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freeagent

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I don't like corruption or hypocrisy.

I'm a news junkie, interested in economics, technology, photography, cryptocurrency (enthusiast & skeptic!), and other stuff.

Contact: https://signal.me/#eu/FkKc2dlxrfo9Z3K5JURWfhchM6uNo-eh_uGo03EyQ4OjE4OW_exDiY6n0uRCFcK8

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Mojeek, to random
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which browser is this?

freeagent,
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@Mojeek Dumpster Fire

firefly, to privacy
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Bitmessage for untraceable, uncensorable, and anonymous communication

https://bitmessage.org

Attached: inbox view.

@privacy

freeagent,
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@firefly @privacy 4min PoW to send a single message seems like a non-starter for almost all use cases.

chris, to random
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    freeagent,
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    @chris Ouuuuuuch. Is this due to some unforeseen disaster not covered by insurance or just long-term underfunded reserves? The condo board should have a fun time at the next election…

    freeagent,
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    @chris Ugh. Not that the board should spend more money right away, but my old building hired an engineering firm that did a reserve study for the building after the developer turned over control to the elected board. It may be worth asking if there was ever such a study done on your building, how long ago, etc.

    AAKL, to apple
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    freeagent,
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    @AAKL @Forbes “[Apple] accused Epic of trying to “micromanage” its business operations to increase its own profits.”

    Of course, Apple isn’t trying to micromanage the business of app developers by forcing them to distribute their apps via the App Store and forcing an awful UI for third-party payments, etc. 🙄

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    freeagent,
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    @AAKL It’s hard to imagine this being a good idea given that someone quoted in the article is complaining about getting dinged by FSD because they were staring at their phone using Twitter. Will staring at the central screen be any better?

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    freeagent,
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    @caiocgo I have some pretty big concerns about the security/privacy of Beeper. As I understand it, they have to decrypt all your messages, so they therefore have full access to all of your chats.

    freeagent,
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    @caiocgo Yeah, to me that reads like a really cagey way of saying that all messages are decrypted and re-encrypted by Beeper and that they therefore have access to all messages (metadata and content) in unencrypted form. The question is whether or not one trusts Beeper won’t snoop/enable snooping/get hacked. Personally, that’s a big nope from me. I really WANT to have a universal chat app, but not at the expense of giving up E2EE.

    freeagent, to microsoft
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    In true Orwellian fashion, Microsoft are calling it the “User Choice Protection Driver.” You can’t make this shit up.

    https://noc.social/@AAKL/112230530692193371

    chris, to random
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    freeagent,
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    @chris That is, unfortunately, a fairly common tour of workplace segregation. I know of one place where the top executives who shared a floor with others literally had a their area of the floor up on a platform (and behind its own set of doors).

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    freeagent,
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    @AAKL AOL!?

    christianselig, to random
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    tfw your wiper blades start streaking so you look up how often you're supposed to change them on your six year old car and it says every six months to a year

    freeagent,
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    @christianselig If you aren’t parking out in the sun (and not using them much), they’ll last longer. The estimated life for wiper blades is hugely variable to the point of being a useless measure.

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    My reading of this is that for this (truly horrible) attack to get you, you'd need to run an app in which it's embedded for an extended period of time on your computer. So the bad guys could hack me if I downloaded an app from a sketchy source (unlikely) or they managed to hack any one of Adobe or Mozilla or Microsoft Office or Chrome or Safari or Apple Music or Emacs or YouTube or or or … (less unlikely).

    https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112134209593616346

    freeagent,
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    @lauren @timbray People have always been able to run code from random internet sources on desktop Macs, though. How would a third-party App Store (such as Steam or GOG which already exist on Mac) make that worse?

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    @lauren @timbray The article mentions that this vulnerability only exists or is exploitable in M-series chips running full MacOS, so iOS and iPadOS may not be relevant.

    freeagent,
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    @lauren @timbray Sure, but then one could argue we were all safer back in the days when our carriers controlled 100% of the software on “our” phones. People can still choose to only install software through Apple’s store, or install no software at all if that is their overriding concern.

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    @AAKL @theregister The new Outlook isn’t even what I’d call an email client. You must provide all credentials to MS to sync to its own servers in “the cloud,” and the new, desktop Outlook application just syncs with MS. That caused me to cancel my MS365 subscription completely.

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    @AAKL @theregister Yes, including third party IMAP and SMTP, for example.

    ilyess, to Signal
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    My take on Signal usernames. Let me know what you think :)

    https://ilyess.cc/posts/signal-usernames/

    freeagent,
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    @ilyess If you want to maintain your privacy, a username should not be something meaningful to you. That’s why my username is a random string of characters. This way, I can also share it publicly without worrying about “losing” it if I get spam and decide to change it. I’d encourage everyone to consider random, disposable usernames.

    carnage4life, to random
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    Grammarly lays off 23% of employees (230 people) but says it was not for cost cutting reasons because their financial position is strong.

    Instead they need a different set of skills and capabilities in the age of the AI enabled workplace. Same difference?
    https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/grammarly-lays-off-230-employees-as-part-of-a-business-restructuring/

    freeagent,
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    @carnage4life I’d be interested in hearing what all these incompatible skillsets are between their laid off employees and, presumably, the skills now required by Grammarly. If this wasn’t about cost-cutting, I would think they’d want to make some kind of effort to retrain their existing workforce instead of causing the morale and reputation hits that accompany layoffs.

    So, what skills does Grammarly need/not need now?

    trezzer, to privacy

    Wow. This is some seriously smelly bullshit.

    freeagent,
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    @trezzer Disable JavaScript on CNN and the problem goes away.

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    @airtower @trezzer Wouldn’t it be nice if they just told the truth? Imagine that; a news organization being honest with its readers. Amazing!

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    (Updated with new link)

    It's not surprising that China found a way to crack AirDrop to spy on users of iPhones.

    What should be surprising -- but maybe isn't because of Apple's consistent bended-knee stance there -- is that Apple knew of the flaw and didn't fix it.

    Apple's claims to care about user privacy/security are sometimes empty, or outright lies.
    https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/10/apple-was-warned-of-airdrop-flaws-before-chinas-hack

    freeagent,
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    @dangillmor Is there any firm evidence that this is true? I don’t see in this article any info on Apple knowing about it even acknowledging a flaw. It could also be manipulation to try and get dissidents to feel that the feature is unsafe.

    SwiftOnSecurity, (edited ) to random

    PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

    There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them/compromised support staff accounts. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.

    The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.

    The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.

    It was their cell phone provider.

    Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
    Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.

    I am very serious. This is based on private knowledge but is compelled by the compromise of the SEC. This is common now.

    freeagent,
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    @SwiftOnSecurity the thing that sucks most about this is that many legacy financial system players, including essentially all banks, treat SMS or phone call-based 2FA as implicitly trustworthy and there's no way to tell them to stop using it for your account(s).

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    @chris Chicago is an awesome city and very livable. The winter can be brutal at times, but I loved my 12 years there.

    protonmail, to random
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    Together, we raised $732,000 in the 2023 Proton Lifetime Fundraiser! This brings our total contributions to support freedom, privacy, and humanitarian causes to over $2,700,000 in the past six years.

    We couldn't do it without you. 💜

    More details here: https://proton.me/blog/2023-lifetime-fundraiser-results

    freeagent,
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    @protonmail That’s awesome. There are a ton of very deserving orgs receiving that support. Maybe we can shoot for $1M next year :)

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