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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

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https://gizmodo.com/23andme-is-selling-your-data-but-not-how-you-think-1794340474

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/23andme-sells-anonymous-dna-data-to-drug-company-for-20-million/article_ea59fe96-79df-11ee-8473-47193d62656b.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data

https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/377206-23andme-accused-of-having-fire-sale-of-customer-dna-data

The usual warnings about "anonymized data" and "data aggregation" apply.

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People don’t use turn signals, speed through residential neighborhoods, change lanes in the middle of intersections, it’s insane.

It's been like that since I was a kid in the 80's.

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Thanking? No. That would be impolitic.

Quietly using? They'd be foolish not to.

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)

"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."

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I think yinz missed the sarcasm in the comment you're replying to.

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The only fix for that is for nobody to communicate, ever.

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That is why we took our time when designing the new Find My Device, which uses a crowdsourced device-locating network to help you find your lost or misplaced devices and belongings quickly – even when they’re offline.

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More like, already deployed, this is just the announcement.

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Pay up, Fastjack.

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How much oil do you have?

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How expensive do we have to be for them to actually listen to us for a change? Or do you mean "expensive consultants?"

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Then, nah.

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If anybody out there is looking for a new career, becoming a lobbyist might be the way to go.

Should You Pay For An Identity Theft Protection Service? (blog.thenewoil.org)

Identity theft is a common cause of anxiety in modern society, and it's pretty justifiable. According to a recent survey from US News, almost three quarters of adults have experienced at least one case of identity theft, and 27% have experienced more than one. In 2022 there were more than 1.1 million reports of identity theft,...

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Data breaches are so common, and so many people have been caught in them, why bother paying for ID protection? It's granted a year at a time (for whatever that might be worth) for nothing to everybody caught in it. At this point, we may as well try to leave all those years of ID theft monitoring to our grandkids.

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Maybe it's taken him this long to kick the tires and develop an opinion from daily use. There's nothing wrong with that.

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That's pretty much the entire Internet these days.

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I think it's because people are taking their frustrations out on whatever seems to make people think something might be on the upswing. Even better, because you can't necessarily see who upvoted nobody can call them on it.

It's like the folks who go to see a movie and gush about how awesome it was when you're sitting around shooting the shit, but the moment they get on the Net they trash it in as many ways as possible.

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We don't know what Cory does all day. We know he has a family, I think he has a kid, that means that he has responsibilities that don't involve blogging. For all we know, at the end of the day he curls up with a dead tree book and unplugs to relax. He might not be as online as his overall style might make him appear and we don't know what all circles of people he runs with, so it's entirely possible that he just heard about it.

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Parasocial relationships are weird.

U.S. government blasts Microsoft for lax security measures in report on Chinese hacks (www.dhs.gov)

In its report published this week, the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) says that the June 2023 online breach by Chinese threat actors who accessed U.S. government emails right before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was to visit China, was "preventable"....

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Nope. The publication date aside (2 April), DHS is not known for its sense of humor in any context.

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Of course they are.

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It's not like we can do anything about it. Customers can't control what a business does with the money they pay.
Writing and calling don't work. The best any one person can do is cancel their service, but they're in the minority.

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Exactly so.

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If folks haven't yet, what's it going to take?

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I have so much "free credit monitoring" from data breaches, I could leave it to my grandkids and they'd be set for life.

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Deer season in Pennsylvania has entered the chat. :/

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They're spending a lot of money lobbying inside the Beltway to change that. So far it hasn't worked but it's only a matter of time.

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If you encrypt your data before uploading it to B2 you should be fine. Unless you run it yourself on your own server, you can't be sure that your data will be unreadable by anyone poking around unless it's encrypted.

I've been using B2 for my offsite backups for a couple of years now (since 2018), and both Duplicity and Restic encrypt data before shipping it over. I wrote about it here.

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Check out Antennapod.

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Glassdoor always seemed like a trap to me. What better way to find (potentially) disloyal people to add to the in-house blacklist or layoff file than to set up a site where you can collect negative reviews of workplaces and sufficient data that identities could be ascertained?

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Exit strategy? "I got what I wanted out of it, so I may as well take the rubber mask off."

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Burner phone. Cheap laptop with nothing on it (like a Chromebook). Burner Gmail address and birbsite profile in case they ask you to log into your accounts. Remember the 100 mile border zone.

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That's djb?

Whoa. I never knew what he looked like.

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I thought that was Phil Zimmerman with PGP.

Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)

Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...

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"Our smart securicams don't trust you" is the new "You're not a good culture fit."

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Which is what the twenty-first century might be selecting for. They're the only ones that seem like they're doing okay right now.

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I find it difficult to disagree with you.

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There's plenty in Big Tech to be cynical about, whether you work for them or not. Ars can get away with it.

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I guess they're going to be replacing their lobbyists because the last batch didn't do their job well enough.

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I am skeptical of how long that's going to last. There's too much money at stake.

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For now.

Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)

As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...

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For a lot of corporations, malice and greed are pretty much the same thing. When a business decision is justified by "Who cares? Do it anyway." the distinction is a matter of words, not actions.

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A lot of people don't like to think about just how much malice is involved in everyday life.

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I wonder if "shelf trademarks" for emergency rebranding are a thing.

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Surprise.

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Or actually will anonymize it henceforth.

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Yes, they do. In no particular order:

  • Do a View Source on the site's frontpage. You might see some HTML for "application/atom+xml" or "application/rss+xml". The URLs associated with those hrefs will be for the ATOM and RSS feeds.
    • If you search for one of the following in the HTML source you'll probably run into the feeds:
      • rss
      • atom
      • feed
      • json
  • Look for a syndication page on the site. It should have links to the feeds.
  • You might see the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generic_Feed-icon.svg or the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Application_atom%2Bxml.svg on the page.
  • Many CMSes (Wordpress in particular) automatically put them at /feed on the site.
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Briar is its own thing.

How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?

As a medical doctor I extensively use digital voice recorders to document my work. My secretary does the transcription. As a cost saving measure the process is soon intended to be replaced by AI-powered transcription, trained on each doctor's voice. As I understand it the model created is not being stored locally and I have no...

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The personalized data model will be trained on your voice. That means that it's going to be trained on a great deal of patient medical history data (including PII). That means it's covered by HIPAA.

I strongly doubt the service in question meets even the most minimal of requirements.

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