A fake Bitcoin blackmail email, an old leaked password, and a simple fear tactic — this is how scammers try to pressure victims into paying.

I analyzed the scam, the social engineering behind it, and the steps you can take to protect yourself.

Read the full breakdown: peakd.com/crypto/@rubenstorm/a-crypto-extortion-scam...

#CyberSecurity #Privacy #OnlineSafety #Bitcoin #ScamAwareness

My PC is dead, and I still haven't fixed it. I think I'm not going to, either. A lot has changed in the last six months, and this dead computer of mine has been a driving force behind much of that. It's changed my priorities in life, and has forced me to change up my hobbies and internet activities.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/49670288

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There is a secret to having a successful Social Media platform that big companies have figured out over the past decade.

This latest read tells you all about it. Here is excerpt—

…creators need reach to exercise their influence … But long gone are the days of the decentralised internet— the world spends most of its time on a few elite sites. This is the formula Silicon Valley has figured out…

Reverse culture shock is when you return to your own country after going abroad and have the feelings of strangeness and bewilderment that you had when you arrived in other countries.

I hope you will stop by and take a look. If you blog, say hi. I may add you to my blog roll. No ads or anything like that, I'm just having fun and getting to know people.

Hey guys -- this is my blog, Dress Code. Let me know what you think. I'm not sure how often I'll check Lemmy, but I included my matrix username on my profile (that's a cool feature), so if I don't answer here, try that (or Instagram, Instagram works).

It's on ghost -- currently via a static-site-generator, but soon it'll be on a live ghost installation... probably.

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Been having a tough time staying focused and producing content during the quarantine. Here's something, which I hope is better than nothing. Please share tips for getting longer thoughts out of my brain!

Hi all! I wanted to share my blog I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks. It’s lacking content right now since I just got started, but please check it out anyway.

I’m looking for just about any feedback, if you like something please let me know. If you dislike something don’t hesitate to tell me.

I’m sharing my blog here both because I hope my content might actually be of use or interest for somebody and because I want to improve my writing.

Looking for readers and scathing feedback! Should I write more, am I making obvious mistakes, do ya like anything I say?

This is the first of hopefully many posts on the idea of using federated social media as a backend. Blogging is hard. Social media posting is easy. So maybe the blog can be built from the social media?

Think about it, you get so much out of the box using someone else's site as your CMS. Lemmy takes markdown, and turns it into server-generated HTML which it serves up via RSS. It includes comments, and when Lemmy federates, those comments could come from members of any other Lemmy instance, offering users a low-overhead to commenting. Lemmy even includes image hosting!

It's currently running in a very barebones manner at https://festive-euclid-26b79e.netlify.app/

Mostly about science/astronomy, some fiction and other things. No Ads, Trackers, or monetization.