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Márton Braun :androidHead:<p>Reminder: starting in Kotlin 1.8, the Kotlin Android Extensions Gradle plugin (which supplies synthetics for Views and Parcelize) will be gone. Screenshot here is using the 1.8 Beta.</p><p>Read this blog post about how to migrate: <a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/02/discontinuing-kotlin-synthetics-for-views.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">android-developers.googleblog.</span><span class="invisible">com/2022/02/discontinuing-kotlin-synthetics-for-views.html</span></a></p>

Roxi<p>FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.</p><p>ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.</p>

Tinker ☀️<p>Lol, when a bunch of hackers migrate to new services, they tend to kick the tires a bit 😂​.</p><p>Here, some hackers found a way to steal Mastodon passwords by manipulating the way Mastodon allows (and sidestepping the way Mastodon protects) HTML imbedded into posts.</p><p>It also highlights the ways that third party plugins (here Glitch, found on the Mastodon server infosec(dot)exchange and others) introduce interesting attack vectors that core maintainers don't initially control (thoughts go out to Wordpress).</p><p>The hackers then reported the issues to the Mastodon team and the Glitch team so they could issue security patches.</p><p>Big shoutout for finding/reporting the vuln:</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@gaz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gaz</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@albinowax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>albinowax</span></a></span></p><p>Kudos to the Mastodon & Glitch teams for coordinating and issuing a timely security patch.</p><p>I expect we'll see a lot of more of these initially (this is good, means the website is getting more secure).</p><p>Takeaways:</p><p>Users: Consider changing your Mastodon password. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication.<br>Admins: Update to the latest Mastodon version. Update any plugins as well.</p><p>Full writeup here: <a href="https://portswigger.net/research/stealing-passwords-from-infosec-mastodon-without-bypassing-csp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">portswigger.net/research/steal</span><span class="invisible">ing-passwords-from-infosec-mastodon-without-bypassing-csp</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WebAppPentesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebAppPentesting</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hacking</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BugHunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BugHunting</span></a></p>

Toot!.app ↙︎↙︎↙︎<p>Hello! Long time no see!</p><p>And welcome to the new users, of which there are... quite many, aren't there?</p><p>As you may have noticed, this project has been on a bit of a hiatus for a while. This is something I work on in my free time, and I got a bit burned out on working on it, and wanted to use my free time for other stuff. But with this recent influx of so many new users, I figured I do need to come back to this.</p><p>So I am planning to at least release some smaller updates in the near future!</p>

Chris Trottier<p>Automattic is one of the most important companies on the Internet. </p><p>They make Tumblr, WooCommerce, Akismet, LongReads, WordPress—among others.</p><p>WordPress alone powers ~44% of the world's websites.</p><p>More interesting: despite being such a large, dominant company, few people hate Automattic.</p><p>Why is this? 🧵</p>

Taylor Lorenz<p>At least 20 people have been fired so far from Twitter for Slack posts questioning Musk’s leadership <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twittermigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twittermigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a></p>

Kris Nóva<p>I feel like social media is back to me hanging out with my nerd friends again and I fucking love it.</p>

Manu Cornet<p><a href="https://twittoons.com/46" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">twittoons.com/46</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

Jerry Bell :verified_paw:<p>updated to indicate only glitch-soc is affected. There are other security updates in mastodon 4.0.x so not wasted effort to update if not running glitch-soc</p><p>This message for everyone on the fediverse: </p><p>First, please ensure you go into your account settings and enable two/multi factor authentication. No, I mean do it right now. I’ll wait till you’re done. </p><p>…</p><p>… </p><p>Ok, thank you. </p><p>Now, if you are the admin of a mastodon instance running glitch-soc, please go upgrade to 4.0.2 ASAP. </p><p>Background: <a href="https://portswigger.net/research/stealing-passwords-from-infosec-mastodon-without-bypassing-csp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">portswigger.net/research/steal</span><span class="invisible">ing-passwords-from-infosec-mastodon-without-bypassing-csp</span></a></p>

Zach Klipp (he/him)🌻<p>Four-day work weeks are a win for literally everyone - employees are happier and more productive (which probably makes them feel more content at work) and employers get to extract more value out of them. Every company should be doing 4-day work weeks.</p><p><a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>labour</span></a> <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/worklifebalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>worklifebalance</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/11/15/1136039542/these-companies-ran-an-experiment-pay-workers-their-full-salary-to-work-fewer-da" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/sections/money/2022/11</span><span class="invisible">/15/1136039542/these-companies-ran-an-experiment-pay-workers-their-full-salary-to-work-fewer-da</span></a></p>

Mishaal Rahman<p>Qualcomm just announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. There are a bunch of great articles covering what's new (this one by Android Authority is a good read: <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-8-gen-2-explained-3231826/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">androidauthority.com/snapdrago</span><span class="invisible">n-8-gen-2-explained-3231826/</span></a>) but I wanted to point out two things:</p><p>- It has an AV1 decoder, the first for a Snapdragon chip<br />- It still supports 32-bit apps, with its 2x A710 cores and 3x A510r1 cores</p><p>The image attached to this post shows the full specs of this chipset.</p>

Micro SF/F stories by O Westin<p>A spaceship landed, and an alien emerged.<br>"We come in peace," they said, "Take us to your librarian."<br>"Er... Don't you mean our leader?"<br>"Why? We already have leaders."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStories</span></a></p>

Romain Guy<p>I realized I could somewhat trivially (😂) add multiple columns support. So…</p>

Fedi.Tips<p>PixelFed is an Instagram-style photo sharing platform on the Fediverse.</p><p>Find out more including servers to join at their new website:</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://pixelfed.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pixelfed.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>You can follow PixelFed accounts from Mastodon and vice versa. For example, click on <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/Iancylkowski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Iancylkowski</span></a></span> </p><p>There's an official iPhone app in public beta at:</p><p>:apple_inc: <a href="https://testflight.apple.com/join/5HpHJD5l" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">testflight.apple.com/join/5HpH</span><span class="invisible">JD5l</span></a></p><p>There's a third party Android app at:</p><p>:android: <a href="https://pixeldroid.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pixeldroid.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Mastodon apps will also work with PixelFed accounts.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a></p>

Aurynn Shaw<p>I don't know who needs to hear this, but:</p><p>Your Code of Conduct is not a neutral document, and it does not apply a neutral "everyone is equal".</p><p>It is biased.</p><p>It is biased by society by default and if you DO NOT CHOOSE to alter that bias, it will propagate all the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other harmful practices that hurt marginalised people.</p><p>You have to pick your bias here.</p><p><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a></p>

Greg Fawson<p>There have been lots of requests for <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/dcldn22" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dcldn22</span></a> videos. Happy to share that they are finally available now! Check them all out here: <a href="https://www.droidcon.com/content/?filter_postyear=2022&filter_post_event_tag=droidcon-london" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">droidcon.com/content/?filter_p</span><span class="invisible">ostyear=2022&filter_post_event_tag=droidcon-london</span></a></p>

NishFish<p><a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/devlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>devlife</span></a></p>

Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎<p>Evan Prodromou, who helped inspire & create the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> protocol that makes <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Mastodon</span></a></span> run, called this recent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twittermigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twittermigration</span></a> a “tipping point”.</p><p>“I have not been this excited about federated social networks since we published ActivityPub. The shift has started. … We’re doing this. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.” <span class="h-card"><a href="https://prodromou.pub/@evan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>evan</span></a></span></p><p>Blog post here: <a href="https://evanp.me/2022/11/11/its-happening/?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_medium=website&utm_content=inline-mention&utm_campaign=platform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">evanp.me/2022/11/11/its-happen</span><span class="invisible">ing/?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_medium=website&utm_content=inline-mention&utm_campaign=platform</span></a></p>

droidcon<p>We know you've been asking for them, and we can finally say we have them! <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/dcldn22" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dcldn22</span></a> speaker videos are out and available for your viewing pleasure! 📼📽</p><p>View all your favourite <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/AndroidDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AndroidDev</span></a> talks here: <a href="https://www.droidcon.com/content/?filter_category=video" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">droidcon.com/content/?filter_c</span><span class="invisible">ategory=video</span></a></p>