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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that these photos and PII (personally identifiable information) were not destroyed after the verification process was certified is absolutely atrocious OpSec. I don’t even care which of the two companies is ultimately responsible, because they are both responsible.

  1. Zendesk for their bad OpSec
  2. Discord for both outsourcing this AND not having contractual requirements to properly secure and destroy PII when it was no longer required.

  I work in IT, and treat PII like it’s dangerously radioactive, because in the digital world, it really is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You CAN use it to interact with people without them knowing your number. The only current requirement is specific to registration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The CEO is saying they are willing to, that should be taken seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes the assumption you want to use your phone number at all. And I’m sure the overhead of encryption would break SMS due to the limits on character counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How would removing a recurring charge on the processor side result in a chargeback? A chargeback is when you call your processor/card company and tell them to reverse a charge, which results in the charging company also having to pay a fee on top of losing that revenue.

  If they can’t charge you in the first place, there is nothing to create a chargeback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That means nothing when the servers stop taking EU traffic. I get your point, but the real solution here is putting a bullet (double tap) in Chat Control, once and for all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just make it a website? We’re not doing censoring yet, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Proof of work”. The AI crawlers don’t run Javascript (yet, I don’t think), so it’s basically a firewall to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So they go and blame ad blockers for the decrease at the same time they cause said “decline”? Classic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be funny if all the big tech Seattle-area HQ’s moved to Vancouver just due to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To display ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that’s HVAC. Makes more sense to fix that before solar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is that per-month, or for the whole span?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The updates tend to trip up quarantine. I was using brew auto-update, which did not play nice with this app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are extensions for overusing time zone. But yeah, I hated that, too. It’s another mechanism that it uses to avoid fingerprinting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Waterfox has been great so far. I only switched from Librewolf because updating that on MacOS is frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft probably paid them for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies have been using algo-assisted application screening for way longer than LLM’s have been rapping on this process. It has just mad a bad problem worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The middle class isn’t real. You are either working class or owner class. Anything else is just there to divide the working class in a forever class war with the owner class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FreedomAdvocate? Yeah, username checks out…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if the instance isn’t subject to their jurisdiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The latest atrocity I’ve seen in tipping is at the attended checkout at a grocery store. These companies are leeches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Apple would exit the UK before complying with that, anyways. The damage they’d take in the global market would far outweigh the value of complying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that actually work? I think USPS gets paid to dump unaddressed mail in mailboxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should allow a backdoor, but only on UK Parliament members’ phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s slightly different. You aren’t paying them to store that specific content, you are paying to rent space in their service. They guarantee that space to be available for whatever SLA they have and for as long as the service exists. If they shut down the service, you are still SOL on that content if you don’t have it backed up locally.

  Contrast that to “buying a digital movie”. You are paying to access that content, at that time, and as long as it’s made available on whatever service you paid for it. The latter part is the kicker. My argument is that if I can’t download it in a usable format independent of the platform “selling” it, I didn’t buy it. I rented it. Buying digital movies is just renting them for a longer time frame, unless they let you download it.

  I always argue with the less tech savvy people in my life that it’s like buying a car vs. leasing a car. If you buy it, it’s yours, period. If you lease it, it’s not truly yours. You have to give it back when the lease is up, or buy out the lease. You don’t truly own it until after that. The media companies just don’t offer the “buy out the ease, later”, part. While Microsoft retired the whole service, these companies also have this issue when they let media agreements expire with content producers. You buy a movie, but then they decide not to renew their agreement with Paramount? You just lost access to that movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ad companies are getting butt-hurt because the pages you are referencing are being seen even less, due to AI scraping by search engines. So now they are going after:

  1. The consumer using an ad blocker. Last amount of protections/rights, easiest target to vilify.
  2. The search engines, for stealing content views where ads would be placed
  3. The publishers for allowing users that use ad blockers.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even that video would be brushed off as “fake news” or a “deep fake”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t own the storage, you don’t own the content. You’re just renting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any level of UI element transparency is hard nope from me. Based on your screenshot, it looks like Apple was listening, on that front.