In this final Chit Chat Across the Pond of the year, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about what verification really means, how you know a website is what it says it is, and how verification is accomplished, and then explains how Twitter and Mastodon do their respective verification. mp3 download Read an unedited, auto-generated […]
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NC #918 Clockwise, TouchRetouch on ScreenCastsOnline, Casey Liss on Chit Chat, XKPasswdJS Project Launch, Blog Posts via Email, Mastodon is fun, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 11, 2022, and this is show number 918. mp3 download Before we get too far into the show, I have a couple of announcements. There will be […]
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Come Join the Fun in Mastodon — I Promise, It’s Easy!
Do you remember when you first heard about Twitter? Do you remember thinking it sounded silly and you didn’t think it had any legs? Remember thinking the word “tweet” sounded idiotic? Do you remember finally joining Twitter, but then being baffled by it, wondering why everyone was so excited? And remember wondering, “Who do I […]
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Security Bits — 13 November 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The expected OpenSSL emergency patch was released shortly after we last recorded as expected, but it was downgraded from critical to important before release (required validly signed malicious certs to trigger, and only affected […]
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CCATP #565 – Matthias Keller on Mastodon
I met Matthias Keller on Patrick Beja’s Phileas Club when we were both guests on episode 114 entitled “The Social Media Sickness”. Matthias mentioned how he’s on Mastodon, which is a new-ish social network. I’ve tried to figure Mastodon out, and hadn’t cracked the code, so I asked Matthias if he could come on Chit […]
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