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sab ,

Exposed credentials means that somebody got sloppy the password. So yeah, “stolen creds”. Give the fact that a) NYT seems knows which credentials were exposed, and b) We haven’t seen hundreds of other high(er) profile companies have their private repos breached, it is far more likely that NYT fucked up, and not Microsoft (which is what you implied, with nothing to back it up - other than a very narrow-minded definition of the word hack).

sab ,

Do you mind? We’re trying to have a circlejerk here.

sab ,

I doubt either one of you will ever hear from them. I guess they haven’t even watched the video to begin with.

sab ,

I’m sorry you felt the need to denounce claims in videos while openly admitting you don’t even know what the claims are.

sab ,

Using it to (create a tool to) create derivatives of the work on a massive scale.

sab ,

Bingo.

sab ,

Would you be okay with applying that argument for any crime?

sab ,

I don’t think anyone is faulting the machines for this, just the people who instruct the machines to do it.

sab ,

You’re missing the point. I’ll make your example more specific.

Well when fraud/rape/murder happens we have laws. So no problems.

Those things happen. Creating a LLM based on copyrighted material without permission happens - it’s not a hypothetical. But even then, giving a punishment after the fact does not make the initial crime “no problem”, as you put it.

sab ,

I didn’t know those were LLMs, TIL.

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech::In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us

sab ,

Maybe make your point yourself, instead of asking people to Google it for you?

sab ,

Does that refer to Izzy, or the people who complained because they expressed their opinion?

sab ,

“All I did was misrepresent something harmless, done by a company that’s doing so much more horrible things that I shouldn’t be using their product in the first place, and now people are calling me out on it. Clearly, they are wrong.”

The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

sab ,

Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these is why I stopped using twitter and reddit to begin with. Hur dur, Elon bad, upvotes please. I don’t disagree - I just don’t want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. Time for a mute.

sab ,

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s clickbait, but personally I’m not that interested in a retelling of how he started gutting twitter shortly after he bought it last year. Maybe it’s not this article per se, just the straw of musk spam that broke the camels back.

sab ,

Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort. And I do still think posting it here is just that.

sab ,

My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don’t deliver. Today I learned.

sab ,

That’s not on Google though, that’s on the makers of those websites for not wanting to test and support other browsers. Still shitty behaviour, but not googles shitty behaviour.

sab ,

I don’t know what you’re talking about. But seeing as Apple won’t even allow other rendering engines on iphones, I doubt Google is bullying them into anything.

sab ,

On the other hand: nothing looks as cheap as a shattered glass back, or having to use a cover because the default surface is too slippery for 1hand use.

sab ,

Kitty is just rewarding you with petting break for using proper design patterns in your code!

sab ,

Very likely, yes. I guess it also helps to have quite a broad definition of what being a nazi means.

sab ,

Funny when the 1 month old account remarks that to the 9 month old account.

Hate to break it to you bub: the only places where the majority of people do not think cryptocurrencies are a scam, are crypto hangouts, and places where they haven’t heard about cryptos at all.

sab ,

I apologise if I have offended you or made you doubt your worldview.

sab ,

Is anything that happens on YouTube considered technology now?

sab ,

I’m not sure where the goal posts are now. I thought this started out with deplatforming single people who spread misinformation, but now you’re considering half a countries political spectrum?

sab ,

It’s tricky. Once you state “these subjects are above criticism”, it will become very easy to silence any criticism. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see how such a structure could be abused by those in charge of it.

Who watches the watchmen.

sab ,

saying that if I don’t create an account then they will do it for me

I would report the hell out of them, both to Facebook and HR. That’s literally the definition of identity theft.

Although the point is kind of moot - because of all the people who know you, that do willingly share their everything (including their phone contacts, photos etc), Facebook already has a You-shaped hole, even if you don’t have an account.

So when I got pressured into creating a Facebook account (not as badly as you were though), I was so creeped out by the amount of data they already had on me, I immediately deleted my account. It felt like being invited into someone’s home for the first time and seeing a stalker shrine dedicated to yourself.

“it’s okay, I do this with everyone.”

No, it really is not.

sab ,

Yeah, it’s hilarious :( I have no idea how that’s legal under GDPR. So that’s why I’m part of the small group of WhatsApp-resisting signal users in my country.

More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)

More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

sab ,

…so far.

For those that don’t mind self-hosting, which can be as easy as just running syncthing or resilio sync on your NAS, I can really recommend keepass.

sab ,

A NAS is a home storage server, like Synology that you can use to store images, videos and backups, etc on so you can access them from any computer or device in your home. With a couple of clicks, they can easily run applications like Syncthing or Resilio Sync, which are kinda like Dropbox, except you don’t have to pay Dropbox, you’ll just be storing the files on your own service.

If that’s too much to handle, you can still just store your Keepass file in Dropbox, so that it’s available on all your devices. But in the end you’ll still be storing your personal data on someone else’s harddisk.

So in short, is at easy as using a prefab service? No, you’ll have to invest some time, money, and knowledge yourself. But in the end, your data is not gathered in silo together with countless other users, which makes it a lot less attractive for hackers to try and steal it.

sab ,

I’m a bit torn about this. On one hand I fully agree with you, let them stew in their filth. But on the other hand: I still have to live in a society where people who have been indoctrinated by their filter bubble get to vote.

Then on the first hand again: messing with their freedom of speech because I disagree with it is fucked up. It’s complicated.

sab ,

According to which definition?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like it either. But the only difference between someone knowingly propagating misinformation, and someone doing it because they honestly believe it to be true… is in their head. You can’t control for that (not should you want to, imho).

For that matter, repeat the misinformation enough, and the former group disappears until only the second group is left.

sab ,

So you’re not opposed to freedom of speech, but freedom of press?

But what’s the alternative? People are allowed to post their opinions, but once they’re part of a company (like a news agency), their publications have to be vetted for by… What, exactly?

sab ,

the ability to scream so loud that other voices can’t reach the audience.

Could you elaborate on that? It’s hard to see which voices are drowned out, on account of them, well, bring drowned out ;)

I personally think it’s more the case that people are just locked into their own little bubbles, thanks to algorithms feeding them a mixture of what they want to hear (to feel validated) and of what upsets them (to get that outrage interaction).

If anything, I think that governments and traditional media are having a lot less influence, in favour of outrage-based, exaggerated, skewed or just down misrepresented takes of the facts - perpetuated by upset participants in social media.

X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes. (thehackernews.com)

“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” The revised policy of X(Twitter) is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023....

sab ,

No censorship / unable to delete content? What happens when somebody decides to post illegal content like CP? I know that’s an easy target, but either it has a way to deal with that, or it’s going to attract a very scary crowd, at least as a subset.

sab ,

Thanks for putting an actual summary in there. Much appreciated.

EU prepares to push for ‘global phase-out’ of fossil fuels at COP28, draft document shows (www.euronews.com)

EU prepares to push for ‘global phase-out’ of fossil fuels at COP28, draft document shows::A proposal to phase out CO2-emitting fossil fuels at COP27 last won backing from more than 80 countries but oil and gas-rich nations opposed it.

sab ,

The best moment to act was yesterday. The second best moment is now.

It’s not too late.

sab ,

Retroactively, in 2015?

sab ,

You’re ruining the circlejerk >:(

sab ,

Hear hear. Obviously this site should be shut down. But it should be done so on basis of fair trial. Not because of mob justice, or corporations that answer only to shareholders.

sab ,

No, the whole point is that an isp should not be forced to do anything, unless ordered to do so by a court.

As the title mentions, this an endless chase if you approach it like this. Vigilante mobs aren’t going to solve this, it’s going to take specialist agencies with mandates to request data civilians can’t. Crimes are being committed there (not murders, but a good way to get the scare votes, I suppose), and there are laws in place to deal with that.

As mentioned several times in this thread, shifting the responsibility for what is allowed to be said on the Internet from governments to corporate entities is a terrible precedent.

Edit: Nevermind. I see you’re also responsible for this wonderful gem:

The position is intellectually dishonest unless you’re actually pro-killing-transgender people.

There’s no point in arguing with you.

sab ,

Since the day twitter introduced their algorithmic timeline, they kept the option around to watch your feed chronologically. So the big “what if” of this articles headline is just “what if I just use twitter the way I could since it’s inception”.

Instead, rather than an algorithmic filter bubble, the author want a human-imposed filter bubble. So much better.

How Roy Schestowitz and I infiltrated a government office and stole an e-mail database and laptop (ameliasconjecture.wordpress.com)

Beneath the radiant midday sun, Roy Schestowitz and I stood across from the formidable government office building, our hearts synchronizing their rapid beats. The day had finally arrived to set our audacious plan into motion, the city’s energy mirroring our blend of excitement and unease.

sab ,

This entire site looks like a defamation case waiting to happen. Even if it is based in reality (big if), it’s obviously collected here to ruin the guys reputation.

Either OP just outed themselves as an accomplice to stealing government data (for which there is no statute of limitations AFAIK), or its just some piece of fiction that has no place here. Either way, not smart.

sab ,

Not to mention the amount of people who think this is about notepad.

sab ,

I am merely trying to find out why China is in vogue, why not NK, Russia, Syria, Sri Lanka etc.

Scale.

sab ,

On a video where China demonstrates its automated human tracking capabilities, you want people to discuss other countries’ tracking?

What’s your motivation for this whataboutism?

sab ,

Speaking from my own experience: it’s fun to hold boobs, even moreso if they’re not your own.

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