Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/job_scam_targeted_developer/

Okay. Let’s try this again a year and a half later. Just because it’s one of the most frustrating social media moments in my life.

Can I say, “that looked kinda staged” this time without being told to wait for official investigation and watch my tone?

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes claimed 19M record breach https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/frances_secure_id_agency_probes/

Reminder: looking at a project’s privacy policy is a starting point when figuring out what they do with your data. It rarely provides reliable answers by itself.

I’ve seen plenty of projects looking better in their privacy policy than they actually were. They will “forget” some things that they do or they will use language that downplays the impact. Also common: claiming to anonymize the data when it is actually pseudonymized. The former would mean removing any ties to your identity from the data (very difficult to get right actually), the latter merely replaces your name by a randomly generated identifier. As far as your privacy is concerned, these two approaches are worlds apart.

Firefox appears to be the opposite. People get very upset about their privacy policy which seems to be no better than Google’s or Facebook’s or whatever. It’s not that Firefox doesn’t do anything wrong, but from what I can tell their privacy policy sounds way worse than things really are. I guess that’s what you get when you put lawyers in charge and task them with covering for every eventuality?

@hacks4pancakes You mean that the dinner that Trump has historically avoided (after having a national sense of humour failure at one many years ago) just happened to be interrupted / he could get rushed away from...

By an "assassination attempt" - which is a well-known tactic by certain foreign actors to increase support for failing politicians prior to a notable election - which happens in a location / way that can be used as supposed-justification for one of his gaudy vanity projects?

What was on the menu for the dinner? Because something definitely smells fishy.

Reminder to go outside sometimes.
#silentsunday #nature #green #sunset

The tabs you have open on Firefox are waiting