Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts::The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.
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Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it....
Divorcing the author from the work is rather challenging when that author is a living billionaire who makes money whenever you buy any kind of merchandise of their work. While pirating their trademarks without paying is in principle harmless, the moment you cross over into, say, paying money for Harry Potter Lego or Harry Potter Fortnite skins, you are then immediately funding the author’s hate campaigns
The instance name is clever, but I think you will find the concept embarrassing in hindsight. I would recommend not doubling down on the cognitive dissonance
This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other...
The proposal fails to sufficiently motivate why existing protocols like OpenId Connect can’t be used given that trusting the user’s home instance seems necessary with this protocol too. The name also is confusingly close to WebAuthn.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has ordered the Israeli military to come up with a plan for civilians sheltering in the southern city of Rafah to evacuate, his office said on Friday, clearing the way for an expected offensive into the crowded city....
Just to name the few I could find with minimal effort.
But because your posts are either removed or deleted and fragmented across so many accounts, it's damn near impossible to go back and find specific posts to quote of your hate filled comments towards Palestinians.
Even the offence that got your banned is already missing. Shit for all anyone knows, you probably use these multiple accounts to circumvent the bans you receive.
You can hide and obfuscate your history all you want, but we have memories and many of us know what we've seen you say in the past.
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In Nostr, your identity is your public key so your relay can shut down and everything is fine since your identity isn’t tied to your relay/instance.
BlueSky’s proposed solution to this is to have your username be [email protected]. Which requires buying a domain name, which are limited resources, costs >$10 per year, and requires manually configuring DNS records which is not fun.
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As mentioned before there is indeed an API. Please keep in mind that some instances have rules on how to run a bot. On lemmy.world for instance you need express permission from the mods of the community you are using the bot in, you should obviously mark the bot account as a bot account and the name should make it clear that it is in fact a bot.
I like women. I like the shape and curves of the female body. I like boobs, I like asses, I like pretty vaginas. I also appreciate and am aroused by a nice cock. I’m however not otherwise attracted to the male body. I like femboys as long as they have a feminine-like shape and curves, as many of them do....
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American nonprofit OCLC is known globally for its leading database of bibliographic records, WorldCat. A few months ago, many of these records were posted publicly by the shadow library search engine, Anna’s Archive. OCLC believes that this is the result of a year-long hack and, with a lawsuit filed at an Ohio federal court,...
Regarding the operating location(s) of Anna’s Archive, OCLC is alleging the following (pages 7-9):
C. Defendants Rely on Sophisticated Technology and Online Practices to Conceal their Identities.
Defendants understand that their pirate library enterprise and related activities, here, hacking and harvesting OCLC’s WorldCat® records, are illegal. Defendants admit that they are engaging in and facilitating mass copyright infringement, stating, “[w]e deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries.” In another blog post, Defendants noted that their activities could lead to arrest and “decades of prison time.” Defendants have also recognized that their hacking and distribution of OCLC’s data is improper, acknowledging that WorldCat® is a “proprietary database,” that OCLC’s “business model requires protecting their database,” and that Defendants are “giving it all away. :-).”
Because Defendants understand their actions infringe on copyright laws, amongst others, Defendants go to great lengths to remain anonymous to ensure both that Anna’s Archive’s domains are not taken down and to avoid the legal consequences of their actions, including civil lawsuits where parties like OCLC seek to vindicate their rights, as well as criminal and regulatory enforcement actions undertaken by government entities. None of Anna’s Archive’s domains or its online blog provide a business address, business contact, or other contact information that would be found on a legitimate entity’s website.
Defendants have explained in a blog post that they are “being very careful not to leave any trace [of their online activities], and having strong operational security.” For instance, Anna’s Archive utilizes a VPN with “[a]ctual court-tested no-log policies with long track records of protecting privacy.” Each of the Anna’s Archive domains are registered using foreign hosts, registrars, and registrants in order to conceal the identity of the site operators. Additionally, Defendants rely on multiple proxy servers to maintain anonymity. Defendants also use a free version of Cloudflare, a top-level hosting provider, so that they do not have to provide any payment or other identifying information. Defendants selected Cloudflare because they claim Cloudflare has resisted requests to take down websites for copyright infringement. The individuals behind Anna’s Archive also use usernames as pseudonyms to mask their identities online.
Through the work of a cyber security and digital forensic investigation firm, OCLC was able to identify one of the individuals behind Anna’s Archive by name and locate a United States address, Defendant Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo. However, the physical address and contact information of Anna’s Archive and the identities and contact information of the John Does remain unknown. It is highly likely that Anna’s Archive is a non-domestic, foreign entity, based on the findings from OCLC’s investigator, as set forth below.
OCLC explained the above in their Motion To Serve Defendant Anna’s Archive By Email, as justification for why they seek “permission to serve Anna’s Archive by alternative means, here, email, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(h)(2) and (f)(3).”
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<p>A recent study of toddlers in Switzerland found that children’s screen use time is positively associated with the stress of their parents. Toddlers whose parents reported experiencing more stress tended to use screen media more. This link was stronger in parents with more positive attitudes towards screen media. The study was published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108057"><em>Computers in Human Behavior.</em></a></p>
<p>Screen media are any visual media displayed on electronic screens. This includes a wide range of digital content such as television shows, movies, video games, and online videos. These media are accessed through devices such as televisions, computers, tablets, and smartphones. Over the past century, screen media gained a very prominent role in entertainment, education, and communication, offering users a diverse array of content from informative documentaries to interactive gaming experiences.</p>
<p>However, the use of screen media by children has come under significant scrutiny due to concerns about its potential impact on their health, development, and behavior. Children are being exposed to screen media from a very young age, with some starting to use these devices as early as a few months old.</p>
<p>Research from Germany indicates that toddlers aged 2-3 years spend, on average, about an hour daily on these media. As children grow, their screen time tends to increase. While screen media serve as useful tools for entertainment, education, and staving off boredom, there are studies suggesting that excessive use can negatively affect children’s sleep patterns and may be linked to other adverse outcomes.</p>
<p>In their new study, Valerie Brauchli and her colleagues wanted to explore the link between parental stress and children’s screen use time, as well as the impact parental attitudes towards screen media have on this link. . Parental stress refers to the pressures and challenges parents face in raising their children, often arising from the need to juggle childcare, work, financial responsibilities, and personal well-being. The researchers hypothesized that higher levels of parental stress would correlate with increased screen time among children, particularly among parents with favorable views of screen media.</p>
<p>The study involved 462 parents of children up to 3 years of age and spanned 10 months, with data collected from parents on four different occasions. The majority of participants were from Switzerland, with 93% being mothers. The average age of the parents was 36 years, and the children, comprising roughly equal numbers of girls and boys, had an average age of 16 months at the start of the study.</p>
<p>Data collection was part of the “Children and Digital Media” research project, conducted between March 2021 and January 2022. During this period, parents filled out online questionnaires over nine consecutive days in what were termed “diary weeks.” These weeks began on a Friday with an email questionnaire, followed by daily logs of children’s activities and focus topics, concluding with a final questionnaire the following Saturday.</p>
<p>Throughout the diary weeks, participants reported on their children’s screen time, parenting stress (using the Parental Stress Questionnaire), and attitudes toward screen media through statements such as “I find it good when [Child’s first name] uses screen media,” “It is important for children to learn how to use screen media responsibly as early as possible,” and “Children must learn to use screen media as early as possible.”</p>
<p>Results showed that at times when parents reported experiencing more stress, they also reported their children spending more time using screen media. Screen use time was also associated with parental attitudes towards these media. Parents with more positive attitudes towards screen media allowed their children much longer use.</p>
<p>The relationship between parental stress and children’s screen time was found to vary with parents’ attitudes toward screen media. For instance, parents with a negative view of screen media allowed their children an average of 9.5 minutes of screen time during low-stress periods, which slightly increased to 10 minutes during high-stress periods. Conversely, parents with positive attitudes toward screen media permitted their children 17.5 minutes of screen time under low stress, which rose to approximately 28 minutes under high stress.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>Older children were observed to spend more time on screens, though screen media use was not linked to parental education or income levels.</p>
<p>“Overall, both parenting stress and parental attitudes toward young children’s screen media use were associated with children’s screen time. In addition, more positive parental attitudes toward children’s screen media use in early childhood tended to strengthen the link between parenting stress and children’s screen time. The findings from our study indicate that young children’s screen media use may play an important role in helping parents cope with parenting stress. Consequently, screen media may be used as a modern pacifier by some parents,” the study authors concluded.</p>
<p>The study sheds light on an important parenting practice. However, it should be noted that all save a few participants were Swiss. Results might not be the same on other cultures. They may also be somewhat different in older children.</p>
<p>The paper, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108057">Are screen media the new pacifiers? The role of parenting stress and parental attitudes for children’s screen time in early childhood</a>“, was authored by Valerie Brauchli, Fabio Sticca, Peter Edelsbrunner, Agnes von Wyl, and Patricia Lannen.</p>
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Mastodon is a great platform. I have an account there, and I have been using it as a twitter replacement for several months. I have been using nostr for around two months. I have also read fairly deeply into how Mastodon and Nostr work. I think nostr is better. Here’s why....
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“Accounts” are private/public keypairs. You don’t have a username/password at a specific instance, you have a public/private keypair you can use to authenticate your identity. It’s like your name vs an e-mail address/username. An e-mail address is an account you have at a specific entity, this is like an activitypub username [email protected]. Your name isn’t tied to a specific instance or even a single government database (since you can be identified by name in databases of multiple governments), it’s just your identity. Your key in nostr works just like an identity or name in that sense.
Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data....
For $8.99 a month under its annual subscription, Mozilla says it will automatically keep a lookout for your information at over 190 sites where brokers sell information they’ve gathered from online sources like social media sites, apps, and browser trackers, and when your info is found, it will automatically try to get it removed.
Mozilla Monitor product manager Tony Cinotto told The Verge in an email that Mozilla partners with a company called Onerep to perform these scans and subsequent takedown requests.
Mozilla will keep trying, he added, but will also give Plus members instructions for attempting removal themselves.
Basic Monitor members will get a free scan and one-time removal sweep, plus continual monthly data broker scans afterward, Mozilla says.
Mozilla says its data broker scans can find details online like your name and current and previous home addresses but adds that it could go as deep as criminal history, hobbies, or your kids school district.
Services like this are fairly common, but they’re not all that well known to most people and searching for them is as likely to turn up sketchy scam sites as it is legitimate service providers like, for instance, DeleteMe.
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in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began....
Libertarian Socialism. In the UK the closest parties/groups would be Black Rose Labour and/or Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. The countries closest to my beliefs are Denmark, Iceland and Norway.
I see, Anarchism. I like it, mainly Kropotkin. Although I disagree with some points IRL mainly of my daily comrades are anarchists. I am what you would call a tankie even though I despise tankies.
However, the people on Lemmy.ml took further offence when I suggested DPRK wasn’t a democratic country and they trotted out a list of articles on how democratic it really was. Then I was given a bunch of Stalin emojis of him pulling heart shapes with his hands.
I understand, and I think this shouldn’t happen. A Marxist should be open to honest debate. On my view DPKR is way more democratic than say USA. I don’t like this apologetic view of Stalin too. But I don’t subscribe to Imperialistic propaganda neither. I think somewhat I am priveleged living outside the axis North America x West Europe, those places have suffered with A LOT of propaganda, and it is hard to see it from inside.
I’m not a fan of autocratic dictatorships and I was dog-piled and taunted with a bunch of Stalinist and DPRK memes. Because apparently you’re not truly left-wing unless you worship Stalin and Kim.
DPKR isn’t a dictatorship though. Kim alone holds less power in his country than Biden for instance. Also he was elected. DPKR have some sort of direct democracy that most western world doesn’t even dream about.
I would have been happy to debate these points with them but unfortunately my reticence of autocratic dictatorships was considered far worse than what was directed at me in response.
These people really gives socialism a bad name after all. I agree with you.
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<p>Earlier this week, Elon Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1752098683024220632">announced</a> his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, had implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company’s <a href="https://neuralink.com/blog/first-clinical-trial-open-for-recruitment/">PRIME</a> study, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last year, is testing a brain implant for “people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts”.</p>
<p>In the past few years, Neuralink has faced investigation for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/neuralink-animal-testing-musk-investigation">mistreatment of lab animals</a> and seen the <a href="https://futurism.com/president-neuralink-exit">departure of several company executives</a>. Nevertheless, the PRIME trial is a significant milestone for a company less than ten years old.</p>
<p>However, Neuralink’s challenges are far from over. Implanting a device is just the beginning of a decades-long clinical project beset with competitors, financial hurdles and ethical quandaries.</p>
<h2>Decades of development</h2>
<p>The <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28275048/">first reported demonstration</a> of a brain-computer interface occurred in 1963. During a lecture at the University of Oxford, neuroscientist William Grey Walter bewildered his audience by linking one of his patient’s brains to the projector, where they advanced the slides of his presentation using only their thoughts.</p>
<p>However, the current wave of exploration in using brain-recording techniques to restore movement and communication to patients with severe paralysis began in the early 2000s. It draws on studies from the 1940s which measured the activity of single neurons, and more complex experiments on rats and monkeys in the 1990s.</p>
<p>Neuralink’s technology belongs to the next generation of recording devices. These have multiple electrodes, greater precision, and are safer, longer-lasting, and more compatible with the body. The <a href="https://www.jmir.org/2019/10/e16194/">Neuralink implant</a> is thinner, smaller and less obtrusive than the “Utah array” device, widely used in existing brain-computer interfaces, which has been available since 2005.</p>
<p>Neuralink’s device is implanted by a special robot which rapidly inserts polymer threads, each containing dozens of electrodes. In total, the device has 3,072 electrodes – dwarfing the 100 electrodes of the Utah array.</p>
<h2>Competitors</h2>
<p>Neuralink faces stiff competition in the race to commercialise the first next-generation brain-computer interface.</p>
<p>Arguably its most fierce competitor is an Australian company called <a href="https://theconversation.com/weve-been-connecting-brains-to-computers-longer-than-youd-expect-these-3-companies-are-leading-the-way-197023">Synchron</a>. This Melbourne-based start-up recently used a microelectrode mesh threaded through the blood vessels of the brain. This allowed paralysed patients to use tablets and smartphones, surf the internet, send emails, manage finances (and <a href="https://twitter.com/tomoxl/status/1473724411073212426?lang=en">post on X</a>, formerly Twitter).</p>
<p>The Synchron implant is described as a “minimally invasive” brain-computer interface. It requires only a minor incision in the neck, rather than the elaborate neurosurgery required by Neuralink and most other brain-computer interfaces.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>In 2021, Synchron received a “<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210728005305/en/Synchron-Receives-Green-Light-From-FDA-to-Begin-Breakthrough-Trial-of-Implantable-Brain-Computer-Interface-in-US">Breakthrough Device Designation</a>” in the United States, and is now onto its third clinical trial.</p>
<h2>Patient welfare</h2>
<p>This competitive landscape raises potential ethical issues concerning the welfare of patients in the PRIME study. For one, it is notoriously difficult to recruit participants to neural implant studies. Patients must meet strict criteria to be eligible, and the trials are inherently risky and ask a lot of participants.</p>
<p>Musk’s public profile may help Neuralink find and enrol suitable patients. However, the company will need to be prepared to provide long-term support (potentially decades) to patients. If things go wrong, patients may need support to live with the consequences; if things go right, Neuralink may need to make sure the devices don’t stop working.</p>
<p>In 2022, a company called Second Sight Medical Product demonstrated the risks. Second Sight made retinal implants to treat blindness. When the company <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete?utm_source=digg">went bankrupt</a>, it left more than 350 patients around the world with obsolete implants and no way to remove them.</p>
<p>If Neuralink’s devices are successful, they are likely to transform patients’ lives. What happens if the company winds up operations because it can’t make a profit? A plan for long-term care is essential.</p>
<p>What’s more, the considerable hype surrounding Neuralink may have implications for obtaining informed consent from potential participants.</p>
<p>Musk <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/28/elon-musk-wants-to-put-a-fitbit-in-your-skull-to-summon-your-tesla/?sh=aee2ce6586a9">famously compared</a> the implant to a “Fitbit in your skull”. The device itself, Musk recently revealed, is misleadingly named “Telepathy”.</p>
<p>This techno-futurist language may give participants unrealistic expectations about the likelihood and kind of individual benefit. They may also underappreciate the risks, which could include severe brain damage.</p>
<h2>The way forward</h2>
<p>In this next chapter of the Neuralink odyssey, Musk and his team must maintain a strong commitment to research integrity and patient care. Neuralink’s establishment of a <a href="https://neuralink.com/patient-registry/">patient registry</a> to connect with patient communities is a step in the right direction.</p>
<p>Long-term planning and careful use of language will be necessary to preventing harm to patients and families.</p>
<p>The nightmare scenario for all neurotechnology research would be a repeat of Walter Freeman’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jan/13/neuroscience.medicalscience">disastrous pre-frontal lobotomy experiments</a> in the 1940s and 1950s. These had catastrophic consequences for patients and set research back by generations.<!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. Please DO NOT REMOVE. --><img decoding="async" style="border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important;" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/222497/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" /><!-- End of code. If you don't see any code above, please get new code from the Advanced tab after you click the republish button. The page counter does not collect any personal data. More info: https://theconversation.com/republishing-guidelines --></p>
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !antimeme
Your identity is not tied to your instance. If your instance closes up shop, you keep all your followers, followees, DMs, etc
This is one of the major advantages Bluesky’s protocol (AT Protocol) has over ActivityPub. ActivityPub doesn’t have anything built-in to support this. On Bluesky, you can use your own domain name as your username, and freely move from one server to another while keeping the same username (once they open up federation). It’s configured through a DNS TXT record.
I’ve spent some time searching this question, but I have yet to find a satisfying answer. The majority of answers that I have seen state something along the lines of the following:...
There does still exist the risk of a vulnerability being pushed to whatever software that you use – this vulnerability would be essentially out of your control. This vulnerability could be used as a potential attack vector if all ports are available.
But this is a really difficult thing to protect from. If someone gets to push code on my computer that gets executed, I’m entirely out of luck. It could do anything that that process is allowed to do, send data, mess with my files and databases or delete stuff. I’m far more worried about the latter. Sandboxing and containerization are ways to mitigate for this. And it’s the reason why I like Linux distributions like Debian. There’s always the maintainers and other people who use the same software packages. If somebody should choose to inject malicious code into their software, or it gets bought and the new company adds trackers to it, it first has to pass the (Debian) maintainers. They’ll probably notice once they prepare the update (for Debian). And it gets rolled out to other people, too. They’ll probably notice and file a bugreport. And I’m going to read it in the news, since it’s something that rarely happens at all on Linux.
On the other hand it could happen not deliberately but just be vulnerable software. That happens and can be exploited and is exploited in the real world. I’m also forced to rely on other people to fix that before something happens to me. Again sandboxing and containerization help to contain it. And keeping everything updated is the proper answer to that.
What I’ve seen in the real world is a CMS being compromised. Joomla had lots of bugs and Wordpress, too. If people install lots of plugins and then also don’t update the CMS, let it rot and don’t maintain the server at all, after like 2 years(?) it can get compromised. The people who constantly probe all the internet servers will at some point find it and inject something like a rootkit and use the server to send spam, or upload viruses or phishing sites to it. You can pay Cloudflare $200 a month and hope they protect you from that, or use a Web Application Firewall and keep that up-to-date yourself, or just keep the software itself up-to-date. If you operate some online-services and there is some rivalry going on, it’s bound to happen faster. People might target your server and specifically scan that for vulnerabilities way earlier than the drive-by attacks get a hold of it. Ultimately there is no way around keeping a server maintained.
how did you go about installing your Nextcloud instance?
I have two: YunoHost powers my NAS at home. It contains all the big files and important vacation pictures etc. YunoHost is an AIO solution(?), an operating system based on Debian that aims at making hosting and administration simple and easy. And it is. You don’t have to worry too much to learn how to do all of the stuff correctly, since they do it for you. I’ve looked at the webserver config and so on and they seem to follow best practices, disallow old https ciphers, activate HSTS and all the stuff that makes cross site scripting and such attacks hard to impossible. And I pay for a small VPS. I used docker-compose and Docker on it. Read all the instructions and configured the reverse proxy myself. I also do some experimentation there in other Docker containers, try new software… But I don’t really like to maintain all that stuff. Nextcloud and Traefik seem somewhat stable. But I have to regularly fiddle with some of the other docker-compose files of other projects that change after a major update. I’m currently looking for a solution to make that easier and planning to rework that server. And then also run Lemmy, Matrix chat and a microblogging platform on it.
It would be a rather difficult thing to prove
And it depends on where you live and the legislation there. If someone downloads some Harry Potter movies or uses your Wifi to send bomb threats to their school… They’ll log the IP and then contact the ISP and the Internet Service Provider is forced to tell them your name. You’ll get a letter or a visit from police. If they proceed and sue you, you’ll have to pay a lawyer to defend yourself and it’s a hassle. I think I’d call it coercion, but even if you’re in the right, they can temporarily make your life a misery. In Germany, we have the concept of “Störerhaftung” on top. Even if you’re not the offender yourself, being part of a crime willingly (or causally adequate(?))… You’re considered a “disruptor” and can be held responsible, especially to stop that “disruption”. I think it was meant get to people who technically don’t commit crimes themselves, they just deliberately enable other people to do it. For some time it got applied to WiFi here. The constitutional court had to rule and now I think it doesn’t really apply to that anymore. It’s complicated… I can’t sum it up in a few sentences. Nowadays they just send you letters, threatening to sue you and wanting a hundred euros for the lawyer who wrote the letter. They’ll say your argument is a defensive lie and you did it. Or you need to tell them exactly who did it and rat out on your friends/partner/kids or whoever did it. Of course that’s not how it works in the end but they’ll try to pressure people and I can imagine it is not an enjoyable situation to be in. I’ve never experienced it myself, I don’t download copyrighted stuff from the obvious platforms that are bound to get you in trouble and neither does anyone else in my close group of friends and family.
Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts::The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.
Diagon Lemmy - A Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)
Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it....
FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other...
Netanyahu Orders Military to Make Plans to Evacuate Civilians in Rafah (www.nytimes.com)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has ordered the Israeli military to come up with a plan for civilians sheltering in the southern city of Rafah to evacuate, his office said on Friday, clearing the way for an expected offensive into the crowded city....
[OC] I took a picture of my car (feddit.de)
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Unnamed island (startrek.website)
Does lemmy instance have an API? Can I create auomtated posts through API? Polish
After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed (www.nbcnews.com)
The FBI and local law enforcement said bomb threats across the country have tied up government resources even when they turn out to be hoaxes....
I like women but I also like cock but I'm not otherwise attracted to the male body at all. Wtf is my sexual orientation? AITA?
I like women. I like the shape and curves of the female body. I like boobs, I like asses, I like pretty vaginas. I also appreciate and am aroused by a nice cock. I’m however not otherwise attracted to the male body. I like femboys as long as they have a feminine-like shape and curves, as many of them do....
Lawsuit Accuses Anna's Archive of Hacking WorldCat, Stealing 2.2 TB Data * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
American nonprofit OCLC is known globally for its leading database of bibliographic records, WorldCat. A few months ago, many of these records were posted publicly by the shadow library search engine, Anna’s Archive. OCLC believes that this is the result of a year-long hack and, with a lawsuit filed at an Ohio federal court,...
Hey mods, ya think you might get around to removing that CSAM that's been up for hours?
Probably wise to block this community. This ain’t the first time this has happened. I’d suggest leaving for your own good.
What is "feddit", really?
Many Lemmy instances have “feddit” in their name. Is that just “federated reddit” or am I missing something?
My Week Learning Linux (03)
Another fun week of tinkering! Here’s what I learned:...
I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why.
Mastodon is a great platform. I have an account there, and I have been using it as a twitter replacement for several months. I have been using nostr for around two months. I have also read fairly deeply into how Mastodon and Nostr work. I think nostr is better. Here’s why....
Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data....
are people still all riled up about beehaw? (kbin.social)
in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began....
But should you? (lemmy.world)
Credit: mas.to/
🏳️⚧️Trans: a place for trans community and support🏳️⚧️
Are you a trans person? Are you feeling the sore lack of a general trans community on lemmy.blahaj.zone? Do you miss going on r/Trans all the time and want a lemmy alternative? Well look no further, because now there is one!...
They must have had great chemistry together (sh.itjust.works)
When do I actually need a firewall?
I’ve spent some time searching this question, but I have yet to find a satisfying answer. The majority of answers that I have seen state something along the lines of the following:...