Luc Gommans

Not using Twitter anymore. See:

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

Not using Twitter anymore. If you are on Mastodon, see https://t.co/KrSqoPijsD

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

@Richard_M_F For future impactors, how did you know this one existed and where it would hit? I managed to spot this one back in February all the way from Germany and it was super amazing, so I was wondering what to monitor for future such events :)

[X41 D-SEC GmbH @X41Sec]

The report for the X41 source code audit of python-tuf was published today: https://t.co/tYvhQrQJYm

Many thanks to the TUF maintainers, the @OSTIFofficial for managing it and @CloudNativeFdn for sponsoring the audit.

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

"edit": continued watching, came to 6:16, "think we might actually have a view up here". Mhm yes there would be :D https://t.co/4wEigS497Q

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

@TheTimTraveller so google's youtube won't let me post a comment linking an open source alternative to Maps (what's it called when they use a monopoly in one area, like online videos, to improve their competitive position in another? Hmm), so here it is on twitter instead
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[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

You said https://t.co/bQV7XwFQix 2:08 "I don't quite know how I'm gonna get there" showing a google map. Except for shops and live traffic info, I would generally recommend openstreetmap. This is a path that would get you there https://t.co/dASPJmxpw9 :)

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

this happens regularly, though usually just a handful of errors. Also connection issues on mobile. Or a message that gets delivered to the server, but never to the device. That's with different accounts, different devices, different OSes (grapheneos, stock samsung android, iOS)..

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

how is Signals' core functionality still not reliable?

78 decryption errors just appeared, no further info. Digging in raw log files reveals the message timestamps. Scrolling to that time on another device, indeed messages are missing

reason #57 why people still use telegram :/

[X41 D-SEC GmbH @X41Sec]

AnyZone can also act as a simple "whatismyip" via DNS as well. This will show your external IP address: host https://t.co/IaDZ9vfpCP https://t.co/5luqxnbjfX

dig and other dns clients will work also.

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

I've been wanting to build this for years, finally I can just direct dns traffic to a random IP without having to set up a domain for it or having to remember how zone delegations work. Just prefix the desired IP like https://t.co/EfTLBINSsg :) Also works with v6, s/:/i/g

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

What bothers me about Android is that the downloads folder is called ~/Download/. Singular. I typo it every time.

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

Once you're on the lookout for it, Opus is maybe not as niche as it seemed ^^. Half the size of mp3 for the same quality fits my own experience. In case anyone's interested in the phyphox interview in this podcast, it starts at 01:30:30 https://t.co/UNU7GhuaPi [DE]

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

Opus audio codec is amazing. If you've been using mp3, ogg, speex, aac, or any other lossy format: time to upgrade. Opus is freely licensed and I'm blown away by the quality per bitrate. Released in 2012 and I don't see anyone using it yet, wut! Device support is good, though :)

[Julien Bobroff @jubobroff]

Notre article sur les 61 façons de mesurer la hauteur d'un bâtiment avec un smartphone paraît dans Phys.Educ. On est particulièrement fier de la fig.1 et du tableau 1, probablement les plus délirants parmi tous les articles scientifiques de l'équipe. Qui dit mieux ? @organtin

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

Opus audio codec is amazing. If you've been using mp3, ogg, speex, aac, or any other lossy format: time to upgrade. Opus is freely licensed and I'm blown away by the quality per bitrate. Released in 2012 and I don't see anyone using it yet, wut! Device support is good, though :)

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

@CyberCl0wn 500 employees, $300 million revenue... yeah I'd say they're big enough to implement that. It's also fine if they don't have a delete function, it's more that they have a button saying "Delete account and purge data" and in reality it just renames the username.

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

Tried to delete an account: they prepend an _ to my email address so I can't login with the old "username" anymore (all my data is still there when I login with the new name). Just found another corp with a similar system.
Why lie?
Just say to my face if you keep my data forever.

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

I wonder if GDPR fines are higher when they try to cover an ongoing violation up instead of stopping it (because that means they did it knowingly), e.g. when not deleting data pursuant article 17 (‘right to be forgotten’) + lying to the customer that it has been deleted.

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

TIL Spotify stores when I showered in the past 6 months. (Every other day I connect to a waterproof speaker in the morning, I think they can guess what's going on.) To download your own data, talk to support for an export with diagnostic data. The website export is incomplete.

[X41 D-SEC GmbH @X41Sec]

X41 starts a new research project - PeT-HMR - to build the next generation of pentest tooling: https://t.co/kFRc48COmn

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

People think "planting trees" will capture however much CO2 they need to offset. I suspect the phrasing itself is partly to blame. Worse, Bill Gates' 2021 book calls planting trees a wash aside from small-scale exceptions: I might be wrong that even buying land helps at all.

[Luc Gommans @lucgommans]

Can we stop calling it "planting trees"? About 1% of the problem is planting them; 99% is that we're actively using the space for other things. Ever seen stacked trees? Call it "buying land for trees" to capture the limitedness, price point, and benefits trade-off in one.