„A Huge Scam Targeting Kids With Roblox and Fortnite ‘Offers’ Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network.“
I had a very interesting conference call yesterday (hopefully I get around to blog a little bit about it before I head into vacation). During a short research for a follow-up e-mail in which I pitched #Forgejo I noticed that the #Roblox community took notice:
Update on information about #roblox's automatic chat translation featire: this is the working example (note: main Roblox language setting is set to "Russian").
So... My older kid just informed me that #Roblox now has a full #VR client on #MetaQuest via App Lab (Early Access basically, if you're not familiar).
This is going to be interesting... If there's a company to watch in terms of building an actual "metaverse" Roblox might be it. I mean it's far from guaranteed, but they have an actual decent shot at it.
I never would’ve imagined myself enjoying #mobile#games (specifically on #android) but lately I’ve spent a lot of time on #codm and I enjoyed playing #genshin and #roblox with my son in the past. He’s also introduced me to #twitch and #discord. I don’t care for the latter but the former has been really fun to watch people play #retro games i used to love. Also #lemuroid let’s me play loads of ROMs and I can use my favorite controllers with my phone if I like.
#grapheneos has been an accidental success for me because I’m able to run a few more things than I could on #lineageos due to the play services sandboxing. All of that plus my recent usage of a couple popular social media sites has increased my phone usage for better or worse. I’m a little more exposed to #google and #meta but I still feel like I have a bit of privacy. Just a half decade ago I would’ve never done any of this.
Finding a middle ground between convenience and privacy or security is a tough thing that requires a lot of thought on your threat model. We need the extremes because they drive options and expose problems that expand our freedom of choice. We also have to make concessions in our daily lives (such as my work requirement of play services so I can receive critical alerts).
I used to be so hard-line about a lot of things, computing was just one facet of that. I’ve learned to be more flexible in recent history and I’m appreciative of my new outlook on things.
Sunaba Release 0.6.0 (github.com)
Bump Godot.NET.Sdk from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 by @dependabot in #27...
Roblox data breach leaks almost 4,000 developer profiles (www.theverge.com)
The leak contains names, home addresses, and even T-shirt sizes.