Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To" - In this provocative post on misaligned incentives on security, Matt Palmer argues that because credit card breaches cost issuing banks and card companies a lot of money, they have gone to great lengths to protect credit card data. But because such incentives don't exist for other data, they are found lacking. Apathy, not inability. Its a good read. Highly recommended.

Blog post: https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/06/14/information-security-we-can-do-it-right-we-choose-not-to.html

Kid1 asked me where we go after we die, and I answered "where do knots go when they're untied? The string is still there". It seems to have stuck with him and I think the place where untied knots go is now part of our family mythology.

Finally. The US has sued Adobe over early termination fees and making subscriptions hard to cancel: The FTC took action after receiving numerous complaints from consumers across the country. https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/the-us-has-sued-adobe-for-early-termination-fees-and-making-subscriptions-hard-to-cancel-165808358.html

"Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" 😍

"Microsoft is even adding AI to the Notepad app on Windows 11"

jesus fucking shitwank

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-is-working-bringing-ai-to-the-notepad-app-on-windows-11

Official statement from @Mer__edith: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

why queer? #daveysart #MonthofGlune

Let me explain this real slow.

1. I borrow $100 from you today.
2. I pay you $10 every day for a year.
3. I have paid you back $3,650
4. I still owe you $90 somehow.
5. You then "forgive" the $90 debt.

In this scenario, absolutely nobody is paying anybody $90. Nobody is being stiffed $90. Nobody is being forced to pay someone else's $90 debt. Absolutely nobody is "getting a $90 handout for free".

What's happening is you have been paid back your original $100 and then profited a mere $3,550 on top of that and we're saying that's enough profit.

This post is about student loan forgiveness.

Share this around! Full zine full of Covid info comics, ready to print by Hazel Newlevant. Please share! #Covid
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"It’s not that these people don’t know that an industrial-scale killing machine whirs just beyond their garden wall. They have simply learned to lead contented lives with ambient genocide." #NaomiKlein https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/14/the-zone-of-interest-auschwitz-gaza-genocide ht @hagbard @alanferrier

This is your brain on #ai: "Subject to the terms of this Agreement, You hereby grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display Your non-personal data for its business purposes."

Someone out there wrote "as a user I want my printer to steal my documents to train LLMs" without hesitation.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/

This is great: Road & Track hired Kate Wagner (McMansion Hell) to cover an F1 race in Austin, and pulled the story the same day it went up because she made fun of rich people. Lucky for us it's still on Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/