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PrivacyDigest<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Allstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Allstate</span></a> sued for exposing personal info in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> • The Register</p><p>Crooks built <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bots</span></a> to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/exploit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploit</span></a> astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/allstate_sued_pii_exposure/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/03/10/all</span><span class="invisible">state_sued_pii_exposure/</span></a></p>
Ayo<p>Love iA writer app, but it is only for Apple.</p><p>Found <a href="https://typora.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">typora.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> which is as excellent and available for Linux too and Free!!!</p><p>Plain text files for the win. </p><p><a href="https://social.ayco.io/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://social.ayco.io/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a> <a href="https://social.ayco.io/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a></p>
Santiago<p>which one? <a href="https://mastodon.uy/tags/gopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gopher</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uy/tags/gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gemini</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uy/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uy/tags/textoplano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textoplano</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uy/tags/lowtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lowtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uy/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uy/tags/retropunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retropunk</span></a></p>
hairylarry<p>Dirt Simple Photo Gallery now has a companion program, Dirt Simple Web Pages. Think of it as no markup web pages, index.php reads title.txt and notes.txt, both plain text files with no code.</p><p>Dirt Simple Web Pages does text, hot links, images, and iframe embeds. It was easier to write than Dirt Simple Photo Gallery and Plain Text Blog but maybe that's because I'm using all the same tricks.</p><p>Here's my first text page.</p><p><a href="https://deltaboogie.com/BX_Pics_Taken_At_A_Game_Store/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deltaboogie.com/BX_Pics_Taken_</span><span class="invisible">At_A_Game_Store/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/webpage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webpage</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/ttrpgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpgs</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/miniatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>miniatures</span></a></p>
Simon Roy Hughes 🍄<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 13. February: How do you organize your writing projects?</p><p>Where does a writing project begin?</p><p>The manuscript itself is written in one <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> file per chapter, and collated using a master document with the formatting instructions and includes. For my biggest, three-volume, work, I had two levels of master, with common formatting in the top level, a second level with volume-specific formatting, and the includes for the chapter files. </p><p>On a day to day basis, I rarely have to mess about with formatting; I write/ edit in what looks like <a href="https://beige.party/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> documents.</p><p>I would not recommend my workflow to anyone who doesn't instinctively understand it.</p>
Hacker Public Radio<p>New Episode: hpr4312 :: What Is The Indie Archive?</p><p>The Indie Archive is a archival solution for indie producers.</p><p>Hosted by hairylarry on Tuesday, 2025-02-11 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.</p><p>Tags: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/archival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archival</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p><p>Today on the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HackerPublicRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerPublicRadio</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a>​</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HPR</span></a> ❤️ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4312/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4</span><span class="invisible">312/index.html</span></a></p>
hairylarry<p>I just submitted a new podcast to Hacker Public Radio.</p><p>What Is The Indie Archive?</p><p>Scheduled for February 11 if everything goes to plan.</p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/hackerpublicradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackerpublicradio</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a></p>
hairylarry<p>Delta Boogie Issues</p><p>We did a php upgrade and it broke some of the pages. I got the buttons working again and the main page is loading but there are still some problems. I'll work on it again tomorrow.</p><p><a href="https://deltaboogie.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">deltaboogie.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://hairylarry.rocks/writes/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Issues.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hairylarry.rocks/writes/permal</span><span class="invisible">ink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Issues.txt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/deltaboogie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deltaboogie</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
hairylarry<p>I'm commenting on my own thread to test the embed here.</p><p><a href="https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_January_2025.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">home.gamerplus.org/permalink.p</span><span class="invisible">hp?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_January_2025.txt</span></a></p><p>Using Embed Mastodon Threads</p><p><a href="https://home.gamerplus.org/Embed_Mastodon_Threads/index.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">home.gamerplus.org/Embed_Masto</span><span class="invisible">don_Threads/index.php</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/EmbedMastodonThreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmbedMastodonThreads</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
hairylarry<p>Testing Indie Archive on Debian because I pulled out a system so old it didn't have the boot from USB option.</p><p>So testing Ubuntu will be another day. (I already have the flash drive ready)</p><p>I burned Debian onto a DVD.</p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
Álvaro R.<p>Hi folks. Please help get the word out! 🙏</p><p><a href="https://lmno.lol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lmno.lol</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, my blogging service, is now generally available. No invite needed!</p><p>😡 No <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tracking</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/paywall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywall</span></a> or <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/bloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloat</span></a></p><p>🥰 <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> first, read anywhere (even <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a>), <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a>, bring your own <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>editor</span></a></p><p>My blog <a href="https://lmno.lol/alvaro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lmno.lol/alvaro</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I hope LMNO gets you blogging in 2025!</p><p>Please help me get the word out 🙏</p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/vscode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vscode</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a></p>
Marijke Luttekes<p>Accessibility reminder:</p><p>Format unordered lists in Mastodon posts using an asterisk as a bullet point, not a hyphen.</p><p>End each list item as you would any sentence or summary, typically using a period or a semicolon.</p><p>For details, see my post on this subject:</p><p><a href="https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2024/10/27/quick-tip-formatting-unordered-lists-in-plain-text/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/artic</span><span class="invisible">les/2024/10/27/quick-tip-formatting-unordered-lists-in-plain-text/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/plainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plainText</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a></p>
Robert Kingett<p>Found this awesome tool to edit <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a> files in any browser. <a href="https://browserpad.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">browserpad.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@techlifeweb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>techlifeweb</span></a></span> Nice! Thank you! I've taken your Markdown calendar and popped a couple of versions on my blog: <a href="https://ellanew.com/2024-11-13-markdown-calendars-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ellanew.com/2024-11-13-markdow</span><span class="invisible">n-calendars-2025</span></a></p><p>Continuous calendars are my new favourite thing—I've made a paper wall calendar after the same idea.</p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/calendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calendar</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/calendar2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calendar2025</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a></p>
IT News<p>AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do - Or so says a controversial Stanford researcher, who finds that the latest systems have, a... - <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-ai-will-understand-humans-better-than-humans-do/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/plaintext-ai-w</span><span class="invisible">ill-understand-humans-better-than-humans-do/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a>/techculture <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a></p>
IT News<p>You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid - John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted ... - <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-you-can-now-see-the-code-that-ended-apartheid/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/plaintext-you-</span><span class="invisible">can-now-see-the-code-that-ended-apartheid/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a>/techculture <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It's Totally Wrong? - Pinterest and Threads seem convinced I’m in my 60s or going through menopause. Spend enou... - <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-social-media-tells-you-who-you-are-what-if-its-totally-wrong/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/plaintext-soci</span><span class="invisible">al-media-tells-you-who-you-are-what-if-its-totally-wrong/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a>/techculture <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a></p>
IT News<p>AI's Big Gift to Society Is … Pithy Summaries? - Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They're maki... - <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-ai-summaries-make-us-dumber/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/plaintext-ai-s</span><span class="invisible">ummaries-make-us-dumber/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a>/techculture <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.heiber.im/@moritz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>moritz</span></a></span> the fact that your bank even has a password lenght limitation is a clear indicazor they violate <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PCIDSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCIDSS</span></a> and store <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> passwords...</p><ul><li>Just saying so as IT spechalist and someone who worked at enough firms to know this fact.</li></ul>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p><a href="https://noc.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that apps for connecting to various Meta-owned <a href="https://noc.social/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a> had logged <a href="https://noc.social/tags/UserPasswords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UserPasswords</span></a> in <a href="https://noc.social/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a> and stored them in a database that had been searched by roughly 2,000 company engineers, who collectively queried the stash more than 9 million times. <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> </p><p>Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of <a href="https://noc.social/tags/passwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passwords</span></a> in plaintext<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/meta-slapped-with-101-million-fine-for-storing-passwords-in-plaintext/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/security/2024/</span><span class="invisible">09/meta-slapped-with-101-million-fine-for-storing-passwords-in-plaintext/</span></a></p>