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It’s not that i wanted to censor the word, I just couldn’t figure out how it was spelled in time for pushing my comment before I had to leave public transport. In Swedish it’s ”diarré”, but forgot the English spelling snd then I rarely use this app more than once or twice a day laughs

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Haricot verts (green bean?), broccoli, soy beans, green peas, avocado chunks, corn and zucchini cubes.

Edit: just don’t thaw your meat WITH your veggies. That might get you salmonella or yersinia.

Second edit: Yersiniosis sucks, unfortunately (likely) got it from organic pork and veg from a farm that apparently didn’t believe in health protocols, was seriously ill for three weeks despite not undercooking anything. Now I even rinse my lettuce for at least two minutes.

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Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

At first I thought ”Well, duh!”, but the manufacturer having a remote kill switch when he network blocked his vacuum from sharing his home map data with them, as well as unprotected root access when connecting to the vacuum… urgh.

The engineer says he stopped the device from broadcasting data, though kept the other network traffic — like firmware updates — running like usual. The vacuum kept cleaning for a few days after, until early one morning when it refused to boot up.

After reverse engineering the vacuum, a painstaking process which included reprinting the devices’ circuit boards and testing its sensors, he found something horrifying: Android Debug Bridge, a program for installing and debugging apps on devices, was “wide open” to the world. “In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play,” Narayanan said.

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Spez talks to NY Times

... and they totally omitted Aaron Swartz as a founder.

The actions of Reddit the last few years (and especially the last few months) have probably increasingly caused Aaron to spin in his grave so much that he could power Los Angeles and San Francisco both with his beyond-the-grave outrage if anyone cared to harness that energy source.

Also a meh article, with spelling and grammatical errors (deliberate?) and omitting even simple details.

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Apparently deleting one's thread account will also delete ones Instagram account.

From the article: Meta’s supplemental privacy policy states, “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.”

I interpret it as that you can't delete your Threads profile, unless you delete your Instagram account. So it's not as if you try to delete your Threads account and oopsie your Insta is gone as well... same, but still different.