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dustyharddriveon 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

privacy.com's KYC provider is Persona. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140632

dustyharddriveon Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity

In case you're alluding to a certain metasearch engine, they do not verify email addresses.

dustyharddriveon Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses

6. is a sign of bad UX but not leakage to the recipient.

dustyharddriveon U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification...

dustyharddriveon Workday to acquire Pipedream

The founder...

runs a crossposting bot here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

spammed package maintainers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31588316

dustyharddriveon Workday to acquire Pipedream

Great news for this site's most prolific spammer!

dustyharddriveon ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies

One might wish to avoid overbought and uniquely unethical companies.

dustyharddriveon ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies

I mean a custom index, but not one of those fintech apps with small limits on the number of stocks.

dustyharddriveon ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies

Is there a direct indexing service that doesn't have exorbitant fees?

dustyharddriveon Let me pay for Firefox

That's the latest ESR (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/notes/), which seems good enough for Tor Browser.

dustyharddriveon Perplexity Comet

They pivoted to "AI": https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...

dustyharddriveon Perplexity Comet

Arc has been abandoned.

dustyharddriveon IRS Direct File

https://www.freetaxusa.com/privacy

> The information given may be used to improve and develop and train our artificial intelligence and other machine learning models.

dustyharddriveon Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust

nu 0.103.0 released with background job support a couple months ago. Maybe give it another shot?

dustyharddriveon Oracle Cloud Hacked Twice, Denied Thrice

Bad for Oracle or its victims?

dustyharddriveon Osgint – OSINT tool to find information about GitHub user

This looks very GDPR compliant!

dustyharddriveon California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers

Why sign their limitation of liability?

dustyharddriveon Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

If this is about OTF, do you also distrust Let's Encrypt, Quad9, Tails, F-Droid, Signal, and Tor?

dustyharddriveon Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux

Keep in mind that Startpage is owned by an American advertising company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1

dustyharddriveon What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox

It's FOSS and maintained by Tor Project team members: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/mullvad-brows...

dustyharddriveon Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

Maybe they've used those names to test their OpenAI-compatible API (https://api-docs.deepseek.com)?

dustyharddriveon WordPress Is in Trouble

And you can run one written in a memory-safe language, like Caddy.

dustyharddriveon OpenSSH 9.9 Released

Anyone have an informed preference between MLKEM and SNTRUP?

dustyharddriveon How long does Apple support Mac firmware?

> CPU vulnerabilities

These are another source of obselence. Intel generally sets an "End of Servicing Updates" date at seven years post-launch.

dustyharddriveon Git-PR: patch requests over SSH

> every email through "git send-email" contains my original IP address for everyone to see

Is this the fault of git or your SMTP provider? I looked through a mailman archive and couldn't find my client IP address. The first Received headers refer to my email host.

dustyharddriveon Winamp is not going open source. Here's what it is doing – and why

> The current owner, Llama Group, has plans for the app that are not open-source compatible.

> Instead, ... "Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version."

> While Winamp hasn't said yet what license it will use for this forthcoming version, it cannot be open source with that level of corporate control.

Making the generous assumption they end up with an OSI-approved license...

Why gatekeep open source behind open contribution? Also, what maintainer doesn't make decisions for their "official version"?

dustyharddriveon How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?

Matrix metadata is stored by all participating homeservers. That's significantly worse.

dustyharddriveon Gitlab Duo

Those are instructions to send a copyright infringement notice with tons of PII. We should have higher standards for "opt-out" than that, even for non-consensual data vacuums.

dustyharddriveon Gitlab Duo

They can't be bothered to allow opt-outs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771318) or even attempt to check if code they're archiving is freely licensed (https://www.softwareheritage.org/faq/#25_Is_the_code_checked...)

It's like Common Crawl, another non-commerical mass scraping project just benevolently stealing creations for "AI" companies.

dustyharddriveon XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams

Headers have the IP address of their mail service.