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Saturday, December 26, 2009

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Posting anonymously on Facebook is NOT anonymous

This is probably worth noting, for anyone who still uses Facebook, and thinks posting “anonymously” in a group, is actually anonymous. This is especially true for small friend or family groups, and could cause major embarrassment. Facebook introduced the anonymous posting feature in 2017, allowing users to share content within groups while keeping their identities under wraps. This feature is available on all platforms that Facebook is available on and syncs across all your devices. Whether you use an iPhone, Android, or one of the top Chromebooks, you can share your thoughts anonymously in Facebook groups. You must be a member of a group that activated anonymous posting to use this feature. While your posts remain anonymous within the group, the admins, moderators, and Facebook have access to your name and profile picture. This measure is in place to maintain group safety and uphold Facebook community standards. So, if you have a friend or family member managing your grou

Modder made an IRC client that runs entirely inside the motherboard’s BIOS chip

Phillip Tennen, developer of the open-source axleOS, has recently decided to use what he learned from that project to create an IRC client that runs entirely within the UEFI pre-boot environment, with no operating system required. This “UEFIRC” is nearly fully functional, with a graphical interface and a TrueType font renderer, and it’s all written in the Rust programming language. Wow! It does suggest two things to me: IRC is really the lightest weight social chatting app of them all… IRC users are a bit different… Technically I suppose any text based micro-blogging type service could work. Twitter or Mastodon without videos and photos may also work. But the nature of how IRC still works today, means you can get a pretty close experience to the real thing even in the BIOS. See https://www.tomshardware.com/software/someone-made-a-functioning-irc-client-that-runs-entirely-inside-the-motherboards-uefi

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