Attacker94
@Attacker94@lemmy.world
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 23 hours ago:
When was this, ever since I used it it has had a ui like team speak
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 23 hours ago:
What issues did you run into, as far as I am concerned the weakest point is their screen share protocol not supporting sound.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 2 days ago:
If they don’t break the law then yes
- Comment on Hydrogen's Big Year Continues With New California H2 Transit Project 4 days ago:
why should we use renewables to produce hydrogen (not to mention develop an entirely new hydrogen infrastructure) when we could just use that renewable energy as it is? That’s just adding extra steps and inefficiency for very little benefit, if any.
Because hydrogen isn’t trying to replace the source of energy, it is trying to replace the storage of it, at present batteries are not nearly good enough for the EV only transportation boom, but hydrogen works and only really needs to deal with the volatility issue
- Comment on Apple says EU should get rid of its digital markets law 1 week ago:
Rooted devices & custom roms, depending on your jurisdiction are illegal or might as well be, they also require a intermediate tech knowledge, and in the case of custom ROMs, google just gutted the development cycle for aosp. Adb is by definition for developers, and I don’t know what you mean by non-certified android devices.
All in all, it seems like only tech enthusiasts living in places that are pro right to own & repair will ever take advantage of this, which means in practice, there are only two platforms for the average consumer and both are attempting to stop you from circumventing their walled gardens.
- Comment on Apple says EU should get rid of its digital markets law 1 week ago:
It’s a strawman argument yes, but it is soon to not be the case because of changes to sideloading on the android side.
- Comment on Russian fake-news network back in action with 200+ new sites 2 weeks ago:
I will speculate that if 60-70 million Americans start daily nationwide protest while partially undermining government authority (taking over parts of major urban areas) and showing the country they will not back down no matter what, the issues you outline will become less relevant. You will have people donating to protest camps, field hospital with doctors and medical personnel who are joining the protest. Camps and living quarters.
I think your speculation is right, but that is a huge if, for that many people, things will have to get noticeably far worse which unfortunately means that it will be a “First they came” situation where Americans will sit idly by while they watch others get shafted until it is their turn.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 weeks ago:
I have had more issues with formatting between ms 365 desktop and ms 365 online than I’ve had with libreoffice
- Comment on Google fined EUR 3 billion by EU for blocking competition in online ad sales 2 weeks ago:
I would much rather over tune the fine than make it a cost of doing business, in general accountants think backwards to most people and they won’t tell the higher ups to change anything until it really affects the bottom line.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Itch is a bit spotty if you don’t want to configure your prefix and it doesn’t work under proton, but pirated games work fairly well in lutris using the official versions prefix
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
You can normally add it to steam to see if proton will work, or if not, you could use heroic, lutris, or bottles, although normally if it doesnt work under proton and there isn’t a premade wine prefix in lutris or heroic, it will take some tinkering.
Which games are you worried about?
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
Fingers crossed he passes the reigns to someone with the same vision.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Is there anything special about this platform, or is the only appeal to stick it to the man. Is there some special vetting process, is there a bias tracker; I guess I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just search for the news in your preferred browser and search engine
- Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 5 weeks ago:
In theory I agree, in practice I despise laws that are needlessly wordy, and including a whichever is larger clause will add on an unnecessary element since gross income can only be abused with tax credit shenanigans which aren’t very over the top, and if I had my way wouldn’t exist at all(fairy tale I know)
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 5 weeks ago:
I forgot about that, that’s tuff
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 5 weeks ago:
My 6700k isn’t showing any signs of slowing down, so your timer is probably a ways away
- Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 5 weeks ago:
Value can easily be manipulated, it really should be based on 15% ish of their gross income
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 months ago:
It would be far better to say the party that is bought and sold by corporations
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 months ago:
He is probably referring to the small amount of nuclear waste that is actually produced per watt of power, it is a lot more dangerous if you are in direct contact, but it is surprisingly easy to store safely, and remove all environmental impact. The biggest environmental issue with nuclear is the mining and enriching, both of which are realistically too small to factor in.
I found this article going into more depth nuclear waste .
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 2 months ago:
What’s the combination…
1,2,3,4,5
That’s amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 months ago:
You just hit both of my points,
- Newer hardware has compatibility issues due to Ubuntu’s slower update cycle
2.ubuntu doesn’t do anything particularly better than any other distro, the marketing pitch normally ends up being “we’re Linux, and we’ve done it a while” because there isn’t any feature that makes it stand out so they advertise on their stability which isn’t that much more pronounced in comparison to a fedora or debian based distro.
What’s the problem with ubuntu?
In general I wouldn’t say it has a problem, it does what it says it will do, it’s just that it’s distinct features are quickly becoming the standard or obsolete.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 months ago:
I am greatful that Ubuntu ended up bringing the Linux desktop into the general publics eye, but at the same time out of all of the popular distro’s today, I firmly believe there is always a better choice than Ubuntu for any user, new or veteran. It’s just a pity that they are the most well known to people who aren’t familiar with Linux while not being good at anything, although basically any Linux distro feels like fresh air when compared to the Microsoft experience.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 3 months ago:
Which is the whole point. If the fine is too low to be threatening, it could be write off as just “cost of business” there is no incentive to stay on the right side of the law. In your example the only thing that would happen is that apple would pay less dividend to the shareholders which, while I admit is something that could be a problem for them, in my opinion is not enough, considering the number of people affected.
I see what you mean, but earnings affect more than dividends, they also affect a companies growth. More than likely with the 20-50% reduction in earnings -that comes from the 5-15% range- the company would either make shareholders eat the cost, which is unlikely, or the shareholders will keep their returns and the company will sacrifice any meaningful growth. It seems to me that this is a big enough incentive to not breach people’s privacy as it no longer is a cost of doing business unless you’re vision of a well run business is one that doesn’t ever do any expansion.
Obviously the law must be simple enough to follow so that for Jim’s furniture shop is not a problem nor a too high cost to respect it, but it must be clear that if you break it you can cease to exist as company.
I think this may be the root of our disagreement, I do not believe that there is any law making body today that is capable of an elegantly simple law.
We also definitely have a difference on opinion when it comes to the severity of the infraction, in my mind, while privacy is important, it should not have the same level of punishments associated with it when compared to something on the level of poisoning water ways; I think that a privacy law should hurt but be able to be learned from while in the poison case it should result in the bankruptcy of a company. I hold this opinion since, while it doesn’t really apply to large corporations, at the end of the day if a business goes bankrupt, the owners lose their investment and the workers lose their jobs. Now obviously the workers would be able to adapt, but for the owners, their livelihood is destroyed over something that by itself would not destroy the livelihood of anyone else. The issue we find ourselves with today is that the aggregate of all privacy breaches makes it harmful to the people, but with a sizeable enough fine, I find it hard to believe that there would be major or lasting damage. For this reason I don’t think it is wise to write laws that will bankrupt a company off of one infraction which was not directly or indirectly harmful to the physical well being of the people: and I am using indirectly a little bit more strict than I would like to since as I said before, the aggregate of all the information is harmful.
No, the companies will simply follow the rules of the country they operated in.
I think you put too much faith in people understanding what’s right and wrong prior to being told off, I understand the sentiment of making laws that would only allow good people to benefit from them, but I think there aren’t enough good people in business for the economy to stay out of a recession, which I think would cascade really fast into said law being repealed.
Even now the payment processors are subjected to regulations that if applied to apple, google or facebook would make them close their business, for example.
I would have to look into the laws in question, but on a surface level I think that any company should be subjected to the same baseline privacy laws, so if there isn’t anything screwy within the law that apple, Google, and Facebook are ignoring, I think it should apply to them.
I do not want jail time for the CEO by default but he need to know that he will pay personally if the company break the law, it is the only way to make him run the company being sure that it follow the laws.
For some reason I don’t have my usual cynicism when it comes to this issue. I think that the magnitude of loses that vested interests have in these companies would make it so that companies would police themselves for fear of losing profits. That being said I wouldn’t be opposed to some form of personal accountability on corporate leadership, but I fear that they will just end up finding a way to create a scapegoat everytime.
The question then is: why a company should have 2-3 privacy issue a year ? I can get the first one, but the second ? Or the third ?
In general I like laws that are as objective as possible, I think that a privacy law should be written so that it is very objectively overbearing, but that has a smaller fine associated with it. This way the law is very clear on right and wrong, while also giving the businesses time and incentive to change their practices without having to sink large amount of expenses into lawyers to review every minute detail, which is the logical conclusion of the one infraction bankrupt system that you seem to be supporting.
Why a company that break the law should be able to continue the break the law just because if it even caught it is the next fiscal year if not later (at the end of the process and various appeals) ?
I guess I am assuming that the law we are talking about would be written by infraction, which means that if a company broke multiple sections of the law, they would go under after either 2-3 individual cases for the different sections, or from one large lawsuit that included them all. In this way there is a difference in penalty depending on how much the company continues to break the law.
Which is a good start but nothing that cannot considered when doing a budget, so no real danger here.
I have to disagree since if they lose two court cases they essentially just break even, no amount of budgeting other than pursuing a 200% markup will solve this issue.
Something that occurred to me during this reply chain is that there is no reason not to write the law in such a way that starts it low say 10% and make it so that it is revised every year or so In increments of ± 5%, eventually we will hit the percentage that actually works without disrupting the economy. I would also stipulate that it can’t drop below 5%. Although this would have to be included as an annual budget thing which has its own problems, but I think this would be the best halfway point between our ideas at least when it comes to the percentages.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 3 months ago:
I will preface this comment with a change in my opinion when it comes to semantics, I think my 2-5% range is too low after researching a bit more, I would be much more in favor of 5-15%, but the remainder of my point stays the same.
I don’t think so. It’s not that the massive fines committed to Apple and Google make them change the CEO.>
Which fines are you referring to, in my opinion the biggest problem that we currently have is that there are realistically no penalties for breaking the law.
Just doing a quick Google search, apple made about 400b in revenue last year, and apple just had a 2b fine from an antitrust lawsuit. Applying the 5% fine, that 2b would become 20b which equates to 20% of their annual earnings for that year.
If we applied the 50% penalty that started this thread, that becomes a fine of 200b which means, using the apple example, that the company loses 100b when they get down to their earnings. This is the reason why I feel like 50% is too much, if one privacy court case in one country is enough to bankrupt a company, no company would ever attempt to provide a service that is remotely adjacent to that law: in my mind, some of the services that would cease to exist would include search engines, payment processors, and email newsletters.
All in all, I think that the penalty should be a fine, because realistically this is a civil matter, and I am not a big proponent of jail time without a criminal conviction. I do agree that the fixed amount fines are too damaging to smaller firms and a slap on the wrist for large ones, so after looking at the numbers for apple and Google 5% equates to a noticeable hit to the companies bottom line, and 15% is a little bit short of making the company entirely unprofitable; this means that the fines range from hurting or stunting the growth of a company for one privacy related issue in whatever country is enforcing this law. This also means that on the high end bankruptcy will loom over any company that has 2-3 privacy issues in any given year.
Addendum: if you were wondering, about the numbers for 15%, the earnings in 2024 for apple would be 35b or a 37% decrease, and for Google it is 47.5b or a 48% decrease.
- Comment on An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers 3 months ago:
For web browser’s, check librewolf or brave, I would lean further towards librewolf just because it’s oss which is something I value.
For search engines, we’re in a weird spot right now because Microsoft is restricting the use of Bing’s search API, but duck duck go is good, and ecosia as well, but they both may be in a rough spot soon.
Work computer you can’t do much other than ask your supervisor to ask about moving away from ai stuff, all you can do directly is limit your personal information on your work station.
For phones, If you have apple, sorry, if not, you could look into changing the operating system on it to something like e/os or graphene os, they are both operating systems that are focused on privacy and security.
If you need anymore information about my recommendations, I am happy to help.
- Comment on An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers 3 months ago:
Out of curiosity what devices are giving you these issues? I may know of some alternatives depending.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 3 months ago:
I know the human tendency is to think in extremes, but I would prefer to have a system that is as balanced as possible, or at least one that affords adecuate protections to all parties involved.
The issue I have with the “just don’t do anything illegal” argument is that depending on how the illegality is defined, it can be used as a tool for bad actors. Take for instance something like the afformentioned 50% penalty with mandatory jail time for repeat offenders, if I decided that jim’s furniture store shouldn’t exist anymore, I would only need to find some tiny thing wrong with their data handling, like for instance, assuming this specific hole exists, that they asked for contact info before it’s needed for purchase verification. Now they may lose on this minor infraction, and pretty much any small business will die a horrible death without half their revenue. Meanwhile the mega corps will likely find some workaround do to their high priced lawyers, but even assuming we make a rock solid definition, they still just cycle the ceo immediately, because no one will want to be an active ceo when they are one court case from jail.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 3 months ago:
I agree with the sentiment, but that harsh of an enforcement method is overkill, the penalty should be a fine, not jail time, because otherwise it could be abused to an insane extent, and 50% will immediately bankrupt pretty much any company immediately, most well structured businesses could probably sustain fines on the order of 40%, I do like your inclusion of percentage based penalties, but realistically with 2-5% fines, any ceo will be removed from their company after the first or second offense, and the company will bankrupt if they sustain more than a couple fines in a year.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 3 months ago:
I would say so, in my opinion the US has an education problem when it comes to fire arms. People are rightfully scared of what they don’t know, but culturally, the people who don’t know that much about them are adamant against learning about them. This coupled with the lack of respect given to them by people who do know how to handle them leads to the position we find ourselves in today.