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designatedhacker

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  • Wisconsin police kill student who came to middle school with a gun

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  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-fatally-shoot-student-wisconsin-middle-school-responding-report-rcna150308

    Not a ton more detail, but it sounds like a kid has a visible gun that some students reported seeing. Then they tried to enter the school, but the school had a video doorbell/door buzzer type setup. There were five or so shots in quick succession that must've included officers.

    Have to wait on more info, but it sounds like at worst they failed to deescalate. At best they showed up and the kid started shooting and they returned fire.

    No innocent kids died, so that's a win in my book.

  • Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • Exactly. They really sealed the deal when they sent a push message to get people to call Congress and stop the ban. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093308/tiktok-congress-ban-push-notification

    "TikTok can be used to influence our citizens politically" * TikTok proves it true immediately on a personal level for legislators * "See!"

    Couldn't have found a better way to put gas on that fire. You're supposed to bribe lobby when they start talking shit.

  • Tesla’s in its flop era

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  • Exactly BYD is their biggest problem. Also they can't claim higher build quality so you'd really pay more for just the brand.

  • 23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked

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  • They stole the DNA data of users with recycled passwords. Last I saw this was 14,000 users and I was notified that at least one was transitively related to me. So they didn't get my DNA, just one or more user's view of my profile. I got out before a real breach happens and they do privilege escalation or phish an admin or something. Or like OP said go into bankruptcy/acquisition and sell their most valuable asset.

  • 23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked

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  • They say that they do, so I'll be getting a juicy $5 class action check if that was a lie. Most companies that implimented GDPR didn't do a lot of if eu actually delete type code. The cost of determining EU citizenship incorrectly is pretty high.

  • 23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked

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  • Yeah download and delete your account + data if you still have one.

  • How cyberscams are drawing China into Myanmar’s civil war

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  • "China also launched a PR campaign last fall with what appeared to be the coordinated release of several hit movies about the dangers of southeast Asian scam centers. The most popular of these, No More Bets, tells the story of a computer programmer and model who are lured abroad by a job offer and forced into scamming through imprisonment and torture. The film, which made $500 million at the Chinese box office..."

  • Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

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  • "Notably, Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo all have the same problems, and in many cases, Google performed better than Bing and DuckDuckGo by the researchers' measures."

    Click bait headline. I see they're good at SEO themselves.

  • Why GPL instead of AGPL license?

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  • They might hope to make money at any point in the future. AGPL is too viral to integrate with. Working at a large corporation they've banned a standalone desktop tool we could have used because it was AGPL. We wanted to pay for it, but we couldn't. It's a dead end product for corporate users. So personal use , hobbyists, and those companies that think the AGPL won't infect their IP or don't care. You limit your TAM severely if you use AGPL.

    So if you aren't in it to ever make money in the future, go for it.

  • Kendrick Lamar's company just dropped a limited-edition 'dumb' phone. It's already sold out.

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  • Why not get a phone that can take, send, and receive pictures and video. It would also have maps, GPS, encrypted messaging, streaming music, audiobooks, e-books, home automation apps, ride hailing, food ordering, decent browser, etc.

    Then, stay with me here, don't install social media apps. The lengths people go to so they can avoid social media when it is extremely avoidable is crazy to me.

  • Is moving to IPv6 worth it?

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  • Your ISP is doing it wrong, which I guess you already know. I get a /64 net via DHCPv6 for my LAN which is pretty standard.

    +1 to dual stack. Too much of the internet is v4 only, missing AAAA, or various other issues. I've also had weird issues where a Google/Nest speaker device would fail 50% of the time and other streaming devices act slow/funky. Now I know that means the V6 net is busted and usually I have to manually release/renew. Happens once every few months, but not in a predictable interval.

    Security is different, but not worse IMO. It's just a firewall and router instead of a NAT being added in. A misconfigured firewall or enabling UPnP is still a bad idea with potentially worse consequences.

    Privacy OTOH is worse. It used to be that each device included a hardware MAC as part of a statelessly generated address. They fixed that on most devices. Still, each device in your house may end up with a long lived (at least as long as your WAN lease time) unique IP that is exposed to whatever sites you visit. So instead of a unique IP per household with IPv4 and NAT, it's per network device. Tracking sites can differentiate multiple devices in the house across sites.

    This has me thinking I need to investigate more on how often my device IPv6 (or WAN lease subnet) addresses change.