which countries have a functioning democracy?

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Cartoon by Emanuele Del Rosso (https://delrossostudio.com/)

Charts from Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/democracy

#showmethedata!

Those pesky stairs are not a match for this flying robotic vacuum cleaner. 🤩

#engineering
https://interestingengineering.com/video/engineer-turns-robotic-vacuum-cleaner-into-a-drone?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Mar26

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/IntEngineering/status/1375696587800899585

De Correspondent goes #dataviz with this brilliant article about #bigtech.

"The discussion about Big Tech is often about privacy, surveillance, disinformation and abuse of power. These are legitimate concerns. But this ignores the fact that Big Tech creates a new infrastructure that society cannot do without."

https://open.decorrespondent.nl/12212/technologiebedrijven-vormen-de-basis-van-de-samenleving-door-corona-is-dit-een-steeds-groter-probleem/1637957898192-53ee500a/app-open

Police warn students to avoid science website (Sci-Hub)

Comments: https://lemmy.ml/post/57629

https://lemmy.ml/post/57629

#climatechange #oldnews