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RE: https://journa.host/@gilduran/116683867974559734

I know it’s too late for today’s election, but everyone in San Francisco(or California) has to understand we are under assault.

Marc Andressen’s wife has been appointed by Trump as the head of the Presidio trust. It makes me think that they are going to give Trump the golf course and exchange for letting the Tolkien dark lord enjoyer club have the run of the rest of the place

#sanfrancisco #uspol #california

Dennis 1d ago

Joseph Cox 1d ago

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404 Media

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 4d ago

It amazes me how frequently #Google breaks basic, important functionality seemingly on a whim.
They recently moved reminder functionality on #Android from the Calendar app to the Tasks app. Since then, whether tasks generate reminders to the user is completely a crapshoot. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I say to my phone, "Remind me in a half hour to do <x>." It creates a reminder. A half hour later, no reminder. YOU HAD ONE JOB, GOOGLE.
#TechIsShitDispatch

Dennis 5d ago

Broadwaybabyto Apr 10

The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.

They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.

They can’t comprehend having everything ripped away from them.

They think they’re the exception.

They’re not.

People don’t plan for homelessness or disability.

It just takes one accident, illness or stroke of bad luck.

We all need and deserve a safety net.

#disability #ableism #poverty #eugenics #chronicillness

Dennis May 23

Kees van der Leun May 23

Microsoft - a preferred supplier of Dutch government - and Meta shared names of civil servants and scientists involved in European regulation on tech companies with the Trump regime.
Scandalous and intimidating, as one of them Claes de Vreese, says.
https://nos.nl/l/2615391

Techbedrijven deelden namen Nederlandse ambtenaren met VS: 'Ontzettend zorgelijk'

Het gaat om ambtenaren die betrokken zijn bij de handhaving van Europese regels om techplatforms te reguleren. De Amerikaanse overheid ziet die regels als censuur.

Dennis May 16

It's FOSS May 16

Free software only? Bazaar makes it easy to filter out proprietary apps and focus on open source ones.

https://itsfoss.com/bazaar-app/

The (Almost) Perfect Linux Marketplace App for Flatpak Lovers

A handy, feature-rich, marketplace app for the hardcore Flatpak lovers.

It's FOSS

Dennis May 6

Marcus Adams May 6

Headline: Edge may reportedly leak all your passwords easily and #Microsoft says it's "by design"

Subtitle: #Edge stores passwords in plaintext memory at startup; a tool has been released to test against the flaw.

Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/edge-may-reportedly-leak-all-your-passwords-easily-and-microsoft-says-its-by-design/

#Security #Privacy

Dennis May 5

Karl Auerbach May 5

Yikes! Google is far past its "do no evil" era.

I really object to the amount of crapware that is auto-loaded onto our machines - it is as if we don't own the computers, but Google, Microsoft, and Apple do.

"Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane."

(BTW, I mostly use Linux and FreeBsd, although I use MacOS frequently. I try to avoid using Chrome - I mostly use Firefox, but even that is getting awful.)

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

Dennis May 5

Veronica Explains May 4

Today is a great day to learn about Debian.

It's far from perfect, but by golly once you learn it it's pretty sweet. Highlights:

Everything is transparent, sometimes painfully so
Debian isn't a company
You still have apt, so deb packages still probably work
Flatpak makes desktop use easy
Hate updates? Debian only releases a major new version every two years.
Nobody is ever, ever, ever going to sell you "Debian Pro"

If Ubuntu's got you down today, I dare you: give Debian a try.

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