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Doug Ortiz

🖥️ Is your monitor resolution secretly causing your end-of-day headaches?

Did you know that the screen resolution you work with daily affects not just image quality but your overall health and productivity?

Check out this explainer on what terms like 720p, 1080p, and aspect ratios actually mean: digitalcitizen.life/what-scree
#TechLiteracy #DigitalWellbeing #MonitorTech #WorkSetup #EyeHealth

What do 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2K, 4K, and other resolutions mean?
Digital Citizen · What do 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2K, 4K, and other resolutions mean?In the old days of technology, screen resolution was not much of an issue. Windows came with a few preset options, and to get higher resolution, more colors, or both, you would install a driver for your graphics card. As time passed, you could also choose better video cards and monitors. Today, we have many […]
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Mojo ♻️

Study Suggests Natural Intelligence Affects Computer Skills More Than Training.
New research indicates a person's innate intelligence may influence their computer proficiency more than previously thought. The findings suggest that practice alone may not be enough for some to become comfortable with technology.
The study challenges assumptions about training and highlights the role of cognitive ability in tech literacy.
What do you think—does natural aptitude outweigh training when it comes to mastering computers?

#TechLiteracy #Psychology #ComputerSkills

scitechdaily.com/new-study-a-l

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@pixelcode @taylan Your nonchalant "So what?" gets people publicly murdered by the state in many juristictions...

  • Which is why there is no substitute to teaching proper #TechLiteracy ffs!

If things were so easy as in "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" then @signalapp would be shut down.

If you do think so then you should really get some professional help, cuz you seem rather lost...

  • #Signal doesn't even bother to have an #OnionService, much less to provide means to use their service without self-doxxing with a #PhoneNumber, which at best is pseudonymous and requires money to attain and maintain...

It's #centralization is an absolute nightmare and mist be deemed as criminally neglectful!

MastodonPixelcode 🇺🇦 (@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de)@kkarhan@infosec.space @taylan@feministwiki.org For every messenger there's the risk of someone finding out that you use that messenger (for example when you download the app without a proxy or when you rent a server for self-hosting). So what? Nothing and no one stops you from voluntarily using Tor to connect to Signal (Orbot, InviZible, Advanced Privacy etc.). For those oppressed by authoritarian regimes, Signal offers easy-to-use censorship-circumvention proxy support built into the app. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360056052052-Proxy-Support
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Andromxda @mollyim no it's not bs and fanboying @signalapp isn't going to change that.

If #Signal was secure it would be the #1 comms tool of organized crime...

Real professionals use #SelfHosting capable, fully #FLOSS'd solutions like #PGP/MIME & #XMPP+#OMEMO.

It's just me reading the room: Cuz #ComSec isn't done woth "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" and everyone who claims so without pointing out #OpSec, #InfoSec & #ITsec is BSing hard.

  • The cold hard truth is that #TechLiteracy is irreplaceable and the only solution to it is to actually teach normies how to "get gud" with stuff like PGP.

Fortunatelty, @thunderbird and @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and many other tools make that easier than ever before.

YouTubeSignal's Terrible MobileCoin BetrayalBy The Hated One
#cryptoparty
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@licho @osman provide evidence the code @signalapp released is actually being deployed.

Not to mention pushing a #Shitcoin-#Scam (#MobileCoin) disqualifies #Signal per very design!
youtube.com/watch?v=tJoO2uWrX1M

  • Given the collection of #PII like #PhoneNumbers, the ability to restrict functionality based off those and the fact that #Signal is subject to #CloudAct make it inherently not trustworthy.

And don't even get me started on the fact.it's not sustainable to run it as a #VCmoneyBurningParty!

Same as identifying users: They already got a #PhoneNumber which in many juristictions one can't even obtain without #ID legally, thus making it super easy to i.e. find and locate a user. Even tze cheapest LEAs can force their local M(V)NOs to #SS7 a specific number...

  • All these are unnecessary risks, that could've been avoided, but explicitly don't even get remediated retroactively!

Again: Signal has a #Honeypot stench, and you better learn proper #E2EE, #SelfCustody and #TechLiteracy because corporations can't pull the 5th [Amendment] on your behalf!

YouTubeSignal's Terrible MobileCoin BetrayalBy The Hated One
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ai6yr @briankrebs OFC this targets #TechIlliterates and the only effective means here are:

  1. Teach #TechLiteracy instead of consumerism.
  2. Mandate #confirmation & #notification - #PopUp|s for every use of #Clipboard (similar to #webcam use by websites)...
  3. Ban #JavaScript - seriously!
  4. Ban #Windows, because it's a #Govware, espechally since #Windows10 and even more so on #Windows11 that is *insecure in every configuration!
  5. Put #TechIlliterates before a system they can't feck up. I.e. @tails_live @tails / #Tails for that reason alone (can't run such commands if they neither got #root nor any #persistent #storage to target).
  6. Normalize the use of @torproject #TorBrowser!
  7. #Teach #tech #literacy instead of #consumerism!
  8. Ban #GAFAMs and their shitty products!
  9. Migrate every #TechIlliterate to #Linux and don't give them administrative privilegues.
  10. Teach tech literacy instead of consumerism!
#techliteracy#confirmation#notification
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Avitus @lispi314 @lauren THE REQUIREMENT FOR A #PhoneNumber BY @signalapp IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

  • #KYC IS THE ILLICT ACTIVITY!!!

If you gonna say "JuSt GeT aN iMpOrTeD #SIM / #eSIM!" then you obviously expect people to have way more #financial means and #TechLiteracy than is needed to get absolute N0obs setup withb#XMPP+#OMEMO and pay for @monocles / #monoclesChat!

IOC.exchangeAvitus (@Avitus@ioc.exchange)@kkarhan@infosec.space @lispi314@udongein.xyz @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org @signalapp@mastodon.world You can register any number on Signal even a landline, ass long as you can get a 2FA SMS or phone call. Signal knows nothing about its users, nor does it attempt to. See https://signal.org/bigbrother/. All they have is the date and time you registered and the last date and time your device connected to a service. They've been subpoenaed many times but haven't been able to provide any data because they don't have it.
#sim#esim
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@rysiek @agturcz that's not how you fix #TechIlliteracy, espechally since things changed for the better.

@monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim are quite easy, whereas @signalapp / #Signal demands #PII in the form of a #Phone number which is more often than not not legally obtainable without "#KYC" aka. "forced #SelfDoxxing" all whilst being an extremely #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution that falls under #CloudAct ant thus cannot adhere to #GDPR & #BDSG!

Otherwise we'd only perpetuate the #Enshittification-#Lifecycle as has happened with #AIM, #ICQ, #BBM and so many more...

  • Mark my words, cuz I've been proven correct up to this point.

If #Signal and @Mer__edith actually cared, they would've setup their system truly decentralized as an #OnionService over @torproject / #Tor!

Mastodon 🐘Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek@mstdn.social)@kkarhan@infosec.space I ran and hosted a bunch of XMPP servers a while back. It was a pain to use, and it was easy for users to make mistakes and accidentally send messages in the clear. You are making people les safe. Last time: please stop doing this in my mentions and replies. @agturcz@circumstances.run @torproject@mastodon.social
#THXBYE#EOD#ITsec
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@adhdeanasl also #Scammers can't really buy range like they can on #BillionaireSocialMedia:

#bots#boost#bot
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@jupiter_rowland OFC this is also due to the fact that the last 50+ years no serious attempt at teaching #TechLiteracy has been done anywhere in a formal matter.

Luckily #Education and #Knowledge isn't monopolized and Initiatives like @cryptoparty / #CryptoParty exist that basically get #TechIlliterates to a level that if they follow up what has been trained don't act as "#UnofficialEmployees" of #NSAbook et. al.

Either way, we'll all have to take part in making the world better, even if that meremy means not contribute to #Enshittification...

OFC that is a constant struggle.

  • Needless to say all #Fediverse Software like #Mastodon actually tells people: 'Hey, #DMs are not private nor encrypted beyond #SSL - #Admins can read them if they actually want to!'
#fediverse#mastodon#dms
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