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jasonkoebler, 8 hours ago to random

Scoop: I obtained the contract Samsung requires independent shops to sign to buy phone repair parts from them.

It requires:

• "Daily" dumps of customer data
• The "immediate destruction" of any phones a shop comes across that has third-party parts

https://www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/

jasonkoebler, 6 hours ago to random

$60 million well spent

https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

ploum, 13 hours ago (edited 1 hour ago) to random

The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"

aral, 14 hours ago to DuckDuckGo

Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down.

(Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?)

Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).

#DuckDuckGo #bing #microsoft #ventureCapital #DDG

fifilamoura, 5 hours ago to random

A fantastic piece prompt by man vs bear...

"Patriarchy has everything to do with men, but at the same time, nothing at all. In a male-centered society where maleness is associated with power, what’s really being centered is power itself. What’s suppressed is mutual relationality. Patriarchy is intertwined with colonialism, racism, and other oppressive social structures based on hierarchy. It is a fundamental fracturing of our human wholeness."

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

DrALJONES, 12 hours ago to random

Interviews

“Collective Punishment”: Israel Raids Jenin Camp in West Bank, "Shooting Everything”

The IDF murdered at least eight Palestinians, including a doctor shot dead on his way to work & a teenager riding his bicycle."

About a dozen others were injured. A witness described the ongoing attack on the camp; "They are shooting everything."

"The raid began just as Spain, Ireland & Norway became the latest European states to recognize the Palestinian state."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/22/freedom_theater

#Jenin .

thomasfuchs, 8 hours ago to random

1980s: Personal computers! So you don't have to use a mainframe! Independence!

2000s: Web services! So you're dependent on a handful of mainframes! Annoying if one is offline, but you can still get stuff done.

2020s: AI! So you're dependent on a single mainframe that serves everyone world-wide! Too bad if it goes down.

ghostrunner, 2 hours ago to math

#mandlebrot #math #joke

Along with the coolest description of the mandlebrot set's relationship to the #logisticsfunction

https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?si=vm9f5lOPq-l4tFZv

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 15 hours ago to auscovid19

🇦🇺 Australia: COVID keeps killing more people every month than flu does in a year.

“In other words, there were three times as many confirmed Covid-19 cases as influenza cases,” Adrian Esterman, professor of biostatistics at the University of South Australia, told TND.

“And the death rate associated with Covid-19 was about four times as high as for influenza.”

He said it was “completely crazy that face masks are not mandatory in all health care, hospital and aged-care settings”.

#COVIDisNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAIRBONE @auscovid19

Source: https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/2024/05/22/covid-kills-more-people-than-flu

ayoub, 14 hours ago to random

Incredible report: “Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.”

This makes the EU directly complicit in human trafficking, torture and murder of black people.

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/desert-dumps/

russellt, 12 hours ago to random

Remind any of your friends considering voting Labour in Scotland ...

"LABOUR MPS HAVE ACCEPTED OVER £280,000 FROM ISRAEL LOBBY

Twenty percent of Labour’s sitting MPs have been funded by pro-Israel groups or individuals – including 15 who have been directly funded by the Israeli state."

What is the Israeli State getting in return? Isn't it an MPs job to represent their constituents?

anandamide, 10 hours ago to random

The socialist anarchists I follow on BlueSky doing the Lord's work

Jinjirrie, 12 hours ago to random

This is what fascist regimes do - 'The Israeli military has forced medical staff to abandon al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza ... a mass exodus of doctors, nurses and paramedics west on foot, seeking safety and shelter, and forced to leave their patients behind.' https://aje.io/3yycs4?update=2920117 #GazaGenocide #ZionismIsFascism #ICJ4Israel

finiteattention, 15 hours ago to Scotland Norwegian

Hey #scotland, please register to vote by post if you think you might be away on July 4 because it's the school holidays and you have plans to be somewhere else. Don't let Westminster disenfranchise Scotland!

https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote

18+ burgerdrome, 17 hours ago to random

the only thing you need to do to understand how imperialism works is to understand this: anyone who does anything in support of Palestine is 'rewarding terrorism', but anyone who does anything in support of Israel is 'respecting law and order' - even though you can quite literally read a history book and see that Israel was established through unbelievable, industrial-scale, violent terrorism. every time I see this argument come up I lose my fucking mind

mpesce, 19 hours ago to random

An NDA forbids former OpenAI employees, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/23/chatgpt-can-talk-but-openai-employees-sure-cant/

aral, 14 hours ago to random

Hey @EUCommission – thoughts? Not looking great, is it? https://spore.social/@ayoub/112489234296990765

woodpunk, 15 hours ago to DaftPunk

A bit of #German minimalist #synth #pop for a Thursday morning.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqTBlft8gQA&si=pb6nxSGzgMephNK2

david, 20 hours ago to tech

I am amused. One the one hand, Microsoft is introducing Recall, which literally takes screenshots of everything you do on windows, but on the other hand, they are taking users ability to take screenshots of their browser away if their company configures it as such.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2336462/microsoft-edge-will-begin-blocking-screenshots-on-the-job.html

#amusing #tech #windows

mapache_tico, 21 hours ago to random Spanish

interesante pregunta!

LALegault, 18 hours ago to random

Remember when Trump imposed sanctions on the #ICC and the #Democrats went wild, my how the tables have turned…. #uspol

pafurijaz, 22 hours ago to random

Today in Western societies you can say anything but not what undermines the founding pillars of neoliberal oligarchic power. If you do so then you become an enemy.

therightarticle, 1 day ago to random

Cringing in the rain: soggy Rish! kickstarts his farewell tour | John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/cringing-in-the-rain-soggy-rish-kickstarts-his-farewell-tour