Equifax got hacked. Nearly 150 million people's data stolen. And the executives' first move was to quietly sell their shares. 🤦

This is The Facepalm Files.

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#facepalm #cybersecurity #equifax #databreach #infosec #hacking

Meta is discontinuing end-to-end encryption for Instagram messaging this May.

This highlights the core issue with proprietary platforms: privacy is treated as a revocable privilege, not a fundamental right. When a company owns the infrastructure, they own the "off" switch for your security.

Open-source alternatives like Matrix or Signal offer consistent, verifiable encryption that doesn't depend on a corporate roadmap.

Source: https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150 #privacy #opensource

Sorry for doomerposting... But I think AI slop has killed whatever tiny shreds of passion for the homelab space that I had left. Every other post on r/selfhosted now starts with "I built..." which basically translates to "Claude code built". 50% of those "self-built" projects are for personal use and niche use cases (fine by me), but the other half has the audacity to ask for contributors, donations, testers and offer "business pricing" for their slop. I've now seen at least two self hostable projects go up in flames because of the slop, and many more will probably follow.

Don't get me wrong, I still self host most of my services (because fuck big tech) but because the space is now inundated by LLM-generated garbage, I've lost all interest in enganing with it online.

Verifying yourself on #LinkedIn?

Congratulations! "I handed a US company (Persona) my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over"

Also, #Persona shares that data with #Anthropic, #OpenAI, #Amazon, #Google, and of course #Microsoft (that owns LinkedIn)

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..."

Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."

A world without privacy is also a world without intimacy, without individuality, without diversity, and without democracy.

Certain politicians have clearly expressed they want a world without privacy.

We cannot let them have it passively. We must fight back for our rights. Now.

Or we will lose them.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification

Episode 1 is out! Join us as we do some introductions, discuss the new Apple Macbook Neo and talk about the issues surrounding vibecoding.

https://bitflip.show/1/

RE: https://techhub.social/@BitFlipShow/116182490422748877

A #SelfHosted reboot from @ironicbadger just launched a new #podcast