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- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 22 hours ago:
We need an internet archive site that isn’t based in the USA and isn’t run by someone who’ll jeopardize the whole enterprise to attack someone’s blog.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 day ago:
It’s not being used because the real goal is to make it impossible to use the internet without handing over your ID, so that governments can know exactly what you do online.
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 2 days ago:
Unless you lose your income, then all your subscription computer, games and data vanish in a puff of profit. But not to worry, you can buy a backup for… no sorry, you don’t have enough money because storage is unaffordable.
- (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacksgoodlawproject.org ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine 5 days ago:
Seems like the only thing they redacted very diligently was the names of the perpetrators.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 5 days ago:
I wonder if they gave considered crowdsourcing this, having many people type in small chunks of the data by hand, doing their own character recognition? Get enough people in and enough overlap and the process would have some built-in error correction.
- Comment on Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business 6 days ago:
Amazon abuses employees, destroys the environment, kills local businesses, sells fake crap, spies on us, and supports a violent fascist US regime that threatens to invade my country. Any one of these is a great reason not to shop with them.
- Comment on Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data 6 days ago:
Until recently the Canadian government was pushing Bill C-2:
eff.org/…/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-su…
They have now toned it down a bit but there are still concerns:
- Comment on Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data 1 week ago:
I believe Canada is also introducing legislation to increase the amount of data on its citizens that it shares with the USA. In the current climate these moves seem crazy.
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 1 week ago:
There’s some IOC information here:
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 1 week ago:
the safe thing to do is uninstall, then download from the new (theoretically more secure) website and install the new (theoretically more secure) 8.9.1.
That won’t rescue your system if it is already compromised though. It will just prevent it from being newly compromised in this manner.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down for many users in major OpenAI outage - 9to5Mac 1 week ago:
Stop encouraging it.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down for many users in major OpenAI outage - 9to5Mac 1 week ago:
So does their CEO.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 1 week ago:
I’ve been using it for a while, and it feels almost indistinguishable from regular Firefox. Broken sites are not a common problem.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 week ago:
Windows 8 was awful. Windows 7 was better. But instead of using a nearly 20 year old version of Windows, we can use modern Linux.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 1 week ago:
I know how to self-host, and I do self-host some things, but I can’t always afford the upfront investment (especially with today’s hardware costs) and I don’t have time to keep up with the administration (because I’m a wage slave) so I end up renting. I think there’s a place for paid services just as there’s a place for rented housing, but the problem in both cases is regulatory capture by landlords that mean we get stuck renting forever from exploiters.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 1 week ago:
I ended five subscriptions to US tech services over the weekend, and I’m working steadily down my list.
- Comment on French MPs demand explanation over tech firm’s contract to help ICE in US 1 week ago:
There’s something inherently fascist about the capitalist construct of a corporation that has to concern itself only with profit and line going up, and therefore has a license to disregard people’s humanity, using them up and crushing them as needed to achieve growth.
- Comment on Trump will decertify Canadian planes 1 week ago:
Presumably certifying those dodgy American planes doesn’t mean anyone in Canada has to actually buy them. Maybe Canada could put an asterisk and a footnote on the certificate.
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 week ago:
Ah but now they’re going to be a robot company selling fewer and fewer robots instead.
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
The kakkiest of kakistocracies.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 weeks ago:
You really need a VPN to torrent safely, and the UK Government is in the process of restricting VPNs.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 weeks ago:
That’s not the point. This is a protest by the company running these sites against a system that’s not fit for its claimed purpose (age restriction of websites) but is very fit for surveillance.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 weeks ago:
Then we just need a hero to route all our traffic through the House of Lords.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 2 weeks ago:
I think we’re dealing with weasel lawyer words here. Meta can boast that messages E2E encrypted between you and the recipient, but that implies nothing about key storage or security, or about other channels through which message data could be sent directly from your app before it is encrypted.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 2 weeks ago:
Your threat model seems to be an app whose published source code doesn’t match the published app, and whose published version uses a side channel not in the source code to leak messages in plaintext to a server. If that’s what we’re worried about then decentralization of the app’s main messaging channel makes no difference. The sneaky side channel could still be there in any app, centralised or decentralized.
That’s a theoretical worry to be mitigated through integrity checks on published open-source apps. The worry with Meta and WhatsApp is much more immediate: a known bad actor with a closed-source app, many domains they could use to leak keys or unencrypted messages, and a fawning relationship with the fascist and surveillance-hungry US Government. I’d still put significantly more trust in Signal even though it is centralised.
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- Comment on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs 2 weeks ago:
It’s never really about protecting children. It’s about making sure the government can monitor everything you do online and tie it back to your real-world identity. Encrypted channels are to be eliminated. The government wants to hear every word and see every action.
And traditionally this kind of surveillance has focused on left-wing and environmentalist movements, anything that challenges the interests of capital. Today it will be the same, but with a side helping of transphobia and the looming threat of all this material falling into the hands of fascists within a few years.
- Comment on Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
This very much seems to be an international push these days. It looks like there’s coordination going on between countries out of the public eye.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 2 weeks ago:
So never buy OnePlus products. Got it. Thanks OnePlus for making the advice so clear!