#safe link checker

[safenet]

Is Your Click Safe? Discover the Power of a URL Safety Checker!

Introduction

With the internet becoming increasingly essential in daily life, so has the threat of online scams, malware, and phishing attacks. Just a single careless click can open the door to a world of risks, from stolen data to financial loss. This reality makes the need for a safe URL checker critical, both for individuals and businesses. A URL safety checker is an essential tool that evaluates whether links are safe before you click on them, adding a vital layer of security to your online experience. In this guide, we’ll explore how a website safety checker works, why it’s crucial for your online safety, and how you can use a variety of URL checkers to protect yourself and your devices.

What Is a Safe URL Checker and Why You Need It

A safe URL checker is a tool designed to verify the safety of a URL or website link before you access it. It analyzes various elements of a URL, from checking for signs of malware to scanning for phishing markers. URL checkers utilize extensive databases and machine-learning algorithms to identify potential threats embedded within websites. With the rapid growth of cyber threats, having a reliable URL safety checker is more important than ever, especially when cybercriminals increasingly rely on deceptive links to access personal data.

Why Do You Need a URL Safety Checker?

Using a URL checker online allows you to verify if a website is secure before you enter sensitive information, like passwords or credit card details. These tools can protect you against common types of cyber attacks, including phishing and malware-infected sites. For anyone who shops, banks, or simply browses online, a website safety checker is an invaluable layer of defense. A single security check URL can save you from potential data breaches or malware infections.

The Role of a URL Safety Checker in Everyday Browsing

For many people, browsing the internet is a seamless experience—until it’s disrupted by a suspicious link or a pop-up warning. A URL safety checker is essential in such situations, allowing users to verify suspicious links. Imagine receiving an unexpected email from a reputable company asking you to click on a link to "update your account." With a phishing URL checker, you can immediately assess whether the link is legitimate or a scam.

How to Integrate Safe URL Checkers in Everyday Use

You can make URL checkers part of your daily browsing habits with browser extensions or dedicated mobile apps. Some URL safety checkers also integrate into web filters, alerting you to malicious links before you even click them. With the rising prevalence of online scams, integrating a reliable website safety checker into your daily browsing is a smart choice to avoid dangerous clicks.

How a Website Safety Checker Protects You from Online Threats

From viruses to phishing scams, online threats are continuously evolving. A website safety checker offers real-time scanning to help you avoid these hazards. By evaluating a link's reputation, scanning for malware signatures, and checking for phishing indicators, a URL reputation checker helps shield your device and personal data from harm. Some advanced tools even analyze the website's SSL certificate and IP reputation, enhancing security.

The Technology Behind URL Scanners

Modern URL checkers utilize AI and machine learning to detect new patterns in cyber threats. For example, Google Safe Browsing, an extensive database maintained by Google, is frequently used by URL scanners to check if a site is flagged for unsafe content. Some tools, like VirusTotal, even aggregate data from multiple security databases, ensuring that the analysis of each link is comprehensive.

Using a URL Scanner to Identify Unsafe Links

If you’re sent a link from an unknown sender, using a URL scanner is a smart first step. These tools can inspect the link's destination without you needing to visit it, and they’ll alert you to any flagged content or suspicious activity. This is especially useful in emails or messages where scams often circulate.

How to Use a URL Scanner

Many popular URL scanners like Norton Safe Web or Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal allow you to paste the URL directly for an instant analysis. By performing a security check URL scan before clicking, you add a layer of proactive security to your browsing habits. This strategy is particularly useful when you’re unsure about a link’s origin or if it’s from a source that you don’t trust entirely.

Stay Vigilant: The Importance of a Phishing URL Checker

Phishing attacks are designed to trick users into revealing sensitive information by impersonating reputable entities. A phishing URL checker specifically looks for indicators of a phishing site, such as suspicious URLs, fake SSL certificates, or domain names that mimic trusted brands. With a phishing URL checker, you can ensure that the link isn’t attempting to exploit your trust or steal your information.

How Phishing URL Checkers Identify Dangerous Links

Phishing URL checkers rely on databases of known phishing sites, as well as detection algorithms that analyze website structure and content. For instance, tools like PhishTank maintain lists of verified phishing URLs, allowing you to cross-check URLs against a constantly updated registry. Using these checkers before entering sensitive information can protect you from some of the most common online scams.

The Benefits of Performing a Regular Link Safety Check

Regularly performing a link safety check is a proactive approach to cyber hygiene. Rather than waiting to be alerted to a scam, you can regularly check URLs you encounter, especially in work environments where cyber threats are frequent. By incorporating link safety checks into your routine, you build a habit of cautious clicking, reducing the risk of accidental exposure to malicious content.

Link Safety in Personal and Professional Settings

Whether for personal or business use, regularly scanning links can minimize the impact of cyber attacks. Many businesses now mandate link safety checks to secure their networks against phishing and malware. By adding a website link checker to your digital toolkit, you’re investing in long-term digital safety and protecting valuable data.

Choosing the Best URL Checker Online for Your Security Needs

When it comes to selecting the right URL checker online, consider factors like accuracy, speed, and the scope of detection. While basic URL scanners are free, paid versions often offer more extensive analysis, checking for broader security threats, such as advanced phishing tactics and ransomware.

Top URL Checkers Online

For the best security results, look for URL checkers like ScanURL, URLVoid, or SiteCheck by Sucuri. Each of these tools has unique strengths, from evaluating link reputation to detecting malware and phishing tactics. A URL checker online that suits your specific needs can significantly reduce your vulnerability to online threats.

Conclusion

In a world where one wrong click can lead to identity theft or financial loss, a safe link checker is more than just a tool—it’s a necessity. From basic phishing checks to comprehensive malware scans, URL safety checkers provide critical defenses against a range of online threats. By using URL scanners, incorporating regular link safety checks, and choosing the right online tools, you can transform your browsing habits and shield yourself from common cyber risks. Embracing URL safety practices empowers you to browse with confidence, secure in the knowledge that your clicks are safe.

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[codywanfirstkissbingo]

Codywan First Kiss Bingo

Can't get enough of Cody and Obi-Wan's first kiss in any universe and situation? Well then we'd love to have you play our bingo!

How to Play

Fill out this form and we'll email you your shiny bingo card. Every card is a shuffled assortment of prompts that will look something like this:

Below are all the rules you should know about before you join.

General Rules

We're sure you are familiar with the rules of bingo, but just to be certain everyone is on the same page, to get a bingo you must fill five prompts in a row. That row can be vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. Fill all the prompts on your card and that's a blackout!

Get as creative with your kisses as you want but they MUST BE A FIRST KISS between Obi-Wan and Cody in some capacity. 

Prompt fills should be new works, meaning that they should not be part of an ongoing work-in-progress. Sequels and prequels to already-finished works are welcome! 

Posting Dates

Participants have the entire month of December to post bingo fills! Sign up around the time of this announcement and you will have a two month creation window before December 1st rolls around.

You can either post to our collection on ao3 and/or on tumblr but we do ask that you please tag us @codywanfirstkissbingo AND tag your post with #CWFKB2023 as we don’t want to miss anyone if tumblr drops the ball. 

If you’re posting on AO3 but want us to reblog your fill, please make a Tumblr post with the link and make sure to @ us and tag your post with #CWFKB2023. We’ll be checking the collection when tracking fills and making round-up posts with bingos and blackouts, but we will not be cross-posting every individual fill on AO3 ourselves if the creator has not made a tumblr post.   

Please include a screenshot of your bingo tag with the prompt fill indicated so we know which square you’ve filled!

Specific Rules

Fic: 100 words minimum per prompt fill. To be clear, the kiss itself does not have to last 100 words, though we'd be delighted to see that.

Art: One drawing per fill (digital or traditional). Different drawings can be on the same canvas/page if you so wish. Go wild with your compositions.

Podfic: Same requirements as fic. You can collaborate with someone writing a fic specifically for the event or find an existing fic that fills your prompt.

Fanmix: One song per fill- we'd love to see what songs give you codywan first kiss vibes. Try to match lyrics to your prompt but instrumental songs are cool too.

Other: Send an ask with your inquiry! We're more than happy to discuss expanding the fanwork pool to maximize creativity.

Ratings

You can post any work with any rating, but please abide by the appropriate rating/archive warning/tags on AO3 when posting there. When posting on tumblr, please warn for potentially triggering content in the tags and the header to the post, so readers can filter as needed. Anything spicy or explicit should go under a read-more tag, and please use a read-more tag if you’re posting a fic that is longer than a drabble (100 words) to be considerate of people’s dashboard feeds.

To help make this event a safe one for Codywan fans with any kind of photosensitivity, we do specifically request that you tag any and all flashing imagery with #flashing. If you're unsure what constitutes flashing, please see this article, or err on the side of caution for any image with: moving stripes or checkered patterns; strobe light, lightning, or explosion effects in any image or video; images of flickering light/sunlight on leaves/water; very fast cuts between images in a gif or video; rapidly moving images in an animation or gif set that stop and start or “stutter;” sparkle text or similar moving text effects; and images in an animation, gifset, or video that are in high color contrast to each other (for example, a gif set that cuts pink Barbie gifs with black & white Oppenheimer gifs to create a fast-moving contrast between the two styles.) 

The CWFKB mods' decision is final on whether your post/entry requires a flashing warning; they will contact you to ask you to update your tags if you haven’t already noted in your tumblr or AO3 post that your fill contains #flashing content. If you are not willing to use the flashing tag, even after being contacted by the mods, the mods have the right to decide that under-tagged flashing fills will be disqualified from the event.

Finally– with exceptions for the NSFW or #spicy and #flashing tags on tumblr– you have the right to choose not to warn readers in accordance with AO3’s “choose not to warn” option, but posters whose tags or ratings are deceptive or misleading versus the actual content may have their fills disqualified.

When in doubt, please contact the mods! The mods will contact you about any fill where the tags and ratings raise this concern, with a request that you revise and update your tags and warnings.

Combining Prompts

This is a low stakes event and we just want people to have fun! If you want to combine prompts that's totally fine, but we ask that you give each fill its own scene within the larger work. This means there should be a separate kiss for each prompt, even if the 'scene' is a series of types of kisses all in a row.

Swapping Prompts

Nearly have a bingo but there's that one pesky prompt in your way you don't vibe with? Go ahead and swap it with another prompt on your card. As all the prompts are randomly selected and not handpicked for participants; we understand there's a chance some of the prompts may not inspire you so we allow ONE and only ONE SWAP PER CARD. Use it carefully if you need it!

Behind the Scenes

This bingo is modded by tumblr users @dontbelasagnax @lttrsfrmlnrrgby and @notthestarwar. Since we're big fans of the previous codywan bingos, we felt the drive to bring the fun back for anyone else that has missed the event as much as us!

Our adorable profile picture was drawn by @anaclastic-azurite! 

You can actually find the public inception of this bingo event right here!

If you have any further questions after reading our rules, our askbox is open!

@swfandomevents

(NB: edited Oct. 9 to add "vertical.")

(NB: edited Nov. 10 to add "This means there should be a separate kiss for each prompt, even if the 'scene' is a series of types of kisses all in a row.")

[praxis-app]

We’re excited to introduce Vibe Checks for the Praxis website, inspired by the process we’ve developed in our Discord server. With this new feature in place, new members will be able to answer a list of community decided questions, ensuring a safe and respectful environment for all who join the website.

Here’s how it works: Vibe checkers, selected by the community, read over the answers and engage with new members in their respective questionnaire tickets, which are automatically generated upon joining. If enough vibe checkers vote in favor of verifying a new member, they are automatically verified and receive a welcome notification.

With Vibe Checks implemented, we're now able to safely share invite links to the website far outside our Discord server. Whether you're a longtime community member or a newcomer looking to contribute, we welcome you to join us in this early round of testing and QA.

Join the project: https://praxis-app.org/i/4efdc9de

[short-circuit-the-great]

Dying Sun / Smoke / Ch 25 / With My Whole Spark

Link to full chapter | Previous chapter

Knock Out and Breakdown make it somewhere safe--for now. While making repairs, Knock Out discovers Breakdown really seems to like him. Really, really seems to like him.

“Your brother dropped off something quite frightening earlier,” Jackknife’s voice said, and he stepped into view, or rather slid because he was sliding down the stairway railing in a fancy sort of way, landing with grace and barely making a sound against the marble floor. “I figured it was only a matter of time before one of you turned up again.”

He moved closer and took notice of Breakdown, who blended in with the shadows, and Jackknife gasped and leaped back, holding a hand to his spark. “What in Primus’s name is your deal with bringing me corpses?”

“Corpses, Master Jackknife?” Checkers said, and her raised eyebrow showed more emotion than anything else on her face ever had. "Again?"

“Never mind that,” Jackknife said. “Really, Knock Out, this is getting rather ridiculous.”

“This isn’t a corpse,” Knock Out said.

“And I’m not a race car,” Jackknife said. “I think one dead body is enough. At this rate you’ll bring me all of Neo like some kind of awful metallic cat bringing me dead birds.”

“Hey,” Breakdown said, holding up two fingers to wave.

“Hello,” Jackknife said. “Knock Out, I allowed you to set up a lab beneath my residence, not a morgue, and I— HOLY PRIMUS, WHY IS YOUR DEAD BODY SMILING AT ME?”

“I like to smile,” Breakdown said. “I’m also not dead. Yet.”

[theskiesareopen]

Hi! I've been working on a new dependently typed programming language that's designed to be a Pareto improvement over everything that already exists and it's getting to the point where it's actually usable for practical purposes. I'm really excited about it and want to talk about it so please ask me questions about it!

I've designed a dependently typed language with subtyping and a useful fragment providing universal inference to improve practicality for general purpose scripting and programming. I've been using some original mathematical research to push closer to the impossibility proof boundary than any language has ever gone before, and getting some significant convenience and expressiveness out of it. I'm building a categorical notion of semantics to permit really easy compilation to any target, and hopefully extremely high performance with no UB.

I've developed a new approach to compile time reflection that exposes more of the language to metaprogramming effectively and usefully and safely than prior art, enabling extremely powerful abstractions that don't require syntax macro fuckery. Though just for good measure I developed a new way to approach syntax macros that's nicer too.

I'm integrating a modular effects and coeffects system that should allow better safety and convenience than the rust borrow checker while being a lot more flexible about what it represents and checks, for example one thing I'm excited about are security types, where you can, for example, specify that a piece of data is derived from a user's private data, and that contaminates everything causally linked from that data (except for specific security primitives like a one way hash or a homomorphic computation or whatever) (to the extent that the semantics can represent; making formal proofs of side channels is going to be a very long term project since there are no formal specifications of ISA semantics that capture them and all the hardware instructions to mitigate them are actually broken and don't work as advertised), so then a web response marked with another user's domain statically can't accept private information that doesn't belong to them.

[ollyou]

!!WARNING FOR PMTOK FANS!!

Please reblog for awareness.

Someone has attempted to grab my IP address using a Grabify link. Thankfully I was smart enough to instantly recognize the link as malicious, but there’s no telling if this person is sending the same link to followers or other PMTOK fandom members in general.

I have reason to believe this is likely a targeted attack on me, due to a sudden influx of threats from a certain PMTOK fan’s follower base towards me that happened after I vaguely described I found out someone who used to follow me is a lolicon on my alt Twitter to ~20 followers. I will not be sharing names because as I had stated in my original thread, I have no intention of starting drama, just sharing my disgust and shock at something that happened. The point of me describing this is only to explain why this may have happened.

DO NOT LOOK UP THE LINK BELOW UNLESS YOU ARE FINE WITH POTENTIALLY HAVING YOUR LOCATION SHARED WITH THIS PERSON.

I HAVE NO IDEA IF THE LINK CONTAINS ANY GRAPHIC MATERIAL, AS IT HAS A PNG FILE ATTACHED. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION.

THE MESSAGE:

PROOF OF IT BEING MALICIOUS:

There are many dangerous and manipulative people in this fandom, and I want everyone to stay safe. I will be contacting law enforcement if this escalates further, though thankfully at the time of being sent this link, I was already far from home and so my IP changed to match that. I did not load the particular link so I don’t believe I am in any immediate danger, but THIS COULD VERY WELL PUT OTHERS INCLUDING YOURSELF IN DANGER.

Do NOT click any suspicious links sent to you— heck, don’t click links sent by anonymous sources at ALL. ALWAYS use a website checker if you’re that curious and need to click it. Please do not make a fool of yourself and wind up with your info in dangerous people’s hands.

Thank you for reading and remember to stay safe online. Please contact me if you’re in the PMTOK fandom and/or are following me and receive any strange links from anonymous or burner accounts.

[agustdiv1ne]

hi friends, i realized i've never shared this resource here, but to anyone who accepts links in asks, i'd recommend checking it if it's safe with nordvpn's link checker! of course, tools like these are not 100% foolproof, so please still exercise caution when opening links!!

[cheesetalia]

Small Town, Tuesday Night

Written for the @microcest June 26th Prompt: Blind Date

America/Canada | 2.7k words | twincest, SFW

Rotting away in the boring small town he grew up in, Alfred lets himself be pushed into a blind-date with the one other gay guy in the area—some dude named Matthew. There's no way he'll hit it off with some stranger, but at least it'll shut his nagging dad up for awhile, and­­ offer some variety in a life where the days all blur together.

Matthew is spending his summer break upstate, enjoying hiking and fishing and being away from the hustle and bustle of the city. When his aunt offers to set him up with a coworker's son, he accepts. He wasn't exactly pining away for a boyfriend but maybe a little romance will spice up his summer.

Neither is prepared for what they'll see when they finally meet.

Ao3 Link

Alfred was relaxing on the couch peacefully picking flowers in Skyrim when Arthur walked in from the kitchen.

Alfred didn't even have to look up at his dad to know he was about to dish out some criticism. It was all he seemed to have for Alfred these days.

"I'm sick of seeing you mope about the house. You're twenty-six years old, if you can't find a job, you can at least meet someone!" Arthur said.

Alfred thought for the millionth time that he really needed to get a TV for his bedroom so he could take his PS5 upstairs and be safe from Arthur's relentless nagging.

"I've tried!" Alfred whined, "It's not that easy. Do you know how many gay guys there are around here? None!"

Here being a small town in rural Minnesota.

"Nonsense. Why, just the other day Chloé at work was saying her nephew came out as gay recently. You can date him." Arthur said, putting his hands on his hips.

He was wearing a little checkered apron over his clothes, and going by the harsh acrid stench of smoke beginning to waft out of the kitchen, he would be better off checking on his scones than pestering his son. But Alfred knew when Arthur got on a roll he wouldn't listen.

"One guy," Alfred grumbled, "and he could be forty for all I know."

"He is not forty," Arthur scoffed, "he's a student at the University of Minnesota."

"That doesn't mean anything, he could be a nontraditional student," Alfred said, just to be contrary.

At his age, he would be a nontraditional student if he enrolled, like Arthur was always nagging him to do.

"Quit making excuses," Arthur scolded, "do you want to be still sitting on my couch when you're forty? I'll ask Chloé his age and if he's closer to yours than mine, you can go on a date with him."

"Yeah sure whatever," Alfred mumbled.

It's not like he didn't want to find a partner, although having to be set up by his dad was so embarrassing. He was sure the guy would be a total dud, with nothing in common with Alfred other than being gay. Maybe a Log Cabin Republican, or some super flamboyant type.

Arthur smirked at Alfred's acquiescence, savoring the triumph of finally succeeding in one of his attempts to push his manchild son towards the milestones of adulthood.

That was, until he noticed the dark smoke now billowing out of the kitchen.

"Bollocks!"

*****

It turned out that Chloé's nephew was the same age as Alfred ("If that's not a sign I don't know what is," Arthur had said smugly).

"Okay, what's his number?" Alfred asked.

"I didn't get his number," Arthur said.

"Well get it! Geez. How do you expect me to get in touch with this guy without a phone number?" Alfred asked.

Arthur rolled his eyes and walked off to call Chloé (yes, call, because Arthur was such an old man he still called everyone instead of texting) and get Matthew's number. Alfred heard him mutter something about "in my day".

"In your day you probably sent a telegram," Alfred said.

Arthur walked back in, phone cradled to his ear and still chatting with his coworker, and flipped Alfred off.

Alfred sputtered. "I'd get grounded for a week if I did that," he protested.

Arthur put his hand over the phone's mouthpiece and said, "My house, my rules."

Alfred fumed. Maybe he'd hit it off with this Matthew guy, who'd get a high-paying job when he graduated, and then Alfred could move in with him and be his cute gamer house-husband.

Hell, Alfred would move into a shed with a hobo at this point to get away from Arthur's annoying ass. But a shed wouldn't have electricity for his PS5...

Alfred sighed. Better hope Matthew made the big bucks then. When Arthur finally (finally! God, the man gossiped like an old hen) returned with a scrap of paper with Matthew's number on it, Alfred snatched it out of his hands, saying "That could have been a text you tree-wasting bastard."

While Arthur started a longwinded rant about showing respect, Alfred sent Matt a quick text saying "Hi :)" and then started sleuthing online. Everyone had an online footprint. Time to find out what this Matthew was really like.

*****

Alfred dug around online in between texts with Matthew. Matthew was polite but didn't hesitate to answer all of Alfred's questions. Alfred had a tendency to bombard people with texts, sending a dozen in a row rapid-fire. Matthew didn't complain or ask Alfred to slow down, that was one point in his favor.

According to Matthew he was: in his senior year of college working on a Conservation Biology degree. He'd grown up in Canada but moved to the states as a teen. He enjoyed hockey, nature, and his favorite food was pancakes.

His taste in memes was excellent, and he and Alfred spent the next couple of hours sending each other dumb shit until Arthur yelled at him to be quiet because he was laughing so hard.

"Uptight British asshole," Alfred grumbled, but he took his phone and went to sit in the backyard all the same.

Fireflies glowed in the darkness a few yards from the deck, but their beauty was wasted on Alfred, who was too busy getting to know his new potential-boyfriend.

The hours passed quickly with them chatting about everything and nothing. Alfred was stoked to find out they had the same music taste (eclectic and broad, spanning all genres, even the ones people usually listed as exceptions, like country and rap) and liked a lot of the same bands. They played a lot of the same games too.

"I was actually playing Skyrim when Aunt Chloé called me about you." Matthew texted.

"haha, what a coinkydink. we're on the same wavelength." Alfred replied.

He was starting to feel really excited about their upcoming date (bowling, because "what else is there to do in this town?" "IKR???"). Maybe Matthew and him were meant to be.

"I hardly ever get to play cuz I'm so busy with classes...speaking of classes, I have an 8am class! D: I didn't realize it'd gotten so late. I'd better go to bed. See you tomorrow!" Matthew sent.

"Nite!" Alfred replied, pondering if he should send a kissy emoji or something like that. But nah, they didn't know each other that well yet.

With that decided, he stuck his phone in his pocket and headed back indoors. Matthew might be going to bed, but Alfred would be up for a couple more hours leveling his WoW characters.

*****

The next day, the date loomed heavily in his mind. In between gaming with his online friends he texted Matthew. Something occurred to him after lunch.

He still didn't have a clue what Matthew looked like. Matthew's Facebook icon was a picture of a polar bear, not a photo of himself. The guy's Instagram gave away nothing—not a single selfie or group pic. It was mostly meal snapshots and photos from hiking trails.

Alfred texted him, "Can you send me a photo of yourself? I'm not asking for a dickpic or anything, I just wanna know what you look like so I can spot you at the bowling alley."

A couple minutes later Alfred's phone dinged. He snatched it up, eager to see what his date looked like.

The excited grin fell off of Alfred's face as he stared at the screen, confused. It was...a photo of himself? His eyes looked weirdly purple in the photo but that was probably a filter.

Had Arthur sent Chloé a photo of Alfred and she'd passed it on to Matthew, and Matthew accidentally sent that instead of one of his own selfies? Or had Matthew been e-stalking and gotten the photo off of Alfred's Instagram account or somewhere?

Either way it was weird. Alfred didn't recognize or remember the photo at all. In it, his hair looked unusually lush and wavy, and he had an uncharacteristically sweet smile on his face as he leaned on the railing of a balcony.

Alfred squinted at the background of the photo. What looked suspiciously like the Eiffel tower stuck out among the more normal buildings.

Alfred had never been to Paris, or even France. The only place he went overseas was to England with Arthur to visit his relatives there. Why had someone Photoshopped him into Paris? Was this guy Matthew a total fucking weirdo or was this Arthur's doing?

A chill ran down his spine at the possibility that Arthur had gotten him entangled with a freakin' psycho!

"ARTHUR!" Alfred hollered, jumping off the couch and running to find his dad.

He found Arthur in his study upstairs, frowning over some paperwork. When Alfred burst through the door, Arthur glanced up, eyes searching Alfred's body for any injuries or cause for alarm.

"Half the town can hear you shouting, what is it?" Arthur asked.

In response, Alfred held up his phone. Arthur look at the glowing screen.

"A photo of yourself?" Arthur sighed, "Alfred, I really don't have time for this. Please don't interrupt me unless it's something serious.

"I didn't take this! Matthew sent it to me," Alfred said.

"And?" Arthur raised one bushy brow.

Arthur presumed the boy had gotten a photo off of Alfred from the internet. Strange maybe, but who knew what was all the rage with kids these days and why?

"And I don't recognize this photo at all, and, and—look, that's the Eiffel Tower!" Alfred said, pointing to it.

Arthur looked.

"Did you send Chloé or Matthew any photos of me?" Alfred asked.

"No, I haven't sent them anything of the sort." Arthur said.

"So where did he get this? And why would he doctor it to put me in France? What sort of a weirdo did you set me up with?!" Alfred asked, waving his arms around.

"I'm sure he's a perfectly nice lad, it's probably a joke. Why don't you ask him?" Arthur asked.

"Why don't I ask him?" Alfred mimicked him. Then, he shouted "Because I don't want to end up chained up in his basement!"

"Always use a safeword son," Arthur said.

"Ewww! Take this seriously!" Alfred said, his face scrunching up.

"Don't go on a date with him if it bothers you so much," Arthur said, "Now, I'm very busy with work so if you could leave now—"

"When they find my body in a ditch somewhere, you'll wish you'd listened to me," Alfred grumbled.

He stalked out of Arthur's office with his phone clenched in his hand. When he got back to his bedroom, he flopped down on the bed to stare at the photo some more, as if it would give up its secrets. Matthew had messaged again while he was arguing with Arthur.

"No response? Damn, I didn't think I looked that bad lol," Matthew's text read.

"Where did you get that photo?" Alfred texted back.

"Papa took it, when we were in France last year," Matthew answered.

Then he sent,"How about you? Send me a selfie? :)"

"You already know what I look like :/" Alfred responded.

The reply from Matthew came through a few seconds later, "Wdym?"

Alfred growled. The fucker was playing dumb. This guy had to be a real whackjob. This was the weirdest catfish ever—Matthew had stolen his date's photo to present to them, pretending to be them? Completely bizarre. Did Matthew even like all those bands and video games he said he did, or had he just stalked Alfred thoroughly and learned all his likes and dislikes?

He didn't scare Alfred though. Alfred was going to meet the little psycho in person and give him a piece of his mind.

****

It was already dark out when Alfred walked up to the bowling alley. The parking lot was nearly empty of cars, since Tuesday wasn't exactly a hot date night for most people. The ancient building that housed the bowling lanes was in poor-repair, but it was brightly lit outside, so Alfred sat down on the bench next to the entrance. Junebugs flew by his head, drawn by the light, but Alfred ignored them.

He was busy texting Matthew. "I'm here. waiting by the bench outside" he sent.

Then he put his phone down and waited, eyes scanning the parking lot but also alert to the door next to him, in case the weirdo was inside and would come out to get him.

After a few minutes, a small white car pulled into the parking lot, parking a few spaces down from the entrance.

Alfred tensed as the car door opened, and a man stepped out. Was this him? As the young man approached, Alfred's jaw dropped.

"What the fuck?" Alfred asked.

"Are you Alfred?" Matthew asked, blinking. He took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and put the glasses back on. Stared. "Wow," he croaked. "We...look a lot alike."

"Yeah, no shit," Alfred said, staring back.

So that hadn't been a stolen photo of Alfred, Photoshopped for some bizarre reason that only a twisted nutcase would understand.

Alfred chuckled. "Well, at least you're not crazy."

"You thought I was crazy?" Matthew asked, "Why?"

"Dude! I thought you sent me a photo of me," Alfred said.

Matthew sat down next to him on the bench. "Yeah, I can see how you'd think that. No wonder you wouldn't send me a photo back."

"Man, we look so much alike—this is nuts! We could be twins," Alfred said.

Matthew groaned, covering his eyes with one palm. "Don't say that. It would be just my luck eh? Finally meet a nice boy who likes me back and he's my brother."

"Aww, you think I'm a nice boy. Enjoy that delusion while it lasts," Alfred snarked.

Matthew straightened, his pretty violet-tinted eyes (and Alfred was still in awe that he was dating a guy with legitimately purpley-blue eyes) narrowing as he looked over Alfred's face again. Alfred couldn't look away from him. It was so strange.

"Let me guess, you were born on July 1st, and you're adopted," Matthew said.

"Yep! Hey, how'd you know I was adopted?" Alfred asked, not jumping to conclusions as fast as Matthew.

"Because my birthday is also July 1st, and I'm also adopted." Matthew said, "Fuck, this sucks. Do you know what this means?"

"We're time-twins! That's so kickass!" Alfred said.

"Yes, we're—wait, what? Time twins?" Matthew asked.

"Also called 'astro twins'!" Alfred informed him, "It's people born around the same time, around the same place. I guess if you were born like, half way across the globe from me, then you might have a different birth chart."

"Oh shit, you believe in astrology," Matthew let out a shaky laugh, "Well at least there's that. Clearly we never would have worked as a couple."

"Hey man, what do you have against astrology?" Alfred asked.

"Nothing," Matthew assured him, "it's just complete hocus, but you can believe what you want."

"Oh fuck man, you tryna start a fight?" Alfred said, shaking his head.

"Not at all," Matthew replied, "Time-twins or not, I think we're literal twins. Same birthday, adopted, look the splitting image of each other. I bet if we could get our adoption records opened, it would show we have the same birth mother."

"Bullshit dude, I finally found a boyfriend! No way am I having him taken away from me by some corny soap opera shit!" Alfred said.

"So what, you want to just ignore that we're almost certainly blood related? Identical twins? People will notice that we look just alike," Matthew said.

"I'll dye my hair," Alfred said, stubborn as ever, "and no one can unseal our adoption records, so they can't prove shit!"

"There's no way this is going to work," Matthew said, "but okay. Brother, boyfriend, I want to learn more about you either way."

"Sweet! Maybe I won't die a virgin after all," Alfred said, grinning at his twin.

"You're still a virgin? At our age? Oh my god," Matthew said.

"Don't judge me! Who would I screw in this podunk town? Before you arrived, that is," Alfred said, raising his eyebrows up and down.

Matthew groaned.

C'mon, let's go bowl!" Alfred said.

He grabbed Matthew's hand and pulled him to his feet, dragging him through the swinging doors of the bowling alley.

[shinyzango]

Saw this on Twitter and thought of warning folks in here too.

There's a link to a data leak checker in the article to check if your email address(es) got leaked. If so, change the password immediately.

Be safe out there.

[oneefin]

hiya! so this is a long one:

during december, i ran a daily puzzle recommendation column in a music discord server where i sent one cool puzzle every day for 31 days. those puzzles drew from basically every corner of puzzling that i've been sinking into for the past couple of years, so i'm going to dump them all in this singular tumblr post as a quick way to jot down where i've already been. maybe you'll enjoy one of them also!

logic puzzles

1. nonbinary masyu, designed by walker for the 2023 puzzler pride edition of the griddle. link goes to the pdf of the whole puzzle pack, where this puzzle and its rules can be found on page 5.

2. recursive masyu, designed by fleb, with a super unique variety mechanic. link contains the rules. (fleb had a stellar youtube channel going in the past with really well made breakdown videos of various puzzles. all of it is worth watching)

3. rush hour sudoku, designed by chameleon, which adds an interactive mechanic to a sudoku. link contains the rules and a playable solver that they coded themselves

4. the miracle sudoku, designed by mitchell lee, which at this point is incredibly famous. link contains the rules and a playable solver.

5. foggy twilight kurotto, designed by menderbug. good if you've done a twilight kurotto, or a normal kurotto, before. link contains the rules and a playable solver via penpa+.

6. choco banana, designed by tawan sunathvanichkul for the 79th issue of tambox bulletin. link goes to the pdf for the whole puzzle page, where this puzzle is on the left side.

7. litherslink, designed by michael3.14 for the snakes on a plane series in the cracking the cryptic discord server. i've played slitherlink before, and this messed with my head. link goes to a puzz.link solver with the rules in Help -> Rules.

8. star battle, designed by jack lance (rest in peace). oh, is there no link for it? that's weird.

word puzzles

9. bagel shop caption puzzle, a rows garden published by the new yorker. link contains a solver with the clues.

10. printer's devilry, a crossword by kyle dolan with printer's devilry clues. link goes to a solver on amuselabs with the clues and an explanation of how to solve them.

11. safe cracking, a crossword by noneuclidean with an unorthodox theme. link goes to a solver on crosshare with the clues.

12. japanese braille, a sample puzzle from the international linguistics olympiad. link goes to a pdf containing all of the sample puzzles, where this puzzle is on page 4. note that the pdf version of the puzzle (as opposed to the above image) contains extra information that makes the puzzle easier.

13. the 2023 puzzmo holiday puzzlebook, published by puzzmo. link goes to a pdf containing the above puzzle and so many more. if you like what's inside and you're not already playing puzzmo, now is a great time to hop aboard!

hunt puzzles

14. paint by numbers, designed by brian chen for the 2023 galactic puzzle hunt. link includes an answer checker.

15. extreme anagrams, designed by yannick yao for the 2022 galactic puzzle hunt. the above image is a curated selection from the puzzle that i found the most interesting. link goes to the full puzzle.

16. make your own math quiz, designed by azalea weisblat and josh alman for the 2020 galactic puzzle hunt, which was one of my favorite solving experiences of all time. link goes to the full puzzle, which is interactive.

17. worm search, part of a puzzle designed by adeline wong and thomas gordon for the 17th shard puzzle hunt. note that knowing which puzzle from the hunt contains this subpuzzle is a small spoiler, so if you're sure you want to see the full puzzle, it's here.

games

18. 0123456789, an instructionless puzzle game designed by matrix67 that defies explanation. link goes to itch.io

19. the blot thickens, a puzzle designed by scottg for the 2023 confounding calendar. i previously wrote about it here! link goes to itch.io

20. a level set from INSIGHT (or "Insight"? or "IN?IGHT"? or "IN⸮IGHT"? the name isn't stylized consistently), a game designed by maou. this game is instructionless - your goal is to split each shape into two pieces following some rule. the rule for this level set can be inferred from only the image, but the game expects you to toy around with possibilities to figure out why certain solutions are right and others are wrong. the link goes to the full game on steam, where if you'd like to try that, you can buy it and reach this stage yourself.

21. klifur, a bouldering simulator designed by torfi that's so like and so unlike real climbing. link goes to itch.io

22. frog finder, a cute game designed by poobslag. it got updated with more content since i originally played it! link goes to itch.io

tiny tricksies

23. make oo, a puzzle designed by beekie. link goes to itch.io

24. addition puzzle, designed by beekie for the 2021 confounding calendar. link goes to itch.io

25. snow walk, a gif-based puzzle designed by patrick traynor (the maker of patrick's parabox) for the 2021 confounding calendar. link goes to itch.io

26. ペンギン迷路 (penguin maze), a japanese puzzle designed by qrostar. you don't need to know japanese to solve it - the goal is to place one right arrow (->) in an empty space in the grid such that starting from the marked arrow in the top right and moving in the direction of each arrow you pass eventually leads you to the flag in the bottom. link goes to the full puzzle on their twitter ("""X""")

variety

27. an unusual chess puzzle, originally designed by raymond sullivan in "the chess mysteries of the arabian knights", sourced from this blog post on chess.com. this is not a conventional chess puzzle - the goal is to figure out how this position happened. ie: it's currently someone's turn, and you have to figure out what the board looked like 3 moves ago.

28. five houses puzzle, designed by jack lance. i've embellished the problem statement to make the goal more clear:

there are five houses on a street that all have different prices and heights.

let's say the prices are $1M, $2M, $3M, $4M, and $5M, and the heights are 3m, 3.5m, 4m, 4.5m, and 5m, in some order.

given the following constraints, identify the price and height of each house:

1) The house that's taller than the house that's more expensive than the house that's shorter than the house that's cheaper than the house that's blue is red.

(i came across this from a blog post by jacob cohen of puzzles for progress discussing jack lance's passing. worth a read honestly - jack lance was too good)

29. the cursed dice riddle, designed by dan finkel and presented by ted-ed. link goes to the video, which contains the problem statement and the solution.

30. round 2 of s19e6 of the british quiz show only connect, reformatted as a puzzle. this is honestly worth its own blog post, which i'll make later - for now, you can find the full episode here.

31. last but by far not least, LOK, a very artful puzzle book designed by blaz urban gracer of letibus design. link goes to itch.io

i had a great time fishing up all of these during december, and i'm hoping to find even cooler stuff this year and beyond. send me cool stuff if you've got anything!

[scorci-chan]

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Hmm okay. Easy enough- just gotta run it through a morce code decoder- oh?? It's Binary?? Heh

Easy peasy!! Binary decoder!! NIce It's,, -a youtube link?? Better run it through some link checkers. Can't be too careful

Okay seems to be safe, triple checked and copied the video title to search on youtube instead of clicking it. and-

Ashley Tisdale - Never Gonna Give You Up? It's actually pretty good, thanks for the tunes <3<3<3 great meme<3

heres one for you! Good luck! 8GPInTiModt=y?kfwdz/prf.hexwxrb.zzz//:vswwk

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok"

This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, “How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?” The column was inspired by one of the most bizarre exchanges during the Congressional grilling of TokTok CEO Shou Chew:

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok-be08fbf94b0d

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/17/have-you-tried-not-spying/#coppa

If you heard anything about that hearing, it was likely this. Rep Buddy Carter, Republican of Georgia, demanded to know whether Tiktok used “the phone’s camera to determine whether the content that elicits a pupil dilation should be amplified by the algorithm?”

https://www.c-span.org/video/?526609-1/tiktok-ceo-testifies-house-energy-commerce-committee-hearing

Chew replied, “We do not collect body, face or voice data to identify our users. We do not.” Carter pressed him, asking “How do you determine what age they are then?”

Chew said, “We rely on age-gating as our key age assurance.” Carter assumed tuckercarlsonian expression of perplexity and asked for more information. Chew explained: “It’s when you ask the user what age they are.” Carter was clearly baffled by this.

Chew added, “this is a real challenge for our industry because privacy versus age assurance is a really big problem.” Carter interrupted him: “you keep talking about the industry, we’re talking about TikTok here.”

This was a remarkable exchange, even by the standards of Congressional hearings on technology, a genre that includes “a series of tubes,” “Senator, we run ads,” and “Will you commit to ending finsta?”

Chew was completely and terribly correct, of course. The way that the entire industry complies with COPPA — the law that prohibits data-gathering on under-13s without parental consent — is by asking every used to tick a box that says “I am over 13.” This is such an inadequate and laughable figleaf that the Congressdunderhead from Georgia can (possibly) be forgiven for assuming that “age verification” involved some kind of digital phrenology by way of facial scanning.

But beyond being yet another entry in the annals Congressional Pig-Ignorance On Tech, the exchange reveals a massive blind-spot about the entire business of kids’ privacy, and the legislative intention of COPPA, a law passed in 1998, before the age of ubiquitous commercial internet surveillance — but not before people understood that this would be an important subject.

One thing to note here is how rare COPPA is. The US has very near to zero federal privacy laws. There’s the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, which is about as up-to-date as you might imagine given that it was passed in 1986. Then there’s the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which bans video-store clerks from revealing which porn you (or more to the point, Members of Congress) have rented.

And then there’s COPPA, which requires parental consent for data-gathering on pre-teens. And that’s basically…it.

COPPA’s got a checkered legislative history; a lot of the “parental consent” language is about ensuring that kids can’t get access reproductive health information and services, but as with any contentious piece of lawmaking, COPPA passed due to a coalition with different priorities, and part of that coalition just wanted to make sure that companies weren’t spying on kids.

Because — as both Buddy Carter and Shou Chew — can attest, it’s really hard to get parental consent at scale. Like, how do you even know if you’re talking to a kid’s parent or guardian if you’re not allowed to gather information on that kid? And how do you know if you’re talking to a kid or an adult when you gather any information, on any user?

Even if facial recognition technology had been widespread in 1986, I think we can all agree that Congress’s intent wasn’t to “protect kids’ privacy” by subjecting every child who used a computer to an invasive biometric scan. How could you comply with COPPA, then?

Well, one possibility is to never spy on users.

OK, not never. But only in very special circumstances — situations in which users would be willing to go through a reasonably thorough identification procedure. There are some situations in which it would be relatively straightforward to do this for parental consent, too: schools, pediatricians and libraries typically encounter children at the same time as their parents or guardians.

And for the rest of it, companies could just not spy.

The truly bizarre thing is how bizarre this suggestion comes across. It is essentially beyond the imagination of both Buddy Carter and Shou Chew that Tiktok could comply with COPPA by not gathering any user-data. After all COPPA, doesn’t prohibit providing web access to under-13s without parental consent — it prohibits spying on under-13s.

It’s not just Congressdunderheads and Tiktok CEOs who treat “don’t spy on under-13s” as a synonym for “don’t let under-13s use this service.” Every tech product designer and every general counsel at every tech company treats these two propositions as equivalent, because they are literally incapable of imagining a surveillance-free online service.

Which is funny, given another part of the Congressional interview. Chew says, “The only face data that you’ll get, that we collect is when you use the filters that put, say, sunglasses on your face, we need to know where your eyes are.” Carter interrupts him to say, “Why do you need to know where the eyes are if you’re not seeing if they’re dilated?” (my god this guy is horny for pupils).

Chew finishes, “and the data is stored locally on your local device and deleted after the use, if you use it for facial” (emphasis mine).

The Tiktok app could store the list of accounts you follow on your device, and send requests to the Tiktok servers for their updates, and the servers could fulfill those requests without logging them. Your device could analyze the videos you interact with and ask the Tiktok servers for suggestions based on those criteria — again, without Tiktok logging your info.

There’s no millennial prophet who came down off a mountain with two stone tablets circa 2002 and intoned, “Nerds of the world, thou shalt stop rotating thine logfiles, and lo! Thou shalt mine them for actionable market intelligence.” There is nothing intrinsic to the idea of letting people talk to each other, or search the web, or look at videos, that requires surveillance. The surveillance is a choice, which necessitated hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expenditures, and which should have been understood as illegal under COPPA.

But COPPA hasn’t been meaningfully enforced for a quarter of a century. That’s because the ad-tech industry mobilizes some of the hundreds of billions of dollars it gains through spying to block privacy law enforcement and the passage of any new privacy laws. David Cohen, CEO of the surveillance lobby group IEA, told his members, “Extremists are winning the battle for hearts and minds in Washington, D.C., and beyond. We cannot let that happen.”

His co-conspirators at the anti-privacy lobbying group Privacy For America (yes, really) told Congress that commercial surveillance saves every American $30,000/year — in other words, they value the data they steal from you every year at $30,000:

https://www.privacyforamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Privacy-for-America-Letter-in-Support-of-Preemptive-Comprehensive-Privacy-Legislation.pdf

But as Julia Angwin points out, this figure is as absurd as the name “Privacy for America.” The number is pure fiction:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1815663116#abstract

It doesn’t matter how much the data caught in the ad-tech industry’s nonconsensual harvest is worth — all that matters is that it produces the surplus needed to keep privacy law enforcement and expansion at bay.

Tiktok shouldn’t spy on our kids. Neither should anyone else. America doesn’t need a law banning Tiktok, it’s needs a law banning Tiktok’s surveillance — as well as the surveillance of all its rivals:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories

Because the Chinese state doesn’t need Tiktok to spy on Americans. In the freewheeling, unregulated privacy “marketplace,” all that data is for sale — Chinese spies can just plunk down their credit-cards next to everyone else who buys our data and mobilizes it to compromise us, market to us, and stalk us.

Here’s the podcast episode:

https://craphound.com/news/2023/04/17/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok/

And here’s a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the Internet Archive; they’ll host your stuff for free, forever):

https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_443/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_443_-_How_To_Make_a_Child-Safe_TikTok.mp3

And here’s the direct RSS link for my podcast:

https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

THIS IS THE LAST DAY for the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

[Image ID: The exterior of a corporate office building, with the TikTok logo and wordmark over its revolving doors. From behind the revolving doors glares the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey." In front of the doors is a 'you must be this tall to ride' amusement-park cutout of a boy with a bow-tie, holding out his arm to indicate the minimum required height.]

[summersmilefades]

# 𝚂𝚄𝙼𝙼𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙼𝙸𝙻𝙴𝙵𝙰𝙳𝙴𝚂 ;

an independent, mutuals only, private & semi - selective MULTIMUSE BLOG, home to multiple muses from cartoons, anime, dc comics, & marvel. written by kal ( 24, he/it ). sporadic activity. 18+ ( 21+ preferred ). some heavy topics might be present, such as ; adult language, sexual themes, drug / alcohol use, violence, or mental illness. all triggers will be tagged as "tw trigger".

always reads rules, but if i miss something or a particular trigger comes up that needs tagged, never fail to let me know. i try to curate a space that is safe & enjoyable for everyone involved !

LINKS : carrd (muses, info, rules). || promo. || memes. || interest checker ( just add url under desired character(s) )

[spicyflameprince]

(occ) Sorry! This is just a YouTube link for a Monkie kid amv of I/Me/Myself! You can put it in link checker if you want to confirm it's safe! I just thought you might enjoy it if you liked the song.

https://youtu.be/etihMd-sA1c?si=NCuu6cCvKm841CXi

(OOC: You're totally okay hon I'm just a nervous person by nature and your message made me remember to post about it. It's much appreciated!)

I do enjoy this song with all of those memories. But it makes one wonder: how do so many people get footage of these private moments. It's almost like we're a well-animated show made to sell marketable toys.

[yeetus-feetus]

Heads up to Aussies who are boycotting Israel, we'll be shopping at Coles from now on since it's says it's safe here.

Link to website ↓