Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I cracked a #transformer and the shards of the core did not stick to metal. What!? I thought it was ferrite, useful for its magnetic properties. Can anyone confirm that the cores inside inductors are not actually #magnets ?

#inductor #askfedi #electronics

This is fine...
#US #Healthcare

[US Health Care Strip-Mined for Profit: Primary Care Physicians Becoming Scarce, Poorly Trained Nurse Practitioners Run Wild]
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/us-health-care-strip-mined-for-profit-primary-care-physicians-becoming-scarce-poorly-trained-nurse-practitioners-run-wild.html

Among the rapacious tech megacorps often demonised (quite rightly) in the media, Microsoft often gets a 'free pass'. Lots of people (painfully naïvely) think "they've changed". They talk about the 'new' and 'open source-friendly' Microsoft. Bollocks. I think we should be promoting things like this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=m6mtSupCoGs or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6mtSupCoGs to counter MS' spin. Because they're a corporation of horrible people (with a few kind-but-credulous-to-fault ones mixed in amongst them).

Hey guys, how is capitalism going? It's going great! Thanks to profit motive based innovation and hard work, the ransomware industry has grown to a $250 Billion(!) industry, with "Ransomware As A Service" (RaaS) now being a very real business service offered by actual companies and resulting in probably multiple times more in costs in down time, and other costs.

Where do we get this incredible boost to productivity and efficiency from?

It's as if by an invisible hand!

https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/ransomware/ransomware-as-a-service-raas/

Until there is a definitive adjudication of the copyright status of LLM training data, it is *deeply irresponsible* to use Github Copilot for open source. I will refuse contributions created with it on any project I'm involved with, as well as permanently ban any user caught sneaking in Copilot-generated code in defiance of this rule. I would strongly encourage all maintainers to take this stand as well. License headaches are already bad enough without secret poison pills being injected.

The situation is resolved, everything is back online.

In short: Our firewall rules were conflicting with the container (LXC) setup after the Debian upgrade.
We are still investigating the root cause for the conflict.

Thank you for your patience.

Experian is a criminally negligient "credit bureau" that hoovers up personal information, sells it, and lets identity thieves easily steal "your" account.

There is absolutely no accountability because Congress doesn't give a damn -- and Experian blatantly doesn't give a damn.

Read this infuriating blog post by @briankrebs

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/

Turned this week's rant about ongoing sloppy security at Experian into a blog post. Thanks to everyone here who helped with the research.

It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. I know that because my account at Experian was recently hijacked, and the only way I could recover access was by recreating the account.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/

Latest comic:

#gaza #protest #war #firstamendment #israel #palestine #cartoon #comic #politics

Privacy Badger's learning just got a huge upgrade. Spoiler: it's scouring the web like a swarm of wasps, devouring more trackers than ever before. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/privacy-badger-learns-block-ever-more-trackers

Windows starts harvesting users' email login credentials. https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data-Beware-of-the-new-Outlook-9358925.html

@nf3xn IIRC one of the next #Firefox releases will have this built-in.

EDIT: "Never consenting to cookie dialogs" is already in "nightly" and will be shipped in release 120:
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-banner-hammer-and-more-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-134/

@virbonus @simonzerafa @SecurityWriter

Honored and excited to be featured in last week's Dense Discovery newsletter: "the best of the internet, thoughtfully curated": https://densediscovery.com

CNN fired Brian Stelter from his media beat because he knew -- and, unlike so many others in his profession, told -- the truth about the Murdoch family's Fox "News" His new book is out and I urge everyone to read it. That company is even more evil than most people realize.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Network-of-Lies/Brian-Stelter/9781668046906

New resource: (en/fr) The "Lafarge" case: The investigation methods used and some lessons to be learned

About the considerable means - telephony, wiretapping, physical surveillance, spyware, facial recognition, GPS tracking - used to investigate a surprise daytime sabotage action against an armaments factory in France on December 10, 2022.

Read or download at:
https://notrace.how/resources/#affaire-lafarge-les-moyens-denquetes-utilises
http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6prycad.onion/resources/#affaire-lafarge-les-moyens-denquetes-utilises

When "ceasefire" isn't in your government's vocabulary. https://brianmcfadden.org/2023/11/02/state-department-synonyms/

For data brokers dealing with our personal information, our data can either be useful for their profit-making or truly anonymous, but not both. It is critical that user privacy is not sacrificed in favor of filling the pockets of corporations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data

Advanced #AI #Chatbots Can Now Infer Detailed Personal Attributes from General Social Media Posts - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/advanced-ai-chatbots-can-now-infer-detailed-personal-attributes-from-general-social-media-posts/ and it's only going to get worse... #privacy