Carter Nightshade 

@zixxorb@infosec.exchange
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IT enthusiast. Senior Analyst. Gamer. Photographer. INTJ. Atheist. They/Them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧

Business email: zixxorb@gmail.com

if you think what certain payment processors are doing with Steam and itch.io is wrong, might it suggest reporting those processors for abusing their market powers to the respective authorities in your country? Japan has already started an investigation, the more countries follow the better

Find the correct authority for every EU country: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust-and-cartels/european-competition-network/national-competition-authorities_en

For Germany: https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/DE/Aufgaben/Kartelle/Verteiler_Hinweise/Hinweise_Verst%C3%B6%C3%9Fe_node.html

For Austria: https://www.bwb.gv.at/beschwerdeeinbringung

For Switzerland*: https://www.weko.admin.ch/weko/de/home/anzeigen/kontakt.html

For the Netherlands*: https://www.acm.nl/en/tip-off

For France*: https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/fr/contact-guichet/signaler-une-pratique

* Please double check, as it has no experience with this countries legal system

National Competition Authorities

National Competition Authorities

Competition Policy
Every now and then I STILL encounter a system that just can't handle the existence of apartments. There is no way to enter the information because they use an address checker that strips it away... but don't have their own field to store the data.
And if you think LLMs are "good enough" as they are, then the only thing I can say is I hope you're right because at the moment it looks like the tech industry is trying to bake a broken toy into every aspect of our society in the belief that the only thing that actually "breaks" tech is regulatory interference
I really really need people to internalize that "oh thank fuck this person is not nearly as bad as the alternatives could have been" is not actually an endorsement
glad we're at the stage of our cyberpunk hell-timeline that we have corporate botnets DDoSing the free software communities that they rely on, leading to an arms race between the biggest companies in the world and a virtual anime person developing a proof-of-work proxy with an anime girl mascot that's now deployed by the united nations
Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken

I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!

Jan Wildeboer's Blog

⚠️ Beginning Feb 26, Amazon will block you from:
1) downloading ebooks to your computer
2) transferring books from computer to Kindle via USB

This is another reminder that you do not own your media when you buy through companies like Amazon.

Before the 26th:
Go to Accounts & Lists > Content Library > Books. Click More actions > Download & transfer via USB.

Anytime:
Migrate ASAP to a workflow where you control your media. https://calibre-ebook.com/ is a fantastic, open source place to start.

calibre - E-book management

calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.

Never EVER forget how fast corporations shed their supposed ethics the moment it became politically comfortable to do so.
It turns out USAID, prior to shut down by Elon Musk, was investigating Elon Musk’s company. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365
Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine

The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's equipment at the time of Musk's assault.

Gizmodo
To be crystal-clear: diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are core Fedora Project values.