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Ça fait longtemps mais on oublie pas les bonnes habitudes : dump de memes TDAH random !!!
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Dan GoodinCan we devote some time to discussing Slack? As in, why are we all sending our every thought to a centralized server that can be hacked, and can can train AI with them? And why is Slack allowed to store transcripts but I can't?
My union uses Slack for organizing. How crazy is it that an organization in the cross hairs of a dangerous and emboldened government would do this? With everything going on right now, I'd love to be more active in the union, but must I really give up so much to this opaque platform?
Is anyone else struggling with these concerns? Do you know of viable Slack alternatives? Are there any hacks that make Slack less of a privacy invasion or make LLM training harder? Are there at least ways for me to save sessions the way I can with IRC? How do I resist Slack and not lose touch with groups that still use it?
Please boost for reach.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽We have to know how this turned out. https://www.comicsands.com/florida-man-straps-house-down-2669375047.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
BrianKrebsIf you happen to live in the United States, the consumer credit reporting bureau Experian is easily the shittiest company you will deal with as long as you have heartbeat. IRS? Hahaha. Experian will take your privacy and security. Seriously.
I just sometimes don't think I can do enough to call attention to the barbaric practices of Experian when it comes to letting their hapless and often reluctant "customers" manage their relationship with the Mother Ship.
I pointed out like 3 years ago that if you're a US citizen and you have instructed Experian to "freeze" your credit file so that ID thieves and other ne'er-do-wells can't just apply as you for credit wherever, that designation means absolutely squat because Experian will happily let anyone "become" you if they can supply your name, address, DOB, SSN and can successfully guess or answer 3 out of 4 multiple guess questions based entirely on public information.
This is still the case. I received an email this morning from another victim who had their freeze reversed at Experian.
Past reporting
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/experian-you-have-some-explaining-to-do/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/experian-glitch-exposing-credit-files-lasted-47-days/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experian-api-exposed-credit-scores-of-most-americans/
Christine Hall"Tech giants leading the AI race have found a way to conceal the climate impact of their growing electricity use: unbundled renewable energy certificates" - How Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI's Real Carbon Footprint https://www.itprotoday.com/green-it/how-tech-companies-are-obscuring-ai-s-real-carbon-footprint
Jakub Steiner ⭐Bless my wife for having that "This machine has not been backed up in 2456 days" macbook so I could use her ancient browser to connect to my tls 1.2 router and upgrade it. Props to everyone else for keeping up to date!
David GerardThe Register founder Mike Magee has died https://fudzilla.com/news/59503-mike-mageek-is-dead
Mike Mageek is dead
Industry gadfly and mate died yesterday One of the legends of the IT industry, tantric guru, and the inventor of the cynical red-top tech tabloid, Mike Magee, has died at the age of 74. Magee started his career as a printer before working for VNU Business Publications on PC Dealer and then at their...
Jerry 🦙💝🦙Follow me for more as I unveil my new framework for system management, which I call For Real Agile, or FRAgile for short.
And from the technical side of things, it also appears fine?
https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozilla-ppa/
Open to being corrected, though.
Misconceptions about Firefox's Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement
Mozilla's Privacy Preserving Attribution is an important step forward towards eliminating invasive tracking by AdTech companies. Unfortunately, it is being loudly contested by individuals that prefer to spread fear instead of learning about it.
I think #mozilla’s ad privacy thing is actually fine, though very poorly communicated. Ads are a necessary part of the internet(for better or worse), and putting more control in the browser is the way to do it IMO.
Sure, websites might ignore the new option on the table, but I think this is much better than the outright stalkerware that’s the status quo. And if it proves viable, it makes it that much easier for e.g. the EU to just outlaw tracking, rather than the current “consent by exhaustion” approach by ad companies…
As someone who didn’t grow up in “the West”, I know there’s a big gap between “a free service” and “a €$£0.99 service”. Large swathes of the population are either unbanked or without access to a personal debit card, never mind disposable income. Adblocking will always be a thing, but if everyone starts doing it and paywalls become inexorable, it will ruin the internet for a lot of people…
I’m all for privacy - Signal, VPN, Linux, don’t use clouds, avoid social media; but at the end of the day, I don’t want to live in subscription dystopia, and I don’t want people to be financially excluded from quality news & online community.
Advertising is a necessary evil, and I’ve often berated that I either have to violate my privacy or kill a website’s income; I think a middle option is needed, and that good compromises end up pissing both sides…