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What isn't discussed enough within the whole Signal Phishing attack debacle in Germany, is that users have been primed for years to accept fishy (in-) security processes by online services, apps, payment providers and banks.

I (and probably you too) get (legit) messages and mails from banks you wouldn't believe... It is no wonder, that people interact with phishing-DMs via their messenger, when this is what other services call their official authentication procedures for a decade or so.

#Signal #SignalApp #Phishing #Hacking #Securityupdate

Well, TIL that you can pipe tar directly into ssh. Need to play around with that a little. Maybe it overcomes the requirement to have enough space for a giant tar file on the host?

From Drew Devault's blog post on tar as rsync alternative

In an attempt to use my smartphone a lot less, I am currently trying Newsboat's Podcast integration and a slim script I hacked together this morning. It automatically fetches podcast episodes, downloads and pushes them to the MP3-Player I bought a few months ago for taking to the gym.

It is of course a little bit more clunky than simply using Antennapod on my smartphone, but honestly, it is a quite smooth and pleasant experience nonetheless. Let's see how this goes for a few weeks.

#newsboat #podboat #rss #podcast

As is often the case, @pluralistic is right: the corporate web is unbearable and RSS really is the only way to make news reading work.

Get an RSS reader and/or a read-it-later application. Make use of tools like morss and use aggressive adblock settings everywhere else.

Why is it, that every other #nextcloud update, i have to go through all apps/addons again because half of them were not enabled again after upgrading?

My never ending quest to redefine my news reading habits have fallen back to old school newspaper reading, but with a twist!

Using a pretty cool RSS aggregator that writes into templates of arbitrary formats in combination with some RegEx foo and a full-page scraper, I am now able to read "newspaper" every morning either on the phone, PC or ebook reader and be done with it for the rest of the day.

I realised that I fall into the habit of checking news constantly, even when using classic RSS readers for it. During my test-flights in the past week, this hacky project appears to work-for-me(TM)

Git-Repository of "Zeitung", a news aggregator in newspaper style as HTML/PDF/EPUB

How did I not know about muspy? FOSS tool that informs you about music releases of your favourite interprets via RSS or as ical calendar event? Sign up me (literally)!

#music #metal #OpenSource #FOSS #ILoveFS #RSS