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IRS consultant pleads guilty in massive leak of wealthy Americans’ tax returns
The fact that this guy is going to jail by January but Trump isn't even close, means something is very wrong with our justice system.
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IRS consultant pleads guilty in massive leak of wealthy Americans’ tax returns
The fact that this guy is going to jail by January but Trump isn't even close, means something is very wrong with our justice system.
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Netflix is planning to raise prices… again
Price of WD red HDD's about to go up too
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Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury
Let's make this simple.
Elon for example is worth 180 billion. His private jet, which costs $17k/yr to refill, is worth $62 million, or 0.03% of his net worth.
The average person, maybe lower middle class to middle class, is let's say worth about $250,000. If they bought or leased a car worth $45k, that would be 18% of their net worth.
It is probably the equivalent, or LESS than the equivalent of someone in the middle class, buying a candy bar. And they can do it over and over again with no repercussions.
And jet fuel is incredibly pollutant, and billionaires pollute millions of more times in general than the average person.
I'm fully in support of these protesters and hope they don't stop.
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Mozilla Foundation Calls on Tech Industry to Block ICE Contractor
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Easy: you don't.
Nobody has the balls to chase these ghouls down for illegally accessing information, most especially because our government is the ones enabling them to do this.
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Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet?
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They do like money, but Valve also loves providing a service to people.
Nobody uses Epic Games, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, or Battle.net because they want to, they use it because they have to.
Steam Awards is a bit janky sure, but to say that their inability to run pointless awards properly ruins the convenience and value that Steam brings to its users would be a gross overstatement.
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Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."
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Firefox has plugins to spoof specific tabs as always active.
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Lemmy just had its first major hack. What happens next:
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Honestly, I see it as a win.
The people that did this didn't really act out in a coordinated attack. They were just kind of playing around, redirecting to lemonparty, changing page elements.
It could have been a lot worse. The site could have been redirecting to malicious websites, downloading trojans, doing a lot of bad things. Instead, we got direct attention to the security vulnerabilities in question, and they're being worked on and patched out relatively quickly. Helps that a lot of those on these communities are focused in programming and cybersecurity.
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The FCC is expected to propose the return of Net Neutrality protections Oct 19th - Let’s hope they get it right
I hope this isn't a "Net Neutrality, oh and we'll also spy on you for the good of humanity" bill
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YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
NewPipe, and YouTube Revanced are great apps you can use on mobile. They aren't attached to any Google account so you can just use them and skip adds all day without getting any account theoretically banned.
For those who continue to use YouTube and adblockers on PC, simply just make a new throwaway Google account. In the case that they aren't actually bluffing (they are) then at least your temp account will be banned.
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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook
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This digital privacy.
Threads for iOS
Liftoff for Lemmy
People don't understand what they're doing literally signing away their data and accepting these Terms of Service.
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A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse
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Fuck spez
And thanks spez
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Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.
Disgusting. This is my representative, I unfortunately voted him in.
Our president is a pedophile and we still get the "for the children" bullshit. How about making a law requiring tracking the data on the Epstein class phones instead?
I sent a letter to him, hopefully enough people do.
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I don't think that the founders are bad people. If you look at their history of work, they have done enormous amounts of work in the computer security sector. The founder, however, did run a cloud based WPA cracking service.
Meredith Whitaker, who is the president, used to work at Google doing research for "issues related to net neutrality measurement, privacy, security, and the social consequences of artificial intelligence".
In 2018 she then staged walkouts at Google over concerns of sexual misconduct and citizen surveillance.
The people on Signal's board seem to be trustworthy people with a pretty airtight background. You have to worry more about the mobile operating system compromising you than do you about Signal.
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Boost for Lemmy is happening!
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I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM.
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I'd bet there's a CSAM test image dataset with innocuous images that get picked up by the script. Not sure how the system works, but if it's through hashes then it would be pretty simple to add that to the script.
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I don't really understand it. People left Facebook because the way they shifted the platform became less relevant to the younger audiences on it. And then it effectively died.
Now Meta (literally Facebook rebranded because of how much they fucked up) is creating threads and people just forgot what Facebook did?
Are people even thinking in the long term what's going to happen, like what's happened to reddit, Twitter and Facebook? Does nobody take a step back and take a minute to figure out what's inevitably going to happen again? It's bonkers to me.
It starts with the user base complaining about a platform going to shit, doing nothing about it in the meantime, and when a "viable" replacement pops up it's another privatized company that wholly plans to do the same exact thing that just happened to the one that's dying.
People's attention spans are 24 hours long.
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APKMirror is no longer allowing downloads of TikTok, Lemon8, citing US Bill H.R.7521, setting a dangerous precedent for sideloading applications
For some reason I can't edit my post, however I wanted to add that I attempted to post this to reddit under the /r/Android and /r/google subreddits, but Android is only mod approved posts, and the Google subreddit just straight up removed my post without even informing me.
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Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger
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The Pixel 2, which is 5 (almost 6!) years old, had better transfer speeds than this brand new $799 phone.
It's not even close, it's the Pixel 2 with 1.5Gbps vs the iPhone with ~0.5Gbps.
Apple's software is good but they are an absolute trash company that routinely screws their blind customers.
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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
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The reason they're moving forward with this is because if Apple tries to sue, it could make a case for Google that Apple is trying to take control of messaging in the United States. If they don't sue, should Google come after them down the line Apple can say "we're aware of 3rd party iMessage and decided to not take action to increase interoperability" yadda yadda.
That's my guess anyway.
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GameStop's New Billionaire Boss Calls For 'Extreme Frugality' In Email To Staff
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Undoubtedly.
Who thinks he's being the CEO out of the good in his heart?