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Mozilla Drops Onerep

“The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.”

“Mozilla only began bundling Onerep in Firefox last month, when it announced the reputation service would be offered on a subscription basis as part of Mozilla Monitor Plus.”

Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

#privacy #mozilla #onerep #ThatWasFast
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Hot Cha Cafe

The Hot Cha Cafe at So Cal Landmarks:

In about 1932, a small, hexagonal shingle-style Victorian building in Long Beach got a programmatic makeover, adding a large, angular percolator made of metal and glass on the roof, to become the Hot Cha Café. The name changed to the Koffee Pot Café, but it remained a coffee shop into the 1960s…

If this was still a cafe I’d totally go there just for the style. I’m glad it was restored instead of demolished!

A small, red, one-level octagonal building sandwiched between what looks like a house and a garage on a sunny day. A tree sticks in from out of fram, and cars are parked in the street out front. It looks like there's only space for a single room, and the windows and glass door feature a logo and the name of a salon that you might be able to make out on a bigger display than the one I'm using. Most unusual: A stylized coffee percolator sits a top the pyramidal roof.

#Architecture #ProgrammaticArchitecture #coffee #cafe #LongBeach

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Fleetwood Center

I always appreciate finding examples of novelty architecture that are still standing. And Googie.

Could there be any better expression of Southern California’s car-centric culture than the programmatic architecture of the Fleetwood Center on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana?

SoCal Landmarks: Fleetwood Center

Photo of a wide, two-story building with a facade made to look like the front of a classic car. Fins on the side, and the upper story windows are shaped like a grill and headlights. Photo credit to Lonny Ross, via SoCal Landmarks.

#cars #architecture #socal

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Outer Whats?

Review of The Outer Worlds (so far) ★★★★★

Immersive space RPG that at once satirizes corporate control while asking you to make hard choices within it.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/games/outer-worlds/

On Wandering.shop

Not to be confused with Outer Wilds (also ★★★★★), which is a fascinating game of discovery in a finely-crafted, tiny solar system trapped in a time loop.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/games/outer-wilds/

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Fractureiser malware used CurseForge Minecraft mods

New Fractureiser malware used CurseForge Minecraft mods to infect Windows, Linux

Hackers used the popular Minecraft modding platforms Bukkit and CurseForge to distribute a new ‘Fractureiser’ information-stealing malware through uploaded modifications and by injecting malicious code into existing projects.

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I fired up Minecraft for the first time in a year a couple of days ago…and today I’m so glad it was a vanilla instance.