A banking app that *requires* precise location permission is developed either by a stupid team, or by a malicious team. Hopefully it's the former.

May the new year be better than the last. May the people of Gaza, Sudan, Libya, and everywhere get peace and freedom. And may Allah give us the strength to stand against evil.

Looks suspicious. If they are sending you sats/tokens, why do they need you to sign a transaction. View quoted note →

Enkrypt plugin seems to have a bug, has started showing 0 Bitcoin (BTC) balance. Ethereum (ETH) balance shows up fine.

#NoorNote first impression: + Signer: setup is straight forward + System Logs: make it easy to see under the hood Improvement Suggestions: - NoorNote seems to capture some (all?) shortcuts even though it is not in focus. Example: NoorNote is the top window on the other screen. On the current screen, when typing in SublimeText, Cmd + Left (to go to the beginning of the line )doesn't work because NoorNote handles it (it goes back). - The Right pane (with system logs) seems under utilized e.g., tap on a thread in the timeline could open the full thread on the right vis-a-vis a mail client. It would be good to be able to open multiple threads in multiple tabs e.g., by doubl clicking.

Microsoft now asks you to pay 10 dollars to change your gamertag. I miss the 90s so much.

This argument is so absurd, that refuting it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Say I were to go and occupy Prof. Yehuda Lindell's (he likes this post) house. Then: Israel's area: 8,019 square miles Area that I have: 0.00007174 square miles therefore, I claim that Prof. Lindell (and his Israeli friends) must give his house to me because it's not about land and there's no occupation. This absurdity is the argument that is being made here. PS: Note also that Israel's area (8,550 sq. miles) is overstated. Wikipedia lists it at 8,019 sq. miles (the figure I used above), and the CIA World Factbook lists it at 8469.92 sq. miles.

Security

3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated

Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it

Meta/Facebook is so bad at security that one starts to suspect if it's intentional. View quoted note →

Whatsapp continues its degeneration. In the latest pain-point, it now refuses to let me share anything until I give it permission to access my Contacts. Like that's going to work!

The moon

A request to the Muslim authors here (e.g., @alp @Wes Al-Dhaher): Please see if there is a way to make your work available in digital formats. Paper-only format is not a viable option for someone in e.g., Pakistan, where shipping would cost more than the book itself.