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Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

Ars Technica

The European Court rules that “the requirement to decrypt encrypted communications, as applied to end-to-end encrypted communciations, cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society” and infringes on the European Convention on Human Rights.

#telegram #encryption #privacy

@remixtures https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/111931919570789448

Miguel Afonso Caetano (@[email protected])

#Russia #ECHR #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #Privacy #Encryption #Telegram: "80. The Court concludes from the foregoing that the contested legislation providing for the retention of all Internet communications of all users, the security services’ direct access to the data stored without adequate safeguards against abuse and the requirement to decrypt encrypted communications, as applied to end-to-end encrypted communications, cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society. In so far as this legislation permits the public authorities to have access, on a generalised basis and without sufficient safeguards, to the content of electronic communications, it impairs the very essence of the right to respect for private life under Article 8 of the Convention. The respondent State has therefore overstepped any acceptable margin of appreciation in this regard." https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-230854%22]}

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@skye - keeps doing CTFs, then getting bored and wanting to hack something else, then forgetting about hacking for months at a time
- has 90 GitHub repos in at least 5 different frameworks or languages
- has never finished a project except for maybe a couple of 3-day game jams
- keeps distrohopping and only adding functionality to their computer when they need it (this has gotten them in pickles with internet connection, but they will continue to operate like this)
An important aspect of the hacker ethos is the "got so mad at broken proprietary thing that I fixed it myself" attitude. It runs explicitly counter to the cop mentality half of infosec has these days.

My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

u can buy my gay mp3 player if u want. i think it's a pretty cool device. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
Tangara

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

Crowd Supply
*Boy, that's a tough call

Danke an die Leute, die auf der Demo gegen die #noafd in #hannover mit diesem großen Banner den Finger in die Wunde gelegt haben.

#fckafd

Es passiert tatsächlich: Die #MVB  nehmen die letzten #Tatra #T6A2 aus dem Liniendienst. Eigentlich ist das ja schon 2013 passiert, aber doppelt hält bekanntlich besser. Am 28.01. ist noch ein mal ein Abschied geplant, an dem Tag werden die letzten Fahrzeuge in Rundfahrten eingesetzt. Im März endet dann der Einsatz, da die Fahrzeuge dann ihr Laufzeitende vor einer erneuten Hauptuntersuchung erreicht haben.

Infos: https://www.mvbnet.de/sonderfahrten-am-28-januar-tatra-t6a2-verabschiedet-sich-aus-dem-liniendienst/

Sonderfahrten am 28. Januar: Tatra T6A2 verabschiedet sich aus dem Liniendienst › MVB › Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe

Wir verabschieden uns von einem alten Begleiter: Die eckige Tatrabahn mit der Bezeichnung T6A2 wird außer Dienst gestellt. Fans haben die ...