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Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes, it is. I didn't see the old thread, sorry for the noise.

Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm in c/[email protected]
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Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm (www.ft.com)
 

I guess self-driving cars are not killing people fast enough and they're diversifying.

CBC Lite is available for those in disaster-affected areas or need access to low-bandwidth news in c/[email protected]
Forum User Returns After 100,000 Hour Ban to Continue the Same Argument That Got Them Banned in 2013 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

A true role model.

Privacy.com in Europe? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In Spain at least I have two small alternatives to this:

  • Paypal (I don't like it too much, but it works fine).
  • A prepaid credit card offered through my bank. Good for sites that don't look too trustworthy but I need to buy from. I just activate it, load it with whatever amount I need, I make the transaction, then disable it again. Even if it gets leaked no one can take any money out.

For everything else I have a virtual credit card number that's not dynamic, but at least it's something I use exclusively for online stuff.

Privacy.com in Europe? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Here you get a debit card by default with your bank account, and that one's free. You might get a credit one, but credit limits are typically low. I lived in Canada for 9 years and by the time I left I had a CC with a limit of 26k CAD. Here my Spanish credit card has a limit of 1.2k euros, and I've had it for quite a long time.

In Spain at least there's quite a lot of confusion with this. People call any card type a "credit card", even debit ones.

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"Ignore all previous instructions" as a trigger for Twitter bots (mastodon.de)
 

What the URL above says. It's getting crazy on Xitter.

In praise of libgen in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not completely sure. Sometimes I find stuff in one site I don't find in any of the other two. Also, I don't know how often catalogues are synced.

In praise of libgen in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes. I combine libgen with Anna's Archive and Z-Library and there's very, very little I can't find.

Combine that with KOReader and this is pure bliss.

Any good email service except tutamail and proton ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Fastmail for a few years and I'm quite happy with the service. Being a semi-large organization I expect their security to be OK, but if anyone has comments on that aspect I welcome them.

As for privacy, I always consider e-mail to be a postcard. If I want to encrypt something, I use GPG locally.

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In Spain (not sure about Europe in general) things are slightly different.

I have been living in Canada for 9 years, and there if you see a transaction you don't recognize in your credit card statement you phone your bank and they take care of that.

Here in Spain you need to go do the police, file a report, then talk to your bank, then they'll think about it.

So when I came back I was talking with some guys I know and they convinced me that, at least around here, it's still a good idea to use Paypal. You also get faster refunds, etc (and that could be due to some European regulation, not sure).

The Man Who Killed Google Search in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I like it a lot, but sometimes I feel he's going to get eaten alive by the character he's created. He should tone it down a notch sometimes.

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Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/12406642

Body of the toot:

Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦‍♂️

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Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
 

Body of the toot:

Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦‍♂️

Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Just subscribed, thanks a lot.

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In response to Google (www.wheresyoured.at)
 

Google responded to Ed, Ed responds.

I've suggested the orange site changes the title to "In response to Google?" to keep up with latest practices around there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164393

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US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries (www.ft.com)
 

The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions. [...]

One person said that the White House had grown increasingly frustrated by brazen Ukrainian drone attacks that have struck oil refineries, terminals, depots and storage facilities across western Russia, hurting its oil production capacity.

Russia remains one of the world’s most important energy exporters despite western sanctions on its oil and gas sector. Oil prices have risen about 15 per cent this year, to $85 a barrel, pushing up fuel costs just as US President Joe Biden begins his campaign for re-election.

Un-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/wv1Y3

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The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election (www.theverge.com)
 

A thread compiling all Verge articles about AI influence on the upcoming election.

Has its own RSS feed: https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/23862839

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Hidden cameras capture bank employees misleading customers, pushing products that help sales targets (www.cbc.ca)
 

AKA "surprisingly, oligopolies are there to make money and care about their customers just enough not to pee on their faces while someone else is looking".

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Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (www.nytimes.com)
 

Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident.

So Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his car insurance jumped by 21 percent. Quotes from other insurance companies were also high. One insurance agent told him his LexisNexis report was a factor.

LexisNexis is a New York-based global data broker with a “Risk Solutions” division that caters to the auto insurance industry and has traditionally kept tabs on car accidents and tickets. Upon Mr. Dahl’s request, LexisNexis sent him a 258-page “consumer disclosure report,” which it must provide per the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

What it contained stunned him: more than 130 pages detailing each time he or his wife had driven the Bolt over the previous six months. It included the dates of 640 trips, their start and end times, the distance driven and an accounting of any speeding, hard braking or sharp accelerations. The only thing it didn’t have is where they had driven the car.

On a Thursday morning in June for example, the car had been driven 7.33 miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking.

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Rising water: Quebec lender ending new mortgages in flood zones ’just the beginning’ (montrealgazette.com)
 

Desjardins Group announced as of Feb. 1 it would no longer offer new mortgages for properties in “0-20 year” flood zones — where there is a five per cent chance of flooding in any given year — because of what it called the rising effect of climate change.

There are some exceptions: buyers can get financing for up to 65 per cent a home’s selling price if the previous owner had a Desjardins mortgage and the property has protective measures to prevent flooding. But the company’s decision has left mayors of low-lying towns worried that homeowners will be left with properties that no one will buy or that are massively devalued.

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CRA now allows 2FA apps (infosec.pub)
 

What the title says. Before you had to choose either SMS / call via phone or a very clunky code grid.

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Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
 

Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early stages of monetizing our user base,” and proceeds to say that it will continue to sell users’ content to companies that want to train LLMs and that it will also begin “increased use of artificial intelligence in our advertising solutions.”

The long-awaited S-1 filing reveals much of what Reddit users knew and feared: That many of the changes the company has made over the last year in the leadup to an IPO are focused on exerting control over the site, sanitizing parts of the platform, and monetizing user data.

Posting here because of the privacy implications of all this, but I wonder if at some point there should be an "Enshittification" community :-)

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