Right before the holiday season, LastPass published an update on their breach. As people have speculated, this timing was likely not coincidental but rather intentional to keep the news coverage low. Security professionals weren’t amused, this holiday season became a very busy time for them. LastPass likely could have prevented this if they were more concerned about keeping their users secure than about saving their face.

Their statement is also full of omissions, half-truths and outright lies. As I know that not everyone can see through all of it, I thought that I would pick out a bunch of sentences from this statement and give some context that LastPass didn’t want to mention.

The Sierpiński triangle (sometimes spelled Sierpinski), also called the Sierpiński gasket or Sierpiński sieve, is a fractal attractive fixed set with the overall shape of an equilateral triangle, subdivided recursively into smaller equilateral triangles. Originally constructed as a curve, this is one of the basic examples of self-similar sets—that is, it is a mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction. It is named after the Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński, but appeared as a decorative pattern many centuries before the work of Sierpiński.

“It feels good to run a bar when the people really need one,” Dad confided to Nikola, “but here at my ‘Stairway-of-Calvary,’ it seems that every night finishes sad.”

“Pop, they’re already sad people. They were sad before they got in here.”

Other legal experts noted that the controversy showed just how mangled the understanding of the First Amendment had become, even at a place like Berkeley, the epicenter of the 1960s free-speech movement. The debate, they said, should focus on whether these bans align with the academic ideal of open, intellectual debate. Even if student groups can prohibit speakers, should they? And should such bans be codified — formally adopted with a bylaw?

“There’s a real confusion about freedom of speech as a cultural value and freedom of speech as a legal concept,” said Will Creeley, the legal director of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free-speech advocacy group.

Mit unseren Bausätzen möchten wir eine Möglichkeit bieten das Löten zu lernen oder seine Lötkenntnisse an tollen Beispielen zu erweitern. Vom einfachen "I Can Solder" Bausatz mit 3 LEDs bis hin zu komplexen Schaltungen mit SMD Bauteilen ist hier alles dabei. All unsere Lötbausätze kommen mit allen benötigten Bauteilen und einer Anleitung.

Musicians make life hard for programmers. There are nine different bands called Emperor, one band called Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum, and a side project called ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ.

Using ellipsis in writing signifes the writer is Gen-X or Boomer and can read as confusing, passive-aggressive or even weirdly flirtatious to digital natives.

In 1739, there were three times more coffee shops per person in London than there are today.

YouTuber Mr Beast employs a team of six people to make thumbnails for his videos. Thumbnails are planned before the video is shot.

Bill Tavis’s beautifully-drawn "map" of the Mandelbrot Set [via Kottke] looks like a chart from the age of sail.

A crystal set is very different from an FM stereo, and that’s different still from a communications receiver. We’d say there are several common architectures for receivers and one of the most common is the superheterodyne.
But what does that mean exactly? [Technology Connection] has a casual explanation video that discusses how a superhet works and why it is important.

In other words, if you want to be discovered on Mastodon using your own domain, you can do so by copying the contents of https://<your mastodon server>/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:<your account>@<your mastodon server> to https://<your domain>/.well-known/webfinger.

One caveat: this approach works much like a catch-all e-mail address. @anything@yourdomain.com will match, unless you add a bit more scripting to only show a result for resources you want to be discoverable.

Edit: Seems there is a GitHub issue which requests custom domains as well.
Edit (15 Nov 2022): Folks have been using the approach of serving up webfinger on a different domain through proxy setups, e.g. using CloudFlare.