We’ve all been there, a friend sends over a funny TikTok, or you want to share it in your Signal chat and you know people aren’t likely to click the link. Plus who wants all that tracking and hidden redirects in a TT link? So what’s to be done? If you’re like me, a quick long press, and “Save Video” and you’re off to the group chat to laugh with your friends.
US defense contractor settles whistleblower suit for $4.6M • The Register - Out of a possible 110 points, MORSE awarded itself 104. A third party assessment of the environment found a catastrophic score of (-)142, Yes, 246 points in the opposite (bad) direction. As part of the settlement, MORSE is handing back $4.6 million to the Feds, and $851,000 of that is going to the ex-employee who blew the whistle.
Amazon kills off on-device Alexa processing for Echo owners • The Register - “We are reaching out to let you know that the Alexa feature ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ that you enabled on your supported Echo device(s) will no longer be available beginning March 28, 2025,” a copy of the email sent to Echo users relayed to El Reg read.
Notes, Quotes, and Paraphrases from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case…As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes:
I have had a continuously growing unease about the churches in America. Setting aside the current political climate, it seems to be increasingly difficult to find a man or woman in a pulpit or a pew who believes in, much less advocates for Jesus’ teachings.
They may pay lip service to the Sermon on the Mount, but their lives will tell you a much different story. And as much as I had become dismayed at this fact, I was excited to see that scripture already offered an answer for it.
Decade-old healthcare security SNAFU settled for $11M • The Register - Health Net Federal Services (HNFS) and its parent company Centene Corporation, were found liable of lying on security attestations and ignoring 3rd party audits of their environment from 2015-2018. Fine amounts to 0.0067% of it’s 2023 revenue ($163Bn).