While I love the idea of #passkeys I continue to find the ecosystem of them too siloed. #sms#2fa continues to grow among the stupid, like governments and banks. Meanwhile, my Android #totp#Authenticator app has more entries than I can easily count. Finding the right now... difficult. Will it even sort alphabetically? Or by MRU? Or??? I wonder what alternative apps exist.
We escaped SMS for prettier apps,
but when money moves and doors unlock,
the old signal still rings first.
Apps whisper when they feel like it.
Infrastructure insists.
That’s why banks still text you.
Not nostalgia ; accountability.
Sometimes the least exciting light
is the one that never fails. #LighthouseLore#DigitalTrust#SmallTech#RCS#SMS#CalmTech#EveningWatch
Satellitentelefoniedienst Starlink Direct to Cell startet in der Ukraine
In der Ukraine ist die Infrastruktur vielerorts beschädigt. Kunden des Mobilfunkanbieters Kyivstar können über Satelliten von Starlink in Kontakt bleiben.
Russland blockiert SIM-Karten – "zum Schutz vor Drohnen"
In Russland geht das mobile Internet der SIM-Karte Einreisender nicht mehr. Die Regierung erklärt nun, warum die Funktion beim Mobilfunk blockiert wird.
So I think I'll need to read up on it a bit. I understand that "Passkeys" try to do something similar as SSH pubkeys.
But do you know a good technical explainer of what's going on and how it works?
(Yes, I could search myself but I am looking for recommendations of articles you have read that you found helpful and clear.)
D.h. die Hardware-Tokens liefern aktuell den einzig wasserdichten Schutz gegen Phishing. Trotzdem haben Passkeys viele Vorteile gegenüber den üblichen Methoden wie #TOTP, #TAN via #SMS oder #Email, ...
If you are genuinely frightened about the #NSA aka. #AmericanStasi - (and you should) - then you need to realize that your threat assessment either accepts that and treats all comms in the #Fediverse as public and insecure (Which #Mastodonexplicitly warns you about in it's DMs: They are not secure!) or you stop using #Fedi entirely.
I'm sorry if this #venting seems bitter, but some folks really need to get the fuck outside and #TouchGrass since there are folks on said instance working in that whole MIL/INTEL complex they so despise.
Kvaesitso has tags. Each app can have multiple tags, and selected tags can be pinned (somewhat like a tab) to favorites, possibly resulting in something a bit like drawer tabs? You can also use the search bar to search for a tag and list the tagged apps.
O #xmpp é incrível, mas a falta de algumas funcionalidades, não sei se é os clientes ou uma limitação do protocolo, mas dificulta a adoção exclusiva dele no meu cotidiano com família, amigxs e trabalho:
Msg de áudio;
Foto de visualização única;
Personalização;
Timer de mensagens;
Link para compartilhar grupos privados.
O XMPP eu vejo como uma ótima alternativa ao #SMS e talvez ao #RCS , mas ao #whatsapp nem tanto. O #Signal, #SimpeXChat e #Telegram seguem como boas opções ao #zap.
Polizei versendet Tausende stille SMS zur Handyortung
Bei Ermittlungen dürfen die Handys von Verdächtigen überwacht werden. Die Thüringer Polizei hat von dieser Möglichkeit zuletzt tausendfach Gebrauch gemacht.
📣 A reminder that we have an open call for applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship under the project 'SMS — Shared Memories of Solidarity. An oral and visual history (Portugal 1960-1974)', coordinated by Giulia Strippoli.
Illustrative image of the call for applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship under the project ‘SMS — Shared Memories of Solidarity. An oral and visual history (Portugal 1960-1974)’. The deadline for applications is 25 August 2025. More information at ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en. The background of the image is faint, but it is a photograph of a table microphone.
📣 We have opened a call for applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship under the project 'SMS — Shared Memories of Solidarity. An oral and visual history (Portugal 1960-1974)', coordinated by Giulia Strippoli.
Illustrative image of the call for applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship under the project ‘SMS — Shared Memories of Solidarity. An oral and visual history (Portugal 1960-1974)’. The deadline for applications is 25 August 2025. More information at ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en. The background of the image is faint, but it is a photograph of a table microphone.
SMS an Pfizer: Von der Leyen kassiert Schlappe vor Gericht
Milliardenschwere Impfstoff-Deals, SMS mit einem Konzernchef: Im Prozess um die Herausgabe von Ursula von der Leyens Textnachrichten gibt es jetzt ein Urteil.
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noodlejetski I don't have a dock either. I do have a favourites row though, and currently these are the pinned apps (arranged in no particular order):
It has come to my attention that sending Mastodon links via text message are being filtered by either T-Mobile or Verizon.... Specifically, at least in this case, links to infosec.exchange ... I shared something with my family in a group SMS last night and no one received it. Today I'm with members of my family and have confirmed that any message with a infosec.exchange link does not go through but all messages without the link do - this involves messages of JUST the URL and ones with text and the URL. I also tried SMS to just my nephew with the URL and it disappeared into the void as well.
I use T-Mobile and the entirety of my family uses Verizon. I have not been able to test to another T-Mobile customer as of yet. I will test with other instance links in a bit.
@jerry
I have confirmed that URLs for mastodon.social and beige.party also disappear into the void. Interestingly URLs to threads.net get through just fine.
Plus #RIM relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally out of touch once #iPhone went mainstream.
I mean, the hardware was never their problem and #SMS-Typists swear by their #BlackberryCurve's #keyboard but BlackBerry's #toolchain - just like #SymbianOS's - was just hideous to the point that devs like
@fuchsiii didn't even want to try making #Apps for those devices.
Unlike #Mozilla fucking up #FirefoxOS by refusing to sell devices to #developers, by the time RIM & #Nokia came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere "rounding errors" by #iOS and #Android as it was way cheaper and easier to get #Apps developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices.
#Sony even released some #Symbian#S60 devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even #sideload apps (not to mention they didn't had the #OviStore on those either!)...
Nova Launcher is basically dead, and Android is worse off for it ( www.pocket-lint.com )
What are the "app dock" apps on your phone? Are they FOSS?
Go to your phone homescreen and look at the app dock (the bottom row that contains some apps and stays the same when you switch pages). ...