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Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] rinze@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, it is. I didn't see the old thread, sorry for the noise.

Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm (www.ft.com)
 

I guess self-driving cars are not killing people fast enough and they're diversifying.

Forum User Returns After 100,000 Hour Ban to Continue the Same Argument That Got Them Banned in 2013 in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rinze@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

A true role model.

Privacy.com in Europe? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] rinze@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

In Spain at least I have two small alternatives to this:

  • Paypal (I don't like it too much, but it works fine).
  • A prepaid credit card offered through my bank. Good for sites that don't look too trustworthy but I need to buy from. I just activate it, load it with whatever amount I need, I make the transaction, then disable it again. Even if it gets leaked no one can take any money out.

For everything else I have a virtual credit card number that's not dynamic, but at least it's something I use exclusively for online stuff.

Privacy.com in Europe? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] rinze@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

Here you get a debit card by default with your bank account, and that one's free. You might get a credit one, but credit limits are typically low. I lived in Canada for 9 years and by the time I left I had a CC with a limit of 26k CAD. Here my Spanish credit card has a limit of 1.2k euros, and I've had it for quite a long time.

In Spain at least there's quite a lot of confusion with this. People call any card type a "credit card", even debit ones.

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"Ignore all previous instructions" as a trigger for Twitter bots (mastodon.de)
 

What the URL above says. It's getting crazy on Xitter.

In praise of libgen in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] rinze@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Yes. I combine libgen with Anna's Archive and Z-Library and there's very, very little I can't find.

Combine that with KOReader and this is pure bliss.

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Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/12406642

Body of the toot:

Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦‍♂️

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Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
 

Body of the toot:

Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦‍♂️

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In response to Google (www.wheresyoured.at)
 

Google responded to Ed, Ed responds.

I've suggested the orange site changes the title to "In response to Google?" to keep up with latest practices around there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164393

European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] rinze@infosec.pub 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only question here is: why do European police chiefs want to help Russia and China intercept our communications?

US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] rinze@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's not yet proven that it was the US, no? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised at all, but I still don't know that's a fact.

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US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries (www.ft.com)
 

The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions. [...]

One person said that the White House had grown increasingly frustrated by brazen Ukrainian drone attacks that have struck oil refineries, terminals, depots and storage facilities across western Russia, hurting its oil production capacity.

Russia remains one of the world’s most important energy exporters despite western sanctions on its oil and gas sector. Oil prices have risen about 15 per cent this year, to $85 a barrel, pushing up fuel costs just as US President Joe Biden begins his campaign for re-election.

Un-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/wv1Y3

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Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (www.nytimes.com)
 

Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident.

So Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his car insurance jumped by 21 percent. Quotes from other insurance companies were also high. One insurance agent told him his LexisNexis report was a factor.

LexisNexis is a New York-based global data broker with a “Risk Solutions” division that caters to the auto insurance industry and has traditionally kept tabs on car accidents and tickets. Upon Mr. Dahl’s request, LexisNexis sent him a 258-page “consumer disclosure report,” which it must provide per the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

What it contained stunned him: more than 130 pages detailing each time he or his wife had driven the Bolt over the previous six months. It included the dates of 640 trips, their start and end times, the distance driven and an accounting of any speeding, hard braking or sharp accelerations. The only thing it didn’t have is where they had driven the car.

On a Thursday morning in June for example, the car had been driven 7.33 miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking.

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Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
 

Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early stages of monetizing our user base,” and proceeds to say that it will continue to sell users’ content to companies that want to train LLMs and that it will also begin “increased use of artificial intelligence in our advertising solutions.”

The long-awaited S-1 filing reveals much of what Reddit users knew and feared: That many of the changes the company has made over the last year in the leadup to an IPO are focused on exerting control over the site, sanitizing parts of the platform, and monetizing user data.

Posting here because of the privacy implications of all this, but I wonder if at some point there should be an "Enshittification" community :-)

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We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices (www.cbc.ca)